Power Rangers as a whole

Okay, I was confused because of a lack of context. Kind of cool, that is a test film for an original movie starring exclusively former Power Rangers actors, basically The Expendables meets Power Rangers. The low budget of the test film is obvious, the fx are shakey and the acting is clumsy (mostly by Johnny Yong Bosch, oddly enough), but the stunt work looks spectacular. One thing Power Rangers has always done well was casting people who know what they are doing.

edited 25th Aug '16 10:54:57 PM by KJMackley

Eh, not really. Not all the actors have been martial artists and a lot can't act that well.

The finale for Dino Supercharge, which aired in Belgium yesterday, looks set to be a Base Breaker Some think it took balls to end it with the timeline changed so that Dinosaurs never went extinct, while some unhappy fans are going as far as claiming 2004's Dino Thunder season has actually been retconned out of existence by it. I wonder if they revised the timeline slightly somewhat to explain all of the lapses in continuity in the Megaforce seasons? Or does this mean Dino Charge is it's own reality like RPM?

Thanks a lot Barry!

Can we please make it a rule to not add spoilers until the episode airs EVERYWHERE? I'm tired of not being able to even look at these pages or the histories without being spoiled!

So...for as of yet unknown reasons the yellow ranger was recast in Ninja Steel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_LY4AkCeKY

So I re-watched Time Force and is it me, or does Alex come across as an example of "Straw man has a point". The Time Force Rangers' screw-ups:

< They were the ones that let Ransik get away

<Not once did they make any effort to try and find Ransik's hideout

<They didn't even know Frax had split from Ransik until Alex told them.

<They have no contingencies for when their identities are discovered as seen in the episode where Katie takes a job with a photographer.

<They have allowed Year 3000 technology to fall into Biolab's hands.

<Why is it a good thing they only work well with Wes? The way they behave it's obvious they have become to emotionally dependent on him to the point they are now incapable of functioning without him and focusing on their main objective. The scene where Jen slips and calls Alex Wes is a good example of what I mean. I mean, what if Wes decided he liked running Biolab more or died in action?

<Alex is the more experienced fighter and the Red Chrono morpher was his originally way. What does Wes bring to the team?

That one applies to every season of Power Rangers ever.

Seriously, name me a season where the rangers assault the villain's base to defeat him at any time other than the season finale (And going to the villain's base to recover a macguffin or rescue someone doesn't count).

You'll find it's a very short list.

edited 18th Sep '16 11:15:00 AM by Ghilz

Typically, Power Rangers aren't supposed to be the "aggressors" in their fight against evil.

"They know to only use their weapons for defense," as the classic Expository Theme Tune goes.

Having said that, Time Force and SPD have a bit harder time excusing that given that they're supposedly cops, so you'd expect that they'd put a bit more effort into apprehending an at-large wanted criminal.

Time Force also has their team stuck in the past and need to work to pay the bills. So they can't do only that. They also are trying to keep a low profile(bar Erik).

SPD has an entire world to protect. They can't spend their entire focus on one enemy. Criminals show up that have nothing to do with Grumm as well during at least one episode. Which pretty much implies that there's Cadets doing stuff in different parts of the world. Although they really could've made that more clear, besides telling us one other Division exists(with Crowler).

Most teams aren't police officers though and you'd expect them to investigate as is their literal job.

Well you don't assault the God of Evil/Apocalypse AI/Ancient Wizards when you are at lv.5

edited 19th Sep '16 11:52:28 AM by flameboy21th

They don't have to assault his base. Just find out where he is and plan to bring him in later.

...Plenty of teams' literal job is to defeat the villain. Either as "cops" or secret order, or whatever thing. (Less you're saying it's okay for an order whose entire purpose for thousands of years is to fight a specific evil NOT to dedicate their effort to stop said evil the moment it goes free coz they are not specifically cops)

Lets see...

Time Force, Samurai, RPM, SPD, Jungle Fury, Ninja Storm, Lightspeed Rescue.

Add to that the "Mentor recruited you to specifically twart the newly arrived/released villain" and we got MMPR, Megaforce, Mystic Force, Dino thunder.

That's quite literally most of them.

edited 19th Sep '16 1:47:06 PM by CobraPrime

The TF team were literally police officers, whereas the other teams were more of a reactive force by the way they were defined.

Police officers are reactive by their very definition.

I recall the Mighty Morphin Team going after the Moon Castle a few times and Dino Thunder blew up Mesagog's Base...I think the RPM Team hit Venjix's base a couple of times. Mystic Force got dragged into the Underworld at least once or twice.

RPM team doesn't assult Venjix until the final arc (because doing so would leave the city wide open). Venjix and his cronies, however, assaults the Garage multiple times until they get repelled by fridge cannons.

Only ever to rescue someone taken there or recover something stolen. Never proactively assaulting the villain.

Yeah, the MMPR team wasn't meant to proactively assault the villain.

Their weapons are only to defend, not to attack.

I will point out one can proactively defend :-P

It's not just about defending something. Zordon talked about not escalating a situation without reason. That's why they wait for the monster to grow first before summoning their Zords. Attacking the enemy base often comes down to anger and emotion, rather than an act of strategic importance. Retrieving the Zeo crystal was I believe the one time in the MMPR era the rangers infiltrated the bad guy base.

What fan theories would you guys like to see become canon? I personally, would like to see it become canon that the Space Rangers helped in the formation of Lightspeed.

Kimberly is Spike's mother.