[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

Which I guess means I'm going to be picking on Die for picking on Saber, even though I'll probably feel bad about it later!

You shouldn't! I know how you feel about this show, so I was fully aware while I was writing what I wrote that you weren't likely to swoop in here a day later going Worst Episode Ever, or anything even slightly disparaging.

I appreciate you sharing your insight into this show, and its active themes. I don't know if they feel particularly prominent to me, but I would never ever ever tell someone that they're reading a show wrong or projecting onto it. All I can say is that I never felt Faith had a central role in a lot of the moment-to-moment storytelling, so much as it was trotted out as a formative catchphrase (Kamijo's initial appearance in Touma's backstory), or used to paper over some leaps in logic -slash- ill-defined character motivations. Like, I never feel like this show is saying something about Faith, I guess? I'm glad that it was saying something that clearly resonated with you, though. I long to find my own connection with this series!

(And I'm not abandoning my friends in order to war against them out of fear when say that I'm scared about the future of this show! It's just, there were a couple peerless episodes not too long ago, but this last stretch... very much not to my tastes. The fear is that this show is going to continuously make me think a corner has been turned, only for that corner to lead to a brick wall. I can't keep getting my heart broken!)