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Originally Posted by Megabattimus

Up to episode 7 of FOLLOW THE SUN (Sun Vulcan). And...as a shock to the weird people that find it boring (seriously, what is wrong with you?): I fucking love it. Its basically what Kakuranger would be if you gave it MORE craziness and cat drugs. DEFINITELY gonna finish this baby.

Well it's fun to watch, I can't deny. Crazy stuff there, like the camera monster whose attack is to zoom in and out, or the two-parter about espers.
But I think it's a shame that you can compile all the main plot in 10 episodes, and the rest is stock plots (and by 10 I'm generous). I know the genra was still new at the time, and I guess what I call "stock" was perhaps used for the very first time (the parental episode, the wedding one, the vampire one(*), etc.) There's only 3 heroes (well 5, the funky boss and his daughter count as much) and they don't really get the attention they deserve. For example, here and there is a red-focused or yellow-focused episode, but the rest is generic in terms of plot or narration.

Sometimes I got the impression they were testing stuff that became staple in the following years. For example, a shot of the Sun Vulcan robot turning his back to a defeated exploding giant motw was used only once.

(*) fun to notice there was always a Dracula-esque vampire episode in older Sentai.