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05-15-2014, 08:58 PM | #10631 |
Mystery Man
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Kamen Rider Black 7-9
Sadly, no Gorgom plot has topped the insanity of episode 6, but 9 came close. Let's see what those dastardly Gorgom have planned this time. In seven their plan was gather several individuals whose lives have been scarred by gang violence and use sickly green colored everages to help convince them that we are not an evil organization, but a peaceful utopia that will make the world a better place. To do this we'll give them orders to violently eat up gangs for peace! Little do they know...they'll e working for us! The whole Battle Hopper being injured thing was sort of anti-climatic, seeing as it healed right then and there. I thought with the sad music and all, he'd be hurt, but recover at the end of the episode, but...nope! He can heal! hat said, it was super eighties sci-fi awesome when he just started healing like that and they showed off his bio-mechanical nature. In 8...the Gorgom despise the music that the foolish humans seem to enjoy so much, so they're going to use it against them by putting control headbands on various violinists, connecting them to the Cicada Mutant so that every time they play their violins, the soundwaves will destroy human ears through the very music they love so much! And if Kamen Ride Black tries to stop them, they'll connect the violinists lives to the Cicada mutants! And lastly 9...where the Gorgom have used the nefarious resources to mass produce jewelry necklaces containing pearls that are actually wasp eggs! Whenever the wasps sting someone, they inject a hallucinogenic poison that causes the victim to believe they are being attacked by the Wasp Mutant! We will use the O.G Beat riders rivalry against them and use their desire for fame to get one of them to distribute these necklaces to the populace and if they betray us...we'll suck them into a giant bee hive! Mwahaha! I've really been liking the mutant designs these past few episodes. Can't wait to see what's next. One weird thing about episode nine...Kotaro just assumes that people know about the Gorgom...but they don't. Given that most of the people he tries to rescue live, you'd think they'd manage to tell the newspaper or something haha. |
05-15-2014, 10:04 PM | #10632 |
I have a problematic type
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And lastly 9...where the Gorgom have used the nefarious resources to mass produce jewelry necklaces containing pearls that are actually wasp eggs! Whenever the wasps sting someone, they inject a hallucinogenic poison that causes the victim to believe they are being attacked by the Wasp Mutant! We will use the O.G Beat riders rivalry against them and use their desire for fame to get one of them to distribute these necklaces to the populace and if they betray us...we'll suck them into a giant bee hive! Mwahaha!\
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05-17-2014, 05:13 AM | #10633 |
Sky Henshin!
Join Date: Apr 2013
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Super-1 Episode 33:This was a very good episode. Great use of the Junior Rider Squad helping Kazuya out of a tough situation. A smart villain causing chaos through the use of Remote controlled toys. Professor Ghost was close with his plan, I finally understand that the villains all talk about trying to kill Super-1 and their plans. I love when the villains have Subs during their talks because they are a lot of fun, definitely bring more of a threat than Terror Macro and General Megirl. Excellent fights like normal, with electro hands, and Super-1 taking an enemy's weapon and using it against him.
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05-17-2014, 07:43 AM | #10634 |
Big Bad Wolf.
Join Date: Apr 2013
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Decade 30.
Right, time for the final arc. I wasn't putting this off or anything, genuinely, I've just struggled to find the time lately to grab the remaining episodes and I don't really wanna leave my computer on all day unattended while I leave for 12 hours a time during a working a day. But I have enjoyed Decade more regularly than I haven't, so slowing down the ending doesn't seem like such a bad thing to me. Like basically all of Decade's storytelling, the premise here was more interesting than the execution of that premise. There were so many interesting directions they could have taken this, but what we got in the end was this muddled, confused mess that managed to make a war between two dimensions feel like an emotionally bankrupt home movie, shot in a studio backlot with some spare crew. It's just pathetic how easily some of the Riders went down in this episode. Also Apollo Geist is like super important now or something? DID YOU GET IT. I mean it held together pretty well on a thematic level, and episodes like this really allow Tsukasa to shine (while admittedly also showing all the wasted potential of his characterisation) plus Mari sure looked hot as the Fangire Queen. But I dunno, this all just felt sorta cheap and really big deals were just sorta shrugged off by the episode, if they were even acknowledged at all.
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05-17-2014, 09:18 AM | #10635 |
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So just finished watching Blade and, well, there be spoilers ahead.
For starters I find it quite interesting how there really weren't any casualties amongst the main cast. Maybe it's because I'm coming into this fresh off of Faiz, but it's just unusual to see that in a Non-Neo-Heisei Rider series for me. The ending I have to say is better executed than other shows for me as well. I called Kenzaki forcing the Undead transformation for 3-4 episodes. Some may say that makes it predictable, but I like the fact that it's not such an asspull that I'm wondering where that came from. It just seemed like the next logical step and not the normal deus ex machina BS I've come to expect. The small amount of Riders definitely led to better character development because I wouldn't say anybody was particularly forgettable like Scissors or Dark Kabuto and I felt for each of the Riders. The story was pretty good I thought as well and was pretty straightforward and not needlessly convoluted. I think Blade is one of my favorites. Out of the ones I've seen: Ryuki W Blade Kabuto Faiz Decade I think I'm gonna go on to Black next.
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05-17-2014, 10:53 AM | #10636 |
Man with a plan
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I'm glad you like Blade Asakura. I agree with everything you said about the show.
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05-18-2014, 04:16 PM | #10637 |
Big Bad Wolf.
Join Date: Apr 2013
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AM-A-ZOOOOOOON 02. Is Masako in pain or having an orgasm?
Although the effects are dated, and the budget feels tight, this is a show with great designs and even better action sequences thanks to Amazon's brutal fighting style. And despite the brutality of the way Amazon fights, in contrast he seems like such a nice dude. About the only thing I hate about Amazon, the Rider, is the stupid noises he makes all the time when transformed. For such a goofy show, this episode also dealt with some dark, pretty heavy stuff. Considering death is so novel in tokusatsu, it was nice that suffering was treated so thoughtfully here. It's just a shame the show only every dumps exposition, and never takes the time to really explore the characters themselves. So far the stuff happening to the characters is more profound for them than it is the audience. Ritsuko is a fucking bitch though, I know that much.
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05-18-2014, 05:20 PM | #10638 |
Big Bad Wolf.
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Decade 31. Wait so the real ending is in a movie?! What a fucking rip off! Is that movie even any good?
I've watched the entire series and I still don't know what it's actually about, so I guess it makes as much sense as anything else that the finale would be some massive Blade fankwank. The closest thing Decade had to a plot is the pseudo love story which ran through the centre of the show. But I never really know how to take stuff like this in toku. As in this genre for whatever reason even when the show plainly states the characters are a couple about as intimate as they get is holding hands. Is there any toku show with a genuinely realised romance heart? This was a really strong closer for the characters. Yusuke was more badass than he'd got to be all season, while also getting way more meaningful character moments than the whole season at the same time. Weirdly this has always been more of his show than it's been Decade's, despite the show trying to undermine him at almost every turn. It's easy to be sympathetic with Tsukasa because the show never properly explains why everyone turns against him. Plus Diend actually got to have an emotional range, was nice. Plus we got some really insane action, which in many ways like Wizard, is the main thing that makes the show so watchable and entertaining even if in some places the show is downright terrible. It even looks a lot better than a lot of the shows that come after it, I guess they threw a lot of money at this and it shows in a great way. Overall Decade was just a big pile of wasted potential, that looked really great while it was doing it. It had a great mythos and a wonderful set of characters to explore that with, but Decade is a show defined by establishing premises and never getting any further. And that is, really, all there is to say. It's a show with enough great ideas that you want to like the show, but since none of those ideas are never done well it's impossible to actually like it overall. I had fun with Decade, that has to count for something, it's a show that entertains much more consistently than it doesn't. With each new world just around the corner, whenever I wasn't enjoying Decade it was a fleeting moment and usually peppered with more than enough stunning action to tide me over but when a show has nothing meaningful to take it away I dunno how I can end it on a positive feeling. Oh well, at least I got a Kuuga who lives up to the hype. I think I'm gonna watch Amazon next, and then maybe after that I'll watch Ryuki as I've pretty much exhausted all other Rider options without picking one of the shows I dropped.
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05-18-2014, 07:19 PM | #10639 |
Amateur Procrastinator
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OF the two movies that Decade has, the first one is pretty much an standalone movie, and the second one (The Movie Taisen with W) is the ending... that more or less makes no sense and barely follows the show.
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05-19-2014, 12:40 AM | #10640 |
Big Bad Wolf.
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Is his standalone movie good? What is that one called?
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