[Locke]

Right time to skip three episodes and Brave In! to episode 33 /braces for the incoming butthurt. It seems all I missed in these three episodes was Aigaron falling for Candi and a new battery, two things this episode doesn't stop going on about - so basically I missed nothing.

About the only disappointment in the skip is that it appears that Aigaron now seems to accept that he "goes dark" does that mean that this is the full explanation we're going to get for this or..?

The rest of the episode was good but frustrating. Ian is a fantastic character when an episode lets him step out of Daigo's shadow, and it was especially fun given that it was a paired focus episode with Utchy. But even though I actually liked this episode loads, I still can't help but wonder why the two most developed characters outside of Daigo get yet another focus episode while Souji and Amy continue to be entirely one note, with Nossan fairing only a little better.

Unless I skipped them during my best of watch, I actually don't think any Kyoryuger other than Daigo, Ian and Utchy have had more than a single episode focusing on them, that is really bad. Half the core team are completely undeveloped and the half way point is getting further and further in the distance behind me.

It had some really good visuals though, as far as monsters of the week go, the Deboss Monsters have to be some of the most consistently good. It's a shame I can't say the same for the Commanders.

That new battery combo though, for all of its build up, was surprisingly lame.