[Kamen Rider Lucha]

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Originally Posted by Locke

Outside pressures I perfectly accept, but when it comes to the core story itself, there is no excuses for the head writer paid to write a fifty episode series to not do that. I'm not dismissing their efforts, I just believe that if someone is hired to do something...they should do it.

Comparing shows, genres, cultures, it's all relative, my only point ever was they were hired to do a thing, that they rarely ever do, and that is wrong no matter what factors you draw into the equation.

I don't think you can separate outside pressures from the story when it comes to TV writing. One tends to inform the other, and that's kind of the magic of TV. The controlled chaos of production informs the story in an almost improvisational way. In the best cases, the approach lends to lively and dynamic stories. In the worst cases, it leads to complete disaster. But I digress...

The fact is that the writers are being paid to write. They're not being paid to write well. There's a hope or expectation that what they write will be good -- but there's just as great a risk that what they write will be bad. Regardless of the quality of the end product, they're doing their job. They've written 1500 pages, which is difficult work whether those pages are good or bad.

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There is simply no excuse for the defence of tokus bad pacing but the fact it's so embraced by an internet too insecure to criticise their favourite things, they'll just keep doing it. At least we know they'll always put in more effort than Saban, as it's impossible to put in less effort than no effort at all.

Toei shows, over the course of a series, do tend to have wildly inconsistent pacing. I think there are plenty of excuses for that -- production limitations, cultural differences in how we interpret media, conflict between creatives and execs -- but whether the excuses are viable is obviously case-dependent.

While I do think there are a lot of internet folks who are too insecure to criticize their favorite things, there are also a lot of internet folks who are so arrogant that they rail against anything that doesn't live up to their unrealistic expectations. That doesn't apply to you -- you just have strong critical opinions and are very idealistic, which is admirable. But that same idealism must make it hard to enjoy shows that are as flawed as Sentai and Rider tend to be.