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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

And with that, Dekaranger is done. While I still have the movie and Vs. Abaranger to watch, I'll get to them a bit later.

I must say, it's certainly a fun series. The characters were great and it did well to capture the feel that these are cops working to save humanity, not superheroes who do it as a side job.
There we some fundamental flaws, notably the execution of criminals vs. imprisonment (And no, I'm not starting this moral debate, don't worry. I'm just saying that it's a flaw against the series). Other issues are the characterization of our cast. They do grow, but it's pretty minute. Hoji's episode was one of the best episodes in Sentai, but ultimately, he had no actual change or growth occur from it, thus, technically, making it filler. It's amazingly written and emotional, but filler nonetheless. The show wanted to stick so closely to status quo that they didn't want the characters to experience any form of shift, which was a problem.

As for the villains, I'm not a fan. There was a monster of the week here or there that had a neat backstory and history, but they were all just bland, for the most part. I also noticed that they had an odd tendency to add on crimes to make you lose any sense of sympathy for the character getting executed. It's rather jarring for a character who was solely a thief throughout the episode to have two hundred murders under his belt revealed during Judgment Time.
Abrella was interesting, but ultimately, he wasn't any different. Who was originally a weapons smuggler who was angry over the Dekarangers foiling his transactions, was then revealed to be a mass murder across galaxies, and his endgame plan was to basically make Earth a hive of scum and villainy, turning him from a new concept back to the same tired space conqueror type villain. He didn't have a death ship, but his plan was that he'd be at the top to make all the money.
His concept was different, but his goals pretty much put him on the same stage as SPD's Grumm.

Speaking of SPD, the inevitable comparison comes, "Which was better?"
Den-O says that compared to Deka, SPD is "Literally nothing."
He is wrong. Deka is good, and I'll say that it's better than SPD, but the moral flaws of Dekaranger leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Not just the execution of the MOTW, but the crimes the monsters committed as well, having mass murder lists that would make <Insert murderer's name here> blush. I know I'm thinking too deeply, and they're ultimately just numbers to make the monsters seem more evil so you don't have any doubt in your mind that they're horrible people (Aliens), but for each number, there's one family member we don't see. There's one planet that's completely gone, because of these characters.
It's an effective way to prove to the viewer that there is no redeeming these characters, but it's a deplorable way of doing so.

Now that you've seen Dekaranger, how do you rate it among the other Sentai shows you've seen?