Okay but why someone think next episode feel like Cockroach one? In W, Philip wanted to dance but next episode will have Gen-san quit the force for some reason that's different!

Isn't it obvious that I'm comparing the monsters by writing „Cockroach-Dopant episode“ instead of „Philip learns to dance episode“?

The next Roidmude offers his powers to people who hire him, same with the Cockroach-Dopant. Of course the backstory is entirely different, I just get a similar vibe from it since the monster is doing the exact same thing.

Full Break Bat! Ha, Chase did a Rider Kick! I really liked Mach in this episode, especially when he went super speed. I also like Dead Heat on him better. Not bad, still holding my interest :D

Well... I finally got the chance to watch the episode. It was a great episode. Loved Deadheat and finally! Harley Hakase has premiered! Loved him. He reminded me of my late great grandfather. :lol Also, the Kiriko Kick at the end was just too hilarious. Shinnosuke and Gou continue to be one of my favorite Riders. :D

This was a good episode and I must say Harley Hendrickson reminds me of my uncle. Also brain is jelly of medic.

Wow I can't believe that it's already 17 episodes, because but it feels like not all too much happened. I enjoyed Wizard more at this point than I do Drive. I just, I think the toys look fine but the show just isnt doing it for me. Our main rider is just so one dimensional, the rest of the cast just annoy me. I really hope the next rider isn't as one dimensional.

Honestly I think what keeps me going for this show is just Chase himself... Like I would so dig a spin off or a one movie spin off of Chase. Be it as him Proto-Drive, Mashin Chase, or Kamen Rider Chaser.

I'm with you on most of this. Drive does some things well, but a lot of it gets buried under all of the things that don't work, especially the forced comedy. I wish they'd focus more on the police work, drop all the bad jokes, and stop drawing out the Chase story.

The Problem with Shinnosuke is that he hasnt any conflict in the show. He is just Shinnosuke. He had all of his character development in the first few episodes with him loosing his drive to go forward after what happened during the global freeze and him not willing to accept a new Partner after what happened. He already had his opportunity for change and he took it. He moved on, accepted Kiriko as his new partner and is just fighting the Roidmudes now. He has no conflict beyond that.

All of the other characters have the reverse problem. Gou and Chase have alot of conflict in the show but the show itself doesnt do anything with it. We get hints at Gou struggling with the Mach system and his hatred for the Roidmudes but the show never devlops that beyond some hints here and there. Same with Chase. Chase has an interesting situation with him being a Roidmude whose base programming was protecting humans but got in conflict with his new programming to kill those same humans he got programmed to protect. But yet again the show never went anywhere with it and Chase himself never did anything interesting. Besides being Roadblock, fighting Drive ( and ultimately running away), holding his head a whole bunch and talking in a deep voice the character has done absolutely nothing in the show to make him an interesting or layered character.

Drive is a show with alot of potential in its characters and how they could interact but never takes any of those chances to actually do something with them beyond soem standard plots that ultimately just get us back to statsu quo after every two episodes.

Shinnosuke had these brief inabilities to use the new forms but that was too short lived IMO.