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Kamen Rider Die watches Kamen Rider Den-O
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-I’m glad to be back watching Den-O, finding a way to make a crowd-pleasing bit of fan-service sound like a hollowed-out and dispiriting endeavor!
You and this show certainly have a special connection!
If it helps, it's always really interesting to see the way you read into Den-O stuff specifically because it's often so
wildly
off from the way I look at it.
Final Countdown has never been some amazing, perfect film for me, but I do like it quite a bit, and think it nails what it sets out to do, for the most part. I view it as a sort of do-over after Climax Deka was a continuation that felt like a random bit of filler released way too late. Final Countdown has a whole thing going on where it's a movie focusing on Ryoutarou's future the way the first movie focused on his past, kinda tying them together a loose duology (or bookends to a trilogy! If we're feeling generous enough to include Climax Deka!)
Ryoutarou being possessed for so long IS inherently a bummer, but I see what the movie is going for with it; trying to emphasize how important his presence is, how you can't take it for granted anymore, and how it lets all the other characters that are basically never separated from the guy react to that. It has ~just~ enough merit that it doesn't really bother me, although I vaguely recall having to ponder that a while after first watching the movie.
I don't know, man – I guess I just like Den-O? Hard to be too disappointed by a movie that ends with an entire
team
of Den-O in every form all fighting bad guys together!
(Oh, and while I usually hope to come in with
fun
trivia, apparently there was a whole incident making the movie where Seiji Takaiwa
collapsed from a lack of oxygen
filming a really long take as Momotaros on a very hot summer day, so, uh... yeah, Final Countdown must've at least been a dispiriting endeavor for
him
, to be sure.)
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