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06-13-2020, 11:07 AM | #651 |
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My favorite, favorite thing about Team Faiz trying to go back to business as usual (including no one telling Mari that Takumi is an Orphnoch, my least favorite Kamen Rider trope) is that it all blows up in their faces in the first goddamn episode. Their attempt at a status quo does not even last an episode. Fantastic.
It’s like, I’ll give them the realism of these kids hoping that nothing has to change, but only for a minute. After that, yes, Lucky Clover wants what they’re owed. Mari has to find out that Takumi is Wolfeyes, the (probably) same Orphnoch WHO WAS AT THE RYUSEI SCHOOL REUNION. They tried running from this. I get why they’d try, and it’s important to show it, but it can’t work. Everything’s changed forever. With you discussing the viewers frustrations in this viewers, this doesn't cross your mind, about Mihara constantly running away for them?
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06-13-2020, 11:51 AM | #652 |
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I would be down for this idea too. Just have every Delta fight from here on end with Mihara naively assuming it's his last one, and keep contriving increasingly absurd scenarios to force the belt back on him. Everyone else can be involved in this complex web of drama, where every difficult decision leads to the next, while off to the side, Mihara just can't go out for an ice cream cone without the guy selling it turning out to be an Orphenoch that wants him dead.
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Fast and Furious "One last job" logic only it's the Ryuseii School alumni constantly showing up at his door and refusing to leave unless he helps them with a problem that is invariable Orphenoch related.
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Also for "no one telling Mari that Takumi is an Orphnoch" being your least favorite trope, that kind is actually the viewers' frustration for the series you discuss before, only it's not merely about not telling her, but about the entire cast never telling/discussing anyone anything. Now I wonder, which differentiates between tolerable or not to you, and the criteria for tolerable or not in all those "misunderstanding" tropes?
Do... do people get frustrated by Mihara wanting to quit?! That's the best part of the show!
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06-13-2020, 12:12 PM | #653 |
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I, typically, can't stop thinking about dumb Delta things that'd make me incredibly happy:
-Figuarts Zero Mihara, molded in Giving Away Delta Belt pose. -Playable Delta in Climax Fighters, but he Ring Outs as soon as the match starts. -CSM Delta Gear "Mihara Edition", where all of the belt noises are him begging not to participate.
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06-13-2020, 12:42 PM | #654 |
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Like it would be a huge plot hole if he suddenly really wanted to fight. |
06-13-2020, 12:45 PM | #655 |
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Not only that, but it's plot relevant. It's the only reason he can use it without the usual addictive side effects. The blet can't make his desire to use it and fight compulsive, because he doesn't have any in the first place!
Like it would be a huge plot hole if he suddenly really wanted to fight.
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06-13-2020, 01:10 PM | #656 |
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The Delta Driver's innate coolness and badassery is cancelled out by Mihara's simple earthly desire to go home and watch the lastest chapter of his sitcoms.
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06-13-2020, 01:10 PM | #657 |
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Honestly as much as I like watching Faiz, this is probably the Rider with plot I would least want to actually participate in.
I think while I was watching, I was wondering why the characters (and the show as a whole) kept trying to make this plain guy who just wants to go home into a rider. I know it's a common cliche to get an unwilling hero into action but like, there's not only no reason why it specifically has to be him, but you're also not currently lacking for options! |
06-13-2020, 01:34 PM | #658 |
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Honestly as much as I like watching Faiz, this is probably the Rider with plot I would least want to actually participate in.
I think while I was watching, I was wondering why the characters (and the show as a whole) kept trying to make this plain guy who just wants to go home into a rider. I know it's a common cliche to get an unwilling hero into action but like, there's not only no reason why it specifically has to be him, but you're also not currently lacking for options! And I'm just like, no? It doesn't seem like the Ryusei School alumni (at this point in the story, because I'm sure Secrets Abound) are getting picked off by Orphnochs. It seems like they're throwing themselves into dangerous situations and then getting murdered. Like, it definitely feels like Mihara could work some office job, get a drink on the weekend, rewatch Parks and Rec, and do all of that without fearing for his life. When Kusaka's berating him for not embracing a life of mortal combat, it felt like Kusaka was in the throes of whatever brain fever keeps the other Ryusei students from having a goddamn ounce of self-preservation. I don't think all of Smart Brain is desperate to end the life of some dude who just wants to get through the new season of Westworld! I mean, it's not a great season, but they probably won't kill him for watching it.
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06-13-2020, 01:39 PM | #659 |
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Like you wouldn't want to actually be a Rider in Faiz? I definitely get that. I wouldn't want to be one in Blade either, or Ryuki actually. Hell, I wouldn't want to be a Rider in a lot of Rider shows honestly. I think "carrying the weight" of being a Rider in a lot of these stories is pretty dang heavy.
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06-13-2020, 02:05 PM | #660 |
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Kusaka doesn't want him to go home because it might let him think about stuff for more than five seconds and go "Wait a minute, maybe Kusaka's toying with us. I better tell the others... right after I scroll through twitter for an hour."
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