[TheFightingSpirit]

I was seriously totally ready to give Super Megaforce a decent rating.

But I've been watching older seasons in tandem (LG, LR and JF) and ... it just doesn't compare. At all. It's like someone employed a child to write and edit it. A child who's only really known about the franchise since Samurai. Considering this is supposed to be a tribute to the whole franchise? Well...

Conversely the civilian scenes are actually pretty good. Much better acting than Samurai, but then it's usually completely irrelevant to the rest of the show.

It's like they're actually trying to throw as many fight scenes at us as possible in the hope that all the shiny shinies will distract us from the fact that they really didn't want to have to get up early and, you know, write a story?

Some stories have been fantastic. I enjoyed the one with Casey, and the aforementioned Joe/Noah nonsense actually held itself together despite how ridiculous of a concept it is... Well, SMF is pretty horrible. I can't deny it.

We fans always joke that they must have spent so much money on X that they have none left to pay for experienced writers. Unfortunately I think that might have been the case here. My other thought is they've employed teen drama writers who only write the civ stuff, and have absolutely nothing to with how the full episode ends up.

It's the only explanation.