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04-02-2014, 04:00 PM | #5161 |
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Gekiranger 28-30
And so the last member of the Gekiranger team arrives. And he's hilariously awful. Not in a bad way though, he's in the running for one of my favorite members of the team already simply for the sheer amount of times he's managed to fuck up only to somehow make up for it in the end. This is GekiChopper and these are fis few intorduction episodes to the team. He was supposed to spend his time away from the team by training on sacred grounds and practicing his ability and what happens? He takes a vacation instead. He's entrusted to hold onto a sacred item that if fallen into evil hands can spell major disaster and what does he do? Sells it to an antique shop for cash which he apparently spends entirely, forcing him to bring Retsu along to pay for it back. He's admittedly lazy and doesn't seem to train. His first action when reaching Japan again is to steal some of Jan's snacks and interrupt the other Gekirangers in the middle of a fight with a semi-truck just to get them back. This guy is awful. The only thing he has going for him are his fighting ability which has a technique even the Kensei can't use and the fact that he does seem to care for people deep down. Other than that, this guy is hilariously awful. We do get some background on Bat Li and some of the stuff that happened to him during the Rinjyuken Rebellion. surprisingly in the flashback, he was still a batman. He has some sort of star crossed romance with this fortune teller chick, which turned out to be pretty nice in the end. And on the RinJyuKen side, Mele's accessed DoRinki from her anger of having to resort to dirty tactics to gain the magic sword thing form Ken. Mostly 'cause of that piece of shit, Long. I had to question this for a minute and from what I remember that does check out. Some of the Rinshi under her command may have resorted to some dirty tactics, which Mele doesn't seem to ind...but she does have pride in herself as a fighter. So when she lost, she was ready to play fair and square...until Long played the well Rio will hate you now card. So now Rio and Mele have the sacred sword and are about to go to the sacred grounds with the magic sword and train their DoRinki supposedly, which is all according to Long's plan. Ken may have lost the sacred sword, but he had to choose between it or trying to save his sister, so he made the right choice in the end. Of course as soon as Ran points out it was Mele's fault that he lost it and not his, Ken quickly absolves himself of any and all blame, despite selling the damn thing in the first place. What a shithead. |
04-02-2014, 04:02 PM | #5162 |
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Lexington, Ky
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The Boukenger one while rather useless for Gokaiger, is actually a nice little coda for Boukenger. While we never see Ryuon after certain event in Boukenger, he wias never really confirmed dead. So to finally have the confirmation that he did indeed die, and have him a true final fight gave me closure I had been wanting for years.
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04-02-2014, 04:14 PM | #5163 |
The true color of a Hero
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Gekiranger 28-30
And so the last member of the Gekiranger team arrives. And he's hilariously awful. Not in a bad way though, he's in the running for one of my favorite members of the team already simply for the sheer amount of times he's managed to fuck up only to somehow make up for it in the end. This is GekiChopper and these are fis few intorduction episodes to the team. He was supposed to spend his time away from the team by training on sacred grounds and practicing his ability and what happens? He takes a vacation instead. He's entrusted to hold onto a sacred item that if fallen into evil hands can spell major disaster and what does he do? Sells it to an antique shop for cash which he apparently spends entirely, forcing him to bring Retsu along to pay for it back. He's admittedly lazy and doesn't seem to train. His first action when reaching Japan again is to steal some of Jan's snacks and interrupt the other Gekirangers in the middle of a fight with a semi-truck just to get them back. This guy is awful. The only thing he has going for him are his fighting ability which has a technique even the Kensei can't use and the fact that he does seem to care for people deep down. Other than that, this guy is hilariously awful. We do get some background on Bat Li and some of the stuff that happened to him during the Rinjyuken Rebellion. surprisingly in the flashback, he was still a batman. He has some sort of star crossed romance with this fortune teller chick, which turned out to be pretty nice in the end. And on the RinJyuKen side, Mele's accessed DoRinki from her anger of having to resort to dirty tactics to gain the magic sword thing form Ken. Mostly 'cause of that piece of shit, Long. I had to question this for a minute and from what I remember that does check out. Some of the Rinshi under her command may have resorted to some dirty tactics, which Mele doesn't seem to ind...but she does have pride in herself as a fighter. So when she lost, she was ready to play fair and square...until Long played the well Rio will hate you now card. So now Rio and Mele have the sacred sword and are about to go to the sacred grounds with the magic sword and train their DoRinki supposedly, which is all according to Long's plan. Ken may have lost the sacred sword, but he had to choose between it or trying to save his sister, so he made the right choice in the end. Of course as soon as Ran points out it was Mele's fault that he lost it and not his, Ken quickly absolves himself of any and all blame, despite selling the damn thing in the first place. What a shithead. |
04-02-2014, 04:18 PM | #5164 |
Stronger Than You
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Ken is a complete dick.
But he's funny
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04-02-2014, 04:30 PM | #5165 |
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I honestly thought I was going to hate Ken at first, but he really comes into his own. And that Christmas episode
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04-02-2014, 04:53 PM | #5166 |
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Gokaiger 23. Oh great Gold Mode is back. And come on now, that new Legendary Power is so lame.
It's tributes like these, that make me surprised people can justify with themselves in defending the tributes featuring a past Ranger simply bumming around when they could totally be helping. GoGo Pink may not be out on the streets fighting, but she was an EMT before she became a Ranger and now she's still helping people even without powers. Unlike a lot of others, she doesn't act like her out of suit skills somehow died when she lost her suit. So what is your excuse giant robot lion, government funded super powers, fire magic and super martial arts, hmmm? Luka and Ahim, the pirate lesbians. Jokes aside, the way this story paces the characters is great. Luka has always been shown to cuddle up to Ahim, and look after her, but the show never deliberately drew focus on it either. So now we actually do have an episode focused on this part of Luka, we can actually truly believe it was always a part of her character. The only frustration with the characters in this show, is that the amount of knowledge the Gokaiger have about the Earth, and the Super Sentai entirely depends on what the plot needs in that moment. So literally in almost a matter of seconds it feels like characters have completely changed as they start spouting about something or doing something they just couldn't have known a scene earlier. It's frustrating to watch.
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04-02-2014, 08:30 PM | #5167 |
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Locke, I'm not gonna say any specifics to avoid spoilers, but you should really finish Boukengers before you assume that the Boukenger powers are easily replacable. There's a lot of stuff in the end of that series that makes it pretty clear that that's not the case.
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04-02-2014, 08:32 PM | #5168 |
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Prior to, he was only tolerable at best.
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04-02-2014, 08:37 PM | #5169 |
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04-02-2014, 08:41 PM | #5170 |
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After every plot development So it likely did
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