I'm not sure of that. One of the few things that made me go "what the-?!" was that strange joke of RedBuster freezing up while making this strange falling pose. Just seemed random and out of place with everything else in the show. Probably the only thing about the episode I didn't like. It looks to be leaning to the serious side, but with that being our introduction to the red ranger I'm not ready to call this serious or a comedy yet.

The next episode preview didn't suggest entirely serious to me either, but hey - the more comedic Sentai are alright with me too.

Yeah, rewatching the episode with Over-Time's subs, I noticed that. Seems that freeze up joke is caused by RedBuster's fear of cocks. That's a sentence I didn't expect to type today.

I don't mine comedy at all, I just hope there's a good balance.

Just finished, really enjoyed it. Has a lot of promise and i am loving the buddyoids

that ending theme is amazing :lol

It was certainly fine, but I didn't really feel strongly one way or the other about it.. Looks like the budget was maybe a bit higher... this looked more like latter-day Kamen rider to me in terms of production value. Also, with a couple of exceptions, I thought the CGI was better blended with the practical effects than in years past. The mech battle was among the best I've seen in Sentai.

Oh, and I was very confused about the "freezing up" thing. I thought it was some kind of ESPer action... not a joke, as such. Guess we'll see.

a+....just....so A+

Congrats Sentai...will you finally be able to do an (indisputable) 2 good seasons in a row?

That's a rather bold claim for a first episode that only showed Red being able to fight off an enemy...

Aww, Matrixbeast you seem to dislike the episode so much, but you haven't elaborated why yet. You must elaborate, or we won't be on the same page. :)

Well, for a first episode, it established that Blue and Yellow, despite receiving constant training and being overall combat ready, are vastly inferior to Red, who could do more to the enemy in 5 shots then the two could do in 3 minutes with the same weapons.
Nothing made sense, the concept of why the rangers were "Special" and the Buddyroids had no explanation whatsoever, only 2 characters were actually introduced, the Engrish was more forced than funny, and the fighting was a bit too wire fu for now.

HOWEVER, it's only the first episode, so I'm more willing to change my opinion as the series goes on. I'll also admit that some of the action was cool, the zord battle was neat, and the lack of a stock morphing sequence was a nice change of pace. But as a first episode goes, I was just bored and confused.

WRONG!! There was not enough wire-fu.