[catwhowalks]

I think watching Kuuga first may have helped me a lot. I didn't have any pre-conceptions of what a rider show even was, so I got the experience the show closer to the way people at the time may have, as a fresh innovative think with it's own unique ideas that hadn't yet become any sort ot standard formula, especially as it intentially departed from the Showa stuff in a number of ways.

Would I have reacted the same way as you if I had watched modern stuff first? I don't know. But I'm glad I watched it the way I did.