Power Rangers Operation Overdrive - Once a Ranger Part II Talk Up

[Undrave]

His quote was 'A little old school, but it gets the job done'

 

[Black Ranger RX]

Okay, I've watched "Once a Ranger" and..

Rita and Zedd had a son? Weren't Rita and Zedd turned into humans years ago in Power Rangers in Space? When was he given birth? During Turbo? So, was he like raised by somebody else while Rita and Zedd turned human?

Was Alpha 6 ever destroyed? And what happened to his voice?

Adam's morph..
It looked Okay but they really should've used the old one from MMPR Season 2 just to make it more nostalgic (you know, the one where the thunderbolt comes down and Adam appears in the morpher calling "Masterdon!!").

And if the other Rangers had the theme tunes from the series where they originated play while they were fighing the villians, then how come Adam had some other weird music playing instead of the good old "Go Go Power Rangers" theme from Mighty Raw.

As for everything else..
Fight scenes were all Ranger jumps really really high, explosions come out of nowhere for no reason, half hearted "hi-yaaaaah's", blah blah.. Disney standard.

And the end credits could've improved. In Boukenger VS Super Sentai we got a book turning with pictures of the Super Sentai heroes on the pages. How about, the credits rolling with clips from all past seasons of Power Rangers, with the original "Go Go Power Rangers" theme playing? But no, instead we got a promotion of some other Jetix cartoon that I don't care about.

Well I guess it's nice to see Adam again. It's just a shame he never really did much. I liked the bit where Kira mentioned Tommy, and Adam said "I can't believe he's actually a doctor".

But overall, this episode was pretty much a disappointment. Plus, with the fact that I've quit watching Power Rangers because of how boring it's been getting since Disney took over, I think this episode now closes the book for me.

 

[Undrave]

The song thing has already been explained: Ron Wasserman owns the right to the song and Disney didn't want to pay him to use it again.

 

[Black Ranger RX]

The song thing has already been explained: Ron Wasserman owns the right to the song and Disney didn't want to pay him to use it again.

Why not? Is he too expensive or do they just not like him for no reason?

So when Disney ever release the American version of the MMPR Season 1 DVD Boxset, does that mean all the MMPR tunes will have to be removed and replaced by some crappy Disney made music? If so then GERMAN VERSION ALL THE WAY, MEIN LIEBLING!!!

Then again, chances of Disney releasing an MMPR Boxset at all is less than 10% so like I said GERMAN VERSION ALL THE WAY, MEIN LIEBLING!!!

 

[Undrave]

No... Disney has the right to use MMPR footage, including any music that comes with it. They just can use the music on its own without paying royalties to Ron.

The problem is that they would have to pay him royalties EVERYTIME the ep would air... so they'd rather just pay some guy ONCE for a new song and be able to play the episode anytime they want without extra cost.

 

[Rider Strike]

the only good things were Adam, Brigde, and the buttery scene.

 

[Skyknight]

When the Sentai is good you get Time Force, when it`s bad or just weird like some of the other seasons you get PRMF.

Any Sentai translation can be made good given the right kind of precision. Judd was good at that, that's why he was much better writing original episodes than standard adaptation with the detail he had. Kalish is a hack, and can't come up with original ideas nor did he say he wanted to in one of his later interviews during pre-production of MF, hence why OO has tried pushing slightly harder for originality and MF did'nt.

TF was good because Lynn and Jackie were a very dynamic, sharp and cooperative team who looked after each other's backs, MF was'nt because Bruce's team very clearly did'nt want to deal with a magic based season and phoned it in for the most part.

Magiranger split the sentai fans up and MF seems to have done the same here, where people love and hate the show for the same reasons the Japanese fans hated and loved Magiranger.

MF is regarded as one of the worst PR seasons of all time, whilst Magiranger does have a split fanbase, it's 50/50, MF's fanbase is an arguable minority.

Overdrive is good. and I know as fans we want bread with our butter but lets take note that in spite of not being as daring as Dino Thunder or PRMF

A bad attempt at the "Darth Vader/Luke Skywalker" route and abadoning character developments mid-way through is daring? Are you reading some perfected MF fanfiction or seriously watching the same season I and others did? Maybe it has something to do with why you liked Boukenranger, "a strong Red Ranger". It's called POWER RANGERS here pal, not "NICK AND HIS AMAZING TECHNICOLOUR RED CLOAK"

But the older ones were not without issues either SPD was just so bold that just when you thought they`d follow through with their huge plot devices they would leave you at the morphin grid altar.

The same with MF. Nothing came out of the characters if not the overall arcs. SPD they made up as they went along, but with MF they had the arc but did'nt give the characters beyond Nick anything in a rush to get to the ending. Like most bad fanfiction writers on Rangerboard, their priority was'nt the Rangers, but the story.

I stand by Overdrive with the understanding that when they really want to really try something big they`ll do it right.

Yeah, that's why only part two of "Once A Ranger" accomplished virtually everything part one did'nt and proved it did'nt need to be two parts at all.

 

[Black Ranger RX]

No... Disney has the right to use MMPR footage, including any music that comes with it. They just can use the music on its own without paying royalties to Ron.

The problem is that they would have to pay him royalties EVERYTIME the ep would air... so they'd rather just pay some guy ONCE for a new song and be able to play the episode anytime they want without extra cost.

Wasn't the SPD theme done by Ron?

 

[Forever Knight]

Disney should have not been cheap ass fuckers and payed Ron to use the MMPR theme in the episode. It just sounded stupid having all the themes except the ORIGINAL one playing for each Veteran.

Disney is stupid anyway for denying Ron on his MF theme aswell. I think Ron should be doing ALL PR themes. Period. The SPD theme is the best of the Disney era PR themes, I get goosebumps when it plays.