[Locke]

I mean I appreciate that GARO isn't just 'fight in quarry' 'fight in warehouse' like pretty much every fight in Sentai and Kamen Rider that isn't in a public park or something. The fact he fights in actual urban locations adds to the show, I feel, but if all they had access too was a big house, and the grounds, couldn't they have just gone with a haunted house story or something? He could have been a shrink and did it from his home, if the whole Doctor thing was what you wanted.

All they did was leave the house the same and stuck a sign that said 'hospital' in the grass at the front. So naff.

GARO 05.

So wait...the legend of the Horrors is only just spreading now? Hasn't this stuff been going on for generations? I mean I know we have mobile phones, Twitter and Facebook now and I love a bit of world building, but come on, man.

It doesn't help that a lot of GARO's world is poorly handled, I still don't really understand any of the unique aspects to this series yet but the show treats them so casually by this point it seems to assume the audience knows what is going on. I certainly think that a big part of that is TVN's translation, but still.

Still, the shows shifting focus is a welcome one. The action in this show is largely terrible, there are lots of cool stunts, and lots of even cooler ideas but the CGI is awful and overused, even if you guys have explained - at least in places - why this is so, it doesn't make it any better to watch. Plus I'm really not a big fan of all powerful protagonists, I love watching Kouga fight as he seems on equal footing with the Horrors and gets smashed around as much as he smashes them around, but then he transforms and it's over instantly. Boooooring. So yeah, this greater focus on atmosphere, on horror, I'm liking it much better than those early episodes.

So Kouga is basically Batman?