[TokuKnight89]

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Originally Posted by Enchilada645

Anyway I'm here to say that Dino Fury reeks of Power Rangers trying to be more like the MCU when it never had to be given it was already connected. And that's going to harm the franchise the further that mindset sets in than help it. The MCU was a mistake even if it gave us some fun movies, because everyone is trying to emulate it now even if it makes no sense to do so.

I've tried, but I can't understand this train of thought.

First, saying that the MCU was a "mistake". The interconnectivity of the MCU isn't guilty of anything. The execution may have some hiccups, but if you hate it and all that its done, then it's a personal decision, not a universal truth. We've already had people who say that the MCU is not real cinema, and such people are guilty of more harm than they could possibly know! The detractors will ultimately accomplish nothing. If the MCU is guilty of anything, it's inspiring imitators, but that is largely the fault of money-grubbing fools who want to duplicate the successes of the MCU without realizing why the MCU works the way it does and making no real effort to really flesh their out their own worlds.

Second, if Power Rangers is already interconnected, then why is it a bad thing to lean into that? The franchise is vast and the nature of a franchise is to echo what came before, for better and worse. The franchise is also part-and-parcel of Sentai, which has also been bouncing off its own past in recent memory, which really started with Gokaiger. Every anniversary episode of Power Rangers is ultimately a reference to the past. The problem is the nostalgia craze preventing any relevant stories beyond a Mighty Morphin' free-for-all! If you reference the past, you have to reference all of the past and not just the heyday of popularity in a vain attempt to recapture bygone successes.

I have always championed the idea of an anthological spin-off which freely references all aspects of PR. It feels like the right answer to me.

But should interconnectivity be established in the series proper? A hit and miss approach. Are the Morphin' Masters the proper face to proper retcons? I can see why it would work, but I'm not in the majority on that, and there are admittedly some other characters who are probably more deserving.