What the hell happened at Dairanger ending?
 

So let me get this. All the enemies were made of mud even the guy that thought he was controlling everything.
Then when they defeated the bad guys they decide they will never see each other even tought they live in the same city and then they meet 50 years laters to see how everyone is doing.

Just WHAT THE ****?

It's more that they moved on with their lives. Their only connecting point was that they were Dairangers, and friends can and will drift apart, which was the purpose of the reunion.

It wasn't the cleanest of endings with a quick resolution, but it wasn't too confusing.

I don't know,not seeing each other for 50 years seems weird to me( You save the world with them but then you don't even go to say hello)

And Shadam was made of mud also and that was confusing at the moment because I tought he was the one that gave the souls to the other bodies.

I just think the ending wasn't good to be honest.

They didn't say they hadn't met up for 50 years, they were just having a reunion.

Shadam being made of mud is just there to symbolize that there was a greater power in the shadows.

Think of the Gorma and Dai like the Force in Star Wars. There must always be a balance, a light side AND a dark side. Thus, there must always be a Gorma and a Dai.

This sounds like this must have been your first time seeing the ending, am I right? Trust me, you will understand it more after you have watched the series several times over (The viewing last month was my 17th time).

My only issue with the ending is the horrific make up used to make the rangers look old. They really should have just had old people represent the characters.

My real issue was a point that they actually brought up during Rin's retrospective.
Despite knowing there was another threat after learning of Shadam being a mud puppet, and being ready for any threat, nothing happened and they just separated.

Or just Yin and Yang, because Taoism and a Chinese-themed Sentai.

It's strange to think that considering Dairanger has a great equalizer that will kill everyone if they fight too much.
One side cannot exist without the other, yeah, eternal struggle yeah, but it's a little confusing when Daijinryuu will come down and fuck everybody up if they do what they're destined to do, and that's fight.

Daijinryu is still a mystery to me. On one end, it seems like he is the champion of justice for humans, but then, why would he go out of his way to kill them?

I'm betting this is something that is dealt with the Chinese mythology that was lost in translation to us westerners.

Yeah, but Old Shoji though. :lolol

Funny enough, I recorded a pod cast for the Fanholes this past Sunday and we were talking about that.

Of course. But given how much Dairanger "homages" Star Wars (seriously, that villain theme is like one note away from being the Imperial March), I'd say it'd be foolhardy to discount how The Force influenced the Dai and Gorma.

Daijinryu, as I understand it, is meant to maintain harmony in the Universe. The Dai/Gorma War was too much and Daijinryu intervened. The whole "brainwashed humans nearly committing suicide" bit is confusing, but given the desire to make a show of force, it may mean more than it suggests.

P.S.: http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/Daijinryuu

So there is a greater power there and they split anyway and they are destined to fight but Daijinryuu doesn't want to. That is still weird to me.

Yep it was my first time watching the series(you watched it 17 times? damn)

Personally they could have just jumped like 5 years and it could have been better just telling how everyone was doing instead of 50 to make that awkward finish.

I think the 50 year jump was to show that it was a generational thing.

Five would have been too short though because they wouldn't have had kids yet that would be old enough to be rangers. If you recall, their powers were taken away by Daijinryu at the end there.

While showing a generational shift was a nice way to end it, I think 50 years was too much.
I would've much preferred a 20 year jump, so that we could have, say, a 30 year old Kou leading a team of teenage Dairangers, while the rest of the former team are pushing to their 50's so they can't properly fight.