Kamen Rider Drive Episode 20-"How long Kyu Saijo has been a Roidmude"
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TheLastBlade
Lurker
This was actually the best episode of Drive since episode 11.... Deadheat is still ugly, though.
lazycoconut
I liked him when he wasn't a god
It's pretty blatant, isn't it, but even if Brain made an OTT confession of love with flowers and sonnets people would still deny it because "OMG they can't be GAY." Never mind that this is a show that established in the first episode that Roidmudes have no gender ...
Yoona
Member
Well, lack of gender aside it wouldn't be the first time Kamen Rider has had a canonically gay character. It was already a running joke among my friends that Brain was acting like a jealous girlfriend, we just didn't know if it was intended to look like that.
NeonZ
Active Member
She wasn't "created" to do anything. Remember, the Roidmudes get their specific forms and names from self-evolution. She's known as medic due to her ability, but it doesn't mean her entire personality needs to be one dimensionally tied to that concept.
lazycoconut
I liked him when he wasn't a god
She's almost a mirror of Chase at this stage; Chase is meant to destroy, but he cares for humans and saved Kiriko's life. Medic is meant to nurture and heal, but she wants to eliminate basically all the other Roidmudes save for Heart and herself. She also has similarities to Gou, who just like her is childlike, brash, cocky, and unstable - there's enough foreshadowing to indicate he's being set up to snap and do something "bad", just like she's planning to betray all the other Roidmudes.
That's true, but he is the first one who's not stereotypically campy, and while his jealousy is played for laughs the audience isn't expected to laugh at the very idea that he thinks he stands a chance with Heart (compare that to how Luna, Pierre, Manager were portrayed.) I wonder if they feel more free to do that because the characters are not human, so Brain doesn't have to fit a certain "image"
Painted_Outlaw
The new Tendou Souji
Great Leader, Century King, Overlord of Darkness?
I wouldn't exactly say "never", here.
kuroihikari
Member
Fair enough. My bad for using an absolute.
Artisan
Blade Adept
I was so used to Medic being a blank slate of nothing that I was actually momentarily shocked when she was actually given the time to be fleshed out with her personal motivation and philosophy. Seemingly benevolent nurturer turns out to be a psychopathic, homicidal nurse isn't the most groundbreaking twist in a writer's repertoire, but hey, it's still a decent and meaty twist, and I will happily take anything if it means Sanjo can supply the character with some actual substance that has been lacking with her since her debut at Christmas.
Still, perhaps this could have been better handled. This is certain to go against what Heart desires for the Roidmudes as a whole, though it makes little sense that she would be willing to openly execute stray numbers like this without some manner of inconspicuousness and subterfuge to mask her actions. All it would take would be for one of her colleagues to use their eyes and bombard her with loud questions. With this in mind, one wonders why she even bothered to heal the Clint Eastwood Roidmude. Surely he wasn't one of the chosen Roidmudes. Was Heart watching at the time and it was a public display of her power to solidify Heart's trust and faith in her? Why isn't Heart watching right now? Is he still too busy in med bay? If she's currently fine with non-defective Roidmudes, why bother needlessly using her two reapers as shields when she could have easily whipped out her Roidmude form? It might have made more sense if they had hesitated further than they did to the point that they openly began to defy Medic's direct commands, thus necessitating their executions there and then.
I really must question the pacing of new form debuts, however. It only feels like a fortnight ago when Deadheat was introduced with the very throwaway introduction of "oh, by the way, here is this toy car that has never been mentioned before. It's kind of important. It just needs tuning and all that" and next week we're already getting Type Formula? Has there even been any buildup for this new form, aside from Shin hardening his heart, or are we just going to wander into another case of "oh hey Shin, here's ANOTHER new toy car that's kind of important". There doesn't seem to be much urgency and immediacy necessary to warrant another power-up this soon. The script feels heavily enslaved by Bandai's schedule, rather than organically building up the gravitas and the set-up that calls for a new power-up in the following episode.
Still, perhaps this could have been better handled. This is certain to go against what Heart desires for the Roidmudes as a whole, though it makes little sense that she would be willing to openly execute stray numbers like this without some manner of inconspicuousness and subterfuge to mask her actions. All it would take would be for one of her colleagues to use their eyes and bombard her with loud questions. With this in mind, one wonders why she even bothered to heal the Clint Eastwood Roidmude. Surely he wasn't one of the chosen Roidmudes. Was Heart watching at the time and it was a public display of her power to solidify Heart's trust and faith in her? Why isn't Heart watching right now? Is he still too busy in med bay? If she's currently fine with non-defective Roidmudes, why bother needlessly using her two reapers as shields when she could have easily whipped out her Roidmude form? It might have made more sense if they had hesitated further than they did to the point that they openly began to defy Medic's direct commands, thus necessitating their executions there and then.
I really must question the pacing of new form debuts, however. It only feels like a fortnight ago when Deadheat was introduced with the very throwaway introduction of "oh, by the way, here is this toy car that has never been mentioned before. It's kind of important. It just needs tuning and all that" and next week we're already getting Type Formula? Has there even been any buildup for this new form, aside from Shin hardening his heart, or are we just going to wander into another case of "oh hey Shin, here's ANOTHER new toy car that's kind of important". There doesn't seem to be much urgency and immediacy necessary to warrant another power-up this soon. The script feels heavily enslaved by Bandai's schedule, rather than organically building up the gravitas and the set-up that calls for a new power-up in the following episode.
TheLastBlade
Lurker
Yeah... The pacing has been very slow. Mach marked the beginning of really mediocre episodes
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