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Originally Posted by Locke

I coulda said 'stupid villains like Ninja Storm' but it looks like not a lot of people have seen Ninja Storm and MMPR is the most stupid after it. This series is the other way round, the Generals were clearly all written by the good writers along with key monsters like Sky's friend and the guy who killed his Dad but most seem to be written by the shit writers.

And that is kind of what I meant, the MMPR characters don't grow and the SPD ones wouldn't either if the shit writers have anything to say on the matter.

Ahhhh, alright, I see what you are getting at now. I was not grasping how you were making the connections but I'm following you now. Ninja Storm was more like MMPR in that the main baddies were silly but the monters fairly straight, but yeah, I'd call SPD the opposite of that.

Personally speaking, I find the illusion of progress to be more frustrating than no progress. I like that the characters on MMPR (and Zeo, and Turbo, and In Space) don't particularly grow or change. The shows are formulaic in the same way that a police procedural or courtroom procedural are formulaic, and I like that I could catch whatever episode was airing and follow along without worrying about "Oh geez is this before or after X happened?" Like Dragnet or Perry Mason but with bright colored costumes, monsters, and giant robots. (Raymond Burr would fit in perfectly!)

I always chalked the Sky and Jack thing up to the two of them just not liking each other a fundamental level. Eeven though they can work together, end of the day there's no way they'd get along. A No Prize, for sure, but better to No Prize something away sometimes!