[Locke]

Faiz 25.

I'm actually growing to kinda hate Takumi as a protagonist, 'Smart Brain are suspicious'. No fucking shit, Sherlock, you've seen them turn into Orphenoch and fought them already. "I thought they were going to save the world." What for the first episode? That was a LONG fucking time ago. I also love how in the space of one episode the President was just like 'lol fuck it, kill them'.

I will say that visually, the run around Ryuusei School was really impressive. I am really glad that it wasn't just some random thing dropped from earlier in the show. And I was glad to see the action be on and off from the start, rather than bookended.

Shame the ending totally ruined the good parts of the episode. What did Kaixa use instant translocation? How the fuck did he get out of the school? And how'd he just turn up at that stadium where all the Orphenoch's were fighting? And how'd he not bump into Yuuji on the way in? It's amazing you can be so dumb over like two minutes of wrap up.

Wow, I'm half way through Faiz? I'm amazed at myself that I made it so far, all things considered. Faiz is not the worst Rider show I've ever seen, or even necessarily a bad show in the first place but the pacing is just fucking terrible.

This is the first Rider show I think I've watched, where there is no wider plot yet. It's just mini-arc, on top of mini-arc, which always go nowhere and never allow the characters to grow.

What saves the show, is despite the shows age, it has action that rivals with the best of them. I physically can't fathom how Blade can look so bad, when this is just so gorgeous.