Fun Fact: The bottom three are very interesting: Both are the most involvement Showa Riders get in the Heisei era onwards. Superhero Senki didn't really focus on them as much as Saber. The above statement shows how much the Showa Riders are neglected. The Great Leader's purpose was to be the driving force behind their remodelling, trauma and longevity. He appeared in the original series and V3 before being missing in X and Amazon, before the big reveal that he was behind them as well. After the Seven Legendary Riders' initial victory, they fought that life was over, but Neoshocker meant they were distraught, leading to their seeming suicide in Skyrider episode 54. After their return in the Super-1 Movie and the Zecross special, they were completely accepting to Black RX and Emperor Crisis, vowing to train and assist their successors. The fact that Shin, ZO and J and everything after is not as "nuclear" as the Showa Series means that these appearances could be intended to retcon the Great Leader as "just the Shocker leader" with King Dark and General Shadow representing their organisations instead of him. Only the bottom film has proper appearances from the Showa Riders. Hiroshi Fujioka, Takeshi Sasaki and Hiroshi Miyauchi only voice their characters who are not as important as the kids, and despite 1 and 2 being important to the middle film, Tetsu Inada and Takahiro Fujimoto voice them instead.
Clearly the writer for the Taisen movies has a thing for overly convoluted plots since that's how you described every Taisen movie in this list. The guy must think "more plot twists make story better" since many of these movies feel like they have as many plot revelations as whole quarter story arcs of Rider shows that run a quarter of the series' runtime. I'm interested to see what ends up in your "good" movies list since I think after watching so may Rider movies that the format just can't work in a 90 minute or less movie. At most it's equivalent to 4 episodes of runtime. How much character development and satisfying arc resolution can really happen in 4 episodes that also have to setup the plot for said episodes? Only way to really fix this may be to have Avengers Infinity War/Endgame runtime to be able to properly flesh this out enough, but with the budgets these movies have to work with, short turnaround times plus the short attention span of Rider's intended audience, I doubt that'd ever happen.
True, but in GP, the events of the movie take place at the end of the original series (Episode 98). By that time, Gel-Shocker already took over Shocker.
Fun Fact: The bottom three are very interesting:
Both are the most involvement Showa Riders get in the Heisei era onwards. Superhero Senki didn't really focus on them as much as Saber.
The above statement shows how much the Showa Riders are neglected. The Great Leader's purpose was to be the driving force behind their remodelling, trauma and longevity. He appeared in the original series and V3 before being missing in X and Amazon, before the big reveal that he was behind them as well. After the Seven Legendary Riders' initial victory, they fought that life was over, but Neoshocker meant they were distraught, leading to their seeming suicide in Skyrider episode 54. After their return in the Super-1 Movie and the Zecross special, they were completely accepting to Black RX and Emperor Crisis, vowing to train and assist their successors. The fact that Shin, ZO and J and everything after is not as "nuclear" as the Showa Series means that these appearances could be intended to retcon the Great Leader as "just the Shocker leader" with King Dark and General Shadow representing their organisations instead of him.
Only the bottom film has proper appearances from the Showa Riders. Hiroshi Fujioka, Takeshi Sasaki and Hiroshi Miyauchi only voice their characters who are not as important as the kids, and despite 1 and 2 being important to the middle film, Tetsu Inada and Takahiro Fujimoto voice them instead.
Clearly the writer for the Taisen movies has a thing for overly convoluted plots since that's how you described every Taisen movie in this list. The guy must think "more plot twists make story better" since many of these movies feel like they have as many plot revelations as whole quarter story arcs of Rider shows that run a quarter of the series' runtime.
I'm interested to see what ends up in your "good" movies list since I think after watching so may Rider movies that the format just can't work in a 90 minute or less movie. At most it's equivalent to 4 episodes of runtime. How much character development and satisfying arc resolution can really happen in 4 episodes that also have to setup the plot for said episodes?
Only way to really fix this may be to have Avengers Infinity War/Endgame runtime to be able to properly flesh this out enough, but with the budgets these movies have to work with, short turnaround times plus the short attention span of Rider's intended audience, I doubt that'd ever happen.
Another question I have about the heisei generations movie is what was the tomb of Kuuga then? Was it the actual place or was it a set piece? lol
6:15 You could say that this was was before Gel Shocker and any other Shocker basted timeline problems
True, but in GP, the events of the movie take place at the end of the original series (Episode 98). By that time, Gel-Shocker already took over Shocker.
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U sound different