[Aoi Kurenai]

Which episodes from the first 20 did you watch? Because if you cut out 15, that means you missed a lot of any one of the team formation arc, the introduction of Cyan, Gold's introduction, even episodes that serve to showcase more of the villains like 15 or the one with Luckyuro's teacher. They all serve a purpose and I would argue very little of Kyoryuger is dismissal due to the nature of the show.

It honestly just sounds like you don't like the characters or the show in general, in which case, watching it seems like an odd decision. I understand wanting to be informed and critical of the things you dislike, but as long as you continue to skip episodes, you're just never going to get the full picture. Whether or not something seems pointless, and due to the nature of year long shows, that will almost always be the case with at least a few episodes, they should be watched.

I can understand thinking some episodes don't advance the story, and I feel like this is the case with a few of the ones in the early 30s, but it's just not going to be easy to have a full grasp of the show if you end up skipping something like half of its run. If I were to have done that with Shinkenger, I would have thought the show was good because I skipped almost the entirety of the inconsequential middle portion of the show. You need the good and the bad to understand how the show was meant to be presented and fully understand what it wanted to do versus what it was capable of doing.

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While I'd recommend watching everything -- and it was hard to skip certain episodes because of the minor nuance they add to future plotlines -- I recall that Locke wasn't very interested in watching Kyoryuger at all until we trimmed out about 20 episodes for him.

This is why I think it's probably better to just forgo the rest of the show if he's not interested in it. If you need to cut out half of the content to be able to sit through it, there isn't much to be gained in that viewing experience.