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01-23-2022, 05:42 PM
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You know, Elon Musk can keep his electric motors, what I really want is a car that runs on the smiles, dreams, and/or wishes of Japanese children. That is clearly the most powerful renewable energy source in the world.
So yeah, Ultraman Trigger is over and I am going to miss it. Not, like, a lot, but I am going to miss it. It is a show that, by design, forces you to compare it to other Ultra shows and it definitely comes away lacking on that front. Does that make it bad, though? No. It doesn't help, certainly, but I think Trigger is perfectly fine when judged on its own merits. Definitely not great, but I'd never call it a bad show.
I don't think Trigger did anything wrong (well maybe one thing, see below) so much as it just didn't go into as much depth as it could have on most of its elements. The characters who aren't Kengo, Yuna, Akito, and Ignis are incredibly shallow. There was, I think, one episode that actually tried to do anything with the GUTS Select crew beyond giving them each a line or two in the background, but it was too close to the end of the series to really make a difference in how I perceived any of them. The villains were a similar story; there were some decent ideas with Carmeara and Darggon that mostly worked, but Hudrum was just kind of there. Same story with the show's lore: decent ideas that weren't explained in as much depth as they could have been (so we're just going to briefly mention that Kengo was a fucking magic space baby and never really go into that?)
The only thing that I came close to actively disliking on the show is Kengo. I've mentioned this once or twice, but he reminds me of a Sentai Red Ranger. Specifically, he reminds me of one of Sentai's Catchphrase Reds, the kind who use their personal mantra as a replacement for a personality. I ultimately came away generally liking Kengo, but I think he often got boiled down too much to "Smile, Smile" when there were options for doing something more complex with the character.
Anyway, tl:dr: Trigger was a perfectly fine show that didn't explore its concepts as much as it could have.
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