How I Think Buntis Faib Legacy's Pacing Is HURTING NOT HELPING The Ongoing Steve/Mark/Jamie Love Triangle

I didn't think I'd make it this far watching Buntis Faib Legacy. If one thing is killing the show - it's the ridiculously slow pacing! One recent episode this week (and it's a weeknight schedule) is how Mark takes Jamie out. The scene feels very similar to how Gai asks Kaori out in Chojin Sentai Jetman. Gai tells Kaori that he will make her fall for him. It was done in the earlier episodes. Gai starts falling for Kaori during the introduction arc. We later see Jamie still turn down Mark because she's too in love with Steve. Steve seems more than ready to let Mark have Jamie for the sake of the team. 

If one saw Jetman before watching this show - one can see the root of the problem. It's been the ridiculously slow pacing. That's the problem with the weeknight schedule - it encourages dragging the plot to ridiculous lengths. It's not like how Jetman was a weekly program. It meant that Toshiki Inoue had to find the right pacing to get the plot going. Meanwhile, the weeknight schedule might be giving head writer Suzette Doctolero all the permission in the world to DRAG ON.

Jetman did all it could to make sure to GET DIRECT TO THE POINT. The love triangle is played out a intended even in the early episodes. The early episodes started to see that Gai has an interest in Kaori. The love triangle gets developed even early on like when Ryu was supposed to get an arranged marriage from his paternal grandmother. Episodes 13-14 is a two-parter that further builds the love triangle. Episode 22 pretty much starts to build things up. Eventually, Gai and Kaori do become a couple. Ryu has his desire to save Rie who he discovers was brainwashed as Maria. It does get enjoyable to rewatch these because of how DIRECT TO THE POINT it gets while having enough space to develop stuff.

In the case of Buntis Faib Legacy - it drags on. Wouldn't it make more sense if the love triangle started developing like the way it did in Jetman? Come on, it's episode 40+ something. I guess going for the 80-episode mark (?) means that it's going to get a lot of fluff. It could make sense if Mark started asking Jamie out in the early tens. Instead, that was impossible due to how much useless detail Doctolero puts in each and every episode. GMA-7 also chose the weeknight schedule which forces the love triangle to be dragged. Not to mention, bitchy Eva's involvement as Steve's former girlfriend turned abhorrent admirer has been played for too long. Inoue would've probably had Eva arrested already in a matter of a few episodes. Why's Doctolero dragging it on? Also, it seems Eva planning to kill Jamie was too random.

Jetman was shown in the Philippines during the 1990s. Now, there's the Shout! Factory release. GMA-7 has been airing several Kamen Rider shows since the 2000s. They could've learned from Kamen Rider how to write a WEEKLY SCHEDULE instead. By not doing so, the love triangle in Buntis Faib Legacy is nothimg more than terrible presentation.