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What are you watching? Power Rangers Edition
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01-09-2021, 08:32 PM
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Yo, as someone with a longstanding belief that Ninninger is a criminally underrated Sentai season, I stand in solidarity with your take on its PR counterpart.
No one likes Ninninger either? feelsbadman
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I also did enjoy Ninja Steel for what it was, although I didn't end up watching like any of the second season, which has also happened with a few other recent shows.
My biggest thought about it has always been that I actually think it does,
by far
, the best job truly recapturing the spirit, tone, and style of the original Mighty Morphin' era, and would've been much more appreciated if it hadn't come after half a decade of shows that made people so sick of that as an idea. But like, Samurai was also trying to be a carbon copy of Shinkenger, Mega Force was wildly overstuffed and all-around incompetent, and Dino Charge also had aspirations of being original, leaving Ninja Steel as a series that got to really nail the back-to-basics concept.
There's a sort of beauty to its simplicity, and that makes it a tragic series in a way, because I think fans are, understandably, after something that proves Power Rangers can still be a bit more complex and innovative. Ninja Steel could be straight out of the early 90's, and whether that's praise or condemnation will depend greatly on your own tastes.
Yeah, I can definitely see that. While Ninja Steel doesn't exactly do anything revolutionary, what it does aim for, it does extremely well for the most part. For me it really helps that I don't really need something to be "~deep~" in order to gain alot of enjoyment out of it, but for those who are expecting the same sorts of tone and style that RPM, In Space, and the like went all in on? Yeah, I can see how they'd be worn out and disinterested by the time Ninja Steel aired.
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Which makes this another cool occasion to see someone giving the series a more positive look. While their juvenile humor isn't always great, Victor and Monty are actually my favorite character concepts for the comic relief of this era for exactly what you were getting at, which is how weirdly fresh it is to see a jock and a nerd
teaming up
to be obnoxious jerks, and that scene at the end of this episode legitimately is pretty great. It shows a respect for the viewer's intelligence Power Rangers isn't always great about by letting the scene hang on that moment where just the two of them singing to each conveys the emotions for a bit before resorting to the usual blunt dialogue explaining what's going on, and that was something that I sincerely appreciated. Power Rangers could use so many more scenes like that one.
Also, I think Ninja Steel had more masked heroes on bikes than most Kamen Rider shows do nowadays, so that's something I have to give it credit for, too.
Oh yeah, while I don't tend to agree with those who try to claim that the series talks down to kids, when they go all in on a scene and are confident that the atmosphere and emotions are enough to carry what they're trying to say? Stuff like that really shines, and really makes up alot of my favorite episodes, if that weren't obvious already, haha.
Glad you atleast liked the idea they were gunning for with Victor and Monty, by the way! Might just be due to me being a simplistic doof, but I kinda just feel like it just wouldn't be PR without cheeseball comedy, ya know?
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