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here's some confessions from a nerd I
have never seen Power Rangers yeah
meaning I've seen only clips and have
never watched a full episode but that's
about to change I'm going to check it
out and give you my first impressions
now keep in mind I'm seeing this for the
first time as an adult I can never go
back in time and see it as a kid the way
it was intended
I can never be as nostalgic and as well
seasons with it as many fans may be but
I still have a personal history and
experience with it
a very misguided experience which I'd
like to share so if you're already a big
fan of the show you might not learn any
new information from me but you'll
probably get a unique perspective and if
you're a noob like me then you can come
share the discovery I've been aware of
the show's existence since the very
beginning its impact was phenomenal it
was as popular as transformers or Ninja
Turtles all action franchises that I
loved as a kid but somehow with Power
Rangers I missed the boat I may have
been a little bit too old or was too
busy getting into horror movies and
monster movies when you obsess over
something it usually means you miss out
and something else also I've always had
a tendency to ignore or whatever is the
newest popular thing I got annoyed with
it I specifically remember it being the
most popular Halloween costume here is
actual footage from Halloween 94 my
friends younger brother came to my party
with this costume and all I could think
is oh it's that stupid power ranger show
even with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
when I first heard the title I thought
it sounded like the dumbest thing ever
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers like Park
Rangers Morphin what does that mean
looking back it sounds like morphine I
wrote it off as just a kid show and
moved past it I was more adult more cool
now let me watch my Godzilla movies my
first touch of regret happened a few
years after the show made its mark a
group of friends and I were sitting
around watching TV we flipped through
some channels and happened to land on
power rangers but only for a moment what
I saw was a giant robot fighting a
rubber suit monster in a city my friends
were making fun of it saying oh it's
that stupid Power Rangers show so cheesy
and I was sitting there thinking wait a
minute this looks awesome it was just
like a Godzilla movie it was not what I
expected in the 90s I was the only
Godzilla fan I knew nobody else liked
this [ __ ] and that only fired me up and
made me like it more rubber suit
monsters that's what life is all about
think it looks cheesy well [ __ ] you then
wait you're telling me one of the most
popular shows on TV is all about rubber
suit monsters this was a major
contradiction you know what I was doing
when Power Rangers was on I was ordering
laserdisc two VHS transfers from Japan
of the newest Godzilla films and any
other obscure monster movies but all I
had to do was turn on the TV and I'd see
a new monster every week then I heard
something crazy a new piece of
information that would completely change
my view of Power Rangers the show was
made in Japan but the next time I caught
a glimpse of the show I saw something
that resembled a TV sitcom with
teenagers this couldn't be the same show
it looked like a Saved by the Bell
knock-offs it was silly and dumb but not
in any of the ways I wanted it to be it
definitely was not Japanese it looked
like the most American show you could
possibly see so then I was confused and
continued to disregard it sometime after
the Internet age began I became
increasingly aware that Power Rangers
was something that would have been right
up my alley but the idea of watching it
cold and trying to catch up after all
these years seemed too daunting as the
demands of adulthood grew I wondered did
I miss my opportunity would it still
appeal to me today I have to find out I
spent on the list for years and now I'm
finally looking into it first of all is
the show Japanese or is it American
apparently it's both generally the
monster scenes were shot in Japan while
the scenes with the teenagers were in
the United States that makes enough
sense but wait the Japanese footage was
recycled from a completely separate show
called Super Sentai the plot thickens so
there's two different shows both
coexisting and both still going on to
this
every day does that mean I have to watch
Super Sentai also um absolutely oh man
now there's two shows I want to watch I
feel like my responsibility just doubled
I feel like I gave birth to twins
wait Super Sentai began in 1975 and it's
still going on to this very day they've
been making episodes consistently for
the past 42 years I'm going to die the
basic concept of Super Sentai is a team
of ordinary humans are transformed into
superheroes they wear color-coded
costumes and save the earth from evil
monsters this description naturally
sounds like Power Rangers but it also
sounds like common ryr which is from the
same creator basically if you have a
bunch of people and motorcycle suits
flipping around in the air with
explosions lasers and sparks shooting
all over you know the deal the deal is
it's [ __ ] awesome ever seen Spectre
man dude that [ __ ] is crazy how about
the tow a spider-man
yeah it's spider-man with giant robots
then there's Ultraman which is pretty
much where it all started
that was 1966 and the ultra series is
still going on today also it was created
by HD super aiya special effects pioneer
who we have to thank for making Godzilla
Godzilla once fought alongside an
Ultraman type character called Jet
Jaguar and Godzilla appeared in many
zone fighter episodes along with other
characters from the Godzilla franchise
including guy Ganon King Ghidorah the
same Japanese superhero genre which
spawned Power Rangers is intertwined
with the Godzilla franchise and if we
haven't opened up a big enough can of
worms already these franchises fall
under the umbrella term tokusatsu this
is a mother Jon R which generally
includes any films that rely heavily on
special effects such as giant monster
movies of course which I've always known
as Dai kaiju films then you have human
size monster films like the master
superhero series like super sentai space
films like green slime mecha series
which are about giant robots controlled
by people like gun head the giant Robo
series and even this crosses over into
the Godzilla franchise with characters
such as mecha godzilla
and mecha Ghidorah and then you take a
step further with combiner robots which
plays a big part in Power Rangers it's
robots
come together to form bigger robots like
Voltron and transformers and now we're
getting into animation anime holy [ __ ]
this is bad for me you know that right
like when it comes to this stuff I can't
stop I'm like an alcoholic I was doing
good but now I'm over my head so I gotta
settle down all right we're talking
Power Rangers here or how about this I
watch just the first season that's it
just one season see if it's on Netflix
no good it is let's check it out
it's 60 episodes 60 [ __ ] episode do
you think that's enough for one season
oh my god oh geez I need some help been
wanting to get schooled in Power Rangers
but too overwhelmed decide to watch just
the first season lo and behold it's 60
episodes oh man I need help
dude I got you covered
ah well thanks Linkara hey didn't I bait
that guy one time on who would win in a
fight
Mechagodzilla or megazord even though I
had no idea who Megazord was well anyway
he's reviewed everything Power Rangers
so let this be my guide to the show um
do I need a guide for the guide and
Netflix has two different versions of
the first season there's the original
and the remastered series do I have to
watch that too
why why is nothing is different about
them and frankly I see no reason to
watch 60 episodes of the same show twice
just for spice hmm
oh thank god anyway I'm going to begin
watching Power Rangers something that
was meant to be watched once a week over
the course of 20 years I'm going to
consume it all at once
wish me luck
oh don't come out Rangers Go Go Power
Rangers Go Go Power Rangers
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