Time Force is great from what I remember, although LsR was my jam.
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Time Force is great from what I remember, although LsR was my jam.
Still, it's a show aimed at children and probably people in their early teens.
That's the reason it is so popular to this day. It may have a low budget, but it is entertaining for kids. When I was a kid, I absolutely LOVED Power Rangers, and I didnt' give two shits that the Zords were obviously plastic toys, that the monsters were guys in terrible and obvious costumes, that the fights were silly and shit.
Kids have an easier suspension of disbelief. They actually just watch the show for what it is and enjoy it. They want to be the characters in the flashy costumes, cool weapons and all the monster ass-kicking, not to mention the giant robots.
I think there's a certain charm to the low budget.
Each new generation of Power Rangers appeal to a new generation of children (Well, each generation is coming closer and closer to the previous one, but anyways). Each season can become the "entry" point to the series for a new batch of kids. These kids will love it, they will play to being Power Rangers, and then they will outgrow them and remember them with nostalgia, like we all do. The same feeling most of us have for Mighty Morphin, it's the same feeling some kid today will have for Megaforce years from now.
I stopped watching Power Rangers after the first generation, and only watched like half of the ZEO episodes. I outgrew the series, but to this day, the newer seasons contain the same exact things I enjoyed as a kid, and that's why kids love it.
Power Rangers should NEVER become a show for "young adults" or "adults". Turning Power Rangers into The Avengers or any kind of stuff like that would be terrible. It really doesn't need the super expensive, ultra-realistic CGI special effects.
billy beane
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Michael Cera as the Red Ranger
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All these years later I still chuckle at what a fucking moron that guy is.
There are still kids between the ages of 4 and 12 who can't tell how bad it is, and cartoons are not as good now as they were back when the show started, so it doesn't have as much competition. There also aren't any other live action, action kids shows that I know of.
Parallax
best seen in the classic "Shadow of the Beast"
they might as well. the ball fumbling on kamen rider in the west is some of the saddest shit ive seen. especially with haim "bury me with my money" saban at the helm
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
When did this happen previously?
Parallax
best seen in the classic "Shadow of the Beast"
it was the b-fighters in the forever red episode
Maddocks
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make it super dark and gritty, get the original rangers to return where the world is all fucked up and destroyed.
Say that when Zed went and attacked the command center, they had no backup plan and it cost them everything and the world was torn into chaos. Now they are older, fighting a war they cant win and they hate and don't trust zordon after he went into hiding. He returns with a new morphing grid and they are adults and at ends rope and only go along with it because its their last chance to turn the tide of war...end it like butch and sundance.
Say that when Zed went and attacked the command center, they had no backup plan and it cost them everything and the world was torn into chaos. Now they are older, fighting a war they cant win and they hate and don't trust zordon after he went into hiding. He returns with a new morphing grid and they are adults and at ends rope and only go along with it because its their last chance to turn the tide of war...end it like butch and sundance.
A Pretty Panda
fuckin' called it, man
Parallax
best seen in the classic "Shadow of the Beast"
minus the original rangers, theyve already done a fucked up world series.
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
That's what I thought he was talking about.
alfredofroylan
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2014
My first boner and love before I even knew what those were. She better be in there too
2014
Yeah, way to choose the worst picture possible.
Here are videos from this year. She's still gorgeous.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwmxxR2VhX8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsYmvgG6o7o
Nemesis121
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If any of the old cast comes back it's for cameo, new cast, new direction, new everything..
Unspeakable Evil
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Not that complicated. They basically take place in the year they air execpt SPD(future) and RPM(AU)
A Pretty Panda
fuckin' called it, man
Future Foundation
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I love how you go on about Power Rangers not changing anything up, and yet you listed two series that have basically re-heated the same concept three times.
Parallax
best seen in the classic "Shadow of the Beast"
wassermans themes are the best thing about the old series
LSauchelli
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Well, they still had the suits from Big Bad Beetleborgs, I guess.
ThoughtsOfSpeaking
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Last time I checked the iron man movies haven't been running 20+ years
Transformers is already getting a reboot.
What the fuck are are you on about?
The point is, it can still be a show for young children without looking as pathetic as it does, Its not just a case of low budgets, because if we used the same budget MMPR had in 1996, you could still could create something of higher quality than the current shows have today. Production on all levels has become drastically cheaper and more efficient and PR is the only show on childrens television that I can think doesn't reflect this. In fact, with the dialling down of the Martial arts element, its got worse.
Im not expecting a ultra-realistic CGI extravaganza, I'm expecting the show to look someone actually gives a shit.
I presume he meant that after the G1 era ended on telly with the tradition-diverging Beast Machines, Transformers then retreaded Autobots vs. Decepticons countless times over the last twenty years with Robots in Disguise, the Unicron Trilogy, Bayformers (and since you only brought out the MCU in regards to Iron Man: no, Age of Extinction is explicitly a sequel, not a reboot), Animated, Prime and the Activision Cybertron games.
The Silver
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I don't care what kind of bullshit they have to pull out of there asses but I also require the Magna Defender in addition to the Green Ranger
ThoughtsOfSpeaking
Banned
Still makes no sense.
This Looks nothing like This Which looks nothing like This which looks nothing like This.
The characters and themes may be similar, but the animation styles have changed and drastically improved over the years.
This apart from the fact its in HD looks barely different from This
I don't care what kind of bullshit they have to pull out of there asses but I also require the Magna Defender in addition to the Green Ranger
didn't this fucking thing have a son that looked like a mini version of him? LOL
A Pretty Panda
fuckin' called it, man
http://youtu.be/nIhTX8_S_1M?t=36s
VR Troopers american footage > every other television program ever
The Silver
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hell if i remember, all i can recall is that he was constantly in some desert place and with a giant ox megazord
I remember he had a pump action shotgun
Let's see what this Future Foundation guy whom you replied to which I then replied to but he did not reply yet said again:
From the word "concept" ("a general notion or idea"), I assumed he wasn't talking about "the animation styles" but about "the characters and themes". If he was indeed talking "the characters and themes", you just proved his point.
Then again, I'm not him, I don't have access to his thoughts and I'm just presuming things based on his words so, uhhh, don't mind me much.
Unspeakable Evil
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lol yeah. Minidefender
So basically Mike was inside a dude.
ThoughtsOfSpeaking
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Yeah no point in arguing on his behalf, although I get what you are saying.
I don't think the themes are the problem. Its the quality of the shows I have an issue with.
In 20 years you expect a far greater improvement, and in many way the show looks like its regressed.
A Pretty Panda
fuckin' called it, man
Yeah they need new animators on the show.
MHWilliams
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Yeah, those are big dreams.
At best, they're aiming for the young adult demographic.
If you're looking for The Raid with "It's Morphin' time" you should probably put the kibosh on those ideas right now. Expect this:
or this:
With handy color-coding.
Garo is about the fight scenes and titties.
NeonZ
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You couldn't improve its visual effects much without drastically altering its format though. Power Rangers is a tv show that has monsters, super heroes and more often than not giant robots in every 25 minutes episode, with at least two fighting scenes per episode, often three, and sometimes even more. Even if you raised its budget, it'd still look cheap unless you started reducing the whole super hero element of the show, like shows like Smallvile do, where you can get one hour episodes that have only one minute of action with super powers, and inhuman monsters were basically non existent aside from a few rare exceptions. The source of most of Power Rangers' combat footage, Super Sentai, is also a weekly series on top of that, running through the entire year with no breaks aside from one week once in awhile.
I don't think there's any other live action show on tv that attempts to do something like what Super Sentai/Power Ranger does (well, aside from some other Japanese series).
Parallax
best seen in the classic "Shadow of the Beast"
Regressed? In terms of writing is what i assume you mean, right?
Not really. It goes up and down, but in general the show is better than it was in the 90s.
In fact, a common complaint of the newer shows is that they are regressing back to the standards of the original shows, despite the bar for children TV's increasing significantly since then. Most of the best seasons of PR are far removed from their '90's incarnations.
A Pretty Panda
fuckin' called it, man
They're still doing sparks when those suits should be bleeding!
Whose target demographic is also at its all-time lowest population right now (putting budget raises out of the question), let us not forget:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=813127
bigboss370
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Yeah, those are big dreams.
At best, they're aiming for the young adult demographic.
If you're looking for The Raid with "It's Morphin' time" you should probably put the kibosh on those ideas right now. Expect this:
or this:
With handy color-coding.
Yup this is about what I expect. With lots of HS scenes and city destruction in the final battle. Probably nix the putties...maybe.
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