Wow, Where Did The Time Go?

Hmm... YouTube seems to have changed the way it codes the widescreen embeds. I'll have to do something about that.

In the meantime, RPM is still stupid awesome.

Thirteen episodes in, and this is still quintessentially Power Rangers being all that Power Rangers could and should be.

Dr. K talking girl talk (while in fluffy slippers) is priceless.

Also, finally we get some development between Dr. K and the Rangers over the Venjix virus.

Let's look back at my earlier predictions and see how they've fared:

Hypothesis One: The person "Dillon" is trying to save is Tenaya 7; he has no clear memories because Venjix moidered his brain while trying to upgrade both of them into whatever Tenaya 7 is supposed to be.
Sub-Hypothesis: They are siblings.

Well, we know Venjix moidered his brain for sure now, and we even know about how he did it. And I'd say chances are still good for this one.

Hypothesis Two: After Dr. K's big reveal (if you don't know what I'm talking about, you haven't watched the promo trailer, and probably shouldn't be reading this), we learn that the Zords look the way they do because she likes cutesy things.

We do have an explanation for the eyes now, and it's not this. Ah, well. (Her love of cute things seems to be confirmed, on the other hand; like I said, slippers.)

Hypothesis Three: This is actually an alternate reality from MMPR through Jungle Fury.

This is actually looking better now with the big reveal from "Dr. K." It could of course be, though, that they used Machine Empire programming as a base, so... I hesitate to care. Venjix's origins beyond Dr. K creating him aren't relevant.

Hypothesis Four: There may be an actual reason for the choices of "Retrofire" Zords made by Bandai.

No word.

Hypothesis Five: The midseason disconnect will be rough this year.

Well... No word.

Hypothesis Six: Once "Dillon's" current character arc is over, they'll pretty much ignore how awesome he was during it.

Happily, this hasn't happened yet.

Hypothesis Seven: Corinth is small and crowded, so Dr. K made the Zords able to take on those tiny forms and teleport for purposes of avoiding city damage due to Zord stampedes.

Well, I still like the idea, anyway, and it hasn't been disproven. The idea, at least, has also been reinforced by the Croc Carrier destroying Tokyo Tow-uh, I mean, that unidentified building in "Ranger Red."

As an aside, the latest episode of Shinkenger was kinda trippy, but I have this feeling it was a tribute to the older sentai stuff, because the monster of the week sounded like the yellow Goranger (who, by the way, is frikkin' awesome from what I've seen of him).

Well, I think I had something else to say, but I can't think of it and I'm on a tight schedule.

Commentary...

On the last few things which came up, which I haven't yet commented on.

Shinkenger:



So, the next MOTW's power is to summon spandex grunts to do sleeper holds on people? That's kinda stupid awesome.

As for the latest episode of RPM, well, as always, stupid awesome, and the story behind Flynn is touching and moving. (I thought so, anyway.) Seriously, someone who wants to be a superhero literally his whole life (and purely because he genuinely wants to help people) gets to become a Power Ranger? It sounds bad on paper, but it works so well in the episode.

Weird Tokusatsu: Super God Neiger

[All traces of Chojin/Super God Neiger have been wiped from YouTube completely. I can't say why. However, I now know where the Neiger homepage is! Of course, it's in Japanese. That's what Google Translate is for, though.]

I've never embedded a playlist before, but here we go.


That's pretty slick, actually.

Super God Neiger is probably the single weirdest tokusatsu series I've encountered. It does more blatant product placement than the live action Transformers movie. Yes, that's actually possible.

It's also very formulaic, cartoony, and... food-related.

The main character seems to ride a fish motorcycle. There's a fish villain. And there are something like half a dozen different unrelated fish guns.

Fishy.

Okay, that's bad. But the series is basically made of crack, so if you like watching cracky stuff, well, you'll probably enjoy it. (They also chose some very toned actors [and one toned actress], so if that appeals to you, there you go. We never see their faces, though.)

Be warned, though, one of the "grunt" henchmen, the one with the black and purple boxers, keeps losing them. The boxers, I mean.

Yeah.