[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

It had nothing to do with the writing, even though I was absolutely having problems with the pacing at this point. Rather, it was the overuse of video filters that absolutely killed it for me. The Wonderworld scenes all had that kind of fuzzy haze around everything made it really hard for me to watch those sequences. I don't remember if I had it before I watched the episode, but I know that I had a headache by the time it was over. I wasn't sure if I could keep watching the show if it was going to keep doing that. Fortunately for me, the SFX guy calmed down and this was by far the worst case of this.

I don't know that I had a problem with it, but I definitely noticed it more this episode. Glad to hear it'll get toned down some in the future!

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Originally Posted by Androzani84

And as one guy on Facebook pointed out (I have a picture, but it?s too large for me to share), if Touma and Kento read Tom Sawyer, they were probably exposed to the N-word a lot.

I am glad the show's decreased runtime saved us from that!

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Originally Posted by Kurona

Espada!! VERY lovely suit; probably in my top 5 this season even if Brave Dragon just beats it. Lovely, downright angelic colour scheme of gold and white only broken up a little bit by some grey accents; all spun into this lovely elegance by that shoulder cape and all those sharp, upwards angles. Just a super beautiful suit.

I think my favorite bit is the shoulder lamp, and how the draped cape coming out of it sort of sells the Magic Carpet aspect. It's a really solid design.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

Ogami is mostly affable here towards others though gruff after previous episode, so I guess he's kind of like Ichijou in Kuuga in terms of change, hostile at debut but for a short time after learning the other party better.

I think it's also that we meet Ogami in what's probably his worst nightmare, which is Sora getting abducted by a book monster. I gotta think he's going to have very little chill at that point!

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Originally Posted by Layton13

I repeat myself, love the cast and their antics. They are just fun to watch.

They carried the early parts of the show for me.

That said... I actually kinda appreciate how much of a none focus the MotW are. That is coming from someone who likes the MotW parts often the most. But it's clear they have no interest in telling a story with the MotW right now, so they are afterthoughts. And I vastly prefer that against Zero-One's first arc trying so hard to make the Magia plots compelling and never really succeeding, at least in the first arc, and dragging everything around it down with it.

Similar to how in the current show, the monsters are very much just a piece of the background, menacing, but no actual players in the episode's plots.

The Megid get exactly enough screentime and attention as they need right now, and I like it that way.

I don't know that I love it? It makes things feel a little too insular; the focus is too much on the individual members of the cast, and their backgrounds. The Magia attacks in Zero-One helped build out the world, set the stakes, illuminate the cast's goals, etc. Here, the crew is interesting, but they might as well work as mechanics or cooks. I almost don't know why this story needs to be a tokusatsu one?