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Jetman has a huge tone issue for me. Keep in mind, I'm not jumping around or anything, but I do know what's to come due to the nature of the show, so watching it in proper episode order is jarring to me as a writer.
Why?
Episodes 1 and 2 are fine, if not a bit underwhelming in some degree on the villain side of things. They speak of a lot of promise and a lot of fun that could be had.
Episodes 3 to, as of my current watching, 11 are very different beasts.
They are, with one exception, almost Car Ranger parodies of the usual Super Sentai affairs, with increasingly silly monsters who make the more serious plots harder to swallow, when they bother to have them, or the episode in question just abandons any pretense of drama and goes for pure slapstick and comedy.
You may think that I would cite the Ramen Noodle Cup as the worst of the lot for this, but really almost any of the villains from this range of episodes is able to be pointed at, let alone their plots. THe one I would specify as going against that would be the living building, which while a bit cartoonish looking was a neat concept and pulled off fairly well.
Now this is fine, having goofy monsters and goofy plots. This is Super Sentai, after all. However it makes the villains appear goofy or at least exceedingly incompetent and light hearted, not real threats to be taken seriously.
Which makes the events to come here shortly, which I won't specify in case you are not aware of them, extremely hard to accept from what has been a very light hearted series.
This is not a show that balances its comedy and its drama well, and the fact that the villains have not been a credible threat since the living building episode really is damning, when soon we're treated to one of the shows most mature moments brought on BY the villains.
It's kind of like how I feel about the web comic Ctrl Alt Delete. Quality of its humor aside, it is/was a fairly light hearted adventure, not a whole lot going on in the drama side of things-and then it had a miscarriage comic and it just did not work well at all.
The tone shifted too soon with out any build up and the resulting whiplash really hurt the narrative and everything involved.
This is similar for me, only I know what is to come, making the anticipation worsen the effect.
Add that to the fact that I really dislike most of the cast of Jetman, with the only ones I don't actively dislike for one reason or another being Red, who is too boring to hate or feel strongly about in any regard, and Yellow, who does nothing but get shat on. The rest all have these annoying quirks or are just out right terrible people, to me.
Thus are my spoiler free opinions on Jetman, to the point where I've seen it.
