[TheFightingSpirit]

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Originally Posted by Sentai

I think it's that statement where Saban went wrong completely. He should've said the final two episodes were the tribute, not the entire season.

Here, here! It is not a good idea to bill a show as one thing then do something completely different. Especially when your only excuse is "we're still making money, the kids won't notice"...

Is this episode watchable outside the US yet? 'Cause I really need to watch it out of morbid curiosity to see if my irritation (at the huge behind-the-scenes "is that necessarily the best way you professionals could have done that?" issues the show is having) matches up to the standard of the episode.

I actually enjoyed the first episode you see despite the VA babble, so maybe the second'll pass the test too?

[Sentai]

My biggest issue is his claim that this is the most expensive season yet.

[Deathryuger]

I get that PR ≠ Sentai, but looking at it from the perspective of my 5 year old nephew, Saban fails. I watched Gokaiger with him during the summer last year and he sat through every single episode. He hasn't been able to make it through either of the first two episodes of Super Megaforce. It boggles my mind that he is captivated by a show where he doesn't understand what the characters are doing, yet the native version can't hold him through the first commercial break. I have to agree with him.

As for the episode, it was alright. Its already been said, but there was a lot of lazy in the episodes. They are just given all the zords at the start? They knew of RPM and SPD, but called the Delta Runner "car zord"? A throw away line explains the Dairanger suits? I think my biggest problem was that this was the SPD tribute episode, my favorite season, and we didn't get anything along those lines. Where was Doggie? You can throw anyone in the suit and get John Tui to do the lines. I agree that Saban messed up saying the season was a tribute. It feels more like just another season.

[Battlizer]

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Originally Posted by Deathryuger

As for the episode, it was alright. Its already been said, but there was a lot of lazy in the episodes. They are just given all the zords at the start? They knew of RPM and SPD, but called the Delta Runner "car zord"?

Actually they do call it the Delta Runner, only Jake calls it the cart zord, for whatever reason.

[toughfighter83]

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Originally Posted by Kickback

To counter that argument ... they should just then skip the episode. I mean, there's 51 episodes they have to use, and they're only going to turn those 51 in to a total of 20 episodes of Super Megaforce, of which episode 20 is going to be a lot of original footage because the ending is going to have the "Mega Ranger War", featuring 11 cameos from previous Power Rangers.

I understand WHY they did it, but it totally feels lazy. If you can't make the episode make sense with the footage you have available, just skip the episode. There was no need to bring in the DaiRanger suits, none at all, but they did it just to be able to use as much footage as possible, and now the fandom is 50/50 about the usage ... basically if you disliked Saban's treatment of the show, you're horribly ticked off ... and if you like their treatment of the show, you're excited they did something different.

Either way, it's a conversation that shouldn't be happening in a season billed as a "tribute to all the previous seasons of Power Rangers".

they cant skip it because it's all about selling the toys, if they skip the delta runner episode, then the delta runner will not sell, it's the same with dairanger suits it's bandai's idea and saban kept the footage to sell those keys.

like or hate it, it's not going to matter it's about selling the toys. that's the way it is.

[Starscream Gaga]

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Originally Posted by toughfighter83

they cant skip it because it's all about selling the toys, if they skip the delta runner episode, then the delta runner will not sell, it's the same with dairanger suits it's bandai's idea and saban kept the footage to sell those keys.

like or hate it, it's not going to matter it's about selling the toys. that's the way it is.

Tell that to Magidragon and Fuuraimaru.

[TheFightingSpirit]

Well seeing as how the target audience is tuning out then, with a bit of luck, viewing figures for SMF will filter through to someone who matters (increasingly I'm convinced thats the Nick and BoA execs, rather than Haim or JT) and Dino Charge might have a little more effort put into it.

One can hope.

Honestly? Everything up until the Gokaiger footage happens is absolutely fine in my opinion. Which furthers my opinion that you can't shoe horn in different monsters/powers/suits/zords and expect the season to work. Barely worked in the mid 90s, so why would it now?

[toughfighter83]

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Originally Posted by Starscream Gaga

Tell that to Magidragon and Fuuraimaru.

magidragon will be adapted in the next episode and fuuraimaru will probably be used as well and it's getting toy release although it probably wont debut until the fall so it's early to complain about that.

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Originally Posted by TheFightingSpirit

Honestly? Everything up until the Gokaiger footage happens is absolutely fine in my opinion. Which furthers my opinion that you can't shoe horn in different monsters/powers/suits/zords and expect the season to work. Barely worked in the mid 90s, so why would it now?

well, you are right about that, but that's on nick for the episode problem and if they did put a 42 episode adaptation for gokaiger then they have to bring out the sentai teams of the keys/footage because it's just too much footage to cut and alot of money to refilm, so it's only way it would work.

[Den-O]

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Originally Posted by toughfighter83

they cant skip it because it's all about selling the toys, if they skip the delta runner episode, then the delta runner will not sell, it's the same with dairanger suits it's bandai's idea and saban kept the footage to sell those keys.

like or hate it, it's not going to matter it's about selling the toys. that's the way it is.

You're kind of just making that up. There have been no plans at all to release Dairanger keys in the US. With the revelation that there will only be about 60 total keys anyway, there's no way they'd make Dairanger keys rather than actual power rangers. So it has literally nothing to do with selling toys, because there are no US equivalents of those toys. It's simply not happening.

[Yellow Ranger]

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Originally Posted by Sentai

My biggest issue is his claim that this is the most expensive season yet.

What Saban considers expensive and the rest of us do is probably two different things.