[Kamen Rider Meteor]

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Originally Posted by ljacone

All this talk of MMPR made me go back and watch a favorite episode of mine - Second Chance, AKA Soccadillo wrecks up the place for 20 minutes. Possibly my favorite monster from the era, my only complaint about the ep is the change of how Soccadillo is defeated. Its clear from him blowing up that he was supposed to go down via the Ultrazord, but for some reason it is changed to the Power Sword. Anyway, great little memory trip for me.

Side note, the kid who played Roger would later be convicted of killing three people. Yikes.

That damn kid.... Twice I've had people see my power rangers tattoo and bring up that story. Both times the people were misinformed and thought a power ranger himself did the killing.

[ljacone]

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Meteor

That damn kid.... Twice I've had people see my power rangers tattoo and bring up that story. Both times the people were misinformed and thought a power ranger himself did the killing.

Yeah, for years that false story persisted... do a Google search on it, and you will find multiple pages on Yahoo Questions, or Ask.com, or whatnot asking "What color Power Ranger was the guy who murdered those people?"

Cmon people, it was just some random extra! He didn't even have any lines!

[ShockerCon]

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Originally Posted by ljacone

I've seen about half of KRDK, I really enjoyed it as an adaption. Unfortunately it was taken down off of 4KidsTV before I could finish watching it! That show made me want to buy as many Kamen Rider Gai/Thrust toys as I can!

I think they have the whole show on their website. They actually dropped the show 2 episodes before the end of the series.

[Locke]

Otherwise you can just torrent it. I have no qualms with torrenting stuff like this since they make it practically impossible to watch half of this stuff in the UK.

[ljacone]

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Originally Posted by ShockerCon

I think they have the whole show on their website. They actually dropped the show 2 episodes before the end of the series.

I was watching it on the website; last time I went there it was gone. A totally "Buh?" moment for me.

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Originally Posted by Locke

Otherwise you can just torrent it. I have no qualms with torrenting stuff like this since they make it practically impossible to watch half of this stuff in the UK.

I will have to eventually get back to it either via torrent or stream. I enjoyed the show enough to make the effort to track it down, for sure.

[Locke]

I'm glad to hear that it has fans, it was my first proper Kamen Rider show after...Masked Rider *shudder* and I just adore the series, I've watched it through a handful of times and I was starting to think I was the only fan despite how well the show did in the US and Japan.

It seems so many people dislike it simply because it's an adaptation just like they do with Power Rangers and I just think those people and their prejudices are missing out.

[Dr Kain]

And thus has my journey through the first season of MMPR come to an end. It was an enjoyable 4 days and shows to me that I can still just sit down and marathon a series all day long if I truly desire to.

WIth that said, I'll be watching Season 2 the Monday after we get back from AX.

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Originally Posted by Locke

It seems so many people dislike it simply because it's an adaptation just like they do with Power Rangers and I just think those people and their prejudices are missing out.

Oh yeah, never mind the poor acting, the lack of sound effects and music (you know, the thing these shows ARE made for!!), and the mcguffin at the end of the series to make everything all right.

Anyway what is this about some kid off the PR being a killer?

[ljacone]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_...d_Jackie_Hawks

[ljacone]

I don't remember KRDK not having music... It had a really cool battle theme IIRC. And didn't Ryuki have a similar deus ex machina at the end to "fix" everything as well?

[Locke]

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

Oh yeah, never mind the poor acting, the lack of sound effects and music (you know, the thing these shows ARE made for!!), and the mcguffin at the end of the series to make everything all right.

Anyway what is this about some kid off the PR being a killer?

Most of the actors in the show weren't actors but martial artists and so they really had to relax into their roles. The acting improves dramatically over the course of the series as they become more comfortable in their roles. I never really noticed the lack of sound effects and music, they don't really make much of a difference to my experience.

And yeah the ending was a bit of a cop out admittedly but you have to remember that American and Japanese censorship is very different and we were lucky to have the Rider's deal with death and the weight of that at all.

I'm not saying that that makes it okay but coming into an American show expecting all the gore, swearing and general adult content from a Japanese show is just a fool's errand from the beginning.