[Fish Sandwich]

Fish Sandwich also watched Kamen Rider Saber Episode 4

I'm still very broadly in agreement with Die's overall assessment while definitely still finding the show more fun than he does, so I'm not sure how much I can really add to the discussion here, short of just excitedly screaming about how much I love Traffic Light Saber or something. (Really, at some point I should totally just do some deep dive on all the different suits in this show, because I could say something about all of them.) As for the story, I think this is the point where you can definitely start to see the pieces getting pulled together into something that functions a little smoother. Even the weird introduction of Kento kind of makes more sense if you consider this as a single larger script? Like, that cold open from last time would come off a lot less disconnected if it leads into Espada debuting at the end of the same episode as a sort of bookend (on top of Kento's role in the middle here), right?

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

I like the power-ups to have more risk involved in utilizing them, at least for a new Rider, but that's just not this show.

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Originally Posted by Kurona

One of the very few times in recent memory that one of these shows has actually brought up a reason to not use a more powerful form in favour of a base/earlier form - something I'd like to see them do a lot more! - and then it's just, sort of, swept aside and doesn't matter. Okay!

I think it'd definitely be a bit unfair to say the show *completely* sweeps it aside. Rintarou's cautiousness in the second episode could mostly be attributed to that being his personality (he also barely knows Touma at that point), and even just at the end of the episode here, we see Touma all worn out from the climax, which heightens the sense of danger when Calibur shows up (and Touma and Rintarou both only use one book). They admittedly don't do a ton with the concept, but there's enough done for me to see why it's there in the first place.