History Headscratchers / PowerRangersSamurai

* The ancient Grand Shogun: the Black Box was never completed until Antonio joined the team, and the Shogun Mode armor isn't available without the Super Mega Mode. So how can the ancient Shogun have the armor?

* Why do they keep having Grant McFarland play Asian people when he doesn't look remotely Asian and it's not like Asian actors are in short supply?

** My first instinct was to blame this on an overly literal translation, wich would make sense if the sentai used an honorific like "-sensei", but no such luck. As far as i can find the sentai never refers to him as "sensei" or "mentor" or anything like that. The only thing we can pin on weird translations is his actual name, "ji".

** WTHCastingAgency.

* Why is Mentor Ji called as such? On many occasions, the rangers address him as "mentor" like it's his title. Also, wouldn't it have made more sense to call him Sensei Ji?

* Why do they keep having Grant Mc Farland play Asian people when he doesn't look remotely Asian and it's not like Asian actors are in short supply?

** Too many painful memories, perhaps? Not like she'd want any more reminders of what led her to this state.

** Gonna take a stab in the dark, but maybe she's in a constant low-level state of stress/heartbreak/etc. over Deker's state that prevents her from concentrating enough to do so.

*** The most likely option is so they could "start with a bang." The show had to overcome a ChannelHop and being UnCancelled, so they decided to skip the [[TDevelopingDoomedCharacters exposition heavy]] openers and got right into the good stuff.

* The whole decoy thing in Deker's first major appearence. I mean....what?

*** Then how do you explain on of them getting cut in half by a BUS DOOR

* How come Dayu can't take on a human form like Deker? They're both formerly human, and Dayu's still human enough that Xandred could absorb her to gain a human side and immunity to a Nighlok seal. (Yes, it was the same in sentai; no, it makes no sense there either.)

** who said anything about judeo-christian? I would assume that the japanese character bound to the japanese buddhist "river styx" was referring to the japanese buddhist "hell". The existence of the sanzu river already indicates the existence of buddhist "hell"

* The whole decoy thing in Dekker's first major appearence. I mean....what?

** I always liked the way they'd handled that. They changed "he likes to get drunk" into "the incomplete sealing spell leaves him in constant agony that can only be ''partially'' alleviated by his 'medicine.'" (I forget where it's said/implied that it's because of the sealing spell, but I'm pretty sure it was.) That's a lot cooler than the usual 'turn it into milk or something' solution most dubs go with. Also, being prone to headaches make him more like ''another'' PR BigBad [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers you might remember]].

*** So she became a [[KingdomHearts Nobody]]?

* I get that they had to make it so that Xandread wasn't drinking Sake, since even if they knew kids wouldn't want to drink as a result of seeing someone drinking on ''Power Rangers'', alcohol on a kids' show is still a no-no, but why not just change it to Sanzu River Water? You can't exactly get ahold of that in real life, and before anyone tries to point out that it's never stated if drinking it is a good idea, he basically had to soak in the river for a long period of time - if he could soak in it, surely it's drinkable if you were to just boil it or something.

** You're presuming it's something that can be done easily, quickly, and with what they have available. The fact that Antonio could do it once is remarkable given that all others have either been alien technology, mystical, or built by groups with vast resources. There's also the varying power sources (coins, crystals, advanced tech, magic, personal animal spirits). It's likely Jayden would have to master, or at least learn some new element to power it.

* How exactly ''do'' Nighlocks grow? Are they just not going to address that? True, the Rangers seem GenreSavvy enough to expect it to grow, but an explanation would be nice.

** This is a valid question - since Samurai has several callbacks to old seasons, you'd expect them to make a callback to the Titanium Ranger from ''Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue'' and have an original ranger (maybe using a repainted Red Ranger costume as a reference to Jayden's original status as the Red Ranger?). While it would have been expensive to film new footage with the hypothetical 7th ranger, they could have just had the ranger appear for a few episodes, then when Lauren fails against Xandread, have Jayden put the 7th Ranger morpher aside and then regain his position as the Red Ranger. It would have also made the lack of a full team morph into Lightspeed Rescue in ''Series/PowerRangersMegaforce''[[note]]not counting the Extended Version of the Legendary Battle[[/note]] a lot less irritating, since Saban could have just said "Oh, we did pay homage to LR in Samurai". Or, if they had the cash for a new outfit, maybe it could have been a Black Samurai Ranger who looks like UsefulNotes/MiyamotoMusashi for RuleOfCool? Plus, it would have been a PERFECT shout out to ''Film/SevenSamurai''.