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Originally Posted by TheJaz

Yeah personally I'm expecting a lot of rider fights. From how it's described the riders are not allies, they're all competing to be number one in points, so i think it's some well have a lot of broken alliances, backstabbing, tricks, and straight up fights throughout the show. It would be neat to have a show that maybe takes full advantage of some of Saber's concept of characters switching sides/allegiances

Yeah i'm expecting this to be sort of like the beat riders competitions in Gaim, where it starts as the main thing, but from the start people are breaking rules, or at a minimum, working in a way that is not directly correlated to heroism. That is a big theme in Tiger and Bunny as well and i see lots of touches of that show thrown in here. I know Yuya takahashi wasn't the lead writer or creator on that show, just wrote episode scripts, but i still think they probably chose him for Tiger and Bunny because he's good at similar things. The main thematic thrust of that show IMO is that some heroes fight for good, others for ego, others simply for money, etc. Motivations are complex and can stack, so heroism can be the means to other ends. So imagine we'll have scenes where, for example, Geats and 3 other riders are "trying to save" the same person. Geats is straightforward about it, a more experienced Rider is cocky and does a bunch of tricks while doing it as fast as possible while risking other's safety, a 3rd rider comes in and saves the people the 2nd rider endangered, and a 4th rider is just watching the whole thing, not really caring about points at the moment because they know something more about the game the others don't, because they are hired by the people who run the game.