Power Rangers - the appreciation and discussion thread

[sdp]

I never understand how the fandom calls out those continuity errors when we've seen time and time again that powers can come back and powers are passed on. Power Rangers is THE franchise where it can be explained away easily.

[MikeandRaph87]

Originally Posted by sdp

I never understand how the fandom calls out those continuity errors when we've seen time and time again that powers can come back and powers are passed on. Power Rangers is THE franchise where it can be explained away easily.

How would you explain it? "It is a show and people don't care if it makes sense with past scripts? Just go with it". As such Tommy can have Saba and morph into the Green Ranger when it should not be possible according to what I predict you would say?

[sdp]

It's a crossover, it's meant to be fan service, would you rather not have any crossovers because it makes "more sense"?

Again powers have been recovered time after time, and the times they do mention how it makes even less sense. I prefer the fan theories since fans actually spend the time thinking about it while the show just makes a quick vague reference or outright contradicts something. How many times do the Power Rangers lose their powers in their respective season and yet recover them? More than a few and this is without counting crossovers.

As to why "it's impossible to have two rangers", well ranger powers are passed on all the time so it's not without a question that say Justin found some other people to fill the turbo ranger roles, hell maybe it was the robot turbo rangers, maybe it's the original turbo rangers and it was Andros that replaced the Space rangers. Those explanations
sure make more sense than the In Space/Lost Galaxy crossover ones where they just randomly show up and then by the end act like a team.

The whole GOKAIRANGER CANT BE ADAPTED BECAUSE OF PRE MMPR SENTAI was such a retarded stance, I mean we've seen tons of stuff used that had no prior explanation other than "from another planet/dimension/from the past" and it just works. We know there are ranger teams all over space, why was it so hard to have the other sentai just be other rangers from other planets? It's not like the target audience even knew where most of the Power Rangers canon suits came from anyway, to them all of them were new suits.

[MikeandRaph87]

Originally Posted by sdp

It's a crossover, it's meant to be fan service, would you rather not have any crossovers because it makes "more sense"?

Again powers have been recovered time after time, and the times they do mention how it makes even less sense. I prefer the fan theories since fans actually spend the time thinking about it while the show just makes a quick vague reference or outright contradicts something. How many times do the Power Rangers lose their powers in their respective season and yet recover them? More than a few and this is without counting crossovers.

As to why "it's impossible to have two rangers", well ranger powers are passed on all the time so it's not without a question that say Justin found some other people to fill the turbo ranger roles, hell maybe it was the robot turbo rangers, maybe it's the original turbo rangers and it was Andros that replaced the Space rangers. Those explanations
sure make more sense than the In Space/Lost Galaxy crossover ones where they just randomly show up and then by the end act like a team.

The whole GOKAIRANGER CANT BE ADAPTED BECAUSE OF PRE MMPR SENTAI was such a retarded stance, I mean we've seen tons of stuff used that had no prior explanation other than "from another planet/dimension/from the past" and it just works. We know there are ranger teams all over space, why was it so hard to have the other sentai just be other rangers from other planets? It's not like the target audience even knew where most of the Power Rangers canon suits came from anyway, to them all of them were new suits.

I haven't watch it since the Turbo/In Space switch over aside form the Legend War so my knowledge is limited of what happened after that. It just struck me as weird with Tommy having Saba yet morphed into the Green Ranger despite the powers being back in time and I believe the White Ranger powers were destroyed ( I cannot remember how? Commander Center goes kaboom so the powers go with it?) However, this time I am referring to should not exist because there were no colonist let alone red coats in California in 1776. So I guess leave your brain in the other room.

[Storm Eagle]

Originally Posted by MikeandRaph87

I haven't watch it since the Turbo/In Space switch over aside form the Legend War so my knowledge is limited of what happened after that. It just struck me as weird with Tommy having Saba yet morphed into the Green Ranger despite the powers being back in time and I believe the White Ranger powers were destroyed ( I cannot remember how? Commander Center goes kaboom so the powers go with it?) However, this time I am referring to should not exist because there were no colonist let alone red coats in California in 1776. So I guess leave your brain in the other room.

Yes it was weird having Tommy break out Saba and then morph into the Green Ranger. Like I said before, he was only the Green Ranger again because that's what JDF wanted, and probably doesn't care if it makes sense or not.

So, about the legendary battle. The MMPR rangers were most likely all the original rangers, although the Yellow Ranger could be Aisha and not Trini. The Zeo Rangers were Adam, Rocky, Tanya, and Kat, and the Turbo Rangers would most likely be the robot replicants of the second generation Turbo teens, and maybe the real Justin. Thus the Space Rangers would be the real T.J., Ashley, Carlos, and Cassie, and Andros and Zhane.

[MikeandRaph87]

I am surprised no one asked JDF his own explaination at a Convention yet. Also, despite poor treatment of cadt and the Legend War invitations a prime example it is rather surpring that Frank got to pick his ranger identity, most popular character or not. Having Saba in hand lends itself to the idea that Saban originally wanted to have him appear in white.


Thoughts on the " Shattered Grid" arc over at Boom!?

[Storm Eagle]

Originally Posted by MikeandRaph87

I am surprised no one asked JDF his own explaination at a Convention yet. Also, despite poor treatment of cadt and the Legend War invitations a prime example it is rather surpring that Frank got to pick his ranger identity, most popular character or not. Having Saba in hand lends itself to the idea that Saban originally wanted to have him appear in white.

The person who sent out those invitations isn't one of the people who had a say in what ranger Tommy got to be.

[ZariusTwo]

[Allio]

Originally Posted by sdp

It's a crossover, it's meant to be fan service, would you rather not have any crossovers because it makes "more sense"?

fanservice for the sake of fanservice is jut terrible writing and shouldn't be condoned

[sdp]

Originally Posted by Allio

fanservice for the sake of fanservice is jut terrible writing and shouldn't be condoned

It's tokusatsu, fan service is a big factor of its appeal. And like I said, in universe there are plenty of explanations.I just don't feel it's something that needs to be explained.

[Allio]

With the ending of Kyuranger and Kaito vs Lupin next week, it was announced that Kyuranger will return for Kyuranger vs Space Squad. So I guess this is also Space Squad episode 2.

Originally Posted by sdp

It's tokusatsu, fan service is a big factor of its appeal. And like I said, in universe there are plenty of explanations.I just don't feel it's something that needs to be explained.

Just like how tmnt fans expect more out of our Turtles, Tokusatsu fans expect more out their grown-ups in spandex. There is a big reason why many love shows like Gaim and Ex-aid and prefer them over others like Wizard and Ghost.

damn. Ghost was bad.

Hell, I'll even say it. I prefer my little girly cartoons to be strong in the story department. It irks me to no end that in Ever After High a Ramona Wolf was forced into being Cerise's sister even though she was clearly written as an only sister. They even refer to stories where her portrayel is of that as an only sister. The only thing I can think of is that since Ever After High is extremely meta over the fact it is indeed a book Ramona may not really exist.

[sdp]

Originally Posted by Allio

Just like how tmnt fans expect more out of our Turtles, Tokusatsu fans expect more out their grown-ups in spandex. There is a big reason why many love shows like Gaim and Ex-aid and prefer them over others like Wizard and Ghost.

I'm not trying to say Tokusatsu is just fan service, but we embrace it as part of it. It's the awesome moments that make you feel "Damn I don't care if they're guys in rubber suits and spandex, THAT was awesome."

Yes, I love great stories, I don't mind cheese here and there either. I want great martial arts and amazing action scenes not to mention cool reveals and twists as long as they make sense. I can be very forgiving on all of these when they don't do it though.

As far as crossovers, they generally don't make sense, not even in Marvel/DC since they usually bring up more questions about how it exactly works than it answers but it's still cool seeing Avengers/Justice League. Fan explanations are fine and we can't say that Power Rangers isn't a franchise that makes crossovers impossible as I mentioned powers get restored all the time and we've seen plenty of power transfers as well, it's not out of this world to think either of those happened before the crossover off-screen. Yes, I'd love to have some dialog to explain but I don't need it. How did Rita become the Mystic Mother? I don't need to know, it was a cool reference for fans I'll take that over nothing which is likely the scenario since they weren't going to explain in one episode who she was, how she became good after In Space and how she became the Mystic Mother, I just don't need those holes filled and I don't think that's bad writing, in fact it may very well be the opposite. Ignoring current plot points which Power Rangers does on plenty of times with dropped storylines is far more annoying.

I disliked Gaim, it's not horrible but definitely the weakest Kamen Rider show I've watched which to be fair is only a few. I haven't watched Ghost and only saw the Decade crossover of Wizard and don't intend to but I'm looking forward to watching Ex-Aid after hearing plenty of great things about it, that's the next show on my bucket list.

[Storm Eagle]

Originally Posted by sdp

I'm not trying to say Tokusatsu is just fan service, but we embrace it as part of it. It's the awesome moments that make you feel "Damn I don't care if they're guys in rubber suits and spandex, THAT was awesome."

Yes, I love great stories, I don't mind cheese here and there either. I want great martial arts and amazing action scenes not to mention cool reveals and twists as long as they make sense. I can be very forgiving on all of these when they don't do it though.

As far as crossovers, they generally don't make sense, not even in Marvel/DC since they usually bring up more questions about how it exactly works than it answers but it's still cool seeing Avengers/Justice League. Fan explanations are fine and we can't say that Power Rangers isn't a franchise that makes crossovers impossible as I mentioned powers get restored all the time and we've seen plenty of power transfers as well, it's not out of this world to think either of those happened before the crossover off-screen. Yes, I'd love to have some dialog to explain but I don't need it. How did Rita become the Mystic Mother? I don't need to know, it was a cool reference for fans I'll take that over nothing which is likely the scenario since they weren't going to explain in one episode who she was, how she became good after In Space and how she became the Mystic Mother, I just don't need those holes filled and I don't think that's bad writing, in fact it may very well be the opposite.

I'd have preferred it if Mystic Mother was made to be a relative of Rita or something.

[Allio]

I’m just about ready to write off Drakkon as the Goten of Power Rangers. A personality—less mirror of a previous character whose only contribution is he can become a fusion

[sdp]

JDF narrates Lord Drakko's story for the upcoming comic:




Damn, that looks cool, so are all PR teams now being featured in the comic? Are they different universes or the same one and just time travelling?

Lord Drakkon always seemed cool but reeked too much of DeviantArt and the new comic seemed trying too hard to be hip and dipping too much into fanfic territory but this storyline seems interesting.

Counting we've gotten so much promotion of him, I wouldn't doubt if JDF ever played Lord Drakkon in a real storyline eventually if not the 25th anniversary and even if not It could get a figure. Saban has been promoting it a lot and it's even featured in the mobile game.

[MikeandRaph87]

Originally Posted by sdp

JDF narrates Lord Drakko's story for the upcoming comic:




Damn, that looks cool, so are all PR teams now being featured in the comic? Are they different universes or the same one and just time travelling?

Lord Drakkon always seemed cool but reeked too much of DeviantArt and the new comic seemed trying too hard to be hip and dipping too much into fanfic territory but this storyline seems interesting.

Counting we've gotten so much promotion of him, I wouldn't doubt if JDF ever played Lord Drakkon in a real storyline eventually if not the 25th anniversary and even if not It could get a figure. Saban has been promoting it a lot and it's even featured in the mobile game.

At this time its the original six vs Rita Repulsa still. Rita recently went to The Wizard of Deception for a complex spell. We also saw the backstory of a failed group of Rangers at the summer of 1969 moon landing that saw a Psycho Green Ranger. We are lead to believe Alternate Tommy will break free from Promethea and use their technology to shatter the multiverse. Could the Turbo replacements be fro the same dimension that the original six version we are reading are from? Possibly. Or even yet another alternate dimension. The original six we are reading are different versions of the TV Show(same timeline until Tommy joins the team) and Lord Drakkon's dimension is another separate one. We saw a side story with Zack that saw Black Mighty Morphin Rangers throughout the multiverse. Most all were Zack,but a pair of them were Adam ( season 3 Frog Zord and the Wild West ones) prompting Zack to ask what was his future. Bottom-line is we will not know until the first week of Spring most likely.

[ZariusTwo]

Casting for the next season begins in mid-march

[Allio]

Lupinranger vs patoranger



Pato will probably get a sequence next week

[ZariusTwo]

PR's deal with Nick extended through to 2021

http://comicbook.com/powerrangers/20...1-nickelodeon/

[ZariusTwo]

Apparently the franchise is getting a new logo

Spoiler:

http://news.tokunation.com/2018/02/1...urfaces-50182]