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raden238
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Just got around watching the final episode and wow this was not satisfying.
- Kamen Rider Tsukuyomi did absolutely nothing! The whole "pretending to be evil, in order to secretly foil the plans of the bad guy" is so old. It already got old during Decade and that was a decade ago. The stabbing scene could have easily been her using Zi-O's sword or something. The drama was so forced and unnecessary, it makes me wonder if its filler.
- Sougo's Uncle fixing the all the ridewatches. I will give them credit, I did not notice that Uncle worked in a clock repair shop and the "ride watches" were "watches", so of course he could have fixed them! This is just a classic toku "who gives a flying f*k" scene, that makes no sense.
- Geiz and Tsukuyomi dying, only to be brought back along with Heure and Ora in a different universe/timeline, good job Toei, haven't seen this before.
- Sougo transforming into Ohma Zi-O was badass. Easily the best part of the episode but the show.
- Grand Zi-O's ability to summon Legend Riders from their respective time periods for attacks, when they're defeated what happens to them?
- Why was Woz Ginga affected by the Another Decade's time jacker attack? Didn't an earlier episode, clearly show that he can negate that?
- The whole resetting the timeline/universe and starting fresh has been done to death. Did they producers really like Build that much to copy it again? They don't even try to be vague with the ending either, of course Sougo will be Ohma Zi-O.
Overall, Zi-O was not a satisfying end to the Heisei Era. I admire the fact that Toei got back so many alumnus to return to reprise their roles, including having Decade and Diend being supporting characters throughout the series and even building upon their history. But the rest of the Riders, were just "hey we're back remember us?, remember this reference? good!". Gokaiger from Super Sentai did it better, it taught the team, gave them lessons and advice. But here Sougo doesn't even remember most of the stuff that he was been through. They just brush over most of arcs and it doesn't have a lasting impact. Not to mention the fact they don't even follow their own Ridewatch lore, midway into the season. The producers clearly didn't know what they wanted to do. We went from time travel to multiverse in the last 4 episodes. I admire that they wanted to redo Decade's ending and for the most part it's better. It confirms that the Riders do indeed have multiple A.R. world counterparts.
I didn't like Geiz and Tsukuyomi's characters at all. One just spends the whole time "ping ponging whether or not he wants to kill Sougo" and the other is just has this whole emotionless, indifferent personality and that did not contribute anything to the show. You have easily replaced her role in the final act, with Geiz or Woz. Black Woz's was just another "bad guy turned good" character, along the likes of Grease, Taiga and Necrom. I'm just so sick of Toei cookie cutting the same character molds every single year.
For an "end of an era"/celebration of the Heisei era, it could have been better. This was clearly a remake of Decade, but it doesn't make much improvements. The whole show was filled with plot holes that are enough to make its own thread and just overall lost a lot of steam, once they started those future rider arcs that acted as Woz's power ups. I would give the show a 6.5/10. It's better than Hibiki and Ghost, who are still my two least favorite Heisei shows.
- Kamen Rider Tsukuyomi did absolutely nothing! The whole "pretending to be evil, in order to secretly foil the plans of the bad guy" is so old. It already got old during Decade and that was a decade ago. The stabbing scene could have easily been her using Zi-O's sword or something. The drama was so forced and unnecessary, it makes me wonder if its filler.
- Sougo's Uncle fixing the all the ridewatches. I will give them credit, I did not notice that Uncle worked in a clock repair shop and the "ride watches" were "watches", so of course he could have fixed them! This is just a classic toku "who gives a flying f*k" scene, that makes no sense.
- Geiz and Tsukuyomi dying, only to be brought back along with Heure and Ora in a different universe/timeline, good job Toei, haven't seen this before.
- Sougo transforming into Ohma Zi-O was badass. Easily the best part of the episode but the show.
- Grand Zi-O's ability to summon Legend Riders from their respective time periods for attacks, when they're defeated what happens to them?
- Why was Woz Ginga affected by the Another Decade's time jacker attack? Didn't an earlier episode, clearly show that he can negate that?
- The whole resetting the timeline/universe and starting fresh has been done to death. Did they producers really like Build that much to copy it again? They don't even try to be vague with the ending either, of course Sougo will be Ohma Zi-O.
Overall, Zi-O was not a satisfying end to the Heisei Era. I admire the fact that Toei got back so many alumnus to return to reprise their roles, including having Decade and Diend being supporting characters throughout the series and even building upon their history. But the rest of the Riders, were just "hey we're back remember us?, remember this reference? good!". Gokaiger from Super Sentai did it better, it taught the team, gave them lessons and advice. But here Sougo doesn't even remember most of the stuff that he was been through. They just brush over most of arcs and it doesn't have a lasting impact. Not to mention the fact they don't even follow their own Ridewatch lore, midway into the season. The producers clearly didn't know what they wanted to do. We went from time travel to multiverse in the last 4 episodes. I admire that they wanted to redo Decade's ending and for the most part it's better. It confirms that the Riders do indeed have multiple A.R. world counterparts.
I didn't like Geiz and Tsukuyomi's characters at all. One just spends the whole time "ping ponging whether or not he wants to kill Sougo" and the other is just has this whole emotionless, indifferent personality and that did not contribute anything to the show. You have easily replaced her role in the final act, with Geiz or Woz. Black Woz's was just another "bad guy turned good" character, along the likes of Grease, Taiga and Necrom. I'm just so sick of Toei cookie cutting the same character molds every single year.
For an "end of an era"/celebration of the Heisei era, it could have been better. This was clearly a remake of Decade, but it doesn't make much improvements. The whole show was filled with plot holes that are enough to make its own thread and just overall lost a lot of steam, once they started those future rider arcs that acted as Woz's power ups. I would give the show a 6.5/10. It's better than Hibiki and Ghost, who are still my two least favorite Heisei shows.