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10-29-2022, 10:40 PM
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SPLIT LIP
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So now that I've finished it I have some... real mixed opinions.
I thought it was told very well but the ending... fuck man, if that isn't one hell of a "bad ending."
I genuinely don't know what it was trying to say. The idealistic young revolutionary becomes a radical terrorist indoctrinating children to build bombs. She claims to take after Kotaro but ends up doing exactly what Nobuhiko did. Is this series trying to say that politically motivated violence is the right solution? Yet the framing is entirely sinister, and I think the idea is that Aoi learned the wrong lesson.
There's also rather
very
tasteless parallels to real life at the end. Shockingly so, and not in a "open my eyes" shocking but "Jesus, have you no tact" shocking. I felt the social commentary, while no doubt overbearing, was handled quite respectably up till then. It was presented almost indifferently, showing the cycle of hate perpetuating and feeding itself. It kinda went off the rails at the end and went from all the subtlety of a Styrofoam bat to an iron cudgel.
On a technical and character level some things didn't really jive. The main point of contention being just how the hell do the King Stones work? They're the stones that turned Kotaro and Nobuhiko into Kaijin, yet they can remove them and spend the whole series without them. So what's in their belts? Why do they have belts? Why did Aoi get a belt? Why did she not get a "Rider" form and just turned into her usual mantis kaijin form? If every Kaijin has a stone inside them does that mean they can be born with stones or that they were all experiments? How has the Kaijin race persisted if they're all created? Or is that just some not all? Why was that distinction never a factor or facet of the discrimination? Why did Nobuhiko die after removing his stone?
Why
did he remove his stone? Was it
just
to die?
I don't see what the hell this had to do with Black. It really could've been just a generic Rider series. Gorgom could've been Shocker, Black and Shadow Moon could've been Rider 1 and 2, etc. The Creation King is a plot point but it's not like he's at all similar to the original. The show is dressed in vague Black iconography but entirely it's own story.
I also found the music quite repetitive. The slow key note version of the theme is used to irritating excess. It should've been reserved for Black Sun's important moments. By the end it stopped feeling dramatic and started being annoying. They "Mandalorian theme'd" it.
Also, as amazing as the Black opening recreation was... it was hilariously tonally mismatched, especially knowing the lyrics. This Kotaro is nowhere near the fiery man of justice the original was. He's a battered husk with hardly a will of his own. This is not a man who "loves being alive in this great blue cosmos." Also I found it pretty weak how after Nobuhiko gets beat up a bit he just... abandons his big plan. Like he doesn't even mention the Kaijin future he was just preaching about and just kinda starts crying about his friends and how he wants to go back. What? He never even implied that was close to something he was thinking of. His righteous fury just evaporates after a fist fight and it's like it all meant nothing.
Which I think is the point? That this is all meaningless? Hatred will continue, radicals will fight it, those radicals will be consumed and destroyed, and the hatred will go on. How will Aoi be at all different from Nobuhiko? How did she so badly misunderstand Kotaro's will?
Speaking of, he just dies for nothing. He becomes the new Creation King, somehow, and then despite them just establishing that the Creation King can have a will of his own he's just a husk begging for death because he became the thing he tried to destroy. Kotaro has zero agency in this whole show. He has no moral compass, no vested interest, besides committing to a fifty year old proposition. It's amazing that a character so central to the proceedings feels entirely removed from them.
Long story short: this is a good show that completely shits itself at the end. I'm still processing how I feel because it genuinely comes across like it changed gears at the last second. That ending feels like it's meant to imply the entire story and struggles were not only in vain but will continue to be in vain going forward.
Really not a fan of how this all concluded. I was waiting for some big payoff and it was just nothing.
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