[Tokumonkey]

Two episodes in, I'm about ready to write this season off entirely. It's everything I disliked about Donbrothers without any of the things I liked about Donbrothers. Our red hero is unlikeable and played by a bad actor. This episode's two new Gozyugers are also insufferable and blue flat-out swindles an elderly couple *and this is never problematized.* Nobody's personality makes sense. The plot... is what, exactly? The henshin dance is ridiculous in a bad way. The only thing the episode did that was at all interesting to me was naming a Bell mook and implying that he was, in fact, a decent guy. Before our not-at-all-heroic heroes kill him. Directly implying that the Gozyugers may be the villains of this show.

(Working the ring theme into the mooks - because you "ring" a bell, yeah? - was cute, though.)

I like the suits *and* their helmets, so this a step up from BoonBoomger in that regard. TegaSword is at least cooler-looking than our last primary mecha. The villain design is great. There's a lot of shaking-up of Sentai tropes, but so far, those creative risks haven't paid off. I figure I should meet the last two Gozyugers before giving up, but I'm disappointed that two episodes in, I'm strongly inclined to skip the entire season.