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Originally Posted by CookSux

Oh of course... but I feel like interest usually is given for a reason. If you like this show as much as you do, there really much be something redeemable about it... and I will desperately hold to the end because I know that at least one person out there says that it's pretty good. If it isn't... whatever... I can say that I saw the series from start to finish. But yah, I loved MMPR growing up, but as an adult it's merely nostalgia. Super Sentai all the way Also, the savage critic part I can't shake... especially when it comes to media (it's my job)

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Of course, don't worry... I respect that everyone has their own opinions. I just like challenging things and asking questions. Besides, as of this moment, you're the resident PRLR guru... I'd expect you to correct me from here on out. But yah, don't think I'm jabbing your opinions... keep on truckin

My love of this show, I think, comes from the almost transcendtal corniness of the entire thing. We still had the overall cheesiness and corniness of the Zordon era, but it was in the context of doing it super sentai style (one season, one story) rather than the ongoing epic. This is similar to why I liked Lost Galaxy as much as I did as it has a similar approach but not as clean a cut.

Carter, Chad, Joel, Kelsey, and Dana are all so earnest in their behavior and delivery. There's no winking at the camera here, this stuff is Deadly Serious (tm). Unlike Time Force, which read like a fanfic, or Wild Force, which was like it was translated with Babelfish from Gaoranger, this is old school MMPR style stuff just updated to hit with a new set of powers and characters, and it's that earnestness which I think draws me in. It's nostalgia for me as well -- I watched this as it aired in 2000, while I was in college, with my friends whom had (mostly) just gotten into tokusatsu thanks to me. (I did have one friend who was a PR nut -- he had an insane amount of interest in Astronema/Karone. When she came back to Lost Galaxy, he was... excited, heh!) So there's a lot of great memories for me of taping this show (along with Pokemon, Digimon, Batman Beyond, etc.) on Saturday morning and spending a good portion of Saturday afternoon and evening piled into a dorm room watching them.

Furthermore, I'm madly in love with GoGoV. I love that show and that team. The uniforms, the meka, the kaiju, the music, everything. So an American version of that just means that I get to see all those great meka and monsters, and that warms the cockles of my cold, shriveled, dead heart.

I do appreciate your POV from being in the entertainment industry. I'm an engineer, so production and things like that are not something I am really familiar with and not always qualified to be critical of. But as the cliche goes, I know what I like.

I know I am going to be in the minority with LSR, and that's cool. Tokusatsu TV and Power Rangers in particular is so wide and varied that there is room for all sorts of likes and dislikes but at the end of the day we all still dig watching folks in spandex fight rubber suited monsters. Win win!