Actually, I just re-watched MMPR. I find MMPR superior to Samurai/Super Samurai.
I seen episodes of comparison to Samurai and I must say, I agree.
MMPR, nostalgia aside, is a decent series in its own right ,taking some of the source sentai's stories but taking the premise into another direction. Although the sudden addition of Tommy losing his powers was a crapshoot that should have been in the story initially, the majority of it was pretty good despite the first 50 not having much of an arc or connection.
In its own right, its not a weakness because the show was getting onto its first legs, while Samurai was just rushed. MMPR was in production from 1987, under the Bioman pilot, where it would then be reattempted with Jetman and finally, Zyuranger, which had the latter easter egg edited from
the Bioman pitch.
The point is that MMPR in its initial stages wasn't rushed like Samurai, with the latter starting production right away from the rights being bought back. Clearly, they should have waited to get the scripts written to take their own spin on the concept and to create their own characters , but everything else in Samurai was standard setting.
It was the first season to have HD, though they could have HD widescreen masters of the Disney Rangers to play with OO on to fix it [and they got plenty of time to do so], the editing ,choreo and suits were so well done that I could not really tell the difference if the Octaroo suit wasn't weird as it was.
Samurai got a little better, but the improvements were jolted by the lifting of plots and the writing. The acting could have been better, but for what they had, they did fine.
MegaForce hopefully will have a better footing to do what it needs, though I wish the Pink Ranger was yellow and vice versa alongside the Black Ranger and the Blue Ranger. PC casting aside, they look like they could fit their parts.
