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10-21-2015, 05:07 PM
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Kiwami
In Bandai's marketing way. And I'm not saying that he is useless, he inarguably got the most character development in the whole show (yes I can acknowledge that without having to like him) but the show is titled Drive, Drive himself is on the cover of everything and he's supposed to sell the most toys. That's why he is the main Rider of the show.
And despite how much development he got, Mach is still a prime example of a secondary Rider.
That still doesn't have any relevance to the point we discussed and why he was brought up though. The ikemen casting is not restricted to main riders and Gou is one of those ikemen actors. So the reply you gave was pretty unnecessary both in the way it was impolite and it had no point in the first place.
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Kamen Rider Lucha
My main problem with KR Drive is that Gou
would have been
a way more compelling main character. Shinnosuke is a total dud whose involvement with the show's central villains is completely superficial. Meanwhile, Gou is intrinsically connected to every piece of the plot and every primary character on the show on a deep, emotional level.
Had the writers given as much (or more) screen time to Gou as they did Shin (they didn't, not remotely), the show could have been something special. But they chose to anchor the narrative to Shinnosuke, and despite a few great episodes in the middle, the show sunk.
IMO, KR Drive is a classic exercise in wasted potential.
While I certainly agree that Gou was the more interesting character, he was only that interesting because he wasn't the protagonist. His plotline worked so well because it was told from Shinnosuke's POV. Most of Gou's story became so compelling because we didn't know what he was up to or what his motives were for a long time. Finding it out alongside Shinnosuke as a character not directly involved with much of that created the effect it ultimately had. We were surprised, which we wouldn't have been if he was the lead and we knew all that earlier. Same with Chase btw.
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