[Locke]

In Space 7.

To get it out of the way, the creativity and unique identity of In Space is both refreshing and rather wonderful both in comparison to Megaforce but also just in general. There is some really well done American footage, integration of sentai elements and so far the plot has been interesting, engaging and exciting.

The problem is, a lot of the creative decisions are well...kinda bad. Firstly, it almost feels like In Space is trying to find where the hell to put the footage. They have to use at least 20% right? So although things like the holodeck training feel initially inspired, you also can't help get a lingering feeling that it's just tacked on there to hit their quota. Especially as they've used the same fight for this sequence twice.

Even the stuff actually used directly in the episodes is pretty awful, being that it's regularly spliced to the point of utter incoherence. For one scene the monster of the week is a giant, the next he's regular sized, Ecliptor comes out of nowhere and the monster vanishes. I'm not kidding, all of that happens over about five seconds. Not to mention once again both he and the monster of the week go down in the space of about ten seconds.

Also wow, Andros is way more Daigoy than I remember, not only was this episode centred almost exclusively on him but pretty much the entire show is. Although Alpha goes on about Zordon's 'master plan', all the other Rangers in this show feel almost like baggage, they are there by chance, and it only further cheapens them that as Zordon is being killed by Dark Spector in space somewhere...they still go to school, completely grounding Andros and their entire mission.