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Scales Viewer's Guide, Oct 2089 It's Morphing Time: Does the success of Atlantic's Dragon Warriors excuse historical revisionism? If you follow Viewer's Guide, or indeed if you've glanced at a screen within the past two months, you're likely familiar with Battlin' Blazin' Dragon Warriors. Riding the wave of the current 20th Century revival, Atlantic's new show has quickly proved a crossover hit, and not without reason: it's colourful, kinetic, and delightfully dumb, with a thick layer of cheese to ensure that if you're too old to engage with it sincerely, you have plenty of reason to watch it ironically. It's also reportedly cheap to produce, re-using footage from the Japanese sentai show Three Swords Dragoon, and padded with new material to transport the action to a California High School. Both shows are runaway cultural juggernauts, but like the landfill's worth of plastic toys they're already producing, their legacy will be long-lasting, and quite possibly toxic. The
