Category talk:Sentai New Year Episode

Goggle V and Dynaman's New Years Episodes
I saw that my edit of Goggle V's New Years Episode was pushed back again to Ep. 47: This is the Ultimate Weapon; the problem is that the story by which the endgame occurs (the whole Hightron storyline) actually starts in the previous episode, Ep. 46: Super Energy Arrival. Based on airing time, Goggle V 46 aired on Christmas Day, 1982, which ended up making it the last episode of 1982 but at the same time the start of the story arc which ultimately would bring Goggle V to an end. The same thing actually happened the next year in Dynaman, where the episode that began the end of the series was Ep. 47: An Evil Wish, Ten Tails, which aired on what we consider Christmas Eve, with the next episode not even airing until January 7th of '84.

Since this was prior to proper celebration of holidays in Sentai, generally the Christmas/New Years period was the point when the endgame story would begin for these series and thus technically are the "New Years episodes" since it does start the end of the story. Its tough enough when we have several Sentai where the Christmas episode isn't even aired near Christmas (Gaoranger and Abaranger, I'm looking at you), but I think we need this cleared up: are "New Years Episodes" prior to acknowledgement of the New Year the beginning of the endgame or the first episode of the next year? (mostly so I can feel confident on what we consider the standard for Goggle V and Dynaman, who start their endgames technically on Christmas) -StrangerAtaru (talk) 01:03, October 31, 2014 (UTC)