I thought he finished it though.^>~<

W 21. Is W on a mission to feature every location ever used by Heisei Riders and modern sentai?

A lot of good stuff this episode. Loved the way this was framed, as we watch Ryu go out on his cases - Ryu is awesome, I actually think I like him a bit more than our main two heroes (sorry).

This weeks Dopant was pretty cool as well. Everyone loves dinosaurs, and a dinosaur Dopant that fights with her head? Even better. I always forget that the Sonozaki Cat is also a Dopant, he looks pretty awesome when transformed.

Only real disappointment is that Aya is a villain, I think she could have been a pretty great addition to the cast if she was a hero. A sort of detective Rinko, if Rinko wasn't rubbish.

Pretty much. Kiva's not irredeemably bad like, say, Gosieger. There are some good elements and good ideas, but the show's execution is really half-assed and lazy.

I will disagree about Wataru being a good character, though.

I don't think they use that cool round fountain that was in Agito and Ryuki.

W 22.

This was a weird episode. W's (as in the shows) opinions and morals, are really difficult to place. Sho may say things like 'Hate the crime, not the criminal' but I haven't forgotten the events of the Virus arc. As such, I think they are attempting to play Ryu off of him, as Ryu is much more 'hard-boiled' and in turn much more morally grey but it doesn't really work because Sho isn't nearly as much of a clear cut hero as he actually thinks he is.

And I don't mean that in a good way, either, Sho's heroics are very inconsistent and near contradictory. But then maybe THAT is the point, as it's pretty clear that Phillip is both the better moral compass, detective and the much more grounded one. I'd wonder why Sho was here, if he wasn't so loveable.

Because without him it'd be Kamen Rider C not W?:p

Urrrgh, I'm going to spoil the show just a teensy bit, but everything you're describing is kind of the point of Shotaro.

Shotaro's "wisdom" is not really words you'd stick in a fortune cookie. He's not the wise man he aspires to be, like his boss. His pathos is much more circumstancial. He's easily led, and sympathises too much. This is his strength, but also his weakness. And the show makes this clear later on. He is very much a person that fights his emotions, and tries to put on a cold exterior like his boss, or Ryu. He thinks the only way to be a hero, the only way to be a man, is stoic and impersonal, but he's about as far from that as possible.

Wouldn't it be Kamen Rider V? (Like cut him in half and suddenly the W on his chest and crest is a V)

Kamen Rider Cyclone.:D

I already knew the person he presents, isn't necessarily the person he is. Well we know it isn't. But even when the show is presenting what is meant to be truth's about Sho, you can't actually be that sure. I find that kinda problematic, where our hero, is only really a hero in the heroes head.

But he's not called Kamen Rider CycloneJoker is my point.

What specifically did he do that was unheroic? I don't really remember him being unheroic, well, at any time.

*goes to watch 22*

EDIT: Two minutes into the episode Shotaro block Ryu from striking an untransformed person with what would have been a fatal strike.

!?!?!

The only really unheroic time was during the Virus arc, where despite every episode since playing the horn 'hate the crime, not the criminal' he let about three people die before he kinda went 'oh shit maybe we should actually help now'. So everything he's done since seems to taste of irony and hypocrisy.