Forever Red - Instead of the generals...
 

Would it have been better if Gasket and Archerina were the villains instead of these generals that come out of nowhere?

Re: Forever Red - Instead of the generals...
 

I think they just wanted enough suits for ten rangers to fight and didn't care what it was, and figured that the Beetle Borgs looked vaguely similar to Cogs. Also, a lot of their prior outfits were damaged. That's why Rito is not in the finale of Space. Since Gasket and Archerina never showed up in Space either, something probably happened to their suits too.

Re: Forever Red - Instead of the generals...
 

yes it would've been a bit better if Gasket and Archerina had been part of the battle but they still would have needed some assistants either way so that all 10 Rangers could have been paired up to battle each one which is a teamup tradition.

Unfortunately like almighty_cinder said I don't believe it was an option since their suits were likely too damaged considering they wound up using a piece from Gasket's suit for one of the Mut-Orgs.

Re: Forever Red - Instead of the generals...
 

yes it would have been 20 times better if Gasket and Archerina were the villains in "Forever Red" instead of the Machine Empire Generals that stole costumes from Beetleborgs.