[GoldenXtreme]

Well, I've finally hauled myself through the entirety of Gaoranger. My fine friends of Tokunation dot com, I did not like this one at all! It is kind of hard to articulate what exactly went wrong with this show, since it was one of those things where lots of small things added up. The heroes fell completely flat for me, like this is genuinely the first Sentai I've seen where I was completely uninvested in the entire team of Rangers. Personalities were flat, their interactions uninteresting, and it never felt like they were written consistently. Tetomu was pretty good? I was weirdly into Tsue Tsue and Yabaiba, to the point where I was cheering for them over the protagonists! I also think that tonally, the show was not working for me. I get that it was angling for a more humorous show, but it felt like the humor only landed for me about 10% of the time, and the show would sometimes whiplash hard into drama in a way that never really functioned. Heck, even on a more technical level, the story structure just never panned out. Individual episodes were often simply not that good and the story in general seemed to run on a whole lot of "things are happening for incomprehensible reasons". Ugh, I just wasn't a fan at all. At least the suits were cool. This is my first Sentai that I'll put in my D tier, it was bad, but not quite bad enough to offend me and get banished to F like Jetman. I think I've had enough Sentai for a bit, I'm considering trying out my first Metal Hero show next!