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01-19-2012, 09:08 AM | #11 |
Master of Water
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Funnily enough, what prompted me to watch Jungle Fury was the theme song! I liked it for some reason.
In my view, Jungle Fury is one of those underrated seasons. It's usually listed on many people's most hated list, and I really don't see why! Sure enough, it feels bland at times, but it's still definitely competent. Most of the characters, even Casey who grated on my nerves in the first few episodes, get interesting and relatable later on. Besides that, you've got the amazing RJ, who is one of the better Rangers in the entire Power Rangers saga, some decent fights, decent chemistry between the characters and more. There are a few problem, namely a lack of "bling", occasional overuse of the slow-motion explosion effect, and inconsistent and occasionally draggy pacing. In the end, it's not an excellent season, but I enjoyed it greatly. I definitely found it more fun than Samurai, for instance. Finally, I'm going to say something blasphemous: I finished Jungle Fury, but gave up on Gekiranger 4 episodes in. Probably irrelevant, but I thought it might be interesting.
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01-19-2012, 01:36 PM | #12 |
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Jungle Fury is okay. Honestly, of all the PR seasons I've watched it's the one that I always tend to forget exists. That's not to say it's bad (especially coming after Operation Overdrive), just that very little about it sticks in my memory.
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01-19-2012, 02:46 PM | #13 |
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Jungle Fury was one of the better adaptations. The actors they found are excellent, especailly RJK/Wolf Ranger. The storyline is pretty decent, especailly once they introduce the Phantom Beast Generals. The only real con is that annoying fly Camille spits out during every Zord fight that commentates. Ignore that minor annoyance, and the rest of the show is excellent.
I'm sure Gekiranger is it's own kind of good, but aside from Samurai I've yet to see a PR vs Sentai that the shows were similar enough to make a direct comparison with an outright winner. I'm betting Geki vs JF is more like Deka vs SPD. Both good in their own ways and everyone has their preference of the two. From what little I've seen of Geki, I prefer JF, but I'm not gonna object to watching it someday because one is "better." PS I agree, the fly is annoying as hell and ruins a lot of great zord battles...need to check if he's in Gekiranger too. |
01-19-2012, 02:55 PM | #14 |
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I thought the Fly was an American thing, but sad to say he's a carryover from Gekiranger. I do believe though, that he gets interesting in both series towards their respective ends.
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01-19-2012, 02:59 PM | #15 |
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If the Gokaiger adaptation brings past rangers back RJ is near the top of characters I'd like to see return.
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01-19-2012, 10:20 PM | #16 |
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I thought it was another rough translation of the Sentai version. The Spirit/Phantom Beasts/Rangers were pretty neat, but the stories (in my opinion) were bland. RJ and Dominic made the show though, I think Dom is my favorite "almost 6th" Ranger ever.
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01-19-2012, 10:33 PM | #17 |
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I liked it more than Overdrive which isn't saying much but found the finale to be disappointing. But the zords were pretty cool
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01-19-2012, 11:05 PM | #18 |
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There were some really bad moments in the series, but it had it's good points which kept it enjoyable. Overall it was a decent show. I recently rewatched a couple eps on Nick and it made me want to rewatch the series again.
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01-27-2012, 04:00 PM | #19 |
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I'm through episode 20 (Dash For The Dagger) on Jungle Fury and overall I am enjoying the series. It's not my favorite but it has a high action quotient and none of the characters are overly irritating. Of the good guys, RJ is the real standout. Great character. I really like Jarrod/Dai Shi and Camille as well. Their story has captured my interest.
Is it weird that I really like the Jungle Pride Megazord but think the Wolf Pride Megazord is pretty lame? Jungle Master Megazord is pretty good as well but I really liked that first iteration. Simply replacing the Cheetah with the Wolf is not very creative to me. Plus it leaves Lily out of the equation entirely, when you think about it. But yeah. 2/3rds of the way though, and this series has been a lot more "hit" than "miss" for me.
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01-30-2012, 04:00 PM | #20 |
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It's weird. It was a terrible show, but there was so much potential there. All the usual Disney things that made PR annoying were there...the horrible music, the screaming like you're on fire when having normal conversation in suit, the pewpewpew sound effects, the slow motion fights, the explosions, and I felt like it TRIED to have a great story, but there just wasn't enough put into the show resources wise at that point to elevate it to greatness.
Even though there were three Rangers initially, they still didn't give them good characterization...you felt moments of character peeking through and that's what made it so frustrating. Like that episode where AmericanGekiBlue and AmericanGekiChopper go and try to find his dagger thing...I felt like the characters almost had personalities. I thought RJ was absolutely fantastic though. Like the Mack story in Operation Overkill, RJ was totally out of place in how awesome he was in this show. Of course he became less awesome when he became AmericanGekiViolet because then he started doing all those goofy things that I talked about before during the fights, and he became less important too for some reason....but yeah. Summing it up...massive missed potential.
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