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I'm about a dozen episodes into OOO. I can't get enough of Ankh. So far I've liked the first quarter or so of the show a lot more than I liked the first quarter or so of W. The quality is a lot more consistent. E: Oh my god Ankh's little hissy fit in episode 13. He is too much. 
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jonjonaug posted:I'm about a dozen episodes into OOO. I can't get enough of Ankh. So far I've liked the first quarter or so of the show a lot more than I liked the first quarter or so of W. The quality is a lot more consistent.
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May 3, 2014 10:47
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jonjonaug posted:I'm about a dozen episodes into OOO. I can't get enough of Ankh. So far I've liked the first quarter or so of the show a lot more than I liked the first quarter or so of W. The quality is a lot more consistent. Out of curiosity, is Ankh played by the same actor that played Long in Gekiranger?
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May 3, 2014 14:15
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Larryb posted:Out of curiosity, is Ankh played by the same actor that played Long in Gekiranger? Nope, but said actor plays a recurring character in KRWizard.
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May 3, 2014 15:05
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And like all things in Wizard his character starts off very promising and then rolls over and goes to sleep and the audience is left going...so...do we just keep watching then (no)
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May 3, 2014 15:20
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Rei_ posted:And like all things in Wizard his character starts off very promising and then rolls over and goes to sleep and the audience is left going...so...do we just keep watching then (no) I'm about a dozen episodes into Wizard at the moment and while it's not the best Rider series I've seen so far, it doesn't seem that bad either. At what point do things start going off the rails?
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May 3, 2014 16:37
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Larryb posted:I'm about a dozen episodes into Wizard at the moment and while it's not the best Rider series I've seen so far, it doesn't seem that bad either. At what point do things start going off the rails? I'm not sure if there's a specific point, just a tremendous length of episodes that grind on while accomplishing very little very slowly. Flameingblack posted:Most people who fall in love with OOOs fall in love with the side cast (Ankh, Date, ect). It's a really good show, but W is more consistent (Having less bad/slow episodes overall) but Gaim is taking it over as the undisputed king of Hesei era so far. I can't compare W and Gaim. They are good in very different ways.
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Larryb posted:I'm about a dozen episodes into Wizard at the moment and while it's not the best Rider series I've seen so far, it doesn't seem that bad either. At what point do things start going off the rails? It doesn't go off the rails, per se. It stays on its rails and goes at about 1/4 of the speed limit.
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May 3, 2014 16:59
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Larryb posted:I'm about a dozen episodes into Wizard at the moment and while it's not the best Rider series I've seen so far, it doesn't seem that bad either. At what point do things start going off the rails? It never really goes entirely off the rails, which is the problem. It is bog standard from start to finish with no real twists (the plot changes but only in the ways you would expect it to, post-Decade) and drags on. The two parter format does the show no favors either and the side cast sort of falls away even more than they were at the start of things.
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May 3, 2014 17:38
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Gonna watch Go-Busters again. Hopefully I'll have a total of how many glasses were tossed. Also keeping track of how many cans J went through.
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Dr Tran posted:Gonna watch Go-Busters again. Hopefully I'll have a total of how many glasses were tossed. Also keeping track of how many cans J went through. I seem to remember glasses tossing going away at some point...which is sad. It was a great trope.
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May 3, 2014 21:09
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Dr Tran posted:Gonna watch Go-Busters again. Hopefully I'll have a total of how many glasses were tossed. Also keeping track of how many cans J went through. They did the glasses thing at first, but they stopped after about 5 episodes in. No idea why.
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Ignis posted:So if you haven't watched this week's episode of Garo, make sure to do so right now.
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This ep was directed by Yudai Yamaguchi, the director for the Cromartie Live Action movie, who's very familiar with the Horror genre. Also watch out for a special cameo of Keita Amemiya, creator of Garo.
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So far, I've found Garo - Flower of Makai to be more watchable than the third season. I really like the direction they're taking with having someone with Raiga's demeanor starring.
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OK so I just marathoned episodes 13 to 42 of OOO. I think I like this show a lot more than I liked W. From episode 30 onward the quality has been almost as great as everything after Shadow Moon's resurrection in Kamen Rider Black. If it weren't for the way it occasionally still talks down to the audience and the two part structure being super grating (even if OOO is better about it than W there's still a lot of "oh no he got away" and characters just wandering off without anyone attempting to stop them) I would be ranking this above Black and might even have to consider it ranking above Gaim if Gaim maintains its level of quality through to the end. Gotou's arc in particular has been fairly brilliant. Not letting him transform into Birth until late in the series was a genius move.
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I think you and I are the only ones here who like OOO this much. It's so good. e: I guess there are three MuskOOOteers mikeycp fucked around with this message at 11:06 on May 4, 2014 |
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May 4, 2014 10:32
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mikeycp posted:I think you and I are the only ones here who like OOO this much. 
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mikeycp posted:I think you and I are the only ones here who like OOO this much.
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W will always be my favorite because of its incredibly strong cast, awesome detective style, and a story I really liked. OOO's is far from bad though! It is a -very- close second in my opinion. It does have a sort of slow middle and Eiji, while I love him now, isn't nearly as strong a main as Shotaro or Gentaro through some of the early bits. But the side cast, Ankh and Date in particular, shine so much it's hard to care, and Eiji absolutely comes into his own by the end, in my opinion. Plus the villains, while not quite The Museum, are awesome and I like the scrambling for the medals, which I kind of hoped might happen in Gaim too with its ending splashes of Lockseeds, but that's more of a running inventory apparently.
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OOO was great. Really good cast, pretty likable villains, an interesting subversion of the usual "desire is evil" thing, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, a deceptively deep plot, and other stuff. The ending only gets even better. My main problem with OOO, that stops me from putting it above W on my list, is that incredibly slow middle part. That said, it's what I expect from a Kobayashi series. Near-perfect beginnings and endings, with a middle part that I would skip in a rewatch.
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I'll admit, I didn't like OOO's. I thought it was too slow and that it kind of disappeared up its own rear end somewhere in the middle of the show, and dropped a LOT of plot threads, but considering the earthquake that happened in the middle of it, it's forgivable. It also had some of the best characters in any series so far, even to this day I still wish that they'd found a way to keep Cake-boss on board, it would have made Wizard that much better. Still, OOOs wasn't terrible! It was just 'ok', and when taken with W and Fourze, it just kind of disappeared into the background. Wizard was still awful though, it had nothing to save it like OOOs did, it was just bleh all the way through. Fortunately, Gaim brings things back up to par, and beyond.
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jonjonaug posted:Gotou's arc in particular has been fairly brilliant. Not letting him transform into Birth until late in the series was a genius move.  OOO is probably my favorite series, just edging out W; One thing I really enjoyed is the amount of thought the writer put into the mechanics behind Greeeds. Each one creates monsters in a different way (And Maki's method fits him perfectly), Greeds power up with more medals to explain away power creep, the animal fusions from mixing medals. The series also has my favorite suit designs out of everything I've watched. All the combo suits look great. Still, I wouldn't recommend it as a first watch to acquaintances. The strength of the show, as everyone has already mentioned, is in the main cast. The monsters on the other hand tend to be footnotes at times and just cause trouble for the sake of causing trouble, and I think W handles that aspect better with actual people as monsters of the week. Also, Gaia Memories are basically Devil Fruits and as a power set is more interesting than "Oh, another animal this week?" Can Of Worms fucked around with this message at 19:05 on May 4, 2014 |
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OOOs was actually the first Kamen Rider I ever watched, so I'm pretty inclined to like it regardless. It was what was airing when I decided to get into Gokaiger, so I thought I'd give Kamen Rider a shot as well. Since I wasn't familiar with the series conventions at the time, I wasn't quite sure how to approach it, but that dynamic between Eiji and Ankh is probably what kept me watching. It kept things interesting since it wasn't such a simple matter of hero beats up monsters when people like Ankh and Cakeboss were involved, and then there some pretty good role-reversals going on in the final arcs, as well as the different spin on the value of greed. It probably isn't ideal for newcomers, but it was a pretty solid series. I can't really compare it to Double yet since I've barely started on that.
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Well, to retell the story again, OOO was my first series too and I loved it. I believe that W was my second "non-weekly" series (came in right at the end of OOO) and Wizard was the first that I watched as it aired. I still think that OOO at its best (Anhk being petulant) is probably the best Kamen Rider I've seen even if I can admit that W had a higher quality throughout. I suppose the one area I disagree with the thread's consensus is that I hated OOO's final arc. I didn't see the need to bring back Gamel and whats her name, which I thought spoiled the midseason fighting between Uva and Kagali. Also Putotyrano was a pretty obvious "lets wrap this poo poo up" move and I disliked it intensely because of that. W's ending arc was much better on the whole, even if I disliked the last half episode.
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Apparently life problems preventing booze sentai from getting released. Imma gonna have a drink anyway.
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FINALLY got my hands on an EngineOh for a decent price. Now begins the real hunt.
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I'd watch a Maki/Date spin-off in a heartbeat. OOOs may be easier to binge watch. My wife likes it more than W and didn't find it slow. That may be because she binged watched OOOs whereas I watched it week to week.
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I've found most of the recent Rider shows much easier to binge watch. I usually stop trying to keep current around the mid 20's when the novelty of a new Rider has worn off and I'm reminded of how frustrating the two episode structure is. Getting rid of that is one of the things that I love about Gaim. Not only am I watching the subs as soon as they come out but I'm watching the livestream because I need to know what happens next.
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So ToQ 11 is up. So the Dark emperor isn't in a suit or even an elaborate getup. It's positively normal for Toku or Sentai standards  . Also, Grita's on her lonesome now. I thought it was weird that they didn't show her getting on a Shadowliner, but here we are. And so our dainty huge monsterchild is off on her own adventure in the big scary world of light.For a moment during the episode I was at a loss for where this show was headed and whether we were still on the rails for our standard destination of colorful Sentai antics or hitting a junction where we're on a darker more sinister line. Or completely running off the rails for an eventual crash and burn into a glorious spectacle.
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Man, I like Zed already. I wonder where they're going with him though, since his way of thinking is an absolute opposite to the Shadows, and is apparently as good as suicidal for him. Still, he's so drat weird, I love him. While I know it's not likely to happen, I hope that he'll get his wish for shining down the road, switching sides and becoming ToQ-0. He'll most likely just die though, but hey, first villain in ToQger I actually give a drat about. Schwarz almost managed it, but Zed is the first one that fully did it, and in one ep no less. Also, Zed? 
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Yeah, I'm really liking what they're starting to do with the Emperor. One of my big complaints about ToQger so far is that the villians, while having bitchin' designs, just aren't as engaging as the Deboss Legion.
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The Deboss Legion and Enter are a hard act to follow though, most villains are closer to sitting and waiting, like the Zangyack Empire and Machine Empire Baranoia.
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Blaze Dragon posted:Man, I like Zed already. I wonder where they're going with him though, since his way of thinking is an absolute opposite to the Shadows, and is apparently as good as suicidal for him. Still, he's so drat weird, I love him. "Zed" means "Z" to anyone learned an English other than American English. Also, this guy's an Emperor. Not a "Lord"
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Double Post whatever. So the /m/ thread had one of the Caucasian extras active and posting as they talked about what they did and how the crew is behind the scenes. It's actually kinda cool to hear some of that stuff.  Sailor Otaku posted:It's me, yes. It's so weird to see myself on TV. After... what... decades of watching the show, to see myself here is like some kind of out of body experience.   Sailor Otaku posted:[Right] side of the screen is Shinken Brown and a friend of his. quote:We didn't know anything about the actual script content and details as to the storyline were kept secret, I guess to stop people like me and Tom from leaking story details. They referred to Z in the stage directions as "hen na otoko" -- "the strange guy". quote:The episode was filmed on March 18. As I understand it, most every episode is filmed about two to three months before airing. In the recent episode of Gaim where Kouta tells Mai about Yuuya, it's filmed at night, and if you look in the background you can see an illuminated Christmas tree.  quote:By the way, you can see me at the very top of this shot giving the thumbs up, though the motion of this coaster makes me look like I watched the evil video from the Ring. This was a pretty intense coaster, by the way. It banks almost 90 degrees. Oh, and you know how they have those photos they take of you on the ride you can buy afterwards? The pictures of the cast were the FUNNIEST THING EVER. Mio was making this :V hurrr face, and Tokatti was leaning forward with his eyes shut tight. They wouldn't let any of us buy the pictures, and they wouldn't let us photo the little preview screens either with our cel phone cameras.
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What I feel right now is an intense jealousy. That is so cool though! If there's one thing I love about Sentai and Riders it's the dedication these actors have to their roles and their fans. It's the best thing.
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I stopped watching ToQger because I was getting bored. The last episode I watched was the one after the Gaim crossover (I think I'm two or three episodes behind), did the show improve?
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