[Blade Raider]

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Originally Posted by ComicGuy89

I hope this does not descend too far into political discussion, but the thing that really turned me off Dekaranger was the executions of the monsters. I know all Sentai teams in history practically eliminate their monsters on a daily basis, but the way Dekaranger frames it like capital punishment makes me uneasy.

There's a reason the "judge, jury and executioner" concept is usually used for darker, hardcore series such as Judge Dredd. It feels too contrived in a Super Sentai series, much less one that is as lighthearted as Dekaranger. I can't believe that some intergalactic high court can make such split-second judgments that we are to believe are infallible. It just stretches the limits of believability and paints the Dekarangers in a bad light (as I said, in a Judge Dredd sort of way).

All day yesterday I kept thinking I forgot one of the major problems I had with Dekaranger and that's it! While I can see the arguement for allowing police to kill in a giant robot battle (where many lives are in immediate danger), they execute many of these aliens on the ground when they can easily arrest them instead.

SPD is a vastly superior series by comparison. They arrested their criminals rather than kill them on the spot.