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Originally Posted by Mesnick

I think it's just that Takahashi doesn't work very well in the format of a show for a year. Not terrible, but exactly what is not good. Zero-One's tempo problems were attributed to the pandemic, but in fact, Ex-Aid didn't do very well without it either. Plus, specifically in the case of Geats, the fact that Ace is both a purposeful and passive protagonist also does not benefit the show. As I already mentioned, if not for Girori and PunkJack, he would have been playing DGP for another 2000 years, having no idea about the fate of his mother.

I think Zero One benefited from actually having secondary writers to help out. Takahashi gave EX-Aid a strong start and kept it going all the way through the Genm-X arc, but then he dragged out Kamen Rider Chronicle for the entire second half and it got tedious.

So I was worried when I heard Takahashi was going to be writing Geats all by himself and I stand by my belief that he could do better with some secondary writers, but honestly, I think he's improved a lot. Takebe should receive some credit though, like not mandating dumb tedious stuff like the infamous Work Competition that Ohmori came up with. The writer and producer pair is important to consider.

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Originally Posted by Mesnick

I also have to write that I love Gotchard's white gloves. Very stylish and unusual.

They look silver to me.

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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

I'm glad you all liked Kyoryuger, I honestly am.
I'm just saying that if Zyuohger didn't happen when it did, I probably would have dropped Super Sentai entirely

I know right! Kyoryuger was annoying. ToQGer was the worst. Ninninjer was okay, which I guess makes me more generous towards it than most people. That's what I think anyway. But it was a painful 3 years of Sentai for sure.

Sanjo has never written a Rider show I didn't enjoy. I rank both Double and Drive in my top 10 for Heisei. However, he definitely does some tropes that frustrate me and those tropes are amplified in a Sentai. King has his "We're a team!" catchphrase, but he's no more qualified to talk about teamwork than Sanjo is to write about it.

There's a recent increase in female Riders, right? Sadly, female characters are more often limited to distressed damsels or romance subplot devices in Sanjo's works, even a cop like Kiriko isn't immune to this.

I think Sanjo specializes in writing a small number of characters and hitting some tragic notes, such as Cyclone Effect Acoustic, or Brain's heroic sacrifice, or even Aigaron's heroic sacrifice from Kyoryuger. Pretty much heroic sacrifices in general, he's good at these! Of course, people probably think about his style of comedy as well, which can range from some good jokes, to being a little too ridiculous.

It could go either way.