[dreamcastegirl]

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

I wish they’d handled the Riders more like Den-O did with the Imagin: new character appears in a two-parter, then there’s a two-parter that focuses on them, then we get the next character. Ren would still suck, yeah, but at least I’d have a better sense of why he sucks so much.

I thought this too! As an example, I have never liked Ryutaros, but I've learnt to live with the character because of the way Den-o paces itself and introduces its cast. If I being mean, I would argue that Ren is broadly just a different flavour of Ryutaros that, like Vanilla Coke, I have little fondness for, and I would suggest that Den-o falters in its last half as a show and that subsequent movies reduce its cast to one note caricatures of their original arcs—but I also don't really mind this in a way, because there is enough weight behind these portrayals in order to fill in the blanks. Ren, like a popular Taylor Swift song of several years ago, is just a blank space.

I digress. Yes. Basically. I agree.

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

As for Mei, I’ve been really pleasantly surprised by her.

Again, I absolutely agree, and it seems crazy to me that she's now the most developed and consistently portrayed character in the whole show.