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Power Rangers:  Hyperforce

Part 6

Director Ransik - Vesper's "siblings" go on a mission of revenge against reformed Time Force villain Ransik, who they blame for the death of their "father," and Vesper and the other Hyperforce Rangers venture to stop them.

Stage 4:  The Armada - Believing the Armada to have a presence in the "Legendary Battle" of 2014 that saw multiple Ranger groups warring against Emperor Mavro, the Hyperforce Rangers travel to the planet Andresia in 2013 to sabotage Alliance ships post-invasion, with the help of Orion, the Super Megaforce Silver Ranger (Cameron Jebo, reprising his role).  They then travel to the Legendary Battle itself to fight the Alliance head on.

Shattered Grid Part 1 - The Hyperforce Rangers accidentally travel to another universe again, this time into a world in which Tommy Oliver never joined the Power Rangers and stayed by Rita Repulsa's side as the fearsome Lord Drakkon.  The Rangers meet an underground resistance unit who hope the Rangers can help them break more resistance fighters out of prison.

Guess who jumped down this rabbit hole again?  Watching an episode of Power Rangers is one thing.  They average twenty minutes and five of those are likely the same five minutes of robots combining that you saw in the previous ten episodes, so you can skip that.  Watching an episode of Super Sentai is another, because unlike Power Rangers, Sentai at least tries to tell a story.  Watching Hyperforce, on the other hand, is a terrible life decision that will haunt you for the rest of your days.

So of course I need to watch the rest of it.

For the record, I don't recommend bingewatching an RPG.  Even if you find it fun for a little while, eventually the brutality of its length will make one's enthusiasm sink like a stone.  It's like if you've ever played a game of Monopoly, but it went on forever and you're really bored, so you just say "You win" and get up and leave.  But I got sixteen episodes in, and I only have nine left.  That's still about twenty-five hours of people rolling dice I have to watch, though.

Recently I've taken to reading some of Boom Studio's Power Ranger comics on Comixology during some of my downtime, and if you're into comics and are willing to give them a chance, those are really solid runs.  Power Rangers is an interesting franchise because it somehow developed a very rich lore out of it's on-the-fly nonsense that it can't really explore because it's a slave to what footage they have to use from Super Sentai and working around a rushed children's television schedule.  Those comics are not a slave to that and just use that lore to tell character driven stories that work within it (it's kind of amazing how developed and distinct Jason, Kimberly, Zack, Billy, and Trini are within one issue of Go Go Power Rangers than compared to nearly a hundred episodes of a TV show).  Hyperforce is a character driven exploration of that lore too, though as an RPG it's limited and a bit chaotic.  But it has to be a game for the players as well as a story, so it can get a bit convoluted and long winded.  Ot tries to be a celebration of the entire history of Rangers by weaving throughout it, which is cute, but a lot of it is easter eggs for the sake of easter eggs.  Like I said in my first entry, it's a Power Rangers fan fiction turned into a dice game.

At the same time, what do you want from it?  Power Rangers isn't high art.  Power Rangers is...Power Rangers.  Let's face facts, a fan fiction with any detail at all probably has more effort than your average Power Rangers script.

After a origin establishing story for Vesper, this cluster of episodes becomes mostly about retconning.  We get an episode that inserts the Hyperforce Rangers into the Legendary Battle, which isn't too much of a stretch, because there were like five hundred Rangers at Legendary Battle and Hyperforce could have easily been among them and nobody would have noticed.  But then again, I haven't seen Legendary Battle, along with Super Megaforce in general, because by reputation it's the shittiest Power Rangers season.  That's probably not saying much, but one has to wonder how bad a season of Power Rangers is for a Power Ranger fan to call it out on it.  I've seen clips of Legendary Battle, and I picked out all the little cameos that I recognized ("Look it's Tommy!  Oh, HEY Cassie!  I don't know who that person is, but TJ is right next to him!").  I don't know if anything here is canon breaking or not, but knowing Power Rangers, it's highly likely that Legendary Battle didn't make sense in the first place.

For the final episode of this group, the Hyperforce Rangers are inserted into Boom Comics' Shattered Grid storyline, which I believe is made in junction with Hyperforce and Hyperforce may or may not have cameoed in the storyline.  While I've started reading the comics, I haven't quite made it as far as Shattered Grid (I'm about twelve into Mighty Morphin and eight into Go Go).  I doubt Hyperforce is going to make much of an impact on the storyline though, so I probably don't need to know much about it except that Lord Drakkon is an evil alternate dimension Tommy Oliver.

But those episodes shoehorning the Hyperforce Rangers into these major Ranger events are the highlights of this batch of episodes. The Legendary Battle episode is enhanced by cast chemistry, which is a little richer with Cameron Jebo on the team. Cameron's probably the most charismatic guest star they've had (I say this with apologies to the bubbly personality of Karen Ashley), and he has great interplay with the other players. He's not to familiar with the rules of the game, but he eagerly jumps into it. And he is all smiles even when they read letters at the end of the episodes that state bluntly that they hated Super Megaforce, with a good natured laugh and an exclamation of "So salty!"

But, despite weaker guest players, Shattered Grid is probably the most enjoyable yet, if only because it's one of those episodes that ends with a climactic action beat that holds the players one-hundred-and-ten-percent attention, and I haven't seen them this caught up in the gameplay since the Vesper Turns Evil twist early on in the series. After about five minutes of it I was like "More of THIS please!" That's probably the flaw in filming an RPG, because moments like these can happen, but it's a long road getting there. Malika Lim sits in with the players as as a resistance colonel, though she doesn't really do much. Because she's a player in this episode, Game Master duties are tossed to her husband, Zac Eubank. I hate to say this, Malika, but he's way better at the GM position. He tells the story more decisively and confidently, without pausing too much, and he has a better talent for doing character voices (at the very least, his Alpha is less cringy than Malika's). Malika's one advantage over Zac is that she seems to know more about Power Rangers than he does, and is more versed in the Hyperforce story, since she helped write it. Also sitting in is Power Rangers comic book writer Kyle Higgins, who does a bit of heavy exposition, but has a tendency to pause after every two words, which drives me bonkers. But he is redeemed at the end when his character is revealed to be Pumpkin Rapper in disguise, which is a major fistpump moment for a Power Ranger fan who grew up on Mighty Morphin. He and Andre have some great interaction, and Andre completely conquers him with improvised rap dialogue.

Then there is the first episode of this batch, which is fine but mundane. I think I got partially through this episode about a year ago and decided to take a break from Hyperforce because I was getting bored, and even after that break it's still a little boring. The only noteworthy thing about it is that the players decide to cosplay based on their character models.  I normally wouldn't notice, because most of the models just wear regular clothes, but Cristina is next level with her white wig, leather jacket, and red contacts.  Then I noticed Paul's awful hair, and then I noticed everyone else's clothes and realized what was going on. That's kind of the only spice to that episode though.

I think it's time to finish this series. I'll chip away at it for a while at least. But the next episode has Jason David Frank back as a guest roller, and remembering his "Please help me" looks from the last time he was on, I'm dreading it.

Star Trek:  Picard

Season 1 - Part 3

Broken Pieces - Picard and Soji unite with the La Sirena, where they cope with Juratti's betrayal.  Meanwhile, Seven of Nine and Elnor fend off the Romulans on the Artifact.

Et in Arcadia Ego Part 1 - Soji leads the La Sirena to Coppelius, where they find a colony of Synthetics living with Alton Inigo Soong, the son of the Dr. Soong who created Data.  Picard attempts to prepare the residents for the incoming invasion.

Et in Arcadia Ego Part 2 - Sutra and Soong take Picard captive and send a beacon to call for the aid of a destructive life form that will kill all organic life, but Picard works in hope that peace between the Federation, the Romulans, and the Synthetics can still be maintained, even at great cost.

Star Trek:  Picard is an imperfect beast, it was slow out the gate and it's destination is a bit too conveniently simple for my tastes (of fucking course there's a Soong involved).  But I very much enjoyed the journey, and in my own personal Trekkie opinion it's probably the most solid Trek show on CBS All Access (depending on whether or not you consider Short Treks a TV series).  Having now watched the entirety of it, I don't see how it's deserving of some of the harsh words that are pointed at it.  It's perhaps a tad too adult and is a bit grittier than your average Trek, which contests with a bit of a serene quality it tries to maintain, but I found it a very satisfying experience.

But as alluded above, I wasn't totally in love with the finale. A colony of androids seemed a bit too sudden and convenient. Picard's final fate of being (spoiler alert) put in a synthetic body seemed a bit pointless to me, because all it really succeeded in doing was giving Picard an emotional "death" scene the chickening out on actually killing him off. It wouldn't have been a great death even if it stuck, but it was surely better than Kirk's in Generations.

Speaking of death scenes, and I'm in full spoiler mode right now so read at your own risk, Data's "death" fared a bit better. Our lovable android makes his return in the last episode as his memory inside of a program, and it is here that he asks Picard to take him offline so he can experience mortality. I loved this particular moment, because it gave Data a death scene that fully fit his character arc, as opposed to his death in Nemesis, which is a generic sacrificial action hero death. Bringing Data back was worth having this scene alone, because it gives us that final meaningful moment with the character that Nemesis lacked.

And if that were the only genuinely good thing about Picard as a series, I could live with it. Luckily it's a story well told, sometimes fun, sometimes intense, maybe sometimes a little tedious, but I thoroughly enjoyed revisiting old friends and meeting new ones. As of right now, I'm hopeful for what the next journey might be.

Ash vs. Evil Dead

Season 1 - Part 2

The Killer of Killers - Amanda Fisher tracks Ash, Pablo, and Kelly down to a diner and tries to arrest Ash, but all hell breaks loose as the quartet has to contend with an outbreak of Deadites.

Fire in the Hole - Ash, Pablo, Kelly, and Amanda meet up with a militia to gear up to fight the Deadites, only to find the Deadites possessing the militia itself.

Ashes to Ashes - After thirty years, Ash finally returns to the cabin in the woods to bury the Necronomicon, but Amanda follows him. Meanwhile, Pablo and Kelly bump into a group of lost hikers in the woods.

Bound in Flesh - After being interrupted in dismembering Ash's latest doppelganger, Pablo and Kelly try to escort the lost hikers out of the woods so they and Ash can get to work, but they are confronted by Amanda, now resurrected as a Deadite. They are saved by Ruby, who claims she knows how to deal with the Necronomicon.

The Dark One - After tricking Ash into giving her the Necronomicon, Ruby kidnaps Pablo to help give birth to the Dark Ones. Ash fights against Ruby's demonic defenses to rescue him, while Kelly does her best to keep their uninvited guest, Heather, alive.

At only ten episodes per season that run a half hour in length, Ash vs. Evil Dead is not a particularly demanding viewing experience.  An entire season could be a very quick binge.  It's fun to watch in quick doses or in one afternoon, and I've done both.

The big highlight of this batch of episodes is that after thirty years, Ash finally returns to the cabin in the woods, which we last saw in Evil Dead II (remake and Army of Darkness prologue notwithstanding).  It's a long awaited reunion bringing about a standoff between jerkass and demonic force that we always wanted.  The eighth episode can get a little dour, since it's almost entirely centered on the death of Amanda, and the cruelty of the cabin is in full force, and the series really wants to assure us that nobody is safe.  The rest of the arc is the gleeful celebration of horror violence that Evil Dead is known for, and brings the season to a banging close.

The surprise guest star of these episodes is Samara Weaving, who since working on these episodes has gone on to star in films like Ready or Not and Bill & Ted Face the Music.  In this early role, she is a hiker lost in the woods with two friends who thinks Pablo is cute (helping fuel the fire of romantic tension between Pablo and Kelly when Kelly bluntly lies about Pablo having a girlfriend).  Heather is tormented by the cabin, has her leg broken, then explodes in a blood gusher of body parts.

The earlier episodes are less memorable, though I have some fondness for the showdown at the diner, where Kelly taking her aggression out on a Deadite waitress using a mechanical meat slicer is a favorite moment of mine.  The militia episode is mostly humdrum, but Pablo and Kelling working with heavy duty weaponry is fun.

If nothing else, the cliffhanger ending of the season has one desperate for season two, because Ash's story still has a lot of loose ends (even if handing the world to Ruby on a silver platter is perfectly in character).  But we still have twenty episodes to go, so lets put the pedal to the metal and slice up some screwheads.

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

Season 1 - Part 1

Day of the Dumpster - An ancient canister is found by astronauts and they accidentally unleash the evil space witch Rita Repulsa and her minions Goldar, Finster, Squatt, and Baboo.  Rita decides to reprise her conquest over planet Earth, which catches the attention of her sworn enemy Zordon and his robot assistant Alpha 5.  In desperate need of a defense, Zordon and Alpha enlist a quintet of teenagers:  Jason Lee Scott, Zack Taylor, Kimberly Hart, Billy Cranston, and Trini Kwan.  Zordon entrusts them with the power of prehistoric beasts to turn them into a fighting force for good known as the Power Rangers, whose powerful spandex armor, super weapons, and giant robot Zords are the only things that can prevent the invasion.  But will the Rangers reject this great power or embrace it?

High Five - Trini must overcome her fear of heights to help out her team as Rita sends down the monster Bones to trap the Rangers in a time warp and destroy them.

Teamwork - Kimberly and Trini petition to have a hazardous waste site cleaned up, but Rita interrupts their efforts by sensing down the Mighty Minotaur, Goldar, and an army of Putty Patrollers.  The only way the Power Rangers can hope to beat them lie within the Power Weapons, which they must learn to wield to win the day.

A Pressing Engagement - Jason obsessively tries to break the Youth Center's record for most bench presses, but is interrupted when Rita sends down King Sphinx and Goldar to terrorize Angel Grove.  When King Sphinx blows the other Rangers away with his powerful wings, Jason finds himself facing off with the monsters by himself.

Different Drum - Kimberly's dance class is put under a spell by Rita's latest monster, the Gnarly Gnome, who uses his magic accordion to control people with his hypnotic music.  Melissa, a deaf girl from the class, is the only one immune to his tune, and seeks help, bringing the Gnarly Gnome to the attention of the Power Rangers.

Food Fight - The Rangers help out with a food festival to help fund the school's new playground equipment, which school bullies Bulk and Skull ruin by starting a food fight.  Meanwhile Rita has Finster create a Pudgy Pig monster to travel to Earth and eat all of the world's food supply.

There are very few things in this world that can transport my brain back to the 90's like this...



Yes folks, it's Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, the ultimate franchise you were obsessed with as a kid but look back upon and say "Gah, did I really watch that?"  You did.  Quit lying to yourself.  And you loved it.

Now commonly known to be a re-edit of Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger, children of 1993 neither knew what that was nor cared, because Power Rangers was their show.  And even though it utilizes the Zyuranger footage, Power Rangers is a bit of a different beast.  Zyuranger was a full blown fantasy adventure of out-of-this-world nonsense, while Power Rangers was more of a self-insert escapism piece.  The characters of Zyuranger are ancient knights that have little relation to modern day Earth, and they don't really try as usually everything in their episodes is related to their fight against Bandora.  In Power Rangers, the characters are modern teens that kids feel like they can be friends with, and they're swept up and given superpowers at a moments notice, to make kids feel like "That could be ME!"  To use an extremist example, Zyuranger is Lord of the Rings, where it's mythical characters on a mystical adventure, and Power Rangers is Harry Potter, where a mundane character is suddenly extraordinary and goes on a journey beyond his imagination.

All of this contributes to just why Mighty Morphin Power Rangers was the pop culture touchstone it was in 1993.  If Zyuranger were just dubbed and thrown on our screens, kids couldn't relate.  They couldn't idolize Jason, laugh with Zack, feel nerdy can be cool with Billy, and Kimberly and Trini wouldn't be empowering idols of young girls while being the first crushes of all the boys (I was a Trini guy, myself).  Maybe they would respond to the Zyurangers, but they wouldn't relate to them on a personal level.  That's not to say they're good characters, they're one-dimensional personalities at best, but they're what Power Rangers needed them to be.

At the same time, the aesthetic choice of Zyuranger seemed to land at just the correct time.  Getting a Sentai season to adapt was the luck of the draw, as Zyuranger was just the most recent one.  If Power Rangers had debuted just a year earlier, these would have been the Power Rangers...


And if it had debuted a year later, these would have been the Power Rangers...


There's a simplicity to the stylistic appeal of the Zyuranger costumes that I think worked out for the best.  And the theme of dinosaurs was something other Sentai shows didn't have, and dinosaurs really set off a child's imagination because they're as close to a mythical beast that we know for a fact once existed in reality.  Add in the fact that Power Rangers debuted mere months after Jurassic Park hit theaters, and you have the right theme at the right time hitting the right viewers.

Add that into the fact that a live action superhero show on television was practically non-existent in the 90's, and even if you had shows like The Flash and Lois & Clark:  The New Adventures of Superman, they didn't have the zippy appeal of Power Rangers, and they weren't on the children's block.  Power Rangers gave kids a taste of superhero entertainment made specifically for them with a touch of that Japanese flash that made shows like DragonBallZ and Pokemon hit it big as well, and when you toss in giant robots and monsters, if you were under the age of 10 in 1993, then you were watching the hell out of this show.

All of this is accompanied by a fast paced, synthesized rock soundtrack that made everything seem much cooler, more exciting,  and more epic than it really was.  Perfect storm, thy name is Power Rangers.

Judging this series nearly thirty years later...it is what it is.  Zyuranger holds up better, and kids are more likely to respond to more recent seasons of Power Rangers than the original.  If anybody is still watching this show, it's tools like me who have a nostalgic fondness for it and can forgive it's blemishes because they love it unconditionally.  Plots are thin, and Zyuranger footage is often poorly inserted into unrelated stories that don't really make sense.  The first episode, Day of the Dumpster, is a good example of this, which rushes through the origin story and everything kids will see in this show if they stay tuned hard.  Jason, Zack, Kimberly, Billy, and Trini are seemingly selected at random, given powers, and they're immediately good at everything they do without experience (they even give some painful expository dialogue with the zord footage exclaiming how piloting them "feels like second nature").  Why are they this good at combating aliens?  Because they're the Power Rangers.  That's all the reason they need.

Another example would be the debut of the Power Weapons in Teamwork.  In Zyuranger, the search for the weapons is a two-episode long quest, whereas in Power Rangers they're just handed them at the end of the episode.  The use of the Sentai footage here is weird, because you can still see the weapons in normal appearance before the Rangers supercharge them.  Also somewhat problematic are the Power Crystals in A Pressing Engagement, as the Zyuranger episode had Geki specifically looking for them while in the Power Rangers episode had Zordon teleport them to Jason, but he teleported them underneath a lot of rubble for some stupid reason.  Not to mention that in Zyuranger, Geki needed the crystals to free his teammates from their prison and form Daizyuzin (AKA the Megazord) for the first time.  Here, the crystals serve no purpose, as there's no real reason why the other Rangers can't teleport to Jason's location and we've already seen the Megazord before this episode.

Probably the episode that utilizes stock footage the best is Food Fight, in which there is no full discrepancy between the Japanese footage and the English footage that breaks the episode in half (that's the standard we're judging this on, folks).  The plot is mostly a relevant wraparound to what we see in the Sentai battles with Pudgy Pig, and the story mostly sails smoothly from beginning to end (the titular food fight sequence is a little long, but I'll forgive the padding).

As for episodes that work in spite of themselves, it's not hard to have a soft spot for A Pressing Engagement, if only because King Sphinx is such a cool monster and the slapstick escapades at the Youth Center are amusing enough (though I refuse to believe Bulk did over a thousand bench presses).  I'll also say High Five is a minor success.  They have trouble explaining the use of the shrunken shuttle footage and the second monster mostly comes out of nowhere, but it's a fairly entertaining character episode that focuses on Trini, who didn't get that many episodes devoted to her and was often reduced to being the "Billy-translator."

Power Rangers was a trend-setting show, whether we wanted it to be or not.  It's Morphinominal success led to Saban changing their game plan toward live action fantasy, often utilizing footage from other shows they purchased from Toei Company.  Several seasons of Toei's Metal Heroes series were used as the basis for VR Troopers and Big Bad Beetleborgs, both of which were successes, and season of Kamen Rider was used to make Masked Rider, which wasn't.  They also dipped their toe into home-brewed productions like Ninja Turtles:  The Next Mutation and Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog, to mixed results (Turtles was universally hated, though I think Mystic Knights built some nostalgic fondness around it).  The success of Power Rangers led to the company DIC trying their hand at the same thing, importing the series Denkou Choujin Gridman from Toei competitor Tsubaraya Productions and creating Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad, while 4Kids imported a dub of Ultraman Tiga here to the States, giving Ultraman his most prominent US TV presence since the dub of the original in the 60's (there are exceptions of Ultraman in the US, but "prominent" is the key word).  It was probably the highest point in which tokusatsu hit the mainstream in the United States, and was even the induction for many children into the toku genre, whether they knew it or not.  And even after the fad died down, Power Rangers kept chugging along, even surviving changing hands from Saban to Disney back to Saban and currently to Hasbro, and switching networks from Fox to ABC to Toon Disney and currently Nickelodeon.  Because of that, Power Rangers is legendary and probably deserves some level of respect for its endurance and the impact crater it made when it landed.

Incidentally, I last went through Power Rangers a few years ago, and while doing so I jotted down little notes while watching it for fun.  I had no real plan for any real use of these, and in the beginning they were just sparse little observations that eventually became much more embellished as I got further through the series.  I've been going through those files and having a good laugh, so I might as well post them here.  Enjoy this batch, which are my early boring ones:

Day of the Dumpster
If there’s a can on the moon, don’t question it just open the damn thing.
Comic relief will always win over your audience with the tried and true “Violence against women” routine.
Speaking of, Bulk and Skull’s skills at picking up women seem limited to beating them up. How’s that working out guys? But then again, there’s Ike Turner…
If someone offers you giant robots and superpowers, give them attitude and blow them off. But make sure you take those powerful belt buckles just in case.
Trini morphs twice as much as the rest of them, what with the penis and all.
Giant robots are surprisingly easy to drive.
Goldar runs with his tail between his legs the minute he sees a sword.
Sarcasm is a good way to set off your Alpha unit’s self destruct feature.

High Five
Billy is a ditzy klutz that can’t even pick up his morpher without dropping it.
“Morphatudness” is apparently a word I guess.
If a monster is indestructible, always take lessons from George Romero and aim for the head. It’s always the head.
When one monster fails, just throw a random one in with no setup.
The Tyrannosaurus zord is more than enough to wipe out a monster. To hell with the others.
When one conquers their fears, it’s always best to mock them about it and scare the living crap out of them if you can.

Teamwork
If two hot girls ask you to spend time with them, always reject them for remedial reasons.
High school girls have all the resources they need to clean up toxic waste by themselves.
Robots would like to learn hip hop.
Failed Alpha catchphrase: “Dudettes in trouble! Dudettes in trouble! Dudettes in trouble!”
Never drop everything to help the environment unless there’s a monster involved.
If your regular zords fail, don’t even bother with the Megazord. Abandon everything completely and use handheld weapons instead.

A Pressing Engagement
It’s easy to start over after doing one thousand bench presses.
Skateboarding indoors is allowed at the Youth Center.
Bubble gum and skateboards don’t mix.
When being bullied, tickling said bully works well.
It’s okay to dine and dash when the world is in danger.
Spontaneously appearing out of nowhere in the middle of a crowd attracts no attention.
Zordon thinks Billy and Trini are useless. Why else would he have ignored them when King Sphinx and Goldar appeared?
Teleporting to Jason’s aid apparently is inconvenient for no reason.

Different Drum
Trini’s a mother-F-ing BEAST at arm wrestling.
Jason apparently sucks at it.
Three Stooges routines are a bad way to meet girls.
If someone feels bad about themselves, mock someone else who feels bad about themselves to make them feel better.
It’s more efficient for Rita to hypnotize hostages of random people than the Power Rangers themselves.
Always keep a deaf person around in case a pied piper shows up.
If you’re deaf, unquestionably hide while your non-disabled friends rescue others. And if the Power Rangers show up it’s just a coincidence.
Power Ranger weapons have multiple names apparently.
Jason’s dog smells.
Billy’s moves put Zach to shame.

Food Fight
Bulk and Skull are helpful when hula girls are around.
Surprisingly out of the duo of Bulk and Skull, Skull is the hungrier one.
Pies are for throwing, not for eating.
Using sausage links as nunchucks is remarkably effective.
When a food fight breaks out, blame the people who had nothing to do with it.
Power weapons are a good source of iron.
When cornered by a giant pig monster, make fun of his nose.
Radishes are the SPICIEST FOOD KNOWN TO MAN!

Yup. I noted that on my Zyuranger post.

I spent a good chunk of 2006 watching episodes on YouTube. Now anyone can easily stream it on Tubi. What a time to be alive.

I didn’t know morphing into a Power Ranger made you lose weight

By the way, I browsed through your essay and noticed you shit on Dairanger. How dare you, sir?

The White Ranger is iconic, but true, Zyurangers had the overall better costumes. Still, I think the Dairanger footage would have made up for it. It’s a shame they never really used it cause they didn’t want to update the costumes so soon. It really hurt that 2nd season. Really shitty American footage, with the awful American costumes, spliced together with horribly edited Japanese footage.

It’s a great suit.



That was the moment Tommy haters were born.



You mentioned a dubbed version wouldn’t have worked. There’s one exception. Changeman.