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Originally Posted by Gatack

"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

My Mum's death means more to me than when I hear hundreds died in a suicide bombing in the East. The death still impacts me, I'm human and have natural compassion for other humans, but when all I have are numbers I can only care at the most basic of compassion.

When I KNOW who died, and the show made me give a damn about them, then damn right it impacts me way more. This is exactly true of the 'sad kid', 'dead kid' scenario. If I can name the sad kid, tell you his favourite food and what motivates him in life then we've become friends and I care if you're sad. If the dead kid is simply the number 'fifteen' in the body count list (number fifteen out of TEN GAJILLION) and simply addressed to as 'dead kid' I can only care on the base shocks of dead children.