[Locke]

Dairanger 24.

I love this shows internal continuity, the way characters and plots will resurface to make it feel like a complete world. The mythology is pretty confusing, to be fair, but at least there is a sense of world building in play.

I may not like Baseball, but with all the crazy powers and utter disregard for sportsmanship or rules, this match was as entertaining as it was utterly hilarious. Especially all the unexplained Engrish, although I still don't get why everyone dribbles over Lin.

Shouji really annoyed me in this episode though. Why would he trust the Stooges over his own friends? Honestly, that kinda highlights one of my main issues with this show. I'm really REALLY enjoying Dairanger, but the Dairanger's themselves suck.

Minus Daigo, basically none of them have had any real focus, and the show really only ever has them unmorphed and together when they are getting shouted at by Master Zordon or in the ten second end of episode sequence, after they've gone through the motions with their tacked on mech fight. I mean hell, just look at Kibaranger, who was completely absent from the last episode and just randomly turned up in the last few minutes of this one.

I mean I'm happy this show is so focused on the stuff at hand, but seeing our heroes as people, seeing their friendships form and blossom is really important, and an odd thing to completely cut out, when there is so many other sentai clichés which could and should be removed that they chose to leave in, in the friendships absence.

I'm half way through and the Dairanger's still don't feel like a team, just a bunch of strangers in palette swapped costumes.