He may share their traits, but the fact he isn't a hero makes me say no. He's more of a villain opposite like Dark Red Buster if you want to make comparisons.

I guess Rio would be there too if he didn't go on to be considered an extra hero.

Basco is like Sir Cowler (Flash), Bio Hunter Silver (Bioman), Jin (DaiRanger), and Ritchihiker (CarRanger). He is there to crash the party every now and then and be bad ass about it whenever he does appear on screen.

True, but none of those characters actually went as far as to have their own version of the main teams changer, weapons and even their own version of their finisher and gimmick. I guess the Dark Red Buster comparison makes sense, but Basco was affiliated with the Bonus Keys for quite a long time (rather then just his opening two parter with the sixths) and is put with them in the Ranger Key books so I thought maybe there was some connection. But the "not a hero" thing is definitely a pretty big minus to the idea.

I still really wanna see Gokaiger, but I still wanna get more sentai under my belt first. Gonna finish Gobus, then probably start Gaoranger and then Maskman.

I hope I haven't hyped it up to people's disappointment. It's a polarising series, really, you seem to either really love it or really hate it.

I will admit I usually do end up liking underdog series more, not for the sake of being contrary but just because your expectations are normally lowered to the point where you physically cannot help but love it, because every moment impresses, because it's impossible to be just as shit as it's hyped to be.

So onto the final episode of Gobus. What a wonderful way to wrap up the series! Hey wait, what episode are we on, wait episode thirty?! Eh! How can this show go for twenty more episodes?

He has to be a good to qualify as a "Hero," though.
You can call him an evil ranger akin to Wolzard, the Neziranger, or Enter if you want, but and extra/other/bonus hero he is not.

I hope you enjoyed the end of act 1. After a brief interlude, the plot will resume with act 2 :D.

Are they really going to start an entirely new show with the same characters? That sounds...awful.

Then again, despite some great moments, Act 1 of Gobus was pretty equal hit and miss. So I dunno, maybe Act 2 will be way better. I hope it will be!

No, it's still the same show. It's just that the plot shifts away from the tower defense plot they had been doing.

Gobus 31. What is more lame, Gavan or reusing the old Metaroid suits and just colouring them in different?

I guess at least Gavan being as lame as he was, he didn't end up overshadowing the heroes in their own show, which tends to happen in stuff like this. Plus, yay Suzuka Morita. She is SO GORGEOUS and I have missed her terribly since I got bored of Shinkenger.

Can you really cite that as a Gobuster problem when I've yet to see a Sentai that hasn't done that before at one point or another?

I don't think I've ever seen it done this blatantly before though.

Funny thing is the Gavan cameo eps were more interesting than that movie ever was :lol.

Gekiranger didn't reuse suits. Well, I guess you could argue the RinRinShi or the Bettle Warriors, but one is the non-battle mode of the MOTW and the other a more advanced mook.

This 80s sentai series I'm working on.

God I dread to think how bad the film was then :lol

I can't recall being so bored with a movie in my entire life.

It probably doesn't help that everything about Gavan is terrible. He summons his armour so dramatically but it looks like they had about one yen and five minutes to chuck it together, also making it out of a material that attracts fingerprints and smudges for HILARIOUS effect whenever he stepped out of the shadows. Then what? He leaps in his shitty...whatever that bike thing was meant to be. Which fit with his theme of cheap and unfinished.

Even the completely solid Gobus production values couldn't seem to make him interesting as he fired lifeless finger beams and span around a sword without a single identifiable detail on its design other than 'wow this is boring in every way'.

Maybe THE POINT was for him to look like he stepped right off the set of a 70s toku show - I dunno the context honestly - but Kamen Rider found ways of making the original Riders exciting (seeing them fly through the air, and send enemies flying completely no nonsense was BADASS even alongside all the crazy forms and powers of the Heisei Riders). It just felt like they didn't try with Gavan.

I dunno, maybe with the flagging Gobus show they wanted to show just how shit he could be.

That's because Gekiranger did everything right.
(That, and I thought the 2nd Toad fist user (It may have been Frog fist) was a repainted Maga. I could be entirely wrong, though :lol)

*adds Geki to his sentai list to work through before watching Gokaiger* Gah I have three series on it already and only like three weeks until I'm working full time again. GOTTA GO FAST.

Gavan. Definitely Gavan.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks he SUCKS.

Working on Gekiranger now, and just watched the Nei-Nei! Hou-Hou! Hong Kong Decisive Battle. Watching it was fun, and then... wait.. wtf..... no it can't be...? Yang? I've seen him before... he was IRON CLAW in J.A.K.Q. Damn, it's cool to see a past Sentai character play another role, and another bad guy.

I want to say Frog Fist user was a different suit, but he was beaten so quickly I can't remember :lol.

Time for some serious marathoning then. Gekiranger is a really good series.

Jungle Fury is my favourite Power Rangers show, so I'm real interested to see how Geki does it.

If you like shows that don't believe in status quos and raise the stakes constantly you can't go wrong with Gekiranger.

Sounds refreshing to me!

Mustn't have seen Desolation of Smaug yet.

Nothing is more boring than Gavan.

Everyone's talking Gekiranger now. Speaking of which!

Gekiranger 10-12

More training! The Elephant Master is introduced. I honestly didn't expect him to appear past the episodes he was introduced in, so when he randomly showed up in the Bath-house in twelve, I was pretty surprised. I like this guy. Like Shafu, he seems to have a unconventional way of training them, but whatever works, right?

Time for some Rio development. Didn't exactly go into his past more like I thought it would, but now Rio gets his own master. That's pretty rare honestly. Can't think of a show with a main villain who has to learn form someone else aside from Lost Galaxy. And this training isn't just any regular training...it's actually attempt to murder your pupil and absorb their misery training!

Though, Rio's apparently something of a Rin Jyuken prodigy and overcomes Master Hawk's attempts to kill him and surpasses him...sort of. Gan is continuously looking to be a Geki Jyuken prodigy as well. Given that he can sense the same things the masters do.

Master Hawk seems interesting like a foil to Shafu. I had to question how wise it was for Rio to keep him alive at first, but since he plans on killing him eventually, I guess he's got it all figured out.

Decided to go and watch the entire series of Hurricaneger last week. Watching a few eps each day, currently up to 27.

Ah, I seen you've hit the point where Gekiranger becomes its true self. Two shows for the price of one.

I could already tell things are about to get interesting with Master Hawk's introduction, but this intrigues me...I think I'm gonna go watch a few more.

Gobus 32.

I love how Gavan tries to act like the Gobus is a bad team and in the response the show tries to point out just how shit he is. Fuck you Gavan.

The only reason I can't hate this episode is because my favourite sentai - Goseiger - was about 70% made of episodes that totally ignored what came in the past, while trying to pretend their teamwork sucked, so we could come to the same conclusion we already had about fifty times. At least this was the FIRST time Gobus has done it and hopefully the last.

Hey look, its Gosei Knight's favourite place in the city! What...wrong show? I kinda forgot, since they stopped putting the Enetron towers in the establishing shots, despite it being literally the first thing you see in the opening credits...

Oh neat! Neziranger retur-What? They're gone already?
...Oh.

Watched the Gosei VS Shinken movie. Personally, I feel it could have been better but it could have also been handled worse. There was no "fanservice" scene with the girls like the past couple of VS movies I've seen (Deka VS Aba and Magi VS Deka) which would have been fun but it was a nice little romp through Shinkenger town.

And Kotoha was adorable and I see no issue with that.

Finished Megaranger!

It was decent, but it had a boatload of problems, too.

The main villain was insane (No, not all villains are insane), and stupidly petty to ridiculous levels. Their "Master" was a non-character other than needlessly forcing Gurail onto them and being a deus ex machina (Making the Neziranger forcibly fall back every time they were going to win).

The rangers themselves didn't fare much better. They each had a one sentence description for their character and that was about it. Their character episodes helped expand them (Somewhat. Miku and Koichirou were stiff as boards), but immediately after, they're back to normal. Shun learns to be compassionate towards others? Next episode he's back to being a smug asshole. Kenta learns that not every problem can be solved by screaming louder? Next episode his mouth opens wide enough to be a new world record. It goes on and on. Yusaka wasn't on the same boat, but he had his share of problems, too, being too perfect. Every other episode he appeared was displayed a new talent (Offset that there were multiple episodes where he was absent, making it tolerable).

Harping on the effects of a late 90's toy commercial would be like kicking a dog after it fetched the ball.

The overall design was hit and miss. The mecha were lovely. This series is making me want another Mega Voyager :lol
The others were great, too. Galaxy mega looked amazing and the Delta Mega and Mega Winger, while not as good as the other two, weren't bad.
The ranger suits were nice. They're different, but still interesting to look at. I liked the screen on their head, above their normal visor.
The monsters, on the other hand...Sometimes, you'll run into an amazing monster, like the Lion Nezire. Other times, you end up with something like the Canary Nezire...I know 51 episodes = 51+ monster suits, but still, some were just down right terrible.

Speaking of monsters, I loved the Neziranger. They were everything I was hoping for, which is to say, the Psycho Rangers with cooler voices :lol
They were awesome, and just as insane as I like it (Well, Nezi Blue, was). I didn't like how little they got to do, not even being around for 10 episodes, but their presence is certainly one that won't be forgotten.
It's unfortunate. They had so much potential for all different kinds of stories, but it didn't amount to much beyond what Hinelar had planned...

Oh well. The action was nice (Though some mecha fight scenes around the middle devolved into "Token punch -> Finisher," much to my annoyance), and the characters were all likable to a point (*Looks at Miku*...To a point...), and they played off each other well (Though, it worked better for dramatic arcs, since the comedic arcs tended to fall flat).
We don't talk about the crepes...

Anyway, dodgy effects aside, Megaranger was pretty nice.

They just weren't the same without those cool bad ass synthesized voices.

There's a time and a place for using a synthesizer.
It was most definitely not here. I despised how completely stupid the Psycho Rangers sounded because of whatever editing they did on their voices.