Oh, trust me, there's an escalation. The last few episodes are all about Abrera getting pissed off at the Dekarangers always ruining his business deals and going all out to destroy not just them, but all of the SPD space fleet as well.

I don't really see any trouble with Dekaranger's villains. It's a cop show; they fight various different criminals who all have their own agendas. I thought it was a nice change from having a central villain with an army of lackeys (I just wish the monster designs sucked less - only part of Dekaranger I didn't love).

I'm not missing out on a damn thing I can't get from SPD. The only good thing in Dekaranger is Doggie and everything that made him awesome was copied into SPD.

Why Dekaranger sucks:
1) There's no plot, no subplot, no reason to care what happens next. It took the villain finally going "hey, I'm the villain" for the Dekarangers to even realize there was a villain. And this was 30 episodes in! This could've worked if they had a subplot of the Dekarangers knowing there's a villain, but don't have a face or name. I mean they're detectives! Of course that would require competent heroes, which brings me to my next point...

2) Incompetent characters. This might've been okay if these characters were untrained or forced into their roles, but these guys are trained and supposedly experienced. However, they are incompetent, at least the rangers they focus on the most. Especially Pink. Who the fuck hired this dumbass? She has no business being police officer much less a super powered space police officer.

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You and I are now mortal enemies.

100% with you on this. I can't even begin to imagine why anyone would hate her. Or the the rest of the team for that matter.

And that is why I did not like Deka as much. I need a central villain. The only thing for me that saved his character was his voice actor.

I felt there was a lot of potential Deka missed out on.

BTW, SPD was inferior because of 70s reject Disco Skeletor.

I agree. She is one of the worst pink rangers I have ever seen. And what was up with filming her taking a bath? It served no purpose to the plot.

Mortal enemy #2.

I'm with you. Deka is probably one of my least favorite series. Only thing I enjoy about it is Miss Kinoshita.

Finished watching episodes 10 and 11 Kakuranger. I am seriously enjoying the team's dynamic in the series so far. Until more english subbed episodes come in, I'm making a go-ahead and watch Carranger since I couldn't find any episode of Ohranger that are english subbed anywhere.

Grumm could have looked like Lord Zedd and he still would have felt completely out of place in the series.

I hope this does not descend too far into political discussion, but the thing that really turned me off Dekaranger was the executions of the monsters. I know all Sentai teams in history practically eliminate their monsters on a daily basis, but the way Dekaranger frames it like capital punishment makes me uneasy.

There's a reason the "judge, jury and executioner" concept is usually used for darker, hardcore series such as Judge Dredd. It feels too contrived in a Super Sentai series, much less one that is as lighthearted as Dekaranger. I can't believe that some intergalactic high court can make such split-second judgments that we are to believe are infallible. It just stretches the limits of believability and paints the Dekarangers in a bad light (as I said, in a Judge Dredd sort of way).