[TokuChris]

Maki, my friend ... give RPM a chance. I turned a lot of "omg Power Rangers is dumb" people in to RPM fans. The series breaks away from all of the Kalish-era flubs that we all hated so much.

RPM Pro's
- Story doesn't circulate around the Red Ranger (lol instead it's the Black Ranger!)
- There's an unmorphed humans vs. humans scene in a prison (!) (which pissed off Disney apparently)
- There's a "cartel" ... you know, like a drug cartel, just not mentioning the word drugs
- There's death (flashbacks, but still, PEOPLE ACTUALLY DIE)
- Except for zord battles, it's nearly 100% New Zealand footage
- Old school "unmorphed" fights against the foot soldiers, and the actors do a lot of it themselves (a lot less stunt doubles used)
- It makes fun of itself (a couple of episodes actually poke fun at the suits, the zords, and the unnecessary explosions)
- AWESOME background music
- The title has nothing to do with the show (Disney and Bandai came up with "RPM" to mean "Race Performance Machines", basing it off what they saw of the Sentai version seeing as Go-Onger involved sentient "racing partner zords" ... however, RPM totally ignores all of that, and if I remember, only call themselves "Power Rangers RPM" after Eddie G was let go and Judd Lynn replaced him)

RPM Con's
- After Eddie G left and was replaced by Judd Lynn, a storyline from one of Judd Lynn's earlier Power Rangers show is basically recycled nearly plot-point by plot-point
- After we get specific Ranger episodes for each of the main five Rangers, we never really get any decent backstory for a couple of them for the rest of the season, namely Summer (Yellow Ranger).
- The Gold and Silver Ranger's speech pattern ... jarring at first, it does get better, but if it annoys you when you first hear it, it will continue to annoy you for the rest of the season
- Having the Executive Producer change in the middle of the season ... you can feel it, the show feels changed somewhat, and the episodes become more of a direct copy/paste of the Sentai versus being totally original.

Seriously though. Give it a chance. You won't regret it!