[Dr Kain]

Well, I watched the first 5 episodes to Samurai, and I just don't get some of it. First off, I actually have no problem with them doing a direct adaptation of Shinkenger. In fact, I think that is pretty cool, except, it doesn't make sense to me. Jayden is way too friendly with the rangers from the get go, and open to them being there. The first episode already wrote off the entire kagemusha plot, which kind of sucks as it would have been interesting to see how Saban did it. Then you have episodes like the baseball kid. It was effective having him willing to give up his hobby to get his grandfather brought back to life in Shinkenger, but here, it just did not work. All he had to do was throw out his stuff? That is it? And it was because his dad is in the army? Where is the impact of that? The drama?

Also, I don't get the point of the Mega armor. Was it really necessary to shoot new footage in the mecha? The armor just looks dumb, as do the folding swords. However, when do I get to see them fight the monsters in that armor? It would be a waste to create your own costumes and not have the rangers actually use them any other time, regardless of how dumb they look.

Finally, while I get where they are going with Spike being Skull's son, I am really getting tired of hearing him snort.