As for Genm, he had used X-0 prior to the level 2 henshin before he Game Over'd again. So coming back into the fight, he just used PMAXO

So after surviving Hurricane Harvey and finally getting power restored my first order of business was watching Ex-Aid's Final Episode. Priorities I know but it's late for me so there's not much I can do.

So I gotta say that was a pretty solid episode, gotta love sparkles, truly those are the lifesavers. But yeah, a fairly good ending, and really glad that they pulled an Ankh in terms of the Game Disease patients, that it will happen eventually. It's a positive note to end on and slight bittersweet as well.

Not to mention this ending basically ties up the one big thread which was Masamune, his story is basically done at this point. That being said it does leave enough open and I'm glad they didn't do the whole, "There's no reason for these Riders to exist" that some other series pull. They left it open enough to where any of the Riders can make a reappearance in a believable manner but closed it off enough to where yes, this felt like an ending.

As much as I love this show....I gotta say....THAT FINALE WAS TRASH. There are SO MANY issues with the way this show is ending.

1. How is Cronus using the Gamedeus weapons when Gamedeus was deleted already?
2. Emu being able to move in the timestop....HOW??? And NO, Parado being inside him doesn't explain it, as Parado still gets affected by it too.
3. As much as I LOVE the harkening back to Episode 1....THEY BEAT CRONUS, THE CURRENT STRONGEST RIDER, WITH Lv.2s, with NO EXPLANATION WHY OR HOW?!! COME ON!!! In the previous Episode they were smart enough to give solid reasoning on the Lv.1s fighting Gamedeus, and there, it was just to separate it from Masamune. But here?! They just say that Parado suppressed Gamedeus, and that's why he's so depowered??? How does that even make sense?!! He's basically at the status he was in his debut, where he effortlessly plowed through everyone. I was hoping that this Episode they would cleverly use the Hyper Muteki Gashat to instead pass it around so people can temporarily use Muteki Mode to fight him, but NOPE....
4. Correct me if I'm wrong but why are there still people infected with Bugster virus...? I thought beating Kamen Rider Chronicle should've fixed that automatically....? And it's not like there's anyone out there who could revive the Bugsters---*Remembers Johnny Maxima took the Buggle Driver I* OOOOHHHHH.....Ok, they have a POSSIBLE chance of fixing a plothole if this gets addressed in the Movie....
5. The announcement that they're working to revive those lost via the Proto Gashats and restore their humanity.....SIGH...This is probably the WORST misstep this Series can go. Why? Because this can possibly COMPLETELY undo any major consequences that the Riders have bad to face in the past. This ESPECIALLY hurts for Hiiro's developnent, who as I've said in the past, jumped up IMMENSELY in character development in the last couple Episodes. We don't need a complete happy ending of hope, Ex-Aid....There can be losses here & there....
6. Speaking of losses, PARADO & POPPY ARE BACK, JUST 1 EPISODE AFTER THEY SACRIFICED THEMSELVES....WAY TO MAKE THEIR ACTIONS MEAN SQUAT, TOEI.....I was hoping they wouldn't show up again till the Movie, but.....SIGH......

Regardless, Kamen Rider Ex-Aid overall was AMAZING. Shame it had to get bogged down SO BADLY at the Finale, but regardless, I have to say, this show came up as a contender for possibly beating even the likes of Gaim, and now I think it's safe to say this show has now taken the throne from Gaim as the #1 Best Heisei Kamen Rider Series to date. Yuya Takahashi was able to make such an amazingly consistently good Series, and I applaud this show for being so great from start to e---.....Episode 44.

1: Getting possesed by Gamedeus pretty much unlocked the weapons similar to how Emu can get the Keyslasher in any of his Levels

3: They literally say Chronus got weakened, Masamune goes "HOW CAN THIS BE?" and Emu answers that

4: The virus was still there WAY before Chronicle started, it was never implied beating Chronicle would end it. It just means it won't spread as easily

5: This isn't regressing character development or anything. Masamune got rid of the master lock and considering True Ending takes place a year later and doesn't seem to have Saki or other victims of the virus, it means it'd either take a long time or won't happen.

Also I deleted the point about Poppy and Parad but realized something I wanted to say about it. I think it's SIGNIFICANTLY less bullshit than W's ending because Ex-Aid has already established that this can happen, and it did

I rewatched that part and found what maybe a plothole. Emu said Parad had weakened him, but that was last episode. If he is already weakened, how come lv100 Brave, lv50 Snipe, Lazer + Genm can't defeat him? why do they only defeat him when using level 2?

Oh man, I should be satisfied that someone isn't just letting Ex-Aid off the hook for stuff Ghost was burned at the stake for, but also... lay off Ex-Aid, this episode was awesome? I'm so conflicted... :confused:

Hey let's be real here, Phillip was basically a Bugster before it was cool. :p

So... what are the odds Build plays around with the concept of mortality in the same drama-killing way as the past couple Rider shows? I figure they're pretty good. We literally haven't gotten away from this stuff since Double.

Or maybe because Ex-Aid took things to the extreme and refused to kill a single person on a permanent basis, they'll finally stop? I mean, where do you go from here? Even the show itself failed to die, since we're getting a whole trilogy of V-Cinemas announced before Build even starts.

Fair point, but maybe they were fighting defensively because they expected him to be as strong as he should be. Confidence is everything. Plus Emu cracked his driver, so not only was the virus suppressed, but his hardware was unstable as well. Not to mention he was simply taken off guard by all of this, making him vulnerable.

Please don't leave me Ex-Aid... :(

It won't. At least not until next April when the V-Cinema BluRay comes out. Hell, it might never end. After Another Ending we might get Another Another Ending with the way things are going. :lol

"Unlocked the weapons?" Um, NO....Where do you get that it works like that??? Especially given that the source of those weapons is now gone...? And Emu has to go at least Lv.50 before popping out the Maximum Mighty X Mech Suit before using the Keyslasher, so don't see your point here....

And his "answer" is BS, as I pointed out. It makes no sense. Is he saying that beating Gamedeus surpressed Masamune's BUGSTER VIRUS?!! And what does that even have to do with the power of Cronus in of itself? Heck, how can he even transform into Cronus if that's the case then? The answer Emu gave was WAY too vague & doesn't answer much of anything.

But the reason why the Bugster Virus was there before Chronicle was because of Zero Day where the Bugsters first came into the world, and the only reason they could keep continuing to revive was because someone would always gather their erased data via the Buggle Driver. If Masamune's dead, and Poppy had her Buggle Driver II with her, then that means the only person who could possibly have one right now is Johnny Maxima, as it was hinted a couple Episodes earlier, and therefore, HE's the only possible reason why the issue of Bugsters being around can still exist.

Never said it REGRESSED character development, I said it RUINS THE CONSEQUENCES. It dampens the meaning behind their deaths and removes the feeling of the character progressing forward after the losses they had. And we don't know either way. I'm just worried, as all. I'd rather they just left the dead dead, and move on from that. (We already had some issues with dead characters coming back in this show, we don't need this to have this happen to LITERALLY JUST ABOUT EVERYONE WHO DIED IN THIS SHOW....)

Remember just how much I praised Hiiro's small Arc that gave him so much character development in so little Episodes? The point of Hiiro's character was to move on from his past mistakes with his girlfriend that he can't fix, and look towards the future as a doctor. But what happens if Saki is revived? Well, no need to put his mistakes behind anymore, cuz she's right here now! -__-

Just because it's possible doesn't mean they should do it....