Power Rangers Rant

Power Rangers Samurai: At first I thought, "It's kind of bad when you put this show next to SpongeBob," but after a month had gone by, it deserves it. This season is terrible. The first episode aired was called "The Team Unites" but was about the Green Ranger and no one else to the point where I felt that something was missing because I didn't know who these people were or why they were there. (That's because they delayed the airing of the two-part season opener until almost the half-way point.) It had nothing to do with the origin story or anything else. In fact, the team uniting didn't seem to happen until the end of episode 2 when they all put their hands together. After seeing the first five Ranger-specific episodes, the only one I marginally enjoyed was episode 4 about the Yellow Ranger. Also, evil Blue Ranger could give evil Tommy a run for his money. For the most part, the show is poorly written (especially episode 5), the acting sounds forced and not believable at all, and even the villains sound phoned in. The only reason Bulk is in it is because Paul Schrier apparently begged to be in it and got paid ten dollars a day (according to an interview I found on Youtube). Bulk and his nephew Spike (don't ask, he's a stand-in for Jason Narvy because if you knew who spawned him you would be pissed and utterly confused) have little-to-no bearing on the plot (none of the civilians do, to the point where even if they help the Rangers they aren't even given a name). This season uses recycled gags from season one that Bulk and Skull were known for as well as its spin on the Mighty Morphin theme and background music. Also, someone should tell the kid to stop snorting like Urkel - Skull's laughter was never that dreadful. I'd stop watching it, but it looks like the main villains might actually start to do something next time. Plus the actor who played Cole from Wild Force is here playing a brainwashed bad guy named Deker who is obsessed with fighting the Red Ranger. The Gold Ranger is a Warbler from Glee, but in the end the Pink Ranger steals the show with her singing. Season 2 is called Super Samurai. I'm not going to question it since MMPR had 3 seasons, but it looks like this is over at 2. Halloween special was dumb, but I can't hate on the Christmas special at all.

When I read that Alpha 5 had been killed along with the cyborg clone Rangers before Zordon was kidnapped I was devastated. Then lately I've gotten to thinking how much better it would have been if he could regenerate like the Doctor. That way he'd keep all the memories of the past iterations. This doesn't work because Alpha 6 was operational at the same time as 5 and maybe 7. Speaking of the cybernetic clones, that fear of being robots or being replaced by robots carried on all the way in the future during SPD with Sophie. What the heck?

 The 20th Anniversary Reunion: Thanks to Saban's vaguely worded and poorly formatted email blast, many of the old Rangers didn't want to come back on principle (and also for unresolved personal issues or other commitments). Not only that, but the actors who happened to be in the seasons that were owned by Disney weren't invited (or maybe Disney wouldn't allow them to, in which case Disney is just as guilty and deplorable as Nick). I knew they weren't going to be able to get everybody, but the way they went about doing this is isolating and disrespectful. As much as I didn't like the 15th anniversary team-up with only a few previous Rangers brought back, that was actually a better strategy (as well as the Dino Thunder episode chronicling the history up to their time). If they're just going to have most of the Rangers represented by Japanese footage anyway when they get to the actual battle (since the current bunch meeting and greeting all of them unmorphed would take forever), they don't need everyone to fly down to New Zealand to suit up. They don't even need most of them to even say anything if they can just use sound bytes for the fighting scenes - they've done it before! How could something so potentially awesome go so horribly wrong already? I'm sure the actors who agreed to take part in this are having a great time and everything, but I remain dubious of the whole debacle.

There's a new Power Rangers movie coming out in November called MMPR with actors who weren't any kind of Ranger (Mighty Morphin or otherwise) so I'm guessing it's a fan project. However, it's probably the best fan project ever since it has Robert Axelrod, David Fielding, and Ron Wasserman on board. On the poster, Zedd looks more like he got fused with Darconda like Ecliptor did. No Rita or Alpha from what I've seen of the cast list though. If it's as good as the Casey Jones fan project I'm sure it'll be fine. As for the Rangers who will be appearing or not appearing in the anniversary special, I've stopped giving a damn. I'm sick of all the drama. It only gets worse the more I read about it since I never knew about most of it in the first place. Instead I'll keep my childhood memories and patiently await Linkara's next History of Power Rangers videos. I'm glad he got a new girlfriend. Every time anyone says Metal Alice's name in the current season of Megaforce I think of Iron Liz. The names are similar.

Oh no. Robo Knight just asked what fun is. And they're followed by SpongeBob. You know where I'm going with this.