Got to agree with Dr. Kain about 2 things.

1. Akira (Blue Mask) was a pretty good blue and Yukito (Abare Blue) was an iteresting character though he's the serious one of the Abare Trio.

2. Dairanger is a good series. Well I guess its a matter of preference, but for me I love Dairanger from beginning to the much maligned ending. I just enjoyed the show immensely and wasn't bored at all. To me the ending made sense and even the 50 years after made sense.

I gotta disagree there. From a story point of view, I thought Season 3 was well done. It had continuous plots going through the season and it was pretty much the season where the villains managed to win by having a back up plan to go with a back up plan with another back up plan.

I mean, Rito comes down, destroys the Thunderzords, the rangers come back at him with new powers. So what does Zedd do? Steal the pink power coin and Falconzord and use his grasp over it to get the rangers to pilot his new zords (and come on, I drool at the scene when Zedd enters the Command Center, as it is so awesome not to mention his battle against Tommy). The rangers outwit him, get the coin back and in comes Mastervile, who helps them nearly destroy the rangers again by turning them into children. The Alien Rangers come in and save the day, so Zedd responds by destroying the power coins and then the Command Center.

I'd try some of the older shows. Stuff from the 90s (Jetman, Dairanger) is not going to be the same as a show from the early 80s.

Don't let Sun Vulcan color your opinion of the other early shows Matrixbeast. Its like universally recognized that Sun Vulcan is less interesting than watching grass grow.

I know significant events occur in S3, I just felt that it was slogging through events (Granted, part of this comes from not having seen all of Season 3 in well over a decade).

Yeah...

It's season 3. First it was bad, then it was bad with fish people.

Gekiranger episode 1. Very first thought: **** you TV-Nihon! Learn how to ****ing translate! I tried letting you have the benfit of the doubt, but regretted it within 5 mins. Hikari Senshi's subs aren't much better as they over translate (and calling Rio "Leo" is just wrong), but at least it's translated. I can hear Japanese, but I will never understand a sentence that's left half untranslated.


Translation (or lack there of) aside, I enjoyed it. It was a solid first episode. There's not much to say about it. Just wish I had better options on the subs.

Sorry, but I just can't stand it when a show doesn't have a god damn resolution. I don't care how good a show is until the end, because an ending can make or break a show for me. And the sad thing is, I don't ask much at all in an ending. All I ask for is that something changes so that the last 40-something episodes meant something in the long run, and weren't a relative waste of time.

If the ride is fun enough I don't mind a lackluster destination. See also: Ryuki.

I liked Ryuki's ending, because beating the bad guy, as vaguely as it may have been, makes the ending worthwhile for me.