Gundamaniac

A local Philippine TV station has made a sequel of an original Toei sentai series Uchuu Keiji Shaider. Check out wiki on Uchuu Keiji Shaider for more info on the series, or you can check out the opening on youtube. Old fans of the show can check out the last episode of Uchuu Keiji Shaider as well.

More than a decade ago, the series was a big hit during its original Philippine airing, thus GMA Network decided to bank on its success and seeked Toei Japan to allow them to do a remake of the series. Unfortunately for GMA network the appeal was rejected, so they tweaked their concept as a spin off series taking place 20 years after the original series and named it Zaido Pulis Pangkalawakan (Galactic Police Zaido).

but instead of a solo space sheriff battling the forces of evil they decide on making it a three man super sentai team. Although I’d have to say the old helmet seem to look better than these new ones. ^^;

apparently in this series the red ranger isn’t the leader while the sidekick blue is the main man.

“I never ride my motorcycle without my helmet and protective pads”. ^^;

Street Fighter’s General M. Bison checks on the crew of Startrek’s USS Enterprise? ^^;

or is it the USS Defiant ^^

if you find your TV channel button stuck and you can’t watch anything else, at least you can check out the babes in starfleet pajamas. look its seven point one of nine tertiary adjunct of unimatrix 01.

“I’m not Obiwan, you’re in the wrong set there is no phantom menace here.”

The show actually has a good premise, who would have thought of doing a sequel of an old super sentai show. However after trying to watch an episode on TV I found myself dozing off the first few minutes before the show even hit a commercial break. frankly there’s far too much melodrama and too little action for this series. and unlike the regular super sentai shows where one might find closure when the good guys beat the evildoers and save the world at the end of each episode, this series runs on and on like a noon time drama series. Like sands through the hourglass, so are the Days of our Lives!!! ^^ so if you find yourself wide eyed from drinking that 5 gallons of mutiple shot expresso check out this clip on youtube of the Galactic Police Zaido. (english subtitled)

on a side note, I often wonder how super sentai’s in Japan and the American power rangers seem to have similar expressions, mannerism and action while in costume. even the bad guys from both sides of the world move the same way. Did the stunt people for the power rangers show have special sentai training. I wonder if there is some sort of super sentai school of martial arts out there. ^o^