Lynxara
Nice post!!
No words for how much I liked this episode. No words. :anime:
It was a nice change of pace to see Kyosuke openly admiring the Gokaigers and actually wanting them to use Carranger's powers. I'd kinda like to see more eps handled with this kind of attention to detail.
A lot of the guest star eps have been, "You're pirates?! That means you're not good enough for [insert team here]'s powers!!" Sometimes that really makes sense but it's a well Gokaiger goes to a lot.
Carranger got a kind of stupid amount of music love this episode. They played the OP theme, the instrumental of the OP, and one of Carranger's own battle BGMs from the show.
It goes a bit deeper than that. Turboranger and Carranger were made by mostly the same staffers, most notably the same head director. Early on, Carranger is explicitly a parody of Turboranger.
Like... watch the second episode of Turboranger and then the first episode of Carranger. It's the exact same plot, but Turboranger wants you to take it seriously while Carranger is trying to make it look as dumb as possible.
A few interesting things to note here:
- The Dekaranger and Carranger episodes are the only homage episodes where the script was written by original series staffers. The Carranger episode took it a step farther and used the original director, too. I wonder if the homages only really get fans excited when participation from the original creators is confirmed ahead of time?
- Carranger's higher-rated episodes tended to pull a little over a 6%, so this is within Carranger's ratings ballpark.
- OOO pulled its highest rating since March this week, a 7.3%, so it's possible that Gokaiger just enjoyed an OOO bump. The parallels to the Dekaranger episode make me wonder about that, though, and so does the narrow ratings gap (only 1 point).
It was a nice change of pace to see Kyosuke openly admiring the Gokaigers and actually wanting them to use Carranger's powers. I'd kinda like to see more eps handled with this kind of attention to detail.
A lot of the guest star eps have been, "You're pirates?! That means you're not good enough for [insert team here]'s powers!!" Sometimes that really makes sense but it's a well Gokaiger goes to a lot.
Carranger got a kind of stupid amount of music love this episode. They played the OP theme, the instrumental of the OP, and one of Carranger's own battle BGMs from the show.
It goes a bit deeper than that. Turboranger and Carranger were made by mostly the same staffers, most notably the same head director. Early on, Carranger is explicitly a parody of Turboranger.
Like... watch the second episode of Turboranger and then the first episode of Carranger. It's the exact same plot, but Turboranger wants you to take it seriously while Carranger is trying to make it look as dumb as possible.
A few interesting things to note here:
- The Dekaranger and Carranger episodes are the only homage episodes where the script was written by original series staffers. The Carranger episode took it a step farther and used the original director, too. I wonder if the homages only really get fans excited when participation from the original creators is confirmed ahead of time?
- Carranger's higher-rated episodes tended to pull a little over a 6%, so this is within Carranger's ratings ballpark.
- OOO pulled its highest rating since March this week, a 7.3%, so it's possible that Gokaiger just enjoyed an OOO bump. The parallels to the Dekaranger episode make me wonder about that, though, and so does the narrow ratings gap (only 1 point).
