Power Rangers: Forever Red

tumbletom · Post by **tumbletom** » 2006-09-08 11:31pm

I nearly cryed when the command center blew up. Seriously it sucked.

Also, Power Rangers lost Galaxy had the most freakn awesome intro ever for a power rangers show. I love that intro....Time to go to Youtube!

Faqa · Post by **Faqa** » 2006-09-09 05:37am

OK, I'll admit it. I'm a fan. Still am.

Yay! Knew my pimping of PR would pay off eventually!

Well, again, anyway....

I'm definately not part of (and have even been opposed to) those certain moronic elements of the PR community that Faqa briefly mentioned. For those of you who don't know, imagine the thick-headed VIP asskissing fans at theforce.net, and add an apparent lack of emotional/mental development. It really seems that a lot of these older PR fans are idiot man children who watch the show as if they're a part of its intended target audience.

To me, at least, the major annoyance is the teen fanbase. Little pseudo-macho shits who think the show and the world revolve around them. But, yeah. That and the community's ability to flame relentlessly over utterly stupid shit.

I've watched every season since the first (although I've fallen WAY behind on the current season, and still have to catch up one of these weekends in several marathon viewings), and believe me, MMPR is NOT the best one, despite the nostalgia around it. I reccommend Power Rangers in Space, Lost Galaxy, and Dino Thunder (the 2004 series where Tommy comes back).

You forgot Time Force...

Most drama PR's ever managed to pack into a season. The current season's not half-bad either. Even if the premise was ripped from generic-fantasy-land.

The last two Rangers (from the 2001 Time Force season) were members of a quasi-law enforcement organization. Apparently, Bhaumik had intended for Jason to have turned punk (evidenced by his badass motorcycle entrance, supposedly) over the unseen years, and to have had a run-in with the law and a confrontation with the Time Force guys before.

WTF?!

I knew he intended a Silver Guardian encounter, but I always thought it was more along the lines of time-traveling back to the MMPR era or something.

I value Forever Red for another reason - it gave us something intellectual to fight over. Ironing out the whole "How Jason got his powers back" mess. One the few pieces of continuity comprehensible enough to argue.

The episode of which you refer sounds like "Green No More" and I liked that whole arc in the second season because, well, it was an actual arc in the Power Rangers. And it had started in the first season as well ("The Green Candle" and then "Return of an Old Friend"). I liked that a lot.

My thought, too, but no. The Dragonzord takes a beating in that two-parter, but Tommy's collapse isn't until way after the monster conveniently leaves.

Green Candle, maybe? ZyuRanger(the Japanese MMPR) made a big deal of that plotline, maybe the whole collapse thing was in the footage.

I'm still hoping they eventually get MMPR season set DVDs. There were some good stories in there.

*snorts politely*

No frickin chance. As I keep telling you, DL them from Bittorrent, that's the best you're gonna get.

Also, Power Rangers lost Galaxy had the most freakn awesome intro ever for a power rangers show.

Good, but not the best. That honor goes to SPD(the theme, ironically, was composed by Ron Wasserman, composer of the original MMPR theme) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyWeXnaANeQ

Jason von Evil · Post by **Jason von Evil** » 2006-09-09 06:47am

Let's not forget that there was once a Toadzord. A mighty, mighty Toadzord.

Faqa · Post by **Faqa** » 2006-09-09 08:29am

Let's not forget that there was once a Toadzord. A mighty, mighty Toadzord

*glares*

It was a FROG.

Jason von Evil · Post by **Jason von Evil** » 2006-09-09 09:54am

Tomato, tomoto.

I wonder if you'd trip out if you licked it?

Oni Koneko Damien · Post by **Oni Koneko Damien** » 2006-09-09 12:25pm

What's really funny is that I found two weeks ago, at Goodwill, for 1.99 USD...

...a fully transforming set of Superhuman Samurai Syber Squad mechazoid figures, all parts still with them.

For those not in the know, SSSS was a short-lived knock-off series made by the same company that made MMPR, a few months after the original became popular. Somehow, it managed to be even more comically bad than the original, and I consider myself lucky to have found a practically unused set of toys from a now insanely obscure series that had surely been discontinued for several years.

starfury · Post by **starfury** » 2006-09-09 03:03pm

As for myself, I watch the show partly because I liked it as a kid, and partly because (believe it or not) it has grown up over the years. In its better episodes PR is on par with syndicated action shows, and like the DCAU, older audiences can watch it without feeling too stupid (although the show still isn't on the maturity level of the DCAU). I've watched every season since the first (although I've fallen WAY behind on the current season, and still have to catch up one of these weekends in several marathon viewings), and believe me, MMPR is NOT the best one, despite the nostalgia around it. I reccommend Power Rangers in Space, Lost Galaxy, and Dino Thunder (the 2004 series where Tommy comes back).

yeah, MMPR, the original serias was defintely the best, I did like the Zeo season, when they started to put in Huge arcs and long storylines, the fact the it was the last season to contiune on from the original also made it good. never got to like the newer spinoffs, which simply don't have that level of connected seasons.

18-Till-I-Die · Post by **18-Till-I-Die** » 2006-09-09 04:59pm

Heh...i didnt know there are actually fans of Power Rangers here. I've been watching that show since it first started and i still do. Not all the seasons were great though--Turbo was the worst IMO, and Time Force was rather crappy, SPD was ok but not great.

Personally i enjoyed In Space and Lost Galaxy more than any of the rest. If only cause the mecha looked so cool...Forever Red was a really great episode, it was like someone decided to write the most awesome fight scene ever but, finding it lasted about thirty minuets, decided to just slap a story around it and call it 'Forever Red'.

Interestingly i also watched Superhuman Samuai Syber Squad...which was TERRIBLE...but the toys and mecha looked kick ass so i managed to weather through it. I own pretty much all the toys for that single reason.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2006-09-09 06:45pm

Red Ranger?

RED RANGER?!

CaptainChewbacca · Post by **CaptainChewbacca** » 2006-09-09 07:51pm

18-Till-I-Die wrote:Heh...i didnt know there are actually fans of Power Rangers here. I've been watching that show since it first started and i still do. Not all the seasons were great though--Turbo was the worst IMO, and Time Force was rather crappy, SPD was ok but not great.

Almost everyone likes it, but nobody admits it.

Jason von Evil · Post by **Jason von Evil** » 2006-09-09 08:09pm

SPD looked interesting. The concept of a Power Ranger police force was neat.

There was also another series where the lead ranger came close to killing the big bad to avenge his dead parents.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2006-09-09 09:28pm

You know, if they released just the first series of MMPR on DVD as a season set(s), I might seriously buy it. I've got some damn fond memories of that first series...

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2006-09-09 09:32pm

Yeah, the pre-1994 stuff, with the original cast before it changed. I didn't watch it after that.

Tychu · Post by **Tychu** » 2006-09-10 03:00am

I watched it from the begining i was 10 when it came out and actually by 6 year old brother at the time got me into it. Good Times good Times

the 2 of us watched it until the got rid of the 2nd group of kids, for some reason that Billy guy stuck around for like 5 more seasons. But the last episodes i remember watching was the ones that the bullies get turned into monkeys and the aliens have to come to Earth and take the Power Rangers Powers from Zordon because the real teens forgot who the hell they were and didnt have their powers. Any help on what season that was would be hot

Tychu · Post by **Tychu** » 2006-09-10 03:03am

Oni Koneko Damien wrote:What's really funny is that I found two weeks ago, at Goodwill, for 1.99 USD...

...a fully transforming set of Superhuman Samurai Syber Squad mechazoid figures, all parts still with them.

For those not in the know, SSSS was a short-lived knock-off series made by the same company that made MMPR, a few months after the original became popular. Somehow, it managed to be even more comically bad than the original, and I consider myself lucky to have found a practically unused set of toys from a now insanely obscure series that had surely been discontinued for several years.

talking about the spinoff merchandise, i still have a VHS of the even more crappy VR Troopers. lol the memories

Faqa · Post by **Faqa** » 2006-09-10 01:29pm

the 2 of us watched it until the got rid of the 2nd group of kids, for some reason that Billy guy stuck around for like 5 more seasons. But the last episodes i remember watching was the ones that the bullies get turned into monkeys and the aliens have to come to Earth and take the Power Rangers Powers from Zordon because the real teens forgot who the hell they were and didnt have their powers. Any help on what season that was would be hot

You seem to be confusing two seasons.

The bullies got turned into monkeys in Power Rangers Turbo.

The rest of what you're describing sounds more like Mighty Morphin Season 3(the Alien Ranger saga).

And Billy, altogether, was around for FOUR seasons - three as a Ranger, one as techie.

There was also another series where the lead ranger came close to killing the big bad to avenge his dead parents.

Power Rangers Wild Force, I think. Series Forever Red was in.

Lost Soal · Post by **Lost Soal** » 2006-09-10 02:49pm

I watched the series for a while from the beginning. Had a few gaps then stopped watching when Mondo shows up.
Which brings up a problem with Forever Red. When Mondo turns up, Zed and co jump into Serpinterra and run off to Master Vile, he doesn't hide it on the moon.

Faqa · Post by **Faqa** » 2006-09-10 03:02pm

*shrugs*

Rita and Zedd came back in the In Space finale, no Master Vile to be seen. So obviously they went SOMEWHERE else in that time. Why not the moon?

Assuming we accept that pissant little shit-Zord as the mighty planet-blowing Serpenterra......

Lost Soal · Post by **Lost Soal** » 2006-09-10 04:20pm

Faqa wrote: Assuming we accept that pissant little shit-Zord as the mighty planet-blowing Serpenterra......

Isn't it obvious. Vile got pig sick of the constant arguing and nagging so through them out of his house, meaning they had to canabalise Serpinterra to build themselves a new house.

What we saw is what was left over.

JME2 · Post by **JME2** » 2006-09-10 04:37pm

Faqa wrote:Rita and Zedd came back in the In Space finale, no Master Vile to be seen. So obviously they went SOMEWHERE else in that time. Why not the moon?

They also appeared in the PRiS pilot (as part of Dark Specter's summoning) after having been absent since their cameo in Turbo: A Power Rangers movie. Though there's no on-screen evidence to support it, I've speculated with a few fellow fans from the old days that Zedd and Rita spent the year between the Turbo film and PRiS checking in on Zedd's holding (as Zedd had devoted three years of resources and attention into conquering one measley little planet, rebellions could easily have sprung up).

Agent Fisher · Post by **Agent Fisher** » 2006-09-10 06:29pm

Which was the ranger series that had the large amounts of SST armor?

Ryushikaze · Post by **Ryushikaze** » 2006-09-10 06:29pm

faqa wrote:
The episode of which you refer sounds like "Green No More" and I liked that whole arc in the second season because, well, it was an actual arc in the Power Rangers. And it had started in the first season as well ("The Green Candle" and then "Return of an Old Friend"). I liked that a lot.
My thought, too, but no. The Dragonzord takes a beating in that two-parter, but Tommy's collapse isn't until way after the monster conveniently leaves.

Green Candle, maybe? ZyuRanger(the Japanese MMPR) made a big deal of that plotline, maybe the whole collapse thing was in the footage.

In the original Zyuranger, the green ranger (then Rita's son), was actually dying, as that candle was his life. So, yes, the shots of him collapsing are him literally fighting until his life burned out to aid the rangers.
Later PR uses of the Zord and the GR were mostly spliced shots from earlier in Zyurangers.

Y'know what the scariest thing about PR is for me? For all its camp, it's more serious (well, on the whole, anyways) than the original japanese series.

Hades · Post by **Hades** » 2006-09-11 03:03pm

For those that love Nostalgia especially about Tommy (MMPR Green and white ranger) they should also check out the Power rangers:Dino thunder season from a couple of years back.

It Had Tommy back as a main character for the entire season, as the mentor to three new rangers and eventually becoming the Black ranger.

It had two particularly nostaligic episodes. One where the three latest rangers found a file Tommy had compliled on the history of teh power rangers. This was basically a flashback episode. Then in another episode Tommy is in a comma and the only way out of it is by fighting the green ranger, white ranger and Red Zeo ranger versions of himself.

Post by **RogueIce** » 2006-09-11 03:57pm

Hades wrote:For those that love Nostalgia especially about Tommy (MMPR Green and white ranger) they should also check out the Power rangers:Dino thunder season from a couple of years back.

It Had Tommy back as a main character for the entire season, as the mentor to three new rangers and eventually becoming the Black ranger.

It had two particularly nostaligic episodes. One where the three latest rangers found a file Tommy had compliled on the history of teh power rangers. This was basically a flashback episode. Then in another episode Tommy is in a comma and the only way out of it is by fighting the green ranger, white ranger and Red Zeo ranger versions of himself.

I do believe we mentioned this already.

The best part for me is when he first gets his powers, he makes the comment that he has to go buy some black clothes for his wardrobe.

Hades · Post by **Hades** » 2006-09-11 04:23pm

didnt realise it had already been mentiond. didnt read the whole thread.