[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

OK, sorry for this, but can you address my other replies regarding the movie, like the coping or the plot continuities?

Can you remind me of what you said? I must've missed it.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

The fact is Blade actually names all the characters (monster of the weeks are written on the card). If you chose to be ignorant about it, then it's not the show's fault.

Posting in the credits... that's completely not the same as having characters in a show say it. That's making the viewer have to do more work just to be able to talk about what's going on in the show. It's not great storytelling! As a million other TV shows demonstrated, you can have characters say a new character's name once or twice in an episode without ruining the flow. And, man, they had two different characters on this show that they spent a half-dozen episodes as only "Hirose"! That's a problem!

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

And for phase 1 and phase 2, how good/bad probably shouldn't be measured solely by comedy alone. Or that, about being less light-hearted, addressing darker themes at times can be good, evoking feelings in a sense of despair, grittiness, realism.

Wasn't a value judgment on the shows, just citing an element I enjoyed that doesn't feel as prominent. And, yeah, I would never feel comfortable judging a superhero program solely by comedy. But it's nice when it's there! For me!

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

They already exist before they met the classic Riders, and that's what I ask, what are they striving for as Riders (time without classic Riders). They're being a dick to classic Riders, but classic Riders existing or not, they became Riders.

I think they were just doing a job. The New Generation specials painted them as frustrated and unemployed, so getting paid to pummel monsters seems like an end in and of itself.