MMPR The 1st, and Worst!

[ryuuseipro]

I think MMPR S1 and 2 were ok, 3 was crap, but they starting getting it right around the time of Zeo.

Zeo was the only Power Ranger series I liked, partly because Ohranger seemed like it was made as a "fill in the blank" series that fit it like a glove. Plus, they finally got everything right (after constantly mixing the Zyurangers with other teams' mecha)!

 

[Z-Unit]

Eh the weakest Saban season imo was Lost Galaxy. Best would have to be In Space.

 

[Vash the Stampede]

MMPR is just one of those seasons that I can go back and watch. And this isn't nostalgia talking; I feel that MMPR was better and more entertaining than what we've been getting lately.

 

[Skinwalker]

Eh, I tried to watch MMPR to familiarise myself with "Power Rangers continuity" (what a concept!) and it was just really difficult, not just the very dated special effects, monsters and wardrobe but the series in general, with so much filler (that's what most PR is yeah, but there was just so much of it at the start with 50 episode seasons, and later seasons at least seemed to provide a little character development or drama)

 

[Dora Ebi]

When Saban went bankrupt, they had to sell everything they had, and the one company that could and wanted to buy it all was Disney. I can't say I'm happy about it either, but it's what happened.

Saban never went bankrupt. Fox Kids was going bankrupt, but Saban Ent. was entirely solvent. Haim, who had a co-ownership in FK, decided to jettison his own company along with Fox Kids as a sweetheart deal. Saban Ent. had lost money ever since the Family Channel buyout, and they were looking to leave Fox Kids behind for good. The Disney offer to acquire the Family Channel was exactly the pretext Haim was looking for to be rid of Saban Entertainment in addition to Fox Kids. The man made SIX BILLION DOLLARS on a financially insolvent television network he co-owned, at the expense of the Saban library.

(and he still retains music ownership rights to the entire library, so he continues to make stupid sums of money off the old shows on DVD and Jetix)

 

[PsychoTherapist]

MMPR was extremely cheesy and yet somehow managed to work quite well and ranks way above most of the rest, with only tough competition from Zeo & In Space. One of my absolute favourite episodes from MMPR, from the 3rd season (Wizard for a Day), where they basically make fun of the entire premise of the series, right down to the stupidity of trying to conquer a planet by sending down monsters that always get defeated. That episode was hilarious all the way through.

Season 1 was cheap, with tiny bits of cheaply produced US footage badly tacked on to stock Japanese footage. It's episodic approach was corny & melodramatic, but the characters stood out and ultimately S1's biggest saving grace being the introduction of the Green Ranger. The 5-parter "Green With Evil", is where S1 truly began to shine.

Season 2 was much less cheap and took a stab at being a little bit more serious to begin with, yet still retaining the cheese factor that made it so popular. Lord Zedd was a much more interesting & darker villain than Rita and in S2 they made more effort towards creating a loose storyline. Losing 3 of the cast did hurt the show a bit, but they made up for it. The return of Rita towards the end was both fantastic & hilarious.

I'm probably in the minority here who actually loved Season 3. They did get cheap again a bit, particularly referring to those ninja costumes which allowed suit actors to do all the stunts and fighting. But S3's plot threads were quite strong, with lots of multi-part stories. I even enjoyed the Alien Rangers stuff. I also didn't mind too much them turning Lord Zedd into a comedic villain by this point. Silly antics worked quite well for this series as a whole.

 

[SentaiRider]

Not only that but at the hight of it popularity the series was making so much money and yet the actors were paid very little like $500 a week and work 7 days a week with no time off,they didn't even give them money from the toy sales,am glad now that Austin,Walter,Thuy left the show,I wasn't very happy when I was a kid,jason was my favorite character,but now am really glad that there was a reason they went to Peace Conference.

Saban was good in handling power rangers but they treaded the actors like crap.

As for Disney handing of the power rangers series there is some good and some bad,the bad the horrible writing and character development,the acting (except for the SPD cast and Spencer from PROO) and lets not forget the explosions.the good is that there not relaying on the sentai footage that much for the fight scenes witch counts for originality.

 

[Silver Chimera]

Hey everyone, I'm new to posting here but not new to visiting; actually I posted here once years ago.

MMPR is a guilty pleasure that all of us true devotees should look fondly upon. I was just 13 when MMPR debuted back in '93. I was just starting junor high at a new school and those afternoons after school, I escaped with PR. It's funny though, at first, I thought the show was kind of stupid but it hooked me by the third episode. I've been watching ever since as well as taping each episode.

PR in general has had some truly landmark episodes; off the top pf my head I'd say my cream of the crop's are:

Green with Evil: truly one of the best sagas in PR history to this day; from Tommy's cheesy laugh to the sentai footage.. just one of the best. This saga really shocked me because for the first time the Rangers were being handed their a**. Then Scorpina came, the Zords were destroyed; it rocked.

The Mutiny: I think that's title of the episode when Zedd appeared. Lord Zedd was just so hardcore compared to Rita and seemed more menacing. I remember that episode aired at primetime after Inside Edition. We got live american footage/fight scenes (which weren't as good as Sentai footage, but noble) and new zords. A decent season

Return of the Green Ranger: I really don't have to explain why this one is special do I?

There was a bunch of other A-list episodes during MMPR I could list like: A Ranger Catastrophe with the intro of Kat and all the changes that were to follow after her entrance. I like how they did that saga; it was interesting to me. PR would have good episodes an series to follow but its culmination and epic peek would be PRIS: the best PR series to date IMHO. Rangers Gone Psycho is my all-time favorite PRIS episode; the Psycho Rangers ruled and owned a** all up in that episode. I digress, I digress.

PR nowadays, IMHO is missing its soul; anyone can become a Ranger, everyone and anyone seems can tap into the Morphing Grid and Rangers aren't interesting or stimulating characters anymore. The show just assumes all teens and young adults are natural martial artists, secret identities are non-existent and the Rangers Mentors leave alot to be desired. PR has become a generic toy from a bubble gum machine; I still have a soft spot for it and I did enjoy PRNS and PRDT but the others were lacking. PRJF just doesn't send me and I think that's because of bad acting and bad casting.

Sometimes I wonder if the reset button should be pushed on the PR universe; sort of a "Crisis on Infinite Earths" for the PR universe. I think I've outgrown PR too (something I never thought would happen). I'll tape the show till it goes off the air because you'll never know when they'll show the episodes again. They also don't air the entire season of old PR shows either; I wish they would've brought back PR: O-T-O (One Time Only); they would show the entire season of a PR series all the way through in order once. I think Disney doesn't feel like editing all the exploding buildings out of those old PR episodes since we're so 9-11 sensitive. Anyway PR= good stuff; I always be a PR fan.