Jungle Fury Now vs Then-Has it saved PR?

[Poweranimals]

Uh oh...

PRJF Episode 1618 - "True Friends, True Spirits"
Writer: Aran Hufee (A faun here?)

Grizzaka sends an evil spirit to cause trouble between RJ and his animal spirit again. The hero in RJ causes him to save Flit. RJ tells the spy to go home but Flit tells of his own curse. Eager to return the favor, Flit helps RJ out in defeating the evil spirit and once again working together with his animal spirit.

 

[Tanuki]

Not a bad interpretation of the Gou storyline, but stil... not good

 

[NinjaJack]

Rhino Power!

 

[SaikoDragon]

For me, I'm just kinda getting tired of the new characters, new suits, new plotline, new everything every year just for it all to become meaningless by year's end.

You know, I sort of agree with you. It does feel empty and meaningless when they dont do anything with the characters they've introduced. Introducing new characters and stories is quite meaningless after a while when time and again, they do nothing with these interesting characters.

I loved the set up back in the Lost Galaxy, LSR, Tf, and WF days. Because you really got to know the characters and by the end of the season, everything had come so far, so much had been said, so much had been done, I felt satisfied. I was willing to accept a closing chapter in their story.

I weclomed a new team and couldnt wait to see their stories and would often wonder where their stories might take me emotionally.

But lately, these characters and stories are so... dull. They have no passion behind them, they have no real emotion. Sometimes I feel a glimmer of real emotion behind the characters and the writing. But a lot of times it just doesnt feel right.

 

[Undrave]

Yeah and nowadays it feels more and more like 'The Red Ranger and his Amazing Back-up Singer introducing the Sixth Warrior!" than a real group.

 

[Aoiblue]

Power Rangers in Space saved Power Rangers.

 

[HenshinRenegade]

I think we are heading into PR's final years. This franchise is on life support and Disney doesn't care enough to save it.

 

[JustAnotherBlueRanger]

I'm still wondering why we get topics and responses like those previously listed.

The criticisms and shortcomings of JF, are indeed present in every Power Rangers series. Even the best PR series have those problems, ranging from underdeveloped characters (Katie) to meaningless equipment (Mega Battle/LS Flying thing), etc...


The persist shortcomings regarding the storyline are part of that as well. OO at least had an overarching storyline, compared to Boukenger which was yawn-inducing (IMO), LSR was aggressively bland with one memorable character in Joel, and LG was a trainwreck because of the situation with Kendrix but also the titluar "Lost Galaxy" getting shoe-horned in there as well.


JF is not a great series, it's not as good as the PR series it's closest to in Ninja Storm but it's not horrible nor is average. Right now I'd say it's leaning towards being good but not great.

And Funaro's the last person that should be talking, he's never going to get over Disney's great mistake of telling him and the rest of the major online fandon the truth, that we largely don't matter and aren't the target demo.

Hopefully the mouse will keep the rights to PR for a long time and acquire the rights to Kamen Rider so that the two can be re-united and legitmately stand a chance of suceeding in the US.

 

[SaikoDragon]

The criticisms and shortcomings of JF, are indeed present in every Power Rangers series. Even the best PR series have those problems

Those seasons did more right than they did wrong. That's why you keep hearing criticisms. I know WF isnt perfect. But I fucking love it anyway and its my favorite season. No Disney season has come close. SPD almost did it. I loved SPD. But beyond that, the Disney seasons have been bland.

Sure, I love NS, DT, SPD, and MF. JF isnt bad. But we're going to call them out on what was wrong and how they are far from perfect compared to the older days of Power Rangers.

 

[JustAnotherBlueRanger]

Those seasons did more right than they did wrong. That's why you keep hearing criticisms. I know WF isnt perfect. But I fucking love it anyway and its my favorite season. No Disney season has come close. SPD almost did it. I loved SPD. But beyond that, the Disney seasons have been bland.

Sure, I love NS, DT, SPD, and MF. JF isnt bad. But we're going to call them out on what was wrong and how they are far from perfect compared to the older days of Power Rangers.

Umm... No, they didn't do more right then they did wrong. The Saban years were and remain vastly overrated by the older fans who grew up with them. There's a reason why most of the ranger actors from that time period aren't acting anymore. And why a fair number of people associated with those shows aren't in the business anymore.

The only two things that separate the Saban era of Power Rangers from the Disney era have been larger seasons and Saban basically gutting the Sentai to use the footage as they saw fight. The former is largely irrelevant because don't always equal better quality, the latter is what the older fans are upset about.

Saban gutted various sentai to tell their own story, which most everyone would argue was a plus. However, when they did so, very frequently the quality of the footage didn't mesh with what they were doing and you ended up with a product that was obviously lacking. See Lost Galaxy which abandoned Gingaman's setup and concept to take place in Outer Space and for that reason amongst others, it just didn't work. The random horse showing up out of nohwere, Captain Mutiny, etc... Didn't work out well, Now the US only stuff was good but trying to mix that and the Sentai stuff, it just didn't blend and hold up.

Disney's approach was to more or less, localize the Sentai for a Western/American audience. That means more if not all of the aspects and elements from the original Sentai are retained but there are changes, just fewer in number. Example Ninja Storm, 3 kind of Ninja student screw-ups become heros and along the way they are joined by 3 more friends against evil Alien ninjas. Now it worked, it was very similar to Hurricanger but not quite the same. Was it as different from the source as a Saban era PR would have been? No and that's where the problems began for the fandom. Saban probably would have given us two girl rangers (Navy Thunder) and a whole other host of changes to the series. Disney didn't and we got a series that retains a lot of the original Sentai flavor as a result.

Dino Thunder was an attempt I think by Sloan to combine to the two approaches of Saban (Mesogog) with Disney (no extra Rangers) and you can kind of how judge just how well it didn't work by Sloan's disapparance and the complete abandonment of the Saban style, Disney didn't even bother trying to incorporate it into itself.

Then you have the last four series: SPD, MF, OO and now JF using the Disney approach. The internet fanboys largely dislike the Disney approach and dislike the company for reasons already stated (IMO) so yeah, they're not going to change anytime soon.

I just don't see where the hate is coming from. To me, the older I get and the farther removed from watching the Saban era as they aired, the worse and worse each season gets in quality. There are just whole episodes that make you cringe now with the quality of the writing being almost PSA-tastic. I think by and large people should decide whether to embrace Disney's approach to PR or just stop watching because it's not changing and they really don't care what the 'net fans think anymore.

That's just my opinion.