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Originally Posted by Locke

The difference is the humanity.

As stupid as Wizard's of the week plots were - and they were often as boring as they were stupid - the whole 'I want to stop that kid being sad' is a human story, built on emotion, not on mindless suffering. We had too much focus on the Gate's to be fair, but it was nice to understand them, so the people Haruto were saving didn't just function as window dressing. Sure Kuuga was full of carnage and gore, but it also had no soul or heart either, as it never focused on the people inside the carnage and what they were feeling, they had no faces, no names and we had no reason to care about the individual, or the mass either.

"I want to stop that kid being sad" is a human story, where as "I want to stop that kid from being killed" isn't? You don't need to place a face, name and 3/4 of an episode of backstory on one person to know people dying is bad and holds gravitas whether it's spelt out for you or not. It's even more unrealistic for a hero to coincidentally meet every victim of the week and save them from a laughable threat, in my opinion.

I liked the gore and carnage of kuuga, mindless/arrogant/whatever word you want to describe it as. Though don't be ignorant of Kuuga's story and mythos and act as if it's just visually dark, It was a nice contrast to super sentai. Now I'm not saying Kamen Rider should always be all gore, all grimdark, all the time. Definitely not. Though there are aspects, themes and overall tone I miss from those series. The past 4 years, it's been very focused on the opposite which is good for contrast and mixing it up but I am curious if thats permanent or if we will see a return to that kind of Kamen Rider.

Someone mentioned W earlier, I loved the humour and light-heartedness of that series. It walked a very hard line and i think it got the balance fairly well