Story wise I feel like RPM may be one of the best seasons we have gotten. It was kind of serious as far as PR goes with essentially dealing with human extinction. While not terrible persay, the ranger aesthetic and zords are far from my favorite even though the cuteness admittedly lightend things up.
Which season suits/zords would have been better suited to the story? Personally I am inclined to go with Boukenger/OO. The mechs having a sort of construction vibe and what not along with the rescue theme of mercury leads me to believe they would have fit in nicely.

General audience loves to treat Power Rangers as a joke. Do you think the franchise will always be this way? I don'tknow, maybe that'sthe reason I'm having a lovehate relationship with franchise, because it sucks being a fan and people laugh at you because the franchise is a joke even in today's age where everyone claims to be a fan of nerdy franchises because it is cool.

It's just that IGN posted the story about Robert Axelford's passing, and there's always people posting "Lol people still watch Power Rangers?". Granted, IGN is full of assholes, but still.

I'm just frustrated, sorry if I come across as salty.

Yeah, there's was a time when the show was pretty received by everyone back in 90's. But when Saban buy back from Disney, it was just getting worse.

That is the primary reason I hate Neo Saban. They butchered the shows, proving the naysayers that they are right.

It also doesn't help that generals only remember MMPR, and it was extremely 90s and cheesy, that people remembered that it's a joke, when other seasons, even MMPR season 3, is better.

It just sucks, PR is about the same caliber as TMNT, but TMNT is respected and PR is treated as a joke.

Exactly, Saban just in care with the money than in the franchise.

PR has always been view as a silly kids show even long before the Neo Saban era. The original MMPR show was cheesy with bad acting, bad dialogue and goofy writing. When people look back on PR, they remember MMPR because it was the most popular one.

The 2017 PR movie could have changed people's views on Power Rangers like Transformers 07 did with the Transformers series, but that never happen.

So, why the show was praised by the audience back in 90's ?

Simple: it wasn't.

Kids just liked it.

That's the point, kids at day like us was the major audience of the show. If wasn't, the franchise wouldn't exist right now.

Yes. So that doesn't contradict the show being kiddy, silly and cheesy in the eyes of everyone else; nor does it contradict people looking back on it fondly because of nostalgia.

That's why make the show good.

Exactly why I'm angry at Neo Saban. They had the chance to make the show good, they didn't. Beast Morpher has efforts, but I worry if they're still gonna retain the sense of cheapness of Neo Saban era.

that's because of Saban influence.

The MMPR era looks like it was made on a budget of £20 and a few snacks for the production team. Power Rangers being 'cheap' isn't just a Neo-Saban thing, it' a Power Rangers thing.

But the old saban seasons had better storylines than the neo saban era.

Problem is, the whole Neo Saban era is basically Saban being greedy and trying to recreate the MMPR success using the same ingredient, which is the definition of insane. Then again Disney was pretty stingy with their budgets as well. Which is why I hope after Beast Morphers, Hasbro would take the franchise in a better direction.

And this 20 episodes per season format just got worse.

While Disney was tight fisted with their budgets, they still allowed for some autonomy, and actually selected writers who would try and make a coherent story, rather than what Neo-Saban did, and hire people who admitted they were just trying to come up with excuses to get to the fight scenes.

Sometimes, i like more the Disney era than the Neo Saban era this time

Neo Saban did help us get Super Sentai on DVD and help import the SH figuarts line for Bluefin. At least, they market their shows and let people know that Power Rangers is still a thing. I remember during the Disney era, the shows had little to no marketing and would air on awful time slots.

I was unaware that shows after Dino Thunder was still being made because I remember there was no marketing for them.

Pretty much this. MMPR was always a bad kids show and the show did so well because it was a live action show was different at the time. It had people in spandex fighting monsters and giant robots. MMPR was aim towards kids from Pre School-3rd grade. Most of them didn't have critical thinking skills yet and watch it because it was fun seeing people in spandex fighting monsters.

I think most of us as kids never cared about the plot in MMPR. Even as a kid, I would be like "Go back to the fighting please" during the awful school scenes.

Ahhh I remember hating the Disney era because of their lack of promotions of the franchise. Which is weird when Saban bought back the franchise, we'd get more promotions but the quality took a dive instead. Even if till this day I still hate Operation Overdrive, it still is a solid and coherent season.

However the cynic part in me is afraif that Hasbro era will make me appreciate Neo-Saban era. God I hope not.

My biggest concern is that Beast Morphers still has that same feel of trying to be like MMPR except having a good story and characters this time, which I fear is going to continue in future seasons.

Honestly in terms of production Saban era actually got better from Turbo onwards, where you can feel like there's an increase in quality. There's still the cheesiness, that is PR's dna, but it's not as bad as MMPR.

Also please just move out from NZ. Or at least use well known voice actors, I can't stand Steel's voice.

I don't hate the Disney era, i just don't like.

Operation Overdrive doesnt deserve alot of the hate it gets
It deserves some but not all

I think operation overdrive should be called relic hunters.

While I agree with this sentiment, the Green with Evil saga very much suddenly made me care about the non fighting stuff, which showed they were trying.
If Neo-Saban did something like that, the ranger would turn back to the heroes side by the end of the very episode they're introduced.

The Green Ranger was not bad, but it should have been two episodes. Re-watching it was a chore because it felt like it went on forever.

Nowadays compared to Neo-Saban seasons it looks like a masterpiece. I guess the biggest sore spot is that the characters are very unlikeable. But even that at least Mack has a better character arc than Tyler and Brody.

Maybe it's just my vague memories, or living in the UK, but I remember there being a fair bit of Power Rangers promotion for the Disney era. Like, I can remember promos for SPD and OO airing fairly often, and I vividly remember seeing an advert for something unrelated, and being hyped for, the premiere of OO! RPM definitely got messed around, that was on at an awful time, but promotion definitely existed enough to target children.

At least, i agree this time.

I think they missed the mark by not tying Andrew Hartford into either lightspeed rescue or being someone tommy met in college. Never could figure out how else he got his ranger tech

Mostly of these shows never explain anything.

Power Rangers lives or dies off of MMPR which is why most seasons try to rehash it in order to be successful. Saban, Disney, and Hasbro did it in order to bring back older casual fans to watch the show again.

Would Hasbro capable to make a original Pr show with a original footage ?

Eventually maybe. But then is it still power rangers? Does hasbro create everything or still import mechs and suits and film all new? I honestly dont know.

Perhaps yes, they could make some sort of partnership with Toei in mecha design and stuff.

It won't be impossible for it to happen. Robotech and Voltron did original stuf with original footage without Macross and GoLion. Power Rangers is not much different from those two (They are Americanize adaptions of Japanese kids shows).

But they have enough budget to do such thing ?

I think the biggest obstacle is Zord scenes. I don't think US has kaiju studio, and if they go full CGI they'll ruin it.

However you can counter this by making an animated Power Rangers.

A animated seris is out of question.

I agree- if it becomes an animated series it loses alot of the charm.