Sort of sad coz there's cool ideas. I love the visual design of this season, the ranger suits are awesome. The zord's alright. I dig the concept of making the kid ranger have two forms to reflect ursa minor and ursa major. The concept of a Ranger as the mole in the ranks of the bad guys is cool.
It's just that the writing's not there. The undercover ranger thing seems to immediately get dropped (or at least is severely weaked by him constantly fighting alongside the other rangers - though I guess I should go easy since he's the only one with anything approaching a personal plot)
Let's put it this way: for some reason, the plot is centralized on Lucky. But he is annoying and doesn't develop because his weaponized luck always takes him places. To add salt to the wound, many arcs feel too childish for a plot that revolves around taking the universe back from an overwhelming evil. All of this hurts the show badly and makes me think about dropping it, seriously. :/
... And that's called jazz!The worst part is how the show avoids opportunities it gives itself.
So they only send 5 rangers per mission. How do they do it? Lottery. Never mind that Lucky is therefore guaranteed to always win, you might as well always send him and spin only 4 time to save time, doing this by luck is boring.
How about... you make the red ranger the squad leader, and he picks 4 people to go with based on the fact each has unique talents:
- Green can turn invisible.
- Pink can fly
- Black is really strong.
- Orange can paralyze people and has insider info on the enemies.
- Gold is a technopath
- Silver is a Telepath
- Blue is a dog... I he can sniff people's crotch? Eat his own poop? Sense of smell? Dunno.
- Yellow ...exists. And can make you lunch before you leave and don't take him along!
- Sky Blue has his two forms and can turn giant.
Ryu Commander is the boss so he can show whenever he damn well please.
Okay, so some are less impressive than others, but the point stands, you have a diverse team of rangers with their ability. So why not have your red ranger show some leadership and planning skill by selecting the teammates most useful to his mission? But that'd be interesting and make Red less annoying so we can't have that.
Heck, Lucky's luck basically murdered all tension since the first episode made it clear the universe will bend itself backwards over his benefit. So nothing bad can ever happen to him. Coz it won't. I wish he gets a 15-episode long streak of terrible luck where the dipshit needs to learn to work for his results rather than depend on luck, but that feels like expecting too much from the show.
I will say, with the cool visual design, I hope Power Rangers picks up the season and does something better with it.
edited 20th Apr '17 7:20:09 AM by Ghilz
I've also heard that KR's been doing a lot of two-parters lately which also reduces the amount of monster suits needed.
"The Toei Corporation wishes to deny rumors that it is short of money...
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Ex-Aid's plot has quite a lot of suit reuse - there's a Bugster for each of the 10 games but they come back, some multiple times, with minor changes.
PR could probably do a reasonable deal with Kyuranger if they're imaginative. Ninja Steel is not impressing me (basic high school setting, although the whole villainous game show thing is neat) but they could pull it back.
I doubt it. It was 8 years ago. I think their budget would've recovered by then.
I think it's just practicality and cynicism. Sentai's been more and more about the merch, especially ever since all the way back to Gaoranger, which introduced the "Pointless extra limb zord". We've seen plenty of sentai who clearly exist to only push more merch - Goseiger and its fuck ton of headers for example. I think Toei realized there's no reason to invest so much in making unique monsters coz most of them will never see any merch at all. So re-use more of the costumes. Especially since they can make them look fine for the most part, so little of value is lost. Plus with more and more CGI, re-using suits means you can re-use CGI models, and CGI models are fucking expensive. Spend their money on creating a fuck ton of zords that exist as glorified power ups they can pawn off, and other gimmicks they can turn into toys - like the globes.
edited 21st Apr '17 11:15:06 PM by Ghilz
Uh... guys? We have a tragedy here. May 18th...
Tatsuya Nomi, the actor of Daigo/Shishiranger of Dairanger passed away
... They say cause of death unknown, but... there are rumors that it may be suicide. Like the original Kiranger...
RIP...
Heard about that in Shout Factory's marathon of Kakuranger. The people only said Daigo, so I thought it was the Kyoryuger Red Ranger.
I also saw the Ninninger Vs Zyuohger film on Youtube today: And I enjoyed it a lot. I think I may have enjoyed it more than the Gokaiger crossover episodes of Zyuohger that I saw.
So Kyuranger was explicitly declared an alternate universe, that's pretty interesting. I know the general rule for continuity in the Toei superhero 'verse is "Don't think about it too hard" but this is the first time (at least according to RangerWiki) they've outright said a show isn't in continuity with the others.
And frankly, trying to piece together any cohesive continuity in this franchise is pretty much an exercise in futility, unless anyone here would like to reconcile the at least four contradictory explanations for how the dinosaurs died out. :P
edited 26th Jun '17 11:14:03 PM by MapleSamurai
That's easy: All of those events happened at the same time.
Power Rangers probably got the shared universe thing right by having the Rangers almost invariably lose their powers at the end of the season. Then you can have a shared universe and not have to wonder where the other Rangers are when the Big Bad is about to destroy the world or whatever.
Let the joy of love give you an answer! Check out my book!I kind of like the idea that they're just all used to it right now and treat Kaiju like natural disasters
Although honestly the thing that makes most sense is just presuming each series exists in a different universe but there's a version of every team in the Gokaiger universe (and the other ninja sentai in Ninninger verse and so on for other cameos).

Yeah, 2 out of 11, probably 12 as Ho Oh soldier looks to be a guy is kinda ridiculous. They could easily have had 3 in the main 9 and/or added another female in the extra rangers.
I'm mixed on this series. I like the design of everything (I've started collecting the Minipla for the Voyagers too) but it is way too red-focused for a red who really isn't all that great. The other characters seem kind of interesting but would do better if they got more focus episodes rather than Lucky. For example, episode 10 could easily have had Stinger rather than Lucky.