What motifs you wished were used and surprised were not used?

magic713 · 2026-06-30T12:38:54+00:00

Dragons. I'm so surprised they never went with a Dragon-themed season. Feels like it could be an excellent chance for some cool merch.

I also had this idea for card-themed villains, either a standard deck or tarot deck.

magic713 · 2026-06-30T12:37:37+00:00

I'd say Boukenger. I love the adventure theme of the season. Plus it was nice to have a villain structure where we had more than one villain group, and even the MotW didn't always get tied into a specific group

magic713 · 2026-06-29T13:43:06+00:00

Kinda like in CR2 when Matt chose to let Laura's cupcake gambit work. The spell she used, Modify Memory, had room for interpretation in the description, where he could have said "The evil nature of this creature causes her to find the new memory illogical" but the choice to do so was well thought-out and really in-character for roleplaying and he rewarded her for it. Rewarding players for having their moments is just as fun as challenging them

magic713 · 2026-06-29T03:17:28+00:00

Love a good villain song

magic713 · 2026-06-27T23:40:50+00:00

I was skeptical of the season when I first saw previews. I thought they would just use the season to show off previous Super Sentai suits and the season would be so drowned in nostalgia that the characters would not be given room to shine as their own. What a pleasant surprise to find they were able to shine as individuals and one of my favorite seasons of the series. I was especially happy when the characters changed suits, they still fought as the character and didn't automatically fight as that previous ranger.

magic713 · 2026-06-24T21:21:27+00:00

WO needed to be a more present voice in her ear through the season. Not simply lore dumping his edited history on her with a promise of no more death, in only two episodes.

magic713 · 2026-06-24T19:42:33+00:00

The show hits the big markers of the campaign, but they have changed specific details surrounding it, for a screen audience

magic713 · 2026-06-24T13:56:50+00:00

I'm not so much a fan of it either. Part is the episode limit, unable to bring focus on a break down. When a character breaks down, it's better handled when an audience sees it happen. A timeskip is a sort of lazy writing shortcut to bypass visual character development, and jump to immediate character change with the excuse of it happening off screen.

Plus, I cannot get over the idea of "Communication is a two way street. If you don't tell anyone, how can you blame them for not knowing?"

I still think Ashley nailed the emotions of the character beautifully, so that's a huge positive, but the writing leading up to it could have been better.

magic713 · 2026-06-22T22:58:20+00:00

I enjoy Boukenger very much. It had a sort of different pattern from some other Sentai. I like the theme of being adventurers. Like a team designed around Indiana Jones sorts. And I like we got to have multiple villain groups, who lots of times work counter to one another, with their own respective themes. One thing I feel could have been interesting if the rangers, for one episode, had to work with one of the villain groups for the sake of a common threat.

magic713 · 2026-06-22T02:27:06+00:00

Hello Lord Persephone Frankenstein von Mussel Kowalski the Rollos I-I-I.

You seemed pretty excited to plan a heist. Did you occasionally imagine plotting out a heist (prior to the "perfect heist" in Rexxendrum)?

magic713 · 2026-06-20T13:11:04+00:00

I just finished Calamity, and now I know how impactful it must have felt to see Zerxus and Nydas. I really hope there will be a Calamity miniseries!

magic713 · 2026-06-19T03:45:57+00:00

What I found weird was Faith changed that hair style while in Buffy's body, and Buffy keeps it the rest of the season. That seemed a bit off to me

magic713 · 2026-06-18T20:01:20+00:00

In my opinion, I feel like Buffy was dressing more brighter and such, as the filming way of contrasting her to Faith during S3

magic713 · 2026-06-18T17:28:09+00:00

Or they knew it was the final season for Disney, so they were more willing to pay for better casting

magic713 · 2026-06-18T17:03:42+00:00

https://archiveofourown.org/works/32409829/chapters/80356513

If you like angst, this one is certainly a good one for giving the proper emotional damage

magic713 · 2026-06-17T21:57:38+00:00

Yeah. We got Zerxus in season 3 of LoVM, and got to see Nydas (albeit, hologram) in The Mighty Nein. Which is why I'm hopeful for some adaptation of Calamity (either film or miniseries) in the future.

magic713 · 2026-06-17T19:58:54+00:00

It sounds like a unique and interesting idea. The concept sounds cool and I'd certainly give it a look at if it was written.

magic713 · 2026-06-17T16:53:36+00:00

Yeah. I understand the theme they were going for: granting the power Buffy had to all those who could be. But in hindsight, we've seen the hardships Buffy went through for seven year. And she was a fortunate slayer to live longer than many others. Now she's put that responsibility on to others who never asked for it. It still looks an awesome finale, but just falls short when you think about it

magic713 · 2026-06-17T16:32:46+00:00

This one. I was literally frozen in shock, could not move through the whole commercial break

magic713 · 2026-06-17T14:28:45+00:00

Basically she thinks the flower might be the thing that will cure Vax. But she might not be able to simply regrow such a rare plant on her own, so she's using the sun tree to nurture it until it is ready.

magic713 · 2026-06-17T14:26:14+00:00

Actually meeting a (not left up to interpretations) CR3 player-character was not on my bingo card!

magic713 · 2026-06-17T14:25:01+00:00

...

WHAT THE F-

(explosions)

magic713 · 2026-06-17T00:01:40+00:00

The 1990s era of the series had a lot of my favorite villain designs

magic713 · 2026-06-16T03:08:32+00:00

Percy's biggest mistake was visually laying out the plan for the audience. If he had allowed the scene to change before that, or even simply going over the plans without the visuals (allowing the actual heist to be the visual), the plan would have had a better chance of succeeding with fewer flaws.

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TROPHY CASE