Considering how loud the pirate motif is, then yes, I do think they need to give an explanation.

:mad: If that's how the pirate theme is going to be (not) explained, I will not be a happy camper.

Was I the only one who lost it when they said, "Magical Source, Mystic Force!"?

FINALLY uploaded on Youtube.

Maybe it's because I've had months of having all my hopes and dreams crushed, and it's reduced my standards or something, but I actually really really enjoyed that episode. They really handled the changeover from Goseiger to Gokaiger really well in my opinion. Plus the new powers, they actually felt like a big deal, it was FUN. I missed that.

Minus Noah, who doesn't work for all the same reasons as he didn't work in Megaforce, I think the cast matched up well. Honestly I think this cast works better with Gokaiger footage than they did Goseiger, honestly. Maybe if I was a Gokaiger fan I wouldn't think so, but I'd had them telling me that this wouldn't work at all for a year and at least in terms of this episode, I can say they were wrong!

It was also like...really violent...like way more violent than I expected. I know there was no strawberry jam on their faces, but there were a lot of buildings exploding, at least one shot of a person being blown up, quite a few more shots of the Xborgs throwing people on the ground and quite a few scenes of crowds of people running, screaming and being shot at by the Xborgs. I dunno how they're getting away with this but I LIKE IT. What an epic invasion and what an epic way to start the series.

About the only thing I don't like was that it was all wrapped up in one episode. Why couldn't they have been on the ropes for the whole season? Does that mean after this episode they're gonna go back to eating smoothies and doing maths while an alien army hangs about in the sky? That is stupid.

No. I loved that part, too. It would have been better if they called out “S.P.D.: EMERGENCY!” when they morphed into the S.P.D. Rangers, and “NINJA/THUNDER STORM, RANGER FORM!” when becoming the Ninja Storm Rangers.

Someone said that they did yell, "S.P.D., Emergency!" But it was drowned out by the explosion. I'm not surprised that they didn't yell out the Ninja Storm morph call, though.

Yeah, they really need to fix their sound effects as the show was down right terrible in that department when it should not be. Again, if there is one thing these shows should not have, it is bad sound effects.

The ADR and sound effects were just downright awful. But honestly the voice over work has been bad since the Disney era. It's just that the dialogue has gotten more and more out of context as we've gone along. More unnecessary lines continue to be inserted into scenes that really lose impact because of them.

I dunno, maybe it's because I'm a perpetual manchild, but the ADR never bothered me that much this episode. During some of the more serious scenes in Megaforce, the dialogue and delivery was atrocious and I'll give you that, but I also think Megaforce was the worst Power Rangers show ever made.

But during episodes like this, where they're just exploring new powers and showing them off, exclamations of how awesome it all is are just really fun to me. Seeing heroes enjoy their powers is a surprisingly rare thing in this genre and it's much easier to get behind it all. Why should I care about your powers if YOU don't? Is a question I find myself asking in a LOT of toku shows, but that is one question I wasn't asking Super Megaforce.

They will eventually do that in a later episode. SPD emergency can probably be heard in the next episode which in the sentai is a dekaranger tribute(SPD's source).

I was going to say that the Mystic Force tribute was first and we'll be seeing the Mystic Dragon before the Delta Runner...but then I checked PR wiki. And it seems they skipped the Magiranger tribute episode.

I am not pleased in the slightest.