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What are you watching? Power Rangers Edition
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01-09-2021, 02:16 PM
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DreamSword
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Neo-Saban Halloween Specials
I have no idea why, but I just kinda woke up today and decided I wanted to watch all of these? It was actually a good thing to do, because it helped me give a quick way in showing just how much the Era had evolved as it went on.
For those who might've skipped these, the Neo-Saban Halloween Specials are essentially clipshows, typically giving a scenario centered around the holiday for Rangers to recall past adventures. Thing is, I actually found myself enjoying them for the most part despite that, because I've seen clips shows that are literally JUST an assortment of past clips(Tekkaman Blade), or ones that were so sloppily done that they actually made me outright
angry
(Dragon Knight).
So with that said, let's take a trip down memory lane ourselves, and have a brief look at these Halloween Specials and how exactly they handled themselves.
The first one comes from
Samurai
, which is probably the simplest out of all of them. A bunch of Nighloks meet in the afterlife to talk about how they fell to the Rangers. I enjoyed the lampshades they dropped here; From pointing out how the Samurai tend to showboat after Morphing to poking fun at just how freaky alot of the Nighlok designs are. And double points for using clips from the Negatron fight, which was my favorite MOTW of the season.
Super Samurai
actually brings forth a really good idea when it comes to these: Utilize them to use footage that they otherwise couldn't use in the show proper. From all the Rangers being in goofy outfits to an idol dance sequence, it manages to justify its use of really trippy imagery by being a nightmare sequence for the team. I found this one to be rather fun!
Mega Force
continues with this idea, but also throwing some original footage into the mix in order to make it play out more like a proper episode. Funnily enough, this episode also has some of the better character moments seen in the show, from Emma being upset that the MOTW interrupted her baking, to Gia hinting she has a crush on Jake, it was done alot better than what I expected it to be! As for the screenshot I chose? That's actually poking fun at how Troy's' actor, Andrew Gray, would frequently fall asleep on set during the show's' production. Nice.
Super Mega Force
skips the holidays specials. Based on what I know of what went on behind the scenes, I'm assuming it's because by that point everyone involved was sick of working on the show and thus they didn't bother.
Dino Charge
takes a bit of a step back in that all of the clips used are episodes that we've already seen, but I will give it props for still feeling like an episode of the show proper ontop of presenting a mystery that actually has some very subtle hints to it. Props to Yoshi Sudarso for the subtle acting here; You can notice little facial expressions he does as the episode goes on if you pay attention to him in the background.
As for
Dino Super Charge
, well, I mainly just found this one overall obnoxious. It doesn't really do anything new, Poisandra is annoying as always, and the original fight at the end isn't really much to speak of. Points for bringing Philip back though, and the visual gag that I screencapped did get a laugh out of me. Also Philip totally pulls off that outfit, just saying.
And with that, we move onto the last, and, in my opinion, the absolute best clips show that the Era, heck, perhaps even the series so far, has had to offer.
The clipshow for
Ninja Steel
is actually one that I really like alot. It continues the use of using up footage that they didn't find room for before, but this time presents them in a unique context that really makes them feel like part of show's' own universe, without resorting to flashbacks or flash-forwards. And as a fan of board games, the homage to
Jumanji
was a great touch.
Heck, the board game they play? Grave Robber? It's actually just a modified version of
Nightmare
(later called
Atmosfear
), which features one of the greatest show hosts ever filmed.
And all of the action sequences they use are great, which only helps in making the episode alot more fun to watch.
And ontop of it all, it really does feel like a proper episode of the season itself, even offering a lesson that I really dig: That the activity you do with those you care about isn't exactly what's important; it's the time you spend with them that is. Also a sub-lesson about trying out new things, since doing them with your friends can give them an entirely new context.
The final special of all of these, the one in
Super Ninja Steel
, is a little bit of a step down, but I still highly enjoyed it overall. The plot is alot more basic and they brought back to obnoxious Halloween Court, but he new scenes we got to see are all very silly and entertaining to watch, and I like how the Rangers outright lampshade them with lines like "Hey wait, that never happened!" Heck, all the dialogue in this is very on point and in character, and I never felt like my time was being wasted.
So... there you go! With this, I hope I could maybe give you a small glimpse as a way the entries in the Neo-Saban Era built off one another. And also why, with the next season I'll be going into, I think of it rather fondly, even if no one else does...
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