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Originally Posted by DreamSword

Basically, outside of just finding it really boring to sit through, I just felt that Geats got really, really pretentious the farther it went on. It became clear that it was less concerned about being a story and more about sticking it to the audience.

Like, do I agree with the people who go into media just wanting to enjoy drama and suffering and not much else? No, but in the end that's their right and they aren't harming anyone in doing so. People are allowed to indulge in their media however they want. And to dictate otherwise is not only a dick move, it's also really stupid.

It's massively hypocritical in its presentation too, because you have characters constantly talking about how all audiences care about is dramatic suffering, while in turn expecting you to care about the very character drama they themselves implement. Combine that with the same sorts of lines being repeated over and over again for like 20 episodes and the line towards the end of "Oh lots of people like happy endings too!" rings incredibly hallow.

The entire show was just honestly a chore for me to sit through. On every level.

I had pretty much the same issues as you with Geats. I think the general ideas have potential, but in the end I was just not enjoying the individual episodes and there wasn't payoff for the stuff that caught my attention. And THEN the pretentiousness kicked in. Like sure, some people get really into suffering for the sake of suffering, but I don't think Kamen Rider fans deserved to have something as petty as the Keiwa and Kekera storyline written, as if it was even close to what people wanted, then go "now lets fix this with a proper, happy ending"! The fact is tokusatsus are drama shows, and scolding the viewer for wanting to see drama just shows a sort of fundamental disrespect for the genre and fans... and it feels pretty desperate given the whole show struggles with writing engaging characterization and coherent arcs. The whole experience really peeved me. I know a lot of people think Revice is worse, but at least that show had some novel ideas and some enjoyable moments, so it wins by miles for me.