Watching Jungle Fury again, I still remembered quite a bit but would my views change after all these years? I recalled it as being a lot weaker than the other Kalish seasons but that was a much different time in the show. Looking back, I can really appreciate what Marchand & Tellegen did, and how it was missed in recent years.
The season started with another solid premiere, not the best (better than Overdrive anyway), about on par with Mystic Force. I quickly got to like Dai Shi & Camille in the awesome copy of the set from GekiRanger (which would become one of my favorite villain storyarcs ever) and thought it was cool how the Rinshi were powered up to become the weekly monster. For the most part, the villain groups were handled well I thought (Dai Shi Clan/Five Fingers of Poison/Overlords/Phantom Beasts), aside from Scorch coming back one too many times - and in some cases - how the Dai Shi/Jarrod conflict was handled. Back when the season aired, I was kind of annoyed with Jarrod acting human one week and Dai Shi in full control the next. Plus in true PR fashion, it was ridiculous how easily his spirit escaped the box to begin with.
One of the best aspects of the season has to be the Masters. I still remember how exciting it was having the Spirit Rangers and a self-contained teamup when they'd join forces with the team. Loved RJ as a mentor and becoming Wolf Ranger. I wasn't as offended now, but originally, I really didn't like Casey. A bigger offense still has to be the Strike Rider and the annoyingly drawn out sequences it had, worse than SPD at times. JF had some of my favorite zords as well with some fun Flit-narrated battles, and I always enjoyed when the theme would play in episodes - besides Dino Charge - one of the last great intro songs/instrumentals. I also realize how much I miss the wire fu action style but Dino Fury definitely has had some great fight sequences, at times the closest to the old style since Disney era.
To this day, JF had one of the best Disney finales as I liked how it focused on the core 3 defeating Dai Shi, had awesome action, the destruction of the temple - and in the process - didn't do anything outta left field like Mesomonster or ridiculous like Octomus getting stuffed on magic. GekiRanger was great to watch as well. Besides having the original Rangers, I enjoyed the suits so much that this was one of the few times (after Time Force & Wild Force) that I bought the toys - inpaticular the Spring '08 Sound Fury line, Dai Shi, Camille/Flit and Beast Master Megazord I wished had appeared in the show.
