[Locke]

Decade 31. Wait so the real ending is in a movie?! What a fucking rip off! Is that movie even any good?

I've watched the entire series and I still don't know what it's actually about, so I guess it makes as much sense as anything else that the finale would be some massive Blade fankwank. The closest thing Decade had to a plot is the pseudo love story which ran through the centre of the show. But I never really know how to take stuff like this in toku. As in this genre for whatever reason even when the show plainly states the characters are a couple about as intimate as they get is holding hands. Is there any toku show with a genuinely realised romance heart?

This was a really strong closer for the characters. Yusuke was more badass than he'd got to be all season, while also getting way more meaningful character moments than the whole season at the same time. Weirdly this has always been more of his show than it's been Decade's, despite the show trying to undermine him at almost every turn. It's easy to be sympathetic with Tsukasa because the show never properly explains why everyone turns against him. Plus Diend actually got to have an emotional range, was nice.

Plus we got some really insane action, which in many ways like Wizard, is the main thing that makes the show so watchable and entertaining even if in some places the show is downright terrible. It even looks a lot better than a lot of the shows that come after it, I guess they threw a lot of money at this and it shows in a great way.

Overall Decade was just a big pile of wasted potential, that looked really great while it was doing it. It had a great mythos and a wonderful set of characters to explore that with, but Decade is a show defined by establishing premises and never getting any further. And that is, really, all there is to say. It's a show with enough great ideas that you want to like the show, but since none of those ideas are never done well it's impossible to actually like it overall.

I had fun with Decade, that has to count for something, it's a show that entertains much more consistently than it doesn't. With each new world just around the corner, whenever I wasn't enjoying Decade it was a fleeting moment and usually peppered with more than enough stunning action to tide me over but when a show has nothing meaningful to take it away I dunno how I can end it on a positive feeling. Oh well, at least I got a Kuuga who lives up to the hype.

I think I'm gonna watch Amazon next, and then maybe after that I'll watch Ryuki as I've pretty much exhausted all other Rider options without picking one of the shows I dropped.