Favorite Sentai ending

Lynxara said:

It's really, really unlikely that novels published after the series were written before the series was made. It's also really, really unlikely that more than, say, one chapter and a treatment describing the rest of the series was written before the publisher had secured the licensing agreement and finished out a commission contract.

Commercial writers generally don't write anything of substantial length before they've gotten their agent to find a publisher, to avoid wasting time on work they can't sell. Inoue was active in television writing for about ten years prior to Jetman, and probably would've been kept plenty busy churning out pitches and episode scripts.

Finally, the particulars of the Jetman novels sound way too much like typical fanservice novel material, down to the trilogy format and the content, for me to find it terribly likely they weren't written specifically to be that sort of product. If Inoue had written them in his spare time, then surely you'd be describing something less generic to me.

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I don't know what to say anymore. I've given reasons and examples to support my stance as well as referenced official material like interviews, articles, novels. In my years of being a Jetman fan, you're pretty much the only one to run with this interpretation. It's your freedom to interpret the character that way by watching the series, but you can't keep trying to make it THE interpretation of the character.

My suggestion? Let's just leave it at that. If we drag this on I may go against that old adage of, "If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all."

Shougo B'Stard said:

I don't know what to say anymore. I've given reasons and examples to support my stance as well as referenced official material like interviews, articles, novels. In my years of being a Jetman fan, you're pretty much the only one to run with this interpretation. It's your freedom to interpret the character that way by watching the series, but you can't keep trying to make it THE interpretation of the character.

My suggestion? Let's just leave it at that. If we drag this on I may go against that old adage of, "If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all."

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They are all just yours and her opinions anyway. It's not like what you are lynxara is saying is fact or true on either side.

lazycoconut said:

That and the low ratings of Gokaiger/low DVD sales of the series itself. OOO didn't get a V-Cinema release either so I guess they decided it wasn't going to be sustainable while the ratings and DVD sales aren't high enough

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Den-O had low ratings too, and the series got a ton of theatrical movies after the show ended; the Den-O toys were a huge success.

The Rangers Keys are also very popular, so Gokaiger can still have a chance; especially considering the team that it is.

Loghorn said:

I don't think that that anyone expected to have his/her thread about favorite sentai endings turn into a debate about Gai, etc. So it went to hell as a result.

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To me it seems inevitable, but I've seen a lot of these things over the years. Jetman's epilogue is really the main Sentai ending I've ever seen in which something worth debating happens, and what's worth debating is what the hell (if anything) it's trying to say about Gai.

Shougo B'Stard said:

It's your freedom to interpret the character that way by watching the series, but you can't keep trying to make it THE interpretation of the character.

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That's not at all what I'm trying to do. That's not even a goal that makes any sense to me. I'm just saying my interpretation is valid and completely supported by the source. It doesn't matter that it's contradictory with your or other interpretations. Because Jetman is (for the most part) well-written, it can happily support many completely different interpretations of the same characters and events.

KingWilly said:

Den-O had low ratings too, and the series got a ton of theatrical movies after the show ended; the Den-O toys were a huge success.

The Rangers Keys are also very popular, so Gokaiger can still have a chance; especially considering the team that it is.

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Den-O had absolutely ridiculous home video sales, something like 30K per volume. A typical Toei henshin hero moves about 3K units per volume. While it's true that Den-O's toys did well, Den-O's movies were pretty clearly made to keep taking advantage of the crazy-high home video sales. The Den-O movie series basically comes to an end when Den-O movie sales drop to the point where they don't do any better than typical Rider stuff.

Shinkenger I believe also had higher-than-usual home video sales, though I can't remember the numbers off the top of my head. I want to say around 10-12K per volume? But basically high enough that a direct-to-video release made sense. Gokaiger hasn't been especially successful on home video, unfortunately, so a Returns sequel just seems unlikely to me. If Gokaiger gets another Versus movie, I expect that'll be the last time we see them.

Lynxara said:

If Gokaiger gets another Versus movie, I expect that'll be the last time we see them.

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It's going to most likely be Go-Busters Vs. Gokaiger.

Loghorn said:

It's going to most likely be Go-Busters Vs. Gokaiger.

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Would they get a 3rd movie or would the Rider vs. Sentai flick sort of count as their GoKaiger team-up?

MattComix said:

Would they get a 3rd movie or would the Rider vs. Sentai flick sort of count as their GoKaiger team-up?

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I don't know about that. From what I heard, the Gokaigers & the Go-Busters rarely interacted with each other in Super Hero Taisen.

A lot of people seem to think that no Go-Busters vs Gokaiger is going to happen. I'll be really sad if it doesn't, but Vs Specials are announced in ... like November each time? So there's still a chance

I think Gai Yuki looks like John Stamos. Could you imagine if Jetman was adapted first and John Stamos got the role of the Black Ranger? He'd look more like his Sentai counterpart than Eric does.

Liquid Chris Sentai said:

I think Gai Yuki looks like John Stamos. Could you imagine if Jetman was adapted first and John Stamos got the role of the Black Ranger? He'd look more like his Sentai counterpart than Eric does.

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When I was a kid, I thought John Stamos should play Batman...

I'm still ashamed of that.