Super Samurai episode 03 - "Trading Places" discussion
 

This week Emily and Mike must work together when a Nighlok traps the spirits of the other four rangers! But as always there's a twist! ;)

Discussion goes here!

From the preview, they made Jayden do the Lord cat pose, but changed the cat statue into a Gnome. Not even one doing the same pose.

What the heck man? :(

Edit: Alright, the Gnome has a staff which kinda looks like it, but Jayden's hand shouldn't be that high up. He's still doing the Lord Cat pose, not the Gnome's :U

Be fair, man. You can't expect American kids to understand weird, foreign Japanese concepts like a cat statue.

"Hey, how are you feeling? I'm feeling super!" ... My eyes can't roll as hard as they need to after hearing that.

Maybe I'm wrong, but the way I see it the Black box makes having 6 Rangers un-necessary. One Ranger can go Super, and can summon and pilot the zords alone....Kinda like "I got this one guys...you can go home...". I couldn't believe they summoned the Clawzord and the Octozord without Antonio, (and apparently he didn't notice). I just think being able to do all that alone just ruins the whole point of having a team....

it saban 's lazy writers - i want see whole team in super mega mode

No lazier than they did it in Shinkenger.

I don't think that was lazy....

Neither did I really, but the concept was exactly the same so its hardly surprising Saban followed suite. I don't think at this stage anyone should be expecting such extensive new footage.

So it's still Carbon Copying the sentai?

I actually enjoyed this episode quite a bit. I actually laughed out loud at Bulk's joke about yesterday's news. Whenever I get around to watching Shinkenger I have a feeling I'll love their version of the episode.

I found it quite entertaining.

did they do the pissing fountain statue switch?

I think this was one of the episodes that would always translate reasonably well to Power Rangers, and I wasn't disappointed. Body swap episodes are always fun and the Bulk and Spike bits were well integrated into the plot even if they didn't actually interact with the rangers. Serrator should be appearing soon, which I'm really looking forward to :D

That being said, I have to agree with sunstorm9119 about only two of them being able to operate the megazord. It did take a lot away from the teamwork element of the show.

To be fair, if anyone could pull that line off it was Mike.

Nope, Kevin was a ballerina in a music box instead.

LAME! That part from Shinkenger was hilarious!

Kevin being a Ballerina was pretty funny, and Mike putting him in a Tutu was epic....

Yeah, I agree.

This is a change I'm pretty fine with since they didn't want to make Jayden a cat :lol

I guess I just know too many male ballet dancers to find that funny.

Still waiting for Nick to put this episode online...

Not a bad episode, Samurai continues to be entertaining. I look forward to the debut of Serrator.

Just caught up on everything. Enjoying the fact that they're continuing, without actually calling it one, the relationship with Mike and Emily. The show has failed to make me super interested in catching it on Saturday mornings, but I am going to watch the online Nick.com episodes as they come up. Hopefully something original happens.