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Post by Bang Bang Bart on Dec 27, 2015 12:22:56 GMT -5
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Post by BorneAgain on Dec 27, 2015 13:50:21 GMT -5
If Samurai was a cliche fest as if written by someone who had only the basic idea of what Power Rangers was, Megaforce is a dreadfully trite and dull action heavy fanfic written by a 12 year old who liked fight scenes a lot and has no concept of character or story.
Honestly, this feels worse than Operation Overdrive at times. The latter had terribly unlikable characters and a misunderstanding of what the Rangers were, but least that was a failed execution of a potentially interesting idea. Megaforce is just extra powers, zords, and generic villains every other episode; two seasons worth of jangling keys in front of kids in place of anything resembling an actual narrative. If the series as a whole arguably creatively peaked with RPM, then Megaforce officially marks the show bottoming out in that same regard.
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Post by the2ndevil on Dec 27, 2015 14:36:20 GMT -5
I haven't watched a HOPR since he denied me the mass suicides that were sure to have happened if he gave RPM a bad review.
I do not feel I've missed much.
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Post by Magician under the moonlight on Dec 27, 2015 17:59:23 GMT -5
I did not pay much attention. Can someone explain why Linkara went crazy with a gun in part 5? I am really confused.
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Post by CMWaters on Dec 27, 2015 18:01:34 GMT -5
I did not pay much attention. Can someone explain why Linkara went crazy with a gun in part 5? I am really confused. After covering Robo Knight's sacrifice earlier, he then saw him out of nowhere with no explanation in the Legend War.
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Post by BorneAgain on Dec 27, 2015 18:04:14 GMT -5
I did not pay much attention. Can someone explain why Linkara went crazy with a gun in part 5? I am really confused. Roboknight, the only character in Megaforce whom had gone through any character development, had nobly sacrifice himself to save Orion, thus giving the character a fitting end to their, going from a protector of the environment indifferent about humanity to giving up everything to rescue one human life. He then showed up in the final battle with no explanation.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Dec 27, 2015 19:43:10 GMT -5
As I said with the Samurai review, the only Power Rangers series I was ever really interested in was RPM. I kinda just watched all the other HOPW simply to build up to the review of RPM. It still feels weird watching this show after RPM is done.
When I first saw the base/cave they were using all I could think about was 70's Land of the Lost. If only either Linkara or the show itself used that trippy leitmotif it would've been perfect.
I found Linkara's idea for why the Sentai only costumes would show up to be interesting. It reminded me a lot of Triumph's story in DC Comics back in the 90's, which was pretty much universally panned back in the day. I don't know how Power Rangers fandom would take the idea of retconning in teams that had never been seen or mentioned before.
For "Legendary Battle" the only one I would've brought back is Tommy. Give him a big part where he helps the Rangers regain their confidence and whatever and return to battle. For the final scene I would've just explained that it's not actually the old Rangers returning, but their Ranger spirits or whatever coming to life to join the Battle.
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Post by Zone Was Wrong on Dec 27, 2015 21:17:57 GMT -5
After rewatching RPM again I have to scratch my head. How do we go from that quality of Power Rangers to Megaforce?......
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Post by Bang Bang Bart on Dec 28, 2015 2:18:33 GMT -5
I did not pay much attention. Can someone explain why Linkara went crazy with a gun in part 5? I am really confused. After covering Robo Knight's sacrifice earlier, he then saw him out of nowhere with no explanation in the Legend War. In a season filled with crap that they didn't bother to explain, that's by far the most egregious example (aside from the New Powers malarkey).
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Post by sternrogers01 on Dec 28, 2015 6:27:12 GMT -5
After rewatching RPM again I have to scratch my head. How do we go from that quality of Power Rangers to Megaforce?...... Simplest reason is the creative teams behind RPM simply weren't there. Hell the head writer/executive producer of RPM was actually fired mid-way through that season and replaced by a more reliable hand in the very talented Judd Lynn...unfortunately, Lynn was also absent for Samurai-Megaforce (he had been approached, but turned it down when he realized he would not have final creative say-so). He came back as producer for the current season, Dino Charge, after the guy who ran Samurai-Megaforce was let go. It's been a marked improvement.
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Post by Rumble McSkirmish on Dec 28, 2015 8:40:19 GMT -5
Man just what is it with this franchise and (with maybe the exception of Wild Force) totally messing up their official anniversary seasons?
I only watched a handful of episodes from both seasons (A couple of random episodes and both finales) and from the looks of things I didn't miss anything at all.
Things really fall apart with the transition to Gokaiger because as pointed out multiple times in the video it was baffling what parts of the series they chose to adapt over stuff that was tailor made for adaptation. Seriously they could have done a Lightspeed Rescue tribute episode because Gokaiger already had a tribute episode based on their sentai equivalent.
In fact Gokaiger had a lot of post Zyuranger/Power Ranger team tribute episodes since it was originally written with mostly those teams in mind, as the producers didn't think a lot of the older actors would be too keen on reprising their roles.
As an aside they did however end up with a ton of old school cameos though as the real life tsunami that rocked Japan during Gokaiger's production prompted a lot of them to reprise their roles as way to inspire the populous during those trying times.
With a little foresight and some decent planning this could have been something great, but instead we got basically got all flash and fan service.
Fun fact: Despite not appearing in the finale Johnny Yong Bosch provided voice samples for almost every red ranger (and the black ranger he actually played) in the Super Megaforce 3DS game. Which like the series is a mound of wasted potential.
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Post by Zone Was Wrong on Dec 28, 2015 9:28:26 GMT -5
After rewatching RPM again I have to scratch my head. How do we go from that quality of Power Rangers to Megaforce?...... Simplest reason is the creative teams behind RPM simply weren't there. Hell the head writer/executive producer of RPM was actually fired mid-way through that season and replaced by a more reliable hand in the very talented Judd Lynn...unfortunately, Lynn was also absent for Samurai-Megaforce (he had been approached, but turned it down when he realized he would not have final creative say-so). He came back as producer for the current season, Dino Charge, after the guy who ran Samurai-Megaforce was let go. It's been a marked improvement. I was about to ask actually if Dino Charge was any good
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Post by Bang Bang Bart on Dec 28, 2015 9:29:53 GMT -5
Simplest reason is the creative teams behind RPM simply weren't there. Hell the head writer/executive producer of RPM was actually fired mid-way through that season and replaced by a more reliable hand in the very talented Judd Lynn...unfortunately, Lynn was also absent for Samurai-Megaforce (he had been approached, but turned it down when he realized he would not have final creative say-so). He came back as producer for the current season, Dino Charge, after the guy who ran Samurai-Megaforce was let go. It's been a marked improvement. I was about to ask actually if Dino Charge was any good Yes. The difference is night and day.
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Post by andrew8798 on Dec 28, 2015 14:21:19 GMT -5
What a mess
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Dec 28, 2015 14:24:45 GMT -5
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Post by Captain Patren Fenderbaum-X on Dec 28, 2015 14:32:56 GMT -5
I am more and more thankful each time I have to be reminded of MegaForce for Gokaiger because if Megaforce was the only anniversary of this franchise I got to watch I would still be burning things in dissapointment.
And now that I have been reminded this was not just a nightmare I am gonna go watch random Gokaiger episodes because my mind needs to be cleansed.
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Post by AKIMan64 on Dec 28, 2015 23:01:21 GMT -5
For all the flack Operation Overdrive, at least there was a plot attached with common goal (collecting all the missing pieces of the Corona Aurora). Even the rangers at least had some personality and struggles, despite coming off as jerks. When it comes to watching a typical Megaforce episode, nothing really happens. More fight scenes, little character focus episodes unlike previous seasons, and a lot of the suspenseful story arcs are crammed in a short amount of time. And the Legendary Battle was as disappointing as Sting vs. Hogan from Starrcade '97.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Dec 28, 2015 23:29:31 GMT -5
I haven't watched a Power Rangers episode since the first incarnation, but love these retrospectives. That said, I'm terribly bored of the annual "crossover" eps. One year instead of bringing back old Rangers, they should have that season's villain revive one of each years' giant monsters all at the same time, or something.
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Post by El Cokehead del Knife Fight on Dec 28, 2015 23:35:16 GMT -5
Simplest reason is the creative teams behind RPM simply weren't there. Hell the head writer/executive producer of RPM was actually fired mid-way through that season and replaced by a more reliable hand in the very talented Judd Lynn...unfortunately, Lynn was also absent for Samurai-Megaforce (he had been approached, but turned it down when he realized he would not have final creative say-so). He came back as producer for the current season, Dino Charge, after the guy who ran Samurai-Megaforce was let go. It's been a marked improvement. I was about to ask actually if Dino Charge was any good Dino Charge is really fun and the rangers are *shock horror" likable characters with actual personalities.
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Post by Mozenrath on Dec 28, 2015 23:37:24 GMT -5
I haven't watched a Power Rangers episode since the first incarnation, but love these retrospectives. That said, I'm terribly bored of the annual "crossover" eps. One year instead of bringing back old Rangers, they should have that season's villain revive one of each years' giant monsters all at the same time, or something. Yeah, or something like "f*** it!" and mix something up with aspects of previous villains thrown together as a chimera kind of thing.
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