Kamen Rider Drive Episode 41- "How Was The Golden Drive Born?!" Discussion
 

A new challenger emerges!

Well, that was something. Not a bad something.

Brain in a nutshell

Upcoming Kamen Rider in action (( albeit in 2 seconds or so )) in the movie trailer at the end of the episode as well, considering the amount of episodes left I assume we can say that :

Gold is the final villain (( Heart will likely die before the conclusion, at least it feels quite likely and overall Banno has been the villain to begin with ))

The next rider show will likely get a trailer in the upcoming episodes, I am avoiding the title in case there are people not watching the previews etc to avoid spoilers.

Overall Drive has been a great rider show, the characters ended up being really interesting if not typical cliches (( which I love so not a negative )), the music and action have also been quite good.

A bit to many toy promos in the show though perhaps, if they used them more perhaps it would not be an issue but there are quite a few powers that have been shown maybe once or twice and then forgotten.

The monster suits have been great overall, and while the show did go with the 2 episode stories it still actually TRIED doing it in a way that made the main story advance almost constantly which I really appreciate.

Well, to me Drive was really a great show. It might not be the most powerful rider out there, but it has some really funny and well characterized characters, expecially in the enemy fields... I ended loving characters like Brain and Heart, something that rarely happens with kamen rider. On the other hand, Tomari itself is a good and well characterized protagonist, and what I really love about him is that he is really the usual everyday man that turns out to be a hero... I mean, no double and triple jump in the air like Wizard like if it was nothing XD
There are surely same problem, for example Mach: while he was well used in the first half of the show, it was not really impressiving in this last part of the show

As for the future, ghost seems to have good premise, and as usual I imagine it will be really different form the last show. Even with the things we know I can imagine it will be really overpowered, maybe something more similar to WIzard

It's the fate of most of them second Riders. It's funny because it's the other way with Chase: he's just the main threat in the first part and then later became a more interesting (and fun) character.

Can someone explain why there was a white and black medic? Are they same?

They are the same. I guess Medic's programming or body was damaged when she was reawakened, so she turned cruel and manipulative, which made her unable to advance in her evolution.

We see in a flashback that she wasn’t always like that when she appeared as a "goddess in white" during the Global Freeze.

I suspect something happened between then and her reawakening that changed her. If I remember correctly we don't even know why she was put in a coma to begin with, maybe that's our explanation to why she dresses in black and is more evil currently.

I expect that after her Super Evolution, the human form of Medic will wear white again.

I know I'm going against the grain, but I really dislike Banno as the major big bad from this series. His back story is just dull (unappreciated scientist goes mad and treats robots wrong, kills his partner, and becomes a supervirus). His ability to become a belt like Krim is just another excuse to sell another redeco Drive figure. The only part that I like is that he was mean to his kids, further showing how "mad" he is. It doesn't make me have any more or less feeling for Gou though.

Medic is an odd bird, isn't she? I kept finding myself singing The Beatles "All You Need Is Love" during her parts. Points for cute dog too.

Chase, Heart, and Tomari are really the best of the show, and why I keep watching.

I agree to be honest. I'm not totally opposed against Banno, but unless there's some glorious moment where Heart gets the revenge against his creator he deserves I'm going to be pretty disappointed.