Power Rangers as a whole

...what happened to the highly entertaining episode by episode review / sporking thing that was going on here?

If I recall, the troper who was doing those got robbed and his PR DV Ds were among the things stolen.

Well that sucks. Like, really - damn.

Coz when I build a spaceship, my first priority is to put a volcano on it.

edited 18th Jun '18 8:21:00 PM by Ghilz

Geothermal is a great energy source.

The Sudarso brothers are the best.

I hate when misfortune falls upon Power Rangers reviewers! Like when Chris Sims had to end Ranger Station because Comics Alliance ceased production of new articles, or how Samurai Karasu's Ranger Retrospective has been taking longer and longer breaks, at first because he was busying himself with things like collecting Ranger Keys, but now because he's lost his job with Toys 'R Us due to the closing of that. Oh, and that site just informed me that Robert Axelrod could use some money to deal with his back surgery.

Terra Venture isn't a "spaceship". It's a colony specifically. It's supposed to replicate a planet. So it makes sense is has natural stuff like that. It even has programmed in natural disasters(to a lesser degree) to make it feel like a real planet.

And a damn good justification for why it works when they had to dub many areas like that. At least it makes sense.

For some value of "sense"

"Hey guys, you know what our ship needs? Volcanic Eruptions. The crew will get homesick if they don't have to escape a lava flow or a hurricane once in a while!"

How do you even relocate a volcano to a spaceship? And have it still work without the earth's core?

No, It's a space ship. It's designed to take people form Earth, to a new Planet, which they will colonise.

edited 19th Jun '18 7:27:10 AM by Ghilz

How long would it have taken had the plot not occurred? It could have been a generation ship.

Sure. It could be. But that's still a starship!

(Though I'd argue that's unlikely as Terra Venture is clearly FTL capable, and In Space showed there's no shortage of planets humans can survive in).

It's funny how little consequence Lost Galaxy has. So humanity built an FTL capable ship, set off to colonise another world... And then did nothing else with that technology or accomplishment in the subsequent 19 years.

edited 19th Jun '18 1:02:04 PM by Ghilz

Terra Venture is a colony in space that also moves around looking for a proper planet.

It's intended to act like a planet. It even has planned natural disasters. It's literally noted in the dialogue.

They had a lot of footage to worked with and explained it correctly. It makes perfect sense with how they handled it. They didn't stretch a thing for it either.

The real question is how the hell they made a volcano work right. That's less believable than the reason why.

Don't aliens show up at Earth because of Terraventure?

I've heard headcanons that humans in the PR-verse ended up with really advanced space tech by reverse-engineering the Dark Fortress, which ended up on Earth at the end of In Space. Probably quite a few other interesting UAE toys left around after their defeat, really.

When they brought in the gas monster, I thought, "Oh, so they're going to seize the colony Gundam-style!" I also didn't expect Matthew to be able to go home, mainly because I thought he was supposed to be Yuuta's counterpart.

I also suppose they could've gotten the tech from the Aquitians, Triforians, whoever Blue Senturion works for, or another anti-UAE alien race. Because Earth really did save everyone's bacon in the end, no?

edited 20th Jun '18 8:32:39 PM by HamburgerTime

There is literally no reason for a space colony, that plans on colonizing a new world, to have oceans, volcanoes, caves, the works. That doesn’t make any sense.

And no they never once explained this. The most we got was Terra Venture apparently having a weather simulator

A rainstorm and thunder showers is not the same as a volcano erupting or a natural disaster that doesnt make...any...sense. At all.

edited 25th Jun '18 8:40:16 AM by BlueFire

It makes perfect sense, though. The whole point is to emulate a real planet.

Fact of the matter is, they can't just remove the entire thing as is without an extreme amount of editing of the source material, which would require a lot more budget and time that they don't have.. And natural disasters are also tied to weather likewise. What, do you think the weather isn't part of why we have a lot of global warming? It's all part of nature. Of which weather is. It's clear they're controlling it via the colony's own settings. Like, that's not even a real question at this point. That's the only conclusion one can come to.

Is it the best explanation ever? Nah. It's kind of dumb too that they had the need for a volcano. But it still fits perfectly within the narrative and doesn't muck with anything that the actual show presents at all. It requires no special explanations. All events are controlled within the colony's own machines. Like what you would expect from a colony that was always meant to act like a real planet.

edited 25th Jun '18 3:30:16 PM by Irene

[quote]It makes perfect sense, though[/quote] You and I (and I suspect most people) have different ideas of what constitutes as making perfect sense

.[quote] The whole point is to emulate a real planet.[/quote]

Pretty sure the whole point was to colonize a new world. Finding a way to bring oceans and volcanos into a space ship is kind of pointless

Not to mention the show never treats this stuff as anything other than “well Sentai...”

[quote] Fact of the matter is, they can't just remove the entire thing as is without an extreme amount of editing of the source material, which would require a lot more budget and time that they don't have..[/quote]

Or they can just say the Rangers are on alien planets when it comes to fighting in areas like by the ocean or in the mountains.

[quote]. . Like what you would expect from a colony that was always meant to act like a real planet.[/quote]

No it was always meant to get them to point A (earth) to point b (the new world...which ended up being Mirinoi) while sustaining human life for roughly a year. It was never meant to be a new earth that they would live on indefinitely. Again why have a volcano on your space ship? Trying to win the darwin award?

Oh, please. That's kind of ridiculous. It was already confirmed the place has tons of areas emulating a real planet. That's the only reason for them to exist within the show that makes any remote sense. Not just "lol dub". They basically took the case that it made no sense otherwise, and turned them into livable zones in the dub to keep the footage. There's no lack of logic in them doing that. Plus, Terra translated to Earth. It is really a surprise that they made the space colony act similar to a planet in order for a ton of people to live on it like one? At all? Like, you can't expect a small city(which it had) of people to live on a basic ship. They need to have something more than that. Plant life, areas to explore, and so on. So they went with that design.

Also, it was more an error that people are calling it a volcano. It was Magna Defender creating a pit of fire. It's just a mountain zone. It's hard to remember that because it looked like a volcano, so the confusion is understandable. Doesn't really change they have planned stuff via their weather machine. Obviously an earthquake might not make sense. But a volcano erupting but having no people in there due to announcing stuff various events just makes it a neat sight to see. There's some logic there. That said, there was never a volcano, so it's irrelevant.

I always assumed it was based on actual contained ecosystems like Biosphere 2, where they recreate various biomes to mimic proper Earth-like conditions. It's partially an experiment to develop newer technology, but the belief too is that sustained environments need such natural variation in temperature, humidity, oxygen content, etc or else it compromises body chemistry and immune systems.

Edited by KJMackley on Jun 27th 2018 at 12:25:06 PM

David Yost wants to do a thing.

^I would love to see that happen. Hasbro doesn’t even have to officially sanction it just look the other way and let it happen. Also Yost written and Amy Jo Johnson directed? Yes please.

On an unrelated no I started watching the second half of Turbo as part of a Judd Lynn era Power Ranger rewatch and I forgot just how good it was. The right mix of comedy and drama.

I'm not sure if anyone remembers "The Order" project from a few years ago, a number of ex-Power Rangers made a short film / Real Trailer, Fake Movie to advertise a potential full length feature. It seems to have fizzled out, but considering the talent involved the short had some impressive action scenes and stunt work. I recently just watched Upgrade and considering the production design, visual effects and action scenes I would have thought it was made for around 25 million dollars at least, but was actually done for 5 million.

If Yost could assemble an indie budget of 10-15 million to pull together a reunion film like this, it could be an interesting ride. One problem with last years film was that it felt like the entire budget went into the last 15 minutes, and being a Hollywood film even that didn't amount to much.

From what I heard, there was some shady stuff going on behind the scenes of The Order movie and the cast has a bit of blame. I just hope they've learned their lessons hear and this project turns out better.

Also, if they do this reunion movie, does this mean Trini will be dead? Because I can't see a re-cast going over well.

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