[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by FreshToku

This episode is the start of something special for me, and I remember a lot of first impressions still. ...The first of which is just a really random barely-a-gripe I have but still bugs me to this day, and that's how the Geiz Revive Ridewatch comes into play. I know back in episode 18, White Woz straight up laid out the events that when three mysterious ridewatches came together, it would create a new power. I, and I'm sure a lot of other people, assumed this was some abstract prophecy of sorts, but it turned out to be completely literal? Like, things popping out of thin air is honestly not that big a deal to me in these shows, but there's not even any thematic reasoning as to why the three MiRidewatches, based on three unrelated guys who give powers to Woz, would come together to make a powerup for Geiz.

It works for me, because they're three power-ups that are specifically from the timeline where Geiz wins. They're physical proof of Geiz Revive's existence, so I can see Hat Woz using them to create the specific tool of Geiz'z victory.

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Originally Posted by cosmicrescend0

And he's Another Zi-O! This is part 2 of "Wow that seems a lot smarter than whatever you guys were doing!?" for the Time Jackers! It can make Ridewatches and switch seamlessly between forms, on top of having Zi-O's future sight, how convient! The guy using it seems estastic to rip Sougo a new one! If we're headed fullspeed toward towards the Day of Oma, isn't it conivent to have another Zi-O around ready to start shit and become Oma-Zio? (Or is that last part a bad thing, Heure seems pretty upset about the whole idea?)

Yeah, by this time, the Time Jackers are both hilariously irrelevant (Ora sadly drinking her colorful drink as the Time Jackers sit around getting on each other's nerves) and sort of intriguingly nihilistic. Another Zi-O is hinted at being an incredibly bad idea, even if we're not given the details. (My guess is that, when you're doing all this to prevent the dominance of Zi-O in the future, making Another Zi-O is maybe not the coolest move.) I mostly hope this features the end of this configuration of the Time Jackers. They're just about zero percent threatening as villains, and they each only have about one attribute. Time for some different foes!

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Originally Posted by Androzani84

So here we are, at the point where the Time Jackers have fully switched to creating Another Riders in the present (as evidenced by Anpther Zi-O being dated 2019 rather than 2018). In-universe, Shirakura explained that so many paradoxes have accumulated that the timeline is saying ?no more? and forbidden travel through time to 2001, 2004 through 2009, 2014 and 2018. Out-of-universe, I can?t turn up a solid reason, but some have been suggested.

That's sort of a bummer? I'm sure this doesn't mean the show is going to slow down on Legend appearances (WHERE MY YUUTO AT), but I'll miss the time travel premise this show started with. Which, weird to feel that way? I don't like Time Nonsense, as a rule, but I thought this show used the wider canvas of time travel to come up with some fun climaxes to stories.

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Originally Posted by TheRaizin

I don't like Kakogawa Hiryu. That's it.

Okay! Didn't see him enough in this episode to form an opinion, myself.

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Originally Posted by DreamSword

Hiryu is literally just Alister from the Duel Monsters anime.

Okay! I didn't watch that show.