Agreed.

Toshiki Inoue's post-Agito shows aren't without merit or positivity and are far from the worst Heisei Rider shows. And Hibiki's second half didn't ruin the excellence of the first half and wasn't even that bad.

From http://kamenrider.wikia.com/wiki/Cat...sei_Era_Riders

But yeah, I meant regular Heisei era. :o

So...?

Obviously, I mean they could've made his suit look so much cooler. Not using that helmet would've helped a lot in my opinion.

I know. But if they can put homosexuals within Kamen Rider. Then they can push the envelope even further and do a woman lead.

They could do it. The question is rather would they? The only thing that they would have to do. Is to make the male secondary rider be as badass as any other first string rider.

Yeah, but as we all know. We don't watch Kamen Rider to see what type of vehicle he's going to be operating.

I don't have a problem with it either (I'm just poking fun at it:p) It was a welcome change from years of seeing a motorcycle all of the time.

I don't know. Would it Sunred? :lolol

It's called Kamen Rider when you think of "Rider" you think of a person riding on something. Not "in" something.

See above for retorts to these statements. :)

Gee,that was the concept. Let's put him in a car instead of riding a motorcycle. He wasn't still riding a motorcycle while having a "car motif" was he?:D

See above for my retort to this statement. :)

It's basically a car that can talk. Now make it transform into a robot....now you're talking.

Agreed, but they really don't need them. In recent years the only time the bikes (vehicle) really played a significant role. Was in Wizard and Ghost. when they used them to mount on those robot creatures.

Actually, I'd argue that the Doctor motif is perfect for the show. While on the surface the two don't really have anything in common, how well they work together really becomes apparent when you look at the overall theme of Death in Ex-Aid.

Despite what people may believe, Doctors are not here to save lives. They are here to delay the inevitable. No matter what they, or anyone else, does, people will always die in the end and there's nothing that anyone can do to change that. Once they're gone, they're gone.

This is in direct contrast with video games. In the video game world, death means absolutely nothing. Sure you may fall down a hole or get shoot a few time, Heck you might even lose all of you lives and get a game over, but that means absolutely nothing in the end. You can always push the reset button and try again, no matter how many times you die. You may get a penalty of some kind but death ultimately means nothing.

In other words, you're correct. The Doctor Motif and the Video Game Motif don't go together. That's the point. The show forces you to look at Death from two completely different angles in order to examine it.

I actually don't. When I hear "Rider" I don't think somebody who riders a bike, now I think somebody who can transform into an awesome superhero. It has become a brand name more than a description of the hero for me. I associate motorcycles with Kamen Rider as much as I associate grasshoppers - played a prominent role at first, not so much anymore.

http://i.imgur.com/Pm5tP2F.gif seconded

Basically came here to say this.

To be fair, the connection between the two themes didn't become really clear until a pretty recent episode. As soon as Dan said, "I've created a type of medicine you doctors never could", the theme, and even why they killed Lazer off so soon, suddenly clicked for me. Ex-Aid is really an examination of how we treat death.

Yeah, a couple months ago I would have agreed that Ex-Aid is a very confused show thematically, but lately they've really been tying everything together a lot nicer.

I mean, it was always clear to me from around a quarter in that Ex-Aid is about death (which btw considering Ghost was about life nicely supports my theory that Toei deliberately makes these shows foils to each other), but everything beyond that seemed a little shallow until recently. Like apparently fate is supposed to be a big theme? But even now it's mostly just a word they keep using.

But as for the doctor/gamer thing, they absolutely fit together. Quite nicely, even, for reasons other people have kindly explained for me. It's the kind of thing that would probably seem more obvious on a second viewing. Case in point, I had it pointed out to me the other day that "I'll clear this with no continues!" is basically Emu pointing out he's only got one life to live. Blew my mind.

Gaim did pretty much the same thing. For a large portion of the show, the connection between dance teams and fruit/space forests isn't clear, then by the end you realize it's all metaphors for survival of the fittest.

I'd say that's about the only thing the show does well with its Doctor/Video Game motif and really about the only thing it does to relate the two. Whenever it tries to emphasize these elements individually, you get stuff like its somewhat confusing game terminology or the character of the week subplots which is in my contender for some of the lamest subplots in Kamen Rider. Both motifs have enough ideas on their own to fill out an entire show but by trying to focus on them both at once, I can't help but feel both motifs bog each other down especially since, aside from the contrast between their ideas of death, the show doesn't do a good job of relating the two motifs.

Here's the thing. The fruit motif in Gaim was really just a gimmick in terms of the appearance. It's not like the show suddenly started talking about the existenstial nature of fruits.

But it kind of did...