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Faiz 49 and 50

Holy shit this ending. I have never seen an ending of a TV show this bad before. Episode 50 might have been the worst episode of any Kamen Rider series I have ever seen.

I'll go over my qualms with the series' end and as a whole.

So, episode 50 starts out with Takumi getting dragged off to Smart Brain hospital only to get rescued and nothing of importance happening. Seriously, its 90 seconds they could have cut out of the episode to wrap up some plot points and tie up some loose ends but nope wasted for no reason. The kid's awakening and Yuji's being all evil while watching. I like the fight between Horse Orphnoch and Faiz and Takumi's reasoning for not killing Yuji.

So after Faiz does his thing to Yuji, he goes off to fight the now awakened Orphnoch King and shit's getting intense. And Yuji.... siwtches sides again..... okay... so triple Rider kick doesn't do anything to the King so Faiz whips out Blaster form's Rider Kick while Yuji is holding the King down, while slowly dying. While we don't get to see the actual kick itself go through, I'm fine with that.

AND AFTER THAT...... The fuck is this shit? Seriously, the Orpnoch King just got scooped up by Lucky Clover chick and put in stasis. The fuck? Oh and the other gerneral Orphnoch went on to live as a human. And why did they even spend time on the detective guy and his daughter? Seriously, cut this shit out from the end and nobody would miss it. Also, the perfect pacing that Faiz had got fucked up with the show speedily trying to get through what seems like a 2 or 3 episode finale crammed in 23 minutes.

Seriosuly this is the worst ending I've seen from a Rider series. While Ryuki (the series before it) has also a 'bad" ending, it at least resolved the Yui and Shiro relationship aspect of the show at the end. Unlike this ending which didn't resolve anything except with a "who knows?"

The dilemma with the Orphnoch King was a very morally ambiguous question that I would have seen explored with more depth then the half assed slop fest that they threw together for episodes 49 and 50. Inoue, when you bring up such dilemmas as this at the end of the show, you're expected to resolve it. By allowing the King to have survived, it doesn't make any of the characters actions have a lasting effect or solve the question that, mind you, YOU brought up. Inoue, you should have paced the series better so this ending didn';t feel half assed. I mean you had 25 episodes of nothing going on in the middle, maybe flesh out some stuff then instead of having the Muppet kid who is the Orphnoch King show up in the last 10 episodes

My verdict on Faiz...... its a good series but it has a lot, AND I MEAN A LOT of problems that takes away from the questions it poses, the great story lines and character interactions/development and the plot of the show. From the communication problems, to the plot going in circles for 25 episodes, to Lucky Clover being boring and bland, to a legitimately bad ending, people expecting a well weaved narrative with logical and complete resolutions, should not watch this because it will make you go crazy. Everything started going downhill after episode 15, in my opinion, so you've been warned.