[KyoryuNerd]

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Originally Posted by Captain Marvelous

I'll post the thoughts I have from Ep 48 here:

Pros:
1) Acting: I have never seen such great acting from a Sentai show. Ever. All the tears felt genuine, and all the joy and sorrow came from the heart. The tears that Amy shed for Daigo in the finale had me close to tears too. She really know how to cry. Nossam's optimism, Souji's naivete, Yayoi's puppy love, Ian's smoothness... they are all so integrated into their character that I cannot see them outside the show without thinking that's who they are. If Nossam shows up in another show as a villain I'd be expecting him to crack a pun joke at any second.

2) Babe factor: Good looking cast all around. I can't help but gawk a bit at Amy and Yayoi's cuteness despite their young age. Ian, Souji, and Daigo aren't bad lookers too, but girls can probably vouch for them better than I do.

3) Action: So many great fight scenes. Wow! [/Amy]

4) Special F/X: Although those Dinosaurs and Mech's look very CGI, but I still like them a lot. The henshin sequence and the special attacks were mind-blowingly good. Love every second of it.

5) Deboss turn good: Love that both Candelira and Luckiroo both turned good in the end and decided to help humans. Dogold died an honorable death was pretty damn awesome too.

Cons:

1) Daigo: Now don't get me wrong. Daigo is the epitome of brave and what this show is about. But he's just too PERFECT (or Pafekt like Utchy would say) and his lack of any flaws is what makes him so boring, predictable, and hard to relate to. The finale only reinforces what we already know, that Daigo is practically immaculate and nothing can even harm him. He defeated the end boss, which the whole team couldn't beat even in their Sentai forms, by himself and without going through henshin. Excuse me? I can elaborate further but I am sure you have all heard it from other forum members so I don't want to keep beating the dead horse, but the final boss fight was the worst part of the finale.

2) Daigo getting the girl, Amy: So not only was Daigo was able to beat the supposedly all-powerful end boss by himself sans costume, but he was also able to move Amy enough with the promise of strawberry parfait that she was his by the time the credits roll. I am not happy about it because I thought Souji and Amy would've been a much better fit, and also because Daigo already got everything and now the girl too? Blah.

3) Deboss monsters pretty underwhelming: Aside from the core monsters, none of the other monsters aside from the Ninja was really that good IMO. For them to keep rehashing the already dead monsters didn't help either.


While I really like this show a lot, the thing that holds me back from giving it a perfect grade is Daigo. I wish the writer didn't have such a hard-on for him. Seeing him always so immaculate takes away the focus from other characters, and in a show where the cast is over 20, that's a real disservice to the fans IMO.

I love this guy's description of the series. Pretty Marvelous if you ask me ;D