[Locke]

This is perhaps one of the most gratuitously toy focused sentai shows I've seen and it really hampers the experience. And this was the worst episode of the show so far, by a long mile.

I dunno, it's just watching Gobus alongside this, makes it feel inexcusable just how crap the mech stuff in this show is. Despite so much of the show focusing on the ressha the actual designs, and execution of the designs ranges from horrendously cheap, to downright awful. About the only saving grace of the mecha is it is so tacked on, despite its importance to the plot, you can skip over it without a single worry.

Plus yes, it has some good characters and some stylish action, but I'm a little bit fed up of giving toku shows a pass just because I like the action. I seem to have done that with nearly every show so far, and as such most of the completed shows under my belt I actually didn't care for at all by the end. I guess the only saving grace is watching it weekly alongside Gaim, at least I can still get an action fix of sorts, as Gaim's action is pretty craptacular. Right's take down of the monster is probably the best use of the line switch so far.

Really the true saving grace of this show in general though, are the villains. Although the bin shadow was lame as anything, the ridiculously dark plans week by week, in such an otherwise goofy show really is thrilling.