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NEWS: Netflix Streams New Pokémon Ultimate Journeys Anime Episodes, Power Rangers 30th Anniversary S

DamianSalazar wrote:

I hope for a Power Rangers series that doesn't obsess over Mighty Morphin. The nostalgia is embarrassing at this point.

Power Rangers has basically been dead for years, ever since toy sales for it plummeted. All they have left at this point is pandering to nostalgia.

Still, it is embarrassing to make a 30th anniversary special for a franchise and make all the marquee actors in it be from the first 3 years.

Yeah, it was so dead that Hasbro paid half a billion dollars to acquire it, so dead that they commissioned Jonathan Entwistle to be the next overlord of Power Rangers, who in turn got Jenny Klein to run whatever series follows Cosmic Fury from Entertainment One.

Blanket critiquing Power Rangers as a brand isn't easy. Nearly every show has a different cast and source material, with several seasons changing up the music, some dial back the comedy act.

I'm more fond of entries like Time Force. Portraying most villains as criminals more than beasts gave the writing (by the low standards of a monster-of-the-week franchise) much needed depth.

You'll love RPM if you're tired of "nostalgia bait". The setting was originally designed to be self-contained, so it features quite possibly the fewest references to past shows, if not the least amount of returning *anything*.

lumclaw wrote:

Blanket critiquing Power Rangers as a brand isn't easy. Nearly every show has a different cast and source material, with several seasons changing up the music, some dial back the comedy act. I'm more fond of entries like Time Force. Portraying most villains as criminals more than beasts gave the writing (by the low standards of a monster-of-the-week franchise) much needed depth. You'll love RPM if you're tired of "nostalgia bait". The setting was originally designed to be self-contained, so it features quite possibly the fewest references to past shows, if not the least amount of returning *anything*.

I think it says a lot that all those are the older series and nothing made within the last decade. Seems like once Neo-Saban and Hasbro happened I haven't heard much of anything from the franchise outside the movie everyone dogged on.

But I think the biggest indicator of how culturally irrelevant Power Rangers is these days is I didn't hear a single peep out of anyone when they made an LGBT Ranger or promoted their new female Red Ranger for the new series You know it's bad when outrage baiting doesn't even work for you. I guess Scooby Doo is more culturally relevant than Power Rangers these days if Velma is anything to go off with how much attention it's getting by comparison. Maybe if it was an MMPR reboot that made those changes it would get more attention. MMPR seems to be the only show people care about anymore.

But I think the biggest indicator of how culturally irrelevant Power Rangers is these days is I didn't hear a single peep out of anyone when they made an LGBT Ranger or promoted their new female Red Ranger for the new series You know it's bad when outrage baiting doesn't even work for you. I guess Scooby Doo is more culturally relevant than Power Rangers these days if Velma is anything to go off with how much attention it's getting by comparison. Maybe if it was an MMPR reboot that made those changes it would get more attention. MMPR seems to be the only show people care about anymore.

I would guess the reason Power Rangers has mostly died out is there's no real need for it anymore. There's no real need for Power Rangers in this day and age when people can watch Super Sentai and other tokusatsu straight from Japan very easily.

Man, a lot of yall didn't get the megazords yall wanted as kids and it shows.

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I would guess the reason Power Rangers has mostly died out is there's no real need for it anymore. There's no real need for Power Rangers in this day and age when people can watch Super Sentai and other tokusatsu straight from Japan very easily.

Well this is a lie. Though I'm not as big of a fan that I was as a kid, I still check in of the franchise from time to time even though I also started watching Super Sentai (which also isn't as highly regarded as you think it is in its own country). It's also not easy at all to watch Super Sentai (legally) outside of the Shout Factory releases.

I do not understand why some people here are being such pricks. IF you are calling it cringe because or nostalgia then never watch Dragonball or Sailor Moon again. It’s awesome that they even got this together i just hope that it was made before Jason David Frank passed away.

I think they mean newer generations of fans, which to an extent is true. I'm not that involved in the tokusatsu community these days, but a lot of the active fans online outside of Japan seem to be of a much younger demographic than what constituted Rider and Sentai fans even 10 years ago. A lot of them are pre-teens and teens that discover the franchise from other venues outside of PR, which wasn't really the case back then. They don't have as many issues with finding torrents or pirating sites for subtitled material. Sentai isn't as big as it once was toy-sales wise though (although the success of Donbrothers has changed that a bit), so that part is true. And it is still viewed as something toddlers watch so there is that.