[Kiwami]

I'm just very glad this is over. Gotchard, excuse my French, sucks ass.

It's like they specifically tried to make the worst Rider show possible. And failed at that, because everything they tried with this show failed. That doesn't make it good though, that just makes it even more of a mess somehow.

Story? Sucks. Characters? Annoying AF. Suits? Meh. Action? Okay I give them that one; the action was good at times. But simply being "good" in that department won't cut it if you are the following act to Geats.

And when you actually put it all on paper and look at what this show did to tell its story - it all becomes so convoluted and weird, not once did I have any clue what they were even trying to achieve here? It's not standalone enough to be a show featuring only weekly plots but the overarching narrative is just so all over the place it's hard to look at and try to make sense of it as a cohesive piece. Probably because it isn't one.

This episode perfectly demonstrates this lack of focus by being, well, terrible. What the hell is happening here? After all that has happened, all that transpired, all that lead up to this point - Hotaro pulls a planet out of his butt, puts the Chemies there and - that's it? That's the ending?

You have to admire the people in charge of production for finding the worst possible ending for one of the worst Rider shows ever made. Jesus.

In all my time watching Kamen Rider, this was the hardest one to finish. Worse than Ghost, worse than Saber. Maybe me getting old has something to do with it, but it was miserable experience. In fact, I only managed to do so because I watched the last 20-ish episodes with 2x times speed. The shitty plots were easy enough to follow, I only wasted 10 minutes a week on this and the chipmunk voices made the dumb dialogue mildly amusing.

Good riddance Kamen Rider Gotchard, I'm happy that it's finally over. I'm hyped as hell for Gavv, because for all the things it may end up being, at least it isn't Gotchard. At least any future show won't be Gotchard.

One last time and I can be done with this forever: Gotchard sucks ass.