I'd love to see a Blade anniversary someday.

Plus imagine if Chalice's system was used in Leangle's style. I picture Amane turning into that rider.

I hope not. Blade's ending is too perfect to fuck with.

Zi-O bringing up continuation for Blade's ending in its 2-parter...

That's non-canon for Blade specifically, though.
It's just a potential future.
Because Zi-O was so inconsistent with it's own rules, you can't really take what happened in that series as canon to the other shows' timelines.
Hell, they were so inconsistent they fucked up how Singularity Points worked.

Woz explained why, and just in the Blade episodes. They changed time so often that they changed the rules for changing time. It sounds crazy, but it should be clear to the target audience. It?s like a toy whose light bulb stops blinking due to frequent use or whose jingle gets shaved off halfway.

That's basically Matrix's' point though. Zi-O changed its own rules as the plot demanded. That, combined with the reset ending means that you really can't factor Zi-O into the continuity of, well, anything other than itself.

I agree with this. I just don't really like it when rule changes mid-show in Zi-O are made out to be something super stupid or incomprehensible. This is far from the worst thing that happened in the franchise and in Zi-O itself. And not even super unique.

Getting caught up on Gotchard (I will never fail to be amused by shows where a prop is supposed to be a character and it "moves" by the person holding it very obviously shaking it around) and I realized something about the show that's been bothering me.

I miss it when a show that has a lot of form changes does something to make the different forms feel like they have an identity. Obviously shows like Kuuga and Kiva had the fast form, the tanky form, and the shooty form, but even on shows like W there was a distinct difference between each of the three forms both halves took and HeatTrigger still felt distinct from CycloneTrigger or LunaTrigger. Gotchard has the same problem that Build had for me: the show is throwing out a new form every episode and I don't know what makes most of these different from each other. Like, what does ExcavatorMagician do that WrestlerAnt doesn't? I don't really get that sense of each form having a specialty in these shows, which is part of why so many of them feel completely forgettable to me.

I think it's because there are too many forms. That is, I am sure that by going to the Rider Wiki you can understand what is unique and the best use of each of them, but in the show itself this is not so easy to notice. Plus, Gotchard?s gun is also not tied to a specific form. But overall, I feel like the show wants the viewer to become more attached to the Chemies rather than their combinations.

Too be fair, Reiwa has been doing multiple redundant forms in shows for a while now.

Revice was really bad with this. I believe over 20 forms were shown in like, the first two months. Most of which had no real distinction. Kong was a brawler form, but then Brachio was also power-based. Eagle's whole gimmick was speed, but then Jackal was had more speed. Same goes for forms like Mammoth which used melee weapons, and then Kamakiri, which also used melee weapons. Megalodon was hardly used at all given that there wasn't much that the form did that wasn't done already by other forms.

At least Gotchard is better than Geats in respect to the gimmicks of the forms. Ninja in it's debut had intense speed and teleportation powers pretty much never used throughout the series, and Monster was able to one-shot a boss in one episode, but then Fever Monster couldn't even beat a single Jyamato Rider in it's debut. Not to mention extremely redundant power ups: Fever Magnum -> Cannon -> Powered Builder, which all had projectile based weaponry that immediately made the form that debuted like, two episodes before entirely useless. Not to mention that both Zombie and Monster were employed more hand-to-hand styles of fighting, and Ninja/Beat were melee-based forms (making both of those combos redundant by the standard we are applying to Gotchard).

Oddly enough I didn't see many people complaining about Revice's many forms that were forgotten after their debut episode, whereas Gotchard is being slammed for elements that have been present in Reiwa for quite some time now.

I feel Gotchard works better purely because the focus isn't the forms, but the idea of collecting the Chemies and illustrating the ways they can be used. Wild forms already feel better than the super-forced Remixes in Revice purely because they are a different way the Chemies can be used rather than showing a gimmick of the belt. Is Gotchard guilty of redundancy and a lot of forms? Sure, but not in any way that hasn't already been done over the previous Rider shows.