[Starscream Gaga]

My vote goes to "Horrible", sorry SMF fans.

As many know from my constant preaching, Gokaiger is my favourite season of PR/SS combined and I was actually really looking forward to when Power Rangers would adapt it. In fact, part of the reason I began Gokaiger and subsequently Super Sentai was because my partner, a huge PR fan, didn't think it'd ever be adapted and wanted to see all the suits back in action. So when it was announced I got my hopes up. There were very early warning signs, the Goseiger-Gokaiger morph was always going to be a bad idea and with the constant "this actor wasn't asked to return", "this actor turned it down because of how dodgy the request was", etc we knew it wouldn't be a tribute to Power Rangers on the scale that Gokaiger was to Super Sentai, but I still managed to be somewhat hyped for it, even when Megaforce itself was all new kinds of abysmal.

But the season itself is just bad. It is literally a Gokaiger fight clip show with added choppy editing and terrible constant dialogue with a few irrelevant civilian scenes in the middle. The plot is almost non-existant and when they do try to give it a plot, they wind up either falling flat (Episodes 1-6) or doing little good accompanied with lots of bad (Episodes 7-8).

Its hard to say exactly what is the biggest problem of the season. Is it the horrible editing? The downright awful acting? The Sentai-only rangers appearing with no explanation? The inconsistencies between the clear personality of the suit actors and the personalities of the Megaforce Rangers? The painful writing? The gruelling dialogue? The lacklustre VA work? The lack of a real tribute to anything Power Rangers outside of Gokaiger footage? There's just so many missed opportunities every single episode, despite the fact that making an AWESOME Power Rangers tribute should have been ridiculously easy using the Gokaiger footage.

Even the two better episodes (7, 8) only really deserve "Average", because they each come equipped with a huge amount of problems to go with their good. Every single episode is loaded with legitimate complaints against it by everyone paying attention and that is not a good thing. It doesn't help that the most hyped thing about this season is a Legend War with less then half the Rangers outside of Gokaiger footage, either. Its like hyping everyone up for disappointed.

So yeah, it is a fail. Comparing it to the absolute worst of Power Rangers does nothing but make them look Shakespearian in comparison. The best thing about Super Megaforce is that its given me a new appreciation of Samurai and Super Samurai because they now have the "it could be worse" excuse.