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It's called Saban watering down the whole "Samurai" idea into something that American kids would believe samurai are. Wow, what a way to look down on Japan, Saban.

I agree with the idea of having a Japanese actor play the Red Ranger this season. Hell, I would have actually bought the idea that he was gonna train them to be REAL samurai, and not the hack jobs the current red ranger is doing.

I'm sorry, but even Disney put out better when they acquired Power Rangers. Hell, I will even say I like RPM over Samurai any day! Saban forgot what made PR good! I will refer back to my favorite, Time Force. MY GOD I loved that show! I would say that was my overall favorite season. But look at Samurai, it's not even believable! I don't know who Saban got to write this season or even do the translations (if there even was any), but holy crap it's just garbage!

I mean really Saban, What the Hell?!

See, I am a stickler for those old 60's and 70's Samurai movies that were so badly dubbed but were SO bloody AMAZING! I think that pretty much showed me what REAL Samurai were. Though anime like Rurouni Kenshin and Samurai Scroll were great too. Also I loved Sengoku Basara. But that's off topic. I know what Samurai are, and Power Rangers Samurai are not Samurai. Sorry Saban.

Yeah....the whole idea of American teenagers being decedents of Samurai.....yeah I can totally buy that! *insert sarcastic laugh here* Really? Saban really expects us to buy that back story? Might as well make one of them an alien or something! Ugh....at the very least I would have gotten being an a*****e Japanese Red Ranger like Takeru was. He pretty much whipped the rest of the Shinkengers into a real Samurai force. What's the American Red Ranger doing? Pretty much messing up too!

Okay, my big complaint with Disney was that I thought they might mess up Power Rangers. But really, they didn't do half bad. Not that there were some screw ups (maybe Omega Ranger being a ball of light?) but on that note, SPD was one of my favorite seasons too! Why? Because it was more of a mature storyline! Time Force, SPD, and Jungle Fury were amazing series because they dealt with mature stories. I would have to say the one season I refused to watch because of the utter lack of a good story was Operation Overdrive. That series was just awful! I don't why they took such a great series like Bokenger and turned it into Operation Overdrive.

And on the subject of Power Rangers writing something into a series that wasn't in the Sentai was Lightspeed Rescue's Titanium Ranger! It showed that an American made Ranger actually works! Now why can't they just make something that? Why can't Saban take an original idea and make a series from it? Who says you need a Sentai to go from? Let's see Saban make something completely from scratch and see where it goes! There are THOUSANDS of story lines that the writers could come up with!

Well, take a look at shows like Kamen Rider Dragon Knight and Power Rangers SPD. Both were brought over to Japan and dubbed into Japanese for the fans over there, and both from what I heard were very were received by both Sentai and Rider fans. So it's not entirely impossible for the fans to be happy on either shore.

My whole argument is that Saban just really dropped the ball this year, and granted Samurai has it's fans in the younger audiences, but for die hard fans PR over here who grew up with the series, it's a let down.

I fear very much for the idea of Saban possibly skipping Goseiger and going right to making a PR adaption of Gokaiger. Gokaiger has won me over time and time again, even in the slow filler episodes, I still love it! (then again, could Saban make a PR adaption of Goseiger any worse than the Sentai was?) The characters, their back stories, their powers, their personalities, and the fact that they are pirates I could see Saban just massacring the idea. And what if they didn't include characters like Aka Red and Basco? Ugh....makes me sick just thinking about it. And what about being able to show the Sentai teams pre-MMPR? How would Saban handle that? It scares me guys! crying

The other thing that bugs the hell out of me is that Samurai didn't have someone working on the staff that might have made the series a little better. And that is music guru Ron Wasserman.

Had Ron Wasserman produced the music for this series, instead of the theme song being a rip off of the original MMPR theme song, I think this series really would have been a little better. Heck, I could see him throwing in a little Japanese flute music at the beginning and then going into this hard rock song for the theme, but no. They had to take his original MMPR theme, hand it to someone else, and then it came out terrible.

Granted I know other seasons didn't have Ron Wasserman do the music, but you can hear they took ques from his theme songs and still made great theme songs. It makes me wonder if Saban really has the knack for making Power Rangers great anymore. Maybe they should have passed it to someone like the Wang brothers who did Dragon Knight. At least in my opinion, we might have gotten something closer to Shinkenger or maybe something even better!

I also wonder... What would they do with Kamen rider?

I'd call them "Angel force" at any rate thanks for the answer, PS (incase people were wondering) I ment it In a good way, PRS is kinda awesome