[Fish Sandwich]

I still love this show, I loved this episode, and I even love Noel quite a bit, but I definitely have to agree the Patrangers are getting shafted to the point of absurdity now.

I could handle Splash, you know? It was almost cute the one time, but when you're printing out boxes for the DX Siren Striker with Lupin X's mug slapped all over them in spite of the fact the toy shouts "Super Police Change" (a sound bite conveniently left out of this episode) , it just comes off as shockingly disingenuous, to say the least.

Fortunately the writers don't seem to have given up on the Patrangers as characters, or this would be totally unbearable. Given that the Super Lupin X armor was clearly designed to be a generic power up for any of the Patrangers, I have no doubts that, bare minimum, we'll see Keiichirou using it in the finale alongside Super Lupin Red, but it would've been so much better to just not have to deal with this farce in the first place.