[Locke]

Episode fifteen of Black... I kept waiting for a Zodiart to turn up. Now I really wanna see Gamou work with Golgom.

Although Black feels really primitive, coming right off the back of Ultimatum, I have to say the monster designs and suits hold up really, really well, honestly I think I kinda like them better than the modern suits, something about them looks more real. I dunno, it's like the modern monsters suits are so well made, so glossy and new and expensive that it only highlights how fake they are.

Plus although the show is very very goofy, largely because of how dated it is, I kinda wish more modern shows had action like Black's. So much Toku action these days is done on wires or with CGI that I don't even see the point of suit actors any more, and sure maybe it isn't as superheroic as Black isn't like flying through the air or whatever, but his fights with his enemies usually either leave the enemy with one less limb or two or level the set around them which to me is a much better visual treat than seeing the Rider's yanked through the air.

Even when the show does neither of those things, Black still manages to make the physical hits feel like they have actual impact whereas shows like Blade make a fist fight look like the toku version of a Newton's Cradle without the sense of motion.