Kamen Rider Amazons Talkback

[Dr Kain]

Finished the first season today. It was absolutely fantastic, though Amazon's subtitles suck ass when they are shown infront of a white background. There were times when the subs blended into the background, rendering them unreadable. Anyway, I got a lot of Agito and Kuuga feels from the show, which is great. I really hope it doesn't take Amazon another year to give us the second season as that would suck.

 

[Dr Kain]

Jesus, I know people told me that Amazons' second season was pretty bad, but what they didn't tell me is that it is utterly boring. It's so boring that even Iron Fist would be like, "DAMN!"

What the hell happened? First off, when the hell did they suck out the color Zack Snyder style while inserting lens flares Abrams galore? Secondly, there is no chemistry with the new cast. I don't feel like they are a team as half of the time they're just sitting in a room looking bored and the actors talk as if they were bored out of their minds. The thing that made the team from the first season great was there was a sense of comaraderie between the cast. None of that is present here.

Then there is the new kid's sudden interest in necrophilia. Like seriously? Does he really want to crack open a cold one that badly? Or he is just hoping for maximum shrinkage below his belt? Nevertheless, so far he is as interesting as wallpaper. He has no sense of personality, no individuality, and all he does is mope about. Then we have Banjou's actor, who serves no purpose whatsoever. Not to mention he and his friends are utterly unlikable. Then again, NO ONE in this show is likable so far. Everything is as monotonous as its color scheme.

What happened between the two seasons? At first, I was glad to finally get to see the second season since the first ended without completing its story. Now, I'm wishing there was no second season because it doesn't even feel like it is even trying to conclude the unfinished story. It seems to have started a whole new plot without explaining jack **** to the audience. Add on top horrible editing, unremarkable, misplaced music, and you have yourself a pile of ****.

This is going to be tough to get through the remaining 10 episodes I have to watch.

 

[Dr Kain]

We watched 4-7 last night and while things got a little better, it was still beyond boring. The first episode that featured the 20 minute date between the living dead girl and the dude who wants to crack open a cold one was so friggin terrible. The next episode was probably the best because it focused more on the characters from the first season over the new guys who are not even remotely interesting. Hell, the leader of the new team sits around 90% of the time looking bored. How is that exciting?

Episode 6 was more of the same, but at least the Rose dude was cool. As for the last episode we watched, I don't get how necro kid is Jin's son as Jin is way too young to have a 20 year old son. He's either got to be adopted or a test tube baby.

 

[scikaiju]

I'm pretty sire his growth was implied to be accelerated due to Jin's Amazon cells. I haven't watched it in a while so don't qoute me on that.

 

[Dr Kain]

I'm pretty sire his growth was implied to be accelerated due to Jin's Amazon cells. I haven't watched it in a while so don't qoute me on that.

I haven't gotten that far yet then.

 

[scikaiju]

I haven't gotten that far yet then.

Oops sorry.

 

[Toku Prime]

I remember reading that the production team initially wanted to create a second more adult-orientated Rider show that was maybe set in the same universe but otherwise completely unrelated to the first season. The people upstairs told them they had to make a sequel. So you end up with Amazons s2, where the cast of the first season are relegated to the third or fourth most important story line.

The crazy thing to me is that the leader of the new exterminator team is so bad, yet in real life the actor is the brother of the actor who played Ankh in OOO. Clearly charisma isn't genetic. Also, there's a Sentai alumni (I won't say who in case Dr Kain hasn't got to it yet) who has a minor role who could have done a better job of being the exterminator leader with their eyes shut. Ah well.

 

[Dr Kain]

We finished the second season tonight and what a crock of **** it was. I'm sorry, but I didn't think it got all that much better at all. The eighth episode was horribly edited together and tried to cram way too much information into such a small timeframe.

The ninth episode pretty much killed off like a million characters and I didn't feel a single bit of sadness for any of them as they were all useless anyway. Although, it's a nice social commentary on the Japanese retirement system as even when the dude with the glasses gets ripped apart, he's still working. I guess he's only a part-time employee now. Though, I hate half days personally, so that sucks for him. :-D

I feel like the rest of the show was an allegory for the fandom's feelings on Chiharu. That dude sucked and the show writers clearly knew it as they were handing him his ass at every second possible. Good riddance as he was a lackluster character from start to finish and so utterly unlikable. I get what they were trying to do with him, but they failed on so many levels thanks to his poor acting, uninteresting writing, and just generic all around. The necrophilia stuff was some pointless too. Of course, the part that pissed me off the most is that they spent all that time on this waste of skin and they didn't even bother showing his final battle. What a god damn fucking let down that was. There was no payoff to him at all.

I also didn't understand Mamoru this season either. I had no idea whose side he was supposed to be on nor what the hell his purpose was. It seemed like they just cleared up that plot with a McGuffin weapon because Toei didn't even know what to do with it.

Nanaha being the villain was also dumb.

Finally, my last complaint is not on the show itself, but Amazon. They didn't subtitle the post-credit scene with Tachibana. -_- I got the gyst of what was being said with my basic knowledge, but what the hell did they not sub it?

God I hope the movie rectifies all of the garbage writing from this season, but the fact that I can clearly see why Zi-O is a piece of **** series given its done by the same dude as this one.

 

[Toku Prime]

I have yet to see it but I heard that Chihiro is in the film, so I wonder if his final battle is featured in that? But yeah, as I've mentioned a few times, the overgrown five year old and the zombie girl really don't work as a "tragic romance".

 

[Dr Kain]

Not just that, but none of the characters were remotely interesting, the Season 1 characters felt like they were thrown in for fanservice, but most of all, the show was just flat out boring. It tried to take itself way too seriously without ever allowing a moment of fun to be involved. Oh, they also forgot to put color into it as everything was sucked out of it like a Zack Snyder film.