Kabuto. Finished.
IT'S OVER. IT'S OVER. OH THANK GOD, IT'S OVER.
If anyone had told me when I first started this series that Kabuto would end with a ripoff of both 555 and Doctor Who and completely fuck it up and then rip off Tuxedo Mask in the process? I'd never have believed it.
Holy shit. So I walk out of this wondering why the Natives didn't kill Bitty Tendou when they had the chance if they knew the whole Kusakabe family was a risk. Why the hell did they make that kid they turned into a Native mimic Tendou? Why did he end up a crazier siscon than the original? How does he cross time without a time train? When was Goro anything but loyal to Kagami-daddy? Why did they think we'd even care about the Dumbass Bros? And then on top of it, God Speed Love never factored into the backstory at all--every explanation the show bothers to give us totally contradicts what we see in the movie. Hyper can't travel back in time by flying backwards around the Earth. Native Kusakabe gave Tendou the Zecter to save Hiyori. Hiyori ain't even human. What was the point of that ending if it wasn't going to tie into the series?
God. Ugh. Just...god. I miss my zombie werewolf so much. And ugh. Seriously. If there are any true fans of Kabuto, please explain to me what I'm missing. I'm not trying to sound patronizing or anything--I genuinely want to know how it is so many people are passionate about this series. What don't I see? I really did try to enjoy it, but everything I started to like got completely destroyed. I don't find Tendou anything resembling sympathetic or likeable. His whole obsession with Hiyori--I've seen better. Namely from Andros from Power Rangers in Space, but that's beside the point. He calls her his sister, but he's anything but a brother to her. She's the genetic mimic of his unborn sister. Okay. When was he there for her? The whole conclusion he comes to and convinces her to leave Kusakabe/Dark Kabuto/Crazier Siscon for is "I have never been there for you and I can't promise I ever will be." So...why does he have the right to care more than Kagami, who knew her longer? Than Jyuka, who may not have known her much but was kinder to her? Than Yumiko, who offered her a job and tried to help her grow?
And I can't buy the argument to watch it for Kagami because the series goes out of its way to shit on him in a way that the next season, Den-O, which shits on Ryotaro and Momotaros for laughs, would consider cruel and excessive. Even in the final battle, when he's been stabbed three times--at least one time more than Tendou--is bleeding and barely alive, he gets up, talks back to Goro and Evil Native Guy whose name I never bothered to remember, gives a Patrick Stewart Speech that both Stewart and David Tennant would be proud of...and he still extoles the virtues of Tendou, who had every chance to tell him what was going on and ask him for help and generally just not be a total douchehole, and didn't.
I really don't know what more there is to say. I gave it my best shot. I survived. I got nothing out of it. So please, if someone else has a much more optimistic view of this series, please. Help me see why.
If anyone had told me when I first started this series that Kabuto would end with a ripoff of both 555 and Doctor Who and completely fuck it up and then rip off Tuxedo Mask in the process? I'd never have believed it.
Holy shit. So I walk out of this wondering why the Natives didn't kill Bitty Tendou when they had the chance if they knew the whole Kusakabe family was a risk. Why the hell did they make that kid they turned into a Native mimic Tendou? Why did he end up a crazier siscon than the original? How does he cross time without a time train? When was Goro anything but loyal to Kagami-daddy? Why did they think we'd even care about the Dumbass Bros? And then on top of it, God Speed Love never factored into the backstory at all--every explanation the show bothers to give us totally contradicts what we see in the movie. Hyper can't travel back in time by flying backwards around the Earth. Native Kusakabe gave Tendou the Zecter to save Hiyori. Hiyori ain't even human. What was the point of that ending if it wasn't going to tie into the series?
God. Ugh. Just...god. I miss my zombie werewolf so much. And ugh. Seriously. If there are any true fans of Kabuto, please explain to me what I'm missing. I'm not trying to sound patronizing or anything--I genuinely want to know how it is so many people are passionate about this series. What don't I see? I really did try to enjoy it, but everything I started to like got completely destroyed. I don't find Tendou anything resembling sympathetic or likeable. His whole obsession with Hiyori--I've seen better. Namely from Andros from Power Rangers in Space, but that's beside the point. He calls her his sister, but he's anything but a brother to her. She's the genetic mimic of his unborn sister. Okay. When was he there for her? The whole conclusion he comes to and convinces her to leave Kusakabe/Dark Kabuto/Crazier Siscon for is "I have never been there for you and I can't promise I ever will be." So...why does he have the right to care more than Kagami, who knew her longer? Than Jyuka, who may not have known her much but was kinder to her? Than Yumiko, who offered her a job and tried to help her grow?
And I can't buy the argument to watch it for Kagami because the series goes out of its way to shit on him in a way that the next season, Den-O, which shits on Ryotaro and Momotaros for laughs, would consider cruel and excessive. Even in the final battle, when he's been stabbed three times--at least one time more than Tendou--is bleeding and barely alive, he gets up, talks back to Goro and Evil Native Guy whose name I never bothered to remember, gives a Patrick Stewart Speech that both Stewart and David Tennant would be proud of...and he still extoles the virtues of Tendou, who had every chance to tell him what was going on and ask him for help and generally just not be a total douchehole, and didn't.
I really don't know what more there is to say. I gave it my best shot. I survived. I got nothing out of it. So please, if someone else has a much more optimistic view of this series, please. Help me see why.