Ah, I see. The classic mindset of "It's not my favorite, therefor it's bad."

Man, I'm so glad that I'll never be able to understand that sort of thinking. Like, I can only imagine how miserable I'd be if I were this deep into the franchise, and every single time all I could think is "Man, why isn't this Kuuga?"

I am sorta speaking about one person who came to mind when I read that but they are more known in tfw and not here. I think.

Imagine hating on the live action transformers movies cuz it?s not the 1984 cartoon.

I like Drive but I don't think it really takes off until the second half when the story gets more serialized. The first part of the show is too episodic and you can feel the thin plots being stretched out to fill two full episodes. The writers went back to the "Shinnosuke is on his way to finish the case but then Machine Chaser shows up to get in his way" well a lot.

I mostly agree. There are definitely a good handful of episodes that could've easily been one-offs. But alot of them, atleast we got some fun extra interactions out of the second parts. Chase included sometimes.

One thing I'll give Chase too is that he remains a solid threat despite how often he shows up. None of his losses ever feel cheap or like he's jobbing.

I wanna talk about episode 20 of Drive real quick.

So far it's probably my favorite episode, but it's also a weird one due to everything that came before it.

Personally, not only do I feel like this is the very rare case where I felt a one off episode should've been a two parter, but I also wish that it had been places even like, five episodes earlier.

Because really, "not all Roidmudes are inherently bad" is something that needed to be established before nearly halfway in, I think. Granted, they do try to make up for it by also having the consequences of the episode tie in with Chase, but I just personally feel like it would've been stronger if the events of this episode are part of what lead both Kiriko and Shinnosuke to form their peaceful views on Roidmudes and, by extension, Chase.

Just my two cents though. Maybe future episodes will do more to make it better.

I think that's what Zero-One was trying to fix, but he was taken to the other extreme.

So that episode was kind of the point. The roidmudes are supposed to be all bad thanks to their creator (not spoiling anything). Them seeing one that can be good throws everything off. It wasn?t supposed to be established because it wasn?t supposed to happen. As you continue, you?ll see how that creates a domino effect for not only chase but certain other roidmudes as well.

I now ship Shinnosuke and Takaharu

As of last night, I have watched another pair of episodes of Ryuki. I am seriously hoping to finish my rewatch of the series along with its Episode Final movie before the end of this year since I unfortunately, for some reason, can't seem to make as much progress on it like I should compared with almost everything else, Toku series-wise.

Kamen Rider 4 is a much better epilogue to Faiz than what Paradise Regained is.

I will die on this hill.