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Originally Posted by Locke

Gaim hasn't had a single filler episode yet.

Well I've already skipped ten episodes of Kyoryuger, and have a lot more to skip yet, so this show has LOADS of filler.

Not YET. So far, Urobuchi is doing a build up for some plans, which doesn't mean there won't be filler in the future... Especially because Urobuchi is used to write series half as long as Gaim. I really wonder if he can keep up the pace. In fact, some episodes had a slower feel already.

Besides, comparing Rider and Sentai at that point is just not right. Sentai has a structure much different from Rider, basically because we have a team focus, while rider has a story focus. Kamen Rider has ONE character to undergo the most development within the story, which is the main rider. Most sidekicks or secondary riders don't have stories as fleshed out as the main rider, the exception is when those stories are linked, like Eiji and Ankh's in OOO.

Sentai, however, has a team of characters that has to have about equal development and focus (depending on the author, of course, not all of them have the same amount of it, but that's still the idea behind it). The filler episodes in Sentai are usually character development episodes. For example, the cavity episode in Kyoryuger is basically the set-up for the friendship between Souji and Ian. At the same time, it introduces Ramirez and Ankydon, who are minor characters and thus don't have their own character episodes. Episode 11 was a character episode for Ucchi, who showed his true character in this one. This is also the episode that introduces his problem with women, which is used occasionally later in the show, for example in episode 32/33. We also have the origin of the name "Ucchi" in that one and some general introduction of his actual character traits that will appear throughout the rest of the show.

People shouldn't expect the same pacing as in Kamen Rider for Super Sentai. The shows may have been written and invented by the same people, but they're still two different shows.