[Matrixbeast]

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Originally Posted by Locke

Back onto SPD, I really dunno how I feel about the reaction to the Shadow Ranger.

On the one hand I don't know whether it is intentional meta but it is a pretty funny critique of the series, as soon as the sixth ranger comes practically no one else is relevant again in the series until the Red gets his battlizer, despite the fact that the team was doing just fine before the sixth ranger turned up.

On the other hand though, this isn't a series about teenagers at a high school any more. Jack and Z have an excuse but why are the three trained officers so happy to roll over and let Kruger do the work? What assholes.

Also why do they call him Shadow Ranger? He has a name.

"I think we'll move to New Zealand, no one will find us there!"

It actually was a mild critique on the series, since most shows introduce the 6th ranger as a god mode unstoppable beast until they get that "Humbling" moment where they lose a fight or drastically need the other 5 rangers' help.

However, I felt Dekaranger did it better. In Dekaranger, the rangers still fought and did their jobs, but they were battling with the knowledge that, if an enemy is too tough, Doggie can bail them out and handle it for them, instead of trying to overcome it themselves.
(And no, I'm not trying to pull a 'Sentai is better than PR' thing you hate. I just felt they handled this particular story line better on the Sentai side of things)