[Locke]

Goseiger - Final episode, final thoughts.

This episode felt...rushed. Burajira's ultimate take down was curiously limp wristed but OH GOD THOSE FEELS. Overall Goseiger was...a step in the right direction.

The opening Warstar arc is some of my most favourite sentai stuff I've ever seen. The villains were badarse, the action was epic, the filler was rare and each member of the team felt near enough as well developed as one another. But I never felt it got better than this, despite being only the first quarter of the show.

Although a lot of important things happened during the Yuuma portion, most of it was drowned in filler with uninteresting villains and constant retreads of stories the show had already done better. Not to mention the fact that the once balanced character development basically imploded at this point and about the only characters who ever got any focus by this point, and basically throughout, was Alata and Hyde with a bit for Agri sprinkled in once in a blue moon. And why'd they add Gosei Knight if they had no plans to use him? I've got no idea.

Plus the Yuuma introduced the Super Modes which I really hated. The designs were okay...I guess. But I didn't like how everyone got the same weapon and basically fought the same. For a team with such strong individual personalities, with a much less rigid hierarchy, it was so disappointing to watch them all blur into one another and for the show to basically skip to this form with their far more interesting base forms only being used on rare occasions.

Matrintis was definitely a big step up from the Yuuma with the likes of Metal Alice and the Killer Samurai Dictator being some of the coolest villains in the show since Derupta. It also had Buredoran be awesome for the first time since the Indevader crashed. But the problem with this section is the show had wasted so much time on the boring slog that was Yuuma that these guys had barely any screentime despite being the far more interesting villains.

Then came the final arc, which I felt, personally, kinda sucked. Burajira's Gosei form was pretty ugly, the shows attempt to make him into an Aizen was pretty weak and most of the action was fairly uninteresting bar for the stuff involving Dark GoseiKnight but I cared so little for him as a character I could only appreciate his battles as an evil machine so much.

Perhaps the worst aspect that of Goseiger is the mecha stuff. Stacking is the cancer of sentai, but in many ways the gratuitous nature of the Headders is actually worse. Gosei Great as far as mech designs go, was pretty great and some of the Headders it unlocked were pretty cool but how many forms did this thing have, like twenty? And then it was full on replaced by the complete borefest that was Gosei Ultimate. Half of the mech combinations were used less than twice, and pretty much 98% of them had no real purpose or context and was just a shameless toy ad with barely any effort put into making the combinations look good or the battles entertaining. I actually really liked Datas Hyper as well but he was used about as well as Gosei Knight was.

The highlight for me in the entire show was Alata, who is my new favourite character in tokusatsu. He was consistently brilliant from the very start of the show, until the very end. Like the wind he represented, he could switch instantly from gentle to fierce. He was loving, kind, heroic and would battle for his friends to his very last, very badass breath. He is one of the rare reds I feel really deserves to wear the colour, he is one of the even rarer heroes to be just as badass out of suit and I just adore him. But most importantly he's awesome because HE is awesome, he is never awesome simply because he's in red.

A close second was the Henshin Hero stuff. Yeah some of the more computer generated effects were a little cack, but I dunno the fight scenes in this show were just something else. Incredible use of powers to make it feel genuinely like a superhero show, ridiculously stylish cinematography, choreography and editing to make every fight fresh and unique looking and incredible use of actors out of the suits.

It was just wonderful.