[Fish Sandwich]

I was feeling a little nostalgic and rewatched Blade and Fourze's finales today. I was considering putting this in the "what are you watching" thread but I think it fits better here since I can be neither negative or objective about this.

So first I watched Blade and that's still cool and all and a lot of you already know how great Blade is so instead I'm going to focus on Fourze. In a word: Wow! In two words: Holy s***! In a lot more words:

Fourze probably has one of the best finales of any Rider show. Not just the ending or the climax even, but the whole episode is basically a 22 minute love letter to you the audience for sticking with the show for a year (or however long it took you to watch in retrospect). I could basically do play-by-play commentary because so little time goes by between great moments but I'll try to pick some highlights. If you haven't watched the show, I will be genuinely mad at you if you read these spoilers. Just go watch the show. Seriously, why are reading some idiot's forum-rantings when you could have Fourze in your life? Everyone needs some Fourze in their life. Can you tell how biased I am? Anyway:

- I love the scene where Yuuki reads Kengo's letter. It gets me every time. It really cements how much the cast has grown over the course of the show.
- I love how the final fight in the quarry or wherever involves extended bike-action. Fourze's single setting made bikes kind of irrelevant but they always got them in where they could.
- I love how they also have Fourze use all him forms in the order he got them one last time.
- I love everything about the climax. It's another emotional scene and finishing things off with one last Rider Kick was a great choice for the 40th anniversary.
- I love the bookending role-reversal with Kengo telling Gentarou not to throw letters away. Perfect bit of closure.
- I love how my boy Haruto is in there! OOOs did something similar and I guess this would've been a tradition if they didn't start doing this crossover nonsense afterward. I prefer this. Nice and subtle.

Fourze is a show that's really near and dear to me and every time I rewatch the finale it almost makes me question how the heck I can call a show like Wizard my favorite. Almost. I really like it, if you haven't noticed.