History Webvideo / HistoryOfPowerRangers

** ''Once & Always'' is about resolution and passing the torch to the next generation. ''Cosmic Fury'' uses this theme as well as the current team faces off against an old foe with the help of a veteran Ranger.

** Referring to the headquarters of most teams as the "Command ___" such as Samurai's Command House

The most current review thus far is of ''Series/PowerRangersCosmicFury''. Linkara has [[http://atopfourthwall.tumblr.com/post/135918669558 announced]] that since the series will be completely caught-up, new episodes will only be released after a new season has been released in its entirety (assuming seasons are normally split into two mini-seasons, a new episode about every two years). However, as the future of the original ''Power Rangers'' franchise is unclear after ''Cosmic Fury'', Linkara has expressed the possibility of finally ending the ''HOPR'' series should the showrunners decide on a hard reboot of the entire franchise.[[note]]Although maybe not, as Linkara also notes this series is his most popular by a large margin and that he 'likes making money'[[/note]] There are also possible episodes depending on Patreon requests, and will likely focus more on ''Power Rangers'' [[FollowTheLeader "copycats"]] like ''Series/MaskedRider'', ''{{Series/Beetleborgs}}'', ''Series/VRTroopers'', and ''Series/TattooedTeenageAlienFightersFromBeverlyHills''. He's also going back and addressing the mistakes he'd made in earlier videos and has tentatively announced that he plans on remastering all the previous episodes of HOPR up to ''Operation Overdrive''.

The most current review thus far is of ''Series/PowerRangersCosmicFury''. Linkara has [[http://atopfourthwall.tumblr.com/post/135918669558 announced]] that since the series will be completely caught-up, new episodes will only be released after a new season has been released in its entirety (assuming seasons are normally split into two mini-seasons, a new episode about every two years). There are also possible episodes depending on Patreon requests, and will likely focus more on ''Power Rangers'' [[FollowTheLeader "copycats"]] like ''Series/MaskedRider'', ''{{Series/Beetleborgs}}'', ''Series/VRTroopers'', and ''Series/TattooedTeenageAlienFightersFromBeverlyHills''. He's also going back and addressing the mistakes he'd made in earlier videos and has tentatively announced that he plans on remastering all the previous episodes of HOPR up to ''Operation Overdrive''.

The most current review thus far is of ''Series/PowerRangersDinoFury'', with the upcoming review ''Cosmic Fury'' under development. Linkara has [[http://atopfourthwall.tumblr.com/post/135918669558 announced]] that since the series will be completely caught-up, new episodes will only be released after a new season has been released in its entirety (assuming seasons are normally split into two mini-seasons, a new episode about every two years). There are also possible episodes depending on Patreon requests, and will likely focus more on ''Power Rangers'' [[FollowTheLeader "copycats"]] like ''Series/MaskedRider'', ''{{Series/Beetleborgs}}'', ''Series/VRTroopers'', and ''Series/TattooedTeenageAlienFightersFromBeverlyHills''. He's also going back and addressing the mistakes he'd made in earlier videos and has tentatively announced that he plans on remastering all the previous episodes of HOPR up to ''Operation Overdrive''.

* EvilSoundsDeep: Has noted that Power Rangers has a tendency, especially in later seasons, to give their EvilOverlord the stereotypical super-deep, gravelly evil voice. He also notes that while he understands Power Rangers does this to try to make their main villain sound badass, it usually makes them sound incredibly generic, instead.

* EvilSoundsDeep: Has noted that Power Rangers has a tendency, especially in later seasons, to give their EvilOverlord the stereotypical [[GutturalGrowler super-deep, gravelly evil voice]]. He also notes that while he understands Power Rangers does this to try to make their main villain sound badass, it usually makes them sound incredibly generic, instead.

* CatchPhrase: "...which ''makes sense''" when a detail makes sense, despite at first looking like a PlotHole.
** As well as "...for some reason" a few times, when a detail ''doesn't'' make sense.
*** He also uses "Because... Because." in some cases.
*** As well as "Because... I have no idea."
** Also, "I'm sure [villain] will ''neeeeeeever'' bother anyone again", for the villains who eventually come back. (He used a variation of this when Trent first appeared in ''Dino Thunder''.)
** He introduces the team-up morphs with, "And, of course, [[ByThePowerOfGrayskull it's time]]."
** "Which means it's AWESOME!" When describing the various weapons and equipment used by the season du jour's SixthRanger, usually a melee weapon that becomes a gun.
** He ends each [[TheTeaser teaser]] with a quip and some variation of "Welcome, friends, to [series name]."
** Sometimes, he'll say "Whoops." for accidental racism.
** "Yeah, I know, limited by the Sentai footage", when discussing a PlotHole or [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot Wasted Plot]] that he begrudgingly admits was due to the source material. However, ''after'' he states that fact he will usually explain while that may be the reason, that it's not an excuse since the production team could have made their own footage, worked around that story element, or even skipped a particular Super Sentai if it was so difficult to translate into an Americanized Power Rangers season.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: His ''MMPR'' through ''In Space'' reviews tended to be a little broader in the recaps, highlighting the main cast and a few story arcs but rarely getting into individual episodes and would overlook quite a few characters, zords and weapons that are rather significant parts of that season (such as Scorpina, Titanus and the "Doomsday" two-parter). This was partly because he was basing much of the recap on his own memory of watching the show, and by Lost Galaxy had to be more attentive and take notes. He eventually did a GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion on several seasons, which saw that era with quite a few rewrites, re-edits and subtitle corrections to bring it more in line with the later videos.

* GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion: Lewis is going back and fixing some things in his earlier episodes, as well as changing the clips to clearer ones and making the videos more [=YouTube=]-friendly. Originally, everything after the first season was planned to just be a ReCut[=/=]{{Remaster}} with only the first season video full-on getting this treatment with him making sure to mention Titanus, Scorpina, Ernie, Ms. Applebee, Principal Kaplan, and the Radbug this time around, but then he redid the second season, opening by saying that he's going to play this by ear. He also recognized that several videos opened with a very topical discussion of the Power Rangers fandom or the HOPR series itself; as such his opening statements before his ''Wild Force'' video about how he planned to continue the series were removed for being outdated, considering that was the 10th season and he eventually got caught up with the series at ''Megaforce'', the 20th season.

The most current review thus far is of ''Series/PowerRangersDinoFury'', being released as its sequel series ''Cosmic Fury'' is under development. Linkara has [[http://atopfourthwall.tumblr.com/post/135918669558 announced]] that since the series will be completely caught-up, new episodes will only be released after a new season has been released in its entirety (assuming seasons are normally split into two mini-seasons, a new episode about every two years). There are also possible episodes depending on Patreon requests, and will likely focus more on ''Power Rangers'' [[FollowTheLeader "copycats"]] like ''Series/MaskedRider'', ''{{Series/Beetleborgs}}'', ''Series/VRTroopers'', and ''Series/TattooedTeenageAlienFightersFromBeverlyHills''. He's also going back and addressing the mistakes he'd made in earlier videos and has tentatively announced that he plans on remastering all the previous episodes of HOPR up to ''Operation Overdrive''.

* ShownTheirWork: Though he isn't immune to error, Linkara clearly shows he's done his research and knows what went on behind the scenes during the series and how it affected things.

* CriticalBacklash[[invoked]]: Has this with several shows, particularly what fans call the "Disney Era," but so far the only seasons he's said he feels are bad are ''Turbo,'' ''Overdrive,'' and ''Megaforce,'' though he admits he understands why some seasons get hate.

* SoOkayItsAverage[[invoked]]: How he seems to feel about ''Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue'', ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm'', ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'', ''Series/PowerRangersSamurai'', and ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaSteel''.

* BerserkButton:
** He hates it when child actors are prominent since they usually aren't very good actors and distract from the Rangers and/or the action. Linkara notes the very idea of a KidAppealCharacter isn't needed for a show like Power Rangers; kids are watching the show in the first place for the fight scenes and the giant robots, you don't need to pander to them further.
** Linkara also hates when characters don't act the way they should in their roles or have an InformedAttribute that they never actually portray. This includes Power Rangers who don't act heroic, enemies who say they have a code of ethics or chivalry and either never actually act that way or confuse stupidity with nobility (like not killing an enemy in a fair fight because 'it's not noble') and mentors who don't actually help their Rangers and confuse fortune cookie rhetoric for insight.

* AccentuateTheNegative: Completely averted. Linkara praises things when done well and points out things that are flawed, regardless of popular internet opinion and his own nostalgia. He's said incredibly positive things about some of the most divisive seasons and gives credit to the best aspects of every series, encouraging people to give all of them a chance. Even ''Turbo'', ''Operation Overdrive'', and ''Megaforce'''s good moments are acknowledged, though he cracks that the latter two do not have a lot in that regard.

** While he won't hold it over a season just because it was made during the "Disney Era", he has mentioned several times over that Disney really didn't ''get'' the franchise's appeal and would constantly interfere to try and reduce the violence, cut its budget, and at one point even wanted to just directly dub a season of the Super Sentai instead of converting it into a proper Power Rangers season[[note]]ironic considering the problems the first two series of the "Neo Saban Era" would go throgh[[/note]].

* SurprisinglyImprovedSequel: [[invoked]] As Linkara looked at the series throughout the years, he noticed that whenever an awful season would occur, the next one would try and fix it by bringing in elements that were introduced from the first, but better. The best examples he could find are ''In Space'' and ''Dino Charge'' in regards to '"Turbo'' and ''Megaforce'' respectively.

[[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxCy3y2-ZD2FdM9TzvPaDdGwO6B3-9Mez The video]] [[http://atopthefourthwall.com/other-videos/?ovc=hopr series]] started in April of 2010 and, partially due to Linkara's own familiarity with the early seasons, the early videos came out fairly regularly. He knows how [[LongRunner intimidating]] the project is and has made it clear that there is no set schedule for the release of each installment as he also has to worry about his social life, his work on ''Atop the 4th Wall'', conventions and crossovers with fellow reviewers on ''Channel Awesome'' [[note]]Least at the time he started, he's left the site past the ''Dino Charge'' review since then though occasionally does a collab with others[[/note]] (it started out about once a week, grew to about 3-4 months and the gap between ''[[Series/PowerRangersMysticForce Mystic Force]]'' and ''[[Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive Overdrive]]'' was around a year and a half). And as he has not watched each season when it first aired, most of the later seasons have him reviewing it from a fresh perspective. Taking into account writing notes, selecting clips, editing, and doing the voice work, it's a colossal task indeed. [[DoingItForTheArt But one he does out of a labour of love for the franchise.]]