[Sunred]

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Originally Posted by DreamSword

Yeah. Alot of people talk about the mishmash of footage used from the Showa movies, but very few note the times that Masked Rider was actually pretty smart when it came to footage use. Like this episode.

Like, I remember the scenes where Kotaro was clinging to the front of the car were used so well at the time. Also helped that the clothes that Dex wore was quite similar to what Kotaro wore in the original episode. The attention to detail was on point.

[Mesnick]

I don`t think that this is such an unpopular opinion, it`s more likely that it was simply not voiced, but... Dark Arc only harms a secondary rider. Tycoon, having become a villain, lost his last and already few fans; Igarashi Daiji completely dropped his show from the position of average to a lower position. Even Blades and Vulcan, who were never technically villains but were in active opposition to the protagonist, received the most hate during this period. Also, I don't think there are any fans of sad Hiro in a business suit. Maybe I don't remember everything, but villainy only works for those secondary riders who were the original antagonists, like Baron and Kaixa.

[gashatfreak]

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Originally Posted by Mesnick

I don`t think that this is such an unpopular opinion, it`s more likely that it was simply not voiced, but... Dark Arc only harms a secondary rider. Tycoon, having become a villain, lost his last and already few fans; Igarashi Daiji completely dropped his show from the position of average to a lower position. Even Blades and Vulcan, who were never technically villains but were in active opposition to the protagonist, received the most hate during this period. Also, I don't think there are any fans of sad Hiro in a business suit. Maybe I don't remember everything, but villainy only works for those secondary riders who were the original antagonists, like Baron and Kaixa.

This. I'm not against dark and edgy angst arcs, but for goodness sake, please write them well. They can be used for great character development if they weren't written in for the sake of just adding unnecessary angst. Daiji got shafted seriously hard in Revice.

I can forgive Blades though as he was literally questioning his entire lifestyle and he was raised to be a swordsman from a young age, not to mention that that he did finally come around and the whole arc of him finally rejecting the SoL's corruption led to him unlocking his final form (which, while not perfect, was way better executed that the complete fiasco that introduced Evility Live).

[Switchblade]

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Originally Posted by gashatfreak

This. I'm not against dark and edgy angst arcs, but for goodness sake, please write them well. They can be used for great character development if they weren't written in for the sake of just adding unnecessary angst. Daiji got shafted seriously hard in Revice.

The big problems with Daiji's villain phase were that it dragged on way too long and required him to be a complete idiot in order to justify it.

[DreamSword]

Daiji's' arc is probably the best out of all those listed. I felt it was perfectly in character given his own stubbornness combined with the feelings of desperation that he was saddled with at the time.

[FairyKing]

I don't know if it was good but personally I found Daiji's villain arc interesting (specifically when he was a villain as Live, not earlier when he was controlled by Kagero) because it showed how losing his inner demon left him unbalanced, unable to recognize when he was wrong or compromise his ideals even when they did more harm than good.

[Mesnick]

Actually, Switchblade named the main disadvantage of Daiji’s dark arc. According to my feelings, it lasted for about a third of the show. And for me personally, now, when I just think about Revice, the image of the beaten sad Daiji immediately pops into my head.