[Kiwami]

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Originally Posted by AgileSiamang7

Except when you can, like when Fox makes a Dragon ball movie and every design and actor choice shown before the movie's release through posters and trailers screams "this is not worth your time", or when a new Ghostbusters movie is coming out and the black member is yet again not the scientist, just a normal person next to her 3 smart white friends, and they tell you this through the trailers and online information handed out, leading you to think "I tolerated this when I was younger, why is this new movie doing the exact same thing but pretending to be different?"

That comparison is weak and you know it. In all the cases you have seen actual parts of the movie/show which can spark objective criticism. What we've seen here is armor and weapons, nothing else. And every opinion on those is purely subjective. If you try to call the show shit because you think how it’s gonna play out based on the designs you’re being ignorant. Again: Not liking the designs and not wanting to watch the show because of it is absolutely fine. Calling the whole show shit because you don’t like the designs isn’t.

Also, you cannot compare reboots or live-action adaptations to a franchise which defines itself completely new every year. Or at least tries to. Because Kamen Rider doesn’t need to check any rules besides the hero being a masked Rider on a motorcycle.

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Originally Posted by AgileSiamang7

If the show wasn't out yet AND we hadn't seen Rider that look like cheap McDonald's toys, then saying we hate the show already would be bullshit. But instead we've at least seen how our main hero, therefore the focus, is going to look, and if that doesn't hook some of us we are allowed to call it shit. A television show is both a visual pleasure and a storytelling experience. If the story is Shakespearean amazing but you have to look at utter garbage to experience it, why put yourself through that when you can instead watch something that's both visually appealing and has a good story, instead of settling because "well the designs are horrible, but I don't know the story yet so let me subject myself to this hot mess in the undeserving hope that it talks better than it looks".

Again, subjective. And you cannot get a focus from the main hero’s armor. Because I’m quite sure no one predicted how Gaim would turn out once they first saw it and mocked it as a Malaysian Rider knockoff.

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Originally Posted by AgileSiamang7

Me, I'll maybe watch 3 episodes before I give up based on what I'm seeing here, but no one is required to apply themselves to your way of judging when it's time to call something shit, and considering the times you've been hard on a season other's have liked while it's still airing, that's not really fair of you to get on Syntax for being critical in their own way beforehand.

You’re right, no one is required to apply to that, and I don’t understand why you guys think I insist on that. I simply say don’t judge a book by its cover.

If you don't want to watch it then don’t watch, if you want to criticize the designs for being bad in your opinion do it, but don’t argue how you have the right to call a whole show shit when you haven't even seen anything besides the costume design, weapons and gimmicks yet.