[Den-O]

My composed thoughts. As always I accept the hatred I receive from those who enjoyed it more.

Overall, this is the best episode of the entire series. Easily the best written and executed since this debacle started. Some points I want to make:

-The ship crash was a very nice touch. And essentially reversing the team dynamic by making Orion the alien while the others were earthlings, whereas in Gokaiger Gai was the Earthling and the other 5 were aliens, was also nice. I didn't expect Orion's intro to be so intelligently handled in all honesty.

-The original footage this time was excellently shot. I remember seeing the behind the scenes from this episode last year and thinking the Lost Galaxy suits made no sense. Honestly I'm still unsure why that set of suits was used. What dictated their usage over others? It looked nice though. But why is this suddenly the one Legendary Mode that isn't "too taxing" to use for an extended period?

-Surprisingly impressed by the editing of the Gokai Silver footage too. They've made it match up with Orion's much more serious tone as a character. Admittedly I still love Gai's goofball happy go luckyness more, but the footage has been properly edited for Orion's character to match, unlike all the rest of the rangers for the last season and a half. And while we're on it, good lord even with ALL of that original footage they can't be bothered to edit out the damn Zyusoken/Dragon Dagger from the source footage. I have lots of praise to give about the improved footage and new footage but that just seems silly to me to leave something like that in. And I know a lot of people probably won't notice or care, just like they didn't notice or care about the Turboranger footage a few weeks ago, but I still think it should be pointed out.

-The only other complaint I might have is the standard one I have with Power Rangers these days. Terrible ADR. But that's all.

Unfortunately this episode, while an IMMENSE improvement over the train wreck we've had up til now, is completely at odds with the rest of the show quality wise. It's about damn time the writing got up to snuff, but this episode makes it feel like the episodes that came before it are from an entirely different show. I appreciate them finally getting things in gear but I really wish the show had been of this quality earlier on. Or even during the first season. It could have greatly benefited from the improved writing.

So yes, all in all a great new episode, vast improvement etc etc. Just makes what's come before it look even more terrible by comparison