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I can't see him learning to control the missiles in the air. It just doesn't make sense, like Chewbacca living on Endor. I would have really liked them to keep the need for the combo since it adds a bit to the modules and the amusement of the system. Now Radar is just a glorified telephone without being able to guide missiles or have a need to combo with other things. Hopefully they think to bring it back in some way, such as using it to seek targets that are darting behind cover a lot or teleporting around.

My problem with that is that it isn't like kicking a ball. He can't aim the launcher anymore than he does already by just pointing it in a direction. The missiles themselves are chaotic while in the air, thus the need for Radar to home in on the enemy and give the rockets an easier time hitting the enemy.
The key in what you said as well is slowly. There was no sign of him even practicing, much less him using it a second time. If it eased into, it would be more believable. At the very least they should show only a few hit and some miss for a while.

I don't know about behind-the-scenes stuff like that, does a director really care about money? I would think a director would more want things to line up how they should compared to previous scenes/episodes/movies and the vision of the series rather than worrying about how much each scene costs. I can't see it costing that much to have a switch appear, especially since they already have done it a few times with Radar just for a call.

The problem with hoping for more on it later in the series is that we have more than one rider coming out and they are going very quickly into the 40 switches. They will want to showcase them more rather than going back to Radar. We might see him use it in some way, but it will be very brief and likely won't be combo'd beyond the one time with Launcher and maybe with a switch that is coming up soon.
As it is, Radar was used once to combo, I think once to find the Chameleon (don't recall if he did or not, but it was a prime monster to use Radar on) and every instance beyond those of Radar is using it as a phone gonk

I understand he is practicing with other ones that he has trouble controlling, but it just seems unrealistic if they turn around and drop a combo that they had to enforce due to it being an awkward launcher with no tracking system of it's own. As I said, I can see him improving a bit to where it doesn't outright miss, but still having it being chaotic. Instead every time he's used it, it works exactly like he had radar going. They flip in the air and the missiles still move to hit the target, not whiz past or anything.


What I meant is that the directors themselves probably don't care that much about it, nor the writers. I think its the producer or someone in that area who worries about budget. From what I know of how they pace themselves usually, they do go overboard for a while in a series then tone it down for a bit with effects and over-the-top stuff. Considering there hasn't been any really-heavy areas of CG or things like the ranger war going on, they should have a large enough budget to add in the effects or be able to do the trick where they cut to something else (like the monster) while having the sound and implying the animation still happens without showing it.


That goes against everything about him learning to control it then if it is back. If it is him hoping to hit, then it really should have some missiles miss when not using radar instead of it acting exactly the same. I'll have to see episode 8 to see why they add it in, otherwise this just leads me to feel more that its bad continuity rather than anything else.


To change gears: What is everyone's favorite switch so far?

And I still can't see practicing with something like that equating to perfect hit-ratios as if they were still locking on with another tool. Aiming it at them, sure you can get better. Hitting every shot with something that doesn't have it's own targeting system and is in it's nature wild to shoot is very farfetched. Its like saying that a person with a shotgun can hit every scattered piece of it's ammo into it's target from 20 feet away just by practicing enough.


Not nit picking, just pointing out that they are separate things. A budget can affect a show, but the directors and writers generally won't worry about it. Someone else will complain about budget things, but there are people whose job it is to keep continuity too. If it truly is because of budget, people are dropping the ball then. Be it the people who are meant to uphold continuity, or the budget people for cutting back on something that really shouldn't cost much versus a lot of other things and hurting continuity in the process. I also can't see them already getting low on money since OOOs was very profitable for them, unless said budget people just suck that badly.

All I'm saying on the lack of large effects eating up money is that if they haven't spent a large chunk of budget yet, there's no reason to restrict keeping continuity when the effects involved are very minor. The only logical thing I can see, beyond bad continuity keeping, is time issues. Even then it is very quick for Fourze to summon or unsummon modules.

I'd be fine with implied Radar targeting, like I said with the trick of cutting to the monster while they do the sound and assume the module appears and is targeting. Neither case of him using Launcher minus Radar had this which is my problem with it.

As for them planning the ending out this far in advanced, it would likely be one of the first times they bothered to do that. A lot of time they don't know how they will approach the ending this early in the show.


It goes against it to me, at least the controlling missile hit-ratio part. If we suppose that he did train off camera for so long that he can somehow control chaotic missiles to hit with each one, then turns around and needs to use Radar again, then it just baffles me as to why. Even if it is a tough enemy, unless it teleports or has superspeed or cloaking, then there would be no need for Radar's combo anymore if he can use the module exactly the same without it.



I like Rocket the most as well due to it's functionality. It provides both a weapon to hit the enemy and acts as a transportation device.

With the contrast, it does show our differences in what we want/expect from the show. I watch it for the action and it seems you enjoy it for the humor. For the record however, I can be happy in a show even without logic or explanations involved, as with the case of two shows I've gotten into recently. What I find the most funny myself though is that we both picked the same switch out of the 16 or so shown so far.

For the question on the slots I think the answer is a simple one. Double sold well with memories and the two theme. OOOs sold even better with the triple memory idea. If Fourze does better than OOOs, they will likely push the idea to a five-based rider to sell as many toys as possible. I can't see them keeping this up for much longer beyond that though, maybe up to a six-based rider but that would be stretching things.

To change the subject, what does everyone think Meteor Storm? Personally I think it's nice look. The finisher is a tad silly, but at least its abilities are explained well. Can't wait to see how Ryuusei reveals his identity to the KR Club. (<--------- Has already seen scans, but wont reveal anything. (^^)v )

Also, how do you think the story and characters have developed since we lasted posted in this thread?

Same here. In fact, the first thing I did was watch that scene and went back and watched the rest of the episode just to see how it got there. It really pretty cool.

And I totally called how Meteor's identity would be revealed. Well, even if I didn't I still did. xd