Hey, it's my specialty or something. *shrug* *loneliness*

EDIT: Also just to be clear, I'm only half-serious about that. I don't think MMPR was trying to corrupt the youth or something stupid like that. I really do like it quite a bit and there's a reason the show is still going strong even today.

*Hug*

I love MMPR, but no, it is not an amazingly written show when it comes to story and plot. It's fun, it's entertaining, it does what it set out to do, and I ate it up. I loved it from the moment I saw the very first commercial advertising it about a month before it came out. But it is not well written, the acting is awful, and some of the effects are terrible. You can accept a show for what it is and still love it.

You do realize the whole joke there was I was saying it was "amazing" at being a shallow corporate tool to sell merchandise?

I do accept it for what it is. MMPR was a show that elevated itself above being "generic" by compensating for its lack of ambition with a lot of genuine charm.

Like I said, there's a reason PR is as big as it is. There are few kids' shows as memorable, popular, or enduring as Power Rangers in general, and definitely not from the 90's.

Amazon Episode 11: Another wonderful episode. I mainly love the fact that it's sometime Masahiko gets the random civilian needs help plot in the Showa Era because Masahiko is enjoyable. Gedon are just assholes trying to kidnap kids and drink their blood. Amazon was great again in both combat and learning about arguments and even though someone is frustrated at you doesn't mean they hate you. In Combat he beat the bloody crap out of the Snail Beastman in an amazing fight, I love his moves. I am loving Amazon's battle against Gedon and can't wait for more.

Three unconnected episodes which convinced me that its corny "hot anime" tone probably wasn't going to make it immediate viewing. On top of that the numerous posts here, there and podcasts all point to some really sloppy stuff. Again, this might all be down to TV SNAFU but, coupled with my general "meh" feeling, it's not helping. That said, I WILL watch it, eventually; feels like a good "starter Rider" for my niece. She's already a PreCure / Glitter Force devotee.


As George W. Bush would say: "uniquely American". Okay, so I made a poor word choice - how about... "childishly written"?

Fish Sandwhich, smothered in Tartar Au Contraire!


I watched it on Fox Kids after work with a bong to amp up my suspension of belief to DBZ levels. Again, remember that I was in my mid-twenties at the time and haven't smoked pot in years, not trying to be cool just explaining where I needed to go to "enjoy" MMPR.

IT'S MORPHIN TIME!!
TOOOOOOOKEEE

Big Bad Beetleborgs FTW, Flabber Kush Dank Nugs.

Sorry, I was replying to that when I was on 4 hours of sleep.

Also didn't reply to this:

Well that was one of the biggest faults of Wizard. You knew Haruto was going to save every person every time, so it became redundant. You can pretty much skip out more than half of the series because nothing changes.

Having a new Phantom general being created by Haruto failing would have added something to the show and added some much needed development to Haruto. I haven't seen a rider as one dimensional as Haruto since Super-1.

That would have been cool. Creating a new general, and having him stick around until the end of the show, giving Haruto a personal conflict that he has to resolve throughout the remainder of the show.

Yeah to be honest I wasn't active in the community when I watched Wizard but Haruto never failing to save a Gate was also a huge complaint of mine. They could've really used this to create good drama and/or tension.

The fights themselves were still cool to look at but you knew that Haruto struggling to save someone wouldn’t have any consequences.

Kamen Rider Drive x Gaim

Good lord, jumping back into Rider with this movie is giving me whiplash. I feel like there's way to much plot for an hour and a half. If this movie was extended by 30 minutes overall, with 10 minutes extra for each part, I'd be down with it. But I guess they have to have it so short so they can get as many run times as possible.

Gaim portion:

It's cool to see Kouta and Mai on their new planet for like 12 seconds before Mega Hex messes it up. Although the explanation for Mega Hex was super lazy exposition by Ryoma. I find it interesting that MegaHex fought off the forest in order to just do the same thing the forest did lol.

The movie never really did make it clear like with Kaito, but was Ryoma also a mechanical construct or was that actually him risen to life again? Dragon Fruits energy was cool though, alebeit the new powerup was fucking chumped by some Sengoku Drivers.

And what is with Kouta coming back to life? Just because they had the Kiwami Key/Golden Fruit? I guess maybe Kouta's essence became one with the fruit once he attained Space Godhood?

Drive Portion:

I haven't seen Drive, so I might sound like an idiot when it comes to this.

The section felt very eh to me. This movie as a whole has a shit load of pacing issues, but this one suffered the worst from it. Having this somewhat interesting premise of this thief stealing the ZZZ body and having a competition with Drive for the Rider title, masquerading as others, you'd think this would be a cool thing? Nope. Everything felt like it happened so fast, they had to kill Belt-san partway through just because only to have a Mach cameo revive the guy.

I feel like the revelation of Mr. Belt original building that body should be a bigger revelation then it was treated. You'd think a super powerful unused plan would be a gamechanger and very dangerous, you know? Hell, Lupin doesn't even use ZZZ most of the time, it's there for the reveal and as a plot device to power up MegaHex.

The end of the movie is whatever, my favorite moment being Kouta referring to himself as a "Space God". And both Drive and Gaim having trouble getting into Trideron because of thier swapped forms lol.