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ToQGAF 2014 | Hanamichi! The Next Stop Is Imagination's Stage!
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A Pretty Panda
fuckin' called it, man
So does Toq end with the other four being Right's imaginary friends? That's what I figured would be the ending, along with the kid thing.
A Pretty Panda
fuckin' called it, man
Box of Bunnies
Banned
TokuGAF 2015 - Kakuranger? Ninninger!
Tiu Neo
Member
Or Tokkati. The weird kid with no friends that created some friends for himself. The same power that created RyoKnight. Even Right was him imagining how he really wanted to be. He even created a crush for himself. Z is the bully he stalked/wanted to impress, but never could.
Ok, that wouldn't be the ending, but it would be awesome.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Maybe it's just me but today's themes between KR and Sentai don't seem to "mesh" well to form a good thread title
I'm singing it, so that means this works. +1
Mr. Pointy
Member
TokuGAF 2015: Themes So 90's, You'll Crap Pogs and Crystal Pepsi
Brings back memories of when I first heard Zyuranger out-loud.
Triple Da G.O.D!
Member
TokuGAF 2015 |OT| Triderons, Ninjas & Dinosaurs!
No wonder Haim Saban picked that show first.
Before you throw your rocks, I'm Jewish myself
Yoshi just dropped some interesting Dino Charge news
Cyan will be female from the start.
Unless they're filming the final episodes now, or we're going to have the first gender swap since Wild Force.
Cyan will be female from the start.
Unless they're filming the final episodes now, or we're going to have the first gender swap since Wild Force.
Brawly Likes to Brawl
Member
DC Blue sure does like to take a lot of shirtless selfies
Edag Plata
Banned
He did reference 2016...so I guess he's talking about later in the series.
WHAT?! Wait wait wait. Aqua can't be a female from the start. We've already seen them filming for Gold who would appear after Aquad.
A Pretty Panda
fuckin' called it, man
Cyan
Box of Bunnies
Banned
Maybe they're focusing more on female Violet and Cyan to make up for there only being one girl in the core team?
I'm not complaining.
ToQger 42
Partly a crummy-ass clip show, but then we got hit in the feels with Mio's story about her dad. I guess they had to fit the clip show in somewhere, there's 5 episodes left.
Drive 12
Mach isn't just a ham, he's the whole god damn pig. I mean, for a series that's already hammy, he's over-the-top. This is going to be fun!
Partly a crummy-ass clip show, but then we got hit in the feels with Mio's story about her dad. I guess they had to fit the clip show in somewhere, there's 5 episodes left.
Drive 12
Mach isn't just a ham, he's the whole god damn pig. I mean, for a series that's already hammy, he's over-the-top. This is going to be fun!
shaowebb
Member
THIS. Holy shit...they took that whole Evil Kenevil showboat thing and just spun it waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay over the top. American rider wears Red White and Blue and is the most ridiculous ham ever. I love how the show doesn't sell him as cool with his intros like with normal Riders doin flips or something. You getta watch this clown creep in all excited to try and make an entrance in a second or two and do really shitty flips and it all looks super forced and attention whorey as opposed to normal Rider showiness.
This guy is gonna be a legend.
MHWilliams
Member
"Power up! With healthy teeth!"
I don't understand why PR fans get annoyed when people bring up the Sentai.
I don't mean in a "Power Rangers sucks, watch the original Sentai" way.
But whenever a fan questions something that doesn't make sense, but has an actual explanation from the original material, the fan just shuts them out and claims they don't want to hear it.
Would you rather live in ignorance than accept that the writers didn't do a good job?
I don't mean in a "Power Rangers sucks, watch the original Sentai" way.
But whenever a fan questions something that doesn't make sense, but has an actual explanation from the original material, the fan just shuts them out and claims they don't want to hear it.
Would you rather live in ignorance than accept that the writers didn't do a good job?
Probably because they're separate things. You shouldn't have to use the source material to explain why things are the way they are in the PR.
Box of Bunnies
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You shouldn't have to, but that extra context can still help you better understand production decisions and issues when it comes to Power Rangers.
They're separate, but they're still intrinsically linked. Things in Power Rangers can always be linked back to "this is how the production team decided to work with/around the existing material."
Wait, what exactly are we talking about here? Are you referring to production stuff like why certain monsters were used? Or are you referring to story elements?
Also, that girl in your avatar looks familiar. Is she a singer?
Power Rangers never was and never will be "it's own show" until Bandai of America decides to make an entirely new branch of the franchise exclusively for the West.
I mean 100% original footage, 100% original themes, separate from what Sentai is doing.
Bandai of America does want this, just look at Samurai:
They made their own thing, only vaguely similar to Shinkenger. Japanese and American toy markets being so different make this a really compelling idea for them; no need to worry about how to adapt a Japanese show when one can simply make their own theme for the year.
Don't want to adapt spies? Make a Power Rangers team based on wild west cowboys. Don't want to adapt trains? Make a Power Rangers team based on medieval knights. Whatever!
That way it's appropriate to look at Power Rangers as it's own thing, and not as a Frankenstein 'beauty-job' of material meant for a different audience.
But of course, new action footage and new Zord footage costs money; so unless Bandai gets another company to make their shows for them, it ain't happening.
I mean 100% original footage, 100% original themes, separate from what Sentai is doing.
Bandai of America does want this, just look at Samurai:
They made their own thing, only vaguely similar to Shinkenger. Japanese and American toy markets being so different make this a really compelling idea for them; no need to worry about how to adapt a Japanese show when one can simply make their own theme for the year.
Don't want to adapt spies? Make a Power Rangers team based on wild west cowboys. Don't want to adapt trains? Make a Power Rangers team based on medieval knights. Whatever!
That way it's appropriate to look at Power Rangers as it's own thing, and not as a Frankenstein 'beauty-job' of material meant for a different audience.
But of course, new action footage and new Zord footage costs money; so unless Bandai gets another company to make their shows for them, it ain't happening.
MHWilliams
Member
Power Rangers never was and never will be "it's own show" until Bandai of America decides to make an entirely new branch of the franchise exclusively for the West.
I mean 100% original footage, 100% original themes, separate from what Sentai is doing.
Bandai of America does want this, just look at Samurai:
They made their own thing, only vaguely similar to Shinkenger. Japanese and American toy markets being so different make this a really compelling idea for them; no need to worry about how to adapt a Japanese show when one can simply make their own theme for the year.
Don't want to adapt spies? Make a Power Rangers team based on wild west cowboys. Don't want to adapt trains? Make a Power Rangers team based on medieval knights. Whatever!
That way it's appropriate to look at Power Rangers as it's own thing, and not as a Frankenstein 'beauty-job' of material meant for a different audience.
But of course, new action footage and new Zord footage costs money; so unless Bandai gets another company to make their shows for them, it ain't happening.
Of course, Samurai had the problem where they pulled some scripts straight from Shinkenger, even if the characters weren't really the same.
Well, it plays out like this
"This plot point doesn't make sense!"
"You see, in the Sentai, that was..."
"SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP! I don't want to hear it!"
I got this impression after watching this video (1:26 in)
He does reviews of episodes, and often brings up things that don't make sense. Comments will point out how it's something from the Sentai. Granted, there's also a lot of "Sentai is better" assholes but there are people with good intentions trying to explain this all.
"This plot point doesn't make sense!"
"You see, in the Sentai, that was..."
"SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP! I don't want to hear it!"
I got this impression after watching this video (1:26 in)
He does reviews of episodes, and often brings up things that don't make sense. Comments will point out how it's something from the Sentai. Granted, there's also a lot of "Sentai is better" assholes but there are people with good intentions trying to explain this all.
Box of Bunnies
Banned
I just mean generally. Both of those things you mentioned, and anything else. If Power Rangers ever leaves you wondering "why did they do this or that?" in a way that the show itself can't answer, a lot of the time it comes back to how they were dealing with the Sentai. Not always of course, but most of the time it doesn't hurt to at least consider those origins.
That's a big part of what put me off Linkara's Power Rangers series. He would be all "SHUT UP I DON'T CARE ABOUT SENTAI" and then ask "why did they do that?" questions that tied directly back to it in terms of the production and its adaptation from Sentai to PR.
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Ah. Personally, I don't really like when people fill in plot details with "because the sentai did it". The two series are supposed to be separate and they should stay that way. If something doesn't make sense, then that's the writer's fault. They should have explained it better or at least to a point where this thing is acknowledged.
For example, the RPM zord's eyes. Having Dr K brush that away as whatever she said was both funny and informative. It squashed the "sentai" reasoning and further made the season stand out on its own.
Now for production stuff, sure, "sentai" will do just fine. That's out of the writer's hands (for the most part I guess) so I don't really care if people use that kind of reasoning here.
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Box of Bunnies
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Yeah, I don't really disagree on this point. If the writing is lacking it's completely on the writing staff and you shouldn't have to fill in holes from the Sentai to excuse that. I'm having a hard time thinking of examples that really show the kind of stuff that I'm talking about, but the first thing that comes to mind is the back-and-forth mess on Trent and the clone in Dino Thunder working around Abarekiller, but I guess that kinda falls back to patchy writing too.
Fair enough. It's not for everyone and I understand why people wouldn't want to participate, but I think it's fun to be able to put faces to posts for a while.