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Originally Posted by CookSux

-The Kamen Rider franchise typically has some really great theme songs. Alive a Life, by Rika Matsumoto, is a catchy song with a stylish opening cinematic. The song was a welcome change of pace from the boring Kamen Rider Kuuga and Kamen Rider Agito theme songs. The types of scenes shown in the opening cinematic were not only eye-rollingly fabulous, it was practically copied for Kamen Rider Faiz and Kamen Rider Blade.

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-There are many things that I dislike about older Kamen Rider shows. Nothing makes me cringe more than the writer's use of plot contrivance. This series is able to skirt around this problem by giving a Card Deck holder the ability to sense when and where a Mirror Monster crosses over to the real world. In this episode, Shinji is at the mall to investigate the missing persons case. Once he sees the results of an abduction we see him appear outside of where Kamen Rider Knight is in the middle of engaging the monster of the week. How the heck did he know where to find them?

This always bugged the hell out of me in Faiz. Almost every episode a monster would show up and Keitaro or Mari would just call Takumi and tell him there's an Orphenoch attacking. They never gave a location but he would still be there within two minutes. At least the ringing sound makes it somewhat plausible that the Rider has a sense of where he needs to go.

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-I don't understand why Reiko wears an eyepatch throughout this episode. She reveals that she has pink eye at the end of the episode, but what is this a reference to? What was the point? Is this a Japanese thing?

I don't know the full story, but I've heard that it was a behind the scenes thing. The actress had some kind of short-term eye injury while these episodes were filming and the show just had to run with it.