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Gokaiger 50. Did Marvelous just imply his heart on the right hand side? How fucking corny.

This episode was as frustrating, as it was stupid as it was boring. I thought the whole story of this show was seeing the Gokaiger grow into a true sentai? So why would Marvelous suggest running when the city was being decimated? I wonder how many millions died when they crashed in the city, you think they'd maybe at least try and steer clear?

WHETHER OR NOT TO USE THE WILL OF THE EARTH ISN'T EVEN A CHOICE. FUCKING USE IT, YOU FUCKING MORONS. Ahem. The Pirates care more about a bunch of plastic keys relating to a bunch of powers, and people, they never once cared about for the majority of the series than the innocent lives they're meant to be fighting for in the first place. This is supposed to show the growth of the Gokaiger, but from the extremely conflicted opening sequence to the dialogue that suggests the entire show is aware of how pathetically contrived all this is, it was more like a giant piece of storytelling regression instead.

I mean what, no keys mean the Rangers themselves die? WHY? What sense does that make? What logic is this even operating on? Is that so it makes it seem like more of a choice? Because it still doesn't make a lick of fucking difference. It doesn't even line up with the shows own mythology. Well other than the fact that this show throws in everything into the pot and if it all clashes, call it fucking Shunpei.

And then the show tries to guilt trip the audience 'why would you take it away from them?' what are you talking about? Our sentai cameos have ranged from "I'm gonna use my magic powers, not to fight, but to be mysterious" to "Hey apparently the DekaRangers are still a thing but we aren't helping the Earth with their alien invasion because.." to "I guess teaching kids martial arts while the Earth is invaded is probably useful... somehow...." to "I've got a giant fucking robot lion. Am I fighting? Lol no." to "We're motherfuckin' samurai - what are we helping with the fighting? Oh lol no of course not.". I could go on. If we had actually seen them truly fighting and trying their hardest during the invasion then maybe I could appreciate this more but that is not what happened.

People can defend for themselves?! I legitimately wasn't sure, as in sentai's world there appear to be no police or military and apparently losing your costume is enough for the vast majority of Rangers to full on give up fighting, so I figured the humans would just not even try and fend for themselves by that logic.

Well fuck, only one more episode to go at least. This is fast turning into the worst sentai final I have ever watched. It's like a new writer suddenly joined the show who had never seen a single episode before this. FUCK HUMAN LIVES, BUY TOYS KIDS. BUY TOYS KIDS. BUY TOYS KIDS. BUY BUY BUY! This episode was disgustingly self congratulatory and has put me in the foulest of moods.