Fair enough but most of the Zyuranger fights take place in random, unidentifiable, quarries and yet the American parts of MMPR always take place in established locations with identifiable features, so what the fuck are they doing? Why not keep their locations as bland as the Zyuranger ones so they can blend in together better? Oh right common sense isn't something Saban has...

the Zyuranger footage in MMPR needs a complete rework it looks like.

Personally, the Zyu footage doesn't clash with the American footage nearly as much the B-Fighter footage in Beetleborgs. It just looks duller in comparison and a whole lot more grainy. They did generally do a good job of matching location though.

They did really like that one public park for quite a few of the fights. Like I said I think it was just what was cheapest and easiest sadly. Even when the Zyu footage is on a beach they sometimes still went with a park. I guess because the beaches wouldn't match up we just get to assume they moved during the fight.

THe only series I felt the Jp footage clashed with the PR footage was in Turbo. The Turbo suits seemed to be more neon colored and brighter compared to the CarRanger suits.

With so much new stuff out lately I've been neglecting Dragon Knight somewhat, so I'm back with episodes 19 and 20.

Sting has bought it, and there's a nice little bit of fallout coming from that.

Food Fight is probably the best episode of MMPR so far, I loved how the World Food Peace Conference whatever the fuck it was descended into all out chaos, like it would with teenagers.

I also liked that, although stupid and goofy, the villain actually posed some kind of threat and they used both the sentai and American footage to take him down, rather than the American footage being largely disconnected. It was almost like...the episode was planned and they actually watched the sentai footage first!

The only weird thing is...no Megazord fight in this episode. Not that I'm complaining.

Ah yes, the days when there did not need to be a mech battle every freaking episode.

I think that is part of the reason why the mech stuff has never appealed to me as an adult, they spend ten to fifteen minutes dedicated to working out the villains weaknesses and defeating them, we get our victory...then it gets undermined by a completely pointless tacked on and forced robot battle. I don't mind mech stuff when mech stuff is specifically needed but most of the time it's there because it has to be it seems.

It depends. Some series work great with the mecha. Dai, Kaku, GoGoV, and Aba are prime examples of this. But then, Dai also took their time to get the majority of the mecha, and it was not forced in if it did not need to be, which is one of the things I loved about it. Dai is probably the only show that did not have a mech battle used in the final battle. Other show s though, especially Shinken, Bouken, Go-On, Gosei, etc, should just start naming their mecha Clusterfuck-Oh (as I made mention of in the other thread).

I think you hit on the head there. Sometimes it mak sense but I find myself skipping through a lot of those battles when I watch older stuff. I don't get why the monster can't just die without turning giant, at least skip the Mechs in episodes where they put in significant effort to find the weak spot and then the mech battle ends up being completely standard.