Okay that's two of the disadvantages but do you appreciate the advantages i wrote from go-busters.
I sat through the whole show and its spinoffs/films. It wasn't all bad, although I think it was compromised to such a degree that it doesn't really have "advantages." There's just the stuff that went horribly wrong, and the stuff that kind of worked or had potential.
Jin's death doesn't mean much when he was just a copy, essentially a robot.
I think killing Jin off in the very last episode, in practically the next-to-last scene, was also a huge mistake. It meant that the protagonists had no time to really react to it before, whoops, the show's over, everybody go home. Every time a character death in Sentai has really mattered to me, it was not so much because of the death scene itself, but because of the way other characters reacted to it. Go-Busters's final scene all but sweeps Jin's death under the rug, by showing everybody pretty much over it and looking forward to the rest of their lives.
The point i was getting at is that Go-Busters was so unique that it could have easily been it´s own show, independent from the Super Sentai Franchise.
I absolutely don't think so. Go-Busters was not a unique series at all. The spy motif was trading on Gorenger, and the military overtones and emphasis on sci-fi was trading on Hirohisa Soda's work in Sentai from the 80s. If you take all the Sentai tropes out of Go-Busters, there would be basically nothing left to work with. Hell, even if you just took out the stuff that directly parallels Fiveman, there'd be almost nothing left.
I like the Rescue Force comparison because i really loved that show; it took the basic idea of Sentai and it took it into an unique direction becoming its own thing in the process.
I always felt like the Rescue stuff was someone at that production company really wanting to do something like the Metal Hero Rescue Trilogy shows. Which is fine, I mean, it's not like Toei would make anything like that now. I do think the Tomica stuff lacked writing or stunt chops on par with the original Rescue Trilogy stuff I've seen, though.
Actually, judging by how people tend to praise the first dozen episodes, the only dedicated staff member was probably sub-producer Gou Wakamatsu, and he got the boot for reasons unrelated to the show.
Did we ever learn exactly why that happened? I know there was the Twitter controversy, but I've never really found any proof of that having occurred (and it sounds fairly unlikely, IMO). I've always wondered if Wakamatsu had an inkling of what was coming down the pike for Go-Busters in its second quarter, and basically just decided to get the hell out of Dodge.
(The same way they later tried to blame Ohranger's suckiness on real life tragedies when, being a Sugimura show, that show was doomed to having a schizoid tone from the start. Look at those dumb villains -- how "serious" was the show going to be? Those terrible designs were done well before those events occurred.)
Man, we could speculate all day about what what the hell happened to Ohranger. Early on, the show is at least very consistent about certain things. The villains are depicted as absurd, but also so powerful that they can cause atrocity off-handedly. The show really pushes the idea of Baranoia's actions having horrific consequences early on, and then by the show's midpoint Baranoia is deploying a an evil plumber in a raincoat.
Most Sentai seasons break down a little bit in the middle, just due to production pressures. I've still never seen a show go from so high to so low in the course of the season than Ohranger. While Go-Busters does not degenerate to the same degree, the type of degeneration is quite similar. It just really smacks of what happens to a show when Toei & Bandai decide not to have faith in the original pitch, and not to follow through.
