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Originally Posted by Locke

And I think if they're chosen to be heroes they should be exceptional people from the get go, if you're going to choose five people to defend billions why pick a couple of Japanese school children who are not exceptional or special in any area. Especially when you have trained officials, exceptional humans and all the rest in between they could have picked from?

I kind of agree with this. I feel like one of the reasons why I liked the heroes in Zyuranger so much was because I felt like they -should- be the heroes. After that, I watched Megaranger, and while everything else was cool, the heroes just felt like random kids they picked off the street (because that's essentially what they were). Of course, variety is a good thing, but just about every Marvel/DC super hero is exceptional in some way, which makes them interesting to watch/read/whatever. The first few shows (Goranger, JAKQ, Battle Fever J) all had trained soldiers/athletes/something else going inside the suit, which, while not as cool as ancient royalty like in Zyuranger, is more interesting than giving the red power to the first person they see like in Timeranger.

Of course, i'm not trying to bash on standard people becoming rangers - that will fit some people's tastes. However, the two most interesting Sentai i've watched up until now have been Zyuranger and Gokaiger, both of which had pre-formed teams, so I was thinking maybe I just find it more interesting than starting off by gathering members for a team.