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Mighty Morphin Power Thread: where we of course talk about TMNT

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  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    I think I might be the only person who really likes SPD, Jungle Fury, and Wild Force

    I have a podcast about Power Rangers:Teenagers With Attitude | TWA Facebook Group
  • JimothyJimothy Not in front of the fox he's with the owlRegistered User regular
    I like SPD well enough

    In Space and Dino Thunder are far and away my favorites though

  • Rorshach KringleRorshach Kringle that crustache life Registered User regular
    Turbo is a love of mine but it's based in irony and nostalgia

    also divatox goddamn

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    I like elements of SPD and Jungle Fury a whole heck of a lot!

    I wouldn't say I dislike any of the shows below SPD

  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    Power Rangers seasons, Ranked:

    worst to best

    Super Megaforce
    Samurai/Super Samurai
    Operation Overdrive
    Megaforce
    Wild Force
    MMPR Season 2
    Turbo*
    Mystic Force
    SPD
    Jungle Fury
    MMPR Season 3
    Lost Galaxy
    Lightspeed Rescue
    Ninja Storm
    Turbo**
    MMPR Season 1
    Dino Charge/Dino Super Charge
    RPM
    Dino Thunder
    Time Force
    Zeo
    In Space

    *Where Turbo is objectively
    **Where Turbo is in my heart

    In Space is so goddamn good and I both can't wait for and am really scared to get there on TWA because I remember it so fondly and really don't want those memories ruined

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    In Space manages to do well despite completely re-interpreting the main theme of the source material, it's crazy

  • RenzoRenzo Registered User regular
    What about the Super Sentai shows?

  • Speed RacerSpeed Racer Scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratchRegistered User regular
    Halfway through season 2 I cannot abide it being that high on the list

    It's fuckin boring

  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    Sentai is way harder to rank because the tonal shifts from era to era are so jarring

    I'd have to think about that

  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    Halfway through season 2 I cannot abide it being that high on the list

    It's fuckin boring

    It's worst to best

    And it's still less boring than wild force

    It's slightly better than the Actively Racist show

  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    edited March 2017
    Halfway through season 2 I cannot abide it being that high on the list

    It's fuckin boring

    The other stuff above it is really bad though

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  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    Also I've heard it does legit get better after the ranger shift

    I have a podcast about Power Rangers:Teenagers With Attitude | TWA Facebook Group
  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    other zeo thing: david yost seems recharged (for now)

    I halfway wonder if they "promised" him the Gold Ranger part.

    I seem to recall that he still wanted to be a Ranger, but the higher-ups were afraid of the bad publicity if it got out that one of the Rangers was gay.

  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    edited March 2017
    sentai I have watched to completion, ranked:
    worst to best, broken up into a couple chunks because it becomes hard to compare certain shows



    1990-1999 (extremely strong decade)
    Zyuranger
    Ohranger
    Kakuranger
    Dairanger
    Megaranger
    CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRANGER
    Jetman

    2000-2009 (mostly inoffensive with some real gems)
    Hurricanger
    Gaoranger
    Go-onger
    Magiranger
    Gekiranger
    Dekaranger
    Timeranger


    2010-Present (besides one genuinely bad show and one mediocre one every sentai this decade has been stellar)
    Ninninger
    getting hit by a bus
    Goseiger
    Shinkenger
    Toqger
    Zyuohger
    Go-busters
    Kyoryuger
    Gokaiger

    the only pre-90s sentai I've watched much of is Maskman, which is very good

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    if you made me pick a top 5 at gunpoint

    Megaranger
    CAAAAAAARANGER
    Kyoryuger
    Jetman
    Gokaiger

    honestly those could all switch around depending on my mood though

  • Undead ScottsmanUndead Scottsman Registered User regular
    Halfway through season 2 I cannot abide it being that high on the list

    It's fuckin boring

    I think it gets way better once Rita shows back up.

  • RenzoRenzo Registered User regular
    The only Sentai show I've watched is Shinkenger. I'm in the middle of Go-Busters, but I really want to watch Dekaranger, and Gokaiger seems like so much fun.

  • Undead ScottsmanUndead Scottsman Registered User regular
    edited March 2017
    Wait a minute
    I just saw some bloopers at the end of a Zeo episode about filming a movie and it had bloopers over the credits. Is that a normal thing for Zero or just that ep?

    EDIT: Jesus Christ
    It's Zeo, Billy is not only still in high school, but is apparently a Junior or a just starting his Senior year?

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  • PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 My amazement is at maximum capacity. Registered User regular
    I think I might be the only person who really likes SPD, Jungle Fury, and Wild Force

    SPD and Jungle Fury are both in my top 5.

    I think I've mentioned it here before, but for those curious:

    1) RPM
    2) In Space
    3) Dino Charge
    4) Jungle Fury
    5) SPD

    Although Dino Thunder could very well earn it's place, but I'm only a few episodes in so far.

  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    edited March 2017
    here's a thing I never knew:
    apparently, before he left for health reasons, there was going to be a reveal that ernie had known who the rangers were the entire time, which is why he gave them free shit all the time

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  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    here's a thing I never knew:
    apparently, before he left for health reasons, there was going to be a reveal the ernie had known who the rangers were the entire time, which is why he gave them free shit all the time

    Whaaaat that's awesome

    I know that very VERY EARLY it was planned for Ernie to be a visage for zordon so he could keep an eye on them in their civilian life

    I have a podcast about Power Rangers:Teenagers With Attitude | TWA Facebook Group
  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    ernie was a doofus but he seemed above a lot of the dumb shit that went on

    very relaxed about every disaster that happened within 500 yards of his place, probably because he knew the power rangers were basically on retainer

  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    ernie was a doofus but he seemed above a lot of the dumb shit that went on

    very relaxed about every disaster that happened within 500 yards of his place, probably because he knew the power rangers were basically on retainer

    Ernie was probably leading a Power Rangers fan club. Dude loved those guys.

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    he definitely says the word "dinozords" at one point

  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    Ernie's biggest failing is continuing to trust bulk and skull to do simple tasks

    Not because they're bad or bullies but just because they are supernaturally incompetent

    I have a podcast about Power Rangers:Teenagers With Attitude | TWA Facebook Group
  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    Ernie's biggest failing is continuing to trust bulk and skull to do simple tasks

    Not because they're bad or bullies but just because they are supernaturally incompetent

    I'm kind of surprised they haven't been banned from the Gym and Juice Bar purely for liability reasons. It's not safe for them or the establishment.

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  • TransporterTransporter Registered User regular
    edited March 2017
    Power Rangers seasons, Ranked:

    worst to best

    Super Megaforce
    Samurai/Super Samurai
    Operation Overdrive
    Megaforce
    Wild Force
    MMPR Season 2
    Turbo*
    Mystic Force
    SPD
    Jungle Fury
    MMPR Season 3
    Lost Galaxy
    Lightspeed Rescue
    Ninja Storm
    Turbo**
    MMPR Season 1
    Dino Charge/Dino Super Charge
    RPM
    Dino Thunder
    Time Force
    Zeo
    In Space

    *Where Turbo is objectively
    **Where Turbo is in my heart

    I think I may agree with this whole list, exactly as presented.

    Including SPD and above being good/enjoyable.

    Now rank the MEGAZORDS.

    (jk we all know the dragonzord megazord was the best)

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  • TransporterTransporter Registered User regular
    God now I'm thinking about best individual zords.

    I think the Dragonzord has to be disqualified since it's literally just an even cooler Mecha-Godzilla, which was already an amazing mecha version of the greatest kaiju ever created.

  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    The top 3 on my list is fairly flexible: catch me on the right day and I'll tell you time force is my favorite

  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    God now I'm thinking about best individual zords.

    I think the Dragonzord has to be disqualified since it's literally just an even cooler Mecha-Godzilla, which was already an amazing mecha version of the greatest kaiju ever created.

    The dragonzord is cool but one of my criteria for an all time great zord is "looks like it's not a nightmare for the suit actor to be in"

  • OwenashiOwenashi Registered User regular
    Over two years after Ricardo Medina’s roommate was stabbed to death, the ex-Power Rangers actor pleaded guilty today to killing Josh Sutter. With sentencing set for March 30, Medina could face up to six years in state prison.

    While no picnic, to say the least, that’s a far cry from the life sentence Medina was looking at when he was arrested on a murder charge in January 2016. That charge could have seen him behind bars for 26 years to life.

    The actor, who played Cole Evans aka the Red Wild Force Ranger in the 2002 series Power Rangers Wild Force, entered his plea to a lesser charge of “one felony count of voluntary manslaughter and admitted an allegation of using a sword in the killing,” the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office said Thursday.

    Back on January 31, 2015, Medina and Sutter got into an argument concerning the former’s girlfriend. As things unfortunately escalated, Medina grabbed a sword they had around the apartment and started repeatedly stabbing Sutter, who died soon afterward.

    I had mostly forgotten that that happened.

  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    Jesus

  • Bluedude152Bluedude152 Registered User regular
    How does that effect the ratings

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    How does that effect the ratings

    Cool and good post, dude

  • manwiththemachinegunmanwiththemachinegun METAL GEAR?! Registered User regular
    edited March 2017
    I only wish Jason had stayed on as the Gold Ranger for longer. Or that they dropped the space prince and just have him find a new relic. It's still one of my favorite Power Ranger riffs, and one of my favorite "elite" Ranger suit designs.

    Tommy returning as the White Ranger was freaking radical. Jason returning at the darkest hour with a new movelist? Even better.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp8joPn1asQ

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  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    I feel bad for a lot of people in that situation, but one person who might not immediately come to mind is Austin St. John. I've seen several reports on this issue that just describe Medina as "the red Power Ranger" and as a result have had at least one person in real life mistake it for him.

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    Here's a weird thing: the literal translation of Ohranger is "Kingranger"

    Which is the actual name of the 6th ranger

  • JimothyJimothy Not in front of the fox he's with the owlRegistered User regular
    edited March 2017
    Here's a weird thing: the literal translation of Ohranger is "Kingranger"

    Which is the actual name of the 6th ranger

    Other weird thing: Saban calling him the "gold ranger"

    Even as an eight-year-old, I was like "that is a black ranger." Tommy had about as much gold on his green ranger

    Nowadays we have actual gold rangers, which makes it extra obvious

    And I was always let down that he wasn't Billy, who I didn't like until he stopped being a ranger, at which point he became very cool, and they were clearly hinting at him being the sixth

    But instead it was random newcomer/Jason, who I never liked

    I wasn't even aware of the discrimination back then, I just thought Billy had been cheated

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  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    See I actually like that the characters all IMMEDIATELY want to give the powers to billy

    I have a podcast about Power Rangers:Teenagers With Attitude | TWA Facebook Group
  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    I'm glad I'm gonna catch some turbo because I fucking love Carranger

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