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Originally Posted by Locke

I like serialised shows, I don't think a show should pander to audiences who jump in half way through, I've been here since the beginning and if you want me to the end, the show and its characters have to progress and grow or there is no reason to watch this.

I don't consider a procedural to be a form of pandering to the audience, but instead simply another type of periodic show. MMPR and it's sequels are a "science fiction procedural" instead of a police, courtroom, or medical procedural. This is a long standing tokusatsu TV tradition dating back as far as the original Ultra Q (and the following year, Ultraman).

SPD would have been the perfect show to actually mash those two concepts together, and make a science fiction police procedural!

A crime is committed. SPD B-Team is assigned to investigate. Some sort of clue is discovered. Depending on who is getting the spotlight that episode, deeper investigation is performed. A hypothesis of the means, motive, and perpetrator of the crime is formed. The suspects (monsters or otherwise) are confronted by the B-Team, and then we move into the more familiar super sentai style tropes.

Of course that is not what we got with SPD, but I think that approach has a lot of merit. Marrying the more serious aspect of policework with the more crazy aspect of giant monster fighting.