[GoldenXtreme]

I watched Space Sheriff Gavan.

My only prior experience with the Metal Hero series was Juspion and after watching Gavan I understand how the series caught on a lot more. The two best aspects of the show for me have to be the large amount of quality and creative out-of-suit action scenes along with Retsu himself, who pulls off an excellent combination of 80s coolness and being adorably endearing. Like, I kept thinking as I watched the show that if Brazil had gotten this instead of Juspion it would have even MORE popularity.

Overall though, while not a terrible experience, I came away feeling like the show was utterly sauceless. The show tends to include a lot of extremely chaotic camera cuts that really took me out of the experience. Sure, the Makuu Space battles are wacky, but I can't really enjoy a cool fight when the camera is cutting away to some new nonsense every few seconds! The show also tended to reuse a lot of footage unfortunately. As far as the story goes, while there are some highlights such as Voicer's tragic end, tended to just not make much sense. I love a silly Showa tokusatsu plot as much as the next person, but they tended to be too serious to really enjoy on that level, while too also silly to take seriously. Really think the show would have benefited from moving a bit further in one direction or the other. Between the visuals and the narrative style the show could barely hold my attention most of the time.

I dunno, it's a show where I finished it and didn't feel sad or excited, just kind of tired. Really hope I find at least one MH entry I love down the line somewhere.