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Originally Posted by dreamcastegirl

I have something to contribute! For the first time in a while, I saw an episode of "new" Power Rangers whilst staying with my brother's family these past few days, and I thought it was... okay?

For the curious, it was an episode of Beast Morphers in which Space Sheriff Gavan portrayed a policeman named Charo (maybe?), and they teamed up to defeat a rhino with what might possibly have been an Australian accent, but probably was an attempt at a "British accent."

I don't really remember the original episode of Go-Busters this was based on, despite my great love of that show, but I was impressed at how blurred the lines were between the original footage and the new footage. It was interesting to see Putties from the original show back, although they didn't seem to serve a purpose other than to make people such as me, who were faintly aware of Power Rangers when younger, go, "Hey, look, it's those guys." This kind of did make me wonder why, if they're putting so much effort into the new material and Hasbro are making the toys now, they're not just making a totally original series.

Oh well, it was a fun episode, I thought. I think my only really complaint with it was based on the knowledge of Beet Buster's charisma, by which standards, I felt his boyish counterpart in this series did not measure up, but I fully accept that this is possibly a matter of personal taste.

Chaku to be exact, a nod to Gavan's transformation phrase jouchaku(蒸着). As for the footage not being so different, even if they use different cameras and whatever different settings, the overall level of hardware is similar probably compared to the MMPR days where the Power Rangers footage was filmed with a totally different camera common for American television shows at the time while Toei continued using old style film cameras that they still used since the 80s I assume judging by how similar film grain/aesthetics 80s and early-to-mid 90s toku shows by Toei share.