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Originally Posted by Enchilada645

The stuff in this thread, especially some of the decisions made in regards to Gai, and the Workplace Competition before the Covid stuff are actually baffling to me. Like good for you views went up, but also man you kinda screwed the pooch and had to course correct because yeah, as we all figured, the Gai bashing was a response to the reception to Gai's introduction arc. Like I don't know, I love a good drama piece, but I feel like making that the center focus and feeling that Kamen Rider's shouldn't have a place in their own show during that arc, really hurt it a lot.

Oh, the part about how the action not gelling with the drama was particularly, uh, let's go with "fun" for me to see, too, because that was consistently something I (and I'm sure plenty of others) criticized both the competition arc for, and even some of the episodes after it. I'd be really curious to see that whole discussion and not just secondhand highlights, because it sounds like the producers were simultaneously very sure in the stories they were telling, and also very conscious of a lot of the problems they were running into doing it, and that's super interesting to me.