[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by FreshToku

Wow, episode 41. Feels like just a week ago when you made that post about the end of episode 4 with the baseball.

While it's super fitting for this show to feel like time is moving unreliably, I'll agree with you, but add that it's something I feel a lot in these threads? That inability to really believe the end is near for a show?

Sometimes it's really bittersweet, where you feel like your time with a show is running out. (Faiz and Ryuki? I think those were ones where it was tough to leave those casts behind.) Sometimes it's a thing I'm just sort of ready to be done talking about it. Not because I don't like it, but because I feel emptied out by the process. (Kuuga and Hibiki, those are two where I remember feeling like Hi I Don't Want To Talk About This Show For A While.)

For whatever feelings it generates, there's always this, like disbelief. However many days or weeks or months I spent living this show, and now it's just a few more to go. Almost done. The end is close, to quote a man I've begun to think of as a crazy Adama from Battlestar Galactica, as Edward James Almost. (It's this specific mix of gravitas and humor, that's where I get the Adama stuff.) I don't... I don't really think of the time investment to do these things, really. I just do them. Perpetual motion, like Tendou. But you get that minute as the end of the path is in sight, and you're like Oh Shit. Definitely has a moment where it's hard to grasp.

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Originally Posted by FreshToku

I don't remember anything about the plot regarding the Natives and Tadokoro, but I definitely remember the bits with Sasword hanging out with the Hoppers, so clearly that means I'm in the same boat as you in thinking that's the only part of the story that matters!

It's for sure the best part. I really love how excited Yaguruma is to find someone who's as dramatically depressed as he is. I really love how excited Kageyama is to have someone else to suck up to. I really love those three characters, and the show putting them in one storyline seems to validate my disinterest in the rest of this episode.