[Fish Sandwich]

Fish Sandwich also watched Kamen Rider Saber Episode 36

There are a lot of different things I like about this episode that I think my post from the time already covers pretty thoroughly, so right here, I'll say something I couldn't have been quite sure of back then, which is that I'm actually quite fond of Kamen Rider Solomon.

I have sort of a paranoid disdain for psychotic main villains who are arbitrarily also Riders, or "Gold Drives", as I always think of them. (Even though Gold Drive isn't actually called Kamen Rider.) Despite enjoying a lot of later half antagonists who broadly fit that mold, I always kind of worry when one shows up that fight scenes in the show will become repetitive, with a focus on the same one opponent for the heroes, and part of me is eternally sort of hung up on the idea that the name "Kamen Rider" loses weight any time you slap it on a bad guy for more merch appeal.

But again, plenty of these guys end up being really enjoyable for me anyway, and I did already like Master Logos to begin with. The kitbashy nature of his suit actually created a bit of headcanon (or like, head-thematics) for me I kinda doubt was intentional, which is how it emphasizes that he's just a straight up pretender. Dude doesn't even have a proper holy sword, so for all the amazing powers he's flaunting, there's always this vibe that he's some cheap knockoff who doesn't even remotely understand what it means to be a swordsman in this series. (And by extension, what it generally means to be a Kamen Rider.) Frankly, I think the suit just plain looks good to begin with, but ever since I starting thinking of it that way, I started outright loving it.