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01-06-2012, 12:10 PM | #1 |
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I myself am not a Power Rangers fan, but everywhere I go, I keep hearing about Operation Overdrive being the worst in the series. Was it really that bad?
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01-06-2012, 12:22 PM | #2 |
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I gave it a meh. It had two redeeming qualities to it:
1) Mack's backstory Once you get deep in the show, you'll learn about Mack and his backstory, which was pretty drastic, and there's hints about all the way from episode 1. His character actually got interesting from that point forward till the end of the season, just because of how his relationships with his dad and team change. 2) Once a Ranger Yup. Took it from "WORST SEASON EVER" to "Pretty bad but that team-up was awesome!" I think Wild Force was better, but nothing is as bad as Turbo. |
01-06-2012, 12:22 PM | #3 |
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From what I've seen of Operation Overdrive, it seems like its Pretty Bad. The opening theme for it in my opinion was the worst of the Disney Era themes and Themes in general. I've only seen the Once a Ranger episodes, because they were the only ones I was interested in watching. Thankfully I didn't notice that much the Overdrive Actors in those episodes.
But now flash forward to 2012, I might actually sit through some episodes of Operation Overdrive to give it a fair opinion than what I remember from a couple of years ago.
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01-06-2012, 12:40 PM | #4 |
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Pretty much, yeah.
Operation Overdrive may not be the purest distillation of everything that was wrong with the Kalish era of Power Rangers - that would by Mystic Force (which I actually liked a lot) - but it did suffer heavily from all of his faults - uneven characterization, lame comic relief, half-hearted plotting, and a ridiculous overuse of wire work and people jumping in slow motion as something behind them explodes. While Mystic Force actually had even more of this, what saves that show for me is that it still feels like there was some heart and effort put into it - Operation Overdrive always just feels lazy and half-assed - like no one involved with the show really gave a rat's ass about what they were doing. The characters are either bland (Ronnie, Rose, Taizon, Mack), annoying (Will), or so infuriatingly obnoxious I want to systematically travel back in time and murder every preceding generation of their family just to ensure that there will never, ever be any single strain of DNA anywhere in the world that might contribute to any aspect of that character ever existing (Dax - oh god, I could rant for hours about all the places where that character fails). Now, in fairness, Power Rangers has rarely been a place to go to see fantastic and deep characters, but at least most other shows have characters with some level of personality - or maybe one character that can stand out above the pack to still be really likable or interesting - but PROO just doesn't. No one on this show is in any way likable, not the Rangers, not the supporting cast, not the villains. This is the only PR show I've ever watched where there was a team-up episode and my first thought was "why can't we just lose the regular cast and keep going with these guys?" (granted, said team up was pretty much a "greatest hits" sampling of the previous four Ranger casts and Adam, but still). Characters aside (and I haven't even touched on the lame, useless, and overcrowded villain cast), there's nothing else to really recommend the show. The plot is mediocre and badly paced, with several bits of it recycled from previous shows (seriously, Taizon is the laziest character ever - his entire backstory is three parts Doggy Kruger and two parts Merrick - he even steals his morphing pose from Dino Thunder). The action isn't all that great, mostly just the same wire work and explosions we'd been seeing for the last several seasons. The stupid unmorphed powers were back and lazier than ever (one guy had the super power to hear really well! ). Even the stuff we got from Boukenger wasn't all that good - this was the start of the "clusterfuck" Megazords that just kept piling Zord upon Zord upon Zord until you have an immobile, vaguely human-shaped monstrosity. I can keep ranting, but it all basically boils down to the show being poorly thought out, badly executed, and lazy as fuck. But I still enjoyed it more than Samurai. |
01-06-2012, 12:43 PM | #5 |
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This is one of the one only 2 Power Ranger series I'm yet to watch (the other being Mystic Force). I've seen 'Once a Ranger', and even that didn't do much for me so I'm not expecting to enjoy the rest much.
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01-06-2012, 12:47 PM | #6 |
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Truth is, i liked it.
The Globe-trotting theme, over-arcing plot and the Mack was pretty entertaining to me. It was far from perfect though, Far, far from it. But to me it was a decent show.
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01-06-2012, 02:17 PM | #7 |
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I watched it in and out when it was on, the last PR season I tried to actually get into. It was meh, only thing I liked/remember is the team-up which may not be the best, but well it made me happy enough. Probably because most of the people coming back were the ones I liked/grew up with (excluding Adam). Hell, even my favorite SPD ranger came back as a different colour! But yeah, OO is just eeeh. I'll see what I think about Boukenger, but I think I'll probably enjoy it more than OO, if just because it's not OO.
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01-20-2012, 07:52 PM | #8 |
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Current poll shows that this series is either "Epic Fail" or "Meh". I'll just be skipping this show, then.
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01-20-2012, 11:40 PM | #9 |
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I said pretty bad. Hell I couldn't even finish it. I think what i disliked about was that there were too many bad guys and the plot was boring. The battlizer was cool though
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01-29-2012, 05:34 PM | #10 |
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Turbo had a team up?
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