Power Rangers

[Prime32]

There was some Power Rangers discussion clogging up the iCarly thread. Let's take it here.

[Fri]

I used to love power ranger. It's really my favourite show in early elementary school years. I would be really sad if I missed a single episode of it.

Unlike a lot of people, I actually preferred the original season before tommy's appearance. I still fondly remember it as the good old simple days. But I realize that it's truly because I was just a kid back then, and I they're right when they said that sometimes kids prefer simple stuffs.

I watched it until zeo, then I kinda ignored it. I remember I didn't really like the next seasons, zeo, the one with machine empire, and the first ninja stuffs. I guess it's because I've grown up back then. I started watching again at power ranger in space, and I remember liking it.

My absolute favourite is power ranger lost galaxy though. I love the setting. And I especially like the starship troopers expy. The limelight episode for them is definitely my favourite episode. I guess I'll write more after I remember more of them.

[Prime32]

Best openings?

Time Force (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGHn9YxmCDQ)
Ninja Storm (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C1H1PlHofI)

Both of those seasons had good music in general - Time Force had themes based on 2001: A Space Odyssey.


EDIT: How could I forget to post this?
Cover of Go Go Power Rangers! by Masaki Endoh (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVEMCFjPvzY) (the only English song on that album)

[Fri]

And I remember that the premise of time force is really awesome. I watched the first episode, and thought, holy ****, I can't believe that it's the first episode of a power rangers season.

[Prime32]

And I remember that the premise of time force is really awesome. I watched the first episode, and thought, holy ****, I can't believe that it's the first episode of a power rangers season.In a future where genetic purity has become a central tenet of society, one of the oppressed mutant minority takes over a prison and travels back in time to use the inmates to stop this world from ever coming to pass.

A squad of high-tech police are sent back to stop him, but their leader (Red Ranger) is killed in the process and only he has the DNA authorisation to activate their morphers. After travelling back in time they are forced to ally with a spoiled rich kid identical to him. Making things more complicated, the deceased Red Ranger was the Pink Ranger's boyfriend. She ends up tsundere for the new Red, basically.

A while back, the mutant leader killed a random doctor while attacking a genetics lab. Or so he thought. The doctor managed to survive through extensive prosthetics, and now masquerades as the villain's robot henchman while he plots his revenge.

Red's father is a greedy bastard who wants to take advantage of technology from the future to become a billionaire, even if it means that the Rangers will no longer have a home to go back to. When he discovers that his son is the Red Ranger and he refuses to help him, he starts up a security company called the Silver Guardians, led by a jerkass who stole a zord and morpher to become the Quantum Ranger.

[n00b killa]

Power Ranger?
But I barely know her!

Nah, seriously, I was quite into them many years ago... I remember going to the theatre to see the movie... weird stuff

[Tengu_temp]

I mostly saw the first two seasons. I was never a huge fan of Power Rangers, though I didn't dislike them either. What I enjoy a lot, however, is Linkara's History of Power Rangers - it's both educional and fun to watch. Link below.

http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/linkara/hopr

[Starscream]

I mostly saw the first two seasons. I was never a huge fan of Power Rangers, though I didn't dislike them either. What I enjoy a lot, however, is Linkara's History of Power Rangers - it's both educional and fun to watch. Link below.

http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/linkara/hopr

I'm in the same camp as you. I watched it for a while, but soon grew bored and gave up on it. My two younger brothers, however, loved it so I still saw a lot of it even though I wasn't a fan.

My problem was how predictable the plot was in the early seasons. I used to annoy my sibs by standing in another room, watching the clock, and saying "She's making the monster huge...now!". My success rate was notable.

Still, I'm a fan of Linkara, so I've been watching his videos. It's actually pretty interesting. When you strip out all the filler and only show the highlights, it's rather enjoyable (probably true of a lot of shows). And his serious analysis of a pretty non-serious franchise is entertaining.

And I forgot how much I missed Bulk and Skull. They were the only reason I put up with the show in the first place.

[Dr.Epic]

I used to watch that show as a kid. I remember this one boss they had to fight was just a giant mass of eyeballs in a humanoid form.

[Zevox]

I watched the show as a kid as well. It's been so long that I'd probably not recall much of anything about it if it weren't for Linkara's video series on it, though. Based on that, I pretty much lost interest after season 4 (Zeo). I vaguely recall season 5 (Turbo), but only a bit, and I know that the events Linkara recounted as occurring in the middle of that season are ones I never saw, so apparently I didn't stick around for much of that one.

Zevox

[Lord Seth]

In a future where genetic purity has become a central tenet of society, one of the oppressed mutant minority takes over a prison and travels back in time to use the inmates to stop this world from ever coming to pass.Sort of, but not quite. The series is fairly inconsistent on whether the mutants are actually "oppressed", with the bulk of the evidence being that they aren't. Sure, Ransik claims he was shunned, but Jen says people did try to help him and he rejected it...given that that we see direct evidence of this in a flashback later, I'm definitely going to side with Jen on this. Also, I don't think Ransik's goal was to try to stop the future from coming to pass, he just wanted to go back in time because that way Time Force wouldn't have been established and he could far more easily do things like take over the world.

Also:

Red's father is a greedy bastard who wants to take advantage of technology from the future to become a billionaire, even if it means that the Rangers will no longer have a home to go back to. When he discovers that his son is the Red Ranger and he refuses to help him, he starts up a security company called the Silver Guardians, led by a jerkass who stole a zord and morpher to become the Quantum Ranger.You're getting some stuff wrong here.First, Wes's father is already a billionaire (or at least a millionaire...the point is, he's rich) and while he did try to take advantage of the technology, he did *not* know it was from the future. In fact, when he does find out it's from the future and that developing it could cause problems for the future, he stops. So he's definitely not taking advantage of it "even if it means the Rangers will no longer have a home to go back to." Also, he set up the Silver Guardians *before* he found out his son was the Red Ranger.

[spoiler]
My problem was how predictable the plot was in the early seasons. I used to annoy my sibs by standing in another room, watching the clock, and saying "She's making the monster huge...now!". My success rate was notable.Actually one of the reasons I didn't get into Power Rangers for a while was because of how repetitive the early seasons were (it wasn't until I happened to watch some of Dino Thunder that I became a fan--ironically, Dino Thunder was kind of a "modern take" on the first season). Later seasons, while still adhering to the monster of the week formula, were less repetitive and more continuity-driven. Sadly, those were also the seasons that fewer people were watching. The best season of the entire series (RPM) was also the one that got the fewest viewers. Of course, a lot of the lack of viewers can be blamed on the fact that Disney was pretty much done with the franchise and didn't bother promoting it and put it in a weak time slot. Which again is a shame, as RPM was awesome, though it sadly also has one of the worst theme songs in the entire series.

Here's to hoping the next season in 2011 turns out good.

[Nerd-o-rama]

So Saban got the license back, and I heard they'd decided to pick up Samurai Sentai Shinkenger as the next installment.

Shinkenger, the half-hour-a-week Japanese cultural in-joke.

Wonder what they'll turn it into.

[Prime32]

So Saban got the license back, and I heard they'd decided to pick up Samurai Sentai Shinkenger as the next installment.

Shinkenger, the half-hour-a-week Japanese cultural in-joke.

Wonder what they'll turn it into.They actually skipped Shinkenger the first time around, because "it's about samurai with kanji on their helmets and powers based on calligraphy" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1W5zNuNypg).

I thought they might have the Shinkengers show up as supporting characters in an adaptation of another season, while keeping them fairly close to the originals. Sadly the English version won't have this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BPWw3zciJU). :smalltongue:


EDIT: Then there's Goseiger (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0ldl1ChA0M), which has tributes to Zyuranger and Dairanger (aka Mighty Morphin'). And an expy of Mike Sounders. I just went looking for clips and started wondering "Why is Volfogg using Cross Mirage to fight a Zoanoid (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF11dWSmp9c)?"

[Warlock Odin]

As weird coincidences usually go, I took delivery of the Power Rangers movie on DVD today (as a child it tottaly passed me by that Lord Zed's brain is outside his skull) along with other movies that have more cheese than a dairy farm.

I loved the pre-Zeo years of Power Rangers used to watch them all the time as a child (flashback) and have vowed to one day own them on DVD.

[Lord Seth]

They actually skipped Shinkenger the first time around, because "it's about samurai with kanji on their helmets and powers based on calligraphy" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1W5zNuNypg).I don't think so. Disney was clearly done producing new seasons of Power Rangers, so I don't think Shinkenger being so Kanji-influenced had anything to do with their decision not to adapt it. Heck, supposedly the only reason Disney even did produce RPM was because Bandai got them to. I really doubt the Kanji was the reason they didn't produce it.

As for why they're producing Shinkenger now? Well, Saban bought back the rights and wanted to keep making seasons. Given that the choice they had was the complete Shinkenger and the incomplete Goseiger, it made more sense to go with the complete one, as they know everything that's going to happen in it and thus have a much better idea of what to do. I remember Bruce Kalish (former producer of Power Rangers) said in an interview that a difficulty in writing Power Rangers is that you have to come up with the stories and arcs while the Super Sentai series is mid-production, meaning you don't know for sure exactly what kind of footage you're going to get and have to think up story ideas without knowing that and possibly switch them around to fit the footage. This time around, with Shinkenger complete, they'll have a better idea of how the footage will turn out. One indication of this is...(spoilers for Shinkenger and probably also the new season of Power Rangers)Late in Shinkenger the Red Ranger is temporarily replaced by a female Red Ranger--yes, the first female Red Ranger in Sentai history--for a while. Obviously they'll need to do the same thing in the Power Rangers series to fit the footage, and one of the non-Ranger characters that they were casting for is almost certainly going to be the one to do it. Therefore, by knowing at the start of the season that they're going to do that in Shinkenger, they can introduce the character at the start and later have them take on the role of Red Ranger, rather than finding out midway through the series and having to figure out how to fit the in-progress story to allow them to enter.So yeah, definite advantages in knowing where the footage is going ahead of time.

[Teutonic Knight]

A little bit of Mighty Morphin, a little Lost Galaxy, then all of Lightspeed Rescue and all of Time Force. That was the better part of my childhood. For Time Force I remember being freaked out at Ransik pulling swords out of his knees and elbows.

[MammonAzrael]

I loved this show as a little kid. I never watched any of the spin off themes, only the original. I remember being really psyched about the movie and loving it. I think my Mighty Morphin' Power Ranger love disappeared sometime the following year or so.

Personally, the monster that has always stood out in my memory was the one that was a cross between Tokka and a stoplight.....Shellshock.

Go go Power Rangers!

[devinkowalczyk]

Good times as a kid
terrible to watch as an adult

but it is my child hood
it was my life

[doliest]

My fondest memories as a child, and something I can still watch with joy. My favorite, flat out, is Lightspeed Rescue. You just can't go wrong with Carter Grayson. :smallamused:

[Nomrom]

I only watched the first three seasons before I got too "grown up" to like the show anymore. I did really like it when I watched it though. And I'm wearing Power Rangers t-shirt right now.

[Kobold-Bard]

I rewatched the first two series a while back at it actually made me doubt my entire childhood. Specifically the episodes where the red, black & yellow rangers actors had quit and they had to make teo episodes without them.

Apparently I was so dumb I didn't notice the reusing the same piece of stock footage (it may have been the only scene with all three of the departing next to eac other) a dozen times in the same conversation. And they had a different guy dubbing the red ranger in fight scenes.

I'm seriously scared that I was so obssessed by this back in the day that o didn't notice this.

Still love the memories though, and to this day I still have a Dragon Dagger toy in a box somewhere in my parents loft.

[Prime32]

Personally, the monster that has always stood out in my memory was the one that was a cross between Tokka and a stoplight.....Shellshock.The thing I remember about that monster was that it was something the "monster maker" guys came up with on the spot, and then they spend a while coming up with a name for it.

*cut to Command Center*
Zordon: "It is as I feared. They sent Shellshock." *provides description of Shellshock's powers*

:smallconfused:


IIRC that episode was the first time this thing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JZc79_qBgw) got to fight.

[Fri]

the comments are hillarious.

"and in the background you see the T-rex going "pfft i could do that too" lol"

[Lord Seth]

It's funny that here are so many people who watched the show a lot when they were kids, then grew out of it...I actually wasn't that big on the show when I was a kid (like everyone else I did get some merchandise, but actually didn't watch the show itself that much), and didn't get into it until about ten years later, with Dino Thunder. Kind of fell out with it after Mystic Force though, but Linkara's History of Power Rangers series got me interested in it again and I've been watching (or in some cases, re-watching) a bunch of the seasons. I think the best ones are In Space and RPM (and recommend checking out both), though Time Force, Ninja Storm, and Dino Thunder are pretty good also.

As a note, I really liked this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etv_v11Fm5U). Fit the song well and I especially enjoy how it got a good amount from each season into it.

[Assassin89]

I didn't really see much of the first season of Power Rangers, but I did see parts of every season after Lightspeed Rescue. I also find the show somewhat predictable as the same pattern emerge in several episodes.

[Tirian]

You HAVE to watch the first season. Amy Jo Johnson was all that. *snap*

[KnightDisciple]

....I'm like 10 minutes into RPM, and...

Damn. This is perhaps the best Power Rangers opening ever.:smalleek:

[Dusk Eclipse]

I saw all seasons till... arg I don't remember.... I think Ninja Storm was the last one that I watched till the end.

I loved it when I as a kid, and I am half tempted to look for the episodes of the first season, the music was awesome (I like very much the sound of the Dragon Dagger :smallsmile:) and the Zords battle actually where battles not just a transformation sequence followed by using the insta-kill weapon.

[littlekKID]

only watched Wild Force routinely, (with a few glancing toward Time Force and Ninja Storm) and it was kind of o.k. (I wasn't a very picky kid)

[Kobold-Bard]

You HAVE to watch the first season. Amy Jo Johnson was all that. *snap*

http://i622.photobucket.com/albums/tt310/Kobold-Bard/motivator8f65512474579db9c8b84dfcbf367e54318ac271. jpg

Felt this was appropriate :smalltongue:

[Cheesegear]

Only the greatest episode of Dino Thunder (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fcF1C7Zfwo&feature=related).

Everybody here must see Forever Red (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cmG6eTB-D0&feature=related).

[Lord Seth]

Only the greatest episode of Dino Thunder (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fcF1C7Zfwo&feature=related).Really? I mean, it was an okay episode, but it was still a clip show. "Thunder Storm" leaps to mind as a far superior episode.


Everybody here must see Forever Red (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cmG6eTB-D0&feature=related).I find Forever Red overrated. It's a great concept, but they don't really do anything with the "all Red Rangers unite" concept outside of them just doing some random fight choreography and calling it a day. It really needed to be a two-parter, both for a better plot and also to try to fill in the various plot holes that are always brought up when discussing if it's canon or not.

Plus, what always bugged me was when they recruit Cole, they recruit him while the other Wild Force Rangers are right next to him and don't ask them to help. The safety of the whole world is at stake here, why not take the four extra Rangers along with you?

[Prime32]

Plus, what always bugged me was when they recruit Cole, they recruit him while the other Wild Force Rangers are right next to him and don't ask them to help. The safety of the whole world is at stake here, why not take the four extra Rangers along with you?Because the Red Ranger in charge only wanted to bring guys with good fashion sense. Why do you think the Quantum Ranger was there?

[Kobold-Bard]

Because the Red Ranger in charge only wanted to bring guys with good fashion sense. Why do you think the Quantum Ranger was there?

Because the guy who played Rocky refused to do it because of the mockery by fan due to him making porn.

[KnightDisciple]

Because the guy who played Tocky refused to do it because of the mockery by fan due to him making porn.....Tocky?:smallconfused:

[Tirian]

http://i622.photobucket.com/albums/tt310/Kobold-Bard/motivator8f65512474579db9c8b84dfcbf367e54318ac271. jpg

Felt this was appropriate :smalltongue:

She came along too late to be my first love Yvonne Craig will always be the original badass redhead in spandex. But Amy Jo definitely added a much needed element of guh to the first generation that I've never seen matched in subsequent incarnations (although I probably haven't even seen a single episode of some incarnations).

[HalfTangible]

Plus, what always bugged me was when they recruit Cole, they recruit him while the other Wild Force Rangers are right next to him and don't ask them to help. The safety of the whole world is at stake here, why not take the four extra Rangers along with you?

They still need to fight whatever villian was there for wild force, right? Pretty sure it was the Orgs, though i only saw the cross over with time force =/

[Kobold-Bard]

....Tocky?:smallconfused:

Rocky; the first guy's replacement. My phone keyboard is less than reliable.

[riccaru]

So uhh... Is it name dropping if I say my brother
met Amy Jo Johnson? He was in the movie The Islander (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipJuhj8mBtI) with her. He's in the trailer at 2:02, driving the boat.:smallbiggrin:. Also, he had the biggest crush on her when he was younger. Talk about awkward.

But for relevancy, I watched the first and second seasons diligently, possibly the third. After that it just didn't feel like power rangers>_<.

[Runestar]

Loved PR in my younger days too, moved on to Kamen Rider now.

I agree it would be awkward if Saban tried to adapt Shinkenger, since that show is so heavily steeped in Samurai tradition, while westerners likely just see them as people with really cool swords. :smalltongue:


I find Forever Red overrated. It's a great concept, but they don't really do anything with the "all Red Rangers unite" concept outside of them just doing some random fight choreography and calling it a day. It really needed to be a two-parter, both for a better plot and also to try to fill in the various plot holes that are always brought up when discussing if it's canon or not.

Agreed, but not for all the aforementioned reasons.

The lack of plot didn't really bother me. I just felt it was too rushed. I would have liked more interaction between the various actors, and more screen time for the "older" ones. For example, the one playing Jason got like...5 seconds of fight time? Does a somersault, jump-kicks 2 baddies, and that's it? Even Cole got more, and he was really just jumping all over the place. :smallmad:

The episode where they had Adam return as the black ranger, together with the red SPD ranger and some others (can't recall offhand) was super-cool! Though you can see that Adam has really aged - he actually looked winded after performing his fight scene. :smalleek:

[Zabel_Zarock]

Loved PR in my younger days too, moved on to Kamen Rider now.

I agree it would be awkward if Saban tried to adapt Shinkenger, since that show is so heavily steeped in Samurai tradition, while westerners likely just see them as people with really cool swords. :smalltongue:
Shinkenger is being adapted and images of the cast have been shown. It's gonna be slightly awkward. Then again Ninja Storm was just fine




The episode where they had Adam return as the black ranger, together with the red SPD ranger and some others (can't recall offhand) was super-cool! Though you can see that Adam has really aged - he actually looked winded after performing his fight scene. :smalleek:
That was the episode Once a Ranger. Completely awesome episode, especially for Bridge becoming a Red.