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I'm rapidly cooling on the show. The monster designs have not even slightly grown on me, the characters have pretty much devolved into one-notes already (or background features in Ian and Souji's cases), and the overzealous kid appeal is leaving me flat. I kind of liked the idea of the batteries and how they work, but the effects are just so... stupid. A gun that shoots lust? A power that turns you into a balloon? The fart one? I know you're trying to course correct from Go-Buster, Toei, but this is ridiculous.

I'm having a lot of trouble with the storyline, too. The show's pacing is, like Go-Buster's, pretty abysmal. The difference is only that Go-Buster's plot barely moved at all, but Kyoryuger's rushes by so fast that it's hard to keep up. And all of this is really doing a disservice to the characters, none of whom are given time to breathe. Daigo, in particular, is also really starting to annoy me. I couldn't quite put my finger on it, but someone over at HJU summed up my frustrations with him perfectly: Daigo's just too perfect. We've had Sentai characters who need to spend entire episodes training to overcome a powerful enemy - last week Daigo managed to totally see through and defeat Utsusemmimaru's ultimate attack in one go. I really hate pulling out the Mary Sue label, but Daigo is pretty much a prime example and it really frustrates me.

I don't plan to stop watching the show anytime soon (it's not Gosieger-level bad, after all), but I'm already starting to put off watching new episodes and the show's going to really need to change up what it's currently doing if it wants to win me back (and I'm not sure it does).