[Paladin]

The time has come at last to learn the secret of the Global Freeze...

As always you can view this episode via live stream on Saturday by heading over to Taima TV. They play other miscellaneous programs up until the live broadcast starts.
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[Kamen Rider Exile]

Last 10 minutes...was an emotional roller coaster. This officially is becoming my favorite rider show purely because of the villains. And... Chase is finally making the moves haha

[Kiwami]

Before you explode and write tons of text again vin13ish, this will be a joke that is played in the beginning 5 minutes of the next episode and once Chase learns what love really means he'll stop it and it will never be mentioned again.

I'm honestly surprised they even go this far with it, I fully expected Chase to say that he wants a pet at the end of this episode.

[Switchblade]

Wow, that went to a dark place. Never thought I'd feel sympathy for Heart, but what Banno did to her is pretty messed up, especially with her empty "I did it all for Heart..." echoes. Banno is definitely stepping up as a big, credible threat. I may still not find him that engaging as a character, but as a driver of the plot he's doing a pretty awesome job. At this point I'm really curious to see where the show goes and how it resolves the the stories of Heart, Medic, and Brain.

That last sentence is something that I would be absolutely flabbergasted to see myself type six months ago. I'm really impressed by how much the villains have grown in the last block of episodes, Heart in particular. But now even Medic is having engaging story beats and, god help me, I'm actually looking forward to what Brain is going to do next.

Why couldn't Drive have been this good from the start? I'm always going to look back on the first half of the show as such a waste now, probably even more than I would if it had never improved.

[ElConvoy]

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

Why couldn't Drive have been this good from the start? I'm always going to look back on the first half of the show as such a waste now, probably even more than I would if it had never improved.

Which only makes me believe more that Toei meddled with the show early on and the producer just not knowing what to do under such an environment.

Sanjo, Hasegawa and Komura probably had to fight a lot to be able to do the things we got now.

[Switchblade]

Quote:

Originally Posted by ElConvoy

Which only makes me believe more that Toei meddled with the show early on and the producer just not knowing what to do under such an environment.

Sanjo, Hasegawa and Komura probably had to fight a lot to be able to do the things we got now.

I strongly suspect there was an editorial mandate when the show started to be as lighthearted and silly as possible following the doom and gloom of late-series Gaim. Drive still has some of its over-the-top slapstick, wacky camera angles, and aggressively hammy acting, but its happening less often and is now allowing room for some actual drama.

[HiddenElephant]

Dat Ending. Onore Banno!

[vin13ish]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kiwami

Before you explode and write tons of text again vin13ish, this will be a joke that is played in the beginning 5 minutes of the next episode and once Chase learns what love really means he'll stop it and it will never be mentioned again.

I'm honestly surprised they even go this far with it, I fully expected Chase to say that he wants a pet at the end of this episode.

Thank you! So Chase will not end up with Kiriko? Right?

[Starscreamer]

I totally forgive the start of the series, if anything, that bit of meh makes all this have a much stronger impact. This was a fantastic episode for Medic and for once, yes...Brain has my total interest. These are some of the best developed villains since W I think.

[MaskedRiderAsakura]

Heart continues to be a cool guy, Brain continues to be a coward (but is shaping up to be a pretty decent guy himself), Banno continues to be an irredeemable asshole, and the show actually made me feel sympathy for Medic of all characters.

Drive's latter half has been absolutely fantastic and like others are saying, I'm sure Toei meddled with the show in the beginning to put out a lighter show than Gaim.