[Kagezuno]

So, just finished watching the sub, and apart from a few odd bits (the megazord battle felt tacked on--all the emotion for me came from the hand-to-hand fights and the long, lingering "Look! It's a Nerf sword!" shot) it was a fairly appropriate ending for the show.

They could have mentioned J's data being so precarious more than just a couple episodes ten episodes back, though. It would have given proper weight to his sacrifice, as would the notion that there's some connection between the GoBusters in a more "show, not tell" way than we usually got.

Enter was an awesome villain, though, especially once shed of Messiah, who was a total non-starter as a master villain, both times they brought him back. It was great to see him have a knock-down drag-out fight with the Go-Busters (even if he lost the Dark Red Buster form and had to switch to Unite) and he really drove the story over a lot of the weaker bits.

I wondered when I saw this translated how it would play, as we've had three endings up to this point, and in isolation, it played fine. As part of a series . ..ehhh. GoBusters will always be a handful of good ideas in a very confusing gumbo. I'm pleased they seemed to get it together here at the end, but I sorta wish they'd done it sooner, because there was sooo much nothing happening on this show for great stretches at a time. The upgrades and new members weren't spaced out well, we seldom got decent feature episodes so we knew who these guys are, and the funny bits . . .weren't so funny.

But the good thing about super sentai is even when it's bad it's pretty good, and I'm feeling optimistic for Kyoryuger. It'll be interesting to look at it in comparison with this show and see how they try to correct what went wrong in GoBusters.