I was watching Toon Disney (I’m trying to rebuild my 90s Fox-era Spider-man collection) and saw a commercial for Power Rangers: S.P.D.
I remember seeing the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers in the early 90s and how stupid it looked (IMHO, of course). I was stunned to see that it’s still around (albeit in different costumes). I did a quick Googling and found that there have been nearly SIX HUNDRED EPISODES produced!
There was also a commercial indicating a new series (Mystic) that would be broadcast in January.
Did the later incarnations get any better? Or was it pretty much the same thing over and over?
Not only is it still on, but its’ still selling like hotcakes (probably correlated). I worked at a toy store over the summer and the kiddies ate that crap up. Oh well. I loved it at their age too.
Yeah, but the last eight seasons haven’t been nearly as good as the first eight. Frankly, the show has started re-using ideas. I think the low point was when the Yellow Ranger turned out not to be the Yellow Ranger at all. The real Yellow Ranger had been held prisoner by the aliens for years.
As the father of children who were in primary school in the Nineties, I would just like to express my undying hatred for all things Power Ranger, as well as their idiot Irish cousins, the Spastic Knights of Tir-na-Nogh. Both featured a contempt for the viewer so profound as to be offensive and even a little frightening.
One of the Red Rangers turned up on Jerry Hall’s reality show, “Kept,” as one of her whore wannabes. He was cut after performing a vulgar strip in front of Jerry and her society friends.
She seems to have shifted from an acting career to a music career over the years (after shifting initially from a gymnastics career to an acting career).
Saw her in a movie called “Perfect Body” about a bulemic gymnast (we watched it for my high school Health Class)
Saw a marathon of Power Rangers: Dino Thunder or whatever it’s called (it was honestly the best thing on when I was seperated from my internet access) and they had some interesting plot stuff in the show, such as their science teacher being none other than Tommy Oliver, the original Green/White Ranger. (The Principal of the high school was the main villian’s lead henchwoman in disguise, I don’t recall if she knew what the Power Rangers secret identities were.)
Power Rangers originally came on when I was seven years old, so of course I loved it. I stopped watching it when I was eight.
I remember being so excited about the new White Ranger. My friends and I speculated a lot over who it would be, and our guess was who it turned out to be. I stopped watching a few months after that.
The Power Rangers are a big hit at my house. I am well aquained with the Power Rangers: Ninja Storm, Dino Thunder and SPD. We are eagerly awaiting Mystic Force (starting Feb 2006).
Well she didn’t at first, but she began to suspect Dr. Oliver. Of course Mesogog knew, but I don’t why he never told Elsa. In the end it turns out she a really nice person who was put in a trance by Mesogog and finally comes out of it.
Of course, I know way too much about the Power Rangers for a 36 year old woman…but I have a 7 year old son. Gotta say so far, Dino Thunder is my favorite. But that’s because Jason David Frank (Tommy Oliver) is pretty darn good looking.
The epiphany the producers had after the first cast asked for money was to do a new version every season in a new setting with mostly characters. I haven’t watched since they axed Trini, but a pal of mine has seen almost every episode (he’s in the kids TV biz), and he says that the establishment of the one-season rule has helped the show because they can have a story arc over the whole season with a definite ending, instead of just continuing day to day adventures with no end in sight.
