[Starscream Gaga]

I think the yammering helps the situation. The suit actor can be acting as cocky as hell and unfair as he likes, shooting guys in the face and using body shields, but if his smirks and scoffs are replaced with Troy telling us how awesome Super Mega mode is the whole time, the glaring personality difference is much less noticeable. Just look at the end of the fight, change the scoff Marvelous had while brushing his chin and looking at the defeated Gormin to a "YEAH!" As Troy looks at the defeated X-Borgs and the whole thing comes off differently.

Jake and Noah, eh. I feel that later episodes will look more out of place. But once again, the suit actor can be clumsily dodging attacks and running away from groups, but if Jake's telling us how powerful he is, it looks like everything is a lot more purposeful. We'll see how they work out Noah's sword fighting skills next episode, which is adapting the episode all about Blue's excellent sword skills.

All in all I thought the episode was OK, although it definitely had its problems. Holding it to Megaforce's standard, it was pretty good. Scenes like the school and mall seem amazing nowadays, but they'd be fairly standard in Pre-Saban. Outside of the mall and school, none of the invasion was original footage and a lot of the more violent shots were cut, so I wasn't particularly shocked at the whole invasion.