[Locke]

So DaiRanger 01. What was that really drawn out pushbike scene about? For an episode so rushed, it seemed happy to waste time on BMX stunts.

The villains in this show are ridiculous, but I can't quite workout who is more ridiculous. You have the Gorma who look somewhere between nazis, steampunk and fetishists, getting out of completely normal vehicles for ridiculous effect, but then you also have autotuned ugly Japanese children who can summon hentai tentacles to kill people.

The worst part of the episode, by far though, is how Ryou goes from one scene, where he has no idea what the fuck is going on and rightly so, to literally the next scene where he morphs and wields his powers in such nonchalant fashion you have to assume about five years have passed between the two scenes for him to have mastered something so completely. But nope, it looks like about ten minutes have passed.

And I just wanna like it so bad, because those suits man, they are so beautiful. And the fight scenes and mecha man, they are so fucking good. Even with hilariously dated special effects in places.

If only their unmorphed personalities (what five seconds of it we see) don't seem to match with their morphed ones, which makes no sense at all as these fights were made for these characters. But I had the same problem with Jetman at times, and I love that show.