[Locke]

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

I guess we do agree on Liveman and I like most of Shinkenger.

I can't even make it beyond episode 8 of Goseiger and I've tried three times.

Liveman is the BEST of the classic sentai shows I have watched.

Liking most of Shinkenger is how I feel too, that middle section is just pure boredom. I've wanted to rewatch Shinkenger for ages but remembering that middle slog always turns me away.

If you couldn't get past that far in Goseiger, it really isn't for you. The Warstar arc is probably the best arc of the whole show, and I personally found you could have a great experience just watching that part of the show. When they are defeated and the Yuuma Beasts take the stage the show does become a lot more focused and plot heavy, but it's so BORING. It picks up again when the Matrintis arrive, but they arrive way too late and die pretty much as soon as they appear so the show can wrap up, it's a shame because they could have been great.

[Switchblade]

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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

Wait, I'm about to download Jetman, and I see something called episode 0. Can anyone explain what that's about?

I think it was just a preview video, if I remember correctly.

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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

Goseiger isn't terrible. It just feels confused.

And terrible.

[Locke]

It's weird, a lot of the stuff people hate Goseiger for are exactly why I love it.

[Matrixbeast]

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

I think it was just a preview video, if I remember correctly.


And terrible.

Alright, thanks. I was afraid episode 0 was like an epilogue that you're supposed to watch after the fact or something.

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Originally Posted by Locke

It's weird, a lot of the stuff people hate Goseiger for are exactly why I love it.

I didn't hate Goseiger. It just felt like every time I found I was enjoying it, that reason would quickly come to an end.
For example, I found the Warstar to be painfully boring, almost as bad as the Yuuma, but when it started to pick up, boom. Warstar defeated. Move on to the new villains, and etc.

[Locke]

The Warstar Arc was my favourite and for one thing only, Dereputa, he may not reinvent the wheel, but his battles with Alata are some of my favourites in the whole of sentai and whenever Dereputa got involved "shit got real" in a way rare for sentai, especially these days. Easily one of my all time favourite villains.

[Battlizer]

Gekiranger 34, 35 36

Sandain appears! Jan, Ran, Retsu, And Gou faced off against Kata while Ken took on Rageku to take down RinJyuken once and for all! It was pretty surprising when all the Kensei were stuck in that ball of stone. I knew it wouldn't last for it was still pretty sad.

Jan and Ken seemed to take a page form Yoda by taking on the philosophy of 'Don't think. Feel.' Though it might just be the translation paraphrasing it into that. At any rate Kata end up going giant and the rangers have trouble taking him down. Ken manages to take Rageku down by himself, and the the sacred sword and therefore the power of Sandain, goes to him.

Sandain's a pretty decent looking mecha. They called it the Geki Jyuken god and it looks the part. And it acts the part seeing as it's powerful enough to defeat a Kenma. And apparently Brusa Li's final blessing is to power up all the Gekirangers AND the Rinjyuken users. It seems that he approves of their rivalry.

Rio now has new found strength and can probably take on Maku for himself. He ended up being so powerful that Jan thought he was Mak when he senses his energy. But it was cool to see the Gekirangers powerful enough to take Maku down for good.

Kind of a shame that Long took down Rageku, but his armored form looks cool. And apparently he's the master of a whole new martial art, Genjyuken. I suppose there'll be a whole new line of sort of generals.

And 36...well it was partly a clip show, partly a comedic episode. Not much happened of importance aside from introducing a new Genjyuken user that was dragging of coffin around. That said, it was pretty funny seeing Retsu get to use drunken fist and Bei thinking the giant fight at the end was so one sided that he might as well not commentate. In the end Ken was really the only one who suited up this episode, haha.

[Locke]

Was gonna start rewatching Jetman, but then I remembered I had the Liveman V2s to rewatch so I probably wont be adding anything to my plate yet. Although I will probably watch more Abaranger after I finish Gokaiger. So onwards we press with the flashy pirates.

Guess what episode this was? Episode thirty. The BEST tribute episode of them all, my favourite classic sentai...they used it to further the plot, it didn't paint Jou as a passive flake...it didn't complicate all the mythos.

I AM SO HAPPY. I am starting my new job in a few hours and this was such a great way to start the day. I hope it ends as happily as it began.

[Matrixbeast]

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Originally Posted by Battlizer

Gekiranger 34, 35 36

Sandain appears! Jan, Ran, Retsu, And Gou faced off against Kata while Ken took on Rageku to take down RinJyuken once and for all! It was pretty surprising when all the Kensei were stuck in that ball of stone. I knew it wouldn't last for it was still pretty sad.

Jan and Ken seemed to take a page form Yoda by taking on the philosophy of 'Don't think. Feel.' Though it might just be the translation paraphrasing it into that. At any rate Kata end up going giant and the rangers have trouble taking him down. Ken manages to take Rageku down by himself, and the the sacred sword and therefore the power of Sandain, goes to him.

Sandain's a pretty decent looking mecha. They called it the Geki Jyuken god and it looks the part. And it acts the part seeing as it's powerful enough to defeat a Kenma. And apparently Brusa Li's final blessing is to power up all the Gekirangers AND the Rinjyuken users. It seems that he approves of their rivalry.

Rio now has new found strength and can probably take on Maku for himself. He ended up being so powerful that Jan thought he was Mak when he senses his energy. But it was cool to see the Gekirangers powerful enough to take Maku down for good.

Kind of a shame that Long took down Rageku, but his armored form looks cool. And apparently he's the master of a whole new martial art, Genjyuken. I suppose there'll be a whole new line of sort of generals.

And 36...well it was partly a clip show, partly a comedic episode. Not much happened of importance aside from introducing a new Genjyuken user that was dragging of coffin around. That said, it was pretty funny seeing Retsu get to use drunken fist and Bei thinking the giant fight at the end was so one sided that he might as well not commentate. In the end Ken was really the only one who suited up this episode, haha.

So much of this gets elaborated on further that explaining it would probably put it closer into spoiler territory
But something I particularly enjoy is that none of the Genjyuken "Generals" are throwaway (Except maybe Hiso, but I don't remember if she could be counted as a general or not).

But I enjoy SaiDain's entry, using the bloom on both sides. Jyuken is Jyuken, be it Geki or Rin, after all~
SaiDain as a whole is pretty cool too. Imposing and made special since it's not just a construct like the other Geki Beasts.

[Matrixbeast]

Finally got things to calm down for a moment to watch Jetman.

As a start, it was a fairly decent episode. It felt very much like Kakuranger, having to find the warriors who will become our rangers, only only giving us 3 at the start. I like that, since it gives us a little more time to get to know our rangers.

For the characters themselves, they're nice. Like always, we spend more time on red over all others, but I like Ryu. He's not the fireball Red or the god among us Red that most recent Red rangers have been. He's brash, but for a good reason, his stake in this battle is personal, and although he has battle skills due to his prior training and job as a (Something), he's not a one man army. He seems initially nihilistic, but it's very believable because of the (Very) recent tragedy that occurred.

Raita was also pretty neat. I liked that he refused to become a Jetman (Rather, acknowledge that he already was one) because he hates violence and just wants to tend his farm, only transforming solely because of the circumstances that befell him. His statement of "I hate violence" seems to ring true, fighting the foot soldiers by swinging a hoe around wildly, and, while in suit, to just flail about. Next was Kaori, who didn't do much. However, her bonding slightly with Raita was endearing and her willingness to enter the battle solely for the excitement, while rather shallow (And somewhat cliche for her character type), was fine. Much like Raita, her fighting ability is pitiful, too, which worked. She clearly lived a very sheltered lifestyle, so she wouldn't be able to do much, either.

This leads to who I assume is the mentor character, whose name I didn't catch. She's fine, but she didn't get much opportunity to do much. However, what she did get to do was rather great, knocking out Ryu to get him off the Earthbase and then telling him to cry over his loss. It's rather touching, and it says how much action series like Sentai have changed, as I was expecting her to go "Toughen up! We need to protect the earth! Stop bitching like a baby and deal with it!" when he started grieving.

Next are the Vyram. There isn't much to say based on their first appearance. They just started wrecking the place, and, at the very end, all came on screen at once to stare at the camera until the credits started rolling.

The only real negative that actually brought things down a bit were Raita and Kaori's fighting ability.
"But you just said--"
I know, but I think they overplayed their lack of ability. I liked that they didn't know how to fight, but even after transforming, they just ran around flailing. They wanted to sell to the audience "These are normal people who only became rangers through random circumstance, not cosmic decision," but I think they took it a bit too far in trying to sell it.

Anyway, Jetman's start was solid. I was thinking it'd have a Megaranger vibe, with a fully stocked spaceship to help the rangers, but that thought went flying out the window after 10 minutes

[XW1n5t0nX]

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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

This leads to who I assume is the mentor character, whose name I didn't catch.

Aya.