[SPLIT LIP]

Been checking out Kiva. Smacked down episode two and am watching 3.

Four main things, though:

DAMN that intro is awesome.

DA-HAMN that suit is awesome.

DA-HA-HAMN that bike is awesome.

HOLY SHIT they could not have found a worse kid to play Kiva. In the suit he's so violent and hard-edged and dark and regal and vicious and yet the actor looks like a baby. He's just so young and fesh-faced, and turns into a metal demon. He should have an underlying air of darkness, yet he always looks like he had a rough day at school. He's not bad at any rate, but he is just such a staggering contrast.

The show is okay so far. Nothing wrong really, the two time frames is an interesting angle, but it means keeping track of characters is twice as hard. But it DOES have those awesome bits, the suit, the bike, the song, the... dragon castle? Uh, okay, that last one isn't as cool. But I would buy a Kiva and Bike figuart INSTANTLY. How come rider bikes don't look that cool anymore? It's weird, this bike came after Den-O, who had a kind of weak lookign dirtbike. Then after Kiva was Decade, who had a pretty sweet bike. W then had an awesome ninja bike, and OOO had a neat ride that suffered a bit from the gimmick. Then Fourze was back to a weak dirtbike dressed as a shuttle, Wizard had a fairly generic dirtbike, and Gaim aslo has a dirtbike. What the hell? Where are the sweet hogs and ninja bikes?