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Originally Posted by barnstenchfartface

My plan is to watch Amazon next, but I may as well watch the handful of X episodes with subs now. Can't hurt.

X is great. It's arguably my favorite of the pre-Black Showa era series. I actually liked it so much I watched it via HK subs. Apollo Geist is one of the best villains generals Kamen Rider ever produced.

[Matrixbeast]

Kuuga episode 7.
There is not much to talk about in these opening episodes to Kuuga, eh? When things are established, it's not expanded upon...
Now we have a girl who has a stone that may be of vital importance to identifying #0 and the Grongi as a whole. And she's being a bitch and ran off with it because she seems to not realize there's at least 7 publicly known Grongi running around.

Anyway, we're introduced to the bee, who uses drops stingers on people for a pretty terrifying kill.
So, as he gets kills, he marks them on a bracelet. I'm curious to know what the significance of it is (As after his bracelet was shot off, the bat dashed to steal it. He was stopped, but I'm still curious about why it was so important).

Also, Kuuga gains his green form (Pegasus, right?) and goes into sensory overload because of it.
Something I'm enjoying is that his forms are the most useful for his given situation, but the change at inopportune times, such as when he finally gets a good punch in against the bee when he realizes he's turned into Dragon, so it's weak as hell, and now he changes into Pegasus to properly hear where the bee is, but it's while he's hanging off a rafter and gets overloaded.

Also, props. This episode was the first to get a chuckle out of me.

[XW1n5t0nX]

The next episode gives a reason as to why the girl is not being easy in letting go of the stone. And yes, green is Pegasus.

[Matrixbeast]

Well, she's angry that no one is treating the situation about 0 as vitally as the others, which is why she ran off.
I'm sure they'll expand upon it next episode, I just can't marathon through the series as much as I intended on doing so.

[SanoBaron]

I just like it that Kuuga has challenges with his forms.
like, he might be able to bring it out, but that doesnt mean he can do it when he wants to, nor completely control it. I wish more series had this kind of thing.

Agitro is different because plot reasons.

[barnstenchfartface]

Professor Jin:

"Don't worry Keisuke, I uploaded my consciousness to a computer, so I'll always be here with you to help you."

Literally the first time Keisuke goes to ask for advice:

"I don't want you crying to me every time something happens. This was a mistake. Obviously the only rational choice now is to kill myself"

Then Keisuke thanks his father for exploding himself.

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what the fuuuuuuuuck, kamen rider x

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Originally Posted by barnstenchfartface

Professor Jin:

"Don't worry Keisuke, I uploaded my consciousness to a computer, so I'll always be here with you to help you."

Literally the first time Keisuke goes to ask for advice:

"I don't want you crying to me every time something happens. This was a mistake. Obviously the only rational choice now is to kill myself"

Then Keisuke thanks his father for exploding himself.

...

what the fuuuuuuuuck, kamen rider x

I love that scene. I can only imagine what must have been going on in production during all that:

"Okay, so this is Kamen Rider X's secret underwater base, which is run by a computer with his dead father's memories. You know what, that's a bad idea, let's not do it after all."

"We already built the set and filmed the introductory scene."

"That's fine. Just write it out of the show. Immediately. Ideally in the silliest way possible."

[Matrixbeast]

Kuuga 8. Girl apologizes. Kuuga learns to hone his sense and manages to take out the bee in one shot. Cool~

There was an interesting scene involving the Grongi having a mild argument.
...Is what I would say if they didn't speak in gibberish, so I didn't give a fuck.

Well, one thing I can say about Kuuga is that the cast is pretty likable. Yusuke's kind of dumb, but he has a nice heart. Ichijou being the hard boiled detective Shotaro wishes he could become, and the girl who's name contains too many syllables for me to remember is nice, too.

Concerning Kuuga's forms, while I like that Yusuke has to learn to use them, I do dislike the manner in which he learns it. Pegasus's description was basically akin to "The warrior that shoots shots in order to shoot at targets." It's way too straight forward.
Anyway, I also like that he creates his weapons from his environment, rather than just pulling them out his ass. While I don't doubt that he'll just be able to snap his fingers and create his weapons later on, it is pretty interesting right now.

[Kiwami]

If I remember correctly, they will continue showing how he gets his weapons until the end, never will the weapons appear out of nowhere. With Pegasus, he will always ask Ichijou or another policemen for a gun. Same with the other forms, you'll always see where he gets from and how it transforms.

And the Gorongi's story is progressing slowly, I was annoyed at the earlier half of the show too, but you're on the right track: Observe what they do more than trying to understand what they talk about, the bracelet that the wasp was wearing has a meaning that won't be forgotten but expanded later on.

[ZeoRangerV]

I'm watching Kuuga myself at the moment (up to something like episode 26) and I'm absolutely loving it so far. I can see that all the great stuff about the form changes has already been discussed, so I'll just skip over that and say how much I love the characters. It's one of the few Rider shows I've seen where it really feels like everyone has a purpose.