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Kamen Rider Die watches Kamen Rider Zi-O
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03-26-2022, 04:53 PM
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Originally Posted by
Mmicb0b
I've actually never seen Zi-O(I saw that it was being written by the guys who made Ninninger(the show that killed Sentai for me) and butchered Hibiki(other than Inoue) and decided I was staying the f--k away)(funnily enough I'm told the Hibiki episodes are the best ones) but I'm told a reoccurring problem with it isn't that the main cast is poorly written per say but the recurring characters steal the spotlight from them 90% of the time
I mean, not really my experience, but it's worth finding out for yourself.
Quote:
Originally Posted by
DreadBringer
Him being instrumental in the defeat of those menaces are due to him being OP, you only need to be powerful (or genius) enough to be instrumental of anything (not that being a gigantic pain in the ass makes one being powerful).
I don't think any of that is true?
For one, every tokusatsu hero eventually becomes powerful enough to defeat the Final Boss; that's just this genre's storytelling model. Every hero is eventually "OP", at least until the next hero's Winter Movie. It's a weirdly pejorative way of describing the central pillar of toy-driven storytelling.
For another, Tsukasa's problems can't ever be solved by being More Powerful, just like every other Kamen Rider doesn't resolve their central emotional conflicts with a power-up or role-play item. The stuff that Tsukasa has to fix inside himself... that struggle runs
parallel
to the monsters and supervillains and apocalypses. Him overcoming the things that are broken inside of him,
that's
the power he needs to defeat some giant CG monster or whatever. The point of
all these shows
is that the power is pointless without emotional growth.
Quote:
Originally Posted by
AkibaSilver
There were a lot of jokes before Zi-O aired that they should just do Decade 2, and in a way, him being here almost makes that a reality. Of course, now we're on the flipside, with Decade actively assisting the villains because it probably amuses him. All that's missing is Narutaki showing up to warn the time orphans.
The fact that the derided hero from the derided anniversary show could arrive to such breathless acclaim as a fix to this series is maybe the most perfect History Is Open To Interpretation metaphor I can think of. Tsukasa is just so many of this show's themes (Good Intentions Fade With Time, for example) wrapped up in a magenta shirt. It's so good!
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