[Sentai]

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OO 9. Although nothing special, it was once again a great blend of stunning action and a great cast. Although Daddy Red isn't all that great a character, I love the little scenes between him and Mack and Spencer is the best character in the show.

Hell even the Super Drivemax Megazord wasn't that bad, I'd grown so used to the secondary stages of the Megazords to be these hideous, flappy clusterfucks, but that didn't really look too bad. Although I do hate the way new Zords keep coming out of nowhere. It is almost as bad as Dino Thunder for pulling new Zords out of its ass to overkill levels.

The Zords are only good because they were good in Boukenger. The rest of the show sucks though

[Locke]

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The Zords are only good because they were good in Boukenger. The rest of the show sucks though

Oh yeah but that doesn't make them any less cool. And the zords are one of the many things I'm enjoying so far.

[Locke]

OO 11. Rose should totally visit Sakurako, I bet she could decode that parchment. But no, they go to London, to visit a professor who can translate...crop circles? Dafuq?

Mack got more stuff...yay... No wonder this show referenced Mystic Force, they both bloat the importance of the Red Ranger. Mack is as a fucking asshole anyway, spending more time trying to save this monster he just met, than his friends who are getting totally trashed.

A good monster was a cool concept in itself, but the voice acting ranges from terrible to bland in this show, so I find it very hard to care about any of the villains. The same thing happened for me in Jungle Fury. It's a shame because most of them have cool designs or motivations.

It wasn't all bad though, I'm still loving the sight of the Rangers actually saving people like proper superheroes. And I like how Dax used the Defender Vest this week, as Mack has enough stuff exclusive to him as it is already.... even if it randomly disappears next scene. The action scenes in general, both the copious amounts of American footage and Boukenger footage is fantastic, I love seeing them morph off of so many different surfaces, including enemies weapons. If nothing else, this show is worth watching as a mindless, popcorn action show.

[Locke]

OO 12. Which is the second part of episode 11. And it was paced terribly...

But man this episode had some great action, even if the CGI is horrendous. Loving that the Defender Vest is being passed around the team. Also, Overdrive you were doing so well, but that Ultrazord is horrendous, look how limited the movement is, look at all the bits hanging off and flapping out. So, so shit.

Sadly though, this is one of the worst offenders of back explosions I've ever seen. Most of the time the whole back explosion thing doesn't bother me like it did Linkara, but here you could actually see the projectiles flying over or past the targets and hitting the ground behind them, while the target acts like they were hit anyway. Which means it didn't just look like they were missing, they did. That kinda undermines the epicness.

Also wow, this team is really bad, huh? There is Mack trusting some lizard he's just met and going to greater lengths for it than his team, which actually comes no surprise as the possibility of Mack's death has the team arguing over who gets his Zords...

[Locke]

OO 13. Jesus slow the fuck down! Everything just kept...happening, without reason or context. Even the action, which I usually love, fell flat this week when two random monsters basically spent the whole episode fighting without any context to what they were doing. Seeing them really get to use their civilian powers was fun though.

[Matrixbeast]

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Originally Posted by Locke

OO 13. Jesus slow the fuck down! Everything just kept...happening, without reason or context. Even the action, which I usually love, fell flat this week when two random monsters basically spent the whole episode fighting without any context to what they were doing. Seeing them really get to use their civilian powers was fun though.

That's always been a problem with Civilian powers, in that after the first 2 episodes they kind of just...Vanish. The only civilian power I remember seeing more than, like, twice in any series that featured them was Kira's scream.
It's good to know that OO uses them a bit more.

[Locke]

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That's always been a problem with Civilian powers, in that after the first 2 episodes they kind of just...Vanish. The only civilian power I remember seeing more than, like, twice in any series that featured them was Kira's scream.
It's good to know that OO uses them a bit more.

Yeah man, because a lot of the show focuses on the adventuring and saving of people often more so than the monster fighting, the civilian powers come in real handy. I mean it isn't all equal, the practicality of Dax's, Will's and Mack's mean they are used way more often than Ronny and Rose's which are both, largely, kinda useless so far.

Still, the same problems kinda remain for me. They worked in Ninja Storm because they were Ninja and their Ranger powers and civilian powers were largely the same Ninja Arts. But remember how Conner had super speed, but it was Trent who had that signature super speed attack, when his power was camouflage? Yeah, why the fuck would you do that?

I hated the ones in SPD as well, as they gave each Ranger an extremely useful ability which almost made them a plothole as I constantly wondered (although I knew why) in the context of SPD, the Rangers would refuse to use their civilian powers to the point of nearly dying because of it, whenever they morphed.

The same thing kinda happens here, with the civilian powers adding so much identity to the Rangers in the unmorphed fight scenes and the powers really fitting with the characters well, the Rangers almost become blander when they morph. And in some cases their morphed fighting style or weapon or whatever totally contradicts what their American counterpart is about, completely breaking the illusion.

[GoseiWonder]

Which is why I like the RPM Civilian powers. They were only used when morphed, they actually were used in the season more than past Civilian powers (like Ziggy's teleporting being the cause of the plot for 2 different episodes).

"But they aren't civilian powers if the Rangers use them while morphed"

Touché…

[Locke]

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Which is why I like the RPM Civilian powers. They were only used when morphed, they actually were used in the season more than past Civilian powers (like Ziggy's teleporting being the cause of the plot for 2 different episodes).

"But they aren't civilian powers if the Rangers use them while morphed"

Touché…

I agree with this. The civilian powers are almost redundant if they provide better abilities than morphing does, because then it makes morphin feel pointless and less special.

[Locke]

Part Two of Man of Mercury.

Wait a minute, when did this show become all about aliens? Flurious and Moltor aren't aliens, they were humans who were blasted off to different planets...who I guess found aliens on those planets and made armies out of them? Either way.

Now apparently every enemy in the series is some alien from some different planet and the show just takes it in its stride. The focus of this show suddenly feels very far away from where the show started, it was about the crown yes, but not about every criminal in all of space and time coming to Earth to find it. And this isn't something that is built towards either, it happens so fast you don't even notice until several episodes later where aliens are casual conversation topics.

This lack of context for anything really undermines the series in a lot of ways, the Fearcats are really cool but we know fuck all about them and what we see of them outside of action is minuscule and plagued by terrible voice acting. I want to love them, because they are so good in the fighting, but I just can't care about something that gives me no reason to care. Was kinda creepy seeing their corpses dragged along the ground though... Luckily that lead to them taking new, awesome forms.

Also Tyzon's back story sucked, if the Fearcats could get out without using the front door, why did that cave in at the entrance kill his "elite" team? I know this is limited by children's broadcasting, but censorship isn't the problem here, the problem is this is stupid. He is such an awesome Ranger though.

As ever though, the action is just fantastic. The upgraded Fearcats were badass, Mercury's introductory fight was stunning and Ronny especially got such a great episode. For a show that puts so much emphasis on the Red, it's nice that every now and then it remembers he isn't the only member of the team.

Also Ronny totally wants Tyzon's metallic D.