[Locke]

It's time for me to rewatch Kyoryuger with a revised episode listing that cuts out all the filler, thanks to Kamen Rider Lucha. I'll be watching the first four episodes straight, before cutting straight over to episode nine!

But first things first, humble beginnings and episode one... As this a fresh start, I'm gonna watch and review as if it's the first time and leave my own prejudice at the door.

The opening of this episode, is epic. Seeing the Deboss return on a world wide scale is just incredible, sentai has never felt so big. There is just this 'dial everything to eleven' approach to the episode that I super appreciate. Like how the first villain LITERALLY MADE THE DINOSAURS GO EXTINCT ON HIS OWN.

It also makes the team feel all the more powerful, as well, as they're introduced as fighting individually across the whole planet. It promises a team without weaklinks. Yes, even the pink one. And hey if that didn't promise it, the fact they have to physically defeat giant robot dinosaurs UNMORPHED before they can even get their powers will surely convince you otherwise.

Plus I like the whole secret identity angle, that they're gonna have to get to know each other across the series. It makes a refreshing change. I pretty much enjoyed everyone, but Cadelira and her assistant were annoying in an otherwise cool looking set of villains. King was painfully obnoxious and had no real right to be and Torin is just awful.

Sadly, for a show with so much energy, it's a shame the action was such a mixed bag. The actually quality of the effects was surprisingly poor, the CGI was terrible and the plasticness of the weapons was downright ugly. Plus the camera really needs to calm down, it was actually hurting my eyes at points because of the thrashing. On the flip side, it's damn flashy and the giant stuff is really well integrated.

Although I like the Kyoryuger suits a lot, I really don't like the transformation. Firstly the samba dancing is awful and has absolutely no context, but I also hate how his weapon vanishes. They do that a lot in toku for some reason. He was literally holding it all episode, so it really drew your attention to it for it to suddenly not being there when he transformed. It was even more annoying as well, because the first weapon he fights with transformed is a sword, which comes out of nowhere and is gone in the next scene.