[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by cosmicrescend0

Very sweet moment from Geiz, saying he wants to stay with Sougo in this era together! The faceless Sougo is like, a really nice touch in the scene, though I can't really express why.

All of the fake people in Another World are faceless, and it's a great detail. It really showcases how these worlds are about people who can't confront reality.

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Originally Posted by cosmicrescend0

Now I wasn't there was the show was airing nor have any deep insight from hearing production ramblings, but I always got the feeling that Zi-O was a very.....fluid series, behind the scenes? Like water, it doesn't have a set shape it will eventually settle into when solid, so you can unfreeze it and re-freeze it into new shapes, for better or worse? Like, I do appericate the show learning what worked and what didn't and course correcting itself for the audience as it went on (in the short-term), but as a result I think it couldn't bulid any other long-term plots up that didn't last more than an arc? Thus, here we are at this very weird-feeling endgame. That's just a personal theory, though!

The thing that kills me about these episodes is that this is all a very Act 1 problem for this show, and I thought they'd learned not to do things this way? There's a regression to the series arc here that is incredibly frustrating, because it somehow makes the previous good episodes seem like a fluke, instead of a show getting smarter about its story. I hate thinking that!

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Originally Posted by DreamSword

Yeah, I'll say it now. I really liked Aqua's' arc in the director's cut of Megamax, so to have his character not only be done terribly here in this three-parter, and then have him get killed off? Rubbed me the wrong way. Them remembering they already had a Future Rider before this show was nice, and the boxer scenes with him were top notch comedy, but that was about it.

There's really no reason to have him (or Ora, honestly) get killed. Threatening Tsukuyomi is sufficient to rattle Sougo. Randomly killing people to make Sougo all enraged and bloodthirsty... why? Who wants that to be where Sougo's personality is at for the last three episodes of his show? Gross. No thanks.