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Originally Posted by Switchblade

I think Kuuga is just one of those shows where either its uniqueness clicks with you or deeply irritates you. I've never really seen a lot of people who were just middle-of-the-road on it. Personally, I still love it despite all of its flaws.

That said, it is definitely a show that does not age well. Skyrider holds up better over time, and that show had a damn disco soundtrack. The show's budget was obviously minuscule, the CGI was not nearly advanced enough for what they wanted it for, it was way more slow drama than action-adventure, and the ending... Okay, so I get what they were trying to do with the ending. It's a metaphor. I can respect the idea of doing something like that instead of the big CGI explosionfest. It really doesn't work, though. Still, not as bad as Faiz's ending.


Then I will be your hope.

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Okay, I was going to google up a Kuuga MLP drawing, but the only one I could find showed him Rider Kicking the yellow one in the face, so, uh... nevermind.

To me, Kuuga is the shining example of different doesn't mean better. It aimed to be a police drama, but in doing so, it made Ichijou feel like the only real character. That decision marginalized half the supporting cast and made Godai only feel like an attack dog at times, where we'd spend an entire episode around Ichijou, then Godai would pop in and kill a Grongi, ride off, then we'd end the episode with Ichijou.
It wanted to have a mystery aspect, but in doing that, the audience was left so far behind in information that keeping up with the plot was borderline impossible. Even when the Grongi started speaking Linto, they would still move into Grongi just to make things difficult to keep up with.

Godai felt like a discount Eiji. Godai never felt like a growing character. The brief moments he did (Like his violent outburst against the porcupine Grongi) were removed by the next episode ("I don't want to be like that anymore, so I'mma smile." "Kay." and instantly resolved). He's not bad, and he's very likable, but he was just rather static.

I don't know how to comment on the fight scenes, as the only series before it that I've seen is Amazon, so I don't know how later Showa era handled fights.
I can understand what they were trying to do, but they felt like they were stumbling too much to fully follow through.

And no worries. I found a Kuuga MLP image~

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Originally Posted by ryan

I don't mind the fight episode, I get what they were going for, and I can kind of appreciate it for what it is, though it isn't really what I would want out of a finale like that.

I also get what they were doing with the final episode, but again it doesn't really do much for me. I think I would have appreciated the last episode a lot, had they shown at the end that Godai died to defeat Daguva, but I understand why they didn't go that route.

I wouldn't have been so disappointed if it weren't the climax. Everything the previous 10 or so episodes were building up to. Ended with a 30 second long fist fight.

The final episode makes sense, everyone enjoying life and the things Godai did. But that's just it. It's people going "Yeah, Godai is great." "Yeah. He's awesome." for 20 minutes.

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Originally Posted by ryan

What are you going to watch next? I enjoy you're episode by episode reflections, and I'd like to read along with your next show, especially if it's one like Kuuga that I'm pretty familiar with. I can't remember which other shows you've done (in part because I probably missed many of your posts, sometimes this thread grows so quickly I'll miss pages and pages of discussion), but I'm tempted to try and pick out just your posts from this thread and read through them.

Really? Thanks.

I was thinking on watching a Sentai next, but I may watch another Rider series (I've been intending on revisiting Den-O, Kabuto, and Ryuki, while I've yet to see Agito, all of Faiz (15 episodes in. New record!), or Hibiki).