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Originally Posted by Double

Wizard tho'? Just cause of the Engagement and Beast's Henshin? Really?

That was weak. I was expecting a change up with nitou. However, the wizard tribute feel like a real wizard episode in term of style and tone. For ooo, they tried too hard to pay tribute to the plot and kind of develop the characters and further the plot of the show itself. First, they try to tied in egoistic Dan's quest for domination as king because of his god complex with a forced Ooo's king theme to justify Sogo's dream of becoming a king one day. It sounds good on paper, but when was the last time Eiji was reference as wanting to become king other than the first Ooo was a king and "king" is the name of his rider. Also, the Sogo's plan is to learn what not to do as king from Dan. I keep getting the No shit vibe when he say that. Dan and the toys stole the show from Eiji and Hina. There's some nice call back to super strength hina and Eiji failing to save a kid in Africa, but he got the weakest guest appearance in term of the screen time he gets. Build and Beast were just fan service cameos to me. Eiji just feel out of olace to me. I guess without his quest to revive ankh and the ooo experience, his dad forced him to become a politician to fulfill his other "dream" in doing good, but with ulterior purpose instead of living like a homeless hobo.

Next episode, it looks like they go all in with Gaim. I'm surprised they keep both Kouta and Baron's return a secret despite all the filming leaks. It might be one episode since we need to hurry to pace since the next quarter of toys shows we might be ditching tributes and legend powers in favoring of Zio as his own show. I guess no more gokaiger like cameo from toku vet.