[Locke]

My first was MMPR and although I wasn't a die hard fan until I became an adult - take from that, what you will - I've followed Power Rangers on and off pretty much from the very beginning. Initially because it was fun to play in the playground but then later because Power Rangers is actually a very unappreciated storytelling platform. Well, everything with Time Force and beyond at least. I've tried rewatching the classic Saban stuff and between the amateurish acting, non existent budget and cut and paste editing it's pretty damn awful.

I dunno which one was my first favourite, at the time, as a kid, I loved pretty much every season but that is kinda how it goes. As I got older, Time Force was about the only early season from Saban I could watch time and time again and not have the nostalgia rug from under me. And since it actually has genuinely good stories and acting, it's a series I eventually fell in love with.

RPM was what brought me back as a diehard fan. It was around the time of Mystic Force that I stopped watching, as I went to college and then eventually Uni and started living more of a life. But after hearing so much good stuff about RPM I knew I had to watch it, and my inner child was born again.

In terms of the more inevitable debate, no I didn't go away and watch sentai and write off Power Rangers. Unpopular opinion, but to me Sentai is just as much aimed at children, and struggles from all the same problems as Power Rangers - if not some unique ones of its own, with Japan's drawn out melodramatic structuring of their stories. I've watched every Power Rangers season at least twice, most sentai I can't get through once.