[Locke]

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Originally Posted by SPLIT LIP

Maybe it's just because, for now at least, I still consider myself a bit of an outsider to the workings and tropes of Kamen Rider, but I completely understand what Locke is saying.

Thematically, if you're villain is resistant to a certain attack, simply repeating it three times is not a "cool" way of beating him. It's how you beat an enemy in a video game that's health bar takes three finisher moves to beat. In a narrative "I can absorb that power" either means that your hero needs to use an even bigger, stronger attack to overpower them, or try an entirely new attack. Not just, essentially, spam the same attack button-mash style. It's... lame. Imagine if W beat Uptopia by doing his epic Twin Maximum Drive bicycle kick... but only after he had done it two times already.

This is exactly the point I was trying to make. I guess I could have *possibly* swallowed this on your average of the week episode, but the Fungus guy killed Godai, so you think he'd get a better send off than 'I kicked him three times' and considering the whole episode was so epic, Kuuga's return wasn't triumphant at all, since he just did the same move three times and that was that. This should have been an epic moment but I've seen web series with better action sequences.

And as I've said before, it isn't like the show cant do action, it stages wonderful sequences for Ichijou and the ULs but Kuuga's powers and general fight sequences always underwhelm. And it's a problem when your Rider is the least interesting thing in the show.

And yeah being critical of shows is how I process and enjoy them, I like pointing out what I found wrong and discussing it. Sadly it gives you a lot more to talk about than anything else.

For the record I love Kuuga, I just think the acting is poor and Kuuga himself is rubbish.