WEBVTT 00:00:01.180 --> 00:00:03.240 Kamen Rider Resets Episode 3 might be giving 00:00:03.240 --> 00:00:05.000 us too much of a good thing. There's definitely 00:00:05.000 --> 00:00:06.299 things I liked about it, but there were some 00:00:06.299 --> 00:00:08.179 things that I didn't like and I'd like for them 00:00:08.179 --> 00:00:10.259 to change for the whole series. I doubt they're 00:00:10.259 --> 00:00:12.119 going to, so there'll be a constant complaint 00:00:12.119 --> 00:00:14.880 for me going forward. Overall, I did like the 00:00:14.880 --> 00:00:16.920 episode. I thought it was a lot of fun. I thought 00:00:16.920 --> 00:00:20.359 there were some good things going on. What we 00:00:20.359 --> 00:00:23.100 saw from Nem was a little bit interesting. What 00:00:23.100 --> 00:00:25.059 we saw from the villain's perspective was interesting. 00:00:25.559 --> 00:00:30.320 And Mr. Fujimi's resolution of his issue was... 00:00:32.269 --> 00:00:35.170 good and i like that it honestly sets him up 00:00:35.170 --> 00:00:38.189 for being very involved in things going forward 00:00:38.189 --> 00:00:41.409 and i think it affected it did that very well 00:00:41.409 --> 00:00:43.689 and set up the nightmares as a real scary threat 00:00:43.689 --> 00:00:44.969 especially because they can leak out into the 00:00:44.969 --> 00:00:47.810 world and cause damage there and it gives our 00:00:47.810 --> 00:00:52.390 hero uh baku even more necessity even higher 00:00:52.390 --> 00:00:55.969 stakes to be good at what he does and um as of 00:00:55.969 --> 00:00:58.210 right now he's the only one so he's gotta do 00:00:58.210 --> 00:01:01.670 a good job Those are my overall thoughts real 00:01:01.670 --> 00:01:04.090 quick, but getting into it fully, I have a lot 00:01:04.090 --> 00:01:06.370 more things to say. What did I find disappointing 00:01:06.370 --> 00:01:11.549 about this episode? I find the muscle effects 00:01:11.549 --> 00:01:15.629 that they do on impact excessive and dumb and 00:01:15.629 --> 00:01:17.890 silly. They're gilding the lily. They've already, 00:01:18.010 --> 00:01:19.569 I think in all three of these first episodes, 00:01:19.670 --> 00:01:22.959 they put. zets in the darkness so that his suit 00:01:22.959 --> 00:01:25.799 can light up and show off those cool light up 00:01:25.799 --> 00:01:27.379 panels which i think those are practical effects 00:01:27.379 --> 00:01:29.280 i do not think that's digital it could be done 00:01:29.280 --> 00:01:32.260 digitally afterwards but when the eyes swirl 00:01:32.260 --> 00:01:35.659 and flush as he transforms i do believe that 00:01:35.659 --> 00:01:38.799 is a digital effect but besides that the actual 00:01:38.799 --> 00:01:41.219 i would think the lights on the mask on the helmet 00:01:41.219 --> 00:01:43.519 as well as all over the suit are all practical 00:01:43.519 --> 00:01:45.519 and they look fantastic honestly they really 00:01:45.519 --> 00:01:48.099 do look good uh gives me a five i think i've 00:01:48.099 --> 00:01:50.480 said that before so i won't say it again hopefully 00:01:50.480 --> 00:01:53.540 i'll remember not to say it again um but the 00:01:53.540 --> 00:01:56.840 and the suit design is really good it's got the 00:01:56.840 --> 00:01:59.980 it's it's very slick it has the big sculpted 00:01:59.980 --> 00:02:01.859 muscles in it which i think look great i think 00:02:01.859 --> 00:02:06.400 turning turning the the lung or the um you know 00:02:06.400 --> 00:02:09.740 armor from the chest and abdomen area of the 00:02:09.740 --> 00:02:12.900 original comrader into a i don't remember it 00:02:12.900 --> 00:02:15.099 was just in shin comrader they called it uh the 00:02:15.099 --> 00:02:17.680 lung like the prana lung or whatever or if that's 00:02:17.680 --> 00:02:20.849 um in the original as well i know this i know 00:02:20.849 --> 00:02:23.069 the o -ring is on the forehead his mouth is the 00:02:23.069 --> 00:02:25.969 crusher um i know some details like that and 00:02:25.969 --> 00:02:30.189 the belt is called the typhoon and the uh bike 00:02:30.189 --> 00:02:31.650 is the cyclone like i know some of those things 00:02:31.650 --> 00:02:33.610 but i just don't remember if there's a particular 00:02:33.610 --> 00:02:37.490 name for the armor chest pieces that he has on 00:02:37.490 --> 00:02:43.300 his torso anyway um but uh here They've turned 00:02:43.300 --> 00:02:45.319 into awesome looking apps. Like, I mean, it looks, 00:02:45.319 --> 00:02:46.699 it looks great. It looks very muscular, very 00:02:46.699 --> 00:02:49.759 Western superhero, very slick, very modern. And 00:02:49.759 --> 00:02:52.240 yet it still feels like it fits in line with 00:02:52.240 --> 00:02:54.599 Kamen Rider 1, which is great because Kamen Rider 00:02:54.599 --> 00:02:56.780 1 is fantastic. It's such a great design. So 00:02:56.780 --> 00:03:01.159 simple, so sleek. And this takes it and gives 00:03:01.159 --> 00:03:03.060 it just a modern veneer, which again, I think 00:03:03.060 --> 00:03:05.460 is wonderful. I'll always go back to Kamen Rider, 00:03:05.580 --> 00:03:07.560 the original being great, the manga, the anime, 00:03:07.639 --> 00:03:10.360 or not the anime, but the show. I've only, I 00:03:10.360 --> 00:03:11.439 haven't watched the whole thing. I've watched 00:03:11.439 --> 00:03:13.180 about a third of it, but the third I saw was 00:03:13.180 --> 00:03:15.819 amazing. So, um, anyway, uh, getting back on 00:03:15.819 --> 00:03:18.120 this, uh, the bulging muscles and those effects 00:03:18.120 --> 00:03:21.520 are, they stink and I don't like them. That's 00:03:21.520 --> 00:03:24.460 how I feel about them. Um, we've got like, it's, 00:03:24.460 --> 00:03:27.759 they do like pulsing veins. Um, I think I've 00:03:27.759 --> 00:03:29.120 already talked about the capsule thing. I think 00:03:29.120 --> 00:03:32.199 it's dumb. Um, I like what the capsules do overall, 00:03:32.280 --> 00:03:34.000 like this transformer that we got to see featured 00:03:34.000 --> 00:03:36.259 this episode, which also was featured last episode 00:03:36.259 --> 00:03:40.020 when he swept the lakes. He swept the leg on 00:03:40.020 --> 00:03:42.259 that truck and caused it to flip over by making 00:03:42.259 --> 00:03:44.800 his leg spiky. He can pretty much transform his 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:46.879 body however he wants to with this transform 00:03:46.879 --> 00:03:50.199 thing. It feels a little OP, but I don't mind 00:03:50.199 --> 00:03:53.840 it. Yeah, I just don't mind it. I liked him catching 00:03:53.840 --> 00:03:55.439 the fireball and the lattice that he made of 00:03:55.439 --> 00:03:57.300 his, you know, eight fingers overlapping with 00:03:57.300 --> 00:03:58.919 each other and throwing it back at the guy. That 00:03:58.919 --> 00:04:00.840 bomb, that was really cool. The bomb nightmare, 00:04:00.979 --> 00:04:02.919 I guess, is what he'd be called. That was really 00:04:02.919 --> 00:04:07.020 cool. But it's just too much. You're gilding 00:04:07.020 --> 00:04:10.379 the lily. It's like... ridiculous um and it's 00:04:10.379 --> 00:04:12.620 you know odd that he can like in the last episode 00:04:12.620 --> 00:04:14.740 he slapped the ground and caused like the walls 00:04:14.740 --> 00:04:16.259 to close in on the nightmare and then the nightmare 00:04:16.259 --> 00:04:18.600 did it back to him and he didn't need a special 00:04:18.600 --> 00:04:21.480 capsule for that all he had was impact um i think 00:04:21.480 --> 00:04:25.620 that's his main one um and he was able to do 00:04:25.620 --> 00:04:28.209 that stuff and even like pulled a wall a section 00:04:28.209 --> 00:04:30.370 of wall and like used it to shield himself so 00:04:30.370 --> 00:04:32.649 he can transform his environment based on the 00:04:32.649 --> 00:04:35.029 fact that he's a common raider in a dream or 00:04:35.029 --> 00:04:38.250 whatever um so why is it necessary for him to 00:04:38.250 --> 00:04:40.529 then have a separate toy that you can sell which 00:04:40.529 --> 00:04:42.629 is called transform which transforms his body 00:04:42.629 --> 00:04:46.970 and always have to be a weird 8 -bit animated 00:04:46.970 --> 00:04:52.389 pokeball thing um like i don't it just it's not 00:04:52.389 --> 00:04:56.399 for me anyway um I like the idea of the power 00:04:56.399 --> 00:05:01.199 balls, but just do them differently. But yeah, 00:05:01.240 --> 00:05:02.899 so getting back to it, it's gilding the lily. 00:05:02.920 --> 00:05:05.240 It's way too much. However, watching him actually 00:05:05.240 --> 00:05:08.019 use transform in this fight was super cool. I 00:05:08.019 --> 00:05:10.800 like how he did all sorts of things to his body. 00:05:10.899 --> 00:05:13.879 He did extendo punches. He made his feet into 00:05:13.879 --> 00:05:15.779 weird flippers to kick the guy. And then ultimately 00:05:15.779 --> 00:05:19.139 at the end, he stabbed him. I don't quite get 00:05:19.139 --> 00:05:20.899 the logic behind the feint. I don't know what 00:05:20.899 --> 00:05:23.189 Baku was doing there. I understand that he was 00:05:23.189 --> 00:05:25.569 able to disarm the bomb. Was he doing it to distract 00:05:25.569 --> 00:05:27.529 him and think, oh, you missed? Like, he didn't 00:05:27.529 --> 00:05:29.370 even say you missed. He just laughed, which, 00:05:29.449 --> 00:05:33.089 whatever. It's definitely not necessary to have 00:05:33.089 --> 00:05:35.810 the exchange of you missed and then him follow 00:05:35.810 --> 00:05:38.290 up with, no, I didn't, or I was naming for you, 00:05:38.370 --> 00:05:42.990 or whatever. Like, I guess it's cliche by this 00:05:42.990 --> 00:05:44.170 point, so you don't have to do it, but whatever. 00:05:45.910 --> 00:05:48.850 But it was really cool. I love the fact that 00:05:48.850 --> 00:05:53.079 he... steps into uh that is fujimi steps into 00:05:53.079 --> 00:05:54.600 the nightmare that it turns into a freaking door 00:05:54.600 --> 00:05:57.639 that's awesome it looks so good looks so cool 00:05:57.639 --> 00:05:59.339 i hope they do that effect it looks to me like 00:05:59.339 --> 00:06:01.779 they built something for him to go into which 00:06:01.779 --> 00:06:03.699 would be amazing even if they had like a generic 00:06:03.699 --> 00:06:07.779 body silhouette that they built that opens and 00:06:07.779 --> 00:06:09.680 closes and then a person can walk through and 00:06:09.680 --> 00:06:11.680 then they just like skin it or whatever with 00:06:11.680 --> 00:06:14.120 uh with ai they skin it with ai to do an ai effect 00:06:14.120 --> 00:06:18.800 i'd be cool with that anyway um But yeah, that'd 00:06:18.800 --> 00:06:21.839 be fun if they keep doing that. It doesn't have 00:06:21.839 --> 00:06:24.060 to be. I mean, I don't know. Why not? Why not 00:06:24.060 --> 00:06:25.600 do that every time? If he's going to do the Henshin 00:06:25.600 --> 00:06:28.160 thing every single time, then why not have the 00:06:28.160 --> 00:06:30.620 door open for the person to walk through every 00:06:30.620 --> 00:06:32.459 single time? I'd be cool with that. Anyway, I 00:06:32.459 --> 00:06:36.100 liked it. It was great. But yeah, the action, 00:06:36.139 --> 00:06:42.790 the fighting was fun. And I like this more emotional 00:06:42.790 --> 00:06:44.389 side. I liked it getting a little more introspective, 00:06:44.389 --> 00:06:46.689 seeing why Fujimi is fed up with the police and 00:06:46.689 --> 00:06:53.069 why he thinks that at least... Anyway, I understand 00:06:53.069 --> 00:06:54.550 his frustration with the police and with the 00:06:54.550 --> 00:06:57.170 brass. I really do like that by the end of the 00:06:57.170 --> 00:06:59.509 episode, because they're in the middle of a black 00:06:59.509 --> 00:07:01.649 case and he tells his police chief, you better 00:07:01.649 --> 00:07:03.230 start believing in black cases. You're in one. 00:07:04.370 --> 00:07:06.689 That because of this huge explosion that they 00:07:06.689 --> 00:07:07.889 can't... I think they said they couldn't trace 00:07:07.889 --> 00:07:10.019 any... source of the like they didn't see anybody 00:07:10.019 --> 00:07:11.899 coming to the building planting the explosives 00:07:11.899 --> 00:07:14.600 and they couldn't tell like what the explosives 00:07:14.600 --> 00:07:16.959 were so they're not like it's not c4 it's not 00:07:16.959 --> 00:07:19.839 whatever it's you know dream bomb power i guess 00:07:19.839 --> 00:07:23.259 um so they have to figure that out and that's 00:07:23.259 --> 00:07:24.439 going to create a problem for them and that in 00:07:24.439 --> 00:07:27.160 itself is making a bigger black case or a better 00:07:27.160 --> 00:07:31.160 black case for fujimi to use for um justifying 00:07:31.160 --> 00:07:33.139 the existence of his department and i imagine 00:07:33.139 --> 00:07:35.540 that That's what we're going to see in the following 00:07:35.540 --> 00:07:38.160 episode or in the future. Maybe I'll take a couple 00:07:38.160 --> 00:07:41.339 episodes for it to be reinstated. They're opening 00:07:41.339 --> 00:07:44.100 back up the X -Files and for them to be involved 00:07:44.100 --> 00:07:46.759 with that. So I like that. I like the stories 00:07:46.759 --> 00:07:48.600 being set up. And then there's even more story 00:07:48.600 --> 00:07:51.680 set up stuff, which is that this first, I assume, 00:07:51.819 --> 00:07:55.319 first breakthrough of a nightmare does this weird 00:07:55.319 --> 00:07:56.959 thing with these butterflies and the moon changing, 00:07:57.060 --> 00:07:59.199 at least for the audience's perspective, if not 00:07:59.199 --> 00:08:01.259 in the real world. And these butterfly things 00:08:01.259 --> 00:08:04.250 go out all over the place that Mr. Nox is his 00:08:04.250 --> 00:08:06.569 name, I think. We've got Nem and Nox. Something 00:08:06.569 --> 00:08:08.949 like that. Or Noct. I don't know. Whatever. We 00:08:08.949 --> 00:08:11.189 have him celebrating that these things are out 00:08:11.189 --> 00:08:13.449 there. And it seems like he's suggesting that 00:08:13.449 --> 00:08:15.449 it affected some big change in the world. I want 00:08:15.449 --> 00:08:16.410 to see what that is. I want to know what the 00:08:16.410 --> 00:08:18.889 consequences are. And I like that we have all 00:08:18.889 --> 00:08:21.089 this setup going. And I think it's really tidy. 00:08:22.490 --> 00:08:25.629 And I think not only was it done so artistically, 00:08:25.670 --> 00:08:29.509 but it was also done so neatly and efficiently. 00:08:29.829 --> 00:08:33.679 So I'm pleased with where... The setup of the 00:08:33.679 --> 00:08:36.200 story is now I have my issues with some of the 00:08:36.200 --> 00:08:38.399 aesthetics that they're choosing to go with. 00:08:38.480 --> 00:08:40.460 But, oh, another thing is speaking of the aesthetics, 00:08:40.519 --> 00:08:42.980 the way that the dream logic works, all the cuts, 00:08:43.059 --> 00:08:45.179 all the, you know, I'm walking towards you here 00:08:45.179 --> 00:08:47.059 and then you're walking towards me in the reverse 00:08:47.059 --> 00:08:49.639 shot. And a lot of the like cinematography in 00:08:49.639 --> 00:08:52.000 the dreams is really nice. And I hope they keep 00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:54.620 up those kind of weird cuts to help it feel like 00:08:54.620 --> 00:08:57.480 a dream, to help it feel wrong in a certain way, 00:08:57.600 --> 00:08:59.600 like wrong, but consistent, you know, like very 00:08:59.600 --> 00:09:02.279 sloppy. very sloppy what's the thing that they 00:09:02.279 --> 00:09:04.299 call continuity like very sloppy continuity as 00:09:04.299 --> 00:09:05.899 far as the filming is concerned because that 00:09:05.899 --> 00:09:08.779 would make sense with a dream uh and like i said 00:09:08.779 --> 00:09:10.500 i think that would be good and then if they that'll 00:09:10.500 --> 00:09:12.580 help it to be differentiated from the real world 00:09:12.580 --> 00:09:15.379 transformations and such so i like that and the 00:09:15.379 --> 00:09:17.419 only thing i didn't like is that uh or another 00:09:17.419 --> 00:09:19.940 thing i didn't like is that uh zero through the 00:09:19.940 --> 00:09:22.659 bike robot thing says i had to drive you here 00:09:23.039 --> 00:09:24.779 He like drove him there in his sleep in his bed, 00:09:24.860 --> 00:09:26.799 but then he drove towards him. Like the bike 00:09:26.799 --> 00:09:28.100 should have just been standing there. That was 00:09:28.100 --> 00:09:29.679 a weird thing. Had that happened in the dream, 00:09:29.740 --> 00:09:31.340 that would be okay. But it happened in the real 00:09:31.340 --> 00:09:33.720 world, which doesn't really make sense. So anyway, 00:09:33.799 --> 00:09:35.639 I'm excited. I'm still enjoying it. This is good 00:09:35.639 --> 00:09:38.519 stuff. And let's see the next one. I'd love to 00:09:38.519 --> 00:09:40.000 hear what you thought about it. Do you agree 00:09:40.000 --> 00:09:41.779 with me that it's too much? They're pushing some 00:09:41.779 --> 00:09:43.539 of the effects stuff too much with the bulging 00:09:43.539 --> 00:09:45.360 muscles and veins and things like that. Or do 00:09:45.360 --> 00:09:48.480 you like it and you think it's really cool? And 00:09:48.480 --> 00:09:49.600 then what do you think about the lore stuff that's 00:09:49.600 --> 00:09:51.059 going on here? Because I think that's fascinating. 00:09:52.590 --> 00:09:54.769 I almost forgot to mention one big moment. One 00:09:54.769 --> 00:09:56.870 thing that I really liked was that when they're 00:09:56.870 --> 00:09:59.610 in the real world and Baku has to fight on his 00:09:59.610 --> 00:10:01.889 own and he's having trouble transforming, he's 00:10:01.889 --> 00:10:04.389 scared and he's desperate. And yet he's still 00:10:04.389 --> 00:10:06.490 trying. Like he's showing real courage and real 00:10:06.490 --> 00:10:08.850 bravery and he's showing real grit and determination 00:10:08.850 --> 00:10:11.730 to do the right thing and to save this person 00:10:11.730 --> 00:10:13.970 and to save other people, even at the cost of 00:10:13.970 --> 00:10:16.730 his own life. And I mean, he's not killing himself 00:10:16.730 --> 00:10:20.299 to save them. putting himself in harm's way he's 00:10:20.299 --> 00:10:22.299 trying to get the belt the bomb is beating him 00:10:22.299 --> 00:10:24.700 up and he's still going after it and it looked 00:10:24.700 --> 00:10:26.299 really cool and i love the desperation in the 00:10:26.299 --> 00:10:28.919 sense of uh struggle and scale and we get to 00:10:28.919 --> 00:10:30.500 see like this is the kind of character arc stuff 00:10:30.500 --> 00:10:33.440 i want to see with him him being kind of i don't 00:10:33.440 --> 00:10:37.059 know i complained about his character setup previously 00:10:37.059 --> 00:10:41.539 and i still stand by that but this is much better 00:10:41.539 --> 00:10:45.179 this kind of setting him low to go high putting 00:10:45.179 --> 00:10:48.360 him at disadvantage in this way to see him grow 00:10:48.360 --> 00:10:51.000 and to have an arc and to become a cooler character 00:10:51.000 --> 00:10:53.259 this is what i'm talking about i want to see 00:10:53.259 --> 00:10:55.860 this kind of stuff where he's struggling and 00:10:55.860 --> 00:10:57.379 he's not instantly competent he's not amazing 00:10:57.379 --> 00:10:59.799 on his own he has to learn those things and he 00:10:59.799 --> 00:11:03.259 has to become this great hero uh great hero great 00:11:03.259 --> 00:11:05.480 aspirational figure i like that and they did 00:11:05.480 --> 00:11:07.580 a good job with that in this episode so thank 00:11:07.580 --> 00:11:12.860 you takashi Until next time, this is MJ signing 00:11:12.860 --> 00:11:15.460 out for Writer Tears and Henshin Inspection, 00:11:15.460 --> 00:11:17.360 and I want to let you know my dream is to be 00:11:17.360 --> 00:11:20.019 a full -time author. 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