[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

Her actual name's finally mentioned now in this episode. Why mopey folks should be scolded? Afterwards do you feel like the amusement park scene (a staple for various tokus!) are filler, or it's just a set up for character spotlight as per Kobayashi's sthick? I still want to talk about Ren and Shinji being afraid of dogs.

For Auntie scolding a mopey Yui, it reads like tough love to me from a relative who recognizes when someone's punishing themselves. She wants these three kids to get out of their own heads for an afternoon.

Oh, I really enjoy amusement park scenes. I think it's a way to inject some levity during a series... despite the fact that it seems like only terrible things happen when Riders go to an amusement park. Kobayashi, yeah, there's some pretty memorable PuToTyra stuff in OOO from an amusement park episode. One of my favorite Kamen Rider side-stories is that Gorider thing, and that's all at the amusement park. I think it's a pretty neat location to shoot at.

The dogs thing... it's cute? It's a cute little scene. It was a way to puncture the tension in the scene, and it's funny to see those characters get scared of a Very Good Boy, but otherwise I guess it didn't make that much of an impression on me.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

Probably because the vehicles don't move at all in real world either.

But, like, vehicles do move in the real world. Even if it's not a car they were in or a bike they were on, we've never seen real world moving vehicles that are occupied be Mirror World moving vehicles that are empty. And they're in a major city where there should be the occasional motorist. So, do vehicles not move in Mirror World?

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

If both sides have stronger weapons actually it's even.

If two people are in a fight with fists, someone's going to get hurt. If two people are in a fight with guns, someone's going to get killed. A level playing field doesn't always mean relative safety.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

(uhh you seem to contradict yourself; Survive makes fights last longer, but you say with stronger weapons, more likely someone dies, which sounds like the fight is concluding faster with the death of someone)

So, the thing about them both being stronger, is that they can last longer in a fight. The longer the fight goes on, the more brutal it's likely to get, the more desperate it's likely to get, and the more someone's going to push past Ending The Fight and accidentally end a life. I think that's the whole reason Shiro's handing out Survives, to take a dangerous situation and make it even more dangerous. It's what I like about how the Survive card is presented. It seems like a lifeline, but it's an incitement to greater violence.