[Paladin]

The ToQGer's greatest secret has been unearthed! Can they overpower the Shadows at the most wonderful time of the year?!

As always you can view this episode via live stream on Saturday by heading over to Taima TV. They play other miscellaneous programs up until the live broadcast starts.
Live Streams are at 6:00 PM Eastern Standard Time on Saturdays.

[Sunred]

If you do not get misty-eyed watching this you might be a shadow kaijin

[Koh]

Zed's new form is a sight to be hold but damn I was not expecting that.

[Sunred]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Koh

Zed's new form is a sight to be hold but damn I was not expecting that.

Eh, I've seen better. But that trench coat with spines around his collar... now that's impressive.

[Koh]

Today's episode of ToQGer seriously beat Drive's episode because them feels and that mecha fight.

[Luminous]

Best.Episode.Ever

[newbomb63]

The worst thing about this episode is the fact that it's so god damn good but Toqger still keeps getting a ton of hate from the fanbase. It just seems like everywhere I go no one seems to like it, and it's incredibly frustrating to see that. The first half of the show may have been somewhat slow, and I can understand if people got bored and decided to stop watching, but now even in these great arcs it's still getting a ton of backlash. What did Toqger do wrong?

[Dormamu]

I kept wondering the same thing last week, and did some research. From what I've read on other forums and even here on TN the dislike started somewhere around episode 2/3 with the ToQBoner, and went downhill from there. Someone did a whole diatribe on why ToQger is the worst Sentai ever produced on another site (although there are a few threads here on TN), yet that same poster had only watched about 20% of the actual Sentai series in existence.

The arguments are:
1: Flat heroic characters all already done before
2: More of a villain oriented show (it's all about the Shadow Line)
3: ToQBoner, even though it was used ONCE.
4: Lackluster plot for the heroes who only step in once something has already happened.
5: The fact that they're kids in adult bodies, and that's creepy even for the fandom (Chris Matthews calling!)
6: That it aired after Gaim and Gaim was considered infinitely better. Hard act to follow syndrome.
7: No one F$#@!#$ cares about Grita and Schwartz.
8: People think Right is a douche.
9: Kagura's Power Girl is annoying
10: People think even Akira is boring because he's following the typical bad guy gone good theme.
11: No one likes the Mega Choo Choo, Choo Choo Emperor is stupid/a brick
12: Ticket is a douche.
13: Wagon is creepy (only because we make her/it that way)
14: Rabbit Owner of the Rainbow Line gives us nightmares. (Trix are for touching you in bad places) Yet, we now have Nick Furry.
15: Imagination is a TERRIBLE theme. Imagine me not watching this show.
16: People only get Trains if they live in New York or Chicago (and THAT'S from the latest Podcast on this site).

I think part of it is the fantasy entitlement of the fandom that their older than 10 year old selves should have a kids series actually be whatever gives them a chubby, part of it is being too serious about it, and the remaining falls on somewhat flat writing.

Personally, I think it's all horses@#$. I do. ToQger isn't the worst Sentai series created. And if you're claiming that, they you haven't watched several other series. Our memories are selective when it comes to utter #@!!.

Yes, you could claim that Go-Busters was the worst. It also wasn't. It was slick with it's use of the suits, had some very memorable albeit annoying characters, and gave the fandom Beet J. Stag who a lot of people liked. But people hated the pacing. They practically ended the series halfway through, and even reformatted the whole thing to death. Hell, they even kept resurrecting their own enemies because they couldn't bring in new ones!

You could say that about GoSeiger. I fecking hated Alata. Too damn young looking, and clueless. Waste of each weeks scripts. But it was good in it's own right because of sub plots.

Oh, and KyoRyuger? Farting dinosaurs? Happy smiling dinosaurs? Dancing? REALLY? Carnivale? REALLY? Guns as the morphers? Oh, I could go real dark there real fast.

There are many other parts of other Sentai series we don't like. ToQger has some phenomenal character designs with the Shadow Line. The individual ToQgers could have used some actual development (if it had gone with the Tom Hank's 'Big' approach, it would have been amazing), but they actually give some real life lessons for kids.

And the Trains? Give it up on the trains already. It's just a gimmick, and trains are in fact part of 80% of the US infrastructure. I don't know any kid who doesn't know what a train is, and I don't mean Thomas (and yes, I have a 3 year old).

I'm sorry to rant, but I've felt like one of the few that has actually enjoyed this series because I didn't go in with preconceived notions. Particularly after KyoRyuger. But it's the same thing every season when people don't get what they want.

There's no less than seven other threads here on TN about the whys and etc. Obviously people watch what they want. And there's other reasons due to the writer (Kobayashi) that have been portrayed. But I don't feel the series has been unsuccessful. Just unloved.

On topic, I think the best of this series is showing itself with the latest episode. If this had been the same momentum through the entirety, more people would have been excited.

[ZeoRangerV]

Bravo Dormamu, bravo.

[Kiryu]

I'd take farting dinos over train boners any day of the week.

ToQGer isn't the worst sentai ever made, it has it's moments and there are things to like about it but I think it's a stretch to say it's the best. It's biggest crime is that it definitely makes you care far more about the villains and what their up to than the heroes even if the whole Schwartz X Grita thing is annoying as all hell but it pays off big in that it gives Schwartz character development.

If nothing else, I give the show credit for being consistant: there's no real episodes that stand out as being great or bad it stays consistently average throughout...course this could be a bad thing too depending on how you look at it.

It's a shame because ToQGer does main story elements really well, and if they kept up the momentum they've been building from the last five episodes it'll would have been one of the best.