[Ajustice]

For what I heard from one of the stunt actors kids say they found it boring which is bull which almost every episode has been great.

[Shinken Red]

It failed becuase the zords were just so....strange. The comobs just kept getting worse. I liked the first 13 eps i watched. it looked like it was getting realy good with the whole hyperspace thing going on in the backround and the mystery of the people in that event near the begining. (trying to be vage for those who have not watched it yet)

[ShockerCon]

Go-Busters "failed" because children wouldn't know a cool show with cool designs if it popped in front of their face and sang an awesome first opening.

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Originally Posted by Shinken Red

(trying to be vage for those who have not watched it yet)

That's what spoiler tags are for.

[Shadow Moon]

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Originally Posted by Kagezuno

Because it could never really decide what it wanted to be.

Is it a hot-blooded espionage-y sort of show with cool robots and people at computers shouting excitedly and trying to inject a bit of Real Robot into the mech battles? Is it a wacky show just for the kiddies with cute robot being goofy and zany plots that help together (more or less) for an episode, then could be immediately forgotten as soon as the credits rolled?

I never knew, and I'm not sure the people making it did, either.

There was never any forward momentum in this show. Rescuing your parents? Eh, we'll get to it. It never seemed to bother them much before or after. Defeating Messiah? Nope, that seemed like one of those things they'd get around to someday? Rescuing Jin? Rolled out in one episode, ignored the very next so we could have Pink Buster doing high kicks for maximum upskirt shots.

Kinda hard to invest in anything when the people making the show don't seem terribly invested in it either.

Pretty much what I wanted to say beside adding in that I couldn't get behind the main cast. I just found them boring and maybe the kids did too. I also found the mecha battles boring. Yeah they were better choreographed but, fighting against a dull machine gets old.

[cb1]

i love rabbit buddy roid
he said roger rabbit

[Brainchild]

I'd say it was the lack of overarching plot that stopped the show from being really interesting to most audiences. I personally loved it for that reason; I'm the kind of person who watches episodes with large intervals in between, so something that's really disjointed is great for me, but for something that kids are expected to tune into weekly, it had little pull. The wavering sense of identity was certainly a factor as well. The show didn't seem to know what it was trying to do with how dark it was, or how it was carrying itself. I'd imagine that's what lent to the mid-season overhaul of sorts, and even then, the show was already so far that it didn't have the time to heavily develop anything.

[Galvantula]

Apart from the constant shifts in mood, it doesn't help that the main characters are off, even by Sentai standards

Red is a unfeeling tool who placed the mission over what little family he has left, Blue is too unpassionate for someone who had been though a event like he had gone though, Yellow is the worst spy I have ever seen, Gold would have never gotten as far as he has in any organization with his fondness for quirks and his monster sized ego, and J is sorta a jerk.

[AkibaSilver]

J is a jerk - it's all the character he has. It's what makes him J

[cb1]

beetle j is funny
he hold bandanas

[soybean56]

I agree with those saying that the dangling plots killed it. Ones that stick out to me are:

Who is Yoko's dad?
What about everyone in Hyperspace?
What's happening to Jin?

They introduced these and made them large plot points for one episode, then nothing.

I like the overall tone (although inconsistent) of the show and the characters. I like that Red is pragmatic and thinks of the mission rather than people, but I know that doesn't sell to kids.