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Post by xman on Oct 21, 2018 12:22:44 GMT -5
I don't really see why the whole real life cops issues would have much garnerto what Power Rangers would be. I would just treat the Rangers and there organization like tf and spd. They are not regular cops but are a special force task against alien and monsters. And they are there to protect the city from what ever the monsters and aliens do to citizens. And like I brought up we have the cop rangers be more straight laced and follow a set of rules. Yeah, uhm about that. Time Force is not one of those Power Rangers teams that goes around killing off their enemies just because their predecessors can actually get away with killing off evil space aliens and Hellish abominations. Obviously, they have moral codes and they are sworn police officers that have to uphold the law as well as preserving the balance of space-time continuum. The only exceptions are Vypra and that one super demon in "Time For Lightspeed" since they are both Lightspeed Rescue's villains and the Mut-Orgs from "Reinforcements from the Future" since they were originally orgs before Ransik found them and released them from their prisons and copied his mutant DNA to gain their new bodies. But as for the regular mutants, no. They can't kill them off. They can only freeze them for their imprisonment. SPD is kind of different since the sentai series, Dekaranger (pre-10 Years! After) actually let the Special Police kill off criminals. So yeah, apparently they can't have Power Rangers cops killing off space criminals because someone from Disney had to come in with a mindset saying that "it will send the wrong message to kids!" I don't get it either. But, hey! Whatever. At least the Dekaranger 10 Years! After reunion movie explained the whole "Judgment Time!" Sequence while expanding the mythology of the universe that Dekaranger is a part of. Now if the Patorangers were to be adapted into a new team of Power Rangers, they should have said, "By the authority of the GSPO, we order you to come down quietly. Or we will be forced to take you down!" Or something like that.
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Post by xman on Oct 21, 2018 4:30:47 GMT -5
Facebook or JEFusion apparently?!
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Post by xman on Oct 21, 2018 4:27:41 GMT -5
Okay, here are some things that I find wrong about the Jayden and Lauren thing in the final episodes of Super Samurai and why I believe it failed in terms of story-telling. And yes, it's probably nitpicking, but whatever. 1) Why couldn't they have just introduced Lauren's character as a recurring character in the very beginning of Samurai's regular season? If they had actually casted Kimberly Crossman to play Lauren as a recurring character in the first 20 episodes of Samurai with a proper build-up to her being a secondary red ranger-character in the final episodes of Super Samurai, then there would be a better advantage into at least establish that Lauren wasn't fit to lead the team since she is not the actual leader but is just a supporting character trying to be a Power Ranger. Dude, the whole point is that Lauren was hidden away so she could perfect the Sealing Symbol without Nighlock interference. They wanted her to prepare for her destiny and return when the time was right and thus, she couldn't reveal herself beforehand or else she'd become the Nighlock's target. Jayden offered himself as a decoy so this would not occur. Its the whole point. If they weren't related and he was a random kid of the streets, Jayden's motivations for keeping his sister safe wouldn't be strong because they would've never met and the Shiba clan would be taking in a random kid and forcing him to play a role (aka putting the innocent in harm's way) rather than having the actually kinda emotional (acting aside) story of a brother putting himself on the line so his sister can live to achieve what she's born to. Your story idea is kinda just overcomplicated, and has the Shiba Clan putting a random kid in a dangerous position rather than him actually choosing to which makes way more sense They tried a tiny bit, but as for forcing him to stay, that wouldn't be like them. Sure, they cared for Jayden but at the end of the day, forcing someone to do something wouldn't be right. They didn't want Jayden to leave, but he thought it'd be better and forcing his hand would be such a terrible thing to do. They can't make him stay just because they want him to. 1) Lauren already mastered the sealing spell before she even arrived at the Shiba House. So, is there any particular reason why we never got a midquel/spin-off series dedicated to Lauren's intensive training days and how she would prepare herself to report for active ranger duty?! 2) If it's overly-complicated to explain why Jayden and Lauren aren't really blood-related, then why aren't we or the writers of the show actually doing any research on real-life Samurai clans adopting children into their family lifestyles?! I mean, there are possibly some historical reports about it, so it's not really that hard to do even we had the time or patience to do it?! Or better yet, how about the show explained how Jayden and Lauren's ancestor was either adopted or was married into the Shiba family?! That way, we could actually buy that the main red ranger-characters are one-third instead of this whole ethnic-cleansing bullcrap excuse that the producers were going for at the time by having four of the non-Asian characters pretend like they're from Japanese ancestry when there is no actual explanation behind the characters native roots or where their respective family trees actually began. 3) Well, obviously they weren't even trying harder to get him to stay in the damn house because it looked like they weren't even giving Jayden any other choice but to leave for no apparent reason. And for all this bullcrap about Jayden giving the rangers a choice in the first part of "Origins" before they claimed their morphers, it makes this situation and him feel like a hypocrite when you think about it. Also, realisticly-speaking, what the hell was Jayden supposed to be doing now that he left the Shiba House and everyong else behind to look after Lauren?! What he supposed to be visiting other family members or go find a job or live out on the streets like a bum scraping for food and asking for money?! I mean, I understand that in Shinkenger, yes. Takeru left. But, that actually made more sense there than it did in this ungrateful adaptation because he knew for a fact that he was different from everyone else and that he was secretly hiding something from everybody. However, he didn't want everyone else to give their lives to a false leader, and that is why Takeru was so distant from everyone and why his character-development is so important. But with Jayden?! Do you really think this whole fake drama about him doing something bad or keeping a deep dark was going to amount to anything like it was going to be "oh so" serious in the future?! No. You knew for a fact that it was never that big of a deal to begin with. So, why the hell did the writers even bothered to make it all suspenful anyways?! I mean, at least with Operation Overdrive, they actually made Mack's story a bit more interesting because before the revalation, we didn't know what was so different about him. Sure, they could have done better, but at least the writers and producers put in more thought and effort into that story than there is in the entire series of Samurai and Super Samurai.
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Post by xman on Oct 21, 2018 3:51:32 GMT -5
Why not just rename if the Q-Rex Zord Mk-II? The original Q-Rex Zord coukd be named, "Mk-I" and the Super Megaforce version should be named, "Mk-II".
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Post by xman on Oct 21, 2018 2:21:34 GMT -5
I say Skip a definite Skip and may this sentai rot in Limbo Hell right beside ToQger No, I think this concept will actually work in adaptation. But, I think Judd "Chip" Lynn and his writing staff will have to be really, really, really, REALLY creative into telling a story about three gentlemen thieves collecting stolen artifacts from the enemies while evading the police in a Power Rangers series for non-Japanese-speaking audience members and fans. Then again, we are living in a time period where young men and women, most particularly unarmed black people in the U.S. are being murdered by mostly cops who are so damn trigger-happy that they don't use common sense for their actions everytime they pull out a gun. Yeah, this may not be the right time to adapt Lupinranger vs Patoranger into a Power Rangers series. But, I would say give it about five more years when most other media and the news are not being self-aware of addressing the police killing off unarmed civilians by accident.
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Post by xman on Oct 18, 2018 16:49:51 GMT -5
I have one more question in regards to the Lupinrangers getting more stuff than the Patorangers. Do you think that Toei is easily overpowering the Luounrangers by giving more VS vehicles than the Patorangers?
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Post by xman on Oct 18, 2018 16:47:17 GMT -5
Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk!!! What a shame. Now it looks like the future Power Rangers adaptation of Lupin v Pat will have to fix those mistakes by giving the cops more weapons and gear than the phantom thieves.
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Post by xman on Oct 18, 2018 13:09:49 GMT -5
I would probably say most heat for season was the red ranger was focused on way to much compared to the others. Actually, Mystic Force was not as "Red-centric" as you thought it would be. I mean, yeah, Nick was the driving point of the show, but the entire show was more about Udonna trying to find her missing family than it was about Nick being the light. Of course, Jackie Merchand did say in a past interview, according to the rangerwiki page of Mystic Force and on the production history section, that the reason why people say Mystic Force was all red ranger-centric is because there was very little sentai footage of Magi Red being used as a character. Or something like that. But, I wouldn't say that is true because the irony of it all was that Magiranger's story was a bit more focused on Kai being motivator and taking the lead since he is the fifth youngest child of the Ozu Family and is the red ranger. However, it was his siblings that had to grow with or without him. Because they're older than him and they need to set an example for their younger brother, if they are going to support him as being the leader of their team and with him being the red ranger. Plus, you actually see more of the older Ozu kids growing in their own individual arcs than you do with Kai. So, I think what the problem is that we're trying to make Nick a scapegoat since his mother is the one getting most of the screen-time and is given more to do besides be there and his father is just there to take the spotlight away from him as a villain character in the show. If this was a red ranger-centric show, then wouldn't even need to give Udonna and Leanbow/Koragg more screen-time or enough focus on them as characters. The parents of Nick Russell are the true spotlight hogs, not their son. He is just there.
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Post by xman on Oct 18, 2018 12:44:54 GMT -5
Mystic Force / Space Patrol Delta is definitely a missed opportunity since they could've used the footage of the Magiranger "Birds of Infershia" movie to properly introduce an ally in a creative way - by mixing it with original footage they could have made Catastros become Brightstar. Also, Koragg vs. Shadow Ranger. Actually, I think you should have mentioned that they could have combined stock footage of Magiranger vs, Dekaranger with only the final battle of Magiranger the movie. Operation Overdrive / Mystic Force - since "Once a Ranger" was basically the highlight of that season, the crossover wouldn't make any sense and would be out of place. Disney made the right call inviting Richard Brancatisano back for the Veteran Ranger crossover since Mystic Force basically ended with Nick/Maddison NOT-STARTED love story and Leanbow & Udonna going to meet Nick's adoptive parents. So, basically. No real crossover between the main casts of Mystic Force and Operation Overdrive. Just the anniversary crossover episode and that's it. Jungle Fury / Operation Overdrive - Jungle Fury is/was fine as it is/was. I wouldn't mind some Veterans making just a small cameo appearance in a couple of episodes, just for continuity sake. It wouldn't hurt the season. But as crossover - it would not have worked at all in my opinion. Actually, I think it would work, if the characters of Operation Overdrive were written more competently outside of their own show. Much like how Haruto Souma/Kamen Rider Wizard and Takeru Tenkuujii/Kamen Rider Ghost were in the Heisei Generations movies. But, maybe it woukd be wise to just immediately retcon the events of Operation Overdrive out of existence and rewrite the characters as like alternate versions of themselves, or say that the alternate versions of the Overdrive Rangers aee from a parallel universe. R.P.M./Jungle Fury - That's a HUGE "NO". R.P.M. used very little Sentai footage and was directed in an entirely different way. It was shot like a documentary series. Plus it had a dark plot and Jungle Fury's tone and style would not blend well with the R.P.M. season. And it takes place in another universe, where all previous Rangers are either deceased, MIA or turned into Venjix's hybrids. Not unless you were use sentai footage of Go-Onger vs. Gekiranger and mix it in with original footage to match the tone of RPM's universe and give the crossover a TV-14 rating which is basically an equivalent to a PG-13 rating.
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Post by xman on Oct 18, 2018 10:55:34 GMT -5
I have questioned the opinions of others in regards to what they think is an overrated or an underrated season of Power Rangers. But, what really boggles me is that some people think that Power Rangers Mystic Force is an underrated season because of the whole "magical fantasy" theme. I will have to disagree with those people, because I don't think Mystic Force is an underrated season because of the whole magical fantasy aspects. I say Mystic Force is an unbalanced season because, the show itself doesn't even know who its' main focused characters are. Should it be following the side characters in their quests, or should it be more focused on the actual main characters that were chosen to be Power Rangers in the show?!
This is the problem when a show keeps adding in far too many superfluous side-characters. You simply lose focus on which characters should be getting all the development and growth and which ones should be the ones supporting the main protagonists. Now, I don't mind the idea that we have a team of magic-themed Power Rangers battling creatures from the underworld, but I believe it would have been much wiser to just stay focus on the people who are actually chosen to become Power Rangers. Or, if you really want to focus more on the side-characters, then why not make them Power Rangers instead and get rid of the ones that you've actually chosen to be the main rangers?!
Do you see what I mean about the show itself being unbalanced? They have all these characters crammed into this one 32-episode long season and they don't even know what to do with them. I mean, say what you will about the 1994 live-action Street Fighter movie. But, hey, at least they were trying to give everyone else enough screen-time and different roles to play. Even most of the Tokusatsu shows and movies that Riku Sanjou has written can do better with the amount of characters being featured and Movie War Megamax was a good example of balancing out multiple characters. But with Mystic Force?! We don't really get that. We only get character moments, but not any real character growths and actual individual character arcs between are main rangers, except for Xander. I mean, the closest that we have of any form of character-development is Vida suddenly liking the color pink at the end of the show. But that's it. Other than that, we got nothing. Yeah, there was also "Strangers Within" where Vida waa turned into a vampire. But that didn't really do much for her character as well. She never really learned anything from her experience of being turned into a vampire. Nor did actually reflected her past experience with that one episode and how it would effect her friemdship with Chip. Hell, Madison barely got any form of character growth and development in her individual arc and she just came out saying that she hardly did much of anything in the show other than helping out Jenji and getting turned to stone and confronting Nick in part two of "Mystic Fate". And there was the moment where she pointed out which door would lead to the tribunal of magic and which one is the wrong path and why her town of Briarwood needs color and laughter in the Dark Wish trilogy. But, that is it. The rest of the time, we're focused more on freaking Leelee and Undonna trying to find Leanbow in the second half of the show. I feel like the show's producers and writers were just wasting these actors' time because they focused more on giving the fans too much original contents and less team-up episodes a year and less character-driven stories or character-focused episodes with our main rangers back in 2006-2008.
But, I digress. It's just opinions after all.
So, what do you think? Is Mystic Force still an underrated season because of the magical fantasy theme or is it an unbalanced season because of the fact that it has far too many superfluous side-characters and not enough focused on the main chosen Power Rangers and the producers and writers didn't know what to do with them?
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Post by xman on Oct 18, 2018 10:08:28 GMT -5
And this is important news to know, why again?!
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Post by xman on Oct 18, 2018 10:03:59 GMT -5
DX Siren Striker and Siren LupinKaiser, cuz screw giving the Patrangers toys that clearly belong to them: So, does that mean that we are not getting an ultimate combined mech, this year?!
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Post by xman on Oct 18, 2018 10:01:24 GMT -5
^ I presume the Elephant Orphenoch suddenly vanished just like the Scorpio Horoscope that Fourze was fighting. So Mari is still alive and it's likely that Takumi and Kusaka forgot they were Kamen Riders the moment Another Faiz was destroyed. I've said it and I'll say it again..... Time travelling is bulls#$%!!!
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Post by xman on Oct 16, 2018 11:34:52 GMT -5
I have yet to binge watch. And that's despite getting the VS Changer. Damn, dude. You are WAAAAY behind. You seriously need to catch up because we are about to be halfway through the series and next week will be the 37th episode. So, I strongly suggest you make a request to your employer to get some time off in your work schedule or at least take some time off on days that you're not working and just spend a few fours watching the show. Otherwise, you're gonna be mad at yourself because you missed out on a lot of things that is going on with the show. Seriously, you need to have a break, and you truly deserve one.
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Post by xman on Oct 16, 2018 11:29:24 GMT -5
I have a quick question about episode six of Zi-O and it's about the Time Jackers and the Another Faiz interrupting Takumi's debut rider kick. Is Mari even alive at this point or is she now officially dead in this alternate timeline, because if Takumi never performed the Crimson Smash rider kick as Faiz, then she is going to die by being crushed by that giant Orphnoch. And does that also mean that the Takumi and Masato of the present timeline have no memories of them being Kamen Riders at this point?!
I am so confused.
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