Things in this show just keep reverting back to status quo pretty much every time something interesting starts happening. And I don't like that at all.


It'd be fine if the individual Roidmude plots were exciting, but they're honestly boring.

And I do have to agree with the sentiments about being surprised that we're already 17 episodes in because, honestly, I really do feel like nothing has changed story-wise besides the secondary rider being introduced.

I think we need a Roidmude death counter or Roidmude remaining counter because honestly I'm losing track of how many are still around. :lol

Honestly, I keep forgetting that we're only 17 episodes in. It seems like the show's been dragging on a lot longer than that. That is not a feeling that bodes well for this spring and summer.

ALL RIGHT! A new show to take the place of hatred instead of ToQger!

I think I've watched enough Rider series to say that it's not the best, but not the worst. They're trying real hard to match the hard boiled approach of W, but giving it the comedy timing of Oren's bits from Gaim.

The most interesting thing comes in Heart's machinations.

I wouldn't necessarily say I hate Drive or that it's the worst Rider series I've ever seen (Hi, Decade!) but it's really failing to maintain my interest outside of Gou and Chase, who are pretty much my main reasons for watching the show. Shinnosuke's not a bad character, but he hasn't had much internal conflict since the beginning of the show. You'd think that with Chase being revealed to be Proto-Drive, that would add an interesting dynamic to Shinnosuke's character arc, but nope. They kinda just introduce that plot point, and then it's back to status quo.

It feels like they realized that they didn't have enough plot for a 45+ episode series, so now they're trying to stretch things out, but I don't like it, and from what I hear, Wizard had the exact same problem.

Onore Medic!
So yeah, the show returns to the status quo... It's going decently so far, but I hope something interesting happens soon. It feels just like Wizard again, and that is not extremely good...
Even though Harley Hendrickson is awesome as hell :D

As much as I dont want to admit it there sadly are alot of parallels between Drive and Wizard in regards to the pacing.

The show is really really slow paced and not much is happening. I find the main cast of characters alot more enjoyable though aside from the other male cops in the Special Crimes Unit.

I really hope the show goes some more interesting places in the twenties.

I hope it will too. Maybe if they introduce someone who has an interesting character, and have a better over-arching plot... Seriously, even Wizard had a better series-plot at this point. I think. Something involving Phoenix and the Despair/Dragon bit.

Wizard really hadnt anythin regarding a plot at this point. The Pheonix thing happened in the twenties with the introduction of All-Dragon. The whole Dragon/Despair thing was also something they never really touched upon.

Most of Wizards story was just them saying mysterious thing over and over again and hinting at stuff that could maybe happen but way never payed off.

It all boiled down to Haruto getting some new power and White Wizard standing way back on some hill saying "Hes even more powerful now bla blah blah" but nothing you could call a real story.

I feel like we were going some where with Chase, and now were back to square one.

The Proto Drive small DVD episode was far more interesting than anything these past 2-3 episodes as of late.

DeadHeat Drive/Mach is underwhelming.