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Originally Posted by Kagezuno

I found watching through Kuuga that you can really tell they're working out just what in the hell Kamen Rider in the 21st century is going to be right on screen. It's interesting for that reason, but there are a lot of a choices made and roads taken that really seem a little daft in retrospect.

There's some real effort made to make sure you feel like every part of the supporting cast is important and not just an appendage to the hero, but it happens at the expense of getting much inside the hero's POV. There's still some of the dark, ghoulish, gory stuff from the Amemiya movies and some effort to sell them as terrifying, some "adventurous" (ahem) filming choices . . .but yeah. The formula's not in place yet, and it's kinda fascinating to see.

I'm watching Agito right now and you can definitely tell some of the excesses of Kuuga have been set aside and the common Heisei Rider stuff is coming to the form.

It's a big problem when your Rider is the least interesting thing in your show. Not only is Godai one note and boring, but they actually gave the police an active way to fight so they actually killed some of the UL without need for superpowers (which says so much for Kuuga) and since they gave nearly every side character a defined, specific purpose rather than Godai's 'kill stuff' singular purpose he really felt useless at times.

Especially considering most of the exploration of his powers and the mythos is done through the side characters rather than Godai himself which is ridiculous.