Power Rangers Anyone?

[Justice Bringer]

Yeah DT fell apart midway but its generally more watchable than Aba overall.

Dekaranger is superior to SPD though in how it was executed; no lameass ball of light.

Hurricanger is WAY superior to NS.

And Boukenger seems to be leagues better than Overdrive so far.

[Super Kal]

that was a cool video :up:

[Nathan]

Boukenger was another Season I really didn't give much of a chance. That guy in the white robe was kinda annoying.

[Justice Bringer]

Why? He barely did anything.

He wasnt as annoying as Cassidy and Devin.

[Nathan]

I think his stupid walk & voice turned me off, and I didn't really want to see more of him. And generally it didn't capture my interest. With SPD, Magiranger and Hurricanger I was hooked from the first Episode, not with Boukenger though.

[Justice Bringer]

Boukenger builds. I wasnt hooked from the first episode either but it got intense by the 4th one.

Its one of the more serious themed sentai; thats how I like it. That and Timeranger are my faves.


I thought Magiranger was lame.

[Nathan]

I liked the Magic Themed season, even though I thought it would suck at first, but it became one of my favorite seasons. And Wolzard is probably my favorite Sentai character.

[Justice Bringer]

No.

[RangerKing]

Can you seriously stop using any combination of "pussy", "gay", and "ass"?

[Justice Bringer]

I liked the Magic Themed season, even though I thought it would suck at first, but it became one of my favorite seasons. And Wolzard is probably my favorite Sentai character.

Yeah Wolzard is cool but I prefer Naoto as my fave.

[Nathan]

My Sentai knowledge is kinda decent, and I forget a lot of stuff over time. Who's Naoto again?

[Justice Bringer]

Timefire

[Nathan]

Ah, ok. I got into Sentai when Hurricanger aired. I tried to watch some of the old Seasons, but I either didn't find them or wasn't really interested.

[Cmill216]

Finally got around to watching "Once A Ranger".

And it was, of course.......morphenomenal. :hyper: :up:

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, it was pretty good. There were a few too many slow-mo explosions, but it was still decent. I liked how Adam was treated as the undisputed leader of the replacement Rangers, even though Bridge was on there as the Red Ranger. If only he had been in his Zeo Ranger suit... oh well, he still ruled. :) Xander was quite good, too.

[Cmill216]

Definitely agree on the endless explosions (talk about beating a dead gimmick to death). But damn was that unmorphed fight scene sick. Loved all of the old school references, as well.

A really great episode. Didn't overdo things, and yet left you wanting more. And, ironically, it was probably the best Overdrive episode to date.

[Justice Bringer]

Yeah, it was pretty good. There were a few too many slow-mo explosions, but it was still decent. I liked how Adam was treated as the undisputed leader of the replacement Rangers, even though Bridge was on there as the Red Ranger. If only he had been in his Zeo Ranger suit... oh well, he still ruled. :) Xander was quite good, too.

Thats only because Bridge is a crappy Red Ranger and not suited for it. I couldnt believe he could be a leader of an SPD team in the future.

[TheCorpulent1]

Bridge does suck, but I think Adam would've been the leader regardless. It's a 15th anniversary episode; makes sense that the character who was there from almost the very beginning of the series would be the leader and treated with the most respect and all.

[Justice Bringer]

Well, Adam was the leader by default becaause there were no leaders in that group either.

All the returning rangers were '2nd fiddle' and '3rd fiddle' rangers on their respective teams. They were random choices.

Theyre definitely not legends; I'm glad they werent referred to onscreen as such.

[Iron Fist]

I haven't watched Power Rangers in a long time, heh. I was trying to find something to watch and came across the episode "Once a Ranger." It was awesome, and it was cool to see Adam again. :up:

[Primal Slayer]

Thats only because Bridge is a crappy Red Ranger and not suited for it. I couldnt believe he could be a leader of an SPD team in the future.

I think Bridge leads his own team better in his own time plus he has Syd and Z (both of whom probably got promoted as well, Syd being 2nd in command and Z third) to help him out. But I wonder who the new Blue and Green Rangers are though.

Hopefully in the next anniversy, we get another Zordon Era Ranger come back for an ep or two.

Or if we even got an Alpha to be part of the group for the full season would be cool. Or have the rangers goto Eltar...

[Justice Bringer]

Bridge isnt leadership material.

Hes like the complete antithesis of decisive and he has no commanding authority.

Maybe Sky as Shadow Ranger is the leader.

[TheCorpulent1]

Wouldn't Syd be Blue Ranger if she's second in command? The Blue Ranger uniform does have a big "2" on it, and we know even Red Rangers can be women in SPD's time.

I'd love to see more tie-ins to the Zordon era, myself. MMPR through PRiS were the golden age of the Power Rangers, as far as I'm concerned. Everything that's come after has ranged from awful to good, but it's never quite reached the level of the Zordon era. Can't really blame those series, though; they only get one season to establish all the Rangers and their allies and enemies, establish a central conflict and story arc, develop the characters, and end things nicely, whereas the Zordon era had six seasons to do all that. Longer seasons than the latest PR series, too.

[Justice Bringer]

Nah. Syd and Z are still most likely Pink and Yellow.

They didnt get promoted by the end of SPD when even Bridge got Blue (and Bridge is an idiot).

The girl as Red must have been a random oneshot; I guess thats why everyone was so shocked that she was a girl.

Then again, she was the worst red ranger ever and sold out the whole team to Grumm...and then got owned by cadets.....so that probably doesnt look too good for women trying to advance up :/

[Primal Slayer]

Wouldn't Syd be Blue Ranger if she's second in command? The Blue Ranger uniform does have a big "2" on it, and we know even Red Rangers can be women in SPD's time.



She could be Blue or they could just renumber the uniforms. I just go with renmber the uniforms, we have Pink Rangers in 2nd command and commanding positions before.

Nah. Syd and Z are still most likely Pink and Yellow.

They didnt get promoted by the end of SPD when even Bridge got Blue (and Bridge is an idiot).

Then again, she was the worst red ranger ever and sold out the whole team to Grumm...and then got owned by cadets.....so that probably doesnt look too good for women trying to advance up :/

Well in her own defense she did own the cadets at first...

[TheCorpulent1]

Meh, renumbering Pink I could understand, but all the other colors should be unisex, in my opinion. I'd like to see more female Red or Black or Green Rangers instead of constantly resigning them to Pink, White, and Yellow. I'd like to see a team comprising a majority of women, too. The standard, male-dominated Ranger teams bore me.

[Justice Bringer]

Well then your screwed. Males will always be dominant in PR by leaps and bounds. They'll always be the most powerful rangers, and get the coolest upgrades and toys.

The reason being is that female ranger figures dont sell well at all in North America and Japan.....and the show depends on toy sales.

[Iron Fist]

So which Power Rangers season was your favorite?

[Cmill216]

That's So Ranger

The girls would eat it up.

So which Power Rangers season was your favorite?

In Space, Time Force, and Dino Thunder.

Though, I'm currently watching Lost Galaxy and really digging it.

[Justice Bringer]

Well in her own defense she did own the cadets at first...

Not really. She just fired a gun. The rangers didnt have theirs until they called SWAT mode and then she got her ass pwned.

Charlie = fail

[Justice Bringer]

So which Power Rangers season was your favorite?

Time Force, Space, Lost Galaxy, Lightspeed and to a much lesser extent Dino Thunder

[Primal Slayer]

Meh, renumbering Pink I could understand, but all the other colors should be unisex, in my opinion. I'd like to see more female Red or Black or Green Rangers instead of constantly resigning them to Pink, White, and Yellow. I'd like to see a team comprising a majority of women, too. The standard, male-dominated Ranger teams bore me.

If only...but dreaming and fanfics are nice.

On a side note, looks like Jungle Fury so far will only have one female ranger out of all the rangers that have shown up so far.

MMPR S3/PRIS/PRLG were my top favorites going Season long.

Not really. She just fired a gun. The rangers didnt have theirs until they called SWAT mode and then she got her ass pwned.



Charlie = fail

Didnt hte SPD rangers do the same when they went SWAT mode?

[TheCorpulent1]

Well then your screwed. Males will always be dominant in PR by leaps and bounds. They'll always be the most powerful rangers, and get the coolest upgrades and toys.

The reason being is that female ranger figures dont sell well at all in North America and Japan.....and the show depends on toy sales.
I realize that. Doesn't mean I have to like it, though.

[Justice Bringer]

They all look like females on Gekiranger sadly.

[Justice Bringer]

I realize that. Doesn't mean I have to like it, though.

Oh well.... works out well for us; we're men. :p

[TheCorpulent1]

I am, too. 15 years of male-dominated Ranger teams gets a little boring, though. Doesn't matter; I know Power Rangers was never exactly a bastion of creativity or innovation, so it's not like they're suddenly going to change and try new things.
If only...but dreaming and fanfics are nice.

On a side note, looks like Jungle Fury so far will only have one female ranger out of all the rangers that have shown up so far.
The series that start out with only three Rangers usually do only have one female Ranger. DT and NS only had Kira and Tori, respectively.

[Iron Fist]

I think Space and the original Power Rangers were the best so far.

[TheCorpulent1]

My top five seasons:

1. Space
2. Time Force
3. Zeo
4. Lost Galaxy
5. MMPR season 3

[Cmill216]

My top five seasons:

3. Zeo

I haven't watched Zeo in ages. What makes it stand out for you?

[Justice Bringer]

Jason, Tommy and Adam on the same team with Billy as the brains is a win-win

[Primal Slayer]

One thing PR does do well though when it comes to females is they make great season long villans.

Rita/Divatox/Astromena/Trakenna

Only season long male villans I love are Zedd/Mesogog/Grumm

[Iron Fist]

Jason was awesome as the Gold Ranger, though, I found it to be a little short.

[TheCorpulent1]

I haven't watched Zeo in ages. What makes it stand out for you?
I like Tommy, Kat, and Adam, I loved the Gold Ranger arc, I loved the costumes, I liked seeing Adam act as second-in-command to Tommy's Red Ranger, and the Machine Empire is one of my favorite sets of villains.

[Primal Slayer]

I mainly just like Zeo for very beginning (mostly I just get that funny feeling when in Zeo Beginning pt.2 Zordon talks about how the old Power Rangers that they know are gone and we see a pan of the old uniforms) and ofcourse Jason coming back.

I didnt care for Kat so much in Zeo but she really came into her own for the brief time she was in Turbo when I started to fully like her more.

[TheCorpulent1]

One thing PR does do well though when it comes to females is they make great season long villans.

Rita/Divatox/Astromena/Trakenna

Only season long male villans I love are Zedd/Mesogog/Grumm
I don't know about Divatox, but I agree with the others. Trakeena especially.

[Primal Slayer]

Divatox by the original actress just cracks me up whenever she is on screen, espically her feud with Astronema in PRIS

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, she was funnier in PRiS. She mostly just irritated me in Turbo. Of course, a lot of stuff irritated me in Turbo. Except the opening credits and that first scene of the Rangers driving their Turbo zords. I don't really know why, but that scene has always been awesome to me. Maybe because it was before I had a chance to see how much the rest of Turbo sucked. :o

[Cmill216]

I like Tommy, Kat, and Adam, I loved the Gold Ranger arc, I loved the costumes, I liked seeing Adam act as second-in-command to Tommy's Red Ranger, and the Machine Empire is one of my favorite sets of villains.

Good reasons. Though, didn't Zeo lack a proper ending? I think that's why I don't rank it that high.

One thing PR does do well though when it comes to females is they make great season long villans.

Rita/Divatox/Astromena/Trakenna

Only season long male villans I love are Zedd/Mesogog/Grumm

Hell yes on Astronema. Started off kinda over-the-top. But damn. Once they made that big reveal towards the middle of the season, she transformed into THE best villain in the franchise's history. Loved her.

[Justice Bringer]

One thing PR does do well though when it comes to females is they make great season long villans.

Rita/Divatox/Astromena/Trakenna

Only season long male villans I love are Zedd/Mesogog/Grumm

lol Rita and Divatox were kinda campy though.

Astronema was awesome after she got reprogrammed into that Cyborg version.

Trakeena was awesome in LG's 2nd season; especially after the mutations and the fusions with deviot.


Vypra was a great concept with a not-so-great actress; the sentai version is awesome.

Nadira was useless.

Marah and Kapri are the textbook definition of useless and annoying.

Elsa was okay but the whole Randall disguise was pointless in the end and she never got a backstory.

Mora/Morgana was lame...

Miratrix is blah... I think its mainly because the actress has the delivery of a robot.

[Justice Bringer]

Good reasons. Though, didn't Zeo lack a proper ending? I think that's why I don't rank it that high..

Zeo's unofficial ending was Forever Red. They designed the episode to tie up Zeo with the Machine Empire as the villians and Zeo V as the team leader.

[TheCorpulent1]

Rita and Zedd destroyed the Machine Empire, and then the Zeo Rangers switched to the Turbo powers because they said the Zeo powers couldn't handle Divatox. Not a typical ending, but good enough given that all of the main Rangers were returning for Turbo anyway. There didn't need to be any senses-shattering, totally final conclusion to the villains and the powers for that season.

[Primal Slayer]

The Zeo powers/zords couldnt handle the nemesis triangle and Divatox would be able to detect the powers. Thats why they switched to the Turbo ones.

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, that. Although Tommy certainly didn't seem any less powerful as the Red Zeo Ranger than TJ did as the Red Turbo Ranger in "Forever Red."

[Justice Bringer]

Well they didnt fight each other morphed..

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, but the Machine Empire were the Zeo Rangers' enemies. You'd expect if the Turbo powers are so much greater than the Zeo powers, TJ would've had a lot less trouble against the Machine Generals than Tommy. All of the Red Rangers seemed to be doing as well as each other, though.

Similarly, Adam, who's got the earliest form of the PR powers shown in the series, managed to do even better than the Rangers with later and presumably greater powers. Other Rangers were taking the villains two- or three-on-one while Adam was handling one of them all by himself.

[Justice Bringer]

Yeah but thats assuming all the generals were equal in power..

They also had Wes and Leo helping them

[TheCorpulent1]

I suppose every General could've just happened to be perfectly scaled to the Rangers who randomly chose to fight them so that all of the Rangers only appeared to be equal in power. Kind of a stretch, though.

[Superman-Prime]

So which Power Rangers season was your favorite?

Saban's Power Rangers, but Time Force OWNS all.

Who needs Disney's Power Rangers anyway?

[Justice Bringer]

Or they just could have been all easy to beat when 2 rangers are teamed up against each of them

[TheCorpulent1]

I'm sure that helped. Still, I'd put my money on Tommy, even if he were using his weakest powers, if he fought TJ in his Turbo or Space suits. I doubt we'll ever know for certain, but I still think it's the person's skills more than the powers that determines how effective a Ranger they are.

[Justice Bringer]

Soo not true. Remember how Trent whooped Tommy's ass.

Powers have a huge impact.

[TheCorpulent1]

In some cases. Trent was also being driven towards evil at the time, which tends to make people cut loose and kick more ass than they normally might. Tommy himself kicked all of the other Rangers' asses as the Green Ranger, after all. Once Trent was back to normal, he was a pussy and Tommy was once again the most effective badass of the bunch.

[Justice Bringer]

Trent was always the pussy. It was the white powers that were badass.... but they were way stronger than the DT Black powers...

Powers play a huge role in morphed battles

[TheCorpulent1]

In some cases, like I said. It's pretty wildly inconsistent. In PR, whoever needs to be stronger to suit the story is stronger, usually without rhyme or reason.

[Catman]

In some cases, like I said. It's pretty wildly inconsistent. In PR, whoever needs to be stronger to suit the story is stronger, usually without rhyme or reason.

True. Its amazing that Tommy went from the AWESOME Green Ranger to the Red Zeo Ranger who didn't stick out much. :csad:

[Justice Bringer]

lol its called sentai footage

[TheCorpulent1]

True. Its amazing that Tommy went from the AWESOME Green Ranger to the Red Zeo Ranger who didn't stick out much. :csad:
Well, sixth Rangers do seem to generally be more powerful than the main Rangers. But Tommy did have that whole "King for a Day" storyline, I think it was called. The one where he was tricked into believing he was the ruler of the Machine Empire and stuff.

[Catman]

lol its called sentai footage

DUH! But you're supposed to forget about that. :cmad:

[Superman-Prime]

Trent was always the pussy. It was the white powers that were badass.... but they were way stronger than the DT Black powers...

Powers play a huge role in morphed battles

I agree with this about Trent. Trent was lame and pathetic. It would've awesome if Trent stay evil for a long time before the finale.

Trent was absolutely one of the worst White Ranger ever, along with Justin, Cole, Nick and Conner.

If Saban still running Power Rangers, then Trent stays evil for long time before the finale.

**** you, Disney.

[Justice Bringer]

If Saban ran it; we'd get an American version of Mikoto.

Tommy prolly wouldnt have come back.... BUT

We'd get 3 badass american seasons adapted off of Hurricanger, Dekaranger and Boukenger... thats a better deal.

[Catman]

Tommy returning has nothing to do with Disney. It was Doug Sloan who brought him back.

[Justice Bringer]

And Disney rehired Doug Sloan...

Saban was done with him.

[Catman]

And Disney rehired Doug Sloan...

Saban was done with him.

True.

[nogap87]

I finally watched "Once A Ranger"

For some reason Alpha being in storage bugs the hell out of me. Just seems like such a waste considering the wealth of knowledge he has stored in him. I also agree with whoever said that Adam Should have came back as the Zeo Green Ranger. He never did anything spectacular in his Mighty Morphin days (IMO).

[Catman]

For some reason Alpha being in storage bugs the hell out of me. Just seems like such a waste considering the wealth of knowledge he has stored in him. I also agree with whoever said that Adam Should have came back as the Zeo Green Ranger. He never did anything spectacular in his Mighty Morphin days (IMO).

I agree 100%

[TheCorpulent1]

Yep, Adam was definitely at his best in Zeo.

Alpha's being in storage bugged me, too. It seems so unceremonious for such a loyal, integral part of the Zordon-era teams.

[Justice Bringer]

SHouldnt he be on Mirinoi?

[GL1]

I finally saw Once a Ranger as well... an excellent episode... I found Mack's superjump saving the day to be supertrite, as well as having Sentinel Knight KillSteal on Adam... but at the end of the day, it was a great ep, I just sorely wish Adam could have introed to the original Power Rangers music. That would have been tre awesome.

If Adam had been Zeo Green, then Xander would'nt have been there... perhaps have Mystic Pink, but that's too many girls... unless they brough Zack back as the sixth old-school ranger... that could have been disgusting!

[Justice Bringer]

Vida sucks.

[TheCorpulent1]

I finally saw Once a Ranger as well... an excellent episode... I found Mack's superjump saving the day to be supertrite, as well as having Sentinel Knight KillSteal on Adam... but at the end of the day, it was a great ep, I just sorely wish Adam could have introed to the original Power Rangers music. That would have been tre awesome.

If Adam had been Zeo Green, then Xander would'nt have been there... perhaps have Mystic Pink, but that's too many girls... unless they brough Zack back as the sixth old-school ranger... that could have been disgusting!
Hahaha, I hadn't thought of it in gaming terms. :D

I'm glad Xander was there. That's actually why I'm not more upset that Adam had to get stuck as the Black MMPR again. Xander was almost as good as Adam was in the team-up.

[Trainwreck2100]

I finally watched "Once A Ranger"

For some reason Alpha being in storage bugs the hell out of me. Just seems like such a waste considering the wealth of knowledge he has stored in him. I also agree with whoever said that Adam Should have came back as the Zeo Green Ranger. He never did anything spectacular in his Mighty Morphin days (IMO).


IIRC when Rito and Goldar blew up the Command center there was a crate marked Alpha 4

[November Rain]

I wonder if they are going to bring back all the sixth rangers for a special one day.

that would be a lineup nearly as sweet as forever red.

it'd be worth it just to see eric again.

[TheCorpulent1]

The Sixth Rangers are definitely some of the best. It'd probably be hard to get them all together again for a team-up, though.

[Justice Bringer]

6th rangers are lame nowadays. Disney sucked the badass out of them

[nogap87]

IIRC when Rito and Goldar blew up the Command center there was a crate marked Alpha 4

True, but for all we know he was probably only used for opening pickle jars. Putting Alpha 5 in storage just seems disrespectful after all the help he has given the Rangers over the years.

[nogap87]

6th rangers are lame nowadays. Disney sucked the badass out of them

I know I'm in the minority but I liked the Omega Ranger. His voice and arrogance in his first full deput reminded me of Lee/Ditko Spider-man. I just hated the fact that he had to rev up his arm in order to make his powers work.

I Haven' t seen enough of the Disney seasons to comment about their other 6th Rangers.

[Catman]

I wonder if they are going to bring back all the sixth rangers for a special one day.

It would be great to see Tommy as Green and Jason as Gold again.

[Zipperedgorilla]

It would be great to see Tommy as Green and Jason as Gold again.

What about tommy as the white ranger?, wait there are two tommys. The other is 200 years in the past MMPR. That would be wierd.

[Justice Bringer]

I know I'm in the minority but I liked the Omega Ranger. His voice and arrogance in his first full deput reminded me of Lee/Ditko Spider-man. I just hated the fact that he had to rev up his arm in order to make his powers work.

I Haven' t seen enough of the Disney seasons to comment about their other 6th Rangers.

Uhh..dude; he was a friggen ball of light that was voiced like a crackhead ninjaturtle.

[Justice Bringer]

What about tommy as the white ranger?, wait there are two tommys. The other is 200 years in the past MMPR. That would be wierd.

Yeah I was hoping theyd pick up the clone's story in DT..

It would have been a more surprising reveal of who Zeltrax was.... than just some random dude.

[nogap87]

Uhh..dude; he was a friggen ball of light that was voiced like a crackhead ninjaturtle.

I liked his voice but I will concede that him being a ball of light was pointless on so many different levels.

[Catman]

What about tommy as the white ranger?

um...thats tricky. As the White Ranger he was only the 6th Ranger for like three episodes. Afterwards he was the leader of the group. When the replacements came in, Tommy, became the guy who took over leadership since Rocky was such a moron.

[Primal Slayer]

The Space powers were created before the Zeo powers (or just right around the same time) since Zhane and Andros were Power Rangers for like 4-5 years before the Turbo Rangers made it into space.

But newer teams seem to be weaker then previous ones since they always need major upgrades to help defeat the villan by the end of the season. MMPR-Turbo had no big powerups to their forms (except for the whole metallic thing)

And I hope they stop or cut down on the whole Red Ranger Battlizer thing, they are so useless and are put in now to keep the Red Ranger top boss.

[strikezone89]

i love vidia!!!!!

[Zipperedgorilla]

The Space powers were created before the Zeo powers (or just right around the same time) since Zhane and Andros were Power Rangers for like 4-5 years before the Turbo Rangers made it into space.

But newer teams seem to be weaker then previous ones since they always need major upgrades to help defeat the villan by the end of the season. MMPR-Turbo had no big powerups to their forms (except for the whole metallic thing)

And I hope they stop or cut down on the whole Red Ranger Battlizer thing, they are so useless and are put in now to keep the Red Ranger top boss.

I completely agree about the battlizer thing. I mean, the red is the leader, but the show is suppose to be about the group. And it is just going over the top and rather ridiculous now. It is like what can we add to the ranger and make him into a transformer-like character. Its like adding a turret and making him into a walking tank.

After in Space, it seemed like each series story just became about the red ranger. There are a few altercations, but to me the focus has just been: red ranger comes into intro owns all enemies, gets all the upgrades and is supreme.

[Electrofarce]

Does anyone still watch this show and enjoy it/what are your thoughts on it. I've watched the show from the very beinning and really enjoy it, hell I even have a website on it.

I'm not a mod or an admin, but I'm going to instate a rule. No anti-Disney/anti-Saban talk. If you have beef you say something like "You know the explosions are not something I'm fond of and I would prefer Disney not do that, etc".

Use these resources to help you:

www.rovang.org/wg/wgindex.htm
www.rangercentral.com
www.nakspowerrangers.com
www.rangermania.com
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Rangers (beware some of the information could be incorrect)
www.legacyofpower.rangermania.com


Dude, are you crazy!? No offense, but Power Rangers went out of style in, like, '93. Your livin' in the past dude.

[Catman]

No offense, but Power Rangers went out of style in, like, '93.

More like `97. And, yea, the hey-day has been over for like 10 yrs but there IS a fan base. Believe it or not.

[Superman-Prime]

Rest In Peace, Power Rangers (1993-2002)

And I agree with Justice Bringer about Vida. She sucked hard.

Next Monday, new episode. Woohoo! :whatever: Gosh, PROO sucks so badly.

[The Question]

I must say, In Space os something of a guilty pleasure for me. I still get jollies out of telling people about Zordon's assisted suicide. Damn, the writers had balls back then, didn't they?

[Catman]

PRiS should have been the last season.

[The Question]

PRiS should have been the last season.

It was certainly the last one where they had balls.

[Catman]

It was certainly the last one where they had balls.

It's not that, man. The show is just pointless now. Had I been in charge I would have ended with PRiS, given the show a rest for a few years, and bring it back as a new TV show or movie. Only this time doing it RIGHT!

[The Question]

It's not that, man. The show is just pointless now. Had I been in charge I would have ended with PRiS, given the show a rest for a few years, and bring it back as a new TV show or movie. Only this time doing it RIGHT!

Oh, I understand. I'm just saying, they had balls in In Space.

[Catman]

you know...taking a break did wonders for TMNT. They took a few years off after Last Mutation and came back with the new series on Fox Box (or whatever its called) and that got enough positive reaction to warrant a new movie this year.

[Superman-Prime]

PRiS should have been the last season.

IMO, Wild Force should have been the last season.

I'm so pissed that Disney is still controlling Power Rangers for 5 years. I frickin' want Saban back.

Power Rangers Ninja Storm: Shane, Cam, Dustin, Blake and Hunter were an frickin' idiot and goofy bull****. They had never being so such serious during the battle. "DUDE! WOOHOO! WHOA! YEAH!" Lothor and others were all an idiot and pathetic. I WANTED THE VILLAINS TO BE BADASS like the Demons from Lightspeed Rescue and Ranisk from Time Force. Lothor was not PURE evil like Ranisk and the demons.

Where's the scratch from injury? NOTHING! NOTHING! NOTHING!

NOTHING!

Power Rangers Ninja Storm is one of the biggest BULL**** and disgraceful completely. Tori > ALL. They are all PESTS!

Power Rangers Dino Thunder: - What a bull**** season. Tommy stuck into his suit for 10 episodes. Trent was being so such pussy. Worst White Ranger ever. Conner sucked. So was Ethan. Kira was MORE smart than the boys.

Power Rangers S.P.D.: While I'm saying that I really enjoyed with this season because I'm a fan of Police/Detective TV shows/movies. But the problem is that the show went downhill after Shadow. The Ball of Light was so annoying.

Power Rangers Mystic Force: This season... what a joke. The Ten Terror was soooooo pathetic. Nick, Chip and Vida sucked. Xander was awesome. Madison was good, but poor development. We never get to know about them more because of stupid pathetic pest named Nick. They should have named "POWER RANGERS NICK FORCE". What about Daggeron? Yeah, what a joke.

Power Rangers Operation Overdrive: Yeah. This season sucks so far this year! Mack sucks. Dax needs to die. Will is so annoying. Ronny... maybe. Rose? Maybe. Gosh, Tyonnz sucks. Flurious sucks. And others, they are all suck.

Seriously... Disney's Power Rangers DON'T NEED to be all heart-light seasons. Everything has been changed since Disney took over. Lame comedy, pointless explosives, "WHOOOOOOOOOOOOA! DUUUUDE!", the villains are all too light, stupid and goofy instead of being dark, serious and badass. Mesogog wasn't badass. AT ALL. LAME.

Saban's Power Rangers were beautiful and well done. Power Rangers Time Force is one of my favourite with all excellent drama, serious, mature, more realistic violent (like scratch from injury and less bleed) and less romance (Yes, Jen and Wes). brilliant. What about Wild Force? The new Zords arc awakened. What about Zen-Aku arc? Look at Zen-Aku's left hand. Frickin' awesome. His hand were bleeding! I loved the part of the story. Zen-Aku/Lunar Wolf Ranger Arc were all fantastic.

Merrick / Lunar Wolf Ranger was the LAST badass 6th Ranger ever.

All 6th Rangers from Saban's were badass.

Disney's Power Rangers are GAY! FLAMING GAY!

Argh! I have too much rants about how bad Disney's PR are so far. Disney edited some of Time Force episodes. Same with PRiS-PRWF. I wish Saban never ever sell it to Disney. What is wrong with people at Disney? SERIOUSLY! They need to stop doing stupid things for Power Rangers!

BURN, DISNEY! BURN! :cmad: :cmad: :cmad:

Disney has RUINED MY CHILDHOOD!

SABAN, FTW!!!!! PRIS-PRWF > DISNEY'S PR!

[Justice Bringer]

Well....you took the words right out of my mouth :/

[Lunar_Wolf]

IMO, Wild Force should have been the last season.

I'm so pissed that Disney is still controlling Power Rangers for 5 years. I frickin' want Saban back.

Power Rangers Ninja Storm: Shane, Cam, Dustin, Blake and Hunter were an frickin' idiot and goofy bull****. They had never being so such serious during the battle. "DUDE! WOOHOO! WHOA! YEAH!" Lothor and others were all an idiot and pathetic. I WANTED THE VILLAINS TO BE BADASS like the Demons from Lightspeed Rescue and Ranisk from Time Force. Lothor was not PURE evil like Ranisk and the demons.

Where's the scratch from injury? NOTHING! NOTHING! NOTHING!

NOTHING!

Power Rangers Ninja Storm is one of the biggest BULL**** and disgraceful completely. Tori > ALL. They are all PESTS!

Power Rangers Dino Thunder: - What a bull**** season. Tommy stuck into his suit for 10 episodes. Trent was being so such pussy. Worst White Ranger ever. Conner sucked. So was Ethan. Kira was MORE smart than the boys.

Power Rangers S.P.D.: While I'm saying that I really enjoyed with this season because I'm a fan of Police/Detective TV shows/movies. But the problem is that the show went downhill after Shadow. The Ball of Light was so annoying.

Power Rangers Mystic Force: This season... what a joke. The Ten Terror was soooooo pathetic. Nick, Chip and Vida sucked. Xander was awesome. Madison was good, but poor development. We never get to know about them more because of stupid pathetic pest named Nick. They should have named "POWER RANGERS NICK FORCE". What about Daggeron? Yeah, what a joke.

Power Rangers Operation Overdrive: Yeah. This season sucks so far this year! Mack sucks. Dax needs to die. Will is so annoying. Ronny... maybe. Rose? Maybe. Gosh, Tyonnz sucks. Flurious sucks. And others, they are all suck.

Seriously... Disney's Power Rangers DON'T NEED to be all heart-light seasons. Everything has been changed since Disney took over. Lame comedy, pointless explosives, "WHOOOOOOOOOOOOA! DUUUUDE!", the villains are all too light, stupid and goofy instead of being dark, serious and badass. Mesogog wasn't badass. AT ALL. LAME.

Saban's Power Rangers were beautiful and well done. Power Rangers Time Force is one of my favourite with all excellent drama, serious, mature, more realistic violent (like scratch from injury and less bleed) and less romance (Yes, Jen and Wes). brilliant. What about Wild Force? The new Zords arc awakened. What about Zen-Aku arc? Look at Zen-Aku's left hand. Frickin' awesome. His hand were bleeding! I loved the part of the story. Zen-Aku/Lunar Wolf Ranger Arc were all fantastic.

Merrick / Lunar Wolf Ranger was the LAST badass 6th Ranger ever.

All 6th Rangers from Saban's were badass.

Disney's Power Rangers are GAY! FLAMING GAY!

Argh! I have too much rants about how bad Disney's PR are so far. Disney edited some of Time Force episodes. Same with PRiS-PRWF. I wish Saban never ever sell it to Disney. What is wrong with people at Disney? SERIOUSLY! They need to stop doing stupid things for Power Rangers!

BURN, DISNEY! BURN! :cmad: :cmad: :cmad:

Disney has RUINED MY CHILDHOOD!

SABAN, FTW!!!!! PRIS-PRWF > DISNEY'S PR!

*claps*

[GL1]

Wild Force actually fell off for me. The major mistake Disney has made is to not continue the maturity of the series, but to put it into an endless formulaic loop. There are no risks taken, because Disney is not interested, honestly, in the quality of the show... an Power Rangers, unfortunately, is a show that can make a lot of money even though it sucks... almost like a cartoon, but better. I think it'll take them ten years to lose the steam from SABAN's great run and then, when the money falls, the show will likely cease to exist, at least temporarily (which is what some of us are asking for, eh?)

My comments:

Time Force rocked, on several levels, daring, innovative, diverse. It took risks and they all paid off. Kudos.

Wild Force seemed like it set up a good, almost overdue, premise, but the 6th ranger seems to 'make' the season. You remember Tommy the Green Ranger, right? Exactly. Zen-Aku was sickening, but Merrick, became... less and less intense, until he was finally just a faceless member of the team with a crush on the princess. Completely declawed. Red-Ranger centrism began... Disney's influence was already felt.

Ninja Storm Also started out cool and balanced, and who doesn't love ninjas? Unfortunately it was highly dumbed down, in Disney style, for whatever reasons. Bad guys couldn't really be bad, and good guys, were just kids trying to have silly little fun. No intensity, no consequence... no impact... not very good, even though it looked very pretty. Since we aren't getting kids with story, the explosion-fest begins.

Dino Thunder Didn't see much of this, but pansiness in the 6th ranger department, both an underfunded Tommy (how the heck does a Karate teacher become too expensive for network TV????) and a declawed Trent (to make Tommy and the Red Ranger cooler) took the 6th ranger intensity way out... much needed in a 3-core ranger season. It picked up on story, and supporting cast, harkening back to MMPR days, but failed to advance on action.

SPD I can't say how much I loved this season, premise to characters to actors. But lets face is, this season was going great save but two points: It LOST its focus on its Red Ranger, somehow, thus losing its season-long arc. And of course, it squandered its Omega Ranger... highly unfortunate. Perhaps the season was too ambitious for its own good.

Mystic Force Lets cash in on Harry Potter ASAP! This coupled with uber-Red-Ranger centrism, returned at last, gave us a full season arc, but we lost the accompanying diversity which made the show interesting. The other rangers, by and large, were uninteresting.

Overdrive Concept: Awesome. Costumes: Awesome. Casting/Characters: Not too bad, pretty classic all around. So why is this show no good? Because it does nothing with its fodder. These guys remain archetypes, save for perhaps Mack. A little risk taking (which would hardly be a risk at all) and Overdrive could have been the best ever. And a weak sixth ranger seals the deal.

Jungle Fever (or whatever). A 3-ranger core team? Could be interesting! They could fix wildforce! But probably not... we'll see...

[Justice Bringer]

With WF, they were starting to report to Disney execs at that point. It didnt surprise me that the show started to get watered down at that point.

[PyroChamber]

Whatever happened to Saban anyway?

[Justice Bringer]

Retired

[deathshead2]

Whatever happened to Saban anyway?
Went into debt had to sell all his fox shows to pay it off. Last I heard of him I think he has some small mexican record label or something.

[Nathan]

Hmm... interesting. An entire Episode where the Dino Rangers watch the Sentai version of themselves. And now I don't really feel like ever watching Abarangers.

[Bastila]

Hmm... interesting. An entire Episode where the Dino Rangers watch the Sentai version of themselves. And now I don't really feel like ever watching Abarangers.


lol I haven't seen that episode in ages whats it called again??

I like Abaranger it was good.

[Nathan]

The Episode is called 'Lost & Found in Translation'.

[Superman-Prime]

Hmm... interesting. An entire Episode where the Dino Rangers watch the Sentai version of themselves. And now I don't really feel like ever watching Abarangers.

"Lost and Found In Translation". Gosh, that episode sucked.

On other hand, Abaranger was awesome. Why? AbareKiller, PERIOD.

Abare Killer > Pussy Trent.

[Cmill216]

The Episode is called 'Lost & Found in Translation'.

And it's absolutely brilliant. :up:

[Abaddon]

It was lame. They sat there and watched tv the whole episode.:huh:

[Cmill216]

It was lame. They sat there and watched tv the whole episode.:huh:

The very fact that they would actually send-up and salute the show's actual source was pretty neat to me.

[Abaddon]

PRiS should have been the last season.

It was the last decent one.

[Iron Fist]

Oh, I understand. I'm just saying, they had balls in In Space.

I think In Space was the best one. In fact, that season is going to start over again soon. Either tomorrow or Thursday.

[Abaddon]

I think In Space was the best one. In fact, that season is going to start over again soon. Either tomorrow or Thursday.
Carlos got the ****-treament.
The very fact that they would actually send-up and salute the show's actual source was pretty neat to me.

it was cool, but to make an entire episode of it?:down

[Iron Fist]

Carlos got the ****-treament.

LOL, indeed he did. I remember a few episodes. So it's cool that the season is showing again.

[Cmill216]

Overdrive Concept: Awesome. Costumes: Awesome. Casting/Characters: Not too bad, pretty classic all around. So why is this show no good? Because it does nothing with its fodder. These guys remain archetypes, save for perhaps Mack. A little risk taking (which would hardly be a risk at all) and Overdrive could have been the best ever. And a weak sixth ranger seals the deal.

My problem with Overdrive is simple: the whole thing feels lazy.

Hartford seemingly being capable of everything, no real presence of a full fledged organization (ala SPD) capable of managing all of that stuff, and the whole decision to make the Rangers identities public and have them walk around in goofy, unnecessary uniforms even though the only people they come in contact with regularly is a billionare and his butler. And not to mention the utterly useless genetic powers thrown in for no particular reason.

The whole title of "Operation Overdrive" gives the air of a secret goverment organization or department, but all we get is a lame ass deus ex machina mentor and a cast of Rangers who are all mediocre at best.

[RangerKing]

To the person who has no idea what they are talking about Andros and Zhane. They were active in 1996, but not 4 to 5 years previous to Chase Into Space. That would be more like 1 to 2 years.

To the person who said something about Jason Frank and his cost. It had nothing to do with cost. He had a business in California that he could not stay away from for too long. The stuck in suit thing, that's the writers' fault. They should have thought in mind what they could be doing. They could've filmed scenes for episodes before he left or after he came back so that it wouldn't be as a bad as it turned out to be.

At least know your facts before you post.

[Primal Slayer]

To the person who has no idea what they are talking about Andros and Zhane. They were active in 1996, but not 4 to 5 years previous to Chase Into Space. That would be more like 1 to 2 years.


Obviously I put the wrong years since I also stated that they had their powers around the same time the Zeo crew got activated.

[Superman-Prime]

To the person who said something about Jason Frank and his cost. It had nothing to do with cost. He had a business in California that he could not stay away from for too long. The stuck in suit thing, that's the writers' fault. They should have thought in mind what they could be doing. They could've filmed scenes for episodes before he left or after he came back so that it wouldn't be as a bad as it turned out to be.

At least know your facts before you post.

Then I will blame Doug Sloan more. :whatever:

**** Doug Sloan, Bruce Kalish and Disney.

Saban's Sloan Era > Disney's Sloan Era.

EDIT:

I think In Space was the best one. In fact, that season is going to start over again soon. Either tomorrow or Thursday.

Power Rangers in Space will return to Jetix again on August 7.

[RangerKing]

Apprantly Sloan's Plan B was Austin St. John (Jason), but when St. John couldn't do it, Plan B became Plan A.

How could you blame Kalish for something that happened during Dino Thunder? That baffles my mind. I think that the way Tommy was handled during that time, was pretty good.

[TheCorpulent1]

um...thats tricky. As the White Ranger he was only the 6th Ranger for like three episodes. Afterwards he was the leader of the group. When the replacements came in, Tommy, became the guy who took over leadership since Rocky was such a moron.
Tommy's White Ranger was still the odd man out of the 5 primary Ranger colors for that season. He had his own separate zord, just like every other 6th Ranger, too. I'd still count Tommy as the 6th Ranger of the MMPR team after he lost his Green Ranger powers, regardless of the fact that he was also the leader. Hell, given how much more awesome the 6th Rangers are to their counterparts in a lot of seasons, I think the 6th Rangers should be leaders more often.
The Space powers were created before the Zeo powers (or just right around the same time) since Zhane and Andros were Power Rangers for like 4-5 years before the Turbo Rangers made it into space.

But newer teams seem to be weaker then previous ones since they always need major upgrades to help defeat the villan by the end of the season. MMPR-Turbo had no big powerups to their forms (except for the whole metallic thing)

And I hope they stop or cut down on the whole Red Ranger Battlizer thing, they are so useless and are put in now to keep the Red Ranger top boss.
I like power-ups, myself. I just wish they'd show some more diversity in the types of power-ups. Instead of new and innovative power-ups each season, we get a Red Battlizer, maybe some upgraded modes for the main Rangers, and usually some special power-up for the 6th Ranger. I applaud Dino Thunder for giving the Blue Ranger a unique power-up in the form of his hovercycle and Lightspeed Rescue for extending Battlizer-esque armors to the Blue and Green Rangers. We need to see more of that kind of thing instead of the same old, same old power-ups for Reds and 6ths. More innovation in PR in general would be nice. There's a reason why some people were able to come up with an "everyplot" template for every PR episode/season on Wikipedia. There's almost nothing new from season to season other than the theme that the powers are based off of.
Carlos got the ****-treament.
I don't get what you mean about Carlos. I thought he was pretty good in PRiS. Better than in Turbo, at least.

[RangerKing]

That's exactly what we need. The Defender Vest is an excellent example. I only remember Mack and Adam (who doesn't count) and maybe Will ever using it, despite all the rangers are supposed to.

I like the group power-ups, but I think one time they need a team battilizer. The closest we got to that was Carter, Joel, and Chad getting a battilizer/mega battle.

[Abaddon]

I don't get what you mean about Carlos. I thought he was pretty good in PRiS. Better than in Turbo, at least.

He had a decent role in Turbo, and even a bit of a romance with Ashley. In space, he was pushed to the background and was easily the least developed character.

[TheCorpulent1]

Eh, I actually liked him more in Space. He got developed in Space, just not in a particularly impressive way. His Space arc was more about him being pushed to the background and not feeling useful, culminating in "Always a Chance."

Either way, I don't think Carlos was the best of the bunch in either Turbo or Space. I liked Cassie's infatuation with the Phantom Ranger and TJ's development into a solid tactician in Space more.
That's exactly what we need. The Defender Vest is an excellent example. I only remember Mack and Adam (who doesn't count) and maybe Will ever using it, despite all the rangers are supposed to.

I like the group power-ups, but I think one time they need a team battilizer. The closest we got to that was Carter, Joel, and Chad getting a battilizer/mega battle.
That's another area where the lack of sustained plot threads/characters harms the current series, in my opinion. A team Battlizer would be great, but the last time we had anything like that was the armored modes for the MMPR Rangers, and that was after two and a half years of both the Rangers and Zedd and Rita upping the power ante on each side. How do you establish a credible threat that's far enough beyond anything that's come before (since almost every other season got by just fine with only a Red Battlizer) that it justifies Battlizers for every Ranger on the team, and move the central plot along, and develop all of the characters, and develop the villains, etc. in only one season?

[Bastila]

The Episode is called 'Lost & Found in Translation'.

Thats the one!

Thanks downloading it now :D

[RangerKing]

. A team Battlizer would be great, but the last time we had anything like that was the armored modes for the MMPR Rangers

Umm Lights of Orion, Super Dino Mode, S.W.A.T. Mode, Legend Mode?

[nogap87]

Tommy's White Ranger was still the odd man out of the 5 primary Ranger colors for that season. He had his own separate zord, just like every other 6th Ranger, too. I'd still count Tommy as the 6th Ranger of the MMPR team after he lost his Green Ranger powers, regardless of the fact that he was also the leader. Hell, given how much more awesome the 6th Rangers are to their counterparts in a lot of seasons, I think the 6th Rangers should be leaders more often.

While I do agree that some 6th Rangers are hands down better for leadership than their team mates, I hated the fact that Zordon made Tommy the leader when he became the White Ranger. Jason was one of the best leaders PR ever had and Tommy was just that really powerful guy that always showed up late. If they really had to make Tommy the leader I wish they would have waited until the "Power Tranfer". At least I would have accepted Red not being the leader since Rocky was useless in that era.

[November Rain]

Umm Lights of Orion, Super Dino Mode, S.W.A.T. Mode, Legend Mode?
lights of orion rules all other modes...

[7alex]

I used to love watching the power rangers. I think everything after season 1 sucked though. The movie was AWESOME!

[November Rain]

i remember they had that kid that took over from rocky in turbo, i wonder if he could come back and do a cameo green ranger appearance.

he was annoying as a kid but maybe as an adult, he could come back more refined and add some more to his short term and probably overlooked power ranger career.

[TheCorpulent1]

Umm Lights of Orion, Super Dino Mode, S.W.A.T. Mode, Legend Mode?
Yeah, I forgot about those. Those aren't nearly as impressive as an actual team set of Battlizers would be, though. If the Battlizers are actual Battlizers and not some watered-down version, each Ranger would be pretty much a walking (and, more often than not, flying) tank.

[Justice Bringer]

Lightspeed came the closest to that; Carter, Chad and Joel all had armored powerups.

The females will never get them though (for the sake of the toys) ; but I wouldnt mind seeing what they did in LSR again.

[TheCorpulent1]

They could at least try it on the whole team and see if the girls' toys sell before writing it off completely. :o

[Abaddon]

i remember they had that kid that took over from rocky in turbo, i wonder if he could come back and do a cameo green ranger appearance.

he was annoying as a kid but maybe as an adult, he could come back more refined and add some more to his short term and probably overlooked power ranger career.

He was the Blue Ranger, and he should never be mentioned again.:o

[Keymaker]

I love Power Rangers when I was a kid, but I re-watched some episodes from the first seasons a few years ago and I was amazed how this show has lasted for so long given how repetitive it is :woot:

[TheCorpulent1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_rangers#Plot_sequence

I liked it more when they called it an "everyplot," but there it is. :)

[Primal Slayer]

Seeing as though they dont even bother releasing that many girl ranger toys anyway, they could still give them some kind of distinctive power-up. Or just give them power-ups and just put them on the boy toys and recolor them.

They couldve given Jen the powerup in TF then when the toys come out, just give red the power up.

[TheCorpulent1]

But that wouldn't match the show. That would've made me antsy if I were a kid.

[Primal Slayer]

ya I know, its just a wishful thought.

[Sam Fisher]

Seeing as though they dont even bother releasing that many girl ranger toys anyway, they could still give them some kind of distinctive power-up. Or just give them power-ups and just put them on the boy toys and recolor them.

They couldve given Jen the powerup in TF then when the toys come out, just give red the power up.There was a PR Barbie{Yellow and Pink}:csad:

[November Rain]

I love Power Rangers when I was a kid, but I re-watched some episodes from the first seasons a few years ago and I was amazed how this show has lasted for so long given how repetitive it is :woot:
alot of shows from the early 90s or 80s directed at children were incredibly repetitive.

it was just what was done at the time, i guess they weren't made for repeat viewing or with long story arcs in mind so anyone can come in and pick up what was going on. Children in the west aren't known for wanting complex character arcs in their morning cartoons, not at that time in history. It came a lil later but still in comparison to anime, western cartoons are still way behind.

[Justice Bringer]

Girls dont deserve powerups anyways. Misogeny rules.

[ihateusernames]

the girls should get skimpyer costumes, where most skin is on show, as part of the battlizer.

man, they always seem to throw a hot girl into the bad guys team now, who resmebles a human.

[TheCorpulent1]

alot of shows from the early 90s or 80s directed at children were incredibly repetitive.

it was just what was done at the time, i guess they weren't made for repeat viewing or with long story arcs in mind so anyone can come in and pick up what was going on. Children in the west aren't known for wanting complex character arcs in their morning cartoons, not at that time in history. It came a lil later but still in comparison to anime, western cartoons are still way behind.
That's true, but Transformers turned into the much deeper Beast Wars, The Super-Friends turned into the much deeper B:TAS/S:TAS/JL/JLU, and a lot of other cartoons got a lot more mature and robust in their storytelling styles. Power Rangers is one of the few that hasn't matured much. It looked like it might start to a bit with the death of Kendrix in LG and then a lot of the elements from Time Force, but then Disney brought all of that development to a grinding halt and returned it to the simple, plot-by-numbers show it began as.

[November Rain]

the disney co-op is generally geared towards a general younger audience than most cartoons me thinks..

although wasn't gargoyles made by disney, that was ****ing intense

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, but that was back in Disney's heyday. Now they kind of suck. Plus, I think Gargoyles was pitched right from the start as a mature action series, whereas PR had just started to stray down the path to more maturity when Disney took it over.

[PyroChamber]

Has anyone ever noticed that when it comes to DVDs and Disney, it's not just Power Rangers that get the shaft but all of Disney's most popular shows?

Disney never releases full season DVD sets for any of their shows, just 4 episode DVD volumes.

[TheCorpulent1]

A lot of children's shows are like that. The 2003 TMNT series didn't get boxed sets, for example.

[GL1]

That's true, but Transformers turned into the much deeper Beast Wars, The Super-Friends turned into the much deeper B:TAS/S:TAS/JL/JLU, and a lot of other cartoons got a lot more mature and robust in their storytelling styles. Power Rangers is one of the few that hasn't matured much. It looked like it might start to a bit with the death of Kendrix in LG and then a lot of the elements from Time Force, but then Disney brought all of that development to a grinding halt and returned it to the simple, plot-by-numbers show it began as.

Nail on the head...

[Primal Slayer]

That's true, but Transformers turned into the much deeper Beast Wars, The Super-Friends turned into the much deeper B:TAS/S:TAS/JL/JLU, and a lot of other cartoons got a lot more mature and robust in their storytelling styles. Power Rangers is one of the few that hasn't matured much. It looked like it might start to a bit with the death of Kendrix in LG and then a lot of the elements from Time Force, but then Disney brought all of that development to a grinding halt and returned it to the simple, plot-by-numbers show it began as.

Except that all basically happened in the 90s and now everything is going downhill again with everything becoming kid friendly again. Look at what we got after BeastWars/Beast Machines, a transformers series that wasnt nearly as deep or good. Batman and Spider have also become mroe kid friendly and slightly less mature.

[Catman]

I think everything after season 1 sucked though.

It's fair to say that most people feel that way. Hence why the show is no longer what it used to be popularity-wise.

i remember they had that kid that took over from rocky in turbo

Justin. Let's never talk about him again!

this show has lasted for so long given how repetitive it is

Thats the aspect of the show that I hate the most!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_rangers#Plot_sequence

I liked it more when they called it an "everyplot," but there it is. :)

This is why I think Gung Ho is the second best PR episode. (The first being the Green With Evil saga) Gung Ho is one of the few episodes that doesn't follow the formula!

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alot of shows from the early 90s or 80s directed at children were incredibly repetitive.

Cartoons have ALWAYS been repetitive. This goes back to the Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd cartoons of the 1940s. What the creators focus on is either making it as funny as possible (Pinky & The Brain) or as action-packed as possible (Power Rangers).

[TheCorpulent1]

Except that all basically happened in the 90s and now everything is going downhill again with everything becoming kid friendly again. Look at what we got after BeastWars/Beast Machines, a transformers series that wasnt nearly as deep or good. Batman and Spider have also become mroe kid friendly and slightly less mature.
Yeah, it's definitely cyclical. I'm looking forward to the next move towards maturity.
This is why I think Gung Ho is the second best PR episode. (The first being the Green With Evil saga) Gung Ho is one of the few episodes that doesn't follow the formula!
Yeah, the episodes where they have to come up with some way to explain weird stuff in the sentai footage, like that one with the missing Red Ranger, tend to be pretty fun because they defy some of the conventions.

[Catman]

Yeah, the episodes where they have to come up with some way to explain weird stuff in the sentai footage, like that one with the missing Red Ranger, tend to be pretty fun because they defy some of the conventions.

Gung Ho is great because there is no monster and megazord battle. The entire episode is Tommy and Jason finding the weapons that can destroy the Super Putties. Then, trying to win that tournament. It's amazing that after 15 yrs, Gung Ho, is still one of the most unique PR episodes.

[TheCorpulent1]

Amazing or sad, depending on how you look at it.

[Catman]

Amazing or sad, depending on how you look at it.

Sad would be the better word. PR's biggest flaw is that it keeps repeating itself. How many times do we have to see the command center being destroyed? How many times do we have to see the megazords being destroyed? How many times do we have to see the Rangers losing their powers?

The great thing about the Green With Evil episodes and Gung Ho is that they did it first. In the Green With Evil saga it was the first time we saw an Evil Ranger, the command center getting destroyed, the Rangers getting their ass whooped, a Ranger getting kidnapped, the megazord being destroyed, etc. These are stuff that we've seen a million times over the past 15 yrs but GWE did it first and best.

Gung Ho was the first (and one of the few) to stay away from the forumla.

[TheCorpulent1]

I think the Psycho Rangers were the best evil Rangers, myself. Yes, even better than Tommy.

[Catman]

I think the Psycho Rangers were the best evil Rangers, myself. Yes, even better than Tommy.

I enjoyed the Psycho Ranger saga, but it was a case of quantity not quality. Tommy did more damage to the Rangers than the Psycho Rangers did to Space Rangers.

[TheCorpulent1]

I liked the Psycho Rangers' story more. I also liked their costumes.

[Bastila]

Psycho Rangers' where good.


But A-Squad I liked as well as they weren't forced to be evil like Tommy or under a spell or created to be evil.

They made a CHOICE to be evil and be on the bad side which you don't see a lot of and I liked that about there story.

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, the A-Squad's moral ambiguity was nice. Ham-fisted, but it was nice to at least see that normal people could and would choose to be bad sometimes in the PR universe.

[Bastila]

Yeah, the A-Squad's moral ambiguity was nice. Ham-fisted, but it was nice to at least see that normal people could and would choose to be bad sometimes in the PR universe.

Yep I liked those episodes was a cool season ending, also they had a female red so I was like Oh Yeah! about time! Disney made the first step into maybe one day getting a female red.

[TheCorpulent1]

Nah, there's never going to be a major female Red Ranger. Sentai hasn't done it in, what, 25 or 30 years? Disney's not gonna spend the money to make their own for a whole season, either.

[Bastila]

Nah, there's never going to be a major female Red Ranger. Sentai hasn't done it in, what, 25 or 30 years? Disney's not gonna spend the money to make their own for a whole season, either.

Well I did say maybe one day there is hope and I hope there will be one day and just because Sentai doesn't, doesn't mean Disney doesn't have to.

Look at TF yellow she was a girl SS one was male and also in WF as well so who knows.

But I like to hope and Disney made a first step by making A-Squad red a girl.

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, I guess they could pull the gender-switcharoo that they often do on Yellow Rangers with a Red Ranger. It'd look more awkward since the Red Rangers are always front and center all the time, though. Yellows you can kind of ignore the fact that they're blatantly not women. Reds? I don't know.

[Bastila]

Yeah, I guess they could pull the gender-switcharoo that they often do on Yellow Rangers with a Red Ranger. It'd look more awkward since the Red Rangers are always front and center all the time, though. Yellows you can kind of ignore the fact that they're blatantly not women. Reds? I don't know.

I know but kids wont notice too much, but we will, but you can tell in TF that Yellow is male in parts so who cares really, but some action parts they film themselves so it could work.

Its only the action scenes when they morph that matters so I would still go ahead and make a female red.

[TheCorpulent1]

We can always hope.

[Abaddon]

The Psycho Rangers were cool, though I kinda wished they would've shown them in their human forms more often.

[Catman]

kids wont notice too much

In the case of Trini I think kids didn't notice cause she was flat-chested. :o Had the Pink Ranger been a guy kids would have said, "what happened to her boobs?" :o :o :csad:

[TheCorpulent1]

Also, since the Pink Ranger was about 5 feet tall, I imagine they would've wondered how she grew almost a foot, too.

[Primal Slayer]

ya the Psycho Rangers were one of the best villans of the shows history, and they wouldve killed the Space Rangers and Galaxy Rangers if they didnt fight so much. And they were some of the best Ranger suits. If they could find a good story to bring them back I wouldve been all up for it.

To bad we wont be getting anymore Zyu2 like footage that we did for MMPR S2-3, it gave the show a lot more creative freedom.

[Catman]

To bad we wont be getting anymore Zyu2 like footage that we did for MMPR S2-3

FYI, zyu2 was only for the second half of season one and the first half of season two. But, anyway, zyu2 was the best since the incorported the American characterization.

[Justice Bringer]

All the yellow ranger sex change. It was the least believeable in LG;

http://upload.moldova.org/movie/actors/c/cerina_vincent/thumbnails/tn2_cerina_vincent_1.jpg

to this

http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Lot/2353/Image35.JPG

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, that chick had some massive boobs while the sentai Yellow Ranger was pretty buff.

[Abaddon]

The boobage turns into muscle when she morphs.

[TheCorpulent1]

That's a lot of muscle.

[Abaddon]

yup, works the same as it did for that godforsaken kid ranger and his increased height and body mass.

[TheCorpulent1]

Oh yeah. I always wanted to see Justin take off his helmet while he was morphed. :D

[Abaddon]

I always wanted to see him get replaced.

[TheCorpulent1]

Well, besides that.

[ihateusernames]

has anything come out form the new show yet? clips or anything?
I really didn't like Mystic Force... it had it's moments, but it wasn't that memorable overall I thought.

[TheCorpulent1]

Xander and Madison made Mystic Force all right for me. I also liked the Solaris Knight. The Koragg/Leanbow subplot would've been cool if it weren't quite so obvious.

[ihateusernames]

Yeah, thats why it felt lack luster to me, I saw everything coming.
I know it's a kids show, and I understand that, but... come on, the dragon being the batleizer... Nick (was it Nick?) not knowing it was connected to him.
Solaris Knight was good!, and Xander was also a toralble guy for me, plus, green generally is my favourite Ranger (favourite colour, yes, I'm baised).

Does anyone else not like "man made" Ranger powers? I hate the fact that the police force in S.P.D could just make morphers and stuff, it has perks, but I'd rather have 5 random people just stumble across the power, and be thrown into a world of war and such.

[TheCorpulent1]

I'm not particularly fond of the man-made powers. Functionally they're the same, but just knowing that they came from some normal, human egghead kind of detracts from the coolness of the Rangers.

[ihateusernames]

Exactly, it's like, anyone could become a Ranger, ala - S.P.D.
You had the A-Squad and B-Squad.
All trained, all superb fighters in their own right.

But how much cooler is it for a kid to just come across a morpher? or be chosen by some godly head, just because they know you'll "do the right thing".

Thinking about it, I hate the man made Morphers.

[TheCorpulent1]

I hate any morphers that look like cell phones, too. :up:

[Trainwreck2100]

Exactly, it's like, anyone could become a Ranger, ala - S.P.D.
You had the A-Squad and B-Squad.
All trained, all superb fighters in their own right.

But how much cooler is it for a kid to just come across a morpher? or be chosen by some godly head, just because they know you'll "do the right thing".

Thinking about it, I hate the man made Morphers.


That actually turned me of from LR. I ended up watching it later, but didn't watch more that 4 episodes on it's first run. As for mystic force. The "I believe in magic" community thing was just stupid

[Abaddon]

They had man-made morphers in Wild Force as well, didn't they?:

[TheCorpulent1]

I thought they had ancient mentor-made morphers or something. I can deal with Zordon or another ancient, powerful human or humanoid being making the morphers. But normal, present-day corporations or law enforcement agencies like Lightspeed Rescue or the Operation Overdrive thing... meh. I also found it kind of lame that Tommy and Mercer made their own zords.

[ihateusernames]

I'd love if a new Ranger comic came out, only like, for adults. I'm suprised disney haven't thought of it before really, they have the children mags and stuff, but if they made a partnership with Marvel, DC, or someone, they could come up with something really special.

[TheCorpulent1]

I'd love a PR comic. I already have the perfect penciler for it: Karl Kerschl.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v71/thecorpulent1/bart-flash-kerschl.png

He's a fantastic artist and he draws figures that aren't too muscular and look like actual (cartoony) people in suits.

[ihateusernames]

The zords throw me off a little sometimes, I don't quite understand how they work.

I mean, they call upon them, and they have been "living" for thousands of years, or hiding... so, does that mean they are alive? like say a Transformer? only they have a cockpit for someone to take over?

I hated in Mystic force, the way the Rangers turned into Zords, that was ****ing stupid.

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, the zords always seemed retarded to me. They're supposed to be living (sometimes even sentient) creatures, but they always have conveniently hollowed out heads and control mechanisms or something. Someone needs to just come out and say that the zords are definitively robots, period.

[ihateusernames]

I'd love a PR comic. I already have the perfect penciler for it: Karl Kerschl.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v71/thecorpulent1/bart-flash-kerschl.png

He's a fantastic artist and he draws figures that aren't too muscular and look like actual (cartoony) people in suits.
He'd be great.
I love it, Imagin a Ranger ongoing that actually had suprising plot lines, hufe twists, love that actually took off over than a smile or asking someone to mind something thats close to them, even death would be great in it.

It has so much potential, 5 random people form around the world are chosen, and are forced to work together.

Why hasn't it been done yet?!

[TheCorpulent1]

Money again.

[ihateusernames]

I don't mind that the zords are living, in fact, the zords being destoyed are the closest thing to a "death" in the show, so the fact they are living means the rangers have lost a friend or something, and I do feel for them when I think they're alive, such as MMPR, when they are destroyed.

But Zords like S.P.D are like... "meh... big wow, they'll have another one right round the corner"

I remember being a kid and seeing the dino zords in MMPR being destroyed, and I remember actually thinking "holy crap!, what was like... the last chance they had!", the feeling of despaire I felt when that happened was strange for a kids show to do to someone.

[TheCorpulent1]

The Lost Galaxy zords were the only living zords I actually cared at all about. I thought the original dinozords were just robots. They certainly looked robotic.

[ihateusernames]

I thought they where too, until the dragonzord and the other zord came along (I can't rememeber his name, he was a diplodocus I think), thats when they started saying "they have been hiding for thousands of years" and such, I think.

[TheCorpulent1]

Meh, they're still robots. The Dragonzord isn't hiding now; it's inactive because no one's got a power coin to activate it or pilot it.

[ihateusernames]

Eh, I dunno...
I hate vehicle zords though.

[TheCorpulent1]

I prefer them. The Turbozords were some of my favorites. I think the Astro Megaship was actually my favorite zord ever.

[Kal-El 8]

One of the worst moments in PR history:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMplxUKQzBM

Absolutely What a load of Mega BS .

[ihateusernames]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgJlv9KxIsQ&mode=related&search=

is the bad guy with half a human face and a half a metal mouth plate supposed to be Lord Zed?

[Primal Slayer]

No thats Zedds and Ritas son who didnt inherit the cool evil gene.

[ihateusernames]

I just looked him up on Wikipedia.
Thrax, eh?
What a n00b.

[Cmill216]

I really didn't like Mystic Force... it had it's moments, but it wasn't that memorable overall I thought.

Despite spending way too much time on Nick in the middle of the season, I think Mystic Force is pretty underrated. I thought the cast had solid chemistry, the Koragg/Nick fights were always ace, and it did some things arc-wise that were sorely missing in the near storyless seasons that Disney had offered before it.

[Catman]

All the yellow ranger sex change. It was the least believeable in LG;

http://upload.moldova.org/movie/actors/c/cerina_vincent/thumbnails/tn2_cerina_vincent_1.jpg

to this

http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Lot/2353/Image35.JPG

:wow: :wow: :wow:

[TheCorpulent1]

Despite spending way too much time on Nick in the middle of the season, I think Mystic Force is pretty underrated. I thought the cast had solid chemistry, the Koragg/Nick fights were always ace, and it did some things arc-wise that were sorely missing in the near storyless seasons that Disney had offered before it.
The Styxoids looked pretty cool, too.

[ihateusernames]

I just felt that mystic force was very "disney", with the whole "I believe in magic"
Don't get me wrong, I watched pretty much every episode and did get into it, I just didn't enjoy it as much as the others.

[Sam Fisher]

So is the reason they created the White Ranger in MMPR was because the Green Ranger died in Sental?

[Sam Fisher]

Check these out.

http://www.hero-show.com/machines/060205/index.html
http://www.hero-show.com/robots/060722/555.html
http://www.hero-show.com/robots/060722/aba.html

http://www.hero-show.com/

[TheCorpulent1]

So is the reason they created the White Ranger in MMPR was because the Green Ranger died in Sental?
It was because they ran out of the sentai footage from the season that the Green Ranger was a part of. The White Ranger was the next sentai series' sixth guy. That's also why the other Rangers went from their dinozords to the Thunderzords--the Thunderzords were the zords (or whatever they call them in the sentai) for the same sentai as the White Ranger.

[Nathan]

It was because they ran out of the sentai footage from the season that the Green Ranger was a part of.

Didn't they make up their own footage anyway? The White Ranger was from a total different Ranger Team. The White Ranger was part of the Dairangers, while all the original MMPR footage was taken from the Zyurangers. So long story short, all the footage with the MMPR and White Ranger fighting together was original american footage. So if they would've wanted to, they could've kept the Green ranger and just put him into the Tiger Zord.

But maybe they thought Green doesn't mix with white. =/

[November Rain]

i think it's cheaper to film the fight footage on ground rather than all the other zord based stuff.

they pretty much filmed at least half the fight scenes (out of costume) in that era anywho so it wouldn't have been too far a stretch.

[Nathan]

Just for fun. The Original White Ranger, better known as KibaRanger. :woot:

http://www.supersentai.com/database/1993_dairanger/images/dai-rg-kou.jpg

[Bastila]

See I thought he was ok as a kid kind of ranger


The PR try that and create Justin - ew!

[TheCorpulent1]

Justin was just an annoying human being. It didn't really have anything to do with the fact that he was a kid.
Didn't they make up their own footage anyway? The White Ranger was from a total different Ranger Team. The White Ranger was part of the Dairangers, while all the original MMPR footage was taken from the Zyurangers. So long story short, all the footage with the MMPR and White Ranger fighting together was original american footage. So if they would've wanted to, they could've kept the Green ranger and just put him into the Tiger Zord.

But maybe they thought Green doesn't mix with white. =/
Yeah, the White Ranger came from Dairanger and the original MMPRs from Zyuranger. Thanks, I can never remember the sentai names.

Anyway, they did indeed make a lot of American footage, but it would've been less feasible to just put the Green Ranger into the Tigerzord because 1) the colors don't match and 2) there's still a lot of sentai footage where the White Ranger is visible riding on the Tigerzord or in its cockpit. Personally, I'm glad for the White Ranger. The PR creators took the move to the Dairanger sentai footage and spun it into a pretty awesome story for Tommy.

[Cmill216]

You know, I swore off watching anything from Wild Force after I saw the premiere episode a while back (it was THAT bad). But I caught an episode on Jetix last night.

I know Power Rangers will never be a haven for talented, up and coming actors, but WHAT...THE....HELL? I was laughing my ass off at every line. Good god, Wild Force has to be the worst season of the franchise. I just don't know how you can argue for it.

[TheCorpulent1]

I wouldn't argue it. I'd put Wild Force even below Turbo.

[November Rain]

You know, I swore off watching anything from Wild Force after I saw the premiere episode a while back (it was THAT bad). But I caught an episode on Jetix last night.

I know Power Rangers will never be a haven for talented, up and coming actors, but WHAT...THE....HELL? I was laughing my ass off at every line. Good god, Wild Force has to be the worst season of the franchise. I just don't know how you can argue for it.
maybe they made it bad on purpose so forever red would be amazing, although forever red did suck when cole decided to fly into the mouth of sepentera, that was ****ing lame as...

what an anti climax to an awesome ep...

[TheCorpulent1]

At least the rest of the episode was awesome. That made up for it a bit.

Oh, don't forget about the Time Force team-up with Wild Force. That was also quite good. Apparently Wild Force is only good for team-ups. :o

[Cmill216]

At least the rest of the episode was awesome. That made up for it a bit.

Oh, don't forget about the Time Force team-up with Wild Force. That was also quite good. Apparently Wild Force is only good for team-ups. :o

True. But that was really all of the Time Force team's doing.

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, they were vastly more competent throughout that episode. Eric and Wes alone could've probably handled everything until the rest of the Time Force Rangers arrived. :oldrazz:

[Bastila]

I wouldn't argue it. I'd put Wild Force even below Turbo.

For me thjere above only as Time Force saved there ass fomr botton place on my list lol.

The only thing good in WF was the team up and Taylor was ok as well.

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, but as cmill mentioned, the team-ups were mostly good because of the non-Wild Force Rangers. Turbo at least had some great characters. It was the last season with Tommy, Adam, and Kat, and the first with TJ, Cassie, Carlos, and Ashley (although I wasn't too fond of Ashley). Plus, I liked Turbo's zords more than Wild Force's semi-sentient zoid-a-palooza.

[November Rain]

At least the rest of the episode was awesome. That made up for it a bit.

Oh, don't forget about the Time Force team-up with Wild Force. That was also quite good. Apparently Wild Force is only good for team-ups. :o
what ep is that, i need to watch it pronto...

[Bastila]

what ep is that, i need to watch it pronto...

Reinforments from the future - 2 epsiodes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqfmnrvwF_8

Not sure if I did it write so here it is in a link form. - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqfmnrvwF_8


Cool clip :D

[TheCorpulent1]

Haha, I loved how Jen actually kicked more ass without her Ranger powers there. :D

[Cmill216]

Best...female...ranger...EVER.

[Bastila]

Haha, I loved how Jen actually kicked more ass without her Ranger powers there. :D

Me to, I got some GIF's of that scene as well I thought it was one of the coolest entrance a ranger has ever had.

[PyroChamber]

I wouldn't argue it. I'd put Wild Force even below Turbo.Is it true that Wild Force was almost going to be that last Power Rangers season? Because I heard once that that was the reason the season finale was called The End of the Power Rangers.

[TheCorpulent1]

I don't know. Wild Force is the last season Saban had any involvement with, though.

[November Rain]

Me to, I got some GIF's of that scene as well I thought it was one of the coolest entrance a ranger has ever had.
the only thing cooler than that is andros' entrance and complete pwning of psycho red without his morpher in 'to the 11th power' which is probably my all time favourite power ranger ep.

that wildforce ep was really just a season finale for timeforce...

i can't believe they gave that saga a whole two eps and gave forever red only one.

not only that but the end fights in part two kinda sucked, especially after hyping jen up so much, she didn't even really get a good go at the big bads...

she should have been the ranger to turn the tide in battle.

ep 1 was far far superior.

[Justice Bringer]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcZ51ybwBPM

Haha this is jokes. JDF is the next Kevin Smith.

[November Rain]

dude should do stand up

[TheCorpulent1]

the only thing cooler than that is andros' entrance and complete pwning of psycho red without his morpher in 'to the 11th power' which is probably my all time favourite power ranger ep.
I loved Andros' entrance. You know, before I watched PRiS, I pretty much hated Andros. But once I learned what the character was all about and saw his badass, lone Ranger (multiple puns!) entrance in "Chase into Space," he quickly wound up becoming my favorite Red Ranger. :up:

[November Rain]

WHAAAAAAAAAA???!?!!??!

how coudl anyone hate andros?

He is like the ultimate ranger and would clearly **** up anyone that stood in his path regardless, he'd *****slap eric and ask him who his daddy is.

i mean taking out a psycho ranger....Powerless. That's like butt****ing god without a condom.

:eek:

[TheCorpulent1]

Haha, I don't know about Eric. I think he might just overwhelm Andros. But they're both up there in the "most badass Rangers" category.

[ihateusernames]

Which series was Eric from?

[TheCorpulent1]

Time Force. He was the Quantum Ranger.

[November Rain]

Haha, I don't know about Eric. I think he might just overwhelm Andros. But they're both up there in the "most badass Rangers" category.
well they have both shown to be badass outside of their powers and eric does have better powers than andros and is also a loner but andros fought in wars so i give him the edge based purely on experience.

edit: i'm trying to find the episode you're talking about. chase into space is the finale of turbo, andros isn't in it unless i'm mistaken, which one are you talking about?

[TheCorpulent1]

Oh, sorry. I meant "From Out of Nowhere," the PRiS series premiere. The part where Andros is hiding in that long, hooded robe at the meeting of the villains, then gets revealed, crashes their meeting, and escapes on his Galaxy Glider.

[November Rain]

there's another scene where he does a similar thing in a saloon bar, do you know what episode that is from?