[DreadBringer]

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Originally Posted by TheRaizin

Never really did like W's episode 49, mostly cuz I'm a bittersweet lover and 48 was just chef's kiss of an ending. I think having Shotaro go around as Joker instead of W is neat idea of him being his own man. If there's one thing Kamen Rider Taisen did right was having Shotaro be that. Or maybe it's just cuz I'm a big fan of the Joker suit and sometimes think it looks better than W proper.

Also, uhh, not trying to be rude, but I would actually like to read your thoughts on these episodes instead of thesemassive text walls of the entire episode.

I'd think ep. 48 still do have some loose ends, like Wakana and her Claydoll Xtreme powers, still thinking that she's the possibly strongest Dopant in the whole series, above Terror and Utopia too, thus ep. 49 needs to be done to tie in some loose ends.

OK, obviously I know that wall of text is frowned upon and I'm in tough choice for that, but the reason I'm doing that is I want to give fair focus on most part of the series, instead of just focusing like on, like, for example the fighting part (and neglect other parts a tokusatsu series cover), or being fixated on certain characters only. I talk about everyone as much as I can, and also want to touch little things from the episodes.

If you want the parts of only my thoughts, then (yeah I know still long, I just gave several choice):

1. Geez, what a poor attitude display overall from Shotaro at this period. Of course Phillip's demise naturally is going to leave a lasting impact to Shotaro big time (he openly cried about it), but Shotaro had pretty poor coping mechanism here, the "lashing out in anger" type. Shotaro does have occassional meanness in his tryhard(-boiled) flick of pretending to be cool or such, but.... he did that, in greater scale of meanness than what's ever seen from him for outright petty reasons as in not getting the cat food he needed; which is like when a bratty child's needs is neglected.
   
2. Another change is displayed from Terui that, at first he hated Fuuto, but now he'd stand against Wakana's declaration that Fuuto isn't filthy, but it's her mind that is twisted, and he henshins to Accel to prevent her harming Fuuto. Though, Shotaro still had to keep Accel in check, as Terui's going directly attacking Wakana as human. So it seems that Terui's change is becoming more altruistic, but still had a bit of his pragmatic ways, resorting to force to stop certain threats. It's probably similar to later Banjou from Build after he becomes Cross-Z, where he'd escalate the war with Touto's army against Hokuto to end it in ep. 20 to Sento's dismay.
   
3. I'd think the appropriate payback (or applying the lesson from the mistake) from Shotaro would be (dunno if Akiko learned in side media or such) him revealing to Akiko that her dad had died long ago.
   
4. It's good to finally see a familial moment of Shroud with her child other than Phillip, but I think the episode is misguided if that's meant to be a good advice, as Shroud learned about the errors of her ways in ep. 44, unlike Kirihiko or Ryubee. "do what you think is right" is a deadly combination when it's paired with self-righteous people, such as radical believers, they can cause big harm while having a "with us or against us" mentality, ruling out the possibility that they've gone wrong.
   
5. While EXE's Anomalocaris didn't fought at his prefered environment, Cockroach didn't make use of any of his super speed to gain advantage, is it intentional to show that they're just greenhorns who are unable to use the Memories' powers effectively? Because KR tends to underutilize character's powers in later appearence.
   
6. While the worker is actually evil, but still at the beginning Shotaro lashes out at him for the wrong reasons.
   
7. The scene is of course, meant to be the family finally being at peace after being screwed up, and Shroud's last contribution of redemption with her advice to Wakana leading for the unstoppable Claydoll Xtreme to not resurface again, saving Phillip, and her regaining happiness. But dunno if the scene would be probably glamorizing the family too much regardless of their action at the series (I do know that this isn't the only villain farewell being done on that way), especially Saeko's. This is probably proving Phillip's claims to be true that the Memories are the culprit of the family being evil, but Saeko abused Wakana due to Ryubee's abuse to her, it's not seen (in main series) when did Saeko became Taboo, but at least she should be inherently evil Memory or not if she didn't turn into Taboo at young age (Wakana still as child).
   
8. I also personally think Ex-Aid handled the similarly talked about revival (of Poppy and Parado) scene better, as it's inevitable when True Ending movie comes, and personally if they didn't get revived, I'd actually question the series from that, as Bugster has shown to possess immortality due to reviving before from Graphite. Best explanation is about how Gaia-related deaths don't make them totally disappear but contain them in the data; Earth memories... similar again to Ex-Aid's Game Overs?