Wizard Episode 21: "The Crazed Dance of the Dragons" Discussion
 

Looking forward to the episode. This is when All Dragon premiers is it not?

I seriously doubt the Phoenix formerly known as Yugo has any humanity left. This show has gone out of its way to say that all Gates are meant to spawn monsters if they can't hold on to hope.

It's times like this I miss Caitsith. He was taken from us too soon.

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Why do I get the feeling that Toei really likes the Legend of Zelda?

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All for one, and one for all!!!!!

I think the Drago-timer will go down as one of the most over powered mid season upgrades ever

Magi Sentai: Wizarger

This series has really kind of had an uptick in watchability. It really does feel like the writers took a minute to reflect on what wasn't working in the first dozen or so episodes and improved it. Here we get the supporting cast actually doing stuff, away from the main lead, for most of the episode. Haruto himself wasn't an emotionless blank. The villains have more of a backstory. And we're finding out more about the Wizards! Not much more, but still.

Anyway, random thoughts:

- The Gate from this two parter is probably my least favorite one so far. She seems like she'd make for a good Phantom.

- White Wizard's belt was cooler than Haruto's imo. Though I think the colors of each would work with the other's costumes better(gold hand with White Wizard, red hand with Haruto) And it was downright rude - no "please" just "now"!

- Why didn't Beast just turn invisible when he was stymied by Beezlebub's teleportation power? The teleportation thing wasn't omni-directional, he was still taking hits. Maybe he didn't eat enough mayonnaise.

- The DragoTimer is more interesting than I expected based on the toy scans. I figured it was just another lame add-on gimmick toy, and it is, but at least the power it grants Haruto is pretty cool. Still looks lame though IMO.

- Speaking of which, it looks like people with the inclination to now have an in-show excuse to buy all the Wizard Dragon form figuarts.

- Looks like next week is it for Phoenix...or Medusa. I liked Medusa better for most of the show but Phoenix is genuinely more interesting now. I hope he changes the balance of power and has his own faction of Phantoms.

- Speaking of which we're about due for the villains to lay their cards out on the table, right? The mystery of what their plan is has gotten a bit long in the tooth imo.

Wow, a part 2 that doesn't have a Gate telling a sap story to pad out the time. I'm kind of surprised. Then agan, I have a bad feeling she'll still be there next week.

Just like the last 2 parts, I feel like part 1 is written by someone different from part 2. They feel mismatched. In this case, part 1 wanted to do just another predictable story while part 2 wanted to actually have something happen. Plus, part 1's ending is still terrible. Seriously, I would've be looking forward to this week's episode if they had cut Haruto off mid-sentence and left on White Wizard showing up. Instead, there was no build up or prelude for the main events in this episode at all.

And the upgrades are becoming more predictable than the Gates. Seriously, almost every other episode has an upgrade with them breaking for Xmas and Beast only. I'm aware there's other Rider shows that do this, but none of them have been this mind numbingly predictable about it.

On the good side, the Rinko and Phoenix subplot wasn't bad, but could've been much better if we didn't know he was Phoenix. I am happy with Phoenix's resolve though. They build that as if he was going to stop being a villain, which is out of character. Thankfully the result of Rinko's words was Phoenix going rogue instead, which is in character for him. Sadly, Phoenix is probably going to die soon since he's becoming a full character.


Man, I had high hopes for this show, but it's quickly become a let down every week.