[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by BagJo

W and Gaim are the shows, for me, they'd stayed good all the way through. They utilized Escalation, Ticking Clock, and Mysteries Revealed really well, and had satisfying endings. (I know Gaim has its issues, but I think they told a great story overall)

Having said that, some of my favorite Rider shows have pretty weak endings, I just try not to forget the journey even if the destination is kind of lame.

(Honestly, W does some stuff with Wakana that made me as disappointed as with Yuuji in Faiz.)

This is probably something more worth talking about when the whole series is done, just in case it course-corrects, but telling a story is like flying a plane. Take-off can be a quick jump into the sky, or a slow and steady rise. The middle, it can be calm and level or full of nail-biting loops. The end, you have to land the plane. The smoothest flight that ends in a fireball would probably not be considered a success, you know?

To be fair, there are levels of botching the landing that are more forgivable (or forgettable) than others. It's definitely up to the individual passenger (could this analogy be more tortured) to decide what's a minor bump and what's something that needs litigation.