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12-23-2016, 11:34 PM | #7451 |
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And I finished Liveman. I'm not going to really post my thoughts here since I'm going to do a video review next month and would rather save my typing on this show for my script, but in the end, I would say it's aggressively average.
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12-23-2016, 11:37 PM | #7452 |
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It seems a lot of people are experiencing Sentai that barely scrape past mediocrity and slide by with "Average" recently.
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12-23-2016, 11:48 PM | #7453 |
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Agressively average? Huh. Isn't Liveman generally held in pretty high regard? I wonder if it's the kind of thing where other shows have come along and done what it did better since.
Hey, I thought Ninninger was above average! If only I had any clue what "average" meant...
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12-23-2016, 11:49 PM | #7454 |
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I said most, not all~
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12-24-2016, 01:21 AM | #7455 |
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I don't know what happened, but my biggest issues come down to how bland all of the characters are and that every episode has a freaking monster of the week. Even the final battle is against a monster of the week. It's the actors themselves that make up for the show's blandness. Except for green and black. They were utterly pointless as they added nothing to the show. Oh, and somene really needed to get Yusuke a losenge. Quote:
Hey, I thought Ninninger was above average! If only I had any clue what "average" meant...
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12-27-2016, 11:16 PM | #7456 |
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So getting away from Carranger for a second, the mood struck me to rewatch Kyoryuger VS Go-Busters. It was pretty sweet.
I'm not sure what everyone else thinks of it but I imagine most people fall into the camp of either "they ruined my dino Sentai team-up by putting Go-Busters in it", or "they ruined my Go-Busters epilogue by putting a dino Sentai team-up in it". As a fan of both Go-Busters (<3) and Kyoryuger, I'm conveniently in the perfect overlap to enjoy the movie, and frankly, I think it does a pretty remarkable job to make the clashing premises fit together even slightly, let alone as well as it does. I remember fellow Go-Buster cultists (or fans, but what's the difference?) being more than a little upset there were two other Sentai teams shoved into the yearly VS movie, seeing it as one last middle finger from Toei, that they were basically saying the Busters were so unmarketable even putting them with the Kyoryugers wasn't enough, but even so, I think Riku Sanjo really treated the team with respect. It definitely leans heavily on the Dinosaurs! side of things, with the plot largely centered around the Kyoryugers, but the really genius thing that makes the whole movie come together for me is that, despite seeming less important on the surface, the Go-Busters do like, ALL the actual work throughout. The best part is that I'm not even exaggerating that much. The film really plays up the fact that the Go-Busters are professionals, using their intel-gathering skills to think up plans and executing missions with tactical precision while the Kyoryugers basically run around like idiots shouting about how "bureibu" they are and violating all known rules of gun safety. I'm pretty fond of Riku Sanjo's writing, and I think this is a great example of why. Obviously he's not actually making his own team look bad, but even though the Kyoryugers are the center of the plot, the Busters are the ones who actually drive it forward. They're so critical to the story that if you wrote them out, the bad guys would win like ten minutes in, and again, I'm only sort of exaggerating here. It's in no way an epilogue for Go-Busters (which is fine because the ending it already had was great), but the movie takes how the team are basically total outsiders to this bizarre plot about bad guys trying to steal dino energy for eeeevil and really rolls with it in a way that lets them shine one last time. Beyond the satisfactory treatment of the Go-Busters, the movie itself is totally nuts in the best way possible. I mean, there's a chunk of it where the Kyoryugers get turned evil, put on all-black clothes for maximum eeeeevil style points, and go back in time to exterminate the dinosaurs by shooting them with handguns. And if that doesn't sell you on the movie right there, how about the explosions? So. Many. Explosions. Can you tell Koichi Sakamoto directed this? It's all very bombastic, as is Kyoryuger's style, building to a big crazy climax featuring three teams of Sentai (and also the Go-Busters), and even more explosions, just for good measure. Basically it's pretty dang enjoyable. I don't know if it's the best thing ever, but of the VS movies I've seen, it's one of the more memorable. Oh, and since the movie awkwardly glued the ToQgers to after the end of the film, I'm going to talk about them awkwardly after I was clearly wrapping up the post. I joke, but I actually sort of like it that way. Especially since this movie was even more busy than usual, I don't really think it would've made sense to put them anywhere else. It's just a nice little goofy fight scene to end things on after all the big action earlier, letting the ToQgers do their goofy thing. And I do mean goofy. I swear, you'd think these guys were all 12 years old or something.
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01-06-2017, 08:06 PM | #7457 |
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I just started watchin Liveman, so far it's interesting.
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01-06-2017, 10:19 PM | #7458 |
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I'm nearly finished watching Goggle V. It's definitely a jumbled mess, but it wasn't really that bad either.
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01-07-2017, 01:11 AM | #7459 |
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I have been slowly plugging away at battle fever j for a while. Life has gotten in the way and done episodes are good and others are really boring
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01-08-2017, 02:57 AM | #7460 |
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GEKISOU SENTAI CARRANGER
CAR CAR CAR MAGIC! ...So, holy hell, this show just...Starts. Like, to use an apt pun, it slams on the accelerator and never stops moving. I want to do a little synopsis, but so much happened that it's hard to actually remember what actually happened Well, let's at least try. If I forget something, then oh well! So, we start on the far off planet of Hazard, which gets Alderaan'd by the time you blink. Afterwards, we meet our main villains of the series, the Bowzack, partying. At this party, a mysterious masked figure points out that the Carrangers will protect the universe. This masked figure is quickly discovered to not be a Bowzack, and actually the only survivor of Hazard. ...Using Car Magic, he teleports to Earth (Which the villains were already headed to anyway because shut up) and finds the soon to be Carrangers, working at an auto shop and lamenting that they're not getting enough free time to make their dream cars. Dappu (The survivor), basically tells them they're the Carrangers, and uses his Car Magic to modify their garage into their secret base. There are so many applicable JonTron reactions I could post that I'm not gonna post any. Bowzack attacks! Apparently cars have a primal side that want to just go wild. BECAUSE. Dappu tells the gang to go into action. He finds out that they're all hiding from him and he has to both shock them and then tie them up and drag them to the battle. What can I say? If all of this was happening to me in the span of about 10 seconds, I'd react the same. Bowzack is having a field day and Dappu starts to fight since the Carrangers aren't doing a thing. After falling to one of the generals, he tells him how his mother died and dies himself, dropping the keys to their Accel Changers. The Carrangers then morph and perform their role call! And then Dappu gets up and reveals he only feigned his death to get them off their asses...Could've at least waited a couple minutes... Okay, they start fighting, defeating the devious fire truck by removing the key. OKAY, I GUESS. They also wrestle with an evil tricycle. I wish they destroyed it because that would've been awesome. Alright, so... One of them makes the Fire Truck become a demon and they shoot it dead, after it sends them all flying. Also, they got go-karts earlier in the episode, and one of the villains tried to lick the ass of some sexy villainess. And, much like a car moving at 90 mph only to slam on the breaks, this episode just ends. I swear, this show gave me whiplash. Well, I guess since this episode dumped literally all the plot on you, things should start flowing a little more smoothly. So, what is there to say? Oh yeah, despite name dropping Gekisou Sentai Carranger about 12 times, the Carrangers receive little actual characterization. And by little, I mean literally none at all. Aside from Red Racer, most of them got about 3 lines that, like the rest of the episode, only served to further the plot (Or name their salary). They didn't even drop hints of character traits, annoyingly. OH YEAH AND WHAT THE HELL WAS EVERYTHING ELSE? Oh well. Pilots tend to suck hard, anyway...
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