[Locke]

Oh yeah talking about Zeo, the theme song is so GOOD. It's so so so terrible but so glorious in just how awful it is.

[Locke]

Back onto SPD, I really dunno how I feel about the reaction to the Shadow Ranger.

On the one hand I don't know whether it is intentional meta but it is a pretty funny critique of the series, as soon as the sixth ranger comes practically no one else is relevant again in the series until the Red gets his battlizer, despite the fact that the team was doing just fine before the sixth ranger turned up.

On the other hand though, this isn't a series about teenagers at a high school any more. Jack and Z have an excuse but why are the three trained officers so happy to roll over and let Kruger do the work? What assholes.

Also why do they call him Shadow Ranger? He has a name.

"I think we'll move to New Zealand, no one will find us there!"

[Klonoahedgehog]

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Originally Posted by Locke

Back onto SPD, I really dunno how I feel about the reaction to the Shadow Ranger.

On the one hand I don't know whether it is intentional meta but it is a pretty funny critique of the series, as soon as the sixth ranger comes practically no one else is relevant again in the series until the Red gets his battlizer, despite the fact that the team was doing just fine before the sixth ranger turned up.

On the other hand though, this isn't a series about teenagers at a high school any more. Jack and Z have an excuse but why are the three trained officers so happy to roll over and let Kruger do the work? What assholes.

Also why do they call him Shadow Ranger? He has a name.

"I think we'll move to New Zealand, no one will find us there!"

Wait they call him Shadow Ranger? I haven't seen SPD in years so i don't remember.

[Locke]

Even Kruger does it so he sounds like he is talking about himself in the third person.

[Klonoahedgehog]

I think it's a sign of authority or something, though it doesn't make any sense why he would call himself that.

[Locke]

I guess they just wanted to say Shadow Ranger until it didn't sound dumb any more.

[Matrixbeast]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Locke

Back onto SPD, I really dunno how I feel about the reaction to the Shadow Ranger.

On the one hand I don't know whether it is intentional meta but it is a pretty funny critique of the series, as soon as the sixth ranger comes practically no one else is relevant again in the series until the Red gets his battlizer, despite the fact that the team was doing just fine before the sixth ranger turned up.

On the other hand though, this isn't a series about teenagers at a high school any more. Jack and Z have an excuse but why are the three trained officers so happy to roll over and let Kruger do the work? What assholes.

Also why do they call him Shadow Ranger? He has a name.

"I think we'll move to New Zealand, no one will find us there!"

It actually was a mild critique on the series, since most shows introduce the 6th ranger as a god mode unstoppable beast until they get that "Humbling" moment where they lose a fight or drastically need the other 5 rangers' help.

However, I felt Dekaranger did it better. In Dekaranger, the rangers still fought and did their jobs, but they were battling with the knowledge that, if an enemy is too tough, Doggie can bail them out and handle it for them, instead of trying to overcome it themselves.
(And no, I'm not trying to pull a 'Sentai is better than PR' thing you hate. I just felt they handled this particular story line better on the Sentai side of things)

[Locke]

I want to like the series because I enjoy the setting, the fights and the stories but the central cast just don't do it for me at all.

They bother to make SPD feel like a real organisation and try their hardest with their budget to build the world convincingly but then give us five Rangers who seemed to have strolled out of another series entirely and it just really doesn't work for me and is the only thing that is holding me back from enjoying the series.

And even if I do warm to the characters that doesn't change that none of them fit. Why is Jack red? Why is Z on the team at all? Why are none of the trained officers actually like trained officers at all until the show specifically calls for them to be?

I thought when it focused on the backstory for the powers this would all make sense but nope, these really are just five of the most unlikeable characters in Power Rangers history.

That and the show utterly fails at blending the sentai footage and new footage together in any convincing fashion.

Man the proportions of the SPD base are confusing.

[KRX]

I'm up to episode 5 of Jungle Fury. My thoughts so far:

*How does Theo grow taller when he morphs?
*Poor Fran—having to deal with the children from the black lagoon all by herself.
*R.J. is stoned. He's also better than Gou.
*Why was R.J. rqndomly dancing in episode 5?
*I am do glad that knuckle-popping sound is gone in the Jungle Pride Megazord combination sequence; I always found it disturbing and grotesque.

Episode 6's description provided by Netflix reads, "The friendship between Theo and Lily is tested by the Yellow Ranger's budding platonic relationship with Casey." Sounds… steamy. Things are 'bout to get hot in this joint.

(… I am so sorry for the previous two sentences.)

[Matrixbeast]

After like, 2 weeks of procrastinating it, I finally started up Wild Force.
Now then. Is it as bad as everyone says or is everyone on the internet too chicken to watch it themselves to form their own opinion on it?
Let's find out!