[Starscream Gaga]

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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

I don't. I honestly felt that the Gokaigers were some of the least developed characters we've had. We had glimpses of their backstories, but the only ones who developed beyond one episode were Don and Marvelous (Joe had a story arc, but it did fuck all for his character).

I don't feel like Joe needed character development, which is not necessarily a bad thing. He had a laid out back-story and an arc that revolved around it, he had many individual episodes that played on his personality and how his background had formed his outlook on life (in episodes such as 3 "What are Friends For?", 22 "Promise on a Shooting Star" and 30 "At Least My Friend's Soul" and his story (Barizorg) made great use of his traits to make a satisfying and emotional story, even if his own personality didn't change much during it. Episodes like "At Least My Friend's Soul" showed a lot of character depth for Joe as well as being really emotional.

The other characters, I'm not really sure how you could miss their character focus? Ahim 's kind and charming disposition hiding regret and guilt for not being able to save her planet was touched on in multiple episodes, such as Episode 13 "Tell Me The Way", before finally coming to a conclusion in episode 41 ("Something I Don't Want to Lose"). Luka's back story is also well formulated throughout the show. She's a victim of a planet that was overthrown by the Zangyack and therefore took care of her sister and other orphans after their parents were killed during the invasion (6, "The Most Important Thing"), however she couldn't afford the medicine to keep her little sister alive and therefore focused on stealing money in order to one day open a haven for children orphaned by the Zangyack (34 "A Dream Come True) but after meeting Marvelous and Joe, decided to instead of focusing on one part of the problem, help stop the entire empire. Her seemingly self-centered personality masks her sisterly nature, especially around but not exclusive to Ahim, that creeps up in a lot of her spotlight episodes (again, an example being episode 6).

I could go on because there are examples of character focus on pretty much every episode and I haven't touched on Joe, Marvelous and Gai yet, but I really think you're way short-selling Gokaiger. I think the character focus on the season is fantastic and it is by far the Sentai team I've most connected with.

Anyway, enough of my Gokaiger fanboying! Lately I've been watching Denji Sentai Megaranger and honestly I've been really enjoying it, far more then I thought I would. The characters all act like High School kids, which is a refreshing change from the usual attempts at depictions of High Schoolers in PR and SS and the story is interesting enough to keep me coming back. The show has a good balance of dark and light-hearted and the action is pretty stellar.

I enjoyed Power Rangers In Space and it is pretty strange just how drastically different it is. I'm not exaggerating when I say the only similarity is about half of the fight scenes and the mecha fights, which just makes Saban's claim that SMF is the "most expensive season" all the more hilarious.