[Locke]

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Originally Posted by Megabattimus

The thing is, he doesn't really have time to do that. The Grongi aren't just gonna take a holiday while Godai figures out what he can do. And really, the trial and error thing isn't a bad thing to me. It really hammers home the fact that Godai is very inexperienced and that he is fallible; you can beat him, he just refuses to go down. He gets better at fighting as he goes along and gains slightly more control over his powers (until they get way too strong for him that he's creating MASSIVE explosions when he kills Grongi and has to fight them in unpopulated areas just so he doesn't accidentally kill anyone), which to me is more fun to watch than the "Guy who gets Rider powers and is immediately awesome".

Kuuga is my favourite Rider show (for reasons stated here: http://www.tokunation.com/showpost.p...postcount=4792), so I'm glad you're watching it and I hope you enjoy it more than some people.

I think the way they handled this got worse as the series progressed.

I really liked how they had a side character who could slowly decode Kuuga and feed it to the audience, plus Sakurako was gorgeous heh...heh...heh, but Godai was such a flat character with practically no character arc throughout the entire series.

I felt like I was getting more insight into Kuuga from the side characters than I was from Godai, this would have been fine if Godai was put in a position of experience but he was learning his abilities at the same pace as the audience (well minus the messy timeskips at the end) and yet he responded so little to his powers, except when stories demanded it (like the first time he did the Nuke Rider Kick) it was almost as if a suit actor took over during the fights....

How can I get excited for new forms and new powers and what have you if the main Rider seems so uninterested in it all himself?

[SpeedDemon]

Well he has to concentrate on saving people, the insight job is left to the supporters. They're a team, he isn't alone.

[Kamen Rider Meteor]

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Originally Posted by Locke

I literally just finished this series...and I really didn't like it. The first ten or so episodes are pretty solid, Ichijou is one of my all time favourite characters (not just toku I mean ALL TIME), it was very well written and had some great villains.

It was after the first ten or so episodes where the series took a direction really not for me, the series got darker and darker and I just felt the series was much too grim for a toku show, I wasn't a big fan of the whole Grongi language business either. Plus I personally found the acting and action all pretty terrible as well.

There are some great moments dotted around those last forty or so episodes though, the fight with the Porcupine dude was great and the villains get some cool developments powerwise towards the end of the series but meh.

I kinda dig the Grim tone and Grongi language. It certainly is different from what i am used to. I can see how they both are acquired tastes though.

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Originally Posted by Megabattimus

The thing is, he doesn't really have time to do that. The Grongi aren't just gonna take a holiday while Godai figures out what he can do. And really, the trial and error thing isn't a bad thing to me. It really hammers home the fact that Godai is very inexperienced and that he is fallible; you can beat him, he just refuses to go down. He gets better at fighting as he goes along and gains slightly more control over his powers (until they get way too strong for him that he's creating MASSIVE explosions when he kills Grongi and has to fight them in unpopulated areas just so he doesn't accidentally kill anyone), which to me is more fun to watch than the "Guy who gets Rider powers and is immediately awesome".

Kuuga is my favourite Rider show (for reasons stated here: http://www.tokunation.com/showpost.p...postcount=4792), so I'm glad you're watching it and I hope you enjoy it more than some people.

It's not that i expect for the Grongi to give him a day off to figure out how to be like Wizard and show up with 1,000 abilities and be insta-awesome. But just one scene of him trying to get a rough idea how to use these powers would help. It's a minor gripe , but almost all inexperienced superheroes have that right of passage. I still am looking forward to seeing how the show plays out. The Ichijou / Godai partnership is interesting. It makes me wish that Haruto and Rinko were more like this in Wizard.

[Switchblade]

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Originally Posted by Locke

As for Birth, eh, there is nothing really wrong with the design but he does look sorta like a lost VR Trooper. But a sort of rejected VR Trooper, all tacky and knock off looking. You know sorta how the fake Power Rangers look in Poundland? Powerwise though that huge cannon was pretty awesome. Kinda bummed it wasn't Gotou though.

Yeah, Birth really feels like a lost Metal Heroes design. He's a fun character, though. And Gotou's story with Birth is far from finished.

[Locke]

Episodes fifteen and sixteen of OOO were pretty great, so as long as seventeen is a good episode as well, I'll stick around. Even if this shows mythology is confusing as balls.

[SPLIT LIP]

I think you're clear of the musical medals portion of OOO now. It's pretty good-great from now on.

[Locke]

Fourze 21 was another, rare, weak episode for the series.

This episode just really felt like it was going through the motions, sadly the series has been going that way for a while. Just really clichéd by the numbers plotting that really doesn't attempt to do anything new. I hope Virgo kicks some life back into the series and mixes it up again, I love her design.

[Matrixbeast]

Virgo was such a cool character, but tragically underused. She does become prominent, but I don't think her true "Arc" doesn't occur until the mid-late 30's.

[Locke]

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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

Virgo was such a cool character, but tragically underused. She does become prominent, but I don't think her true "Arc" doesn't occur until the mid-late 30's.

Her introduction was especially badass, as she literally stepped out of the shadows and opened a giant vortex as the first thing she did. Sweet!

I'm just worried the show is losing steam, most Kamen Rider shows I've tried don't keep me this hooked this consistently, this far into the series and I was really hoping Fourze would be the first series to really carry the quality through to the end.

But sadly, as much as I love Meteor as a Rider, since his introduction the quality of the show really has started to dip. And I've had experiences in the past where I've hit the half way point of a series completely adoring it and then I completely hate the show by the end.

[Matrixbeast]

To be honest, while I kept with Fourze until the end, I wasn't so much hating it, but more just bored by the ending. While the series does keep it's twists and turns until the finale, the twists are followed by obvious plot developments.

It's like 5 minutes of jaw dropping surprise followed by 15 minutes of "I saw that coming."

That said, Fourze's fights are still fun, flashy, and when he uses a creative switch combination, it's awesome, but the actual plot doesn't do much for me in the latter half beyond aforementioned twists and interesting developments.