Rate Samurai
 

It may be a direct translation but I think there's enough here for you to judge Samurai. To start things off:

It's Meh. Its not the worst season I've ever scene but it's no where near the best. No where near being no where near. Look, I know it's a direct translation. But, aside from Antonio, none of them can act. I'd call them worse then a 2nd grade play of Peter Pan but that'd be insulting to every second grader everywhere.
Which really sucks. The Samurai Motif is such a good idea for Rangers, Origami is such a good idea for Zords. And they just.. spat on it. With loogies of suck.

So for me.. it's a big One.

I wrote a scathing review of Samurai. In it, I had an edited image of me holding a bloody sword and Jayden's head. Never had I felt such a fury at a series. The sequel was an improvement, but it's no RPM.

Steven Skyler (Antonio) is cool in and out of the show. When I met him, it turned out he actually watched Shinkenger to get into the part, because apparently they had Antonio written bland, so he wanted to make him more entertaining. Everybody else is pretty weak, they don't seem into their acting, they just seem to want to get the episode over it. I'm still peeved that (not trying to be racist) they made the Red Ranger, who is supposed to be the descendant in a long line of Japanese Samurai, white. Jayden could be an Asian guy, but they chose the white, frankly emotionless actor instead.

I rate 3, just because of Steven Skyler/Antonio

Not to mentioned Princess Kaoru is a blonde cheerleader.

Samurai's entire intent was to bring audiences (kids) back to Power Rangers.

Congratulations, achievement unlocked.

After RPM it's hard to watch something like Samurai and not have discontent for it. The show itself was, in all honesty, pretty bad ... it was an adaption series but of the lowest calibur. I understand the intent, again, bring the kiddos back to the franchise. But Power Rangers was growing up last time Saban had control, and it feels like we've gone major major steps backwards.

My hope is that Megaforce is tolerable.

If by backwards to another point in popularity and sheer presence is what you mean, then yes. The show has reverted back to a point in sheer popularity that it hasn't had since the mid-90's. Saban has done an absolutely fantastic job in breathing new life and promotion into the franchise in the last two years. The cast themselves have had appearances all over the country, doing charity events, going to promotional events for children, along with the suit actors traveling the globe including meeting Michelle Obama in London.

The merchandise has been excelling on all fronts, from toys to clothing to food to costumes. The Power Rangers Samurai logo was on merchandise ranging from nightlights to build a bear to megazords to macaroni and cheese. Even though the supposed "Intern Bot" isn't reaching its potential, is still making marked progress in gathering fans by reaching out to social media in Facebook and Twitter. Power Rangers Samurai has made quite a splash onto the marketing scene in the past two years and the show hasn't seen this type of exposure in a very long time.

Granted, these are all levels of marketing that can be applied to anything, but we're in a much better place as a franchise right now, as Elie Dekel and the press has repeated, saying that this is an exciting time for Power Rangers.

Aside from Samurai's inherent flaws as a series, it has produced a few episodes to me, as an adult fan that I enjoy greatly, such as Unexpected Arrival, Super Samurai, Trading Places, and Strange Case of the Munchies. I'm not going to sit here and sugarcoat what is wrong with Samurai as a show. I'm not blind. Mentor was less than useful, some of the acting was well below par, and the transition from Samurai to Super Samurai was painful. Story arcs were badly handled due to doing a Google Translate from Shinkenger. I would give Samurai a 5/10.

I'm going with a 6 due to a spoiler

The show is pretty to watch , but painful to listen to. It's cool to see Shinkenger footage in HD and the Yellow & Pink rangers are hot...but that's about all i will give it.

I think i am more supportive of the idea of the show for kids sake. I am content to have seen Shinkenger and letting that be my Power Ranger Samurai experience.

I am going to give Megaforce a bigger chance since i haven't seen Gosei and it's pretty much MMPR 2.0

Power Rangers Samurai gets a 1 for being an insult to Japanese culture.

It gets a 5 from me. The acting is pretty dire, but I feel I'd probably enjoy the story much more if I hadn't seen Shinkenger so I'm not holding that too much against it. The fact it's brought Power Rangers back into the limelight should be held in its favour, but it's very much a kid's show and not one for adult fans.

The last few Super Samurai episodes haven't been that bad either, so I'm relatively hopeful for the remaining few episodes.

...seriously?

To quote a friend of mine, "Seriously?". I get if you don't like the show. I don't like the show, but that's purely based on their acting. But how is it an insult to Japanese culture? It's a direct translation of Shinkenger. So is that one to in your mind?

1. I just couldn't watch this garbage. I was able to sit through Turbo, Wild Force, and even Operation Overdrive, but I couldn't bear to watch this poorly written, horribly acted piece of trash. I'll give Megaforce a shot, but if it's on par with Samurai I think I'll just stick to the Japanese shows from here on out.

I gave it a seven because I'm a nice guy and only a few things annoyed me about it. One was Emily's voice being way to high pitched, one was Ika Origami being called the Octozord when it's clearly a Squid and lastly I really didn't like the Mega Mode. Remind me why they need to wear armour to pilot there zords again ( apart from selling toys).

The rest wasn't bad I like Decker just as much as his counterpart in Shinkenger. I was also really happy that it was a direct translation of Shinkenger since I usually find when Power rangers do their own story that I dont like it as much.

So yeah 7/10 from me.

Pr Samurai is meh, for me at least. The acting alone was enough to turn me away after one 1:30 minute clip, let alone the cheesy dialogue!
The toys are decent though!

The acting in Samurai is atrocious and the story structure is horribly rigid coupled with a network that seems content to shuffle with the episode order and forget about airing new stuff for months at a time.

However, Samurai has succeeded at maintaining brand awareness through a pretty consistent toyline with some unique offerings.

I give it a 4.

I'm going to go with 5 for pretty much the same reasons as Paladin mentioned. It's a marketing success and that's worth at least something.

Trolling
 

I think this is my first post on this forum... anyway. I gave Samurai a ten. Simply put, I have had so much fun with my two sons watching the show and collecting the megazords, especially my five-year old. He is even going as Samurai Red for Halloween. And, because of his excitment with PRS, I started trolling this site for more information on the show, toys, etc.. Here I found all these things I use to love as a kid - Ultraman, MMPR and Godzilla. I discovered Kamen Rider (We are loving Wizard) and a certain show that is only for Daddy called Akibaranger (Got all three SHFiguarts for my bday). Now, we have Netflix so the kids can watch any PR episode they want at any time. So, I understand that most of you that have been around for a while were expecting maybe something more, but as someone who has been out PR for twenty years, I was actually expecting a lot less. The story has actually surprised me in several spots (love Deker) and I don't think the acting is nearly as bad as some put off, for what it is. Hell, I think these kids are better than a lot of prime time shows that have been around the last few years (cough.. terranova..cough), and they have pretty awesome skills when it comes to gymnastics and martial arts. So, with that, I've had a great experience watching Samurai, and my kids love it. So, I give it a TEN!!!