Maybe it's because I'm not a huge sentai guy but I find it funny how opposite my tastes are from you guys. I felt Dairanger failed on pretty much every level it was possible to fail on, I found Gosei Knight pointlessly tacked on and Alata is my all time favourite sentai red so far. He was the reason I made it through Goseiger's admittedly kinda terrible middle.

I thought the entire cast for Gosei was awful, which was offset by the pretty cool story.
Then again, I didn't like Gokaiger, so I'm a tad different from everyone else :lol

The Gosei girls are gorgeous, even if Eri is probably one of the worst pinks of all time. Hyde was a really, really cool second in command. And Agri was...eh..."the other guy" but his suit actor had loads of personality so I always enjoyed him in the fight scenes.

I liked Hyde, but that was about it. They all seemed kind of...Dull. I don't really care for looks since that doesn't make them spontaneously interesting (Eri was flat out awful, though), and Agri was a tad too bland.
I liked GoseiKnight, actually, but that was just because he seemed to be the only one to be taking shit seriously.

Yeah Eri sucked and Agri was bland. Gosei Knight had potential, but was wasted by being so tacked on.

In terms of Alata, he was never written to be serious - he always took things seriously when needs must, he was fierce in battle, a strong leader and loved his friends and the world and battled tooth and nail to protect them/it.

But his whole characterisation was to be like the wind, hence being of the Skyick, in one moment soothing, soft and gentle and the next fierce, raging and unstoppable. I really enjoyed the complexity of his characterisation, with every mood change feeling natural. He could have easily felt like he was flip flopping but they always made it work. That is why he is my very favourite.

Gosei Knight was a very badass 6th. One of my favorite aloof robot heroes ever.

But overall I really did love the team dynamic. They felt more like friends and relatives than a lot of other sentai have in the past. Alata's care free positivity also really helped sell me on him.

So far my favourite team - in terms of shows I've finished - is Go-Busters. They are a pretty mixed bag individually, but together they just work, they are a team with such incredible chemistry and a sort of refreshing dynamic that they weren't just a bunch of random people who happened to live in the same area or what the backstory usually is for sentai teams.

Anyone got a link to 199 heroes? The Overtime torrent is so damn slow I could probably watch the whole of Gokaiger twice before it finishes.

Its all on Youtube if you don't mind watching it there;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjAlH17WmcM

Quality is lpretty awful though.

EDIT: Actually watching scenes, quality is SUPER awful. It looks like someone filmed watching a sub with a camera!

Thank you!