We'll it's about time they earned a zord instead of letting Gosei giving it to them. The episode was totally great but not that great.

Ya know, this is the first episode of Megaforce/Super Megaforce that actually made me smile since Dream Snatcher, but that one was basically because of the ending bit with Robo Knight.

They actually showed some effort with this one. There was quite a bit of new footage, the moments with Jake and Gia on the ship were rather adorable, and they actually earned this zord for once. All the throwbacks to Wild Force really made this Wild Force fan happy, and I actually look forward to Jayden's cameo in next week's episode so that we can see what I like to call "Shinken Gaokai-Oh" in Super Megaforce.

Though, what really made me smile with nerdish glee was the (sadly brief) transformation by Jake into the black ranger from Dino Thunder. They even used one of the sounds (which I pretty sure is just a stock roar sound) from that show.

Something that is funny to me is that Saban seems to be putting a lot more care into "Tribute Episodes" involving their ranger seasons. First all this effort put into this one, and next week's episode will be the first one to actually show a veteran ranger. I get the feeling that if Saban was involved, that season is going to get a lot of love...with the exception of SPD, they seem to use that one a lot. :lol

The one misstep i've seen from Super megaforce so far is that they decided not to use the theme songs when they morph into the old rangers.

Adding the themes to the these team really adds an extra punch to the moment.

So wait, when they were searching the Island for the Lion, and the parts where they were first fighting the Xborgs, was that new footage? Or stock?

Mostly stock and a little new. It was a combination of footage from episodes 3 and 9 of Gokaiger and a few moments of new Wild Force footage to cover over Turboranger footage.The All-Black Change was originally in Episode 3 of Gokaiger (Magiranger tribute) and it was originally followed by an All-White Change that was cut due to 2/3 Whites being Sentai-only. The reason only three changed was because the team got separated in that episode of Gokaiger.

I'm back! Let my criticisms ruin your day no matter how small or big they may be :lol

"Forget dog-fighting these jets, we're gonna dragon fight them!" I believe that piece of awful ADR sets the tone.

- You've won a bunch of battles so go talk to this lion. The motivations for the rangers getting new powers/weapons/zords continue to be non-existent in this show. There's no driving force for them to be doing what they're doing at all.

- I know people like new footage, but was it entirely necessary to have them using binoculars with their suits on and no helmets? I guess I just don't get the point of scenes like that. What was the advantage of wearing their ranger suits but not the helmets? While we're on that subject was it necessary to film all of a minute of new footage with the Megaforce suits just because they fell to the ground later in the episode? They immediately changed again so why?

- The characters at least feel like they fit the footage more now. But Noah and Jake still just don't sync up in my opinion.

- Why splice in the all black ranger change from episode 3 of Gokaiger into this episode at all? Just to pad it out? Because it wound up being pointless when the next cut is them in their super mega suits coming to help Jake & Troy.

- I don't care if it's a small point we shouldn't get worked up about, but it's very noticeable to see where they poorly edited out the Turborangers. It isn't just Pink Turbo either, it's the entire team. Because the colors more or less match up with Gaoranger they thought no one would notice. But I did, and I think it's a further example of the poor editing of this show to leave something like that in. Of course most people won't even see it, kids definitely won't. But again I feel like the "for the fans" statement Saban blanketly made about this season should at least guarantee us a quality product.

- What the hell did they even do to "earn the red lion's trust"? In the source footage at least Ahim & Doc helped earn the respect of Gao Lion after befriending Gao Red. But because this show has seen fit to throw motivations for it's characters out the door, none of that's present here. Things just sort of happen to the rangers out of the blue whether it contextually makes sense or not.

I know I'm that guy, and people probably think I hate this show simply because it's Power Rangers and not Sentai. Which simply isn't true. If I want to watch Gokaiger I'll go watch it again. What I'd like to see here is something that at least pays similar tribute to it's history. But that just isn't happening. This episode was at least structurally better than the last one, but I still didn't think it was very good. I'm even voting bad and not horrible this time to prove it.

What was the reason for the Lion not accepting them? I haven't seen the episode yet, but I assume they made up one. In Gokaiger, it was because they were more interested in their own goals then protecting humanity and it only joined them once he and GaoRed witnessed them protecting humans, even if Red, Yellow and Blue denied that was their intention. None of that matches up with anything in Super Megaforce, so did they make up their own plot or was the lion just a dick and randomly adversed helping to save humanity for no reason?

Had to watch it on hulu since I missed it yesterday. I thought the episode was okay. Liked it way better than last week's. Troy was barely in this episode at all. He was essentially morphed the whole time aside from that one scene in the command center, where he basically just stood there and said nothing. His ADR acting is better anyway.

Mason Truman voicing the monster of the week. Surprising lack of dog puns too. I think they filmed new Green footage to show Jake as a competent fighter...but later on they keep footage of GokaiGreen's goofy fighting style. It doesn't bother me that much honestly, since Jake has a tendency to goof around anyway.

And...why can Noah sense the presence of the Red Lion. They never explain that! Why bring it up at all?!

But yeah, I thought it was okay. Still nothing outstanding but I don't think anything was that horrible either. When it came time for the scene where they left int he Turborangers, I honestly barely noticed. Though that may be because I'm not that familiar with the suits.


Basically...none of the Gokaiger plot happened really. Red Lion just sort of accepted them when they used the Wild Force Powers to the full extent. I guess he was just pissed off how they got Mystic Force powers for nothing last time and wanted a full tribute before they earned his trust.

Pretty much. The lion just whacked them all off his island with no real explanation. The bad guys "gave up" trying to take the lion and the rangers started fighting them. Then magically red lion just approves of them later.

This show just doesn't want to create character motivations.

So... Why didn't he just join them straight up? What a jerk-ass lion! Seems like sort of a contrived plot and the whole episode sounds like one big fight scene with older Gokaiger episode footage filling in the gaps. Was the scenes of Yellow, Blue and Red protecting humans used?

Still, I'll reserve judgement until I see it. Just sounding a bit disappointing. The original footage in the second preview and the implication of actual plot in the first preview actually put my hopes up a little.