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Originally Posted by Switchblade

Personally, I always viewed these episodes as Haruto accidentally stumbling into what would have been the Wizard AU on Decade, had the show existed at the time.

Actually, that might've been what they were going for, given the first thing Decade says when he shows up is "So this is Wizard's world, huh?" Nice catch!

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

I've never had a huge level of attachment to those episodes (I think watching them right after the proper finale with no break was a bad chance for a good first impression), but over time I've started to come around to the idea they're ~maybe~ loaded with some of the most poignant meta commentary the franchise has ever done?

Oh definitely, the plot itself is basically a giant backseat for the episodes to take a brief look back at the elements that make Kamen Rider what it is, and I definitely did appreciate those moments.

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And it's just in these two random episodes that only exist because Gaim couldn't get its production moving along quick enough even with Wizard already being one of the longer Heisei shows? A really curious footnote in Rider history all around, these ones!

Man, between all the trivia I've gotten lately, ontop of the impressions Blassreiter has been giving me about Urobochi, Gaim is definitely gonna be an interesting watch whenever I finally get around to it.