[Locke]

Decided to go ahead and watch the first episode of Decade for myself. I'm not much of a 'make up your own mind when you have 1000000000000000000000 other things to watch that you actually enjoy' sort of guy, but discussion of Decade seems to have been shooting up all over the place in this forum and as I'm 'the Kamen Rider fan who actually really liked Wizard, and thinks Kuuga was a pile of shit' I realised that I'm probably more likely to fall in line with Decade's surprisingly loud supporters, even in their minority, than the masses who all completely write Decade off.

And, honestly, I kinda liked it. The story and characters were played fast and loose admittedly, and due to the similarities between this and Gokaiger it was hard to keep Gokaiger out of my mind because that has been so far such a great show but minus the ugly pink suit for Decade, this opening episode featured a gorgeous production, full of incredible set pieces. I actually had a lot more fun with the opening episode of this, than I did with Gokaiger's first episode.

I have to ask though, anyone know anything about the creative decisions behind this series? As much as I hated Kuuga, I was shocked that within a matter of moments I realised this Kuuga World was nothing to do with the real one. It just seems a really odd creative decision to make a Kamen Rider series ABOUT Kamen Rider but only bring back the suits and monsters.

Obviously this is only the first episode, and in the day and age where the first episode of a toku is more 'look what shit you can buy!' than anything attempting to introduce what the actual story will be about it's hard to judge anything on one episode alone. But I will say that the episode designed to grab me by the balls certainly did just that and that has to count for something.