Go! Go! Loser Ranger!
| I get what you mean and I had the exact same Moment with Epispde 10. But... wasn't that obvious? Of course the MC would, sooner or later, inevitably become the Standart Shonen-Good-Guy. I saw that coming the moment the Show started. I feel you, tho. There was an actual opportunity to make this a more unique Story than it turned out to be |
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| You should watch episodes 11 and 12. He doesn’t side with the rangers, he decides to go against both the rangers and the bosses, it’s very clear he’s not on either of their sides |
| It became a lot more of what I'd expect from a generic battle shounen further into the season starting with the ranger cadets' tournament arc in the parking garage and then the issue only compounded after that with, as you allude to, the main character's abrupt about-face which felt completely unearned and nonsensical, not really fitting into the context of his role in the world and story and everything we had known about it up to that point. Thereafter, his actions and the script in general designed to twist and contort around to justify them, became increasingly incoherent and very slapdash and sloppy-feeling. Which is very unfortunate and regrettable considering the first few episodes, at least to me, made it seem like it would be a much more exciting and unique thrilling take on an infiltration story with a greater ideological conflict as the backdrop than what was later delivered upon by the kind of tsundere faux-antihero. All it amounted to in the end was a very misleading lead-in. I started watching this series several weeks into the season and was pleasantly surprised to an extreme degree at first as it looked from the poster and synopsis like the kind of thing I would overlook on the first reading through of all the seasonal shows and pass over as the standard action battle shounen fare, only instead to be very impressed. And then it quickly degenerated after the first few episodes and became much closer to the stereotypical image I had of it in my mind prior to starting it. It went from me thinking early on that it might make my top five, top three, maybe even be my favorite of the whole season, to not even registering in the top 10. None of that made it a bad show per se. Just a "fine", "average", "decent", "whatever" one of which there are an endless amount to choose from. And the kind I watched and finished the first season of, and was perfectly content to do so, but also have no desire to watch the second season or continue with so I doubt I will. Some 5-6/10-tier series are fine to watch and once you start and watch at least a few episodes you want to ultimately finish at least one full season of, but it's not the kind of series I'm going to want to watch 60 or 100 episodes of or something (not saying there will even be that many - just hypothetical). At that point, I'd rather just watch a classic battle shounen like Dragonball or Naruto or something which is probably even better than it even though it's not my preferred genre. |
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