[Blade Raider]

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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

Though, quick question. How did they lose their power during the events of Gokaiger? Did the nanometal just ignore the license or something?

It's explained in the very first scene of Gokaiger.






Fiveman episode 1. I enjoy Fiveman. It's just deliciously absurd. Really, the name Fiveman doesn't do this absurdity justice. A better name would be "Space Sibling Teacher Alien Fighters!"

[Matrixbeast]

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Originally Posted by Blade Raider

It's explained in the very first scene of Gokaiger.

I still don't understand how, though. Same goes for every technology themed Sentai.
The Dekarangers's power comes from a source that, for all intents and purposes, should be entirely replicable (If even possible to be lost in the first place).

[Matrixbeast]

More Deka!

I got the the Hoji episode I was told was really good. Yeah, it was really good. Pretty enjoyable, especially considering the episodes surrounding it. It was reminiscent of watching Geki and after a really intense episode it shifted to the Christmas one as sort of a breather.
Anyway, that was the episode needed to clinch Hoji as better than Sky, because they were pretty neck and neck otherwise.

Also, I noticed they have a tendency to tack things on during judgment. I know that these are criminals and horrible people (Aliens) in general, but it gets a tad ridiculous when a villain who's a general thief, during judgment, will all of a sudden be revealed to have murdered a hundred people.

[Switchblade]

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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

More Deka!

I got the the Hoji episode I was told was really good. Yeah, it was really good. Pretty enjoyable, especially considering the episodes surrounding it. It was reminiscent of watching Geki and after a really intense episode it shifted to the Christmas one as sort of a breather.
Anyway, that was the episode needed to clinch Hoji as better than Sky, because they were pretty neck and neck otherwise.

Yeah, that is probably my favorite Sentai episode ever. So damn good.

Meanwhile, I'm up to Gekiranger 15 (I'm really only managing about an episode a day, sadly). It was... weird. The kid who played Jan, though? Totally the same kid who played AU Wataru in Decade.

[Matrixbeast]

Deka 48.
Abrella is finally taking his stand. It's getting pretty good.

And you reached that episode of Geki? It's really silly, but I still stand that the Geki Christmas episode is even more

Also, I find it funny that, when I hit the Deka Christmas episode, I was preparing for a stupid episode, but as it turned out, I was bracing myself for the wrong episode. The New Years episode that aired after it was the dumb one

[Matrixbeast]

And with that, Dekaranger is done. While I still have the movie and Vs. Abaranger to watch, I'll get to them a bit later.

I must say, it's certainly a fun series. The characters were great and it did well to capture the feel that these are cops working to save humanity, not superheroes who do it as a side job.
There we some fundamental flaws, notably the execution of criminals vs. imprisonment (And no, I'm not starting this moral debate, don't worry. I'm just saying that it's a flaw against the series). Other issues are the characterization of our cast. They do grow, but it's pretty minute. Hoji's episode was one of the best episodes in Sentai, but ultimately, he had no actual change or growth occur from it, thus, technically, making it filler. It's amazingly written and emotional, but filler nonetheless. The show wanted to stick so closely to status quo that they didn't want the characters to experience any form of shift, which was a problem.

As for the villains, I'm not a fan. There was a monster of the week here or there that had a neat backstory and history, but they were all just bland, for the most part. I also noticed that they had an odd tendency to add on crimes to make you lose any sense of sympathy for the character getting executed. It's rather jarring for a character who was solely a thief throughout the episode to have two hundred murders under his belt revealed during Judgment Time.
Abrella was interesting, but ultimately, he wasn't any different. Who was originally a weapons smuggler who was angry over the Dekarangers foiling his transactions, was then revealed to be a mass murder across galaxies, and his endgame plan was to basically make Earth a hive of scum and villainy, turning him from a new concept back to the same tired space conqueror type villain. He didn't have a death ship, but his plan was that he'd be at the top to make all the money.
His concept was different, but his goals pretty much put him on the same stage as SPD's Grumm.

Speaking of SPD, the inevitable comparison comes, "Which was better?"
Den-O says that compared to Deka, SPD is "Literally nothing."
He is wrong. Deka is good, and I'll say that it's better than SPD, but the moral flaws of Dekaranger leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Not just the execution of the MOTW, but the crimes the monsters committed as well, having mass murder lists that would make <Insert murderer's name here> blush. I know I'm thinking too deeply, and they're ultimately just numbers to make the monsters seem more evil so you don't have any doubt in your mind that they're horrible people (Aliens), but for each number, there's one family member we don't see. There's one planet that's completely gone, because of these characters.
It's an effective way to prove to the viewer that there is no redeeming these characters, but it's a deplorable way of doing so.

[Den-O]

Moral flaws just don't really play into how I enjoy a series. The framework that the show works within is what it is. So I enjoy it that way.

And I'm always of the opinion that any sentai is better than it's Power Rangers counterpart. From a quality stand point the original is always better than the adaptation. And while SPD is easily my favorite of the Diseny era seasons it just doesn't hold a candle to Dekaranger. But that's just my personal opinion as well.

[Dr Kain]

So I just spent the evening watching the first 8 episodes to Jetman. The last time I watched this show was in 2004, in piss poor 2MB/Ep quality, and raw with every other episode having its audio out of synch. As such, I don't really remember too much about the show's basics, just the important events that happen, so it feels like I am watching most of this for the first time. Nevertheless, it is pretty enjoyable, but there are some issues I do have with it, which seem to be stand out even worse now seeing it sub.

The first episode feels extremely rushed, but it is the fourth episode that I would say was the worst of the bunch in tonight's viewing. One minute Kaori is happy, then she is sad, then she meets her fiancee, tells him she wants to continue being a ranger, then tells the others she is going to marry him, they go off into battle and somehow Kaori and her fiancee are getting married? How is that even possible? Were the rangers fighting Road Dimension for days? How did they get a church, get the dresses, and a priest all within minutes? It just doesn't make sense.

Anyway, outside of that, I have enjoyed the series quite a bit thus far, even more so than previously. I will stand on my thoughts from years ago that this show has some of the weakest MOTW designs I have ever seen. I love the designs of the Vyram commanders (especially Ridiguet and Grey), but their monsters look extremely lackluster.

With that said, I'll probably watch another batch of episodes tomorrow, but we'll see. The snow storm from Sunday has got me in the mood to watch The Shining.

[Matrixbeast]

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Originally Posted by Den-O

Moral flaws just don't really play into how I enjoy a series. The framework that the show works within is what it is. So I enjoy it that way.

And I'm always of the opinion that any sentai is better than it's Power Rangers counterpart. From a quality stand point the original is always better than the adaptation. And while SPD is easily my favorite of the Diseny era seasons it just doesn't hold a candle to Dekaranger. But that's just my personal opinion as well.

I did enjoy the series, and I'm one to ignore issues in morality because they usually don't appear often enough for me to draw a problem with, or they're served as plot points.
But Deka...Eh. Like I said, it didn't bring the series down, and I still enjoyed it over SPD, it just left a bad taste in my mouth, is all.

And I'm not actually on that opinion, strangely. I want to give both series a fair chance. I'm not going to start running around calling Megaranger better than In Space by sheer virtue of being the source material. While yes, I will call some Sentai better than their PR adaptation simply because the PR adaptation sucked, I do like to give them a fair chance.

Anyway, overall, Deka is better than SPD, but it's not that good

Oh, and is there any point in time where the entire Dekaranger team is gathered?
And don't say Gokaiger, because DekaGold, DekaBright, DekaMaster, and DekaSwan weren't there.

[ZeoRangerV]

So far there's only been a handful of Power Rangers series I've preferred over their Sentai counterpart. Those being MMPR and RPM (although comparing that with Go-Onger is difficult since they're so different). I can't really comment on Megaranger vs In Space since I'm holding out on it until someone finishes subbing it.