A little disappointed...Gokaiger
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Mr. Rhythmic
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Correction: It IS a 'culture gap,' not a stereotype. I have lived in both the United Kingdom and America, and the type of humor asserted in the media is generally varied in both countries do to what the CULTURES find humorous. However, I was born in Maine (funny you should say), but spent 6 years overseas. I have just picked two popular sources that personify mainstream humor in both countries. It's not the culture that makes them funny, it's whether or not they are considered by someone funny, so culture does not matter.
And to me, good humor spans to being clever without relying on that argument to keep it funny.
KingRanger
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Are you even aware how many puns and such don't make sense to say the Japanese that would to us in the US and the other way around as well? I mean you are saying good humor is universal, and that isn't true at all.
Painted_Outlaw
The new Tendou Souji
Oh, are we listing off stuff we find funny? OK then, small version of my big list go..
Dappu playing dead
Kenzaki half-asleep replying to Chief Karasuma about Leangle's belt by pulling out every belt but,the one he meant.
Miku either punching Chisato [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q93wWQ6i1Yo"]like at 0:35[/ame] or shoving Shun's(?) mouth with food at the end of Mega vs. Car.
Momo walking out of the main train room just to see Hana there, namely before he flies out of the train.
Or, to use a non-toku example, a lot of the jokes in A:TLA; namely Sokka or Toph.
etc. etc.
Dappu playing dead
Kenzaki half-asleep replying to Chief Karasuma about Leangle's belt by pulling out every belt but,the one he meant.
Miku either punching Chisato [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q93wWQ6i1Yo"]like at 0:35[/ame] or shoving Shun's(?) mouth with food at the end of Mega vs. Car.
Momo walking out of the main train room just to see Hana there, namely before he flies out of the train.
Or, to use a non-toku example, a lot of the jokes in A:TLA; namely Sokka or Toph.
etc. etc.
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Why? Just because the Gokaigers gave their powers back to their rightful owners, leaving for space, or what?
If it's the former, then being disappointed for that is kind of silly, especially considering that the powers of Goranger to Goseiger doesn't even belong to the Gokaigers in the first place. Toei wasn't going to let the teams of Goranger to Goseiger suffer without having their powers back in the end.
Shougo B'Stard
Would like to change his avatar
He could be disappointed that everyone was expecting another Legend War-scale battle, and what we got was...a 30 second fight where Akudos Gill just stands there while the Gokaiger try too hard to work in using a Key from every team. Those last episodes reeked of being cheap, and seeing the first few episodes of Go-busters, you know why.
Now that is a good reason to be disappointed with the finale.
Lynxara
Nice post!!
While there can be culture gaps when dealing with British and American humor, it's not going to be anything like the culture gap a Westerner experiences when trying to deal with Japanese comedy (especially in translation, or untranslated). There's a long tradition of Americans finding certain forms of UK-based humor hilarious.
Also, I find it extremely dishonest that you attempted to argue that your appreciation of Monty Python indicates that culture gaps cannot affect appreciation of humor when you are someone who has lived for any period of time in the United Kingdom. It is not at all shocking that someone with direct experience of life in the UK would find a UK-based comedy group quite funny.
This argument is incoherent. The idea of a culture gap is that people sometimes find humor that originates in other cultures difficult to appreciate, because they do not understand aspects of the culture that the humor is referencing and do not have the day-to-day experiences of someone of that culture.
Frankly, your participation in American and UK-based cultures probably does make you more inclined to like American and UK-based comedy. It also makes you more inclined to like comedy written in English that originates from other Anglo countries like Canada and Australia. You probably appreciate Mexican and/or French humor less, provided you don't speak those Spanish or French. It's hard to laugh at jokes you can't understand.
In fact, "It's hard to laugh at jokes you can't understand" is the essence of the culture gap argument. If you don't know what natto is, then you may not be able to understand a joke about it, no matter how funny that joke may be to someone who's eaten or seen natto before, or who understands how natto is made and what types of Japanese people tend to eat it.
It is certainly possible to laugh at a well-written joke that originated in another language. For instance, you might laugh at a natto joke if it was translated such that you understood it was a joke about a "gross food" comparable to, say, the way haggis is used in Anglo jokes. If that joke is about natto being fermented, and you cannot possibly infer from the gag that natto is made by process of fermentation? You probably won't find that joke funny, because you will not understand it.
DoGu
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I was fine with giving away the Ranger keys. It was like the last 3 minutes of the episode. I didn't think it was a great sendoff for Gokaiger, because I wanted to see more... :anime:
I haven't gotten a chance to watch the movie, so I'm not sure about the big battle. But I thought the part where the Gokaigers were changing into all 34 sentai teams was neat.
