[Locke]

Black 24. The episode where all Golgom wanted to be, was swimming in bitches and Kotaro met the Guardians of Universe, as presented in the style of a 60s B-Movie. It's kinda hard not to enjoy something this awful but when I see what Kamen Rider grows into, it's disappointing that there are so many opportunities for great character moments or epic stories that they just waste so they can repeat the same fight scene over and over again.

Still, on the other hand, it blows me away how good the monster suits are in this show, with most Heisei suits looking much faker and much tackier. It's a shame most of the mutants in this show don't get to do a lot, because those suits deserve so much more, for how much effort clearly went into them.

The same can be said for Kotaro, he is probably one of the best Riders ever, as most Riders are so passive and unengaging but Kotaro is so active and never relies solely on his powers to get him through everything, so why create such an amazing Rider and then give him fuck all to do outside of fight scenes? He has so much at stake in his battle with Golgom, but about the most you see him do outside of action is sit at a counter and look into space.

Still, for both its age, and small Kamen Rider budget, the action scenes in this are usually impressive, especially with how much is done out of suit which is pretty much never done in modern Rider.

Was this weeks mutant a teacher in another Kamen Rider show? I swear I recognised him.