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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Lucha

I am... shall we say... emphatically opposed to a return of the two-part format. That said, I would be very interested to see Sanjo tackle modern Rider's more serialized format.

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Originally Posted by TheJaz

Yup, this 2000%

Strict two-parters are not my cup of tea at all, I'd lose a lot of interest in this show if it brought them back

There are things I like about Sanjo's writing tho that I'd love to see in a different writing format. I do often like his characters in particular

To be honest, two-parters aren't really bad in and of themselves. They have their own strengths. For one, it would be nice to see a season where the monsters were characters again like in Double or Drive. With the serialized arc format, there's less of an incentive to make monsters of the week, and more an incentive to make each season a Rider vs Rider one. Like when was the last time we had an actual monster of the week that was a character?

Like I prefer the arc format myself, but it's not like there aren't any weaknesses, either. Sometimes they feel like they drag out some plots that really should've been resolved quicker. Lest we forget that one of the big criticisms is how Daiji's plot was dragged out for way too long in Revice, or how Rintaro's arc had him just lingering the background doing nothing for a while.

Personally I think there really can be a good medium between the two-parter format and the arc format. Like try to work in the strengths of both, I say.

It's funny, on SpaceBattles I had an argument about why two-parters were weak, while here I'm talking about how arc formats aren't always strong either. Though my opinion is still that there's a good medium that can happen between them.