[Locke]

DK 34.

I like how the show totally knows that Eubolon takes away all the stakes and tension, so now they have to keep artificially inserting bullshit to make the show actually worth watching.

Honestly, from a narrative perspective, this episode was pretty awful. The introduction to the Onyx powers were terrible and it's just such a weird narrative device in general. Dragon Knight has been our protagonist for thirty episodes and then he dies. The user of those powers, Kit, comes back but suddenly he comes back using an entirely new set of powers. The show does its best to make sense of them but the explanations actually further confuse rather than clarify. Plus suddenly Dragon Knight belongs to another character who is an enemy. I mean why do that?

Also whereas Hunt and Adam both feel like complete characters, firmly seperated from their Earth counterparts, Chance and Pryce just feel like watered down versions of the Earth Riders which is a disappointment. Especially as they were two of my favourite Riders and the ones I was most interested to see what they'd do with.

The saving grace though, ironically perhaps, was the character interaction. Although they didn't do as much with characters as I would have liked the show still found really fun ways to play with the concept. "Not this again!"

Other fun stuff included Maya Siren. I personally don't like this development for her character, but I can't deny that she is really badass. Similarly although I don't like Chance that much, I do LOVE the Torque powers and was glad to see the suit again.