Don't worry, I'm in the same boat. I found about half of DT to be pure crap, so while it's not on my "Worst" list, it's nowhere near my best.

And that's fair enough. In my experience in high school, I was friends with a guy exactly like Ethan and Connor, so I felt they were decent representations of teens, but that may have just been an isolated incident.
MMPR's depiction of teens was horrid. They were less depictions of teens, and more depictions of goody goods from PSAs who would never touch a drug or do anything bad ever.

Rewatching Power Rangers as an adult, critically, to me it feels like Disney never truly understood what they wanted Power Rangers to be and as such they tried to constantly recreate Mighty Morphin's success and when that failed they seemed to just directly lift sentai plots.

And although a lot of the later Disney stuff in my mind was awesome, it's clear with shows like Dino Thunder just how much Disney were struggling, they seemed to always focus on the wrong thing in that series and by pretty much the second half the show was just a fucking mess.

I've met people like Ethan and Connor also, but none of them have ever been that one dimensional, ever. But yeah the MMPR teens really did belong in like an anti-pot PSA from the 40s.

This guy disagrees:

http://www.rangercentral.com/databas...-vi-lothor.jpg

Until they somehow remove this guy, the really loud pitched voices (seriously, were they screaming into the mics?), and the sportsy type talk, the show will never be even remotely awesome.

DinoThunder was great because it had a villain that looked and sounded threatening, Tommy, it talked about the previous teams, the cast actually felt like they belonged in high school, a goth for a ranger, good acting (except for Tommy phoning it in at times), getting to see Lothor get his ass beat by Mesogog, and as much as I hated their dub for AbaRanger, they did something to recognize Sentai. Not to mention the show had the advantage of using AbaRanger for its footage. Is the show perfect? No. There is no reason Trent had to be placed under an evil spell. They could have had him really torn on what to do since his father was Mezogog. Secondly, the final fight sucked.

Lothor was an awesome villain!

I always found him fun to watch, but I weird :eyebrow

Finally the DVDs that those seasons deserve are coming out. I have fond memories of of Ninja storm through SPD and saw an episode of Mystic Force.

To join in on the Dino Thunder disscussion, DT was my first PR series but I don't remember it for the characters. Granted, maybe because when you are a kid, you only care about awesome heroes and Zords but still. I haven't rewatched Dino thunder straight through so I can't comment on the acting. This series did get me to want to get a ps2 for the video game though, leading me into gaming.....

Remembering Dino thunder reminds me that Power Rangers is trying to be both Sentai and Rider at the same time with the Battlizer and power ups. But I think that if I can rewatch it again, it'll have a lot more intresting characters then sterile mighty morphin' teenagers.

Ninja Storm is my Mighty Morphin'—flawed, but I can't hate it because it was my first season. I think it could have improved considerably with a better soundtrack.

Dino Thunder is one of the most enjoyable TV shows I have ever watched. Every time I watched an episode, I was always looking forward to how fun it was, and I was never disappointed. Trent's story as the evil White Ranger was a bit too long, but I can forgive it.

I probably won't buy the DVDs since Netflix exists, though.

Wow, you people are young. MMPR was my first series and I was there watching the tv for the premier on that Saturday August morning. I was 11 at the time and fell in love with the show the moment I saw the first commercial for it 2 weeks prior.

MMPR was my first season, but Turbo was the season where I was old enough to actually comprehend what was going on.
I still think Turbo is vastly unappreciated for vapid and airheaded reasons.

See, I comprehended everything right from the get go. In fact, I knew right away the show was Japanese and loved when I saw a magazine in a store that talked about the Japanese versions. I remember learning that Green Ranger died in the Japanese version from one of those magazines, which made me want to see it so much more even when I was 12 years old.

In fact, there was a store that had a sign in their window that they were now selling Power Rangers toys, including the green ranger. We went in there, and they were all rangers that came with motorcycles. They looked nothing like ther Power Rangers outside of being pink, red, blue, green, and yellow. Not to mention their bikes looked like unicorns.

It was many years later that I realized those toys were actually the DaiRangers. :cry

As for Turbo, these are the reasons I hated it (haven't seen it since it first aired):

Not know what the heck happened to the Zeo powers and why Zedd and Rita were not doing anything.

Not knowing where Mondo was since he vowed to get revenge.

Wondering what happened to the Zeo powers.

Divatox and her crew of idiots replacing Zedd and Goldar.

The ridiculous looking villains I could not take seriously.

Car zords.

Justin.

Tommy, Adam, and Kat being replaced by unworthy characters.

Alpha 6's voice.

Nothing came out of Divatox and Zordon Divatox being sisters.

Divatox changing actresses three times.

The footsoldiers went from looking cool in the movie to dumb in the tv show.

The Phantom Ranger was a waste.