[Tokumonkey]

With that said, a lot of the comments in this thread have actually made me feel a bit better, knowing I'm not alone is disdaining Ghost at this point. That wasn't always the case. I felt that Ghost was showing some real promise somewhere around its middle.

For me, it just didn't realize its potential. When Kanon was restored from being an Eyecon, it was a sweet moment... and thereafter, she rarely had anything to do other than to cry "nii-chan!" and "Alain-sama!" Having her defeat a couple of Ganma by lightly slapping them was just... cursory, as though the writer finally realized, "Oh, she stopped having an impact on the story thirty episodes ago."

The writing just seemed to lose interest in characters after completing their arcs. I was engaged by Alain's arc, and then... he had very little to do. Ditto Makoto's initial arc. I though the story about his theoretically-evil double had potential, but... I still can't tell whether the resolution to that story was clever or just incredibly anticlimactic.

"I'm you, and I'm eeeevil! Oh, wait, now, I'm just... another you." The real Makoto dying could have been powerful - it sort of was for a moment - and then, "Nope, nobody stays dead on the show about the undead."

The show directly referenced the 3+ times Takeru died and was immediately given another chance over the course of the series. It was impossible to have stakes. The show seemed to forget that Takeru was a ghost, since it rapidly stopped referencing it or doing anything clever with it. The friend with whom I've watched the show had actually forgotten because it hadn't come up in so long until this episode.

Onari and Akari were sketched as somewhat distinct characters, but rarely had any development beyond that sketch. Edith/the Sage were intriguing up until the truth about his was revealed, and then he became almost literally useless. Again, it was like the writer lost interest.

I'll give the show this: Yurusen turning out to be a cat was clever. I felt sympathy for the cat they used, though, since he was clearly not having a good time.

The show violated its rules over and over. Did the heroes destroy a Ganmaizer? Well, it'd come back again later anyway. The final threat essentially indicated that nothing that came before mattered.

Adel was almost a strong villain, and most of the show painted him as rigid and insane, willing to kill his family and drive away everyone who cared about him. Then, suddenly, at the climax of the story, they just dropped all of that: he just needed a little pep talk! It violated everything they'd built up about his character AND ensured that instead of him being the ultimate villain of the show - which is what we'd been led to believe - he got defeated a few episodes early, leaving the writers to develop a new threat out of nowhere.

...and it was out of nowhere. Or out of the (extremely thin) web series, or a movie I haven't watched, yet. Hey, it's those mysterious ladies! Oh, now there's just one of them. And now the real foe is the Ganmaizers that were already defeated. Hey, there's a neat new villain suit! Oh, wait, they're just going to make a CGI blob. Oh, hey, the CGI blob is killing minor characters (some of whom were previously dead) en masse; that's bold. Oh, wait, Takeru resurrects everyone, but decides to leave the city destroyed because reasons.

The script kept randomly bringing back dead characters with no explanation. Once we found out Ganma World enemies like Javel weren't actually ghosts, that... stopped making any sense.

I could rant for days because ultimately, I feel like she show wasted my time. I enjoyed parts of it, and Onari's possession of Alain was briefly entertaining, but as a whole, this show wasn't going anywhere. Some of that is my expectations: I'd hoped that this Kamen Rider show, being about ghosts, would manage to be a little spooky; to create an atmosphere that supported the premise. Heck, Kiva did it, even though I have lots of complaints about Kiva.

Kamen Rider Ghost is a show that mostly forgot that its hero could float and turn insubstantial. The suit had a cool glowing feature that almost never saw use after its debut. Early on, people couldn't see or hear Takeru unless he concentrated. Then... it just wasn't the case anymore. If the opening of every episode didn't reiterate that Takeru had been killed, would we have even remembered?

She show had a ghost pirate ship that it only ever used for spurious-giant-enemy battle sequences. That's just... incredibly frustrating for me as a viewer.

The show tried to make a theme (sometimes, I guess) about infinite potential. She show rarely lived up to its potential, and that just makes me sad. I hated the middle of Drive, but I thought it got dramatically better toward the last third of the show, and I'd very much hoped Ghost would do the same. It seemed to me like it was going to do so, but then.... UGH, it just felt like the writer lost interest. "Do some fight-fight stuff. Have Takeru shout some platitudes and pine over dead parents. I'm out."

Genm's appearance was pointless, it made zero sense, and for me, it was the highlight of the episode. The gaudy bicycle is bananas - it shouldn't have worked - and I enjoyed it thoroughly even though it was out-of-place.

I haven't watched episode 50 yet, and I would like nothing more than for it to somehow exceed the quality of the previous eight or so episodes, taking some of the sting out of this experience. Truthfully, though, I'm really only looking forward to the Ex-Aid cameo.

For those of you how's sounded your complaints: thanks. It's good to know I'm not alone. For those of you who enjoyed it: there is nothing wrong with your opinion. I just envy you.