well thats why im saying perhaps its a different climate now, why not just seperate the kids and the adult? if they cant put 'passion' in anymore then give us late night super sentai with all that in and let the kiddies have tonnes of 'enthusiasm'.
maybe its something to do with the people producing the shows?? maybe they just wernt brought up on good enough toku to want to emulate it?? or the writers simply dont have enough experience to write passion?? some of the earlier writers worked on various shows in the industry and lots ofother sentai - Noboru Sugimura worked on 17 sentai!! 9 of which he was the main writer!... maybe nowadays its just down to rookies?? the 80's era and 90's era best acomplish the things youre talking about in my opinion, for sentai at least ,as the feel of it lends itself to the drama and emotion acted with passion -it just doesnt seem out of place despite the fact they then go on to jump about in coloured lycra and fight rubber monsters..but nowadays i think if the same scenes were played in a sentai as in the past it would seem overacted and too dramatic for what reson i do not know at this very moment... im guessing this all changed after Dekaranger and Kamen Rider Kabuto.