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* [[And the Fandom Rejoiced]]: For many different reasons:
** The show was uncancelled ''again'' (This is about the fifth time we know about.)
** The show was bought back from Disney (who [[They Just Didn't Care|Just Didn't Care]]) by Haim Saban, who was the original creator of the series.
** It's being adapted from ''[[Samurai Sentai Shinkenger]],'' picking up where Disney left off and considered one of the best seasons of ''[[Super Sentai]]'' in recent years.
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** On the toy side, the ''Shinkenger'' Figuarts (much higher quality than the normal, inferior-quality ''Power Rangers Samurai'' toys) being sold by Toys 'R' US.
* [[Awesome Music (Sugar Wiki)|Awesome Music]]: The opening theme, as well as several of the background themes.
* [[Broken Base]]: Bringing up the topic of whether ''Samurai'' is officially season 18 or season 19 as a result of the 2010 [[
** One big issue that frustrates fans regarding this (aside from them acknowledging that dreadful recut exists) is this: if they consider ''Samurai'' Season 18, that leaves a ''[[Tensou Sentai Goseiger|Goseiger]]'' adaptation as Season 19, which would turn a ''[[Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger
*** Now there's an internal memo from Saban, dated November 2011, which has inspired [[Epileptic Trees]] over whether Saban will outright skip ''Goseiger'' in order to get ''Gokaiger'' as the 20th ''Power Rangers'' series.
** Similarly, whether the first episode shown of the series should be considered Episode 1 or 3 given that the episodes telling the team's origin were not aired at the start of the series. There were also arguments over whether this was caused by [[Executive Meddling]] reordering the episodes, by some production issue, or by the show's writers; but a little digging revealed [
** Also, fans are split regarding if it's one of the worst series ever or not that bad.
*** Nevertheless, fans generally agree that Deker's first human appearance marked the point where ''Samurai'' took a turn for the better. And general fan consensus also seems to have been quite positive since then. Antonio has also gotten a similar response.
** The ''RPM'' team-up "Clash of the Red Rangers" started to split fans before it ever aired. Once it was confirmed that none of the ''RPM'' actors were planned to return, some people were already saying that if they don't have the ''RPM'' actors available, they just shouldn't bother, while others said that we should just wait and see, since they might surprise us.
* [[Complete Monster]]: Serrator. In "Broken Dreams" we find out {{spoiler|he was the one who cursed Dayu and Deker, by tricking Dayu into becoming Nighlok: he said that he would restore Deker in exchange of Dayu becoming a Nighlok and after she accepts, Serrator reveals that he made Deker half-human and half-Nighlok. Dayu realized that Serrator tricked her and he laughed at her misery, this is what made Dayu a miserable and tormented person}}. [[Sympathy for
** Master Xandred himself is also a qualifier. When he isn't drinking his medicine and yelling at people, he shows how evil he can be, being the [[Big Bad]] and all. He treats his followers horribly, threatening to kill Octoroo at one point, attempts to kill Deker because he was meddling in his affairs, and his plan revolves around killing Jayden. Also, unlike Octoroo, who sends Nighloks to cause misery, Master Xandred summons an army of moogers to cause meaningless chaos in the human world and destroy everything. In episodes "Broken Dreams" and "Test of the Leader", we see that his moogers destroy entire buildings, meaning that he is responsible for hundreds of deaths of innocent humans. He brutally punishes Arachnitor when he tried to usurp him by mutating him into a mindless slave. He also ruined Dayu's harmonium and attempted to erase her memory. She even says "I knew you were evil, but this..." It seems that Xandred's cruelty truly knows no bounds.
* [[Ear Worm]]: The Rebel Rockers' song from "He Ain't Heavy Metal, He's My Brother." See [http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-OVPm4TET_Y here.] Some of the songs Bulk and Spike sing as well could possibly count.
* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: Everyone loves Deker. Antonio seems to be heading in this direction as well.
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** The beard grows ever longer with the introduction of Serrator, [[Darker and Edgier|dimming the lights of the story]] yet again.
* [[He Really Can Act]]: Ricardo Medina. Okay, he's not Oscar-caliber or anything, but he's come quite a ways from ''Wild Force''.
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: "Party Monsters" was the first real attempt to shake up the ''Shinkenger'' formula, by having the Nighloks able to wind up in a "third life", which was little more than a harmless ghost. Actually this had been done in the sentai that came before, ''[[Engine Sentai Go-onger]]'', where the recurring villain Hiramechimedes came (arguably) [[Back
** There was talk about that the Shinkenger's [[Super Mode]] would entail, and a few subscribed to the theory that the kanji on their helmets would double up. Cue the Shogun Samurai Rangers forms, which have the kanji doubled up.
* [[Ho Yay]]: Jayden and Antonio.
** It wouldn't be Power Rangers without the [[Ho Yay]]. Jayden and Antonio are merely joining [[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers|Tommy/Jason]], [[Power Rangers
** They've replaced Genta's oversized suit and gong from his big arrival at the Shiba house with a suit and shiny tie for Antonio, making it look like he's taking Jayden to the prom.
*** It doesn't help that both Antonio and Jayden are reuntied childhood friends, if that's indication.
*** The end of "Broken Dreams" adds a whole new level of Ho Yay when Jayden and Antonio are limping to the bench, panting and catching their breath while saying things like "Every muscle hurts" and "Just like old times."
* [[
** Others are criticizing it for referencing things that never happened in ''PRS'' but did in ''Shinkenger'', making it closer to [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks]] because it's not the same. For instance, unlike Shinken Green, Mike acts rebellious for all of ''one episode'' (that we've seen), but Master Ji continues acting as though Mike is still rebellious, simply because of how Shinken Green behaved in the original script.
** Subverted by Antonio, the Gold Ranger. While he is a [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]] and [[Large Ham]] like Shinken Gold, he's a different kind of ham than Genta. And he's been recieved somewhat more positively as well.
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* [[Memetic Mutation]]: Emily and those wacky arms from the episode "The Team Unites" (sort of).
** Say it with us, now: "Wow! He's so sparkly!"
* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: Switchbeast's plan in "Trading Places". He turns a lot of innocent people into several objects, so that unsuspecting humans would get rid of them, not knowing that there are human souls in those objects and if Power Rangers didn't stop Switchbeast a ''a lot of innocent people would have been killed'' and it was the entire point of his plan- to have a lot of people killed. Usually Nighloks want to cause misery, but this time they wanted to actually ''kill'' innocents
** Dayu thinks that Master Xandred crossed this line when he ruins her harmonium and attempted to make her lose her memory. She even says "I knew you were evil, but this!"
* [[Narm]]: The [[Monster of the Week]]'s big plan is... making a little boy give up baseball... Made even more narmy by Mia's line of "This is what you get for making Ryan sad!" (Then again, he [[Jerkass|lied]] that by giving up on baseball, {{spoiler|the boy's father would return home from the army.}})
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* [[Paranoia Fuel]]: Any crack or crevice can be a potential portal for a Nighlok... Sweet dreams.
** In "The Blue and the Gold," the monster was in Bulk and Spike's house while they were asleep, completely unnoticed. Although the "unnoticed" part was partly due to the fact that it was Bulk and Spike it's not hard to imagine that this was how he stole the children's toys (aside from the ones we saw in the park). Let me repeat that: the monster snuck into houses ''with children in them'' without anyone noticing.
* [[Rescued
* [[Special Effects Failure]]: The digital animation sticks out like a sore thumb. On the other hand, one could find it preferable to ''Shinkenger'''s.
** In "The Blue and Gold," Octoroo's mouthpiece was changed for a few scenes, ostensibly to make it less creepy. The change was discarded almost immediately.
** The mecha suits from ''Shinkenger'' are looking even more fake than the original ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]''/''Zyuranger''. Seriously, the Megazord looks like it's wearing Styrofoam cutouts while in past series they at least looked metallic.
** There's also the Gold Ranger helmet, which switches between practically mirror-coated and more like frosted glass. It even did so in ''Shinkenger'' footage, so it can't be blamed on Japan/US prop differences (They probably use the frosted glass one to avoid accidentally reflecting the camera crew in his helmet.)
** In "Jayden's Challenge," and likely a few other places, when Kevin jumps into battle, it cuts to a second of [http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w217/lightykd/10-JaydensChallenge480pavi_snapshot_1242_20110418_224756.jpg Kevin's (obvious) stunt actor.] The stunt actor does a pretty good job of hiding his face; unfortunately, he does this with his hands. The problem being Kevin is black and the stunt actor is (likely) Japanese. Previous teams actually [http://i604.photobucket.com/albums/tt130/Hikaru_Kushinada/Koshige3.jpg used makeup tricks] to [https://web.archive.org/web/20200107210036/http://linearranger.com/RPMNews/BtS01.jpg match the stunties to the actors,] with results that can be [http://i604.photobucket.com/albums/tt130/Hikaru_Kushinada/Koshige2.jpg downright creepy,] but that might lean a little too close to blackface for the current team (or they were short for time, who knows?)
* [[Tear Jerker]]: {{spoiler|1=Dayu and Deker's new backstories. They were husband and wife, but a fire mortally wounded Deker, destroying their house. Afterwards, Dayu made a [[Deal
** {{spoiler|You know what's worse? The shamisen that Dayu carries was Deker's wedding gift to her... a simple guitar. Dayu's wedding gift to Deker is his Uramasa sword. Now remember when the shamisen was set on fire? It was as if Dayu was losing the LAST remnant of her love for Deker.}}
* [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks]]: ''Samurai'' started suffering from this early. When the casting sheets went out, the characters had the names Reese, Parry, Baron, Sadie, and Ava. Fans got a little upset when the names were changed to the slightly more generic Jayden, Mike, Kevin, Mia, and Emily. (Much later, it was revealed that the mentor's name wasn't Takeru, but Ji; and later still the [[Sixth Ranger]]'s name was shown to have gone from Wesley to Antonio.)
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**** Also, there is hope: the ''actual teamup fight'' footage has yet to be used, and General Cog was clearly ''not'' shown to go 'boom,' leaving the door open for it to be done right someday. I assure you, Amit Bhaumik, who is involved with this series and gave us ''Wild Force'''s teamups, ''has'' watched ''RPM''. Fingers crossed, folks.
** Also, the footage of the ''Shinkenger'' movie was wasted on a [[Random Events Plot]].
** This troper couldn't have been the only one who suspected Spike might become the Gold Ranger, considering the comical aspect of Shinken Gold's portrayal in the original, and the subplot about Bulk training Spike to be a Samurai. What a great twist it could have been to have Spike *actually* become a Samurai ranger, and have to hide his role from Bulk, not to mention the indirect MOA it could have been to have the son of one of our original [[Those Two Guys]] become a ranger.
*** Ah yes. But what they ''did'' do does mimic the Gold Ranger saga from Zeo. Spike's father was a [[Red Herring]] for the identity of the Gold Ranger, one of the suspects... and the actual person turned out to be someone the audience had never heard of before. The same thing happens here. His being an old friend of Jayden's mimics the second Gold Ranger from Zeo being an old friend of the current Red.
* [[Tough Act to Follow]]: Coming after ''Shinkenger'' '''and''' ''RPM'' '''and''' running at the same time as ''Gokaiger,'' you bet it is.
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* [[Uncanny Valley]]: Octoroo's American mouth actually made him ''more'' creepy.
** Not exactly "American"; we get to see Shitari's mouth in Act 46 of ''Shinkenger'' and it does look kind of like that. All they did in the adaptation was remove the front tentacles that hid it, but yeah, the results weren't any more pleasant.
* [[Values Dissonance]]: Inevitable when they're trying to be entirely accurate to ''Shinkenger''.
** One example: In "Sticks and Stones," Emily tells the team how she was bullied as a child, and was taught by her sister to ignore what the bullies said. This is a common part of Japanese culture, and, at first glance, seems fit in an American show. Then you realize that it seems to be implied that Emily apparently ''never told anyone about the bullies.'' The flashback seems to suggest that only her sister (a Power Ranger in training, mind) helped her out, whereas she could have told her parents, a teacher or some other [[Reasonable Authority Figure]].
*** Sadly, though, this is more or less in tune with children's shows, where [[Adults Are Useless]]. And fairly common amongst bullied children in any corner of the world. Many of them will internalize and not tell anybody for several reasons. Parents, who might not understand how severe the bullying is (or assume that it's a right of passage in childhood), will likely tell children to simply get over it. Similarly, telling a parent or teacher, who usually can do very little to stop it in the first place, can make bullying worse.
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** Ryan from "Deal With A Nighlok" can be considered one, too.
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