[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

I think I'm starting to get this after Kurona called the show "marmite"? Because I've always found it weird how much flak Faiz takes for everything that isn't a suit design, and now I'm getting the feeling none of this is really about how good or bad the show is at what it's doing so much as the simple question of "how much of a s*** can I give?", and looking at it that way, it like, immediately makes sense why opinions on it are spread the way they are.

The thing I'm most reminded of is the Sixth Doctor, from Doctor Who. I never watched it, but I remember reading interviews with the production team talking about the problems they had.

The conception of the character's arc was that he'd start prickly and insufferable, but grow to be the the more heroic Doctor that fans were used to. Problem was, while the writing team knew they were on an arc about character growth, the viewers tuning in each episode were like Why Is This Show About This Asshole. It ended up really not working, despite seeming like a pretty cool concept. (Of course, I'm sure there were plenty of other reasons why the show didn't work for that era. Like I said, I didn't watch it.)

I wonder if arcs like that are better suited for finite, contained works, like a book or a movie. Doing them as a series of installments means a viewer has to keep wanting to continue the story, a story that they're not sure will be worth it. Like, with a movie you're probably going to see it through, while with a TV show you have to continuously choose to watch something that is purposefully difficult.

Just a thought!

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Originally Posted by FreshToku

Kamen Rider's soap opera stuff is basically professional wrestling. If you talked about AEW and slapped Faiz's face over a screenshot, nobody would be able to tell the difference!

Y'know, between Kamen Rider, AEW/NJPW, and superhero comics, I'm apparently pretty pretty into long-form storytelling about men who alternate monologuing with bursts of violence. Huh.

Anyway, that AEW event was wildly uneven. The Casino Battle Royale and Stadium Stampede matches, the ones that bookended the event, were great. (Well, I definitely don't give a shit about Brian Cage, so that's gonna take a few points off of the Casino match.) But, man, besides the MJF/Jungle Boy match, I thought the rest of the card was real dull. Maybe my least-favorite AEW PPV.