Hey, remember how we all thought this whole Stinger/Scorpio drama was going to have some sappy speech from Lucky about brotherhood or something that just solves everything?

http://i.imgur.com/tA7WFpi.jpg

S*** like this is why I love loving this show. It's like every time I actually think it'll let me down it just slaps me in the face for not having more faith in it.

Yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and say we have a new best episode of Kyuranger. The only way it could be better is if the first 11 minutes had been a goofy Christmas special. The quality can probably be boiled down to a couple things:

- Lucky got about as much attention as Spada usually does, showing that they really are learning how to let him sit things out when he needs to.

- Stinger's actor is really good, and now he actually gets to do some real emotion. He really sells the episode and you can see just on his face all the conflicting emotions Stinger goes through as this episode drags him through the wringer.

- The twist with Scorpio could be seen coming from a mile away, but the episode makes it work to its benefit. Much like me, Champ isn't fooled for a second. And yet, I think they do a pretty good job of making it believable enough that you can easily see why Stinger buys it.

- Also Champ. What a legend. It feels like Kyuranger is starting to actively get something out of its large cast rather than feeling held back by it. You can't really write a character out like this, even temporarily, in your standard five man team. It's a twist I definitely didn't see coming, and even though things are sure to go back to normal soon enough, this was a really great show of character development for Champ.

Damn... this was such a brutal punch to the guts...!

I was this close to believe Scorpio was really having his own agenda and care for Stinger... boy was I wrong. Poor Champ... Yeah we know they'll fix him but wouldn't be great if he came back as a blank state like Spock?

I see what you did there.

Well Stinger, think of it this way.

You were about to become KyuSasuke. But your brother turned out to be a reverse Itachi, so it's all good!

You're not Sasuke.

Granted, you still got Champ killed, but it could have been worse.

I am trying to remember but was there even a Yossha Lucky! this episode? This was a good episode and I wish they could keep this up but I doubt it.

They also whipped the black guy to make him work harder.

Sooooo many baad jokes can from this episode. :lol

There were. IIRC, arond 3-4 mainly in the beginning part.

I was pretty distraught... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiVZRAUlvEY

Well shit.

By the way, Stinger's actor has the chops.

This episode does give me high hopes for the Stinger V-Cinema.

I would of liked if we had maybe one or two more episodes of Champ and Stinger by themselves just to sell the emotional connection between them more.

Other than that, this episode was pretty great. A lot of the emotional scenes were done pretty well especially in regards to Champ and Stinger. Scorpio is shaping up to be a pretty great villian and I do sort of appreciate that they didn't go for the redemption type story with him even though I do like those kind of stories. The show I think is starting to find its footing over how to use its multiple characters, like how we had multiple action scenes going on at the same time this episode.