[Dr Kain]

I'm not sure why the Zyu footage looks faded on in MMPR because it doesn't look that way at all on the Zyu DVDs.

Anyway, I just finished the first volume and man, it brings a lot of nostalgia back. I agree with what you said for the most part Locke, but I also hate how there was no narrative to follow in the early seasons. It was pretty much made to just keep going on and on without any semblance of a story or objective. That does not automatically make it bad, but it just makes it inferior to later seasons, especially since there really is no character growth because of this.

I have to laugh at scenes that were poorly placed in there like Pink Ranger holding a Japanese kid when they look at the giant Minotaur monster and Franky being in the background when Finster is putting together the Super Putties the episode AFTER Franky was destroyed.

Lastly, I just realized why the GR shield looks so crappy in the US footage. Back when Tony Oliver was at NDK in 2011 he said that when he was initially going through the ZyuRanger footage he came across episode 17, which was planned to be the 12th episode of MMPR and it featured Dragon Ranger. He said his eyes flipped when he saw that there was another ranger in the show and he had to call Saban immediately to have an emergency meeting over the Green Ranger, and they had to have the ranger casted and ready to film in 2 weeks time from when he saw that episode. I believe he said that is also why you see a few episodes from the later portions of ZyuRanger in that time frame. As such, they had 2 weeks to make a GR costume, which probably explains the crappy cloth shield.

With that said, on to disc 1 of Volume 2.