Heh, it does seem to be a modified Orga suit, that's pretty neat. It becomes a little more evident later on that they were in a pinch for time.(I don't think it's a spoiler to say this, but the final monster they face seems to be a modified version of the suit from the movie's main monster)
I love this show now......
Hot damn! Got another one!
Lynxara said:
You know what? I was going to post this side by side with your quotes, but I'm too lazy now. :sweat:
I've always figured this seems to be the case with a lot of tokusatsu earlier on. There are a few franchises that seem to move away from this template, but it's something that has seemed present to me in a lot of recent Sentai. The story does eventually get moving, things
do seem to stop happening just because, but like I said, it generally feels like the first 13 or so episodes are there to flesh out characters and build their relationships. For instance, episode three allows us to see Takuto getting a glimpse at Ad's true sense of duty coming from the loss of his comrades as well as Takuto wanting to be taken a bit more seriously, which I think is great for a fireball type to want so early on.
Sazer X did come about during the most recent tokusatsu boom and I can imagine that's probably why it didn't last too long. Compared to say...the Tomica Hero shows, they likely only lasted that long because there was really nothing else out there but Sentai and Kamen Rider. Sazer X was airing in a year when five other series ran a majority of their episodes. (with about
eight series in total running in 2005)
A good portion of the comedy does seem like it adds to the characters, especially with Ad at times. I generally feel like it's done in a fashion that isn't so overtly inane. But! I still don't see its tone to be any less serious than most Sentai, to me that was always a head-scratcher on my rewatch of it last year since it was the biggest complaint. (though, there is one character introduced later on who I cannot stand) A lot of its biggest moments do come from it being a much more serious show. Episode 20 is a huge episode for Kane and the overall severity of the mission and it's played as serious and more dramatic. (I also think this is the episode that makes Kane feel most human and generally why I think his actor was great in this show and...not so much in OOO)
The comedy I see in Sazer X, at least what I consider to be the best of it, doesn't come from Sentai-like antics. It comes in the way some of the actors say their lines (I
love that “See? I transformed” line in episode three) and the suit actors carry them, as well as the general feel of the show during those moments. I've always felt it to be something that tries to play itself as more quirky that outright funny. Episode nine is my favorite in terms of comedy, mostly because it uses a lot of hard cuts right that do a lot to amp up the hilarity in the scenes to me.
About the suits...man, I guess you probably have a more critical eye than me. Like, I generally notice when the armor feels less like armor and more like big...thing...they're wearing because it flops around, but I think it's not as big of a problem here as it is in things like early Metal Heroes and some of the more heavily armored Kamen Riders. In B-Fighter and in other shows, yeah, it really got in the way of my enjoyment of the fights, that just doesn't seem to happen too often here in this show. This is the one show where I generally loved just about every fight scene.
But, yeah, I often don't think about suit construction too much. If a suit looks nice in terms of design and isn't wildly flopping all over the place when it's supposed to be a cohesive piece, then I won't really mind any flubs too much. (though that comment was more along the lines of how people think the Goranger suits just look weird and I've watched these older shows for so long that they fall right in line with modern designs)
About Blaird, yeah, probably a bit too early to have asked that question, and perhaps it's something that really only becomes evident after you've finished the series and think about it as a whole. Blaird (later on) to me just feels like he's everything the Momotaros character was written to be, but executed much better.