[Den-O]

Okay. I've had some time, here I am. I accept the hatred I'm going to receive.

Episode 3 of Super Megaforce has again disappointed me. I thought perhaps the first two episodes could have been chalked up to the crew trying to find their footing in this new scenario. However it's not. We're 3 for 3 on terrible episodes now.

- ADR? Still completely terrible. Yet more generic and repetitive voice overs for the villains. Every one sounds the same. Deep gruff male voice 1, 2, 5, & 7 all sound like the same guy. And the needless "qupis" the rangers toss in during morphed scenes are still jarring.

- Original footage is always a good thing. When it's appropriate. But the US footage they've been shooting here is just plain pointless. It starkly contrasts to the quality of the Gokaiger footage. And the need to switch from Megaforce to Super suits all the time is just an impediment to the flow of any episode it occurs in. Not to mention this episode clearly shows that you don't even have to use the original Megaforce suits to go super at all. So what's the point Saban? Why do you need to simultaneously have new costumes & old ones? Why let that constrict the story you're trying to tell? If the Megaforce suits are "weaker" why even continue to use them?

- Speaking of Megaforce, why keys now? It's yet more evidence of the needlessness of keeping these suits around. Yes there are Gosieger keys in the original footage. But it's been shown they can cut rangers out of footage when necessary, like cutting Megaforce Red in episode 1. So why not just cut out the footage containing the keys too? Or better yet, get rid of this ham-fisted concept that the rangers need both forms, leave the keys and suits in the adapted footage and just say they can access their old powers if need be, just like they can access other Legendary Powers? I swear if some common sense were just applied here this show could be tolerable.

- I think Jason Smith is a really cool guy and I think he has a true appreciation for what he does. But more or less the key elements of this episode were copy/pasted from the source with a couple of extra needless elements thrown in. Of all the episodes to just straight up adapt, why this one?

- There was no attempt to get Noah's character to line up more with the footage. The inability to match the characters personalities as they originally were with the footage here is more and more glaring. The actors gave off fairly similar personalities that matched up to the Goseiger footage last year. But now, their civilian identities don't match up at all with the ranger footage we're given. Noah's mismatch is the most obvious of all.

- "Teamwork & Determination has unlocked the Mystic Force Megazord"? You mean Mystic Dragon Zord? Again a tribute without a tribute. Hey you guys are awesome! So here's another new power I've been sitting on for a year and not telling you about.

- I still facepalm every time I hear "Super Mega Win".

I think I could appreciate what they were trying to do with this show, if I felt they were actually trying. I want to reiterate, I know this show is for children. But yet again I feel it's necessary to make the point that Saban promised a a legendary anniversary season "for the fans". And I don't know about the rest of you, but I've seen no such thing in the last 3 weeks.