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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

To be honest, while I kept with Fourze until the end, I wasn't so much hating it, but more just bored by the ending. While the series does keep it's twists and turns until the finale, the twists are followed by obvious plot developments.

It's like 5 minutes of jaw dropping surprise followed by 15 minutes of "I saw that coming."

That said, Fourze's fights are still fun, flashy, and when he uses a creative switch combination, it's awesome, but the actual plot doesn't do much for me in the latter half beyond aforementioned twists and interesting developments.

So it is all down hill from here then?

To be fair Fourze isn't really that plot heavy anyway, it just has great characters portrayed by great actors who have great chemistry and their interactions make the quiet moments between the fighting feel worthwhile. Although I personally would have had less people in the club, as a lot of them felt like spare parts when Meteor showed up.

My only real problem now is, as the villains come more and more into the limelight, other aspects of the series are pushed out of it. And so where once this show was centred around the Switches and the motivations behind those who press them, they have less time to explore this now leaving the MOW to feel more tacked on and forced.

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

Fourze's plot does come to an almost dead halt for much of the later two-thirds. The "Ryusei is secretly Meteor" plot gets dragged out way longer than it should have been and the villains' lack of obvious motivation keeps the weekly threats pretty much at the "random kid is given a Switch, wackiness ensues" level. By the time the show realizes this there's less than ten episodes to go and shit starts getting really rushed.

I can't tell whether the Meteor stuff is supposed to be a Clark Kent glasses parody or what but I'm struggling to believe a little more each episode that everyone in the club are that dense that they can't draw the connection. Half of their life in the club is solving mysteries for Christ's sake.

I guess I'd be annoyed that I have no idea what the villains are actually doing in this show but that seems to be a common thing in Kamen Rider I am discovering. The ULs spoke in an untranslated language and the Greed largely sit around while the show tries to explain such garbled and confusing mythology, the whole thing crumbles down as soon as you think on it.