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Stuart Webb
@inflatabledalek.bsky.social
Who, Trek, Bond, Transformers and Kamen Rider nerd.

Has spent a decade writing about Transformers comics, with my current big project being @revisitation.bsky.social, looking at each IDW issue in order:

https://thesolarpool.weebly.com/revisitation.html
Excited to see if he'll keep up the pattern with fourth cat, Riderman.
November 27, 2025 at 1:07 PM
This one about a karma drive is a mesh of about 3 previous episodes, with Kryten even directly comparing it to Justice.

So whilst it's a perfectly OK bit of TV, you could instead watch the same ideas explored with the same cast... but better.
November 27, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Ahhh, I remember Hibiki's new direction only really failing right at the end, so I hope that was a blip rather than the start of the comedown because it basically did everything that annoyed me about the treatment of the girls in Rider.
November 27, 2025 at 12:34 PM
That Akira basically just watches the big fight at the end rather than get any sort of payoff to her failure at the start is so annoying. And then she quits!
November 27, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Oh no, obviously not a lesson he's learned as he's back in his latest nice expensive looking leather coat when he goes off to fight.

Maybe he actually prefers the third Oasis brother puffer jacket?
November 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Though maybe it shows Hibiki shouldn't have worn his best clothes when he goes Hibikiing and they burn off his body.
November 27, 2025 at 12:25 PM
More cheerfully, Hibiki's Oni training being "Teach the guy's his little gay salute" is hilarious and formative for @speedfreak01.bsky.social.

Though what the fuck happened to his style? Do the new team really hate him that much?
November 27, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Akira's actress seems to have a lot of fondness for the show (she did a short film to celebrate her anniversary in the industry that roped a lot of the cast in a few years ago), so I'm glad Decade, of all shows, did better by her.
November 27, 2025 at 12:20 PM
And the "They're naked when they revert to normal" thing is funny when it's grown up buff guys, kinda uncomfortable when it's a kid.
November 27, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Yep, the original show Kamen Riders 1 and 2, the second series put a V in for the third.
November 27, 2025 at 12:12 PM
OK, this journey through the afterlife was an excuse to reuse all the old monster creatures they already killed.

That the two Jetman robots can go to hell raises questions.
November 27, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Jesus Umar, I know it was a bad date, but even an uneaten pizza isn't justification for sending someone's soul to hell.
November 27, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Amusingly I'm pretty sure the place Ryu first enters the afterlife and meets a granny guide is the same waterfall Takeru first met Gramps after he died.
November 27, 2025 at 11:54 AM
So Odagiri needs a monk who can traverse the underworld to retrieve ghosts?
a young man wearing a jacket that says ' tokyo ' on it stands in front of a city
ALT: a young man wearing a jacket that says ' tokyo ' on it stands in front of a city
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November 27, 2025 at 11:52 AM
The show's hating Ako phase continues.
November 27, 2025 at 11:51 AM
The next time trailer promises Rider 2 and V3, so I guess Hongo was well done with the whole thing at this point.
November 27, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Oh, you can be fucked now, can you?
November 27, 2025 at 11:38 AM
A later Rider would 100% have defeated Ant Capone with taxes.
November 27, 2025 at 11:35 AM
I at least hope that was a real African dance troupe (felt like it might have even been another celebrity cameo?), milking the stereotypes for cash.
November 27, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Me at the quite long African Tribal Dancing scene.
a man in a suit and tie is standing next to a man in a yellow shirt and tie .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing next to a man in a yellow shirt and tie .
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November 27, 2025 at 11:31 AM
That's Ant Capone alright.
November 27, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Chiko and Mako when another woman gets kidnapped and tied up by the monster instead of them:
a bald man says " i took that personally "
ALT: a bald man says " i took that personally "
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November 27, 2025 at 11:29 AM