[Locke]

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

I'm with Locke on this one. Once Ryusei entered the picture the show stagnated hardcore for about 15-20 episodes. And when it finally got going again it had to rush everything to fit it all into the last six episodes.

Someone agreed with my opinion o_o

But yeah, it got to like episode thirty five and suddenly decided it wanted a plot, even though by that point half the Horoscopes had been killed as of the week monsters and the show was severely running out of track. It all came together so poorly and nonsensically at the end, it soured a show I was happy to write off as simply mediocre.

[Thessair]

Well, I just finished Kuuga. Overall, the series never clicked with me. As I mentioned before, the disconnect between Godai and the suit actor was fairly rough and I found the fight scenes a little lacking after watching some of the more dynamic Neo-Heisei battles. As I'm headed out of town this weekend, I won't be starting anything new. But I'll probably head into Agito when I get back.

[GoseiWonder]

Question: How often does a Rider pilot ep begin in medias res?

[algo448]

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Originally Posted by GoseiWonder

Question: How often does a Rider pilot ep begin in medias res?

Not particulary often in my experience...
What show?

[Switchblade]

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Originally Posted by GoseiWonder

Question: How often does a Rider pilot ep begin in medias res?

Black, Blade, Decade, and W are the only ones that leap immediately to mind.

[algo448]

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

Black, Blade, Decade, and W are the only ones that leap immediately to mind.

W does? It starts with a flashback to Begins Night, which takes place before the show.
Medias Res implies that it starts at the middle of things.

[losondro]

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Originally Posted by algo448

W does? It starts with a flashback to Begins Night, which takes place before the show.
Medias Res implies that it starts at the middle of things.

Then would Kiva count?

[algo448]

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Originally Posted by losondro

Then would Kiva count?

I knew somebody would bring Kiva into the mix.

The first scene in the show is the confrontation between Spider and Yuri right? So nope, it doesn't, that's in no way the middle of the show.

It's chronologically the first scene in the show.

[Switchblade]

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Originally Posted by algo448

W does? It starts with a flashback to Begins Night, which takes place before the show.
Medias Res implies that it starts at the middle of things.

It starts right smack in the middle of that flashback, though, with Shotaro and Sokichi dragging Philip. There's no set-up for what's going on, it's just straight into the action. That is exactly what an in media res beginning is.

That's what I figured you meant. Black begins with Kotaro running to escape the Gorgom priests; Blade begins with Kenzaki rushing off to help Tachibana in a fight; Decade starts smack in the middle of the Rider War.

[GoseiWonder]

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

It starts right smack in the middle of that flashback, though, with Shotaro and Sokichi dragging Philip. There's no set-up for what's going on, it's just straight into the action. That is exactly what an in media res beginning is.

That's what I figured you meant. Black begins with Kotaro running to escape the Gorgom priests; Blade begins with Kenzaki rushing off to help Tachibana in a fight; Decade starts smack in the middle of the Rider War.

So how long till those series explain how we got there? Because I just want to count the days till we hit that week in LWW. I wanna know why Kenzaki was recruited. Imagine watching the first MiB or Harry Potter and we start off 45 minutes in or so with K breifing J on how Neuralizers work or Harry's first encounter with Snape.