Okay, I just finished watching the first four episodes and the fifth is waiting for me to watch it on Monday but I have to say I am far from impressed. I have gotten to the point where I prefer Kamen Rider over Super Sentai lately so I was really hoping this would be kickass. From the trailers it looked like it would be but it is worse than mediocre. I'm going to watch at least the first quarter of the series before I make a decision on whether to continue or not. My problems lie in the production of the show. The acting, on ALL sides (except for Maya), is absolutely horrible. Len plays everything too low. Kit is unbelievable. Ritchie is a horrible character AND he is horribly named. Seems like they took two seconds, if that, to name this character and didn't put any REAL thought into it. Ritchie is a rich kid and "richie" is slang for rich kid. Could they be more transparent in their character naming?!?! Another problem I have is the editing. It's the most disjointed editing I've ever seen on a show. I mean, at least Overdrive was edited together well (except for the 16:9 squeezed into 4:3). That leads into the ADR and the voice acting. The ADR is not synched right and the voice acting is not real. In a fight, someone would not speak like their speaking casually to someone sitting beside them at the table! Near the end of the battle with Incisor in episode 3, Kit says "I've had enough of this. It's time you answer some questions." He calmly states it like he's talking to a friend. In reality, something like that would be yelled - even if only the first half. There is absolutely no emotion coming from anyone in the cast, except Maya. She's the only believable one - but she is still over the top a bit from time to time.
The last thing I want to talk about is that the writing is horrible. All those silences where in the original there is talking - that needs to be filled up! The dead air is horrible and agonizing. The dialogue is trite and unbelievable and way too "on-the-nose."
