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Originally Posted by Locke

Really? I still remember their 'greatest threat' Devastation sounding like a stoned surfer. Or the time two villains who successfully built and stole SWAT tech and kicked the heroes around the curb were both portrayed as incompetent and stupid. Those are recent examples and I could give you more if I went back over them again like Bugglesworth. It's shit like that that gives me the MMPR vibe.

It's also when characters go through entire arcs, learn a lot and really change for the better only for the next episode to have them at the start again. I can't actually count the sheer number of times Jack and Sky have butted heads before realising that they are better off as a team and forming a friendship but they've done that whole song and dance a damn few number of times, along with the rest of the team.

Every time it feels like something is about to progress the shitty side of the writing drags it back to the beginning again. It's like the good writers are literally battling against the shit writers to make the show go somewhere good and the shit writers keep pushing them back.

I'm not seeing how having stupid or incompetent monsters makes it like MMPR. Generally, the MOTW on MMPR were at least competant enough to handle Rita/Zedd/Vile's plan for the episode before the heroes overcame whatever the roadblock was.

As the series continued, we got sillier and sillier baddies, but it was more confined to the regulars and not the MOTWs. Rito, for example, was pure comic relief, and by the time Rito had showed up, so was Goldar.

I don't know, I've always read MMPR as earnest in the face of high camp, while SPD is sort of just "embrace the crazy and don't ask too many questions."

As far as characters, they don't really go on character arcs in MMPR. They're all fairly standard characters and don't evolve much over the course of the three years, save Tommy who goes from outsider to confidant, to aww shucks guys to super leader dude.