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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

KAMEN RIDER SABER EPISODE 36 - “WIDE OPEN, THE OMNISCIENT POWER”

It’s the funniest, best possible Boss character for a show whose template is Workplace Dramedy. Some dude who inherited a position he never wanted, grew to resent it, and is now going to harness the power and authority it bestowed upon him to do horrible things to average people? I mean, it’s - by far - the least fantastical thing this show has ever presented, but I’ll allow it.

So you've obeyed the Master Logos' command to discard that title and thus you too goes by his real name Isaac. About him inheriting the position he never wanted, well the Solomon name in his Kamen Rider form is a reference to how Solomon was a good king who turned into wicked later, which'd be how Isaac previously followed his duties as SoL before he became bored. So I'd think perhaps, Isaac genuinely wanted to protect humanity before but not for actual noble reasons of living beings being worth protecting but to oversee their evolution, but particularly to see them evolve in power-hungry way, for his own entertainment, but when he didn't get that from humans, he turned on them. It'd mean his reason of protecting humans was something similar to Daguva. Man, I'd wish that by this we'd see a villain who actually does the protecting for this before instead of just sparing their enemies.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

It’s a nice prelude to the endgame arc of this series. Isaac has utterly and irrevocably pulled the mask off, telling the entire world to TATAKAE for his insane pleasure. The Shindai siblings have exercised the Serves Master Logos Specifically loophole in their contracts to embrace the heroism that the Sword of Logos subverted. Ren’s starting to realize that he isn’t running towards a future, he’s running away from his past, so maybe this whole friend-avosion thing is not super sustainable. Even Kento’s finally getting some solid advice from similarly big-picture characters like Yuri and Sophia (eventually), instead of the emotional pleas from Touma to which he’s grown impervious. It’s an episode very much about trying to get all of these disparate swordsmen to figure out a way to coexist, and a giant floating madman telling everyone to kill each other for his enjoyment is a pretty good start.

Desast's antics go further in this episode with him hanging upside-down to pester Ren, though obviously it's no problem with his power. And it's a reveal for the audience that Ren got his social darwinistic beliefs from his mentor, of which it's a case when a mentor's teaching backfires on him to instead create a rather psychotic member of the SoL, though he didn't do evil unlike the Shindai siblings or especially Isaac. And that Ren only respects Kento's strength, but views everyone else as a threat or stepping stone. Yuri's advice kinda reveals something dark about him at least in the past, in contrast to the reveal that he'd not sacrifice the humans that turned into Megid, to be prepared to sacrifice Touma, though at least he seems to be only going for 1 person instead of anyone he can.

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We’re in a real fast-moving plot phase of the series, where there aren’t a ton of new revelations about our main cast (Yuri’s speech to Kento is just a longer, less-deathbed-y version of his appeal to Kento from a few episodes ago), but it’s very cool to see everything start to line up emotionally and narratively. There’s an undeniable thrill to Touma and Rintaro showing up to save Ryoga and Reika, and for the four of them to form an uneasy truce to take down Solomon. Isaac makes for a great villain, because everyone in the cast wants to kick his ass. Even Falchion seemed to have a brief moment of Eff This Dude!

And we get the "Sophia is Sophia" thing in this episode? With Rintaro still using and Mei going f̶o̶r̶ ̶l̶e̶s̶b̶i̶a̶n̶ ̶e̶n̶e̶r̶g̶y̶ holding hands together with her. And yeah, despite Saber's lighthearted tone, Isaac is one of the most irredeemable villains in the whole franchise, thus he can have even other questionable characters get disgusted with him. Though for Bacht, evil characters displaying their standards can be something that happened in a handful of stories. Ryoga and Reika finally defects from SoL, particularly from Isaac's exact words that he's no longer Master Logos, and it's shown that Ryoga still has his standoffish nature by rejecting Touma's help, though he quickly relents here.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

The Solomon suit and sword, though… not my fave? The suit looks real kitbashed, but I’m not conversant enough in this show’s costumes to pick out where all the pieces might’ve originated. That sword, however! Dude is just swinging around a repainted King of Arthur sword, which does not exactly scream Important New Villain. There’s a real cut-rate approach to the Solomon suit and weaponry that feels a little disappointing, even if it’s (maybe?) not the final form for this goofball.

Other than him being in the main villain position to wipe the floor with literally everyone, Solomon also has a human form that can fight 2 Kamen Riders at once untransformed, displaying his skills or just his powerful nature to help him doing so. About his power use here of swinging King of Arthur sword, gotta wait for later explanation of it, should turn around the not screaming important new villain part. I know there are handful of Kamen Rider villains already, but I'd wish that Isaac didn't turn into Kamen Rider, moreso due to the magical nature of this series and perhaps the potential ambiguous human status of him that can easily have him turn into Megid boss-level or something.

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

I hate Solomon for the same reason I hate Yuuki. Seriously, they decapitated my bad*ss Jaou Dragon to make this? Kind of makes me want to see Solomon get destroyed just for the sake of it. I would've preferred it if Isaac became a Megid or pseudo-Rider instead.

So even you have a limit about Saber, in it making a depraved villain Kamen Rider (or if it's just the Rider design here).

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Originally Posted by Mesnick

I feel we are moving towards a time when kaijins become more popular than riders because of their rarity. I wonder in how many years the main character of the show will be a good kaijin fighting against an organization of evil guys with belts?

There's Inoue's series with Takumi as a Wolf Orphnoch and Wataru as a half-Fangire, the former also had him fighting Smart Brain. Though there's also the ones that happened in the endgame like Yuusuke turning into more like Grongis, Kenzaki turning into Joker, Kouta turning into Overlord.