[Kamen Rider Lucha]

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Originally Posted by Locke

I think I might have just grown out of super sentai, honestly.

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I think I'm more entertained by the absurdity of Super Sentai than you are.

Typically, I'm very critical when it comes to fiction (it comes from the years of film school and decades of film/tv obsession).

But for some reason, Super Sentai is impervious to criticism for me. I watch these shows, and even when something shitty happens, I'm able to let it wash over me.

The badness often becomes an inseparable part of why I watch the series -- it becomes one piece of the ridiculous, relentless, everything-plus-the-kitchen-sink narrative. The more absurd, bombastic, flashy, and illogical a Sentai show becomes, the more I like it.

Which is why hating Stage 5 is so alarming! This is an episode I should have dug, but I actively disliked it.

Here's hoping there's less of that going forward. I'm committed to this LWW, but if things go that direction again... who knows what I'm capable of.