I think Candi's gimmick would be funnier if she didn't just play the same song.

But I can see where Locke is coming from. In the face of adversity, the Kyoryugers just smile and move forward. The villains (Sans Chaos) seem to be more like super powered MOTW rather than actual end game bosses, and Candi's design is too chunky.

Besides, Mele did the serious/comedic thing better.

Yeah, that is my point, I can't get invested in a show that has no conflict. The Kyoryuger are steam rolling their way through every episode and every moment they seem to lose footing, they pull out a random deus ex Beast Battery which saves the day with a stupid joke.

If your central generals have been shown to be defeated by your base form Sentai in the first ten episodes of your show, then you have problems. Whether it's a comedy show or not, it isn't interesting if there is no conflict.

Locke, I don't think Scream was serious when he said if you don't like Candi you ain't got a soul. First off. Secondly, you're allowed not to like what you don't like. But my love for Candi is deeper than a cute VO actress, and one quirky song. I love the song. If I could I'd have an alarm clock that only played that song when it woke me up. But I also love her because of the whole psychodelic cutesy nightmare of a character she is. Her and Luckiroo. Lucky I love because he reminds me of Vivi, and I am a true Vivi fanboy. But back to my original point. I love she tries to destroy everyone by making them happy (In the most odd way she can think of), I love her song, I love her nightmarish psychodelic 60's look thatw as probally helped along with the help of mushrooms, I love her giant axe heart thing. I love her completely.

And I know Starscream, Den-O, and a few other people do to.

This is great but wouldn't you like her more if she had actually...succeeded...in anything? None of her plans come to fruition, they always get blocked and stopped by outside forces. Man if she was this twisted nightmarish character who killed people with kindness then that'd be awesome but so far she has achieved nothing.

And it isn't just her either, all of the Generals are incompetent, on paper they are cool but they and their plans are always thwarted much too easily, which undermines any greatness the characters have.

The monsters of the week so far have actually achieved more than the Generals have.

... Thats every Sentai Ever :lol

This show is attempting to bring sentai back to the strong and powerful type. Go-Busters featured characters who often fought enemies far stronger and more tactically skilled than them. So the heroes always looked like they were going to lo lose. They're making the heroes look as good as they possibly can this season to get kids interested. They want the heroes to be ridiculously strong, fun, and brave. In order to do that they've dialed the villains back quite a bit. But I think Dogold has developed pretty nicely, easily the best of the Debos so far though I am partial to Canderela too.

Maybe, I will admit I'm more of a Power Rangers guy than a Sentai guy. But I know the generals in DekaRanger, Jetman and Shinkenger weren't this useless.

Maybe if I'd seen more Sentai, seen more Sentai where the generals were useless and incompetent then I could get behind this more but generals at this level of uselessness is totally new for me and it's frustrating for me as well.

Guess I need to go watch Go-Busters then!

I'll say that Go-Busters was slow for the first half but everything from episode 25 up is great. It's like they got all the filler out in the first half of the show. Yes, it had the lowest ratings for a sentai ever, but it's much much better than alot of people will try to tell you.

The problem is that, in any other Sentai, when a general character shows up, that should be the moment where you realize shit is about to go down. Not just a common occurrence to show off batteries we've never seen before.

I'll keep this in mind!

Exactly! This is exactly the point I am trying to make. Even Jetman got the Generals out and active early in the shows run but they still managed to capture that sense of 'oh shit'. I roll my eyes when the generals appear in this show.