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Originally Posted by ShyGuy

In a way I almost wish I had watched Wizard before I watched the first three Neo Heisei shows preceding it, because I think then I wouldn't have been quite as exhausted with that format in general as I was by the time I got to Wizard. Since I've been running through seasons one right after another, four seasons in a row of that format in a relatively short time just got tiresome by this point. So I think my issues with Wizard's pacing aren't so much an actual problem with the show as they are just a symptom of the way I've been watching the seasons all in a row.

Yeah, those 2 parters can really start dragging when you watch several of those shows back-to-back. I actually did watch Wizard before most of the other shows with that structure, and I enjoyed it a lot. But then, when I was wrapping up my Rider watching, the last four shows I watched (Den-O, Decade, W, Fourze) all did the 2-parter stuff, and I was sick of it by Den-O already. Not that that necessarily affected my opinion of the shows overall too much? I still liked Fourze a lot for instance. I was just a lot less forgiving with that structural aspect of the shows. It's been long enough since I watched Wizard that I can't actually compare how it pulled it off compared to those, though, which kinda makes me want to give it a rewatch sometime...but then the idea of jumping back into the structure is daunting in its own way, haha.

Anyway, agree with Fish Sandwich and AkibaSilver that it's nice seeing someone appreciate Wizard. In particular glad to see someone who liked Haruto, I've always felt he was a good and absurdly underappreciated lead.