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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

-I don?t ever want to be the guy that complains about the logic or rules behind transformation items in Kamen Rider, but what the hell is going on in the initial fight of this episode? Every time Shotaro has removed the Gaia Memories from the Double Driver in previous episodes, he immediately de-Henshins. Here, the Memories are removed multiple times by Roachstar, and nothing happens. What? How long can Double maintain a form like LunaTrigger without the Memories ? indefinitely? It sort of wrecked the entire fight for me. Help me understand what?s going on here!

Except that, if it actually worked like that, both Maximum Drives and Form Changes wouldn't be at all possible. They even swap two Memories at once during this episode to showcase the point. Releasing the transformation seems to be a very deliberate mental task on part of Shotaro and/or Philip.

Anywho, if my memory serves me right, this two-parter was where W first started actually pulling me in. It wasn't quite all the way there by the end, but here's where I stopped going "Ah, this show's alright so far" and started going "Hey, I'm actually invested now." And alot of that is thanks to the character interactions and comedy being top notch.

The short of it is that the overall energy of both episodes is very quick and very fun, which, as The Only Power Rangers fan, appeals to me greatly. And that's about all I needed. I the relationship between the two kids exactly good? Probably not, but they're also both highly emotional kids who don't at all think straight, and there's still alot of time for them to work things out. Or break up. Either way, really.

Also, props for Akiko not being at all annoying to me in this set either! By this point I still didn't fully like her, but her antics weren't actively aggravating me anymore. And the same goes for this rewatch.