[GoldenXtreme]

So, Goseiger. I had a negative impressive of this show from the reactions other tokusatsu fans had to it, but I also didn't have any clear idea of why it seemed to get such distasteful reactions. Obviously the only solution is to find out why for myself, so I gave it a watch!

It didn't turn out to be a surprise hit with me unfortunately, and was largely a show that felt defined by its almost comically generic style, in spite of having a few novel ideas. Like, the whole angel idea is pretty interesting, but the background of what exactly angels are and their society is so poorly fleshed out. Combine that with the fact the protagonists act so close to being human, the distinction feels almost arbitrary. Gosei Knight was at least a decent effort at making a distinctly inhuman hero in contrast. The show also features an unusual villain situation where after one group is defeated another crops up, with Bladerun/Brajil serving as the single overarching thread across the villain cast. In practice though, it made the show feel pretty disjointed, especially since I think the UMA Beast arc was the best of them thanks to the fun cryptid concept, but it was only the second of the three villain arcs (and was also an arc that made it hard to take Brajil seriously as a final antagonist considering he died for real in this one and only came back to life thanks to a bad decision by the next group of villains). The hero cast is also aggressively milquetoast, thanks to the weakness of their arcs and generic character archetype personalities (again, at least they tried a bit more with Gosei Knight). The cast all got a decent amount of focus, but it didn't amount to much.

Overall, my impression of the show that it was a snoozefest with uninspired monster of the week plots and dialogue that I can only describe as abnormally atrocious exchanges of heroic platitudes and villainous rants. A show pretty close to the bottom of the Sentai barrel.