[Dormamu]

^ Exactly. What were people expecting? All the original cast members from every episode to show up? As it stands, we got a good selection of every monster from each series, and I was very happy to see what a slow fight versus clock/speed up would look like. Each of the prior riders not only got at least a line in (Double and Fourze's banter made me laugh because it's exactly what the two of them would do), and we got to see what a fully powered Gaim could do. The blade gun concept is not just nice, I want to see that happen in real life. Make it happen someone. I even appreciated that they gave some proper nods to Ryuki and Hibiki.

I just think people expect there to be some sort of logic behind Rider storylines, where they have a magical happy ending to their favorite characters, and everyones appearance is given some Star Trek pseudo-physics theory to explain why they're there. Maybe it's because I've been watching the Kamen Rider series for a year, but from an outsiders perspective, I already knew that where this series, much like other sentais, it's not there to make sense. It's there to entertain. Or maybe I'm wrong and just like Gaim, there's a seedy underside to the juiciness of it all.