[Locke]

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Originally Posted by Thessair

So, I've watched the first two episodes of Blade. I don't know, I suppose that maybe I've just heard too much hype about this series for it to live up to, but I'm just not feeling it yet. Granted there aren't many series that completely had its hooks in me two episodes in but hearing most people talk about it, I expected something extraordinary. Chalice is pretty awesome looking though, I'll give it that.

Blade's hella overrated. The show makes great use of its gimmick, probably the best use of a gimmick in the whole franchise honestly, but minus that and some sweet Rider designs there really isn't much good about the show at all.

The action for example, is really good when it comes to the punching and the use of weapons and stuff, the amount of sparks that fly are overkill even by toku standards but that makes every hit feel powerful and vicious. But then when it comes to using their actual superpowers it gives Kuuga a run for its money in terms of looking dated, it gets pretty awful pretty quickly too when Rider's start getting these "epic" chain attacks that are so limp wristed and poorly realised it's embarrassing.

All of the character arcs take way too long to play out, and never satisfy and the plot and general mythos is silly and convoluted even by Rider standards.

/Although has admittedly seen less than a quarter of the show, so it could suddenly turn into a masterpiece mid way through.