[Locke]

Episode Three of In Space. Wow look even these days Saban couldn't be bothered to edit out the references to the original sentai.

I love how Andros tries to pretend he doesn't fit in, while being the most of his time looking out of the whole room. I bet when he gets sad and stuff, he doesn't cry, he gets his guitar out and sings about it. I know he's not an "alien" but couldn't he at least feel slightly...disconnected?

Even if you ignore the question of where the hell his 90s clothes came from (complete with being completely the wrong size, so totally the right size for the fashion at the time) he also has the most 90s hair and accessories out of the lot of them as well - unless wearing hooped earrings of that style is some cross universe accepted fashion statement. I also can't wait for his civilian power to never be used for fight scenes.

Oh God, this reminded me of two things I hated about early Saban, Alpha and Bulk and Skull. Do they really need to waste half of every episode on shitty comedy stuff that pads the episode but serves no wider purpose at all?

Man Ecliptor's introduction is really, really bad. His voice actor sounds like he should be on Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged and he just sorta...appears out of absolutely nowhere and then just immediately leaves again in what I can only assume is extremely condensed footage because I thought I leant on the fast forward button for a second. And honestly with how quickly they kick his ass in the tacked on Zord battle of the week, I don't even believe Andros' Troy level of delivery when he tells the audience the crucial bit of information that he is 'bad news'.

Even the dramatic escape as the Dark Fortress rains down hell kinda fell flat because the quality of the editing was so poor. Seriously the actual quality of the film seemed to change with every cut, ranging from blurry, to grainy to completely washed out.

It was also frustrating because they bothered to establish they were at Nasada which is what NONE of the signs said, why not just use the same name in the footage to avoid this shit? It isn't like it matters.

Lightstar Helmet mode?! Where the hell did that come from?! What the hell even is that?! Look, I don't HATE In Space before someone starts, when you compare it to Megaforce In Space is mind blowing in terms of story, characterisation, ratio of American footage to Japanese. But even more than that, I've actually quite liked In Space so far, but my frustrations are that pretty much everything I've listed here is so easily fixed, and so difficult to get wrong in the first place.

Maybe you could say Saban are still finding their feet after Turbo almost crippled the franchise but was it so hard to not make Andros the height of 90s fashion? Was it so hard to introduce Ecliptor properly? Was it so hard to at least edit your show cohesively? Was it so hard not to waste yet MORE screen time on Bulk and Skull? No, I really don't think it is.

OH GOD THE NINJA TURTLES.