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Has Power Rangers lost its edge?
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11-26-2016, 02:11 AM
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TokuKnight89
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Kickback
The biggest issue that the Power Rangers franchise suffers from right now, this very instant, is the whole schtick about trying to "recapture Mighty Morphin".
Many franchises have tried to "recapture the original magic" and most fail. From Star Trek-to-Star Wars-to-Nightmare on Elm Street! You can't recreate the original, and you would hope that Saban (and Hollywood in general) could see that!
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But don't kid yourself - the issues that plagued Samurai/Super Samurai also stem from Jonathon Tzachor and his love for Sentai translation. He always believed the way Power Rangers should be handled is "translating the Sentai", much like Bruce Kalish did post-SPD. We literally have lines from Emily in Samurai that, if you take the same lines from Shinkenger (written in kanji) and throw them in to Google Translate, YOU GET WORD FOR WORD WHAT SHE SAID. I mean, we even had Kevin imposed on to a Sentai scene so it didn't have to be re-shot.
As good and as different as Sentai is, you cannot fully port everything on Earth! There are similarities between the two nations which many don't see, but there also fundamental differences and one of the reasons Mighty Morphin' was initially different as a whole was because Zyu was too different to translate. They even mentioned this in the Shout Factory Bonus Discs!
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Kickback
With Megaforce, the show tried to recapture Mighty Morphin and pay homage to it with the high school setting and the same colors being the same type of character tropes. Megaforce, for all its flaws, was actually well written (you can't help that some of the actors couldn't act). But those writers were removed and the original Samurai writers brought back in for Super Megaforce. That's why in Super Megaforce you see more "line for line" translation in the story as opposed to creating new stories.
Super Megaforce, which dropped the Gokaiger pirate references, is "line for line"?
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Kickback
With Dino Charge, you see a heavy influence of Chip Lynn as the head writer. In fact, a majority of the episodes in Dino Charge are written by Chip Lynn. That's reflected in the episodes and what many call "stereotypical Chip" in terms of the story and the character dialogue. However, Chip is also working up Becca Barnes to take over the helm of writing on Power Rangers. In Dino Supercharge, Chip was the main writer on only important "new Ranger/new villain/new power-up" episodes. All the others, including the finale, Becca is the head writer.
Keep Lynn as the go-to forever more! Unless something happens in his personal life that can't be ignored or someone else is given a turn and proves to be equally competent, keep Lynn forever more!
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Heckyl is cast out of Sledge's ship and is now a good guy? You need to show it, not just tell the audience and have him save Shelby once. Lord Arcanon shows up after ONE mention from Singe a couple episodes prior? That feels incredibly shoe-horned, like someone said "Hey, we need to add this scene so he doesn't just show up". Kendall becomes a Power Ranger and literally does LESS than she did before. Tyler's reunion with his father was one of the worst told stories in Power Rangers. You want to talk about the show spoon-feeding you how important this is without actually making it feel important? There you go. WITH NO RESOLUTION.
James as Aqua was let-down and didn't have the "punch" it needed! There was even an interview with the KyoryuCyan actor and asking him if he would port his character over to PR with him included! It would've been nice if they went that route! Even having James takeover as Silver and follow Kyoryuger would've been good!
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Kickback
And you want to know how rehearsed your heroes are? Having been in the room with them as they are re-prepped for interviews they are literally told how to sit, who sits next to who, who has what lines to say and what things are not okay to say, and one emphasis is to always mention Mighty Morphin and make sure if you have a favorite Ranger it's always good to name an original one.
That feels borderline sickening! As if your devotion to a franchise and the paycheck is hinged on: "Favorite Original Show Character?"
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Kickback
If you're going to give us Mighty Morphin, you should have given us the Kyoryuger/Zyuranger/Abaranger scenes from GoBuster vs Kyoryuger. If you're going to give us Mighty Morphin, cave in to the actors' demands and pay them so the fans can have that reunion they all desperately want. Use it to tie up all the loose ends.
As we all know, we won't get a true Season 1 Mighty Morphin' Reunion as we so often envision! Plus, isn't there still some conflict with SAG Actors in Non-SAG productions! Aren't some of the Mighty Morphin' people SAG now?!
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Kickback
I love Power Rangers. I'll give Ninja Steel a shot. But after 6 years of disappointment, a couple glimmers of hope only to be shot back down to the same place I was before, I don't have much hope left. Obviously, when Saban was trying to save the series after the original Mighty Morphin, it was "all hands on deck do whatever you have to pay to bring back this or that actor" (Jason was brought back for Zeo to boost ratings, and part of the deal was for him to have a role in the next movie, hence his appearance in Turbo Movie).
25th anniversary?
Probably a clip show.
Ninja Steel should have its chance based on love and support, not hatred for the "most recent let-down"! Saban was obviously convinced years ago that the end of Mighty Morphin' was the end of everything, and that to save his franchise he had to regain the ol' actors and ol' magic that everyone loved and which PR used to make its "bones off of"! In theory, and despite evidence which contradicts Saban's own, he still seems to believe this!
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