[XW1n5t0nX]

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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

Megaranger!

Uneventful episode, but there was one thing that I liked, and that was Nezi Red's screaming and flailing over why he can't kill Mega Red, despite literally standing on top of a beaten Mega Red. I don't know why I enjoyed that particular scene, but that one track mindset actually makes for an interesting villain.
"What do you mean? It makes them more dull. They only want one goal, and nothing else."
It's a simple character turned more complex just by thinking about them.
A character like Guirel, for example, wants to advance and rule, and he'll plot, lie, and betray anyone to achieve that goal. In a sense, it makes him predictable (From the audiences' view) because you know his plans will always have some sort of fine print to further his own goals.
Nezi Red wants to kill Mega Red. It's a goal that doesn't have wall after wall to achieve. However, what makes it more interesting is that he's clearly sentient. He's not a drone, and this episode proved it with his screaming over his forced retreat preventing him from getting the kill.
A simple story arc could be Mega Red pretending to die, but not by Nezi Red's hands. It could give something of an identity crisis to the character.

Oh well. As it stands, what makes them interesting as characters is what we're not told about them. The mystery over everything else. And since they were introduced so late into the game, while they weight of their threat is felt, they're not powerful as characters alone.

I hate to tell you this, but outside of the episode with the girl, the Neziranger arc is the EXACT same as the In Space version

[Matrixbeast]

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Originally Posted by XW1n5t0nX

I hate to tell you this, but outside of the episode with the girl, the Neziranger arc is the EXACT same as the In Space version

I know. It's much a case of "What could have been."
I just like to speculate on what we're not told. Their actions and reactions. The bits of character we see.

[Locke]

Gobus 27.

I gotta say, I love the Gobus fight scenes. Kyoryuger reminds me a lot of Disney - I mean sure there was the blood and stuff and some decent unmorphed fight scenes - but the majority of the action was made up of special effects. Great effects, it was all extremely fun but you don't realise what you miss, until you start watching a show like this.

Gobus is full of martial arts, the kind of comicbook realist martial arts where every move is gorgeous, and polished, and unnecessarily complex as people go flying through the air and through walls. I love the way people run up walls, swing through the air. Like I say there is nothing wrong with the way Kyoryuger did it, but Gobus feels so much more intense as it feels so much more physical.

Between all the flashy special effectsfests, the best fights in the show are when Ryuuji throws down his weapon and faces off against either Enter or Escape. And hell, the mech stuff doesn't immediately ruin everything either!

[Locke]

Gobus 27.

I gotta say, I love the Gobus fight scenes. Kyoryuger reminds me a lot of Disney - I mean sure there was the blood and stuff and some decent unmorphed fight scenes - but the majority of the action was made up of special effects. Great effects, it was all extremely fun but you don't realise what you miss, until you start watching a show like this.

Gobus is full of martial arts, the kind of comicbook realist martial arts where every move is gorgeous, and polished, and unnecessarily complex as people go flying through the air and through walls. I love the way people run up walls, swing through the air. Like I say there is nothing wrong with the way Kyoryuger did it, but Gobus feels so much more intense as it feels so much more physical.

Between all the flashy special effectsfests, the best fights in the show are when Ryuuji throws down his weapon and faces off against either Enter or Escape. And hell, the mech stuff doesn't immediately ruin everything either!

[Locke]

Gobus 28.

So the music continues to change. If anything though I haven't found any drastic changes to individual aspects of the show - like someone said Hiromu feels like a totally different character - he does? I haven't noticed that, I've just noticed that Go-Busters has gotten a whole lot sillier and a lot less focused. Honestly, I've not particularly enjoyed this show at all since I've come back to it. The action and production values have been solid but it feels much more homogenised in the most marketable (see: worst) sentai tropes.

What made the first fifteen or so episodes of Gobus enjoyable for me is how much it didn't feel like sentai. It largely avoided the goofy juvenile smash yourself over the head with a pan humour that sentai normally goes for, and every episode had strong and solid world building and character focus. Y'know, it was sentai which was actually well paced. But apparently being a GOOD SHOW is not what sentai fans want, so off we go back to the usual sentai formula of "look at the pretty colours while you dribble in your lap."

I mean take this episode centred around what would go on to be the ToQ gimmick with a monster who talks like DJ Sagura. It also provides an explanation for the chicken thing, in a move that is even sillier than the weakness in the first place, which was utterly ridiculous to begin with. Hopefully with the way this episode ended, it's going to pick up again next episode as the 20s have so far been a painful slog. But if it continues like this then...meh.

[Locke]

Gobus 29. This is what I am TALKIN ABOUT! After so many bad or meh episodes, it's nice to have something epic like this.

Minus Enter's horrible haircut, paintballing gear and hilariously fake looking sword his clash with Hiromu was damn epic. It's nice to see what he's like, when he's serious and I loved how the fight included unmasked Hiromu and an Auto Vajin moment for Nick. And that was only the introduction for the epic, as the Buster's entrance into hyper space was absolutely GLORIOUS.

Only let downs were Messiah's form....which looked awful and the realisation that Escape is about three foot tall and completely bell bottomed.

[Thessair]

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Originally Posted by Locke

Gobus 29. This is what I am TALKIN ABOUT! After so many bad or meh episodes, it's nice to have something epic like this.

Minus Enter's horrible haircut, paintballing gear and hilariously fake looking sword his clash with Hiromu was damn epic. It's nice to see what he's like, when he's serious and I loved how the fight included unmasked Hiromu and an Auto Vajin moment for Nick. And that was only the introduction for the epic, as the Buster's entrance into hyper space was absolutely GLORIOUS.

Only let downs were Messiah's form....which looked awful and the realisation that Escape is about three foot tall and completely bell bottomed.

I was really looking forward to Ayame Misaki in Go-Busters, but I was just a wee bit disappointed after her badassery in Cutie Honey the Live.

[Locke]

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I was really looking forward to Ayame Misaki in Go-Busters, but I was just a wee bit disappointed after her badassery in Cutie Honey the Live.

She is gorgeous, and I really really like Escape, but it was just odd that after all the forcedness of her sex appeal in the show, they framed her next to the Buglars in such a way to expose just how small and weirdly shaped she is

She is in Cutie Honey? Along with Miki Hara? Oh man I need to see that...

[Thessair]

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Originally Posted by Locke

She is gorgeous, and I really really like Escape, but it was just odd that after all the forcedness of her sex appeal in the show, they framed her next to the Buglars in such a way to expose just how small and weirdly shaped she is

She is in Cutie Honey? Along with Miki Hara? Oh man I need to see that...

Cutie Honey the Live has its many flaws, but it's delightfully cheesy and it has Ayame and Mikie. Funnily enough, Ayame Misaki's character is Miki in CHtL. It also has my (thus far) favorite Toku villain of all time. Not Kohei Murakami, though he gives Kusaka a run for his money in being messed up.

Edit: She is gorgeous. I cannot argue that.

[Locke]

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Originally Posted by Thessair

Cutie Honey the Live has its many flaws, but it's delightfully cheesy and it has Ayame and Mikie. Funnily enough, Ayame Misaki's character is Miki in CHtL. It also has my (thus far) favorite Toku villain of all time. Not Kohei Murakami, though he gives Kusaka a run for his money in being messed up.

Edit: She is gorgeous. I cannot argue that.

*goes to find a batch torrent*