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Originally Posted by Androzani84

Honestly, most of the complaints I see levied at these specials boil down to “it’s a clip show”. To which I say “what’s wrong with a clip show?” Sometimes somebody needs a bit of a recap to what’s been happening. Plus it’s marked as a special, and most shows I watch don’t intend to advance their plots through specials (the one exception I know being Doctor Who and Beast Morphers’ infamous fourth special episode).

I agree with you here. Personally I'm fine with clip shows as long as they aren't extremely lazy. And hey, if a show manages to do a clipshow episode in a fun and smart way, all the better!

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I will say that I do agree that Ninja Steel does have the stronger specials of the era. While most of the footage in the first one comes from already adapted episodes, I don’t get that impression from watching it with that context. And the second one does have some of my personal highlights when it comes to jokes (the barbershop pumpkins for one) in addition to being bolstered by some good action courtesy of a late game Sentai episode (which always up the action quota in the fight scenes).

Oh yeah, it really goes to show the extra effort they put in when it came to the Ninja Steel specials. And yeah, while I didn't like the Halloween Court, the barbershop joke WAS rather funny.

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Originally Posted by Kurona

So I just wanted to comment on this real quick: that's actually not what's going on here. Like most of Samurai this is in fact an extremely straight adaption; the source footage for this is entirely from Shinkenger Returns, which for some reason decided "let's have a new kaijin just trap them in movies", set a little before the finale. The only major difference in Samurai's use of it here aside from cutting certain scenes - as far as I know - is the Halloween framing.

Ah, didn't know that even existed. Thanks! Still, this means that Mega Force had an even smarter idea for these than what Samurai did. And that makes me smile.

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It's also really funny to me because they straight up used source footage of ShinkenPink untransformed as Samurai Pink untransformed. I'm sure it's happened once or twice in PR before but it's still hilarious to see them do this

Yeah the series has done this a few times. Most notably in Time Force, where they straight up used unmorphed footage of TimeFire's' actor a couple times. It's always funny to see.