Saber has definitely pulled a Drive. It's possible it could still shit the bed before the end, but it's become consistent enough that I don't see that happening.

I didn't like Zero One and I felt it was subpar. It was like reverse Saber, where it started off good and promising, but then it declined in quality. Thing is, I thought it was subpar BEFORE the pandemic screwed production over.

When they interviewed the main producer on the show, he said the show was aimed mostly towards kids compared to a more general audience his earlier seasons were, And I thought "oh so that's why".

I definitely recommend catching up on it. Granted, I'm about 8 episodes behind, but that's the result of college, nothing to do with the quality of the show. It gets so much better after the first quarter, starting with episode 16. I'll admit though, the first 15 were probobly the worst thing I've watched out of Toku so far. The plot is absolutely imposable to follow, and the amount of new toys getting shoved in your face is kind of depressing. It makes an incredible turnaround, but it's hard to recommend someone watch five and a half hours of shit just to get to the good part. Maybe watch in on 2X speed if you're good at reading subtitles fast

Onari isn't that bad, honestly I'd take 1,000 Onari's over the investigation team in Drive any day of the week.

I have to say, as a Drive stan that hurts to read. XD But to each their own!

As another Drive stan, I can kinda agree with this. At least Onari does stuff for the plot sometimes.

Plus there's only one of him, not four.

Is it controversial if I think Sento/Banjou is the best ship in all of Kamen Rider?

Depends on who you're asking. I would agree that they're probably the most well written duo in quite some time, and their relationship comes off as borderline romantic. Though you'd probably also get angry people who don't like gay people saying "CAN'T MEN JUST BE FRIENDS" and yeah that's true, but the way Banjou and Sento act never feels like two bros hanging out. Especially when they're screaming that they are the "best match." There is a reason why they had to give Banjou a "case of the not gays" in his V-Cinema.

They gave him a love interest who is so bare bones, a character so worthless and pointless to the story that removing her literally does NOTHING. The only thing in the movie she does of note is giving Banjou the Cross-ZEvol Bottle, but you could easily just make that Sento and it'd be make more sense than her. She exists SOLELY to give Banjou a female love interest. I feel like Toei knows there are certain Riders who are fan shipped with other characters of the same gender so they forcibly include female LIs. Or, as we know, make sure they have a case of the not gays. Remember, she isn't even MENTIONED in the Grease movie, that's how worthless she was and what her role is.

This is seen in both W and Drive as well. The Fuuto Detectives manga introduces pointless female character solely for Shotaro to have a love interest who is a WOMAN. In Drive media, there's Gou and Chase. Despite Gou literally dedicating his life to solving how to bring Chase back to life, they bring in a pointless female LI for him in his V-Cinema whom he suddenly falls in love with because both of their fathers are awful? Even though that was never part of Gou's character. The only characters to escape this, that often get shipped, are Eiji and Ankh.

It's at least top three.

I'll never let go of Eiji/Ankh.