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Originally Posted by Blade Fang

I love Sougo so far. I think he is Takeru Tenkuji Ver. 2.0 with better character and personality......

More like Goseired's naive awkwardness and Toq1 airhead like hype behavior.

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Originally Posted by Librarian

Personally I like the plot progression that's been done, each episode has been a little bit forward and highlights a lot in subtle ways by using the cameos. It's not overt like other series have been with twists and turns, but it doesn't need to be. The character build itself is the climax twist. The looming shadow of the growth of now to Oma. And I'm sure Decade coming up will bring some interesting shake ups too. But it really hasn't strayed from any other formula previous riders have used, whether it's blade with their ep3, or so on. The show has the same tempo beats others have had, but in a different implementation. A more gradual character focus that humanizes the perspective more to an authentic degree, while maintaining flair in other ways.

They've been explaining the time jackers and woz along the way. Subtle and gradual, but all the details are there in show outside of the .5 episodes. Though the .5 episodes do make it easier to know what you may have missed. But the show really assume audiences are smart and doesn't treat them like they are dumb, and that's refreshing in how it's so subtle natural character growth. Characters aren't completely stationary, they've grown from where they were since episode 1, with many even attempting to fight against their own changing thoughts and feelings(as we're seeing with Geiz now). It's very gradual and beautiful in that regard.


But the carry over back to the looming shadow of Oma should be coming back up as we get to Decade and what sets that in motion. Ruler vs Ruler.


So far, this show has been as good as any other Rider show, but in different ways. You can't really compare them because they all have their own emphasis and messages of their time. And right now in particular, Zi-O is the exact kind of humanizing commentary of what makes a good ruler that's needed.

I think they might go rebirth or last jedi if they want to upset viewers. Another theory I have is the grand paradox. Everything that happened up to this point is going according to history. The time jacker, woz, and tsukiyomi as well as Geiz are the ones that created zio. totally unintentionally for the time travelers, but it's ohma zio plan. With time machine flying around everywhere that can travel to even showa and feudal as well as prehistoric era, he probably spare Geiz because he's one of the contributing factor to his success.
It's so forced they chose to settle on 2018 and hesitate to kill him. The time jacker could easily do the job. If this was written during the older days, Geiz would become an another rider and be a major foe like baron. I hope Overlord Gaim will be back and not just a one off. He's pretty much kiva from decade in a way. Looks like decade will be the only one defying the memory and power wipe. Ghost and Kuuga seems to be the "final" wave of another riders according to scans and toys catalogue. Deno could be for the movie and temp for build, but the bigger problem is their existence. There might be a gag with people thinking Sento is an actor for Heisei Gen Final. I don't think there will be a last minute Jo cameo reveal. I prefer kabuto being unaffected just because he's the self center Ksbuto.