How was it disrespectful? I mean come on... They were there to help the current team. How anyone can, with a straight face, stay that the cameos of Mammoth Ranger, Bouken Red and others were disrespectful?
Because, like I said, most of them were rolls that could have just as easily been filled by a generic one-off character with nothing that made it special.
Also, given how the Gokaigers generally just blew off anything the past heroes did as "meh, don't care, we're too cool for you" got REALLY grating REALLY fast.
How can he be strong when the writers would write him as a great caring guy one minute, and a complete douche the next minute with no reason at all given for the change.
Well, except there generally WERE reasons given. They just weren't always point-blank slapped in your face. And as far as not acting the same way all the time it's called "being a nuanced character". I really wish more shows in general would remember what that was.
The AU settings, IMO, didn't evoke anything from the original shows. None of them were even close to being like the worlds from the original shows.
Most of them took a theme or some element from the original show and either exaggerated or explored it in more detail.
For example, Blade was a world where the whole idea of a corporate created Rider was actually followed through instead of being forgotten about after the first episode. Ryuuki took the concept of "everyone's fate will be decided by the Rider Fight" and expanded that to a ludicrously extreme degree.
Seriously. That was the main story to DCD.
Insert Decade has no story here.
And no, that was not EXACTLY the story of Decade. That was the story Wataru told him but Tsukasa pretty much told him to take a flying leap. I mean, the vast majority of the show was Tsukasa doing all he could to NOT live up to that destiny.
The movies are another issue but we're just comparing TV show to TV show here and I'd still say Decade was the more interesting of the two.