PowerPhantom245
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The new director is great. They haven't changed the writers yet.
I do admit that movie had slight improvement, but it still sucked.
Two words: TRY HARDER
The new director is great. They haven't changed the writers yet.
What is condescending is imagining that people will be attached to completely unrelated shows just due to a shared brand. It helps with initial visibility, but that's it.
But it is. V3 wasn't some random character dropped in for a special episode, it was established from much earlier in the series that it was all the same world, and then they even throw in V3 not only during the special episode all about the past Riders, but also during X's power up episode and the final arc. There wasn't this attitude that V3's presence was a crossover gimmick that had to be separated from other elements of the show.
Nowadays, we get something like Wizard's two final episodes that had nothing to do with the rest of the series. The fact that they had to move the crossover to that point, to avoid it from having any influence in Wizard's main story, just shows how differently they're treated.
Of course, back in the Showa era, there was this idea that multiple heroes reduced the value of the titular hero, which is why the number of actual crossovers is low and some shows didn't even have them (like Super-1, where they just let the show lose its timeslot and afterwards get canceled, in spite of throwing crossovers to save Skyrider just one year before that - Also, even though they had Tani from Skyrider as a supporting character, he didn't even mention anything about the previous series aside from calling Super-1 by "Kamen Rider", and might as well have been a new character).
Going back to the Avengers comparison, I don't see how you can deny that the model worked. There's no way that a standalone Avengers movie would have been the biggest super hero movie ever otherwise. Even in Japan, although it wasn't the biggest ever, it was much bigger than any of the standalone Marvel Studios movies, something that Toei just isn't able to replicate with their own crossovers (even though Toei's standalone movies beat quite a few of Marvel's there), where we've seen the opposite in fact at least once (with SHTZ, where throwing smaller series like Gavan and several Sentai to just Wizard and some cameos for the Rider side just resulted in a movie with a smaller box office than even Wizard's standalone movie).
Which I will again point out, is not something that bringing a continuity would fix, because the problem goes way deeper than mere worldbuilding but simply the general lack of any real creative vision behind new Rider shows.
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But that's not my focus at all. I'm bringing up Foundation X because it has been the only attempt at continuous world building so far in the recent years. If there were something else, I'd mention it too. It's not about the organization itself, but its role.
Yeah, that's what I think too. I feel that for the execs, the best idea of a tie-up film is to see who can beat who. If I were a kid who was a Rider fan I'd probably really want to watch a movie where we can see which Rider defeats which, no holds-barred, screw the story. Unfortunately the Rider films have failed to even do that. Just leaving us with theme fights and whatnot.
That sounds terribly condescending to fans of Kamen Rider, if you mean to imply that the only reason people would stick with it is a continuity.
Well, aside from some minor elements, Guardians did have Thanos, which was directly leading from Avengers.
To be fair, that likely came just from people disliking the model of the homage episodes themselves. They had boosts for the Magiranger and Dekaranger episodes, which have some of Gokaiger's biggest numbers. It was after those two that the homage episodes performed seemingly randomly, following the weekly floating of the ratings, often with lower ratings than the previous week like you say there. Besides, this also ties into what I've been saying. The interest in the crossover gimmick itself, without world building alongside it, seems to be limited and have diminishing returns. But, when those crossovers are made relevant, you can create a self sustaining loop.
I'll be really surprised if one day Shin actually gets a relevant role in these crossovers movies... Even J only seems to get scenes because "giant".
The new director is great. They haven't changed the writers yet.
Good then, because I never said anything like that. Saying that people care about continuity isn't the same as saying that people only care about continuity at all. The Rider franchise has had decreasing ratings and box office for a few years now, and in spite of the increasingly large focus on toys, hasn't been able to reach its peak there again either. That's a fact. It's obvious that the current format has its limitations, and what I'm talking about wouldn't really destroy this format at all, just complement it.
I do admit that movie had slight improvement, but it still sucked.
Two words: TRY HARDER