[Locke]

SPD...Shadow Ranger?

As really awesome as Cruger's return to action was - and it was ridiculously cool don't misunderstand - Shadow Ranger? Not only does Shadow Ranger sound like an evil Ranger (and he kind of looks like one as well) it is even weirder considering he is part of a real organisation. Yeah I heard there is a new squad of the police force know as the...Shadow Squad. Yeah no.

The other thing is they were going for a whole Samurai Warrior motif with his backstory and his sword and what have you and for the last time Power Rangers Samurai =/= Ninja.

I still remember that stupid comment in the Dino Thunder Ninja Storm cross over where they went on about a Ninjas 'honour'. What the hell Ninjas are you on about? Naruto? I get that extreme sports dudes aren't exactly real life Ninja but you aren't fooling anyone in trying to make Ninja's sound heroic, no matter what Japan say.

Also the Lovefilm streaming quality is CRAP. Apparently HD is 'not supported' on my internet, minus the fact I can use it everywhere else so I had to settle for SD quality and although for the most part it was actually pretty good obviously Power Rangers has a lot of motion and things happening on screen and what have you and by the first minute or so into a fight it was a pixelated nightmare.

Thankfully I got thirty days free.

I also used this opportunity to check out the opening Zeo story, it was really really bad and yet...actually kinda amazing. It says so much about MMPR that Zeo paints the villains from it as basically American Sitcom archetypes and almost completely ignores the actual characters appearances in doing so meaning no one really matches up properly. Was it always like this even in MMPR? I don't remember it being this bad.

Also when you compare this to say - Samurai or Megaforce it almost feels like Saban is trying, almost. It at least has a plot. And everyone seems to at least put some effort into their acting, even if they can't actually act.