[Kamen Rider Meteor]

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Originally Posted by Locke

I literally just finished this series...and I really didn't like it. The first ten or so episodes are pretty solid, Ichijou is one of my all time favourite characters (not just toku I mean ALL TIME), it was very well written and had some great villains.

It was after the first ten or so episodes where the series took a direction really not for me, the series got darker and darker and I just felt the series was much too grim for a toku show, I wasn't a big fan of the whole Grongi language business either. Plus I personally found the acting and action all pretty terrible as well.

There are some great moments dotted around those last forty or so episodes though, the fight with the Porcupine dude was great and the villains get some cool developments powerwise towards the end of the series but meh.

I kinda dig the Grim tone and Grongi language. It certainly is different from what i am used to. I can see how they both are acquired tastes though.

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Originally Posted by Megabattimus

The thing is, he doesn't really have time to do that. The Grongi aren't just gonna take a holiday while Godai figures out what he can do. And really, the trial and error thing isn't a bad thing to me. It really hammers home the fact that Godai is very inexperienced and that he is fallible; you can beat him, he just refuses to go down. He gets better at fighting as he goes along and gains slightly more control over his powers (until they get way too strong for him that he's creating MASSIVE explosions when he kills Grongi and has to fight them in unpopulated areas just so he doesn't accidentally kill anyone), which to me is more fun to watch than the "Guy who gets Rider powers and is immediately awesome".

Kuuga is my favourite Rider show (for reasons stated here: http://www.tokunation.com/showpost.p...postcount=4792), so I'm glad you're watching it and I hope you enjoy it more than some people.

It's not that i expect for the Grongi to give him a day off to figure out how to be like Wizard and show up with 1,000 abilities and be insta-awesome. But just one scene of him trying to get a rough idea how to use these powers would help. It's a minor gripe , but almost all inexperienced superheroes have that right of passage. I still am looking forward to seeing how the show plays out. The Ichijou / Godai partnership is interesting. It makes me wish that Haruto and Rinko were more like this in Wizard.