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* {{Angrish}}: Complains that Gruum's dialogue often comes off like this and he has difficulty understanding it.
* BoringButPractical: States that one of the reasons why he likes it when the rangers pull out their blasters is because of how practical a solution it is. However, he goes into detail about how this (specifically the reliance on special effects through "[[StuffBlowingUp Kalishsplosions]]") can make fights boring, which is a problem for a show that's 75% fight scenes.
* ContinuityNod: Mentions several nods to previous seasons, including a MonsterOfTheWeek coming from [[Series/PowerRangersInSpace KO-35]], one of the trainers in the SPD Academy being an [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Aquitian]], and the [[Series/PowerRangersTurbo Blue Senturian]] popping up in a video game the SPD Rangers are playing fighting [[Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue Cyclopter]].
* CreepyGood: An initial problem he had with the rangers outfits at first was that the helmets made them appear evil due to the large visors, even drawing comparisons to the Psycho Rangers.
* EarthShatteringKaboom: Felt that this was a very good way to introduce the villains.
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:The A-Squad]]. He gives kudos to the writers for not overturning this or {{hand wave}} it off as the result of brainwashing, feeling it was a great plot twist and a nice final challenge to the B-Squad to come into their own as true heroes, though he admits he's it's disappointing that we never learn much about [[spoiler:The A-Squad]] or why they turned evil.
* FanWank[[invoked]]: Discussed, since SPD takes place in the future (and a specific year at that, 2025), and all the fan theories on timing and parentage are discussed, as well as an alternate theory that a timescale in ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' is nearly impossible since the B-Squad's parents were apparently working in Time Force to make powers.
** WildMassGuessing: He attempts to reconcile these issues by theorizing that the Power Rangers universe has different timing, in that a year is not the same length of time as in our universe (he puts the length of a PR year in the ballpark of 700-800 days). He notes that this could be just one of several other differences in the same vein as the moon having earth-like gravity and an atmosphere in the Power Rangers universe.
* FridgeHorror: {{Invoked|Trope}}, he notes that if Sky's father was Wes, that unfortunately means that Wes was killed by Murloc.
* GenericDoomsdayVillain: While he liked Grumm as a villain, Linkara notes that he doesn't really have a defining personality outside of being evil.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: How he views the A-Squad & B-Squad, noting that A-Squad are the best of the best and would normally be the characters the story followed, with B-Squad being the characters this would normally apply to.
* LivingProp: As evidenced by his comments when summing up the CharacterDevelopment for the season, he (Much like the ''SPD'' writers) seems to view Sam[=/=]Omega Ranger as this.
--> "Sam... Has no CharacterDevelopment. He's a ball of light. Moving on."
* OneWordTitle: Nitpicks at this aspect, since it doesn't really lead to interesting titles and in some cases leads to outright generic titles since the first and last episodes for this season are ''Beginnings'' and ''Endings'' respectively. This becomes a thing for the rest of the Kalish era since the later seasons would just add one more word to each of their titles.[[labelnote:Explanation]]''Mystic Force'' had two-word titles, ''Operation Overdrive'' had three-word titles, and ''Jungle Fury'' had four-word titles[[/labelnote]]
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Praises Broodwing for having this as his motivation, noting that it made a refreshing change to the other villains throughout the series, who have mostly had the same goals of conquering something.
* PersonalityPowers: Does a very nice, in-depth look at why the Ranger's civilian powers match their personalities. He also especially praises SPD for making each power something relatively unorthodox and unique (making barriers, phasing through solid objects, energy readings, etc.) instead of something like Dino Thunder's more common and overused set of powers.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Sees SPD as this kind of team done very well.
* ShownTheirWork: When talking about the "Kalishsplosions;" he notes that the person actually responsible for them was Koichi Sakamoto, though he still calls them "Kalishsplosions" since Bruce Kalish would have had to approve of such ideas, as well as the fact that they became particularly prominent in the Kalish era (they have since shown up in ''RPM'' and ''Samurai'').
* SlidingScaleOfVillainEffectiveness: Says that Grumm is higher up on the scale compared with other villains thanks to his use of diversionary tactics to help get what he wants, and even getting an entire team of rangers on his side BY CHOICE.
* StuffBlowingUp: Discussed extensively with "Kalishsplosions", and how this is actually very much an annoyance for its lack of creating suspense and makes the Rangers look weak for being sent into the air by explosions behind them, which have logically missed them. Linkara also notes how it makes the fight scenes BORING, by focusing on explosions instead of the martial arts of past seasons, making the point that you could splice together any random fight scenes & it would be hard to tell that they weren't from the same fight.
** Plus the occasional shots of explosions off to the side, which makes even less sense.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter[[invoked]]: Comments that Mora is sadly underdeveloped, with the viewer never learning how Grumm found her, why she worked for him or why she hated being a grown-up so much. Didn't help that her final fight in the finale was rushed and was the last we would see of her.
* UnintentionallySympathetic[[invoked]]: He views Syd as this during "Dogged". We're supposed to see her as in the wrong for how she treated R.I.C. in the episode initially, but Linkara brings up that he was a "malfunctioning piece of crap" and was in desperate need of an upgrade.
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic[[invoked]]: Since Piggy frequently betrays the rangers and rarely shows remorse (not to mention he had plenty of opportunities to get out of town and lay low if he didn't want to work with Grumm or Broodwing), he finds it too difficult to sympathize with him, especially since the show tries to make him sympathetic and fails.
* BoringButPractical: States that one of the reasons why he likes it when the rangers pull out their blasters is because of how practical a solution it is. However, he goes into detail about how this (specifically the reliance on special effects through "[[StuffBlowingUp Kalishsplosions]]") can make fights boring, which is a problem for a show that's 75% fight scenes.
* ContinuityNod: Mentions several nods to previous seasons, including a MonsterOfTheWeek coming from [[Series/PowerRangersInSpace KO-35]], one of the trainers in the SPD Academy being an [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Aquitian]], and the [[Series/PowerRangersTurbo Blue Senturian]] popping up in a video game the SPD Rangers are playing fighting [[Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue Cyclopter]].
* CreepyGood: An initial problem he had with the rangers outfits at first was that the helmets made them appear evil due to the large visors, even drawing comparisons to the Psycho Rangers.
* EarthShatteringKaboom: Felt that this was a very good way to introduce the villains.
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:The A-Squad]]. He gives kudos to the writers for not overturning this or {{hand wave}} it off as the result of brainwashing, feeling it was a great plot twist and a nice final challenge to the B-Squad to come into their own as true heroes, though he admits he's it's disappointing that we never learn much about [[spoiler:The A-Squad]] or why they turned evil.
* FanWank[[invoked]]: Discussed, since SPD takes place in the future (and a specific year at that, 2025), and all the fan theories on timing and parentage are discussed, as well as an alternate theory that a timescale in ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' is nearly impossible since the B-Squad's parents were apparently working in Time Force to make powers.
** WildMassGuessing: He attempts to reconcile these issues by theorizing that the Power Rangers universe has different timing, in that a year is not the same length of time as in our universe (he puts the length of a PR year in the ballpark of 700-800 days). He notes that this could be just one of several other differences in the same vein as the moon having earth-like gravity and an atmosphere in the Power Rangers universe.
* FridgeHorror: {{Invoked|Trope}}, he notes that if Sky's father was Wes, that unfortunately means that Wes was killed by Murloc.
* GenericDoomsdayVillain: While he liked Grumm as a villain, Linkara notes that he doesn't really have a defining personality outside of being evil.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: How he views the A-Squad & B-Squad, noting that A-Squad are the best of the best and would normally be the characters the story followed, with B-Squad being the characters this would normally apply to.
* LivingProp: As evidenced by his comments when summing up the CharacterDevelopment for the season, he (Much like the ''SPD'' writers) seems to view Sam[=/=]Omega Ranger as this.
--> "Sam... Has no CharacterDevelopment. He's a ball of light. Moving on."
* OneWordTitle: Nitpicks at this aspect, since it doesn't really lead to interesting titles and in some cases leads to outright generic titles since the first and last episodes for this season are ''Beginnings'' and ''Endings'' respectively. This becomes a thing for the rest of the Kalish era since the later seasons would just add one more word to each of their titles.[[labelnote:Explanation]]''Mystic Force'' had two-word titles, ''Operation Overdrive'' had three-word titles, and ''Jungle Fury'' had four-word titles[[/labelnote]]
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Praises Broodwing for having this as his motivation, noting that it made a refreshing change to the other villains throughout the series, who have mostly had the same goals of conquering something.
* PersonalityPowers: Does a very nice, in-depth look at why the Ranger's civilian powers match their personalities. He also especially praises SPD for making each power something relatively unorthodox and unique (making barriers, phasing through solid objects, energy readings, etc.) instead of something like Dino Thunder's more common and overused set of powers.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Sees SPD as this kind of team done very well.
* ShownTheirWork: When talking about the "Kalishsplosions;" he notes that the person actually responsible for them was Koichi Sakamoto, though he still calls them "Kalishsplosions" since Bruce Kalish would have had to approve of such ideas, as well as the fact that they became particularly prominent in the Kalish era (they have since shown up in ''RPM'' and ''Samurai'').
* SlidingScaleOfVillainEffectiveness: Says that Grumm is higher up on the scale compared with other villains thanks to his use of diversionary tactics to help get what he wants, and even getting an entire team of rangers on his side BY CHOICE.
* StuffBlowingUp: Discussed extensively with "Kalishsplosions", and how this is actually very much an annoyance for its lack of creating suspense and makes the Rangers look weak for being sent into the air by explosions behind them, which have logically missed them. Linkara also notes how it makes the fight scenes BORING, by focusing on explosions instead of the martial arts of past seasons, making the point that you could splice together any random fight scenes & it would be hard to tell that they weren't from the same fight.
** Plus the occasional shots of explosions off to the side, which makes even less sense.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter[[invoked]]: Comments that Mora is sadly underdeveloped, with the viewer never learning how Grumm found her, why she worked for him or why she hated being a grown-up so much. Didn't help that her final fight in the finale was rushed and was the last we would see of her.
* UnintentionallySympathetic[[invoked]]: He views Syd as this during "Dogged". We're supposed to see her as in the wrong for how she treated R.I.C. in the episode initially, but Linkara brings up that he was a "malfunctioning piece of crap" and was in desperate need of an upgrade.
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic[[invoked]]: Since Piggy frequently betrays the rangers and rarely shows remorse (not to mention he had plenty of opportunities to get out of town and lay low if he didn't want to work with Grumm or Broodwing), he finds it too difficult to sympathize with him, especially since the show tries to make him sympathetic and fails.
