Jake for his athleticism.
Troy for overcoming something in his past which is never explored properly.
Gia for being ferocious.
Noah for being a nerd.

Yeah they are all shit reasons, but Emma's was by far the least convincing.

And really, one of the better actors? Are you kidding me? She's like the female version of Troy without the interesting character on paper.

I am enjoying more of Megaforce the more I watch, just not Gia. Loving Everyone else though.

Yeah, Emma has been great! I love her smile and her character. My favorite pink in a long time.

Go watch Harmony and Dizchord, great episode for Emma!

I guess it's because the last PR series I watched all the way through before Megaforce was Dino Thunder, which I decided to rewatch.

And I think Kira was an AWFUL ranger, her characterisation was crappy and she could barely hold her own in a fight.

Then Gia comes along, all cool and badass and able to command her whole team with a nod. We need more Gia's and less Kira's.

That was my least favourite episode, lol.

Kira is one of my all time favorite Yellow Rangers, she is so awesome.

I concur.

OMG! Really, Kira was a great ranger! One of my favorites, no actually, favorite Yellow Ranger ever! I'll watch Dino Thunder again but I doubt it will change. At least she got character development. Gia has been the same 90% of the time with almost no development.

Kira is cool in that shallow tick the boxes kind of way and it was tacky as all hell. The forced slightly gothic appearance and the way she would cry while plucking guitar strings. It's a clean and friendly version of the social outcast and it rubbed me up the wrong way.

Gia has had nine episodes, Kira got forty odd and she was still abusing the eyeliner, singing terrible songs and was as fake and shallow a representation of the outcast as could be.

So you got a problem who where dark clothes, eyeliner and such?

No, I got a problem with the clean and clinical and shallow version of the social outcast that the media poops out.

I don't think she was that kind of character through the whole show. Maybe in the beginning but she made friends. Its okay for her to dress the way she does. Still a better character then Gia.

I just watched where "she lead" the team, it was a team effort and I felt each were equal. Noah and Emma were really smart in the fight.

So as we continue watching through Megaforce, WhiteTiger and I; Emma and Noah are getting more awesome as this series continues and Troy, Jake and Robo Knight rock too. I think Jake's crush with Gia hurts him because Gia is not a person he should crush over. Gia didn't really take over in this episode and because of all the bad she has had in the earlier episodes that it's hard to make up for how bad she's been in just one good episode. So possibly she can get better. I love Robo Knight's development and his Megazord form.

I just found Kira shallow and overrated, all the things she was praised for were artificial.

Gia still sent the whole team into battle with a nod.

I agree with the Kira stuff.

Ironically the shallow and fake stuff you are saying about Kira is what I think about Gia.

Yeah a battle where they should of morphed to win the battle a bit quicker. Troy was by himself and needed help.

There is nothing in 9 episodes that screams Gia is a good yellow ranger and no way a better ranger then Tonya.

We must be watching in an alternate universe bro, or something.

I dunno how you can call Gia as artificial as Kira was, Kira was practically vacuum packed.

Part of it is her acting, she isn't all that great. She just seems so fake when she grabs on to Emma or talking to Jake, she is trying to be cute but she isn't. She had her best lines when talking to Robo Knight.

Yeah the acting is pretty awful across the board in Megaforce.

Because it's how she emotes and says some of the lines she does. Because when she said she loves the picture of her and Emma as best friends in the newspaper and she sounded so fake. She also basically leads Jake on and uses him like a dog. She seems like she just loves the attention and hunts for it.

At least we can agree on that. I will say some episodes some people are good but others are just weak in other episodes. I think Jake has been steady across the board.

I don't find it that bad with Emma, Jake, and Noah.

I think it helps that Jake seems to be having such a great time, so it gives himself some much needed life and only further points out how flat and lifeless everyone else is.

I think Emma is the worst actress after Troy. Noah is okay.

I am pretty sure we all agree on Jake and that he brings life and enjoys his time on the show.

Also on the topic of Jungle Fury which is what I am watching, the one thing I'm really not enjoying so far is the voice acting.

The acting itself is really solid and as far as Power Rangers go, the characters get a lot of depth and some interesting arcs but then whenever it comes to a suit character the voice acting is just dire, all the voices sound the same and the voice acting is at the same level of quality as your usual 4kids dub.

This is a problem especially because Jungle Fury has a lot of important suit villains so they get a lot out dialogue and it's really meh.

Watched another episode of Time Force.
Yeah, it's still pretty good. So far, from these first four episodes, it's a nice watch. Some hokey acting from Trip and Lucas (Jen sometimes, not often, though), but yeah. Still pretty cool.

So I've been watching every PR series from start to finish. Currently I'm on MMPR Season 3. And man....this shit is hilarious. I really like how one of the episodes just features Goldar, Zedd, and Rito just tossing a football around.

I think Jungle Fury is now my new favourite Power Rangers series. I'm serious.

I never did get to finish JF...
Hmm

People complain that Jungle Fury is 'just going through the motions' but not only are the characters deep, their relationships realistic and seen through to the end there is a LOT of new footage.

Thanks to the Masters and the Spirit Rangers there are brand new fight sequences which suggests an extra amount of effort and money went into this series and it really shows.

It's mature, fun and it isn't so episodic that nothing has consequence or purpose.

Finally hit the Shadowborg arc in Beetleborgs. Was totally worth sitting through the 25 episodes prior to this.

These are what I remember fondly about his show. A really badass villain who completely wipes the floor with the villains, and a plot that isn't completely focused on "Hillhurst Monsters do ...."

And with that I have finished the season 1 part 1 dvd. Onto part 2!

Okay I will admit that Jungle Fury kinda let me down when it came to RJ's ranger storyline.

Firstly...why did he just randomly decide to go and morph and fight with the Rangers? He had this morpher the whole time and just sat on his ass? Yeah I know sentai limitations but come on!

Secondly, why match him up with a sentai fighter who has such a distinctive fighting style? Have we ever seen RJ fight with his elbows and knees in his unmorphed fights? Not that I can remember.

I know these problems are inherent but you think they'd put more effort in considering the person he is matched with has such a unique style that really stands out.

The thing about PR mentors is most of them are assholes deep down. They're always keeping one or two secrets until they need to pull a plot device and/or new toy out of their ass.

It wasn't even like a new Ranger was needed, they didn't really establish very well that this new monster was all that powerful, especially now they have Jungle Master Mode...which they didn't use for some reason.

Then RJ just walks outside like, 'hey watup I got a morpher'

So MMPR season 3 was pretty great. I was lukewarm on the first season and I thought, the second one went from pretty okay to good, but season 3 was great! I never felt a desire to skip any episodes unlike the past two seasons. I feel like the production crew, finally got the perfect groove for what they were doing with the series for this season.

Alien Rangers, though...it's hit or miss. That part of the season was just bizarre.

Buncha notes and stuff:

You can actually track the progress of how good the show's getting when, Billy slowly starts to act less and less like a super stereotypical nerd, I think.

The humor was on point this season. I dunno, all the goofy jokes were really funny and I liked the blooper reels they put at the end of the episode.

Speaking of humor, I really liked Rito. He's gotta be up there for my favorite henchman in MMPR. Zedd and Rita's family life is also pretty hilarious. Bulk and Skull are always great, not much to say there. ...Except when they're kids.

The acting generally improved a LOT. Especially Rocky. He was kinda bland at first, but he soon grew to be one of my favorite rangers. Almost all of his spotlight episodes are amazing. And even though it wasn't in season 3, Rocky Just Wants to have Fun is in the running for my favorite episode ever. It's really dumb, though!

The fights were great this season. They tended to do this thing where they pan around and show everyone fighting a lot and it really worked well.

Why does Ninjor have a Dudley Do-Right voice. Or more precisely, why can't Robo Knight have a Dudley Do-Right voice so he can be as awesome as Ninjor?

I'm not even sure why the rangers need their ranger forms, when their ninja forms can seemingly instantaneously teleport anywhere, make multiple copies of themselves, grow to a giant size, and mesmerize the Tenga's into doing a dance that knocks themselves out.

One sorta bad point I will mention is that the monsters have a tendency to turn most of the rangers into things so that the remaining rangers could save the day. At some point they've been multicolored footballs, chemicals, bricks...There are more but I forget them.

I...liked the Alien Rangers a lot more than I expected to. They're these bizarre awkward fish people, but as soon as they turned into rangers, they become the cocky goofballs who just showboat and screw around with the villains before they defeat them. At least in the American footage.

The Alien Ranger's archenemy Hydrohog is awful though. Why is their arch-nemesis a fat smurf?

Anyway, started a few episodes of Zeo. I like it, it looks like it's continuing the tone of season 3 of MMPR. I wasn't really fond of the first two episodes though. They seemed awkwardly paced.

So I'm almost done with Jungle Fury now, I will admit that the villains were a little shitty because EVERYONE was a general so no one was able to stand out, it didn't help that pretty much none of them got a satisfying send off. Also the voice acting for most of the villains was awful.

The show also lost its way somewhat with plotting in the final third, it didn't quite fall apart in such a spectacularly awful fashion like Dino Thunder but I was kinda annoyed by how RJ and that other guy who has had so little unmorphed screen time I don't even remember his name just kinda become Rangers...just because and then from that point every character is getting new attacks, new powers, new forms and rather than a plot it's just basically fifteen episodes of transformation sequences and super moves.

If the fight scenes weren't so spectacular and the Spirit Rangers so awesome, I would have probably been harsher on Jungle Fury but even with all those problems I listed I really do think Jungle Fury is up there with my favourite seasons.

The fight sequences are incredible, there is heaps of new and very impressive fight footage, the core characters are all fully realised and strong and I did like that for the most part characters are lead by individual motivations rather than vague blanket plots.

Still inching my way through Time Force.
I'm not past 10 episodes, but this series is still pretty good, even if there is some hokey acting at times.
I'm just curious as to how this series turned out so well...

Watching more Time Force. Reached the Time Shadow's introduction.