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Post by iceranger32 on Oct 3, 2023 6:09:00 GMT -5
Not really. There is a six month gap between the last few scenes. It can easily fit in within the time gap period. And plus, I will also add this in. When it comes to any businesses, the grand openings can happen sometime after they began operation. She said to celebrate the grand opening of Angel Grove Buzzblast. So, Angel Grove Buzzblast could of easily had started by the final scene of Dino Fury.
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Post by BradyMcKnight on Oct 3, 2023 12:21:20 GMT -5
Eh, regardless there’s really nothing canonical that would insist O&A has to come first so, next time I do a rewatch I’m doing Cosmic Fury first 🤷♂️
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Post by digificwriter on Oct 3, 2023 15:28:50 GMT -5
^ Why disregard "Word of God" here?
You gain nothing other than to be contrary for the sake of being contrary.
Even though I haven't finished it yet, I really like Cosmic Fury; it's a fun continuation of Dino Fury and a nice successor, 20+ seasons/years later, to Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers.
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Post by BradyMcKnight on Oct 3, 2023 15:30:49 GMT -5
I gain more enjoyment from the show’s ending, what’s it to ya?
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Post by zarius on Oct 4, 2023 7:27:33 GMT -5
It's super easy to turn O&A into a sequel event in the editing suite I've found.
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Post by crossranger on Oct 4, 2023 17:43:33 GMT -5
Power Rangers Cosmic Fury a.k.a. MEGAFORCE 2.0: Zayto Bugaloo. I'm gonna review the season like I did with some Sentai seasons, so, I'm more critical of some this. Behinds the scene things are interesting, but, at the end of the day, what is done, is done. This season is IMHO, flawed.
I liked:
- The season opener was so damn good. I mean, I liked the idea of starting IN MEDIA RES, in the middle of the fight….and then things got to the point pretty fast: Ollie’s being evil again, the Morphing Masters were captured (I’m not fan of them), Mick Kanic is there, Billy is there (minor nitpick, how Ollie knew the MM Blue Ranger is Billly Cranston? The Morphing Grid? The Nexus? HE’S MORPHED. I thought Billy’s identity is a secret. Whatever.) and later…..Javi losing an arm for releasing new Zords. Really dark.
- The plot is good. Really good. Better than I expected. The twist is good too, but it needed some thing in preparation. “Set up, and pay off”. I think the betrayal of Bajillia Naire should be prepared better….because for 9 episodes we saw her and her stupid daughter as useless dumbs…and suddenly, she had a crazy good plan. In fact, I was expecting Ollie was the one who’s gonna betray Zedd. Speaking of the devil……
- Evil Ollie is so damn good. The actor was great. And the fact he’s trying to question in how to be evil, and using the same logic of “fighting as a team” as a villain, and Zedd in some kind of mentor’s capacity….man. I liked it. It was the best. It needed more of it. It could probably be the better version of Snoke/Kylo Ren of what the Star Wars sequels tried to do…..
- The fight choreographies looked good, nothing fancy. I guess budget went against that.
- I like the little subversion of everybody using a Zord not matching the color. It was really dumb. Zayto was beige, and he had the purple dragon, Javi has the cyan bear and he’s still black, Aiyon had the orange one, or the Blue Wolf. Gosh, I loved Billy taking care of the Wolf for a moment.
- The cast was OK for me. I think the seniors stand out, like Mick or Billy. But the one stealing the show was Heckyll. DAMN. I missed him. Probably the best part of the season. I liked he morphed with his weapon. I loved it the fact Toei didn’t want Hasbro to change the helmet. It’s a perfect suit, why they had to ruin it? The rest was good. Javi having an arc, trying to accept the lose of an arm. I think it was one of the interesting parts of the season. Aiyon was OK, but he could did more (More on that later). Amelia was an acceptable Red (I have an issue of her being leader). Izzy didn’t do much, except screaming “MUH GIRLFRIEND”. I didn’t have nothing against Fern, but, again, I don’t think she did a lot. But I think the best returning is….
- Tarrick. He was great. I love he destroyed a monster. UNMORPHED. I would love if he morphed again in Void Knight. But alas, I guess budget and time was the enemy…..
- Speaking of returns, Mucus and Slyther were good. Really good. And they were well used.
- Zedd and his final form….’chef kiss’. Things like Zedd finally conquering the Earth, a prison for Rangers, some cameo of Commander Shaw, Eltar finally revealed (he built a fortress in there! A big F U to Zordon. LOL). Some really good ideas. Some things like the villians blowing the base to kill the Rangers…and giving a countdown of….seconds. Beautiful. Not like, “you have three hours to escape”. You have 22 seconds. BYE. That’s brilliant.
- And the fact they tried to re-create the Z-wave with Zedd in a chamber, that was a great idea. Also, some old Megazords appearing….even if it was bad CGI.
- I loved Zayto’s return has consequences. Yes, he died. Yes, he returned. But at least, Simon Bennet understood some criticism, and they gave that return an asterisk: his resurrection is finite. He’s being consumed for using power. And the sacrifice was poignant. Really something I was hoping for a season of Power Rangers.
- The drama. It worked. FINALLY.
Things I didn't like:
- Everything seems so rushed. EVERYTHING. I get it, they wanted 20 episodes, but they gave the writers/showrunner only 10. They had to cram plots and dialogue of 20 in 10? The first episode’s pace is so fast, with so breaknecking speed, that it could end you like Masato Kusaka/KR Kaixa ended in the beach. They could do more with less: they spent an episode back on Earth, with a ludicrously slow, over-the-top drama, about Zedd destroying the statues, but we didn’t see the invasion. I mean, there’s a lot of thing in a couple of episodes: a prison for Rangers, an invasion, a Resistance of Rangers fighting…..but everything was off camera. So many interesting things….. so little showed. I know, I know, budget. On this thing it was closer to Megaforce. “They had new zords every episode”. Here, we didn’t have an introduction for Zords. I know, time constrictions. But still….
- The villains: I have mixed feeling, but in general, I don’t hate them, most of them didn’t do a lot. I think Bajillia Naire could have being better, if they had more episodes. I mean, in an episode, she cares for her daughter (as a bad PR situation, I get it), but later she didn’t mention her, or the PR problem. It’s very ambivalent and contradictory. The motif of being “an evil corporation” didn’t fly, or it didn’t matter, until the betrayal. Then it matter. I mean, besides some jokes or quips, this could be handled better. So, meh.
- Squilla is really annoying with the quips. I get it. Gen Z villainess. It’s still stupid.
- In general, I think some of the dialogue was OK….until it wasn’t. I think, or my memory is failing, Dino Fury didn’t have so many quips or puns per minute. It was a lot. One phrase with normal explanation, one pun. One sad scene, with a couple of good lines, cutted with a bad joke. They crammed more puns on here than before? It felt like, in that regards, like Samurai/Super Samurai humor.
- The opening song is still bad. Sorry, I never gonna like it. I hated it. REALLY HATED IT. Thanks Netflix, I will skip the intro.
- THE ZORDS: oh boy. I get it. They have only ten episodes. But man, people gonna hate me for this: THIS WAS LIKE MEGAFORCE. They showed a lot of Zords, they didn’t introduce them, the zords fight lasted like 1 minute, and then, they were gone. And for the 9th episode, boom! They blowed up. Very anticlimactic . Gosh, it was so fast. AND THE SHARK WAS A SWORDFISH. F.U. Hasbro.
- Speaking of anticlimactic: the Finale. Facepalm. I don’t…..It’s bad. It’s probably the worst final episode ever. I’m gonna apologize with Super Megaforce for making fun of Legendary Battle. There were cute things: like the gun falling and shooting accidentally the chamber. That made me chuckle. But the fact they spoke with Zedd…what he should care? I don’t think the dialogue or anything in that scene worked. It was so bad. And he being trapped in that Nightmare planet, with Rita? That would matter? We know Zedd developed feelings for Rita. It wouldn’t change a thing for him. It’s not exactly a nightmare. Even if they couldn’t film a fight scene, because Master Zedd’s suit is fragile, why not a clashing-of-powers scene? Zedd shooting with his staff, and the Rangers in the other side with the weapons. Powers clashing. And the Rangers winning by the power of friendship. It could be more easy.
- Ok, controversy time: I think they shoved Amelia in Red position….and it was very awkward. I don’t want to talk about politics, but, I think it was forced. I didn’t care for her being Red. I think so many things were “aligned”, in the writing, for Amelia being Red and leader. Specially Zayto. Poor Zayto. I feel he was a prop for more of half of this miniseries. He being changed to beige because white is not “politically correct”….Gosh, it’s repulsive. It felt really forced. And Stephen Curry seems like he improved in his acting skills. I mean, he was the second coming of Andrew Gray in the first episodes of Dino Fury. But in the 2nd season, he was way better. I hate what they did with the character, make him disappear for two episodes. IN A 10-EPISODES SERIES. I hate it. Also, Aiyon, he was also giving the short end of the stick. I mean, he was a Knight of Rafkon, and time and time, he was proved he could be the leader. Remember in the first season there was a conflict between Zayto and Aiyon, and who could be the better leader? And the backstory proved Aiyon WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE SPORIX COULD BE DANGEROUS? I mean, they had the perfect opportunity to make him the leader, he was level-headed, smart, here? He was demoted to being the cook. I liked some of the drama with Zayto. But he was like Troy for Megaforce: worrying more about Robo Knight than doing some Ranger stuff.
- The designs of the suits are still awful. More like terrible. In fact, in motion, they looked worse. It looked the padding added more wrinkles or something. And the weapons, except the green one, were ugly.
- The CGI was inconsistent. Some looked really good. Some were awful. It get a pass some things like the Old Megazords, They were atrocious in that CGI, but it made me smile. But other things, like the destruction of Zords, the new morphing sequences…the original looked better.
- I think they don’t know how to put this on continuity with OaA, because it seems like Billy had the idea of resurrecting Zordon after Aiyon talked about a “being” inside the morphing grid (we know who he is). I mean, it’s way better if this was before OaA. But, meh.
I liked a lot of things. I disliked a lot too. Some good references. This could be better if they cutted some things, or have a little more of budget or episodes. Specially the drama. I think they felt short for the 10 episodes they had. Good bye, Power Rangers. |
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Post by PowerKamenSentai on Oct 4, 2023 20:52:19 GMT -5
But that “final battle” was just… so goddamn lame. The Rangers didn’t really do anything. Zayto could have done that conversation himself without them being there. And Zedd is just…undefeated. That's exactly where I was at. At the very least, if they wanted to go without the rangers defeating Zedd with violence, I think there should've still been a fight scene. Like the rangers are pushed to the limit, get their asses handed to them by Zedd, and they have to find another alternative which then leads to the more peaceful resolution. Kinda like Time Force, the resolution with Ransik wasn't blowing him up, but they still had an intense battle leading up to that calmer ending. But with the way they did it here, how do you do the final episode of Power Rangers without any fighting? They didn't even fight Bajilia, one cannon shot and she's done for. Especially because the action had been so good with this season, the fact that we get nothing in the finale was such a letdown and hurts the ending of a overall strong season. |
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Post by BradyMcKnight on Oct 5, 2023 10:11:52 GMT -5
Like the rangers are pushed to the limit, get their asses handed to them by Zedd, and they have to find another alternative which then leads to the more peaceful resolution. Kinda like Time Force, the resolution with Ransik wasn't blowing him up, but they still had an intense battle leading up to that calmer ending. Agreed completely. A big part of the reason I loved the last season finale so much was because they stopped Void Queen with The Power of Love, but also before that the battle against the Nemesis beast was so intense that Zayto literally had to die just to knock it over. It’s like they tried to redo that this season but in a much more rushed way. Even if they had a fight scene against him *while* they were all in the container. They could be trying to convince him to defuse the situation lest they all die in between trading blows. |
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Post by crossranger on Oct 5, 2023 10:36:38 GMT -5
I think I would prefer my idea of "clashing powers" between the Rangers and Zedd. One side of the screen Zedd shooting energy with his staff, and in the other side, the Rangers with their new cannon. You don't have to trade blows, if the Master Zedd's suit is fragile, just use CGI and some fireworks.
Hell, I would prefer like the Gokaiger/Super Megaforce final blow, with the cannon in closer proximity to the chest. A giant blow, and the Rangers emerging victorious, like Leo against Trakeena.
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Post by BradyMcKnight on Oct 5, 2023 10:43:57 GMT -5
That’s true but also at the same time I feel like we were robbed of a clash between Zedd’s staff and Amelia’s hammer.
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Post by iceranger32 on Oct 5, 2023 22:11:55 GMT -5
Eh, regardless there’s really nothing canonical that would insist O&A has to come first so, next time I do a rewatch I’m doing Cosmic Fury first 🤷♂️ If you want more than just an EP's word on it, rewatch the scene where Billy is talking to the Cosmic Fury Rangers from the Command Center with his helmet off. Zordon's energy tube is shown to be cracked. |
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Post by BradyMcKnight on Oct 5, 2023 23:01:11 GMT -5
That’s nice, I’m still gonna watch it the other way ✌️
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Post by iceranger32 on Oct 6, 2023 0:27:39 GMT -5
It's your call, but officially, Once and Always is before Cosmic Fury taking place within the six month gap before the final scene in Dino Fury.
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Post by crossranger on Oct 6, 2023 0:38:03 GMT -5
It's your call, but officially, Once and Always is before Cosmic Fury taking place within the six month gap before the final scene in Dino Fury. It's interesting how the showrunner/writers tried the best to come with an arc for Billy in OaA, about how he messed up searching for Zordon, and causing the return of (Robo) Rita and the involuntary death of Trini, and the acceptance of his own mistakes, for now reaffirming that, that search for resurrecting Zordon was OK. I'm saying, I would like if Bennet and co. tried to remember what they writen and plotted, just months ago. It feels like they throw the significance of Billy's mistake and Trini's death under the bus, thematically speaking, just saying that Zordon is somehow alive, in the Morphing Grid. In fact, for the last scene of Cosmic Fury, for Billy, it has more sense if this is the beginning of his arc. |
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Post by fuferthought on Oct 7, 2023 12:10:12 GMT -5
Okay… lets start with the good. Welcome back Billy, I loved how they used you in this series and you used your power lance in this series more than ive never seen used in MMPR. The fight scenes were great. The zord fights not so much. Honestly i couldve went without the guest rangers but 🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️. I did like Zayto ending. Lord Zeds not so much. Shouldve been a big battle between Zed and Zayto. I dont even know the orange rangers name cause they kept shoving it down our throats that shes a “girlfriend” we get it! The morphing sequence was FIRE!!! Especially with the new powers. Amelia as the Red Ranger was nice. I wish they wouldve had more episodes with her being the Red Ranger. Javi’s arm…. Not necessary. If that arm didnt have a super power cannon or anything. I loved when Ollies threw that sword at Amelias face. That was an evil statement. Im goin to give these last 10 episodes a solid 5 out of 10. It seemed rushed. The storyline was great but the dialogue was sometimes terrible. But in all I look forward to seeing whats to come of PR. I really hope this isnt the end if the PR series. Cause this is by far one of the worse endings in PR HISTORY
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