Timeranger's Christmas Episodes

Timeranger had a three parter Christmas arc which focused on fighting destiny in itself. It also featured the appearance of the 30th Century Asami douche Tatsuya arriving into the present to "take command". I'd also share my reaction to this one a lot considering Tatsuya is my currently favorite shade of red by Yasuko Kobayashi.

What's my impression of Ryuya? He's stern, he's cold and he really annoys me a lot. Again, it's not surprising since he's also a descendant of Wataru who is cold. We also discover more of the Asamis in this... it seems being stiff is part of their family line. One cannot be certain what happened in between 1,000 years and why Ryuya is like that. To be honest, I wonder what really happened that caused the Asamis to carry on the value of being cold-hearted from Tatsuya's unseen grandfather, Wataru Asami and then down to Ryuya.

There is the whole task to "correct history" -- which makes Ryuya's overall role somewhat ambiguous and in flawed shades of gray. Ryuya goes as far as to free Gien from the latter's pacifier seeing he's needed to do something about history. The Timerangers told that their actions are changing history and that they must do something about it. I dunno is it me or is Ryuya always mean to be the polar opposite of Tatsuya in every way? The Timerangers have no liking for him. Fortunately for Yuuri, she hasn't had any romantic involvement with Ryuya (which made Time Force's love triangle somewhat hard to swallow IMHO) while everyone can't adjust to their actual captain.

The whole plot has me concerned about fighting destiny. Wataru Asami is scheduled to die in a day or two. He gets attacked by Hell's Gate Prisoner Harbel. This results to a lot of issues from power hungry Naoto to Tatsuya accepting his destiny -- to take over the Asami Group. We also realize that Wataru was trying to once fight off the Asami name -- only to find out that his success was partly because of the Asami name. Somehow, I wish that Wataru spoke words with how proud he was that his son was now doing something productive -- as a Timeranger!

This has me thinking about the whole "fighting destiny" idea. Ryuya tries to take charge of the team under him -- only to have them rebel against him. Tatsuya shows up and teams up with the others which finally allow G-Zord to defeated. How Wataru survives his injuries is unknown. Did Tatsuya's actions cause something to happen? The show remains unclear to how Wataru managed to survive when he was supposed to die. Did Tatsuya's father manage to survive and live on because he was proud of his son in secret? Who knows. This gives a room to a lot of headcanons!