Ressha Sentai ToQger Ep 6 "What Are We Looking For?"

Clocktower said:

Kyoryuger was very energetic, had a lot of fun characters (even outside of the main cast) and the same kind of continuation/coherent story we're seeing here with ToQGer. Even the "filler" eisodes in Kyoryuger had some kind of plot development. It was a huge departure from the dull and lackluster Gobusters and in my opinion, the most consistent Sentai season, if not one of the overall best. But hey, there's a whole topic if you want to discuss why you love or didn't love those show.

This episode was pretty good. I really like the train elements, but yellow and pink were relegated to literally standing on the sidelines for the whole episode, which was pretty disappointing, especially when the idea of who should be the leader was brought up. I get that none of them really cared about it, but Mio has constantly been portrayed as the mother hen type, being level headed and looking after anyone else. It's not even suggested that she could be a leader, except as part of a snide joke.

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lazycoconut said:

At least ToQger doesn't treat its female characters as love interests to the exclusion of character development and storylines they could have had.

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lazycoconut said:

Although I do wonder why Toei decided that Blues should now be the comic character and Green the angsty tough guy instead of vice versa

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Toku Prime said:

It's an interesting question. Shinken Blue was still the skilled second in command despite his uptight nature being mined for comedy. Gosei Blue was clearly written as the smart guy and then it turned out his actor's comfort zone was in performing comedic scenes (similar to how Go-On Black was written as the cool badass and his actor turned out to be far better at being a goofball, so they changed the character to play to his strengths). The trend could have died there, as they were both one-off cases before they returned to a more usual characterisation for Gokai Blue (and to some extent with Blue Buster). I presume that now they're compensating for the recent trend of casting actors in their mid-to-late twenties as blues, for fear that kids would otherwise instantly write them off as 'the boring old guy'.

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