You all hyped this up, so prepare to be disappointed with my questions. Just like "Snakes on a Plane" or... Obama's presidency thus far.
- One thing I think Dragon Knight did well was spreading out the backstory and giving bits and pieces of it over time. What made you decide to do that rather than just giving it all to us as soon as soon as Kit asked Len for it, or even as soon as they met as was done in the original pilot?
- In your last interview, you said that the show was about teaching kids that there are consequences for your actions. However, this wasn't fully shown in certain cases, particularly Adam, who never seemed to get any real punishment for selling out his planet. Was there something there that never really came to fruition? For example, what happened to Adam in between telling Sarah all about what he did in "For Ventara and Earth, Part 2" and the two of them together in "A Dragon's Tale"?
- Was the decision to make the final episode a clip show planned from the beginning, or were there other plans that were scrapped for budget reasons? And if it were a budgetary concern, was the decison to mindwipe the Earth riders and put them back to where they were before the war a part of that? I ask because it seemed to disappoint some people that the other riders were mentioned off in a few lines, especially Chris, who seemed to had become a big part of the characters' lives for the episodes he was in, even going as far as Kit avenging his venting, but it's heavily implied that Chris doesn't even remember Kit and Len exist.
It also seemed like the coda of "For Ventara and Earth, Part 2" were setting up the finale to show the riders getting the transporters and taking them to Karsh.
- In your last interview, you also made it clear that this show would be an action drama rather than an action comedy. Naturally, Ryuki doesn't really lend itself to a wacky sitcom, but in a time where live-action children's shows are almost ENTIRELY wacky sitcoms, do you feel the more serious nature of the show was one of the reasons the show never got off the ground in the ratings?
If you were given the opportunity to do another Kamen Rider (or any tokusatsu) adaptation, would you skew it more comedic to better fit in with the current kidvids on the air today?
- Naturally, I don't expect you to have a full series bible for any of these, but what were some of the other backstory ideas that you and the Wangs came up with before going with the one we saw on the show?
- I've noticed a few people feeling that the Ventaran riders Chance, Price, and Hunt, were not as well-defined as their Earth counterparts. How much more was there to their characters, and how much just didn't show up on screen?
That's all I got for now.
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