Here, here! It is not a good idea to bill a show as one thing then do something completely different. Especially when your only excuse is "we're still making money, the kids won't notice"...

Is this episode watchable outside the US yet? 'Cause I really need to watch it out of morbid curiosity to see if my irritation (at the huge behind-the-scenes "is that necessarily the best way you professionals could have done that?" issues the show is having) matches up to the standard of the episode.

I actually enjoyed the first episode you see despite the VA babble, so maybe the second'll pass the test too?

My biggest issue is his claim that this is the most expensive season yet.

I get that PR ≠ Sentai, but looking at it from the perspective of my 5 year old nephew, Saban fails. I watched Gokaiger with him during the summer last year and he sat through every single episode. He hasn't been able to make it through either of the first two episodes of Super Megaforce. It boggles my mind that he is captivated by a show where he doesn't understand what the characters are doing, yet the native version can't hold him through the first commercial break. I have to agree with him.

As for the episode, it was alright. Its already been said, but there was a lot of lazy in the episodes. They are just given all the zords at the start? They knew of RPM and SPD, but called the Delta Runner "car zord"? A throw away line explains the Dairanger suits? I think my biggest problem was that this was the SPD tribute episode, my favorite season, and we didn't get anything along those lines. Where was Doggie? You can throw anyone in the suit and get John Tui to do the lines. I agree that Saban messed up saying the season was a tribute. It feels more like just another season.

Actually they do call it the Delta Runner, only Jake calls it the cart zord, for whatever reason.

they cant skip it because it's all about selling the toys, if they skip the delta runner episode, then the delta runner will not sell, it's the same with dairanger suits it's bandai's idea and saban kept the footage to sell those keys.

like or hate it, it's not going to matter it's about selling the toys. that's the way it is.

Tell that to Magidragon and Fuuraimaru.

Well seeing as how the target audience is tuning out then, with a bit of luck, viewing figures for SMF will filter through to someone who matters (increasingly I'm convinced thats the Nick and BoA execs, rather than Haim or JT) and Dino Charge might have a little more effort put into it.

One can hope.

Honestly? Everything up until the Gokaiger footage happens is absolutely fine in my opinion. Which furthers my opinion that you can't shoe horn in different monsters/powers/suits/zords and expect the season to work. Barely worked in the mid 90s, so why would it now?

magidragon will be adapted in the next episode and fuuraimaru will probably be used as well and it's getting toy release although it probably wont debut until the fall so it's early to complain about that.

well, you are right about that, but that's on nick for the episode problem and if they did put a 42 episode adaptation for gokaiger then they have to bring out the sentai teams of the keys/footage because it's just too much footage to cut and alot of money to refilm, so it's only way it would work.

You're kind of just making that up. There have been no plans at all to release Dairanger keys in the US. With the revelation that there will only be about 60 total keys anyway, there's no way they'd make Dairanger keys rather than actual power rangers. So it has literally nothing to do with selling toys, because there are no US equivalents of those toys. It's simply not happening.

What Saban considers expensive and the rest of us do is probably two different things.:lol