I don't care what you thought of the series, but I'd like to clear up a few misconceptions or proffer some explanations for the many things you brought up.
ForeverRed said:
The characters/rangers: We're in a world of disagreement on your evaluation of them, so I won't get into that.
Every episodes, their humor was sooo lame, IMO. Like I said, I didn't laugh at all. That's why I prefer serious PR better.
I have a huge problem with Ninja Storm's Finale. Worst. Finale. Ever. Don't even get start with Lothor's Zord. :170:
Maybe I'm the only one that caught the humor, but what did you not like about it? As far as I could tell, it was far more mature than is usually attempted on a "Kids show."
As for the finale...Lothor's Zord-they made use of it as in Hurricanger, of course they didn't have Tao Zanto stabbing the Sempuujin through, but still, they used it and then left it to go and extend the story. The finale HAD to end at the Abyss and they had to bring back the kidnapped ninja students. Personally, it was one of my fave finales because they didn't end things in big clunky robots, but brought it back to the heart of ninja storm - Three Teenagers with secret powers who fought as a team, showing maturity and mastery and proving their worth and friendship to don the ranger spandex." But, I digress...
Here's the reasons why I don't like about the finale:
-What's the deal of huge battle at Sport National Park place? What the heck?! What were the producers/writers thinking?! I actually prefer to see the Rangers/evil Ninja monsters battle at Quarry rock OR downtown. (Example: End of The Time. Best finale ever I have seen.)
-Two zord battles. What? IMO, I felt like both of them were rushed. Eww.
-Unmorphed Rangers defeated Lothor. Ok, what the heck was that?! RANGERS FRIGGIN' DEFEATED LOTHOR SOOOO EASILY! LAME! LAME! LAME!
Morphed Rangers COULD'VE blast Lothor and make a huge explosive!! KA-BOOM!! I don't give a damn if it was garbage Disney's decision!
Look above.
-Some monsters that never appear! ugh. That pissed me off. Yeah, yeah, I know it's because of 38 episodes. :rolleyes2: Blah blah blah. Whatever.
I'll add my points about Marah and Kapri in here. Did you miss the fact that they screwed over Vexacus bigtime? Hmm, not so ditzy and brainless IMO. Of course, not all monster showed up. DO they ever in a PR series? At least all the significant villains showed up. All the Jakanja showed up and played their bit; I think that's more than we can ask for.
Here's what Ninja Storm should have change to make this series look better:
1. Green Samurai Ranger without no identity until before the finale. Like Cam was missing somewhere, lost, or he was with another Ninja Academy. Cam is the Green Samurai Ranger, he won't be reveal to the Rangers, include his father until the finale.
2. No gay humor lines. :rolleyes2:
3. Make all villains more serious than their pathetic lame joke villains.
4. Make it more realistic Guina pig or mouse, no CGI. :redface2: That's another reason why I hated it. It was so annying.
5. Make the finale looks so much better, just like Countdown To Destruction and The End of Time.
6. Team up, of course. I wish there were a team up with Wild Force. That'd be so cool if Wild Force wipe/attack Ninja Storm just like in Hurricanger VS Gaoranger.
And last one, make this series more serious and less humor.
Now as for my final opinion of this series....
Grade D- Not that great series. Blah.
1. This isn't Hurricanger. As great as Shuri's story was, and yes, I loved the idea of cameoing a bunch of sentai characters, it obviously wasn't possible in PR. Sure, it'd be nice to have JDF, ASF, JYB, and CK and others to come back, but it's not that easy to do here. Plus, Cam was not supposed to be a separate ninja. Hence, they gave him the designation of a Samurai. And when you think about it, it only makes SENSE that Cam was better trained than the rest of them; think about it. His dad and mom are warriors, he grew UP for crying out loud in a Ninja Academy...of course he's going to be better.
2. Already addressed.
3. These villains had their share of seriousness and humor mixed. Vexacus was an evilass even knocking off Motodrone who almost knocked off all the rangers. I think that's pretty serious. What's his name...ahh, Shimazu, his Wolfblades managed to wreak some havoc for BLue Bay and the rangers...that's prettyserious too. Marah and Kapri, I've already said...
4. To be honest, my biggest complaint about Hurri was that stuffed puppet of a guinea pig. I am glad they CG-fied it.
5. It's not PRIS, this is PRNS. If they managed to walk in CTD's greatness, then good. But more often and likely than not, you'd get two limitations to the outcome of a finale. a) the footage b) the writers' own agenda. You know, despite what we'd like to believe that the writers are writing for us, they're not. They have their own agenda. Disney has their own agenda, and those usually come much more before our own wishes. It seems rather ridiculous to me that you mark down PRNS's finale because it's not like CTD. Rather if you'd said, it wasn't as good as CTD because let's say, lack of fluency, bad acting, or poor story writing - I'd understand. But to base your judgments on what ISN'T there...that's rather spotty, don't you think?