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02-19-2013, 01:04 AM | #1 |
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Megaforce is three episodes in so far. And I think that's enough time for us to get some idea of where the show is going, how the acting is, and how we feel about it. So how do we feel about it?
You all know what I'm going to say. I love it. The acting is more than one step above what Samurai was, and the actors themselves (especially Ciara) seem to really give a damn about the show. Loving the nods to the original season like Gosei's voice, him being a student of Zordon, and Ernie's. And on a personal note. You can not like the cards are the Japanese cards and no one notices. But not liking the whole show for that reason is nitpicky. They'd have to reshoot alot of scenes and cg to change all of that around to make them the american cards. |
02-19-2013, 01:19 AM | #2 |
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Well if they were going to be lazy enough to not change the cards (based on your logic of it being difficult) then why even create a set of American cards to begin with? Why even make those up if every bit of source material you have uses Japanese cards AND those are the ones you use in the American footage as well? It just doesn't make sense to go through the effort.
Thus far the characters seem pretty flat compared to their Goseiger counterparts but I think that was to be expected. US actors are rarely as convincing as the originals. It's better than Samurais acting was but that really doesn't say much. That's like saying a tropical storm isn't as bad as a hurricane. They're both still bad, just in varying degrees.
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02-19-2013, 01:20 AM | #3 |
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Its good. Not quite Dino Thunder, SPD, or the first Saban era good, and definitely not RPM good, but its mostly heading in the right direction.
What I hope for the rest of these 20 episodes is that we really get to know the core cast, before everything goes all crazy for the anniversary Gokaiger-ish stuff. Just hope Andrew Gray improves and Troy becomes interesting and that the ADR gets better. Quote:
Well if they were going to be lazy enough to not change the cards (based on your logic of it being difficult) then why even create a set of American cards to begin with? Why even make those up if every bit of source material you have uses Japanese cards AND those are the ones you use in the American footage as well? It just doesn't make sense to go through the effort.
I mean, I'm sure you all realize how much card footage there is right? If they wanted to use English cards, they'd basically be re-shooting most of the morphed footage and cockpit footage. At that point, there really wouldn't be much sentai footage used at all. Last edited by musicfighter; 02-19-2013 at 01:28 AM.. |
02-19-2013, 01:24 AM | #4 |
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Well if they were going to be lazy enough to not change the cards (based on your logic of it being difficult) then why even create a set of American cards to begin with? Why even make those up if every bit of source material you have uses Japanese cards AND those are the ones you use in the American footage as well? It just doesn't make sense to go through the effort.
Thus far the characters seem pretty flat compared to their Goseiger counterparts but I think that was to be expected. US actors are rarely as convincing as the originals. It's better than Samurais acting was but that really doesn't say much. That's like saying a tropical storm isn't as bad as a hurricane. They're both still bad, just in varying degrees. Quote:
Its good. Not quite Dino Thunder, SPD, or the first Saban era good, and definitely not RPM good, but its mostly heading in the right direction.
What I hope for the rest of these 20 episodes is that we really get to know the core cast, before everything goes all crazy for the anniversary Gokaiger-ish stuff. Just hope Andrew Gray improves and Troy becomes interesting and that the ADR gets better. |
02-19-2013, 01:27 AM | #5 |
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I like it a lot. In the long run with Super Megaforce, it looks they're changing stuff up more, but being an anniversary series, I think it's good change. The Japanese card thing I understand now, so it doesn't bother me.
There wasn't a lot of localization type changes that bug me either, unlike Samurai. There's nothing exceptionally Japanese about Goseiger unlike Shinkenger. The only minor complaint I have is Tensou. I would've preferred a more humanoid robot like Alpha. Datas would've been nice, but I completely understand that change. And then I don't like how his name is "Ten-soo." It might be that I like "Ten-soh" more, but "Ten-soo" just sounds kind of stupid to me. Overall, I really like it. Which is nice since it's been so long since I've actually liked a PR series. I think it helps that the toy line is actually getting better and the fact that Goseiger is not a series I'm super attached to.
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02-19-2013, 01:31 AM | #6 |
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I don't know. I loved Short Circut so anything that looks like Johnny 5 is awesome with me
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02-19-2013, 01:34 AM | #7 |
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See, I'm in the camp that loved Go-Onger and hated RPM.
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02-19-2013, 01:35 AM | #8 |
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02-19-2013, 01:47 AM | #9 |
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I really don't know. The glimpses of story is nice, but the characters enacting it? They need some work. And acting lessons. Granted, they don't need them as badly as the Samurai crew did, but it's still not great. If Samurai is the worst, the Megaforce team is tying for 2nd worst (Along side first season MMPR).
That aside, it's adequate. If they don't drop the ball in terms of story as hard as say, Ninja Storm did, they should be fine.
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02-19-2013, 02:23 AM | #10 |
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I think it's great so far. I actually want to keep watching which I cannot say the same for certain other seasons.
It's fun. Cards aren't a big deal to me, though I do wonder why they colored Alata's jacket for his first henshin and used that for Troy's first morph. It's like the American actors can't use the cards right or the producers don't want to go through a bunch of them or something. In fact, I've noticed that quite a bit of "insert card into Gosei Morpher" footage is actually from Goseiger. This also explains the card issue. Again, not a problem for me though. |
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