[Androzani84]

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

No offense but why I'm feeling like some of the audience can have callous and sadistic tendencies (I know it's about fictional universe, but I feel that this can be an overall mindset, as numerous people can be sad for example, their favorite fictional character's death), that the only (or mostly) entertainment they enjoy are the pain of others and killing. Which will make them detest those that would take them away from that like... morals, like Shinji here who is a pacifist that doesn't want to harm others. Because he's that type of character he's bashed in almost every category, only bringing up his negative parts (like you saying here he has not really good showing against non-mirror monster). To Riders he had some upper hand to Ouja in both ep. 19 and 20 (in ep. 21 Asakura cheated, and admittedly he lost in ep. 23, but just saying that their battle can go either way), and saved Knight (this is for monsters, but Knight is a known badass Rider) from Volcancer and Gai (twice here). And as human he can do what Ren does too here. I consider those that can fend off Mirror Monsters as good showing for the overall character.

Like I said, that’s not PART of my problem with Shinji. I don’t like the violence in this show (namely because I thinks it’s gratuitous, poorly handled and goes against everything Kamen Rider as a franchise stands for. My hatred for Shinji is because his constant preaching of his morals has become more infuriating after 35 episodes with no changes to his worldview. And the fact the show is constantly shitting on those morals makes me hate him more, since it makes him look like an idiot. Especially when you’ve got guys like Ghost, who’s morals are founded and rewarded, or Zi-O, who realises his morals aren’t working and drops them, in other series, which just makes me look down on Shinji more.

Also, killing the monsters would be a cool feat… if the show gave them anything more than wild beasts with poorly defined origins and no motivation. Especially coming between two well-handled groups with very clear motives. The fact that the show still insists on using them long past their ability to generate drama just diminishes their significance.