1, 2, 3, 4, 5! FIVEMAN!! - Thoughts and Opinions

[GekiBlack]

For the villains...

Well, I found Meadow to be very disappointing. I expected some awesome kind of revelation of what she was. And that was something I was interested in. Turned out, she was merely a hologram. And frankly, Vulgyre was kind of a lame final villain imo. Overall, a watered down version of Bazoo from Changeman. :disappoin

Garoa is imo one of THE WORST sentai villains of all time. During the first half, he seemed menacing. But it's the second half of the show is where I completely started hating him. Honestly, I just cringed every time I had to watch him be all pathetic and unable to do anything. And this is mainly cause I thought he could've been a great villain at the start. So it was kind of a smack in the face that his character fell apart. Heck, even his rivalry with Gaku is transferred over to Billion. LAME (on Garoa's part). Oh, and his death was pretty stupid too. :redface2: Give me Giluke (Changeman) or Radiguet (Jetman) any day.

Billion was my favorite villain in Fiveman. He was just really cool. And honestly, I really enjoyed his personality. His focus eps were always awesome. Especially the one with Solar. Honestly, I wish Billion was given a bigger role in the show. :disappoin

Doldora was cool. But seemed underused. Same with Zaza. Instead, the show seemed too busy focusing on Garoa and Chevalier.

Dongoros was meh. The show would've been better off without him.

Chevalier was a decent villain. Loved how he's played by Green Flash. :thumbs: But I felt like he could've done a bit more. Somehow, I don't really feel like we got to fully know who he was as a character. It felt like the show was more busy showing him off as a smug character, and not really going much into the other areas of his character. Which for me, kinda slightly comes off as a bit weak compared to Ahames (Changeman) and Kiros (Maskman).

The Ginga Sentai Gingaman were... LAME. Honestly, I felt like the show could've done so much more with them. They could've been great rivals for the Fiveman. Especially since they stuck around the whole season. Quite a missed opportunity imo. And the way they got killed was just... :redface2:

Wow you pretty much summed up the way i feel about the Fiveman villains ... The writers for Fiveman pretty much sucked balls imo

When i think about it, Fiveman probably reminds me of Goseiger in some way in terms of writing because one of the writers for Fiveman went on to wrote arguably the best Sentai mankind have ever seen, Jetman (like how Arakawa wrote some episodes of Gosei and is currently writing the best anniversary Sentai ever ... Gokaiger )

 

[Black Fang]

Wow you pretty much summed up the way i feel about the Fiveman villains ... The writers for Fiveman pretty much sucked balls imo

Fiveman was written by Hirohisa Soda, who was the head writer from Goggle V to Fiveman. He penned Bioman through Turboranger, so surely you're not going to claim he's awful.

Fiveman seemed like a combination of all the ideas from past shows. I agree that Zone is a watered down Gozma/Mess combo. The episode about Gaku's birthday mirrored a Flashman episode. They had yet another "Red vs. villain in a death match ring" episode with Gaku and Garoa. Vulgyre's ultimate plan with Shubalie mirrored Bias's scheme with the Doctors. And so on and so forth. But overall Fiveman's not a terrible show.

 

[Lynxara]

He penned Bioman through Turboranger, so surely you're not going to claim he's awful.

I don't think anyone would, but I think it might be fair to claim that he was probably suffering from burnout by the time he wrote Fiveman. Just as an example, consider Jun Hikasa's track record as producer: Juspion, Spielban, Metalder, Go Go V, Timeranger, Gaoranger, Hurricanger, Abaranger, and Ryuki.

Would anybody have expected this guy's last two shows to be Go-onger and Goseiger? I think tokusatsu is just a genre where it's possible to just stay too long. It has to get progressive more difficult to think of things you can do with the format that will capture people's imaginations.