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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

. 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.

Oh yeah no, see I'm only excusing the rough but solid enough ending they managed to pull thanks to the issues that presented themselves.

The stuff in this thread, especially some of the decisions made in regards to Gai, and the Workplace Competition before the Covid stuff are actually baffling to me. Like good for you views went up, but also man you kinda screwed the pooch and had to course correct because yeah, as we all figured, the Gai bashing was a response to the reception to Gai's introduction arc. Like I don't know, I love a good drama piece, but I feel like making that the center focus and feeling that Kamen Rider's shouldn't have a place in their own show during that arc, really hurt it a lot.

Also just the lost idea of having Gai early into the new year taking over Hiden Intelligence, is like, possibly the best swerve ball that could have happened because you have Aruto fighting this tough battle against this terrorist group only for this capitalist to pull the rug from underneath. And I would have totally been invested in where they could go with that.

And people would be like, "Oh, but how would Aruto transform, he needs to be Prez." and it's like, having the Ark Connections from Shining Assault and Metal Cluster bypass the restrictions of the 01 Driver, easy as that.