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08-05-2020, 05:08 AM | #431 |
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As for the actual episode, the thought of Die being so weirdly hard on it also fills me with sadness.
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It felt a little too much in Raising Questions mode, and that’s not a blast for me. We’re starting to dig into Chalice’s situation, the specifics of his weird cards and powers, but it’s mostly just the episode explicitly stating Yes His Cards Are Weird. There are weird things about how he can Henshin into different cards’ forms, and it is weird that he uses a Spirit card to turn into Hajime. There’s no real new information given, just making sure that Kenzaki is aware of all of it.
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Some of it is Tachibana going into the specifics on the cards that, as much as I love Androzani84 laying it all out on the boards, is not what I want Blade The TV Show to focus on. The minutiae of the magic monster cards that give superpowers to heroic mans… y’know, maybe better left to the imagination? Not that dramatically compelling to me.
Compare this to the first episode, where one of the many, many meme lines I didn't mention is Garren awkwardly saying "a Category 8, huh? Interesting" during the fight at the start to call attention to the Undead's ranks being displayed on their belt buckles when they're about to be defeated, a bit of exposition that you quickly realize is rather sloppy when Tachibana never uses that card, and thus we have no idea what exactly is so interesting about the fact that bat monster was a Category 8. It's been mentioned that these were Shou Aikawa's first episodes of the show, and I honestly think even just right now you can how much sharper his writing arguably is in a lot of areas. Which is maybe apparent in that the thing you seemed to have the biggest problem with was the lack of thought with regards to geography, something so ubiquitous to Kamen Rider it's basically never worth bringing up. Ironically, I only started legitimately liking Rebirth after finding out about that meme. I distinctly remember finding Tachibana's singing voice kind of grating the first time I watched Blade, which in retrospect was probably just me being disappointed I wasn't going to be hearing Kakusei anymore. Any song would've felt like a downgrade at that point.
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08-05-2020, 10:04 AM | #432 |
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Oh no, there was definitely something new in there. Hajime isn't the Chalice that Business Bird remembered. This is our first step into really getting into the heart (pun intended) of exactly what Hajime is. He copies the forms of the cards he scans - he's not the real Chalice and I think it's safe to infer at this point that the human form may not be real either. Which begs the question of what is he really, then? This is going to be a major issue moving forward from here.
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Now I'm kind of going to be repeating what Switchblade said, too, but this is MAJOR new information given here. It was completely unconfirmed up until these episodes, and especially him using the Float card in his belt, that the way his transformations work is by literally just turning directly into that monster. If you were already assuming that, than I mean, credit to your detective skills, but the info these episodes give is an absolutely massive hint towards Hajime's true nature, and once again, I think it comes at a really clever time, in an episode all about how much he's starting to fit in with humans, and even (mostly) get along with Kenzaki.
For me, plot stuff like this... I'm not a theory guy? It doesn't activate the part of my brain that gets me pinning up clues on a wall and running string between them. Like, this is not what I'm like in the aftermath of an episode like this one: When I'm given a Raising Questions episode, I'm far more likely to acknowledge it, and then wait for the answers. Once I get those answers, then I get excited, start dissecting it, start looking at what it means for the characters and the themes and the story. Right now, I just find myself thinking, "Okay... and?" Quote:
i feel okay calling it out
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08-05-2020, 10:39 AM | #433 |
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It’s a tokusatsu, they were probably just confused that she couldn’t easily jump out of frame and instantly arrive at Tokyo stadium or a fountain or something.
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08-05-2020, 11:37 AM | #434 |
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It's not ~quite~ over as far as I'm concerned, but a lot of the show's biggest memes are definitely behind it at this point. Also, and forgive me for pointlessly reiterating what was just said, but the thought of not getting to explain kara miso!, the pinnacle of Dadi memes, to Die in my own words fills me with such sadness I'm just going to do this anyway.
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08-05-2020, 11:40 AM | #435 |
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Also yeah we're at the point where the writers(and voice directors) start taking the show more seriously and it honestly becomes IMO the best Rider series of the 2000's (it's not Gaim/Ex-Aid tier but it's pretty close)
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08-05-2020, 01:40 PM | #436 |
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08-05-2020, 03:01 PM | #437 |
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See, Switchblade gets it!
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08-05-2020, 04:06 PM | #438 |
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For Blade mechanicals that you don't want the show to focus on, and saying it's better to be left on imagination, would that mean, anything about it is a fan theory? That people shouldn't have to come up with theories to get most of it to come together? That about basic mechanics of a plot that's paying off a year-long story, these aren't the sort of things that fans should need to have theories about? Though I'd say probably this part can be important to people like me, when I try to gauge the Rider/monster's powers and capabilities, like I also wonder that each Riders keep using the same card (Blade: Kick-Thunder-Sonic, Garrenrop-Fire-Gemini). But yeah, Miyuki's thing with Mutsuki, it ends up too fast, just her holding Mutsuki's hand with that card, likely forgetting that the card can move by itself when Mutsuki henshins. For being close, I won't think they're too close together here, with previous episode being similar, and actually there's a bit of wedge here with Mutsuki being more disobedient to Tachibana.
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08-05-2020, 05:24 PM | #439 |
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That seems up for debate. A lot of viewers at the time stil, preferred Ryuki and I myself still prefer Faiz.
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08-05-2020, 05:57 PM | #440 |
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Why don't you just treat the Hajime turning into Undead as another Rider fight scene (like Mutsuki vs Miyuki, etc.)? Just with a new breath of fresh air with Hajime turning into something else. It's also probably not a showcase of his card being weird, but more about his weirdness being an Undead that he can utilize those cards to transform to them like enemies on Build; he also has belts forming from himself. Probably the Kurihara dad scene is brought up corresponding to Kaimioka accusing him of being a murderer in the past.
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