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Kamen Rider Revice Episode 42- "Fierce Battle! Crimson Vail & Destream!" Discussion
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HOLY CRAP did they nail this one! I uh, I kind of went into this episode placing expectations on it I was prepared to find out were unfair. Like, I just thought the way the Genta/Vail plotline resolved was absolutely
critical
to Revice's thematic throughline, and if they even
slightly
messed this up, I would've been super grumpy about it?
As it is, the worst thing I can say is that it's painfully obvious they couldn't find an actual spot to play LiveDevil.
See, the episode lays it out so thoroughly I probably don't need to explain this much, but the whole key to Revice, thematically, it's about
accepting yourself
, if I had to boil it down to only one thing. That's what the demons are here for, and it's why Ikki is the main hero. As much as I make fun of his egotism, that's always been a very pointed bit of characterization. The fact that him and Vice became best friends after the first quarter, too, it's all part of the show's thesis statement. Ikki loves himself enough to accept his own faults, and in that acceptance, he's found a strength and clarity that tends to exceed anyone else in the series.
So having the endpoint for Genta's arc be centered around him finally resolving to live
alongside
Vail, after decades of running away from him? Finally accepting that his traumatic past is a part of him, specifically to cement how he's moved beyond it? It's everything I could want. In hindsight, I don't even know why I thought the show would fumble this at all.
And they really just did it way
better
than I was asking for, if anything, by tying that central drama so flawlessly to so many other characters. Once again, making George and Masumi's tense relationship a part of the Igarashi drama is just a super smart choice that works better than ever in this instance, and bringing in Daiji, the guy who has
never
truly accepted who he is, as the spark for Genta to get serious about things, it's both great thematically while also keeping the overall plot momentum of the show totally on-course. This doesn't feel like a detour at all, when it could've easily gotten away with it if it was going to be this good anyway. Even my worries that they'd assume you've watched the Vail spinoff were unfounded, as while, for example, people who have seen it will probably think of Yukimi pretty differently, her role on TV as the eternal voice of wisdom and reason is more than enough to justify the material she has here. They aren't just like, referencing things that weren't on TV constantly, and that really helps the episode out, as obvious as that sounds.
And to top it all off, it's just a great episode visually? Destream continues the proud Revice tradition of all the Riders looking totally different, and even
that
matters to the story. Genta's Rider identity looks nothing like Vail, because Vail was Junpei,
and that's not who Genta is.
And because it's Sugihara directing, you even get that stylish
blue
lighting replacing the flames at the precise moment Genta makes that declaration.
Just... a real winner, any way you slice it, this one. I have a feeling that when people go to preorder their DX Vail Drivers from P-Bandai now, they won't even be getting them
for
Vail, you know?
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