[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Kurona

I think you answered your own question: it would focus the storytelling. Gaving Calibur show up is shocking but with a lack of context it?s something that can simultaneously be a twist and sink to the background to let Primitive Dragon etc take the focus. Saying who Calibur is right away is the kind of hit-the-brakes-on-everything-else kinda thing, you know?

I suppose. I'm just worried I'm in for another batch of episodes where Calibur is a weirdly-unfocused threat, and then an eventual reveal that recontextualizes his previous appearances instead of, y'know, making those appearances fun and/or compelling in the moment.

(This is part of a larger issue I have with how Saber is sort of like Wizard, in its tendency to spend weeks doing weird, counter-intuitive things, to then spend a scene retroactively making those things sensible and clever. It's nice, at the end, but it somehow values the destination over the journey? Wizard's a mega-arc that I adore -- one of the smartest third act twists of any series, ever -- but I found the first viewing of about three-quarters of the series to be immensely dull and repetitive. I don't know if saving all your powder for a fun endgame twist is worth the many episodes that have to be less-fulfilling because of it?)