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LupinRanger VS PatRanger Episode 43- "The Man Who Returned!" Discussion
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AkibaSilver
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My main problem with LuPat is that the half of the core cast that I find more enjoyable to watch didn't get anything to do for twenty episodes besides look like fools, so I'm really burnt out on it and there's little to do to rescue it at this point.
There are some bits I do like - as others have pointed out, the Pats and Umika are pretty fun characters, but Touma is our standard "jerky Blue" (who's at his most enjoyable when he's forced not to be that, see the dancing episode) and Kairi is just not fun to watch. His arc is interesting, sure, but I can't help but see it as unnecessary conflict that's coming too little, too late. And I really, really don't like Noel. His smarmy arrogance, how he treats the Pats, how he's rewarded for it, it all irks me.
And the plotting... yeah, it's bad. You can compare it to Wizard, but at least Wizard felt like it was building to *something*, and its final arc still stand out to me as really strong. Zyuoh less so, but I like all the cast in Zyuoh, and they actually managed to share out the screentime with them, probably because they weren't promoting one half of the team at the expense of the other. Add it on to another year where the villains are kinda boring and don't do anything right until the endgame, (it's been like this since ToQGer, imo), and it all adds up.
And it's annoying because it feels like there are some easy fixes to all this. Let the villains have more interactions between themselves, let them have arcs. (Not that the show can do it for more than two rangers here, it seems, but oh well.) You added Noel to the Pats, so maybe you can avoid the problem of the Lupins having to steal the treasure by having Noel do it, and need to give some to the Pats to feign loyalty to them. Or actually have him develop loyalty to them, because of the good old "power of teamwork" message Sentai usually loves. Idk, something about this whole show doesn't click for me, and it hasn't been clicking for a long time.
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