..So pretty much my comments today can be summed up with "WHAT DIMMIE SAID" :D/
Much as the "happy" ending is cruel in its own way... it does leave open a window for personal canon and fic that others close. Thinking mainly of Hoppers here, and how they had such a short window of time, and that necessarily cuts down on the amount of exploring one can do and remain within the dark corners of canon. In this case, yeah, Shinji and Ren don't know each other anymore, they don't know what they were to each other, and yes, without the Rider battle their relationship will likely never be as deep or as close as it was, but nothing say they can't follow an alternate path and end up being bros for life all the same.
And there's Kitaoka, and... given that it's the Rider battle that was removed, it means that he's still got just that one year to live, but I hope this time around he does get together with Reiko in time. ;__;
...Why the heck isn't Asakura in prison though?
Also, Ren and Shinji may be my favorite Rider friendship. (Meaning bros for life type of relationship, like Tendou and Kagami, or Tsukasa and Yusuke, not relationships like the Hoppers' or Kitaoka and Goro-chan's, because there were other elements there, whether or not one slashes them).
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Date: 2009-10-02 09:29 pm (UTC)Much as the "happy" ending is cruel in its own way... it does leave open a window for personal canon and fic that others close. Thinking mainly of Hoppers here, and how they had such a short window of time, and that necessarily cuts down on the amount of exploring one can do and remain within the dark corners of canon. In this case, yeah, Shinji and Ren don't know each other anymore, they don't know what they were to each other, and yes, without the Rider battle their relationship will likely never be as deep or as close as it was, but nothing say they can't follow an alternate path and end up being bros for life all the same.
And there's Kitaoka, and... given that it's the Rider battle that was removed, it means that he's still got just that one year to live, but I hope this time around he does get together with Reiko in time. ;__;
...Why the heck isn't Asakura in prison though?
Also, Ren and Shinji may be my favorite Rider friendship. (Meaning bros for life type of relationship, like Tendou and Kagami, or Tsukasa and Yusuke, not relationships like the Hoppers' or Kitaoka and Goro-chan's, because there were other elements there, whether or not one slashes them).