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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

I'm not expecting it to have gore and stuff, I just want it to not feel like a cop out. Had it been well written, I might have felt it worked. However, it was not, so it did not work for me. They were using the term vented and making it sound like that was it. Having it turn out to just be a hospital was lame and makes the threat of doom pointless. Pretty much it meant any rider was immortal because if they got hurt, they would just go to the hospital to recover. There was no death involved EVER.

It really wasn't that far removed from many religions concept of the after life really so yeah it was a bit of a cop out but I think given what they were battling against every step of the way (seriously if you read any interviews these guys went through hell to try and tell the story they wanted to tell) it could have been a whole lot worse.

And Japanese shows are just as likely to cop out of death. Godai died but then they basically retconned it by near enough saying 'he is just sleeping' and Gen was brought back literally by the power of friendship and neither of these shows had soccer mum's banging down the doors so they actually thought this was good storytelling.