Oh right, I had forgotten about that.

Yeah for a show with such careful story telling otherwise it was a bizarre misstep that felt like a bigger deal than it might do in other shows.

Gaoranger 05. God this is gonna be a long fifteen episodes isn't it?

As I'm not really feeling Gaoranger I thought I'd postpone it and check out the first episode of Gokaiger and it was pretty damn amazing, extremely silly, but still amazing. But then first episodes usually are, I'll be interested to see where this one goes.

Also man those Gokaiger suits and weapons, so so gorgeous. Seems a shame to have such gorgeous suits in a show centred around turning into other suits. And wow, for such an unconventional bunch for a sentai their teamwork is a thing of beauty. I really, really like how defined each character is already - I like Marvellous especially, he's just really cool. I'm not sure how I'll feel on him in the long term, but for just this episode his badass nonchalance was mucho appreciated.

If I was to have any complaints...that first Gokai Change was...amazingly lame. I guess for diehards of sentai it would have been an epic moment, but for someone who has no connection all I saw was extremely dated suits and a pretty craptacular power set and finishing move, I mean really, a bin truck? The rest of the changes were with teams I was more familiar with, and are more modern so it was a lot better then for me, but still.

You know for how much I love everything, I didn't really get grabbed by the first episode of Gokaiger, it took a couple episodes for me to really get into it. There is a lot of subtlety in Gokaiger that you can miss out on some things.

I'm surprised you actually haven't watched Gokaiger.

I can see why, it was very unconventional both in the kind of heroes and the general set up. Plus showing off your gimmick by kicking a Football that turns into a Bin Lorry isn't exactly an action scene to set your world on fire...

But I dunno, maybe it's just because I'm not that big of a sentai guy, the fact the Gokaigers felt so unlike other teams - and the production feels so much bigger than usual - I just dug it.

I tried to hold off Gokaiger to get more sentai knowledge under my belt first but sentai is just a franchise I really can't get into much. I don't want to be *that guy* but I just feel Rider provides richer, more focused storytelling and much more variety in their seasons.

I find most sentai is really fantastic out of the gate and usually pretty damn fantastic on the way out, but as it comes out of the gate full steam it runs out of energy fast and suddenly we're down to watching the same old show with slightly different helmets and monster designs. I can't think of any sentai - even shows I like - where you couldn't AT LEAST cut out about ten episodes from the middle with no impact on the wider show at all. And that is really problematic.

I love Gokaiger. It's the only sentai show that I've unreservedly loved watching for its entire run. The tribute episodes give the show a variety of stories and tones to play with, and that stops the show from entering into the repetitive middle section that plagues most sentai.

That the Gokaigers are so resistant to the idea of being heroes -- and that they kind of think Sentai is cheesy but still embrace all the silliness -- is so refreshing. And the best part is they're always like that! Yeah, they change and grow to varying degrees, but they're never fully comfortable calling themselves heroes.

The show's effects are also super cool looking. Their role call with space in the bg is gorgeous, Final Wave is beautiful...

And the action. Sweet fancy Christ, the action.

Really glad to hear that - especially about the characters - their unconventional nature as Rangers and the fact the show never set them up as heroes is so refreshing.

Thinking about it, Sun Vulcan, Megaranger, Dekaranger, Kyoryuger, Gekiranger, Gokaiger, Go-Busters, etc etc.
I've never had a Sentai series grab me with the first episode...

The first couple of episodes are usually my favourites :lol