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Originally Posted by Shin Henshin

Gonna be a broad one here, but:

Kamen Rider fans nowadays keep falling into the same loop of "Overhype a new rider series -> Wax poetic about it at the start -> Completely 180 on it the moment the story does one thing they don't like much -> End the series saying it was terrible and will only refer to it negatively for a while -> Look back on the series after some time and call it underrated" and it's getting tiring that a majority of people aren't noticing this and either tempering their expectations or taking a break from the franchise to decompress and settle down.

Happened with Zero-One, happened with Saber, happened with Revice, it's probably gonna happen with Geats. When's the cycle gonna break?

I think a big part of that has to do with potential. You're never really sure where a KR series is going to go at the start, and some make big promises they can't keep because of budget/time/etc. I can't think of a KR series that didn't have a really strong, hopeful start. They always play their best hand first, that's how you get people into your series. The fact that KR is locked into a set number of episodes means every story needs to fit into that run time, and not all plots can fill or cram into 49 episodes. Cracks and thin spots will start to form, especially around a series' middle chunk where they don't want to lose or compromise the momentum of the beginning and end.

That said, you're absolutely correct about over-hype. It's why I don't watch KR anymore as it airs. Last one I did was Zero-One and, while I liked it overall, even I dropped off at the end and didn't finish it till last year. Every time a KR series begins there's people saying it's the best series ever, as if it doesn't have almost a year left to go. It leads to a very distorted view of public opinion where the general consensus starts very aligned and then, I dunno, retroactively shifts after a period of time? But it's not even that people say the show got worse or something, but rather the idea that once it loses that momentum or, as you said, does something unpopular, suddenly it as always bad.