[Deepsea]

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Originally Posted by DreamSword

This episode did literally nothing for me.

I really hate how emotionally detached I've become to this story.

Hi, I'm back from the dead for a bit since I've been reading these threads from a distance.

I've wanted to ask this for a bit, if you're not enjoying Zeztz, why do you keep watching? It doesn't feel like it's bringing you any joy even on a "I'm having fun criticizing it way." I think you should stop for your own sake.

[DreamSword]

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Originally Posted by Deepsea

Hi, I'm back from the dead for a bit since I've been reading these threads from a distance.

I've wanted to ask this for a bit, if you're not enjoying Zeztz, why do you keep watching? It doesn't feel like it's bringing you any joy even on a "I'm having fun criticizing it way." I think you should stop for your own sake.

It's because, for 20+ episodes, I was enjoying Zeztz quite a bit.

But then came this big turning point, and even if I'm just super not into this show like I once was, a part of me still has hope that just maybe the show can turn itself around again.

That, and I want to experience a Rider show weekly atleast once in my life, as many people have told me it's a much different experience from my usual style.

I'm sorry if my posts have become depressing or otherwise uninteresting to read, but I'm just being honest with how I feel; it's all I can be. I am by no means a person qualified to talk about "~objectivity~" in the media I consume. Never have been, really.

Should an episode come along that I think really works, I'll definitely say so. But for now, it's just been dud after dud. And trust me, I'd much rather it not be this way. I am not actively hunting for reasons to dislike the show. I've never done that with any Rider show I've watched, much less anything else.

If you guys are really digging this new direction, that's great. It's just not for me.

[GuardianAngel87]

In light of the last couple of episodes of Kamen Rider ZEZTZ:
https://x.com/Caboose_ED/status/2048561438050935155

[Deepsea]

Quote:

Originally Posted by DreamSword

It's because, for 20+ episodes, I was enjoying Zeztz quite a bit.

But then came this big turning point, and even if I'm just super not into this show like I once was, a part of me still has hope that just maybe the show can turn itself around again.

That, and I want to experience a Rider show weekly atleast once in my life, as many people have told me it's a much different experience from my usual style.

I'm sorry if my posts have become depressing or otherwise uninteresting to read, but I'm just being honest with how I feel; it's all I can be. I am by no means a person qualified to talk about "~objectivity~" in the media I consume. Never have been, really.

Should an episode come along that I think really works, I'll definitely say so. But for now, it's just been dud after dud. And trust me, I'd much rather it not be this way. I am not actively hunting for reasons to dislike the show. I've never done that with any Rider show I've watched, much less anything else.

If you guys are really digging this new direction, that's great. It's just not for me.

Nah man it's cool. I don't think you're bringing down the vibes or anything. I'm mostly just worried you're making yourself slog through a show you're not enjoying for the sake of "completion" or something.

[Locke]

It is funny that we're at the point of the show now where it is going to start ramping up for that final push, and it feels like it is still trying to reconcile how a show can have any real stakes when most of the events happening in it are not real.

Which is funny, cause on the flipside, it being a dream - or at least when they lean into that aspect - creates a sense of freedom for them to just do the coolest things they can think of during the action scenes, and that was on full display in that fight against Nightmare Zeztz, no matter how brief it was. I haven't loved the high tech pajama look of the Zeztz suits, but here, the lack of bulky flappy bits to restrict movement allowed for some great choreography as well.

A quick edit: I really wanna stress, for as muddled as this story has kinda gotten as it tries to give stakes and make all the internal logic make sense and iron out all the mechanics and all of that, and as negative as that may make me come across when I point this out, I am still shocked by just how good this show has been since Sieg's introduction comparatively to the overwhelming blandness of the first quarter of the show.

I feel like had I come to this a decade later as I am now doing with many shows as I've gotten back into Toku again, with all discourse long over around the show, I would have probably watched the first few episodes and bounced right off of this (which I did originally, being honest), but then I'd never have seen this show develop in the way it has, and I am pretty darn hopeful now for our final 15 or so episodes we have left that this could end up being an all time banger.