Looks like my original guess was right - Orion is Lucky's ancestor. (With 300 some years separating the past and the present, I'm assuming there's a couple more generations in there.) My second theory, that Orion was Don Armage/took over as Don Armage, doesn't seem as likely anymore considering they...

I completely forgot that this movie was a thing. I don't think I've ever blanked out the existence of a toku movie like that, especially given how long they spend promoting them these days. It was...okay? There was nothing that I found terribly offensive, although the Kyuuranger/Space Squad crossove...

I was enjoying the episode’s premise, even the flashback so the Indabee could point out when he and Spada “met,” but then the episode turned into a clip show. Is this a new sentai tradition - mid-season recap episode? I can handle the New Year’s recap episode, because it usually helps to tie everyth...

This was a good movie too, but parts of it felt like it indulged its snuff-film aspects a bit too much for me to be completely comfortable with. I really didn't need to see Jasmine and Umeko die so many times. Tammy is an awesome character. I don't remember a lot of details from the Metal Hero movie...

That Shin-chan commercial was so creepy… Right, Kyuuranger. It was a decent episode. I assumed based on last week’s preview that the spirit obstacles would all be evil, but it was kind of nice that Commander and Kotarou got a chance to interact with (the real?) spirits of their loved ones one last t...

This is probably going to be repetitive because I wrote it before I read Takenoko’s post, but man, they make it hard for me to like Geki. It’s funny - right before Umeko commented on their similarities, I was thinking about how Geki isn’t too different from Ban at the start of Dekaranger. The big di...

It’s funny, but I think this episode was more redemptive for Lucky than Tsurugi. Rather than just have him stomping around and yelling about how he doesn’t work want to work with mean ol’ Tsurugi, they let Lucky have a confrontation about why he was frustrated with Tsurugi in a way that allowed both...

I’ve been quiet the last few episodes because my opinion has been swinging back and forth and I’ve gotten fatigued of critiquing sentai. I didn’t have to worry this week because this was a really enjoyable episode from start to finish. I really liked Tsurugi this episode. His arrogance in his debut ...

Absence did not make my heart grow fonder for Kyuuranger. My tolerance for its antics seems to have plummeted over the week off. Eris was majorly annoying. I know the whole "I find one member of the team cute - no, now it's the person I hated all episode" thing pops up fairly frequently in...

It's like the ending lyrics say (didn't Phurricane point out how salient the lyrics were in last season's theme or this one?) I don't think I've posted in a S02 thread yet, but it sounds like something I probably said about the S01 theme. Or just about any toku lyrics. It's amazing how much a show'...

Man, Pac-Man sure was popular in movies this past year. I blame Takeru for this whole movie. If he hadn't opened his mouth and jinxed everyone by saying how peaceful it was, I bet none of this would have happened. The ending was also a tease. I don't know why they couldn't have listened to Onari and...

Plot-wise, this episode shook things up quite a bit. Champ will be inevitably be repaired, but he may not be the character - oh, wait - they were just starting to develop his character past throwing the word “justice” into every sentence, so the audience won’t be losing that much. Okay, I'm exaggera...

I thought it was a pretty good episode. I’m still irritated that it took a backseat for so long, but I was satisfied with the resolution of the Champ/Stinger subplot. Actually, everything about the fivesome that assembled for the last battle was enjoyable - the frenemy Champ/Stinger dynamic, the bro...

I guess I'm just super confused, since it's hard to disentangle M from Parado. Both love games. I'm pretty sure from the conversation that he basically confesses to being the one who fought Nico in the past. If Orange Ex-Aid isn't Parado, then why does he use "ore" and love games? So does...

I forgot about the brief flashback and explanation we got about Lucky's backstory until I saw the picture on the front page. So he was stuck in an escape capsule as a kid and blasted off his planet as it was under attack? Someone in the writer's room is a Superman/Supergirl fan. If Lucky turns out t...