I don't think that's really the issue, the actual problem is that the movie does very little with them. Heisei Generations Forever gives many of them lines (recycled quotes, but it's still great to give them presence), has several of them rescuing people, has individual action sequences for most of them, or unique combo attacks. There's the bike/vehicle group scene and then a sequence where they all individually use their finishers one by one.I liked Over-Quartzer even if the Heisei Riders coming together felt a bit weak so soon after the amazing Heisei Forever did the exact same deal.
If you just mean the lack of an overall battlefield shot, there's a simple reason for that... There was only one suit for all variations of the duck monsters in this episode. The only times they even appear together were when one of them was using the invisible effect and a side shot where you can't even see their feet on the ground (since that's where digital composition would be most obvious). Even when two of them attacked Slash at once, they were always in completely separate cuts. In the official blog, they also had separate pictures for each one rather than a single group shot. Sakamoto had to avoid an actual battlefield shot and the camera was always focused on specific characters since any wide location shot would expose how there was actually only one duck suit.
Still, like I said, his Rider group battles always break down into solo fights, this just meant no initial establishing shots.
Also I was surprised how many Wonder Ride books the toyline has now, though I doubt any of them will appear.
I don't think the Swordriver has been hacked yet has it? And they're releasing a new one with new sounds.
Um like I feel like this is a new thing with the base Driver getting an upgrade version like this?
I mean it happens down the line with special collections (like the CSM belts) but when the show is airing seems strange. Usually they have a whole bunch of recorded lines for anything planned, and anything additional will either use stock phrases, or additional devices themselves have their own sounds.
Or that's my understanding.
Also as someone pointed out elsewhere: why was there a whole plotpoint of finding Buster's kid when they apparently have books that can show you wherever a Megid is?
There wasn't any Megid around Busters' kid, which is how Mei even got away with making a signal.
Oh yeah, that's another thing that is great about Kira is that they do get character centric episodes where they learn or do stuff that only the character can do.
How many of those Ryusoulger had? I don't remember and I watched the whole thing. It was very much fighting the monster of the week and that's it. And boy did it squandered Nada.
Probably the most accurate description of the show and the reason I cannot grasp people saying "oh last episode was great". No, episodes have been a bit better than the first two, but doesn't mean they have been good, much less great.
- "It's not funny or boring, it's not much of anything. Even though a lot happens in a 30-minute episode, it feels empty."
Yeah it explains more about Slash's past apparently.PSA: Gemn Corp subbed the first episode of the Saber spin off that supposedly clears up some stuff.
Same honestlyI am enjoying Saber, but I agree with the criticism found in this article about Japanese viewers comenting about the show on social networks:
(Like yeah of course it is, but it's suppoused to not feel too much like that)
- "It's hard to support the show because you don't really get to know any characters. The content goes on and on with shallow content. I feel like I'm watching a 30-minute toy commercial."
I'm finally up to date with Kira, and yeah, it's super good.
- "It's not funny or boring, it's not much of anything. Even though a lot happens in a 30-minute episode, it feels empty."
It's a 8.5 episode that explains a bit about Buster, Slash and the incident 15 years ago.Yeah it explains more about Slash's past apparently.
I'm guessing this might be the cast making up for how little time they've had due to TOYS.
I don't think president Hiden even realized that Humagears could go through singularity at that point. He valued them, but not as people.Kamen Rider always flubs when it tries to do the "both sides need to get along" when we have Grandpa Hiden going "haha fuck you" when his Humagear secretary questions if he'll get paid, but the former is shown to be otherwise a great, employee-focused businessman.
Early in the show Humagears getting hacked was basically death. Before they came up with Humagear keys there was no way to restore them (Aruto sent identical copies to replace them, but several times they show they'd need to learn everything again).Also Aruto smiling as triumphant music plays and we see the human rebel army headshotting Humagear who seemed to have been forced against their will to go crazy in this instance. Definitely got in the way of the message...
Also I don't get why Zi-O and Zero-One randomly fought at the end?
Okay movie I guess. Kind of hard to live up to the IMO high bar Hesei Generations Forever left, though I guess it was going for a smaller scale conflict between just two Riders and not a bit crossover. Do wish we saw some other cameos, like since they went back to 2007 would've been cool to have seen one of the Riders from that era.
In relatedr news the Movie Rider for Saber looks cool... apparently will be in the show too?
Oh I realize those are probably meant to be silverfish crawling out of his face, what the Saber mooks are based on since they live in old books and such.
Guess he's like a living corpse or something.
This episode of Saber was fun... definitely seems we're setting up for a Rider conflict down the line. Kind of want to see what Southern Base has in their roster.
The action was good and flo youwed pretty well but I burst out laughing when Calibur got thrown in the air and was flung around by an explosion in the air.
I realized I'm kind of confused by who knows what. I thought Touma already knew Kento's dad was Calibur (or, well, who we thought was Calibur).
We know Kento is Touma's childhood friend and he also seems to know the flashback girl, but it actually hasn't been stated that he's the flashback boy in those scenes with the girl, even though everything else we know would point to that.I thought they were keeping that from Touma so that he wouldn't be concerned.
I'm confused (haven't seen the latest episode though) about the three kids. Touma remembered about the girl but I thought we knew the boy was Kento, or is that not the case?