Oh he better point to Heaven, and Troll :lol

Doesn't it cost more to aquire a trademark than it does to maintain one?

ok ok rewatching Time Force Slowly and well aparart from the parter story that remind us that the main goal is to capture ransik the rest of the episode just feel like the campy MOTW story with no real purpose and it feels like that forgot why they are there and are you standered team of ranger there to protect the town. so what next main plot points feel more on the fact that it so fare are ether the character focus episodes round jen and wes and then the 2 parters and every thing that making time change are the main plot points when mentioened i start to feel like how this was great again to the point where i focus on what the hell just mention to then what happened last ep not reinvent no more.

Yes.

I watched the first 5 episodes of Super Samurai and something feels off about it compared to Samurai. Oh yeah, and man, I thought the Mega suits were ugly, but my god, the Super Mega suits are even worse. They could just use those costumes as their own mecha if they wanted to due to how bulky they are. Please tell me MegaForce does not do anything like that.

Nah. Megaforce only uses stuff Goseiger uses.

That's good to know.

BTW, are Bulk and Spike going to do more than just stand around and pretend to be Samurai? The thing that made Bulk and Skull stand out in the originals is that even though they were comic relief, they actually interacted with the rangers. Here, outside of one scene, they haven't done much of anything outside of each other, making them boring characters. In fact, if it weren't for one of them being Bulk, they would really drag the show down.

They get a tiny bit more implemented into the show in Super Samurai, but not much.

They were implimented to much. I loved the nostalgia of having them in the show, but wouldn't it have worked better if they came back for Megaforce?

Well I finished Super Samurai and man, what a waste. Sure, their original suits were clunky looking, especially the Shogun mode, but come on, put them to use!!!

Anyway, honestly, I can't hate the show because I don't hate SHinkenger, and it really was nearly identical. Even the dialog was word for word at times.

I think the biggest let down was the whole Dayuu and Dekker thing. They clearly wanted to go with their original path, but let the Jp footage dictate it, so it came out very underwhelming and felt inconclusive to me. Plus, I hated how they kept talking about Dayuu's music but you never actually ever heard her play it once on screen.

I think my favorite episode of the series is the one where Bulk and Skull land at the dojo to return Mia's wallet because everything with Emily during those scenes were golden. Is it just me though, or did we never get to see Emily and Mike use Shogun mode? Maybe I was distracted, but I don't remember ever seeing them use it.

Overall, Samurai was better than I was anticipating, I just wished they hadn't change the Dayuu/Dekker stuff because their changes went nowhere with the characters' themselves.

I found the first episode of Jungle Fury, watching that.

No, they never got to use it :( Such a waste especially since they went to the lengths to design them Shogun suits.

The Shogun Mode itself was a waste of Budget. They only used it at all inside the Megazords, and the one time they used it outside of battle it was used for all of one minute and forty seconds of footage.

So much for the hope of the entire team getting a Battilizer :/

Okay over the next few months I will be watching Operation Overdrive to see if Haters Gonna Hate or if it's actually an underrated gem. And we're starting out with the two part opener, 'Kick In To Overdrive!'.

And I loved it... after watching so much Kamen Rider, which is really drama focused and usually has pretty small budgets, going to something this epic and action packed is a treat. It was especially enjoyable to see the Rangers save the day, as well as fight monsters, it made them feel more like real superheroes. Plus the designs of the two brothers is rockin' and even the Megazord stuff was good.

And it isn't like the stuff outside the action was bad, the acting was good (the chemistry between the team especially), I also really liked how they mixed up the team roles with Blue being the comic relief, Pink being the genius, Ronny was able to be 'the other girl' without being just 'the other girl' as she had an actual personality, and one that isn't defined completely by her gender, Will makes for a really great right hand man to Mack and the story was set up well, with the footage very well integrated.

I have to ask though, why did Hartford pick them if he then goes ahead and scrambles their DNA, anyway? Doesn't that mean he could have just used anyone? I also have to ask, is if Mack was an android all along, how does anything in these episodes make sense?

So I'm guessing it's all downhill from here, then?

iirc he picked them for their skills. not sure how a cat burglar skill would be needed or a stuntman unless it makes him toigher and better for being thrown around as a ranger but nonetheless

What so a theif isn't the first thing you think of when thinking of a Power Ranger?! :p Ronny isn't much better, the racer gets...shovel hands a digger? Wuuut.

is Dax not the most awesome charecter ever?

Hey, I liked Dax.

Dax is the worst character in the history of fiction.

I refer you to Bella Swan, Edward Cullen, Will Aston, the entire cast of Garbage Pail Kids, Hannah Montana, Kusaka Masato, and Norg.

I refer you both towards anyone appearing as an Operation Overdrive character. (Excluding Returning Rangers)

Hannah Montana is a character?

I was hoping it was a badtrip I had from that off-sushi I ate back in the early 00's.

All better than Dax.

I must've blocked him out. Which one was Dax? Because I keep thinking DS9 and that can't be it, she was my crush on that show. Well, one of the two.

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The Blue Ranger.

... From what? Seriously, wtf is Dax from?

Ah. Knew I blocked him out for a reason.

so do i. i dont understand all the hate he gets.

OO 3 - It really does feel like they've mixed up the Power Rangers formula a lot, and in a good way. Having the Rangers travelling to different places looking for artefacts/jewels is a really cool theme for the show, and I love how one artefact lead to another in a unified quest. It's just a shame that in these three episodes, we've yet to truly see a mad scramble, despite everyone aiming for the same thing.

Seeing the heroes save as well as fight is welcome, I love how they are like superhero versions of Indiana Jones. And that isn't to say the fighting is bad, the Boukenger people really outdid themselves with those fight scenes, so epic and stylish and everyone comes across like a total badarse. Perhaps most impressive though is the zords which are used in really great ways, that really makes them feel more than just toys and a dude in a cardboard box.

Sadly though, a lot of this weeks episode felt forced and unnecessary, why would Hartford go to lengths to pick the perfect candidates, but then not also pick the ultimate team as well? It seems like a bizarre oversight to not even think to or test their compatibility or teamwork and to just send them out on a field mission and hope for the best.

I think we were supposed to be annoyed at Will this episode, but I was more annoyed that Ronny would NEVER SHUT UP, she shouted inane pieces of dialogue that means nothing, barely taking a breath through her entire morphed appearance.

Also what the fuck are they scanning? 86 is a high reading? A high reading of what? 86? It says Precious, the fuck is that? Is no one gonna bring this up? Or explain this? And I mean, what was it? Exploding mirage egg with a scroll inside? Why does that get a high reading? GAAAAAAAH.

That's all lifted from Boukenger. Precious is the name of all the treasures that appeared in the show, but I don't remember the scale of the numbers in that either (mainly because I though that sucked almost as much as OO).

Ah okay. I wonder how that fits here, since they are on a quest for the crown jewels (arf) but I guess only so much can be helped, if the Sentai they are adapting is bad in the first place.

Megaforce... oh wait #hiatus

OO 4. I was just happy Mira was evil, because for a second there I thought they were serious about that romance, and I guess that says everything. I did like that the villains were independent, rather than it just being one villain sending one monster at a time, it makes everything feel bigger and more epic, as does the serialised storytelling and quest based nature of the show. And Spencer more than makes up for the weak links in the core Rangers (aka Dax).

OO 5. Spencer is one of my new favourite characters, his impression may have been vaguely racist but Goddamn was it hilarious. I'm still not really seeing the problem with this show, though? So far it has been a great blend of superheroics, toku violence and adventure. I think it's a really refreshing take on Power Rangers while still sticking to basics.

Plus Mack's showdowns with Moltor are damn satisfying. I love how he and Flurious can be an active part of the series, and yet also bring the 'oh shit' factor. You don't find many toku villains who can do both.

The only real issue is I can never quite gauge the scale of their battle, whole fight scenes will depict at length the Rangers saving a single person, while only a scene later the scale is blown up to the point that the national guard have to be called in to regulate the chaos. I mean I love the bigger sense of scale, but everything on screen feels like only a piece of a much larger picture we don't get to see.

Plus, the sentai integration this episode was really, really bad. Noticeable disconnect between the Rangers and their morphed personalities, mirroring shots so it looks like something it clearly isn't, awkward storytelling to try and bend the footage to their story and failing and some of the most broken dialogue I've heard. But none of this is anything new for Power Rangers, and it's done no worse here than anywhere else.

I finally got around to watching the Clash of the Red Rangers episode and it was kind of meh. It started out strong, but not having the RPM red demorph, not showing the other rangers in the other world, or even having the rest of the RPM rangers really ruined it. Oh yeah, and the fact that they left two Nightlochs alive that are never destroyed in the series itself was pretty lame.

Locke, glad you are enjoying OO so far. i also found it very refreshing.

Episode 6 of OO - to give credit, where credit is due, Rose is probably one of the best pinks ever. Pink is normally the most tacked on member of the team, 'the girl', so it's nice that Rose is intelligent and actually provides something for the team, other than a skirt. Also, as far as things go, the Zord stuff in this show is GREAT.

Everything else though...was abysmal. The acting was atrocious, the special effects were atrocious, all the humour fell flat, Power Rangers shouldn't sympathise with pirates or try and save a ghost from...being crushed? Why does a pirate ghost even have one of the jewels anyway? They shaved a ghosts beard? They just left him rather than laying him to rest? Dax only makes an off hand joke about his former relationship with Miratrix, despite that arc only happening a few episodes ago and completely undermines a FANTASTIC character moment between him and Spencer which angers me to no end and most importantly, it's funny just how tacked on all the Power Rangers stuff in this Power Rangers show feels.

OO 7 stumbled pretty epically at times, with stupid logic leaps and turning Ronnie into an absolute bitch for the sake of a character arc but overall, it was a really good episode.

The action scenes are great, the Defender Vest is like a cool combo between Andros, Swat Mode and the Green Ranger, I love how OO puts an emphasis on the suits, treating them more like Iron Man's mech armour, than just a costume like other series have. I loved the reference to Mystic Force. The mech stuff continues to be in a class of its own, even if the individual zords themselves are kinda craptastic. And hell yeah, calling out the bullshit of the Red getting every power up and new Zord ever. Plus the chemistry between the team remains fantastic, and Spencer should be a requirement in all Power Rangers seasons.