[Locke]

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Originally Posted by Dormamu

I don't know, I just don't feel the same about Koyomi bucking the kicket now like I did the last episode. I mean, it's not like he kicked Gremlin into the sun. Shoulda saved that for the finale. It's almost like Wizard lost steam about halfway through the series. Actually, let me rephrase that, it's like there were two story arcs, with episode 1-23 being the first arc with Phoenix, and the remaining belonging to Fueki's descent.

It did suffer a bit of Fourze syndrome in this regard, huh? I loved those first 25 or so episodes. The final fight with Phoenix was epic, the show seemed to have a good grasp on what it was, the information it fed was slow but steady, the Gate's of the week had yet to fall into the agonising repetition of 'the asshole of the week'.

Then suddenly half way through the show kinda remembered that they wanted to have a wider plot for this show, while ticking as many Rider boxes as physically possible while still retaining its own personal sense of identity.

So what we got was a secondary Rider who was totally useless until like the last five episodes, we continued the Gate of the week format despite by this point the focus being taken entirely away from the Gate's, Phoenix was replaced in such a fashion that it felt insanely awkward and clunky and then the 'oh shit we have like ten episodes, wrap this shit up wrap this shit up!'

Bleh.