[TheFightingSpirit]

Right. Finally managed to find a way to watch it.

I have to say that while this doesn't give me the goosebumps that say the two-part opener of lost galaxy did (in all it's starship troopers glory), it was pretty damn good. The acting while pretty bad it wasn't nearly as awkward as I find the acting in mmpr season one.

All in all I think people are nitpicking, because frankly that wasn't a bad adaption.. naming conventions aside. And while the pirate theme is glossed over, its not hard to see its there. So to me it's less ignoring it and more while yes we don't want to draw real life allusions to Somalia its so overt we really shouldn't make a big deal out of it.

I think you have to watch it in the mindset of a kid. And in that sense, this episode was a complete success. Full of plenty of different looking rangers, fun action scene throughout the ENTIRE episode. If as many boys watch it as Saban Brands thinks then I'd say they're on to a winner.

A thought about missing tributes: We're talking about adapting a show which has a decade more stuff that power rangers. If any episode has a big pre-zyu influence in it, then they're just as likely to skip it altogether than they are to overlay a different ranger onto the footage. We're talking about a show that gives little time, money or effort to get a series airing. Why spend more money... If my memory of Gokaiger serves they are pretty liberal with they pre-zyu henshins...