All these discussions about the return of the two-part format... Yeah, it's like it hasn't disappeared anywhere. In the Geats, most of the rounds take exactly two episodes. In Revice, the monsters of the week at the beginning were also exposed for two episodes, as well as in Saber, Zero-One, Zi-O...
Sakamoto as a director is cool. Basically, I like the combination of Sanji-Sakamoto. It looks like a return to basics, but not very old.

Aww man... there goes my interest in watching this... :cry

Really dislike all of his work up to now... tbh he just glosses over details etc, I find his stories to be predictable and his characters to be very derivative of JUMP tropes etc... sigh

Yea, Geats is arguably doing a lot of what I feel like is a nice medium for a lot of aspects, I think. It balances the two-parter format and arc format well, with my only gripe being that we don't get more unique monsters still (though it's not enough to really hamper my enjoyment), the usage of forms, and how the final forms are still complex and differ greatly from their base form silhouettes while also being simpler than some previous final forms. Geats does a lot of things well in my opinion that makes it a fantastic season overall (it isn't perfect, but still one of my favorites).

Gotchard has a lot to live up to in my opinion.

Stuff I like about it are story, designs, a lot of toku alumni from here and there. :rock:

Sanjo!? Yes, please!

I have been itching for another show from him! Man knows how to do a proper slow build! And with Geats seemingly heralding the return of the MotW Two-Parter, in my opinion the best structure for Rider, this could be another home run!

Now, if only it turns out true!

Based on the experiences of the Jetman and Zyuranger, I would say that the best way to do well after a popular show is not to try to copy or outdo it, but to be something completely different. To do what the predecessor could not afford.

This is 100% true.

Personally this is why I've used the phrase "strict two-partners" a few times when talking about W or Drive (among other shows)

Imo there's some major distinctions between how W and Drive did things and how "modern" two-parters work.

While it's a bit hard to convery in words the best way I can describe it is by example. In W I would describe the two-part stories as being presented as the main focus of the show, with the running narrative elements being a secondary focus, that became a bigger focus at the end. As well in W a lot of the time the two-parters are cleanly divided, one two-parter doesn't always *naturaly* run into the next two parter, we just sort of get a little tease for it. This isn't always 100% true but yeah

While in geats for example the running narrative feels like the focus of the show, with the two-part monsters/events working more as a framing device to deliver the story. In geats while the monsters exist for two episodes, story lines carry cleanly between all episodes, so conceptually a story line from epispde 3 might still be firmly relevant in episode 6, stuff like that. There are still more episodic leaning story elements, but they feel again, more like framing, and not like the main focus of the show

Again these aren't 100% true all the time but imo they feel very different. The older style is more episodic with light overarching story, while the modern style is more overarching story heavy with an episodeic framing device.

I think ex-aid was the first show to try to make this style distinction, but geats definitely feels like the farthest pushed example of this method

I do think strict two-parters can be fun in their own way, (I like W, OOO, and Fourze all a lot), but overall I just hope that if Riku Sanio is back he does something more different with the show? Tbh while there a lot of things I did enjoy in Drive I always felt like it really wanted to be W a lot of the time and it kind of killed it for me... it felt too samey with a LOT of the same themes and concepts explored, and all within the same style of narrative structure. I'd like to see something extremely different from his past works, bc otherwise I think like Drive (for me anyways) it'll wind up just being a show that lives in W's shadow

But that is how Geats works as well. The story doesn?t make any real progress till the first quarter ends and even the only start moving properly with the raid on the garden. And Geat?s main focus is the two-parter stories. Geats just is W structure. Flat out, just more open in the endgame.

The role of MotW is just played by the Riders

Well, then you can draw a comparison with Takahashi. W was Sanji's Ex-Aid. The drive was his Zero One. Therefore, Gotchard should be Sanji`s Geats, where there will be a lot of experimentation, but familiar tropes will still appear from time to time.

I think it's just that Takahashi doesn't work very well in the format of a show for a year. Not terrible, but exactly what is not good. Zero-One's tempo problems were attributed to the pandemic, but in fact, Ex-Aid didn't do very well without it either. Plus, specifically in the case of Geats, the fact that Ace is both a purposeful and passive protagonist also does not benefit the show. As I already mentioned, if not for Girori and PunkJack, he would have been playing DGP for another 2000 years, having no idea about the fate of his mother.