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Originally Posted by Kiwami

What they watch isn't a Kamen Rider show though.

The DGP is literally about the Kamen Riders. It is a Kamen Rider show.

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The context is what matters.

Here's the thing: You are correct. Context does matter.

And one big part of the context that you seem to be omitting is that Geats' narrative very heavily leans on meta commentary, especially in its later stages.

It's not just in terms of the audience either, but also the various talks about the proper way to handle a TV show(such as the first Game Master's' "boringly straight-forward" show getting replaced by the Among Us stuff), the roles Producers take in these sorts of things, etc.

To ignore that aspect is to ignore a major part of the show, and I frankly see no reason to make any exception to the audience aspect, especially when we get scenes like in the summer movie where Ziin literally looks at the screen and talks to us, the audience watching. And if you wanna argue "oh well that's the summer movie" do note that it was also written by Takahashi and follows many of the things set up in the TV show proper.

If you're able to look past it, that's fine. Great, even, because it allows you to have your own fun with the show despite Geats itself trying to dictate a "proper" way of doing it.

But to claim that there's no basis for it or to think that the show is trying to 100% literal? I dunno, that just does not seem at all likely to me, and it's an aspect that I frankly just got tired of as the same sorts of lines kept getting repeated over and over again over like 30 episodes.

I'm not here to say no one should like the show. I'm just explaining the reasoning for why I don't.