Finished Kamen Rider V3 and Kamen Rider X. V3 ended on a good note, Shiro got comfortable in his role and stood out in his own way, the ending was also rather anti-climactic but I basically expected that.
X was certainly interesting, Jin's father was a badass, basically a scientist fighting GOD for years by himself, shoots his own son to make a point about how good his gear is, uses his dying minutes to build his son into an asskicking cyborg, gives him an underwater base and a cool bike, uploads his consciousness into a machine and sends his own corpse off to explode in a torpedo, then blows up the base an episode or 2 later because he's just baller like that. He was awesome.
Jin himself was pretty good, he reminded me of a young Keiji Mutoh lookalike, then went full Taki from the original Kamen Rider near the end. His costume was a bit simpler, and the Ridol whip felt kinda weak but the bike was neat.
The villains started with a cool motif, being creatures and gods based out of Greek Mythology which was exciting to follow from episode to episode, then they just kinda started making things up about halway through....but the second half villians, being based on historical people get WILD. (All I'm saying is if you know, you KNOW.)
The absolute best part of X was hands down, no contest, Apollo Geist. This guy was the goddamn star in every scene he was in, his actor bleeded charisma and was effortless cool nearly 100% of the time, he was so awesome they had to bring him back from the dead and keep him alive for a decent bit. This man could have been an incredible rider in another universe, I'd have replaced Riderman with him if it was my choice (sorry joji, you're neat and all but...)
Otherwise the battle with King Dark actually felt like a climactic ending, nice way to put a cap on the series. We're on to Amazon now, I'm absolutely pumped for this one