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Originally Posted by SPLIT LIP

No it wasn't.

Seriously, be honest, a "killer shadow" isn't anywhere close to the regular silliness of Toku. Also it wasn't a killer shadow. If anything it was like fear gas. (the big bad is the terror dopant, and he releases that stuff to, well, cause fear in his enemies)

CGI aside (because yeah, W had some terrible early CGI, mostly because of how much it was used. Something I've come to realise carried over from Decade it seems) that's a complete crock of bull. W's fights scenes are awesome. The actual martial arts verses FX attacks is awesome, and the two are blended really well. The fights also happen logically and fit in with the plot.

In just about every KR series I've watched there's been a certain disconnect between the fight scenes and drama. Den-O and Agito had this pretty prominently. The heroes are always far away from the enemy or action literally until it's time to fight, with Den-O literally being dropped off and Agito having nothing at all to do with the plot until he needed to fight. W actually had the heroes be in the plot. The investigation side of things meant that the heroes were always mixed right in with the enemy and their motives, rather than gardening half the episode or lazing around in a trian car or diner.

I'm not saying you have to like it, but your reasons for disliking it are pretty flimsy, especially when you compare it to other toku, which just kind of makes your arguement fall apart when W does all these Toku tropes better than how they usually are.


Really, because how is saving lives and fighting monsters not superhero stuff?

Again, since you want to, compared to past series W's more of a superhero than most. Specifically, he's a very Batman-style superhero. He fully focuses on the enemy and problem, devoting all his effort to it and being almost constantly "on the trail," instead of just standing around talking about the problem, or not, until it's time to fight.

No it wasn't? Wasn't what?

And I meant his suit design, one of the least threatening looking villains ever, he looked absolutely ridiculous.

Well awesome in your opinion, I thought the fight choreography was really bad, it had no sense of motion and no fluidity, it was more akin to the brawling of an 80s action film than the kind of martial arts stunts I've seen elsewhere.

I'm not much of a KR guy so I can't really comment on others but all other Toku I've watched the heroes of the show are specifically designed to fight the monsters, here the heroes just kinda stumbled into their fights.

Because the life saving and monster fighting was a very small portion of the show. I would have liked more action, less Scooby Doo.