Post by Venusaur on Jul 21, 2018 15:53:23 GMT -5
www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbr.com/power-rangers-weakest-team/amp/
Like most things by Comic Book Resources it’s garbage. But maybe the rest of you will have a different opinion? Don’t get me wrong I’m not one of those “Original is the best!!!!1” but there were a lot worse seasons/teams. MMPR was the benchmark. You have to be worse than MMPR to be a bad season (Hi Wild Force, SPD, Mystic Force, Operation Overdrive, Samurai, Megaforce) Here’s CBR reasons
15. Weaker Zords- There’s no actual back-up to this claim. We know the zeo and turbo zords are stronger and that’s about it. They stopped doing the “This is the strongest zord ever! “ by In Space. The author also claims the Super Megaforce Rangers can summon any zord in history which isn’t true
14. The Green Ranger- Their criticism here is due to Sentai limitations made it so Green Ranger Tommy always showed up late. Personally I thought they made the best of a bad sitution. Tommy at least felt like part of the team. Burai never did
13. Weakest Weapons- Another baseless claim stated as fact
12. Lack of Preperation- Basically the author claims the Rangers jumped into battle knowing little of their enemy. Literally every season did that except maybe Time Force
11. Weaker Transformation: They’re basically complaining the MMPR didnt have any gimmicky toyetic battalizers like later seasons did
10. Inexperience: The author incorrectly claims that only Jason knew how to fight of the original five even though Zack had invented his own style of martial arts mixed with hip hop dancing, Trini knew how to fight, and Kim learned to weaponize her gymnastics skills early on. And few of the Rangers fought unmorphed after In Space making this reason even more of a joke. The MMPR fought more bad guys unmorphed than any other Ranger team
9. Lack of Legacy- This is just stupid. It’s basically they’re the first team so no legacy. The author isn’t even trying
8. Weaker Mentors- I admit Zordon could suck sometimes but say hi to Shayla, Hartford, Ji, and Gosei for me.
7. Rocky- Okay yeah Rocky sucks. There has been worse Rangers than Rocky.
6. Weaker Powers- Nothing to really back this up again. Since canonically only the Zeo Powers are confirmed to be stronger. The author makes some bs claim about the show using stock footage from a decade earlier (no). They also claim The Super Megaforce Rangers using their powers only twice is further proof of this. Even though that’s more times than they used Zeo, Turbo, In Space, Lightspeed, Time Force, Ninja Storm, Dino Thunder, and Operation Overdrive. Also Super Megaforce
5, Ignoring the movie- This isn’t even a reason. The author is just salty season 3 ignored the movie even though the story it told was better and had actual world building the movie lacked
4. Predictable formula- I’ll give them this one even though that was more of a season one thing
3. Problems with diversity- The Black Ranger was black and the yellow ranger was asian! Don’t bother researching why that is just easier to say lol racism. Also the season that had a problem with diversity was called JUNGLE FURY. Ya know, the season that despite being inspired by Chinese Wuxia films had a mostly all white cast except Theo.
2. Tommy/Kim- Author claims their relationship got the team in trouble. Which other than Kat targeting Kim specifically because of Tommy isn’t true
1. Lack of Original Footage- While it is true that season one (and only season 1 )used more Sentai footage than any other season except possibly the first seasons of Samurai and Megaforce, season 2 used no more Sentai footage than the average season, and season 3 probably used the least amount of Sentai footage of any season.
And its because of MMPR’s success we got more original footage.
Like most things by Comic Book Resources it’s garbage. But maybe the rest of you will have a different opinion? Don’t get me wrong I’m not one of those “Original is the best!!!!1” but there were a lot worse seasons/teams. MMPR was the benchmark. You have to be worse than MMPR to be a bad season (Hi Wild Force, SPD, Mystic Force, Operation Overdrive, Samurai, Megaforce) Here’s CBR reasons
15. Weaker Zords- There’s no actual back-up to this claim. We know the zeo and turbo zords are stronger and that’s about it. They stopped doing the “This is the strongest zord ever! “ by In Space. The author also claims the Super Megaforce Rangers can summon any zord in history which isn’t true
14. The Green Ranger- Their criticism here is due to Sentai limitations made it so Green Ranger Tommy always showed up late. Personally I thought they made the best of a bad sitution. Tommy at least felt like part of the team. Burai never did
13. Weakest Weapons- Another baseless claim stated as fact
12. Lack of Preperation- Basically the author claims the Rangers jumped into battle knowing little of their enemy. Literally every season did that except maybe Time Force
11. Weaker Transformation: They’re basically complaining the MMPR didnt have any gimmicky toyetic battalizers like later seasons did
10. Inexperience: The author incorrectly claims that only Jason knew how to fight of the original five even though Zack had invented his own style of martial arts mixed with hip hop dancing, Trini knew how to fight, and Kim learned to weaponize her gymnastics skills early on. And few of the Rangers fought unmorphed after In Space making this reason even more of a joke. The MMPR fought more bad guys unmorphed than any other Ranger team
9. Lack of Legacy- This is just stupid. It’s basically they’re the first team so no legacy. The author isn’t even trying
8. Weaker Mentors- I admit Zordon could suck sometimes but say hi to Shayla, Hartford, Ji, and Gosei for me.
7. Rocky- Okay yeah Rocky sucks. There has been worse Rangers than Rocky.
6. Weaker Powers- Nothing to really back this up again. Since canonically only the Zeo Powers are confirmed to be stronger. The author makes some bs claim about the show using stock footage from a decade earlier (no). They also claim The Super Megaforce Rangers using their powers only twice is further proof of this. Even though that’s more times than they used Zeo, Turbo, In Space, Lightspeed, Time Force, Ninja Storm, Dino Thunder, and Operation Overdrive. Also Super Megaforce
5, Ignoring the movie- This isn’t even a reason. The author is just salty season 3 ignored the movie even though the story it told was better and had actual world building the movie lacked
4. Predictable formula- I’ll give them this one even though that was more of a season one thing
3. Problems with diversity- The Black Ranger was black and the yellow ranger was asian! Don’t bother researching why that is just easier to say lol racism. Also the season that had a problem with diversity was called JUNGLE FURY. Ya know, the season that despite being inspired by Chinese Wuxia films had a mostly all white cast except Theo.
2. Tommy/Kim- Author claims their relationship got the team in trouble. Which other than Kat targeting Kim specifically because of Tommy isn’t true
1. Lack of Original Footage- While it is true that season one (and only season 1 )used more Sentai footage than any other season except possibly the first seasons of Samurai and Megaforce, season 2 used no more Sentai footage than the average season, and season 3 probably used the least amount of Sentai footage of any season.
And its because of MMPR’s success we got more original footage.
