Saturday, July 20, 2013

My Power Rangers Experience

One of my closest friends since I was nine months old was in town. For nostalgia's sake, we decided to watch an episode of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. It is pretty much the same as I remember it, except different. I noticed a lot of little things while watching and decided to share them.

  • Zordon is a giant floating head. What happened to the rest of his body? Or is he using some sort of telepathic projection.
  • The black guy is the Black Ranger, the Asian girl is the Yellow Ranger. I get it..
  • Alpha is significantly more annoying than I remember.
  • Kimberly is beautiful.
  • The acting from Amy Jo Johnson, Walter Jones, and Austin St. John isn't attrocious. Can't say the same for Thuy Trang and David Yost though.
  • Do the monsters really wait for the Rangers to morph and the Megazord to assemble?
  • Rita Repulsa is so badly dubbed it's unbearable. Props to her voice actress though, she's got some serious chops.
  • It's so obvious that the morphed-Yellow Ranger is a man, would it have killed them to find a stunt WOMAN?
  • The special effects are well.....bad. 
  • When Rita throws her magic wand, how does she get it back?
  • Why does Rita send the Putty Patrol, then the monster, THEN make it grow. Has she ever considered just sending down an extraordinarily large monster? All that time in a space dumpster must have seriously damaged her mind.
  • If Squatt and Baboo annoy Ms. Repulsa so much why doesn't she just zap them with her trusty dusty magic wand? They don't serve a purpose anyway.
  • The clothes are so totally 90's.
  • It's disappointing knowing that they had to use footage from the Japanese version of the show for the fight scenes. I mean c'mon with they money they were making off this show from toy sales alone could've paid for some extra film and stunt actors.
  • How could nobody tell that they were the Power Rangers? They always are hanging out together and wearing their respective colors.
  • It's hard to watch Trini without thinking how the actress that played her passed away
  • The first Rangers really are classic, I was so mad when they replaced them.
That's all for now. Have a morphinomical day.

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