[Kamen Rider Lucha]

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Originally Posted by Locke

What Split is trying to convey, as to how I understand it and appreciate it myself, is that even the silliest shows in the world have logic, they are ground in their own version of reality and set of internal rules. It's up to the show to allow us to buy into noticeable zips, cardboard robots and pretty Japanese boys being better suited to fight monsters than actual trained officials.

But Kuuga's planet destroying kick defies the shows own continuity. Kuuga is a show, to be fair, with very strong world building. Although I hated the tone, Kuuga does feel very much like how a Rider war would perhaps play out if it happened fo'realz. So to suddenly turn around and 'HERP DERP DESTROY THE PLANET KICK' it was really, really, really DUMB. Even within the shows parameters of rubber monsters and rubber armour. Because it doesn't fit with anything else.

It'd be like watching Double Indemnity when suddenly Walter Matthau suddenly gained the power to lift buildings - and did.

Wow, that does sound really annoying and like a huge breach of trust between the creators and the audience.

I still stand by my statements, though. That suspension of belief isn't as fragile as Split makes it seem... so long as the creators maintain a mostly consistent internal logic.