I find Gou a bit too goofy, I like him action but he is a bit too goofy for me sure it is meant to contrast with Shinnosuke but maybe I will get used to him later.

Good lord. Gou's even more goofy than Beast and Fourze combined.

I hope we do get Mach to be more seriously over on, I have liked some of the goofy characters in prior series but Gou is a bit too much.

As someone who hasn't seen the episode yet, these comments make me very, very nervous.

I wouldnt put Gou even remotely in the same category as Nitou. Gou is a very showy person and as a Rider hes acting more like a circus performer. Nitou was just a complete idiot.

I can see what you mean know having watched the episode with subtitles, this episode in general feels alot more goofier especially after the previous episode.

Nitoh eventually became pretty damn awesome, though. Maybe the same thing will happen with this guy...

Nitoh had his moments during the last couple of episodes and I really like him in the movies but for most of the series he was just a brainless idiot :lol

Not really. The only effective thing Nitou ever did was destroy his belt. In terms of actual usefulness he's only marginally less worthless than Delta.

Which was because there were some writers working on Wizard who didn't hate to add another rider and tried to make him an actual character and not something that has to be in there because Bandai said so.

Thank god we won't have that problem with Mach because Sanjou has no problem with having more than one rider.