Subject: The good old days...
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Posted on: 2010-01-08 23:07:00 UTC
I think I watched that show up through the Lost Galaxy season, which I still remember as having the best plot out of all of them. A lot of people teased me for watching it, including my MOM once! However, I was able to look past the fairly dorky special effects to the much better scripts and acting.
Also, Bulk and Skull are just the most perfect names for bullies ever.
Someone better PPC this fic! It's full of misspellings! (And tense changes.) And the grammar. Is. Atrocious.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5090738/6/ADSquad
Possible MS's and MS replacements.
Eh... that's going to be a doozy. If I didn't have a mission already and very, very simplistic grasp of canon, I'd have done it.
But here is my basic understanding of canon:
the guys in colors fight the ugly monster dudes and always get their butt kicked until the last five minutes of the show, which is when the power rangers team up and pummel the monster thing.
Oh, and the red guy is the leader, but pink and yellow are girls. I think.
I can give background on the basic idea of power rangers and more specific detail about a couple of the seasons.
Bronwyn, you're basically correct. -grins- At the beginning of every season there is the Evil Bad Guy Alien Person Thing who wants to take over the world. Good Guy Mentor Person selects a group of teenagers, sometimes based on their abilities and sometimes by accident and turns them into power rangers. Sometimes the new rangers have issues morphing their first time (forgetting words, somehow not magically knowing the gesture they need, etc.) but it always goes away after the first time. After that they never forget again. Once the team has formed, one of the first things they do is acquire zords, which are robots that they can ride and in which they fight. The shape of the zord depends on the theme of the team. (So, the Dino Thunder rangers have dinosaur zords, and the SPD team has police vehicles and so on). The zords are either given to them or freed from the forces of the Evil Bad Guy Alien Person. These zords can combine to form megazords, which the rangers use to fight aliens whom they've already defeated but which have been resurrected and blown up to GOdzilla-like proportions by the Evil Bad Guy Alien Person or his/her minions.
Basically, the theme of the shows are always the power of teamwork and perseverance. Traditionally the teams don't get along too well at first, but then bond as they realize that they can't survive without each other. It's all very sticky sweet and filled with in your face morals. As the show increases they all get power boosts until, by the end, they've become ridiculously strong. Of course, so has the enemy, so they still lose as often as they did before.
About getting their butts kicked: the best way to tell that they'll defeat the monster this episode is if they lose spectacularly to it early on. Sure sign that they will prevail. On the other hand, if they seem to be doing well, chances are it will be whisked away and saved for another episode, where it'll be stronger or some such thing.
Red is always a guy and always the leader, yes. Pink and yellow tend to be girls, and in Ninja Storm the sky blue ranger (just called blue in the show) is a girl.
Can't think of anything else, especially not having read the fic. What season of power rangers is it for, anyway?
Sorry for the essay. I like to be thorough and I get carried away at times.
--anamia
I think I watched that show up through the Lost Galaxy season, which I still remember as having the best plot out of all of them. A lot of people teased me for watching it, including my MOM once! However, I was able to look past the fairly dorky special effects to the much better scripts and acting.
Also, Bulk and Skull are just the most perfect names for bullies ever.
I think the early disagreements on the team started with Lost Galaxy The MMPR team were all friends before they were selected, and the replacements were generally accepted pretty quickly and easily. (In the show at least. Let's not get into the Kat vs Kimberly thing.) Then again, before Lost Galaxy the most team members replaced at once was four, and it tended to be the powers that changed rather than the team members.
As for the fic... it seems to be an SPD fic. Using a non-canon A-D squads. And all the rangers seem to be siblings or offspring of canonical Rangers, from MMPR to OO.
The most I saw of power rangers was when it was before a show I wanted to watch so I'd have to watch the last 2-3 minutes while waiting for animanics or the angry beavers (awesome shows, by the way).
But the fans got really obsessive. I had to buy a birthday gift for my cousin and I thought 'ah-ha! Power rangers!'. I still have the scar where a kid bit me to get the red action figure.