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Originally Posted by SPLIT LIP

To be fair, every show should get better as it goes on. If a show remained at the same quality and level all throughout (AAAAGGIIIIIITTOOOOOOO) it'd be just as bad, or worse since you're expecting improvement.

It's not the "it gets better" comments that get me. I expect that. It's the "it gets good later" which make me feel like I'm wasting my time because it's not good to start. OOO "get's better" because the plot advances, the charatcers expand and the stakes get higher. That's what I want and expect.

Not like Kabuto where you trudge halfway through nonsense and horrible characters and people start saying the second half isn't as good as the first. (He's a troll! That makes everything okay because trolls are so endearing, likable and make for great heroes!)

Speaking of, I notice a disturbing trend in some rider series of the main rider being almost wholey apathetic towards the destruction and often death or injury of those around him, and focuses only on his problems and beating teh monster. Kabuto and Agito could barely be paid to give a rats ass about all the innocent, just going about their lives oblivious to the lurking danger, folk who get horribly murdered leaving behind grieving families. (Another reason W, Black, OOO and Den-O are my favs, and why I still like Wizard despite him being very subdued, borderline bland. He at least gives a shit about other human beings besides himself, sometimes the secondary rider and whatever pair of boobs is standing arund at the time)

That is what I meant. A show should get better as it goes, but it should also start good as well. I cant believe the amount of people on this forum who are happy to sit through 20 - 30 episodes of something they cant stand just because other members told them it gets good after that. Crazy.

Yeah the few episodes I watched of Kabuto I found really boring.

I find Kuuga funny in a reverse kinda way to your point. Kuuga is all about saving people, all about protecting smiles and all that cheese, yet he relies entirely on Ichijou to lead him to the battles and Ichijou is only informed of the attacks after sometimes hundreds of police/civilians have lost their lives, they're trying to present Kuuga as some kind of hero but I'm guessing close to thousands of people have died under his watch already.

This wouldn't usually be an issue, I mean hell look at all the exploding buildings in Sentai, but the show constantly rubs the body count in my face while simultaneously trying to represent Godai as a Paladin and I just find it funny in how little that works.