[Kamen Rider Lucha]

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Originally Posted by ThisGuy

I'm going to go into this show with an open mind but damn does it sound wired as hell. HAND PUPPET MONKEY!!!!!! A robot that looks like she is pole dancing in a train. Second thought... I'm going to love this show.

Monkey Puppet is classic Kobayashi. Reminds me of Prof Maki's doll in OOOs.

Man, I love it when Kobayashi gets weird.

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Originally Posted by algo448

Really? I loved those cockpits and thought that they fit the Real Robot genre they were going for.

The ToQger cockpits are pretty sweet too.

Yeah, I mean, they looked cool and everything, but I think it's more dynamic when the team shares a single, giant cockpit in the gattai robos. It may not make as much logical sense, but I think it makes for better team interaction. And like I said, I don't like sentai realism. For me, the more absurd and outlandish the show goes, the better.

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Originally Posted by Locke

I dunno, I've just been a firm disbeliever in toku giant stuff. I can swallow rubber monsters, and spandex wirework because for the most park it genuinely looks pretty decent, save for the onshow zip every now and then but with the giant stuff it rarely seems like they are actually trying with horrendous flimsy suits, and awful close ups that expose the miniatures and cardboard nature of the buildings that should just be avoided.

See, that's exactly why I like the weirder stuff. I like the strange, rubber and cardboard artificiality of the giant robot fights, and when the production design introduces "realistic" elements, it tips over my precariously balanced suspension of disbelief and rips me right out of the show. That's why I prefer things like the Magiranger chess-board cockpits or the Gokaiger cockpits. They look cool, but are really surreal.

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And then it just adds insult to injury when the Rangers are sat in a room that feels completely disconnected from the outside world, and you can clearly see the set beyond in their visor. At least when Go-busters cut away, we could see the fight through their cockpit window, and they had ranges of monitors and lots of buttons to keep themselves busy and connected to the action.

I agree, though the visor reflections I've never really noticed.

I think there needs to be a lot of stuff for the Rangers to physically mess around with in the cockpit. It's why I like the Gokaiger cockpit -- when the tension ratchets up, they can dramatically spin their ship wheels. It's also why I wish this cockpit had pull-cord train whistles or a brake lever. Something physical they can interact with instead of just waving their hands around, voguing like they're in a scifi-themed Madonna music video.