I'll admit, bringing the Showa Riders to the show that was celebrating the last 10 years is still a big WTF for me.
They really did have no clue what to do after Hibiki's World >_>
See? You're being willfully myopic
All you're focusing on is how the show isn't the show you wanted Toei to make, not actual production flaws of the show Toei did make.
To say it's dreck you'd need to be proving the show was poor on all fronts and it just wasn't. The writing was weak but that's only one aspect of the series.
The casting was good across the board
the direction and suit acting was excellent
the fights were well-choreographed
the production values were quite good save for a too-old suit here and there, the pace was quick and didn't give you time to get bored.
It wasn't the best action show, no, but you cannot validly argue it's dreck without arguing against the entire genre. Decade was a decent if flawed effort.
What direction??! The show had no direction since day 1. "Uuuhhhh he has to go to all the Worlds to save them".
Arguing with Black Fang is pointless. He doesn't like something due to one reason or another (in Decade's case, its base concept) and so won't acknowledge anything good that might have been done by it.
All of that said, I know not every episode can be plot-centric but I think the later episodes can be used better to explain more things.
Certainly there are things I liked (as I have described in the past if you cared to pay attention), but they really mean little in the big picture.
They don't change the fact that this was a disaster of a show.
But isn't Den-O practically the only one who fits perfectly within the show's canon? :sly:
Decade is the second to actually do this. All I was saying I really don't feel the series can be called done. Most rider series don't end until one full year is done. Sure us English speaking fans will have to wait a long while before seeing it all come together. Had we had access to everything within the same time span I bet you everyone would have reacted differently.
Just because they tried something new with this series we can't say the whole series is bad. They actually did something quiet refreshing and it's obvious this true finale will be better then most due to the higher budget. Of course I guess you can say the series was a waste of time or w/e you wish but it does feel unfair if the whole thing was planned to be told with a series + two movies.