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1	* In his History of Power Rangers video about Power Rangers Turbo, why was he complaining about Divatox using missiles to make her monsters grow when Lord Zedd used hand-grenades?
2	** Probably because it looks really fake. I know everything looks really fake in power rangers, but the special effect as bad enough to clearly stand out. Or maybe because the missile thing seems stupid in comparison. She is a space pirate and apparently doesn't have a whole lot of resources at her disposal. Zedd was a great evil sorcerer. So it would be more believable that he could create threatening looking silver bombs, than a two-bit space pirate creating CGI torpedoes.
3	*** Plus it adds an extra, subtle layer of villainy if you think about it. Divatox just blew her monsters up to make them grow. Lord Zedd? He made his monsters blow ''themselves'' up. By comparison, Divatox just wasn't as interesting which was the whole point of Linkara's criticism of her.
4	** Zedd's "hand grenades" looked magical enough, was caught and activated by the creature itself and seemed to be moreso just a method of making the creature grow that was different from Rita's magic wand. They didn't refer to those bulbs as being hand grenades, while Divatox firing actual torpedoes just felt like a lack of creativity. ''In Space'' was just firing a "satelaser" but it came across as something tech related (shooting something with energy to make it mutate is a sci-fi stand-by). There was no explanation how blowing something up with a torpedo would make something grow, even if ''Time Force'''s "exposed the mutant gene" made no sense it was still a psuedo explanation.
5	* I guess it's a matter of opinion, but it bugs me in his review of season two when he calls the rangers dicks for sabotaging Bulk and Skull's efforts to learn their identities. What, so it's cool and badass when Batman steals evidence of his identity, but when the Power Rangers do it, suddenly it's just mean? Zordon told them to keep their identities secret. And the claim that they could just reveal themselves to Bulk and Skull to make them stop doesn't make sense. What does that mean? That if ''anyone'' attempts to learn who Power Rangers really are, they're obligated to reveal themselves to that person? Why? And keep in mind at this point in the show, the rangers aren't friends with Bulk and Skull. Sure, they may not be bullying anymore, but they haven't yet done much to make up for their season one behaviour. Sure, they may have saved the rangers once or twice, but the rangers have saved ''them'' plenty of times. The rangers don't owe them anything.
6	** To some extent Linkara's opinion was probably influenced by his knowledge of what Bulk and Skull would eventually blossom into, but even so there are at least two points in favor of the "the Rangers are dicks" argument. For starters, Bulk and Skull weren't being written as antagonists anymore. They hadn't done anything bad to the Rangers for a very long time and there was no indication they had bad intentions in trying to expose the Rangers' identities. I'm not sure what their goal was exactly beyond figuring out who the Power Rangers were under the masks, but their efforts seemed more innocent than antagonistic. That lends them a little more sympathy. And second, because most of the time the Rangers destroyed Bulk and Skull's evidence in ways that guaranteed they would be publicly humiliated. It's one thing to steal/destroy evidence to protect your secret identity, but humiliating the person you stole it from on top of that feels a bit mean.
7	*** How could their attempts to dicover the rangers' identities be purely innocent? Remember the episode where they had a video tape of the rangers morphing? They were about to show it to a ''whole'' room full of people. If the rangers hadn't switched the tape, their identities would have been made public. There would be no way they could possibly cover it up once a whole room full of people found out. And maybe the rangers' actions did humiliate them every now and then, but couldn't it be argued that if the two were humiliated by their investigations, they might be more likely to stop? A tad harsh perhaps, but it's ultimately for the best and not enough to brand the rangers as "dicks".
8	*** That was one of about 4 or 5 different episodes where Bulk and Skull had some sort of hard evidence, but besides the video tape they had plaster footprints (hardly immediately revealing) and the Rangers still went out of their way to humiliate them and destroy that evidence.
9	*** The plaster footprints? That wasn't humiliating them. They had Ritchie, Ernie's new employee, put on some music and the people in the Juice Bar shoved past them. A little rude, but not humiliation (unless you count Skull letting go of the plaster to slap Bulk on the back as humiliation, which... all things considered, was pretty much par for the course for them).
10	*** I think it's more of a problem with them ''constantly'' humiliating them. If they tried to find out who they were once or twice, it would be one thing, but as he pointed out, they spent most of season 2 doing this. Hell, I'm more frustrated that the Rangers, over time, didn't try to be more covert with two (that we know of) people following them.
11	*** I thought their motivation behind exposing the Power Rangers' identities was to become rich and famous...or was that just ONE episode?
12	*** There is also the fact that Bulk and Skull endanger them by doing that. One of the rules of being a Ranger is that they have to protect identity because it it's revealed, they'll lose them.
13	*** No if that was the case they would have lost their powers when Adam, Rocky, and Aisha found out. They're just not suppose to reveal their identities directly. Still there is a matter of fact that Bulk and Skull want TO EXPOSE THEIR IDENITITIES TO THE WHOLE WORLD. Also Linkara outright says the Rangers should tell Bulk and Skull, completely ignoring the establish rules, showing that Linkara is too much of a Bulk and Skull stan.
14	*** Actually I agree that they should have just told them. It would have stopped them from trying to publicly out them. After all, remember what happened when they actually found out their identities? They selflessly stand up to the [=MotD=] and sacrifice that knowledge to protect the rangers. Honestly, it would have made more sense to reveal their identities after that moment.
15	*** It's not like the rangers themselves could've known that was going to be their reaction. Plus, that instance was humanity's last stand moment.
16	*** While Bulk and Skull aren’t bullies in season 2 they were in Season 1 which likely wasn’t very long ago when season 2 starts (as the seasons progress they become better people) but in Season 2 they Power Rangers could still see them as bullies, or at least not people you’d tell a secret to. Also the Power Rangers try to have normal teen lives and people knowing they save the world would ruin that. But most important is that if their identities as Power Rangers are exposed Zordon could take their powers away (or their powers would stop working) which means they can’t save the world from active evil.
17	* During his Lost Galaxy review, he claimed the song was "trying to tell a story, but just ran out of time." Under the same paragraph, though, he compares it less favorably to the original theme. You know, the one with SIX WORDS (Go, Power, Ranger, You, Mighty, Morphing).
18	** The original theme wasn't ''about'' lyrics. It was about epic guitar.
19	** Plus, that's just what you hear in the intro. The full version has multiple verses and talks quite a bit about how awesome the Rangers are.
20	*** Sure, but the full song isn't the intro version, the intro version is just six words no matter which way you put it. I'd say it's nostalgia instead of a legit reason why the LG intro was rushing to tell a story. If he was commenting on the music itself, then sure, I can see what he was saying, but he was referencing lyrics themselves when talking about his opinion on the LG theme.
21	** Well, fair enough, but in the minute Lost Galaxy had, it's a bit more compelling.
22	** Most likely boils down to a matter of personal taste. He's admitted before that his own taste in music can be a factor (he wasn't fond of Kira's singing in ''Dino Thunder''), and he said that he didn't hate the song, so it's probably simply that he just likes one song better than the other.
23	** It extends past the theme, he complains about the background music and at one point shows a fight with one of the old Mighty Morphin' songs over it and... it sounds awful and completely out of place.
24	*** YMMV on that one and a lot.
25	* Anyone know if Linkara would at all care about Gobusters if he knew how Power Rangers inspired it was? If he still doesn't fine, I'm just wondering because of how blatant it is in the show.
26	** Knowing him people have probably told him about it by now. I expect another reference to it in his next video like he did with ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger''. He definitely isn’t going to watch it though. He once stated on a podcast that he didn’t care about Sentai because he didn’t grow up with it. He might think it is cool or interesting and I wouldn’t be surprised if his reaction is buried somewhere in Twitter, but he won’t watch it.
27	** In his review of "Mystic Force" he states that he isn't really interested in watching the sentai at all.
28	*** When he did have to address it in his ''Dino Charge'' review, he stated that the only ''Power Rangers'' references people had told him about were the [[ByThePowerOfGrayskull morphing call]] and the fact that some of the HumongousMecha were called Megazords, so he didn't really care about it. Barring him deciding to watch it of his own volition or someone requesting him to review episodes on Patreon, the odds of him caring about it later on are very slim.
29	** [[Series/PowerRangersBeastMorphers Now a moot point]].
30	* Linkara stated in his ''Ninja Storm'' review that the rangers actually looked like teenagers. Umm...did he honestly see Shane and Cam? They were pretty clearly in their early twenties.
31	** His exact words were "Still, I'll give them credit: These guys actually look like teenagers", and he said it right at the end of his rant about how bizarre it is for Dustin, Blake, and Hunter to all regularly participate in motocross biking for fun despite being teenagers. Perhaps he was only referring to those three?
32	** Cam was never stated to be a teenager, in fact it was implied he was older than the others.
33	* What are the odds he'll discuss ''Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger'' when he gets to Samurai? I know he's not a fan of the Sentai, but one of the reasons that Samurai got a less-than-warm reception in the States was because of the 'remixed' half-season that Disney aired leading many to watch Shinkenger (with it's arguably better acting and more emotional moments) instead. Will that play a factor in his overall rating of the season?
34	** It's not going to happen. Apart from his not being interested in Sentai, he's also stated that he reviews Power Rangers series based on their own merits and not by comparison to the original.
35	** He'll probably mention it being a translation of a Sentai to explain why it didn't make sense sometimes but I don't think he's going to count it against it just a faithful adaptation. The fandom is really hypocritical about that anyways. When Time Force does it it's cool, when Samurai does it it's the worst season ever.
36	** Judging by a few of his comments in the Jungle Fury videos, it seems likely that he'll at least go into ''some'' detail about it.
37	** Turns out, he treats it pretty much like other Sentai series: A few comments here and there, and that's it, not going overly detail about it. Which is... a ''good'' thing because watching Shinkenger first was one reason why people in general dislikes Samurai, affected with HypeBacklash.
38	* How could he miss out on talking about the 2-parter Doomsday back in his review of MMPR s1? Sure the series didn't end there, but it would have been nice if he went into detail about it.
39	** Same reason he skipped over Scorpina, it's irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. If it really had been the ending he likely would have given it some focus but it wasn't so it's just another monster of the week episode that happens to be a two parter.
40	*** He skipped over Scorpina because he forgot and took potshots at himself for it in the ''MMPR Revision'' AprilFoolsDay review and his review of Burai's introduction in ''Zyurager''.
41	*** He didn't actually forget about Scorpina the first time around, he was asked about it after the original episodes went up and said he left her out because she was ultimately pointless to the story. Enough people were bothered by it that he mentioned her in the revised episodes along with the things he actually forgot.
42	** It's probably also partly due to the episodes being shorter when he first started. I think he was largely going on memory, only watching episodes that effected the status quo mainly and leaving out most of the filler. It was only when he got to the seasons he was unfamiliar with that he had to start watching more of the show. Since "Doomsday" doesn't really effect the status quo outside of its own episode, he probably missed it. After all he even forgot to mention Titanus, something he admitted himself in the next video.
43	* Did the people who told him about how the plots of Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger just read Ranger Wiki plot summaries of the episodes, or see episode previews, or hear about it from someone who actually watched the show, then when they explained it to him not really remember & not bother to look it up to make sure their info was correct, or did Linkara really not think to double check Ranger Wiki to make sure the info was 100% correct? During the Super Megaforce retrospective, he constantly gets Gokaiger plot synopses wrong (Shitari of Bones being in the Shinkenger tribute, when he was actually in the part of the Timeranger tribute that was reused Goseiger VS Shinkenger footage from their EarlyBirdCameo, the ranger costumes in the fight against Lavira being from the first 5 Sentai teams in the original Gokaiger episode when they were actually from the last 5 teams the Gokaigers got the legendary powers from after finally defeating Basco, many of the episodes that got fused together from the original Gokaiger ones & didn't accommodate the pacing of cherry picking the scenes from each, etc.) when he could've easily fact-checked this stuff & I'm just wondering why he didn't. There's also the fact that fact checking stuff on Ranger Wiki, or even here on TV Tropes for Super Megaforce alone would've shown him that even more stupidity was abound in the season with translations of Sentai names that the writers didn't care to check to see if they had adaptation names. Not to mention that the episodes were, basically, the Gokaiger episodes verbatim with only minor changes to barely accommodate Power Rangers. It's not the first time this has happened, but it IS the most egregious seeing as he had to mention a lot of Gokaiger's plot to make sense of the nonsense because of what I just mentioned. Then there's the fact that most of the main antagonists from Gokaiger were wasted as characters & it was Basco who was the most memorable villain in Gokaiger. Stripping him away from Super Megaforce left them with the problem that the main villains were boring, generic villains that they obviously didn't fix whatsoever. Then not having new ranger characters to actually have the traits from their Gokaiger counterparts stripped away all layers of complexity that the series could've hoped to have, since without that, some developments in some of the episodes didn't make a lot of sense to have happened like they did & some other characters didn't get the development they needed as a result. Then there's the fact that Noah & Jake switch fighting styles due to the stock footage & it doesn't make sense & the fact that the planets were reversed for all 6 rangers; the main 5 are from Earth while the 6th is an alien where it was the reverse in Gokaiger. Seriously, why did Linkara not double check these things before recording the videos & avert a major case of CowboyBebopAtHisComputer?
44	** He isn't generally reviewing the Power Rangers series by comparison to Sentai. He shouldn't be expected to bring up every element from it that was changed or "should have been used", and it's not somehow a mistake to not talk about Sentai so much when he's trying to judge Power Rangers on its own merits. Yeah, he did get some facts wrong about Sentai, but the videos aren't about the history of Sentai.
45	** Technically speaking, Shitari of Bones does appear in the ''Timeranger'' tribute episode of ''Gokaiger'' if you consider their EarlyBirdCameo in ''Goseiger vs Shinkenger'' to be a part of said episode.
46	* Why does Linkara act like the Overdrive team are the only Rangers who have thrown in the towel when they lost their powers or had things go wrong for them?

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