Gokaiger 25. I wonder if they'll keep that boob grab in for Super Megaforce, imagine Jake's face :lol

The suit actors sure were sweaty in this episode, I think that is the most amount of Ranger sweat patches I've ever seen in one episode. Hell in one series, it just managed to be done in one episode!

Anyway this episode was pretty decent but a little too silly for my tastes. Purely on its merits as a tribute, it's one of the better ones, kinda makes me wanna give the Hurricanger HKs another go. If nothing else, for Nao Nagasawa and I also want to support every Ranger in this show that is still fighting or using their skills even after losing their spandex.

Anyone else find it distracting that although Sentai is taking the action out of the quarries and abandoned warehouses - thank God!! - they end up instead using the same four or five locations in every season, and never disguise them or try to shoot them any differently? Even interesting locations have somehow now become just as bland and homogeneous as those warehouses and beaches.

I imagine that the producers are sitting around and shrugging, going "The audiences won't tell the difference of one street corner from another. Why spend more money shutting down specific sections for a day or two when we can resort to the same 4?"

I don't agree with it, mind you, but would it really make much notable differences if the buildings they're fighting around are different?

Personally, for me, it makes a huge difference that they are fighting in city streets all together. It was so lame when the battle for the fate of the world was decided in a construction site or something.

But I dunno, I guess it's just because sentai gets oversold pretty bad, not by this community, but speaking generally. And then you see things like them picking a small set of locations, each with a lot of character... and then shooting them exactly the same every other season, even when seasons are supposed to, it seems, take place in entirely separate worlds.

It just feels oddly lazy, almost cheap. Couldn't they at least stick the camera in a different corner once in a while? I don't even know where sentai is shot, so if they shot it from the West one season, and the East the next I wouldn't even notice they were using the same location twice.

Does it matter? Maybe not. But I always think to myself 'how would the fandom react if Power Rangers did the same?'. I learnt from Gokaiger that Super Sentai has no regard for cohesion or continuity, something oddly defended by its louder supporters but it just seems odd that something largely associated with being a bad thing still manages to find defenders, when it's done by our great messiah, the greatest most progressive adult franchise ever made...Super Sentai.

I started gathering screenshots for a Toei Shooting Location Bingo card awhile back. Then I got bored and stopped. There are a lot of reuses, though. Especially that damn stadium exterior.

The stadium exterior, that building with that big square structure, that staircase, that underpass and then the samurai set. Like that is practically the only locations they have and they just cycle through them, always shooting them in exactly the same way.

I wonder if they celebrate birthdays for the Edo set. That thing's old enough to join websites now!

I'm honestly surprised it's still standing it's so old.

Speaking of old and set reuses, I was surprised to see that one amphitheater pop up while I was watching Dairanger. It's been updated, but I didn't know that location was that old.

Oh God how could I forget about that one!

Currently watching my first Super Sentai Series: ToQGer. It's... ... Well, I just finished Episode 3. You can probably guess what I'm feeling like. Although, there's one thing that interested me.

Does anyone know the japanese lyrics to Chain Shadow's coffin song?! It's awfully catchy! I'm trying to get it by ear, but I'm afraid to make mishaps!