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Legacy of Jetman: The Good, The Bad, The H. Saban
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02-08-2019, 03:02 PM
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Ashtear
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New to Sentai in general, this and Zyuranger are the ones I started with and ~40 episodes into Jetman, here are my thoughts:
it’s jus crazy to think this was a kids show, even in 1992. The level of violence and abject horror in some of these episodes is kind of extreme.
The heroes are mostly cool (though Raita gets shafted too much. I know he and Ako are basically afterthoughts to the love triangle but even Ako got some pretty bangin focus episodes).
The Vyram are...interesting. They all share the same goal of conquering earth and defeating he Jetman, but there’s such a petty rivalry between them all. Seeing them bicker and sabotage each other makes for a very interesting villain dynamic.
The monsters and mecha aren’t very well designed compared to what came later, but the plots behind them have all been great so far. Except for I guess Tetraboy lol but they can’t all be winners.
The story bounces around from multi-part epics to one-off adventures and I like most of them. There’s enough going on that I rarely get bored.
The characters have a decent chemistry with each other (except for poor, poor Raita, who has a pretty cool implied friendship with Ako but never really seems to fit in with a lot of the drama. When he admitted to a crush on Kaori it felt like a desperate ploy by the writers to figure or what to do with him)
Gai is a great love-to-hate character when the story begins and he slowly develops into a mostly good person by about the series halfway point. He’s such a bastard lol. What makes him work imo is that none of these characters (except Ryuu) asked for this. So having someone like Gai be one of the people to accidentally get birdonified adds a layer of realism to the shows premise. Not everyone is going to be a heroic person. And seeing them have to work trough those growing pains was satisfying.
But what makes Gai compelling to me is that, outside of being a bastard, he’s motivated by strong, individualistic values. In the beginning these are expressed by being a jerk and a womanizer, but later on as e became more well rounded they helped to both complement and foil Ryuu’s idealistic, “mission first” attitude. And it’s his parallel growth with Ryuu that makes him work so well.
There’s no way Jetman could have had the same success as Zyuranger did as a basis for Power Rangers imo. Zyuranger’s suits and action scenes just oozes production values compared to Jetman. And as mentioned, the dinosaur theme got off the heels of Jurassic Park.
Could Jetman still work? I would love to see Boom try their hand at a comic book “adaptation” that fits into the larger PR canon. The comics seem to have an easier time dealing with dark and violent subject matter which was at the center of so much of Jetmans conflict. Also if they really wanted to they could have Bulk be the Yellow Jetman since Raita was a little stocky even in costume lol.
One final thought: Commander Aya is the perfect woman. Gosh, she really is great.
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