[Locke]

Changeman 02. Between the hilarious homoeroticism and the genuinely fantastic villains. This is developing as an enjoyable series.

The fact the villains actually have a reason to fight, beyond 'take over the earth defeat the sentai'. It's just a very progressive, really interesting dynamic for the villains. Shame they undermined the reveal by having the slitheen looking dude piss himself.

The heroes are where this show falls flat. The only time they are out of suit is for more action sequences, and since they refer to one another as their Ranger names when transformed (which is for the majority of the episode) I couldn't even tell you who the actual Rangers are.

Obviously it's like thirty years old and we should keep that in mind, but it's just really awkwardly put together. If they don't have the budget to do something, don't do it, don't just awkwardly edit around it and hope no one would notice. It's edited so poorly in places, it actually borders on incoherent.

There is also just the usual trippy shit you get in classic sentai, which I've never been a huge fan of. Like the "life draining mansion" which is just a single, very small room, with a bubble machine in it, a few tubes and some ripped plastic sheets. Or the general who is female but has a deep male voice poorly dubbed over her footage.

But we're all here for the gay.