[SPLIT LIP]

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

Personally, I think OOO is a good show, but it tends to be overrated. It has some great characters and a good setting, but the villains are mostly shit.

I'd say exactly half the villains in OOO are shit, to the point where I feel as though the shows was intended to follow, well, the interesting ones, and then there was Mezool and Gamel as, I guess just to be there.

They're nowhere bad as idiot "I'm going to smile and cross my arms and that will make me a good villain" Medusa or "Can you tell I've never had an acting gig before this well let me laugh obnoxiously and open my mouth EVEN WIDER" Phoenix. Though I think anytime Kamen Rider gives monsters that are supposed to be monsters human forms it's just dumb, because they look like shitty fanart characters where everyone's skinny and dresses all new-age. Like seriously, why is the tough Gamel in the body of a highschooler? He should be a big, tough brawny guy or, if you want to play on his intelligence, a child. Not jut some punk kid. Ditto Uva who's basically the exact same kind of person in human form, but also a tough monster in his real form. The only one who worked this was Catface, but he was a shithead.

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That said, I think Haruto is one of the best Riders of the Heisei era and easily the best since Shotaro. It's just a pity that he's stuck in a show that would rather focus on wacky comedy hijinks when he clearly belongs in a much more serious and darker show.

This is what keeps me goign back to Wizard, because I seriously need to understand this. Hairytoes, so far, is a void of a character. He is a sustained vacuum where a character should be. He's beyond bland, has the most paltry of backstories, and his admirable "I want to help people" mentality only goes so far in filling that void. You cna't just be a hero, you have to have some kind of personality. It doesn't need to be silly or overt, just... something besides smile and wave. Even in-suit he's incredibly generic flashy goodguy.

As a comparrison, back when I was watching Black (which I still need to finish) he was your typical heroic guy. He was a lot like Haruto in that teh defining aspect of his character was his heroism. But Black had more than that. He was driven, passionate, hot-blooded. You could tell just by watching him he poured his heart into everything he did. He had not a bit of ego, not a bit of flare. He was a hero and worked himself to the bone to stay one. Haruto is far more of a "I'm a hero but I'm still a cool guy who's a bit silly look at me eat a doughnut!" Which, BTW, I have nothing against the doughnut thing. In fact I wish it wasn't so downplayed. Even being a doughnut-obsessed weirdo is better than what he is now.

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Originally Posted by uchihabro77

So I finished W

I admit right now, I got teary eyed at Phillip and Shotarou. That was a better endin than OOO, and the "special" finale episode was great, now to watch W and OOO movie war core tomorrow

Yay!

Yeah, that final Xtreme bit is really tug-at-your-heart-strings-ville.

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

For the love of all that is holy, skip the OOO portion.

Yes.

It is just not-making-sense-at-all-ville. The W portion is awesome, though.