Whoa, did not expect so much dislike for this one. Or perhaps, just tired of seeing the same tropes?

Personally, I really liked it. Touma gets very little background when it comes to why he's such a pessimist.

It is proof imo that the Lupins just have the better buy line. You are all correct, if it had been a focus on Paten Red, it would have flopped. Which is possibly why last week was considered a mess. Which it was. Still, the series works to be endearing.

Same. It wasn't great or anything but it wasn’t bad either, at least not to an extent that I would expect people to hate it.

But I haven’t seen as much Sentai (or anime) so I wasn't really bothered by the plot.

The only thing I realized is that this kind of plot is what the Patoranger side needs; the Lupinrangers get more and more likeable by the week.

It was an okay episode overall, fine, nothing really mindblowing and we have seen this exact episode before as others have noted.

Not really an episode that deserves hate I would say, but it was not amazing, okay slow down breathing room episode overall.

A problem is that it's a "Breathing room" episode that came immediately after a silly, gender swap episode.
Nothing exactly "Intense" worth having a slowed down episode like this.

No I agree with that, they could have placed this episode better, having a comedy episode and a slow episode directly after each other does not flow that well, it is insanely common in the franchise though, I was actually surprised there was no small scenes to build upon our next member.

I cannot say the episode was bad though.

No one is gonna point out that bracelet was just a slightly remolded and painted time force/timeranger morpher?

Almost all the Lupin Collection are modified items from other sentai.
This one was the most blatant, though. :lol