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03-30-2017, 03:27 PM | #331 |
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So this thread seems in need of a bump and with the big Twitch stream finally over I've now watched more Power Rangers in a week or two than I have in years (averaging five or so episodes per series). There's a few series in particular I have thoughts on though, so I'm just going to talk about them. Namely the Disney seasons I've never actually seen more than a few episodes of because I stopped following the show for a while after SPD. Speaking of which:
Mystic Force: I'm not really sure what made me stop caring back when it aired but I never got into this show. Maybe it was the theme song. Maybe SPD was just that awesome and it spoiled me. I mean the theme song was definitely part of it though. Anyway, the show itself seems pretty alright. I think if I had given it more of a chance I would've found myself getting into it at the time. And Koragg seems pretty much as cool as Wolzard was in Magiranger, so that's good. Operation Overdrive: I saw the first few episodes and uh, yeah, it's pretty mediocre. I'd have to watch it in full but it seems just barely better than Megaforce? I mean, the cast is way less likable, but not only did OO not hype itself up as a celebration of all things Ranger, it at least got as far as having interesting ideas before f***ing everything up. They even foreshadow the crap out of the big endgame twist with Mack right at the start of the series, showing better long-term storytelling than good ol' Megafarce ever managed. Also I think I like the theme song? It's so bad it loops around into being fun in that cheesy Power Rangers kind of way. Calling these guys "the number one team" is just false advertising though. Jungle Fury: Seems pretty good, to be honest. The final three episodes especially are a really strong, even pretty epic finale overall, even if the very last episode packs in a bit too much fighting for its own good. I mean with dialogue as genuinely amazing as "I'm better than okay. I'm good.", how can you go wrong? The show successfully takes a lot of the elements that made Gekiranger so awesome and does its own thing with them, which is great. Not to mention it has RJ, who might be the greatest PR mentor. He's essentially just some dirty hippie, but he covers all the bases at least as good as the other guys. Wisdom that's actually wise, willing to take to the battlefield himself, not overly stern, the list goes on. Maybe if Gosei had trained under this guy instead of Zordon Megaforce would've been a lot better. RPM: Uh... wow. Let me put it this way, I watched the first four episodes, promptly stopped watching, and decided I'm going to get around to a proper full watch of it sooner rather than later. I don't know how I didn't appreciate this series sooner. It's pure postmodern brilliance. Samurai: I started feeling bad about being so hard on Samurai when it aired, which is a little shocking to me. Maybe it's just the residual Kobayashi making me biased, but I kind of feel like it might secretly be the best Neo-Saban series. Dino Charge has originality going for it, to be sure, and you could VERY easily argue it deserves that title, but Samurai at least remembered you're supposed to get better as you go along, and not worse. Plus its hugely rushed production cycle gives it the most solid excuses for its poor quality out of any of the recent shows. There's just a lot I found myself appreciating way more than I did at the time seeing some of these episodes again. For one the overall atmosphere and pacing of the show seems a little more relaxed and decompressed in a good way. I can't describe it very well but a lot of episodes of the shows since feel very "cramped", which in Megaforce's case is easy to see why but with Dino Charge and Ninja Steel I'm not sure why I'd feel that way. I also thought Bulk and Spike were really lame, but having been exposed to Victor and Monty for eight episodes, suddenly I miss their antics. The whole "becoming samurai" shtick actually captured what made Bulk and Skull the legends they are way better than the comic relief we've gotten since. Bulk is constantly talking about the mental discipline and nobility of being a samurai and stuff like that, wanting to pass those qualities onto Spike, rather than just wanting to hit people with a sword because it's cool or something, showing that genuinely heroic side that makes him such a likable dork in the first place. What's heroic about Victor and Monty? Finally, Antonio is great. I mean, this isn't a new thought, I've felt this way since the second he showed up back in 2011, but man, what a shot in the arm he was for Samurai. He brought a ton of energy and charisma to a show that was frequently very dull, and his whole backstory and personality make him super relatable and super likable. Even his stupid Dora the Explorer speech quirks manage to be endearing. He kind of transcends the mediocre show he's in and might actually be one of my favorite Sixth Rangers, which is pretty crazy. -- So yeah, props to Twitch and Saban for doing the whole marathon thing. It's really restored my enthusiasm for the franchise to a level it hasn't been at in forever, even if it had the unfortunate side effect of reminding me just how much of a slump the show is in right now.
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03-30-2017, 11:26 PM | #332 |
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just been watching som emmpr season 1 and man i been noticing alot of things in show. even to the point when they get kids to look like the japanese character for reason of the sentai footage deffently in the power egg episode.
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03-06-2019, 11:34 PM | #333 |
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Watching Power Rangers for the first time since 05 or 06 with the Beast Morphers premier reminded me how much I used to love the franchise. Decided to try and watch/rewatch the whole series on Netflix. Currently about halfway through Mighty Morphin season 1, and it's just as fun as I remember. I'm so excited to see the entirety of shows that as a kid I was only able to watch whatever episodes I could find on vhs for the 90's stuff, or watched as it aired but still missed seeing episodes for Time Force through SPD
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03-08-2019, 12:42 AM | #334 |
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The Rangers having to choose between saving Tommy's powers or saving his life was a surprisingly dark moment for a very light hearted show. Surprised they actually went through with the status quo change of him loosing his powers. I didn't remember that happening from the scattered episodes I'd watched as a kid, so it came as a legit surprise
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03-17-2019, 01:37 AM | #335 |
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Finished season 1 of Mighty Morphin last night. It's been really great to re-experience this show. The monster of the week episodes are usually fun, though at times a bit repetitive, and the multi-parters are fantastic. The extra time to tell the story, and the heightened stakes involved really take it up a notch. Green with Evil, The Green Candle and Doomsday in particular I really loved. One thing that surprised me was how little Tommy was actually in the first season. I figured after loosing his powers he'd stick around as a civilian ally. He definitely lives up to my memory of being the coolest, so I was disappointed in how he disappeared for a bit. Up next is the introduction of Lord Zedd, who I also remember as being really cool. I'll be excited to see if he lives up to my memory too!
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03-29-2019, 01:55 AM | #336 |
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Finished season 2. It continues to be a really fun watch. Lord Zedd 100% lives up to memory, though he definitely gets a bit less intimidating after the wedding to Rita. Tommy's pretty cool S the white Ranger, though I still prefer green. The three new Rangers, Rocky, Aisha and Adam are mostly cool. Not really a fan of Rocky, his actor doesn't seem to have much in the way of charm, but Adam and Aisha are pretty great. The Thunder Megazord isn't as cool as the original one; I don't remember it as well as I remember the original or the one from the movie with the Falconzord. Similarly, the Tigerrzord isn't as cool as the Dragonzord, but that's pretty hard to beat. Serpenterra was badass, but a bit too OP, meaning it never actually got to do anything unfortunately. Think that's all the new stuff of season 2.
The show was still pretty solid in season 2. Introduced the idea of story arcs outside of multi-parters, with the Tommy loosing his powers storyline and the peace conference storyline. Speaking off that, the show dealing with Jason, Zack and Trini's actors leaving was a bit awkward. The reused footage worked pretty well, but the fill in actors for some of the lines varied dramatically in how well they actually sounded like them, going as far as Trini randomly having a British accent for a sentence. Other then that though, good season. Had a few episodes worse than average, but so did the first. Overall, I'm still enjoying it. Very excited to watch the movie for the first time in a very long time soon. Loved Ivan Ooze as a little kid! Last edited by Fredbob392; 04-07-2019 at 10:46 PM.. |
04-03-2019, 04:48 PM | #337 |
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Finished Super Ninja Steel on DVD recently.
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04-07-2019, 10:45 PM | #338 |
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After just over a month, I've finished Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and Alien Rangers. Season 3 was pretty great. Story felt like it actually had some effort put into it in the second half with the Pink Ranger and Alien Rangers arcs. Heck of a cliffhanger ending to the show the ninja suits were an interesting idea, as was the metallic armor. Ninja zords were cool, I'd remembered then from the movie. Don't remember the Shogun zords though.
As for the new characters, it was a mix of good and bad. I'd completely forgotten who Rito was when they said his name, but I recognized the suit the second it appeared. He was fun for a comic relief villain. Would have been nice if having him around let Goldar become a season 1 style threat again, but unfortunately he's still a bumbling moron now too. Master Vile on the other hand I didn't remember name or suit. He was pretty underwhelming. Not much to say about him. He showed up, failed a couple times, then cut his losses and left. Guess that means he's smarter than Zedd or Rita. Ninjor was disappointing. I remember the suit, and I was excited to see what he'd be like, but his voice was seriously annoying. Not exactly what is expect of a ninja, more of some weird fop. Katherine was great. The idea of someone having lingering effects from Rita's magic was pretty cool, disappointed it's only come up once so far. Her actress is pretty good, even if having a single Australian accent in the middle of a cast of Californian accents is a bit odd. I liked Delphine, was cool to have a woman leading a team. Her and Cestro were the only ones who's names I could remember. Tanya's done so little so far I can't really say anything about her. Oh, and the movie was super fun. Very nostalgic. I watched it on VHS so many times as a kid. Ivan Ooze more than lived in to memory. The movie version of the Mighty Morphin suits were fantastic looking too. Loved the way it made the Dairanger KibaRanger suit blend more with the other Zyuranger suits by putting the coin on everyone's chest. CGI mecha fight was crap though, even for 95 |
04-23-2019, 01:57 AM | #339 |
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Finished Zeo. Overall, it was very ok. It's Rangers were good, Adam Rocky and Tanya got to really shine as characters of their own, not just as replacements for Jason, Zack and Trini, but Tommy ended up getting way too much focus. Speaking of Jason, bringing him back as the Gold Ranger was a cool idea, but they never did much with it. Honestly, I liked Trey as Gold better. Billy was an odd situation. He was my least favorite of the original 5, mainly due to him being the least believable as a teenager. David Yost looked more like someone in his late 30s. Him suddenly turning into an old man and leaving for Aquitar, only healing off screen definitely felt forced. I assume it was another case of the actor leaving unexpectedly.
As for the villains, the Machine Empire was boring. They had no charisma as villains. The Scottish one, Klank I think his name was, and Orbus were fun at least. Gasket and Archerina had potential, but unfortunately they left. Mondo and family getting blown up by Zedd was pretty funny at least. What else is there to say? The plot was fine. It expiremented more in serial story telling instead of pure episodic Monster of the Week, and I appreciate that, but it never seemed to really go anywhere. I don't know, maybe it's just that I never watched much Zeo as a kid, so the lack of nostalgia is making it harder to ignore the fact that it's still just a simple kids show, but I just didn't get that into Zeo. It wasn't bad. The worst of Zeo was better than the worst of Mighty Morphin, but it never seemed to get much better than solidly ok. Hoping Turbo will be better. I remember really loving Turbo as a kid. I definitely remember the villain from the movie, Divatox, being really fun. Hopefully she lives up to memory, and is the villain of the show as well. I think she still was, but I can't remember for certain. |
03-24-2020, 07:17 PM | #340 |
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I'm actually waiting for season 2 of Beast Morphers to wrap up before I binge the whole thing.
I did recently finish up all of Ninja Steel though, and I actually really liked season 1 for the most part. It had some issues, yeah, but it was overall fun and I liked it. Season 2 definitely takes a step down though. I don't hate it or anything, but alot of stuff that made season 1 stand out to me were straight up dropped, and it was just weaker as a season overall. Appreciated the return of MMPR soundtrack though. |
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