[Annuga]

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

See, this is really fun becasue you talking about Decade sounds exactly like me talking about Gaim.

I actually started watching Kamen Rider during OOO's run, and got around to watching Decade before it was over, and I really think that made all the difference.

I thought for a little bit that I might hold off on it until I'd seen at least most of the previous Hesei shows, but in retrospect I'm really glad I didn't wait. Ryuki was the first show I completed, and I still remember getting to the Ryuki episodes and being like "what the hell, Ryuki was nothing like this! It's not even vaguely similar!"

But because I'd only seen a couple of episodes of Kuuga besides that at the time, I was able to approach the other Hesei worlds for what they were, rather than what they should've been, and that's an attitude that about sums up my opinion on the whole show.

I also still remember watching the end of Movie War 2010 and just thinking a nice flat "what.' at the end, so if anything, I'm a bit more positive about Decade now than I was at the time.



I'd take that a step further and say any show can spur a topic of "what could have been".

Which is maybe why I'm so lax about Decade? Like you said, it basically could have never been great in the first place, and maybe that's actually what I should've said in the first place, because that goes more to the point I was getting at.

Any show can get you talking about how "they should have done this," but with Decade I'm completely content with what they did. Even with shows I like way more (like Ghost), there's stuff I'd change, but Decade is all the better in my eyes for being kind of garbage.

I know that sounds like a backhanded compliment, but I really mean it.

Decade was my first series that was before W, yet I hated it regardless. Granted, in retrospective, I dislike it further for screwing with Blade nowadays, but still.