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Dairanger 9. The deciding episode! And it's Daigo focused one!

I laughed so hard at the unintentional nastiness. Lin suggests trying to the mirror on herself, as it only takes young and beautiful women, to which the team reply with 'don't be so stupid'. I know both are joking, but come on guys, have some tact. Although she totally looks like a dude.

Then again, the general reactions from the team, when they learn who is behind all this, only highlights how weak they are as a team. Even Daigo was a bit of a dick this episode, which really seemed out of character with how he has been presented so far.

This show is so camp, which at times is fun, but at others distracting. The stories presented are epic, but 'Master Mirror Makeup' who uses a mirror with a tongue to convert vain people into energy? Wut? And Kujaku, the Peacock Buddha? All I could think of was . Anyway, Kujaku must totally suck, to be defeated by that Mirror Dude who was really quite crap. Probably the crappiest of the week monster so far.

Master Mirror was years ahead of his time though, what would he do today, where men seem to wear more makeup and spend longer on their hair and chasing fashion than women do? He'd probably implode in on himself.

The fights are still great though, I love the focus on the individual, as well as the team, giving them each their own unique power and fighting style. There is still way too much focus on Red, as there always is, but the rest of the team don't feel quite as much like spare parts in other series but the focus on them never feels quite as forced either.

Plus, although extremely low budget, low possibly some of the lowest I've seen from sentai, I like how that doesn't stop it from having ambition. The amount of chaos Gorma cause on an episode to episode basis is absolute craziness, I'm surprised there is anything left of the people and the city the Dairanger's inhabit.

Do I feel better about Dairanger than I did before, now? Do I want to keep watching? Honestly, yeah. When I watched it the first time around, none of this footage was used for Power Rangers (well minus the mech stuff) so I had no expectations whatsoever and all I had to go on was people claiming this was one of the greatest sentais ever made.

What I got was this rushed, garbled, confused mess of awesome suits and stunning action sequences. And although it hasn't quite shaken itself free from that opinion, pushing past those first few very rough episodes, the show really starts to open up and gather more focus, suggesting that what is to come is gonna be epic, huge and high camp and I'm fucking excited as hell. And since I've just watched a fifth of the show already....

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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

I guess they didn't think OO's through...But if he could rewrite their DNA, couldn't he give every ranger every set of powers?

And if he could rewrite peoples DNA to give them powers, why does he even need to make them Power Rangers?