[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

Die, you seem to be reading into it in the most negative way possible(...)

I clearly am! Some of that is because, man, I don't really feel like the show has portrayed it as ambiguously as you claim? Maybe it's Sougo's unbridled ignorance or Geiz'z relentless disinterest, but the show really seems to be saying Hey Look New Collectible, not But At What Cost. If I felt a little more like the show had some ambivalence about the outcome of a monster-of-the-week outing for our heroes, I'd probably be less upset about it.

And it's also... like, I'm upset about it because we're talking about it. The second we stop talking about it -- or the show stops spending time explaining the ever-escalating consequences of a real routine monster detonation -- I will stop being upset about it. It's not like I've been stewing in anger for the last twenty-four hours. This isn't going to harm my enjoyment of the show or anything, and I doubt it's going to be among the first twenty things I want to talk about when the show's over. It's like Sougo's worrisome desire to be a Good Tyrant: it's very easy to forget about it, as long as they stop talking about it.

So, yeah, it's nice to hear how everyone has made their peace with -slash- grown to appreciate the show going Your Favorite Kamen Rider Series Never Existed, but it's just not a place I can get my brain to go. Rest of the show's real fun, though!