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Originally Posted by Kurona

did they seriously not have a plan for how it was generally supposed to go aside from the ending?

I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't! I kind of assume every Rider show at this point secretly has the same kind of wild production history OOO did, with Medal Zombie Date and all those other abandoned story concepts. Zi-O even made the entire plot of its summer movie about admitting there's never much of a grand plan for Kamen Rider, as far as plots are concerned. This is entirely assumptions on my part, but I'd imagine they actively try to keep things as flexible as possible most of the time specifically in case unexpected issues come up that prevent them from doing something they planned on... like having another month's worth of episodes. It's exactly why even though I appreciate the generosity of people letting Zero-One off the hook for some of its problems later on (and this was an unusually huge blow, no doubt), I also think it's maybe a bit overly optimistic to use that as an excuse? Mind you, as I say this, I'm also one of the people who thinks they did a solid job pulling things together at the end.

Real shame about Valkyrie though! Can't say I mind seeing all this mourning for Valkyrie's lost potential!