[Kamen Rider Die]

Ha ha, guess who forgot to check his TokuNation notifications!

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Originally Posted by Enchilada645

It all really feeds into how I feel about Oma Zi-O and my interpretation of him at the end of it all. And while I think he's a wonderful antagonist... he's not the main villain of the series. As dull as the Time Jackers are, they're the true villains while Oma Zi-O is an inevitability of something to come.

That's fair! I don't know how I'll feel about Oma Zi-O after the next few episodes. Currently, I like his role in the series -- both narratively and metaphorically -- about a thousand times more than Swartz.

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Originally Posted by GrandComplete

Honestly souring point for me is no Femme not even a new user a Abyss is lteral nothing in this special he's not even nameed!

It is a little surprising that Inoue didn't try nd loop in a few of the characters he created for the Ryuki movie. Might've made up for some of the things that went wrong with this special!

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Originally Posted by GrandComplete

Secondly Tezuka was so out of character before getting his memories back and I hated it he was the most moral Rider in the show so to see him scting like this when everyone else is in character just hurts so much more.

Poor Tezuka! Guy comes back to a role after almost twenty years and this was the story they gave him.

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Originally Posted by GrandComplete

As someone who doesn?t like Ryuki ending I love Rider Time Ryuki it feels more in line with the inherent tragedy with the show and I think it cool inverse if nothing else.

It does manage to construct a very sweet ending for these characters, no doubt.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

So you actually like this one, I didn't expect it because this can be a reset button that renders previous memories of what have been watched in Zi-O futile, after all every developments, interactions, buildups, comedies, etc., are all erased in an instant and it's not a final resolution to make the situation better or such.

Oh, I never looked at this story as more than a diversion, so there was no real sense of loss from me. I wasn't, like, mourning the better version of this show that was gone, since I knew it'd be back at the end of the arc.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

You describe this as 'empathetic pragmatism', and without enough context, probably audiences can assume Tsukuyomi as naive idiot who plays right into enemy's hands and consider Geiz as sensible to finish the job quickly, encouraging him to kill the future villain.

I hope not! That's definitely not what I meant! Tsukuyomi is someone who has a more robust emotional toolkit than someone like Geiz, who only has a hammer in the shape of a martyr complex. Tsukuyomi's goal is to prevent a horrific future, but she's able to view Sougo as more than just the thing to kill to prevent a horrific future. Originally, she wanted to stick close to him for warning signs, and maybe help him avoid the ethical compromises that might turn him into a genocidal despot. Here, she sees him as way to defeat the more immediate threat of Hiryuu, and then something to deal with down the line.

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

Big part of why I haven't replied to the last few episodes is because I legitimately don't remember anything about them.

I don't know, I think Tsukasa swiping food from a rebel hideout because he's bored is probably going to stick with me long-term.

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Originally Posted by Androzani84

Well considering how much attention the show has given to Sougo rising up from being an ordinary high schooler to a king, a guy like Schwartz who?s been groomed as a royal his whole life, but was never meant to actually take the throne, no matter how much he wanted to, is a perfect foil. It?s like poetry, it rhymes.

I would be into this if the show had built it up at all, ever, instead of just having Swartz exposit it in Episode 43 of a 49-episode series.

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Originally Posted by Daikaijuman54

I loved the castle siege where they fought all the Another Riders, and Woz made a speech, prompting perhaps my favorite moment in all of Zi-O, and then there's that All Heisei Rider Kick, the gem of this whole arc. We also get more Kaito, who's just picking the opposing side just to mess with Tsukasa, which I find funny.

The only downside for me in that castle assault is that everyone Henshins into their upgraded forms except Decade. Did he lose the K-Touch somewhere in the last ten years? Does it clash with the NeoDecadriver, so he refrains from using it? Did he hear about how much I dislike Decade Complete and this was all for my benefit? Very curious!

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

I don't know, it's hard to make a big case for them right now, going entirely off of memory, and I suspect it'd be another fun thing to pay more attention to on a rewatch, but while they aren't utterly amazing antagonists or anything, I don't doubt their presence is adding something worthwhile to the series. Really, the thing that bugs me most about these three is just that I can never remember how to spell their names.

My mnemonic trick is spelling a normal word, and then getting at least one letter wrong. Hope this helps!

But, sure, I don't really dislike the Time Jackers, despite feeling like this reveal mortally wounds my excitement for their future appearances. The main problem with Oma Zi-O as an adversary is that he's purposefully stationed out of the characters' reach, so you need to have a more immediate threat, preferably one that can get clowned on every two weeks without robbing the show of any sense of stakes. The Time Jackers ably fill the role of sneering idiots that run away during the climax of most even-numbered episodes. I will always wish their schemes had more complexity than shoving a collectible into the chest of a random person and hoping Zi-O would die because of it (if that's even what this show is saying their plan even was now???), but at least I wasn't ever asked to care about villains that the show also never cared about.