Power Rangers Through the Ages.

GrnPsychoGarren said:
Since then I have downloaded every season onto my computer and watched most of the episodes. I still need to finish watching Lost Galaxy. I've seen like the first 20 episodes I think. Or near there. So I've really tried to catch up with what I've missing in the few years I've left PR.
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meow meow

Where did you download all those episodes man?.
 
MMPR: Badly made, very low-budget, pretty much stagnated for a while until Tommy and the Green Ranger saga kicked it up (no pun intended).

Oh, and before I go on, I'd like to say that Mr. ZEEG-HYAH is overrated. Billy was a better Ranger IMO. Hell, he graduated from high school early!

MMPR Season 2: Oo-wee! The arrival of Lord Zedd. Back then, I thought there couldn't be an even worse villain than he was. And also the first American-exclusive villain as well.

Tommy loses Dragon Ranger powers, gains Kibarenjaa powers. Jason, Zack and Trini bow out to make room for Rocky, Adam, and Aisha. Out of the three replacements, Adam is the best. Hell, he lasted the longest! And the fight scene he did in PRiS when he made that guest spot blew me away. Out of all three seasons of MMPR, season 2 is definitely the best.

MMPR Season 3: Gay ninja suits, and too much focus on Kimberly. Kat replaces Kim and DOESN'T EVEN GET THAT MUCH TIME IN THE SUIT BEFORE THEY GET TURNED INTO KIDS BY MASTER VILE. WTH, SABAN?!

I'll be honest, though...I didn't pay too much attention to season 3, plus they don't show it as often on either Toon Disney or ABC Family.

Zeo: Rangers taking it to the streets. The theme kicked ass, too. At the time, you couldn't believe they could get any stronger than Zeo.

Also, Jason came back, even though for a short while. Win.

Turbo: Hey, kids, guess what? To be a Power Ranger, you don't have to grow up big and strong and have a good sense of justice...you just have to luck out and eavesdrop on a Ranger conversation if one of them happens to be injured!

Ugh. Justin bad. PASS!!

Oh, wait, they get replaced halfway through the season? Oh, that's cool.

But Justin's still there? GRAGH. Again, PASS!!

Space: Great great great throughout. The fight scenes (especially the aforementioned Adam guest spot; that episode in fact was my favorite one), the story (who is Andros' sister? WHAT ASTRONEMA?! But isn't she the bad girl? Ooh, scandalous!), the villians (Ecliptor is probably the best right-hand man in PR history), and the finale (ZORDON NOOOOOOOOOOOO). What a way to end the Angel Grove continuity.

Lost Galaxy: You know, I'll be honest...I tried paying attention to this one, but there was just too much going on and I just couldn't keep up. Only things I could remember is Mike becoming the Magna Defender (and gaining an Aurachanger :O), Karone replacing Kendrix, and Leo nearly getting himself blown up killing off the main villain. And most of the time, they didn't even show the henshin sequence, a trend that would continue on until Ninja Storm.

Lightspeed Rescue: Outside of Joel and Ms. Fairweather...PASS!!

Vypra...ugh...did you at least go to an acting school? Where the hell are your credentials?

Time Force: I missed it when it initially ran back in 2001, and after watching it during PRG...quite frankly, I am kicking myself for doing that. This was a great series, through and through. Action, top-notch. Storyline, great. And the farewell scene between Jen and Wes was priceless.

Oh, and let's not forget Eric Myers, the first anti-hero in PR history, and also one of the best. Dan Southworth did a great job in turning him into a cold-hearted ambitious prick who initially got his powers for personal gain. He actually made me hate him at first. Nicely done.

Wild Force: I didn't pay too much attention to this one, outside of Forever Red. From what I heard, it tried to be too much like Gaoranger, though.

In any case, pass.

Ninja Storm: The one PR series that got me watching again. Mucho hilarity and campiness throughout, but with enough seriousness and kickassery (ooh, gotta put a dollar in the made-up word jar) to make it worthy of the PR name. And Shane's Battlizer is still one of the best out of all of them so far.

My only gripe...WHY OH WHY WAS SHURIKENGER NERFED SO BAD?!

And I'm aware that a select few of you don't like it, as well as DT. Hey, whatever floats your boat, but consider this...is it because these PR seasons were made by Disney? On top of that, Carranger pokes a LOT of fun at Super Sentai trends...what's wrong with a PR series doing the same to its own?

Dino Thunder: The return of Mr. ZEEG-HYAH...and he's a SCIENCE PROFESSOR?! Where the hell did they get that from? Wasn't Tommy originally a forgetful slacker in MMPR?

In any case, DT took a while to grow on me. I liked the theme song, as well. Catchy. Very catchy.

And yes, I'm a Kira fan, but I honestly like Ranru better.

However, couldn't they have given the Abarekiller powers to someone better? Trent is just too much of a loser and looks like a frickin' goofball. Hell, DEVIN would've made a better White Ranger than Trent. And I'm not exaggerating.

And that Battlizer...ugh. Dragon Yo-Yo? WTF were you smoking when you made that, Disney? :redface2:

SPD: Although the voice acting could use a little work, they're slowly starting to come together. But then again, they're following an excellent sentai series in Dekaranger.

The Shadow Ranger saga was great, and a nice way to introduce a new Ranger to the fold. And Emperor Gruumm is actually a better villain in human disguise.

This one will probably shape up to become as good as Space or TF, especially since they're following parallels from both of those series.

Well, those are my thoughts.
 
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What the hey, may as well throw my hat in. I warn you now: I'm a strange, strange man.

MMPRS1: Same as most pepole; pretty bad till Tommy came in and made PR "cool" somehow.

MMPRS2: When Lord Zedd first appeared, I loved him to death. He wreaked havoc, and was truly menacing. I thought they did a good job with him at first, especially after having to hear Rita moan about her headache for the 5,000,000th time.

...of course, then he had to go spoil it by a) making even worse putties than Rita (Hey, guys! Go for the immensely huge targets on their chests and they die in one shot! Wow!) and then getting wussified by being forced to marry Rita. But for a time, he was awesome. And I still love to use him in the SNES fighting game.

White Ranger was neat too. Thunderzords were pimp. White Ranger/Tigerzord vs. Green Ranger/Dragonzord was a masterpiece of cobbled-together footage from separate sentai shows that I am still in awe and amusement of today. :)

MMPRS3/MMAR: ...yeah, I prefer not to get into this one. I'll start throwing things.

Zeo: Turned me into a regular watcher. The stories were fun, jokes were funn, the robots were freaking sweet, Gold Ranger blew me away with everything he did. Pyramidas forever, man.

Turbo: My first words: "What the living crap is this? Did they finally run out of ideas?" (This was a full decade before I found out that Carranger would be my one true love, but whatever.) We've got a kid who grows into a ranger, a bunch of car things, an Alpha with a New York accent (that part I actually liked) and a mentor who doesn't... ment. I hated this for a long time, but I then decided to give it one more shot about a year ago, and watch it all the way through.

Y'know, Turbo's got its good points. Must as people rag on Justin (shoot as much as I rag on Justin), I can't actively dislike him anymore. That one episode where he actually used his powers to get away from that one bully showed him as more human than any other Ranger character on the show before him (and before TJ and Cassie hit the scene), who were all squeaky clean and could do no wrong unless they were on a spell or something. To this day, I still don't exactly like him, but there are other Rangers who I find are much more worthy of my annoyance. Also, I found the characters of TJ and Divatox to be highly underrated.

Also, Turbo gave me Cassie Chan. Cassie. Oh My God Cassie. Let's put it this way; most people fell for Kimberly. I didn't. Cassie was my Kimberly.

Heck, even the music's catchy. So yeah, I don't irrationally hate Turbo. Weird, I know. The movie, however, needs to be erased from history.

Space: And I got Cassie for another entire year! Yay! After the dreck that was Turbo, I stopped watching the show altogether, and would have stoped completely if I hadn't caught this show being run for the second year in a row (It seem producing Lost Galaxy took a long, LONG time). For a long time, Space was my favorite (and most everyone's). It isn't anymore, but that thing was packed with something I'd never gotten in a PR before: drama, and semblance of a cohesive storyline. And villains actually fighting each other. Oh, and Countdown to Destruction. And the Psycho Rangers. And Zhane. Zhane was the epitome of badass for me for so many years, right up there with Tommy. SUPER SILVERIZER!
Ecliptor was the man through and through, I loved him.

Lost Galaxy: Another series I went through really late. Man, this thing blew the budget. Too bad it was based on Gingaman. All the cool effects and Starship Troopers homages in the world couldn't disguise that fact. And they brought back Cassie again for omg so much hidden sexual tension between her and Kendrix! Yay.

Ecliptor and Villamax seriously should have met.

Lightspeed Rescue: It's weird. If I simply think of this as The Joel and Miss Fairweather Show, I can live with LR. If I try to take it for everything it is, though, I fly into this massive unbridled rage, frothing at the mouth at its irrationality. And don't get me started on the Titanium Ranger. Mind you, I liked the execution of that guy... unfortunately, since he wasn't in the GoGo V footage, it was always "RYAN! GO HELP THOSE IMAGINARY OFFSCREEN PEOPLE WHILE OUR FOOTAGE FOR THE ENTIRE FIGHT SCENE IS PLAYED! WE'LL MEET YOU BACK AT THE ZORD THAT ISN'T REALLY YOURS!" Man, that got old real quick. :)

Oh, and: RARGH VYPRA KILL ARGH.

Time Force: What the hell happened? When did Power Rangers suddenly stop becoming a guilty pleasure??? This was In Space on crack. The acting was the best ever (well, for a Saban series). The characters were well-thought out, and they worked. The Timeranger story localization went off with as few hitches as possible. The Quantum Ranger was a total asshole, and it still worked, both individually and together. To this day, I still prefer TF to Timeranger. TR, while godly, was half angst-bait. Great for Final Fantasy players, not too great for people who don't like pity parties. Time Force showed people making the best of a bad situation more often than not, and wasn't afraid to poke fun at itself. This runs neck and neck for my favorite series, along with another one that people will probably kill me for...

Wild Force: ...but this wasn't it. Man, this was just weird, yo. All of it. However, it still gets a fair amount of respect from be because of shirt-ripping the AWESOME crosovers, and the fact that Alpha Stunts really seemed to want to try some new stuff. The stunts in WF were unlike anything we'd seen before; the fights were kicked up about three notches, and though a lot of it was performed more slowly than usual, the elaborateness of much of the choreography made up for it. Don't watch WF for the story or characters or anything--watch it to see where the beginnings of our uber-flippy Power Rangers of today came from.
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End Saban Saga: Enter Disney Saga

And here's where I'm going to catch it. I have a confession to make: I think Doug Sloan did a very good job, and was sad to see him and Ann Austen go. I am nuts about SPD, though; but I'm getting ahead of myself.

Ninja Storm: Tied with Time Force for my favorite PR series of all time. Why? It was the American Carranger. I kid you not. It made fun of everything we knew about Power Rangers, ever, and homaged everything else. Ninja Storm is one big parody, with people who blew away the Saban era in terms of acting. All of the "dude"s aside, these were the most "human" ranger characters yet. They weren't always helping some orphanage kids while maintaining their squeaky-clean GPAs or being public figures; they were practicing the art of fighting (sometimes dirty), they made mistakes, they were selfish, they disobeyed orders, kept secrets from one another without stressing about it, they whined... and yet, they still pulled through, learned their lessons, grew up a bit. The jokes that were bad were horrible, but the jokes that were funny were spot-on. Lothor is easily the most quotable PR villain ever. Cam was a sarcastic crazy geek man who also had ninja skills for some reson and I will always love him for it. Ninja Storm, for me, was the feel-good series of the PR dynasty, and I was so very sad to see it go.

Dino Thunder: Most dysfunctional ranger team ever. I was actally hoping it'd stay that way, stay as a team of rangers who couldn't stand each others' guts yet had to go save the world anyway. I had a bit of trouble wondering where this show was going sometimes because while the whole "from different worlds" angle can be good when done right, all of these people were jst too far apart. No cohesion. Still. OMG TOMMY BACK YAY, Mesogog made a good villain, Elsa made an even bettter one (mrrowr), Zeltrax was fun to watch, White Ranger should have stayed evil, best crossover in my opinion, wit was even more biting than in NS. You could seriously cut yourself with some of those one-liners and comebacks getting thrown around. Yowza. I like DT, but I sort of have to be in the mood for it, knowwhatImean? There are a lot of things to like about it, just not many to go absolutely nuts about. Solid, but not much else.

Which brings us to...

SPD: Some of the acting needs work, but I can see they're trying--and the people who are good, like Doggie, Kat, and the villains' actors, are phenomenal. The writing, however, is off the chain. I seriously respect Kalish and Co. for putting togeher some really nice stories for these guys, I respect the crew, the directors, all the stunt and special effect and set people... all of it. SPD is just really nice work so far, and I hope they keep it up. I've said, "wow, this was even better than the Dekaranger version of that episode!" no less than five times now. These guys really know what they're doing, and you can tell they're doing their best. SPD has heart, and right now, I'm not asking for anything more than that.

And that's it, I'm done. Y'all can wake up now. :)
 
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Forever Knight said:
Where did you download all those episodes man?.

All the seasons were released on BitTorrent via SonicFreak trackor. Sadly, I dont think SonicFreak is around anymore.

Blue said:
I still laugh when people say WF was good. It wasn't dark, it wasn't well written, it was a joke..

Im the exact opposite. I still cant believe people didnt like WF. It was good. Hell, it was great. What didnt you like about it? You say it wasnt Dark, but I would point to Cole. Darkest back story for a Red Ranger ever. I would point to Master's Herald. If that's not Dark I dont know what is to you. That was one of the most dramatic and emotional villain episodes ever. I really cared for Jindrax and Toxica despite them being sworn enemies of the rangers.

How wasnt it written well? The episodes had a nice plot to them, there was consistency with details on the characters. There was a main plot overlaying the episodes always that the story arc followed. The only thing that wasnt well written was the Finale. I liked pt1 but pt2 kind of sucked.

WF has to be one of my favorite seasons next to TimeForce.
 
KRBlack said:
I didnt really think WF was all that ba either, but the actor who played Cole couldn't act for ****.

lol. Well I didnt think his acting was bad but when I rewatch some of the episodes, I do agree that he was a bit too charismatic in his mannerisms which made him seem silly.
 

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