[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by DreamSword

Same. I was actually going to reply to Die in detail but then remembered that it'd technically count as spoilers.

For the record though Die, it's all cool you think different. I just disagree, is all.

Which, yeah! I figured it was going to be an unpopular opinion. And, believe me, I think I can already see the shape of what the counter-argument is, based on subsequent episodes.

Just, even watching that episode the first time, the scale of the explosion... I didn't like it. And even after all of the work the show does following it up... I still didn't like it? It's just a narrative, aesthetic choice that I don't find a lot in.

I wasn't trying to argue that it was bad, or that it doesn't fit, it just maneuvers the story, the world, into something I found more difficult to invest in. That is clearly not the case for other viewers! I get that! I'm happy to have people tell me why they disagree later in the series (and literally everyone is going to disagree with me, that vision is coming through crystal clear), but all I'm talking about is how that escalation in the story affected me.