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Originally Posted by Locke

The great thing about Decade is the fandom has blown the problems out of the water, and downplayed the positives to near non existence that if you actually watch Decade you're forced into the series with such low expectations that it actually becomes really enjoyable.

Decade burned a lot of people who were watching it when it aired. The show was actually really popular when it was on and a lot of viewers wanted to see what would happen next. At the time no one knew that the show wasn't going to explain jack shit about itself or that it would just collapse into a total mess of nostalgia fanwank and nonsense. There was - at least as I remember it (I came into Rider just as Decade was wrapping and didn't watch it properly until around the midpoint of W) - a lot of excitement and speculation about the show's central mysteries and when we saw how it ended a bunch of people got really, really salty. There have been plenty of disappointing tokusatsu shows in the past, but none of them seem to elicit the same amount of vitriol as Decade and I think it's mostly because of all the viewers who feel like the show promised them a whole lot and gave them shit in return. You wouldn't see the show get this much hate if it hadn't been really beloved when it started.

It also didn't help that Decade was one of the first shows to air during the big boom in Rider's popularity outside of Japan and it was a lot of new fans' first taste of crushing disappointment in the franchise.