[Den-O]

I'm back! Let my criticisms ruin your day no matter how small or big they may be

"Forget dog-fighting these jets, we're gonna dragon fight them!" I believe that piece of awful ADR sets the tone.

- You've won a bunch of battles so go talk to this lion. The motivations for the rangers getting new powers/weapons/zords continue to be non-existent in this show. There's no driving force for them to be doing what they're doing at all.

- I know people like new footage, but was it entirely necessary to have them using binoculars with their suits on and no helmets? I guess I just don't get the point of scenes like that. What was the advantage of wearing their ranger suits but not the helmets? While we're on that subject was it necessary to film all of a minute of new footage with the Megaforce suits just because they fell to the ground later in the episode? They immediately changed again so why?

- The characters at least feel like they fit the footage more now. But Noah and Jake still just don't sync up in my opinion.

- Why splice in the all black ranger change from episode 3 of Gokaiger into this episode at all? Just to pad it out? Because it wound up being pointless when the next cut is them in their super mega suits coming to help Jake & Troy.

- I don't care if it's a small point we shouldn't get worked up about, but it's very noticeable to see where they poorly edited out the Turborangers. It isn't just Pink Turbo either, it's the entire team. Because the colors more or less match up with Gaoranger they thought no one would notice. But I did, and I think it's a further example of the poor editing of this show to leave something like that in. Of course most people won't even see it, kids definitely won't. But again I feel like the "for the fans" statement Saban blanketly made about this season should at least guarantee us a quality product.

- What the hell did they even do to "earn the red lion's trust"? In the source footage at least Ahim & Doc helped earn the respect of Gao Lion after befriending Gao Red. But because this show has seen fit to throw motivations for it's characters out the door, none of that's present here. Things just sort of happen to the rangers out of the blue whether it contextually makes sense or not.

I know I'm that guy, and people probably think I hate this show simply because it's Power Rangers and not Sentai. Which simply isn't true. If I want to watch Gokaiger I'll go watch it again. What I'd like to see here is something that at least pays similar tribute to it's history. But that just isn't happening. This episode was at least structurally better than the last one, but I still didn't think it was very good. I'm even voting bad and not horrible this time to prove it.