[Locke]

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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

It's really jaw dropping that the best character, Ethan, is written off as a lame cliche of nerdy teens when he's probably the most well rounded and interesting one (Though he does have issues, usually when he has to sound tech savvy and the writers don't know how computers work, or when he has to talk about a video game and the writers can't use real characters so it sounds like he's spouting nonsense).

But wow, that second half. Multiple plots and story threads tying together, all to get resolved in the course of 2 episodes and give the viewer the middle finger for getting invested. It was so infuriating that I had to stop watching DT for a week during my re-watch of the series

Easily the most baffling thing about the entire mess is Trent. Even if you ignore all the interesting stuff they establish and then forget about, what was the editorial decision behind him?

"So in the sentai, the sixth Ranger joins the team fairly late and is largely a villain."
"Well that is no good, we need him in early for toys sake and then we could make the footage of him evil like...a clone or something."
"Okay, and so what, shoot more scenes of him hanging out with the group at the cafe?"
"What? No, why'd we do that?"
"I dunno, just thought it'd be better for the character. We're at least going to shoot new fights to show him fighting as a member of the team though, right?"
"Huh? Why?"
"No reason!"

TL;DR. Why bring a character in early and then not actually have him in the show to then go on and cause all sorts of problems for yourself later down the line in the only clone saga to make children cry that didn't include Spider-Men or Jedi?