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Dr Kain
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I thought Bouken was a decent series. Not spectacular, but not terrible either. However, I felt BoukenSilver brought the show down a lot because he just didn't flow well for me.
They were collected with the intent of sealing them away from humanity forever though.
There is no point in the show where the stuff they collected was ever going to be researched or used to benefit society in any way (even if only to be put on display for their cultural knowledge value). They just had to be stuffed inside cold metal boxes, shoved in a giant warehouse to rot because humanity could not be trusted to ever responsibly use their powers.
And then you set up bombs inside that warehouse so that if even one has the slightest potential to be taken away you destroy them all forever, just to be sure.
You know that a ton of the Boukenger's stuff was based off or powered by those things, right?
Heck, I'm pretty sure they explicitly state that Bouken Silver's rescue themed powers and mecha were part of their plan to research and develop precious based technology to benefit humanity.
They were just to make sure that mercs like Dark Shadow or homicidal maniacs like Ryoun didn't ge6 any world ending super artifacts.
SGS's supposed villainy notwithstanding, I really don't see how Dark Shadow can be argued to be anything other than what they're portrayed as, which are villains.
What should SGS have done with the Preciouses?
Who can halt the mad machinations of the enigmatic Mr. Voice?
There's a few ways to fix this, but I'm going to focus on one, because it's very simple. Just don't have SGS's machines run on Precious.
or is being actively researched for historical or cultural purposes
Instead of looking like hero-adventurers, in the Indiana Jones mold, they're going to look like people out to hoard all the power for themselves. Pursuing power for its own sake is a classic villainous trait.