Megaforce Theories - Vrak

From what we learned from today’s episode of Power Rangers Megaforce, Vrak is of “alien royalty”. For those who did not watch Gokaiger, the season after the sentai that Power Rangers Megaforce is based of has a villain who is a prince of an empire (Warz Gil) . So the tiny word of of dialogue got me to think what Vrak is or may become. My thought are that Vrak could be the  son to the main villain of Gokaiger (Ackdos Gil). However, there are many other factors to throw into the theory pile. Is Vrak going to be destroyed and his “brother” (Warz Gil) comes to earth after he is destroyed? Is Warz Gil Vrak’s true form since Vrak will be seen to take on different forms? Whatever the case may be, I believe that the writer did a good job putting in the dialogue and with that could connects the two different season of sentai into one series of Power Rangers. 

PRNS vs PRDT - Blow Me Away

A music video dedicated to the epic battle between the Ninja Rangers and the Dino Rangers.

Power Rangers Dino Thunder - Thunder Storm
Breaking Benjamin - Blow Me Away

Power Rangers Megaforce Villains Review (So Far)

Admiral Malkor  
I find Admiral Malkor to be a generic Main Villain. All he does is ask Vrak what he should do that week and gets all mad and flustered when things don't go his way. I wish that we could see him on Earth interacting with the rangers or at least explain why he wants to conqueror Earth.

Creepox
I found Creepox to be an interesting General. He showed that he was the tough muscle and I really enjoyed the clash in personalities between him and Vrak since he took the brute way in taking care of things while Vrak took care of things in a more intelligent way. I also enjoyed the rivalry between him and Troy. It kind of reminds me of the way Goldar and Zeltrax did in their seasons. 

Vrak
Vrak is easily my favorite villain this season. His plans seem to be the most effective when it comes to battling the rangers and he shows that he is a force to be reckoned with on the battlefield. I also like his mysterious backstory of him being alien royalty which will be a major plot for Super Megaforce. One thing I'd wish they'd explain is why he has a different form while he is on Earth. It ain't "Battle Armor" because there was one episode where he didn't assume that form while fighting. 

Bluefur and Bigs
Even though these two were only in one episode, I think they are really interesting characters. Their backstory of them being created from toxic waste a well written plot point. They show that they are also a force to be reckoned with showing their strength and nearly beating the rangers in their first confrontation. The only reason they left the battlefield was to recharge themselves in toxic waste. It's funny to me that these two have had more development in one episode than Malkor has had in nine episodes. One thing I would change is Bigs voice because it seems a little bit on the goofy side.

Top 5 Weirdest Power Rangers Monster Designs

5. Power Rangers Jungle Fury -  Hamhock

While Jungle Fury has some interesting animal monster motifs, this one does not fit that mold. Let's start with his weapon of choice, a string of sausage links. Ok? What did he do to himself or another pig to forge that weapon? Also, the black tight things covering his legs kind of creep me out. 

4. Power Rangers Dino Thunder - Ka-Ching

There is no surprise that this monster was used as in the sentai parody episode of power rangers. This monster just felt like an odd combination of stuff. A bear, mushroom, and ATM combo? Also, this monster just felt like it was too busy and his master plan of making people greedy with the power of multi-colored wigs? Lame!

3. Power Ranger SPD - Bugglesworth 

I think that the only reason for Mora creating monsters through drawing was to solely explain the design for this certain monster. The first time I saw this monster, I had no idea what he was suppose to be based after. He had a small bird-like head, octopus tentacles, and Mora called him a ladybug. Overall, even though this monster was pretty weird, I did enjoy the two-parter he was apart of. 

2. Power Rangers Turbo - Mouthpiece

Out of all the creepy and weird monster designs in Turbo, this one takes the cake. First, let's talk about the design. Parking meter ear, pig face, and a party hat. Random much? Also, his plan was a bit of a corny one, make Justin constantly lie? UGH!

 

1. Power Ranger RPM - Balloon Bot

Even though this monster was used for a ten second zord fight, the design alone will stay in you mind and make you asks the question, WHY? I know that Go-onger had crazy monster designs but there were other monsters they could've used for a ten second zord fight. I was not surprised to see that General Crunch created this monster and his goofiness shows in this monster design.

Top 5 Weirdest Power Rangers Episode

5. Power Rangers Dino Thunder - It's a Mad Mad Mackerel

For a season that took itself seriously for the most part, this episode in particular broke that mold. The main plot of this episode is that Kira get's an internship at the local TV station and works on a television show called  The Funky Fisherman Show. The episode goes on with showing the cast of  the show starting with The Funky Fisherman who pretty much has an ego the size of his boots and Marty The Mackerel who takes to staying in character way too seriously. The plot ensues with Marty turning into the monster-of-the-week and Funky getting stuck in a tv monitor. Overall, even though this episode is a bit on the goofy side and Dino Thunder tended to stay away from that, (after the season before which was 90 percent camp)  I really enjoyed this episode. It's kind of a guilty pleasure of mine. 

 










4. Power Rangers Zeo - Another Song and Dance

An episode that was more annoying than weird. Another Song and Dance has Tommy and Tanya fall under a spell by Machina (which is kind of weird considering The Machine Empire tended to use technology over magic) that causes them both to sing every word that comes out of their mouths. To top that off, the monster-of-the-week while in the giant fight causes the Zord to start dancing uncontrollably. I'll admit that the fight scenes between the rangers and Gasket and Archerina were really cool but the non-stop singing between these two will give you a headache. 

 3. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - Rocky Just Wants to Have Fun

A weird episode on all accounts. Lord Zedd's master plan in this episode is to make Rocky addicted to having fun. Continuing this plot, we get a monster created from the game that made Rocky a game addict and turns all the Rangers into Pachinko balls. Not counting the epicness of seeing Serpentara in action (even though it is stock footage from The Power Transfer) this episode goes down as one of the cheesiest episodes in MMPR. 
  

 2. Power Rangers Ninja Storm - Pork Chopped 

Speaking of cheese, let's talk about Power Rangers Ninja Storm. This episode plot centers around Tori using her ninja powers for personal gain (which is a big no-no in the Power Rangers Rulebook) to go from a movie date with Blake to one of Shane's hundred Skateboard Competitions (seriously he's in one like every other episode). Go to General Trayf (yes this monster is a General) who traps Blake and Hunter in a tub of popcorn. After they use their thunder ninja powers to escape their tub prison, we get to see a Kelzak fight with the two covered in Artificial Butter Flavoring. Overall, As I may think that Ninja Storm could be a bit on the campy side, this episode takes that campiness to another level. However, there is another episode on this list that take campiness to a whole new level. 

1. Power Rangers Turbo - Trouble by the Slice

Behold, the Power Rangers episode that takes a corny sentai plot and takes it to a whole new level. This episode starts off with Divatox losing her memory and ends up working at a Pizza Parlor (a foreshadow to Jungle Fury perhap? There's even a Fran look-alike). Eventually Divatox regains her memory(after some slapsticky moments between her and the other villains) and sends Mad Mike the Pizza Monster to battle the rangers. Mad Mike does what no other monster has done before him has done, COOK THE RANGERS INTO A GIANT PIZZA. Seriously? There's even a moment where Mad Mike uses pizza's to turn Storm Blaster and Lightning Cruiser evil. Overall, as much as this episode is as cheezy (no pun intended) as a power rangers episode could be, I can't hate it. It's kind of an episode that is so bad that it's good in some sort of way. 

                                                         Honorable Mentions

1.Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - Rita's Pita

2.Power Rangers In Space - Shell Shocked 

3. Power Rangers Time Force Movie Madness

Trent Mercer - Monster Music Video

With the powers of the evil White Dino Gem, Trent Mercer became a prisoner in his own body and slowly became a monster.

Power Rangers Dino Thunder
Skillet-Monster

Power Rangers Critiques: Team Power Ups

 

Lights of Orion Armor
The first team power up used by the Galaxy Rangers. I thought this power up was cool and simplistic and I like that the golden cuffs on the the tops of the gloves and boot. I liked the claw arms but I did not the add-on to the Quasar Sabers. It looked really jagged and unsymmetrical to me. 

Overall Score 3/5

Super Dino Mode
The second team power up used by the Dino Rangers. I really like this power up. It heightens the scale markings and it gives the rangers more brute strength and stamina over a powerful weapons. It also show that a power up could be useful without having fancy weaponry.

Overall Score 5/5

Swat Mode
The third team power up used by the SPD Rangers. I thought this power up was cool and I liked that the rangers had to endure special training to use it. I thought the SWAT Mode fit really well with the Police Theme of the season however, with this power up hand-to-hand combat fight became less and less common and I thought the rangers became a bit lazy when they just started blasting things to finish a fight.

Overall Score 4/5

Legend Warrior
The fourth team power up used by the Mystic Rangers. I liked the shoulder padding and the Lion Staff but I could do without the rotary phone function I kind of felt that the rangers kind of got these in a bit of a lazily way. I just wished that they got this in a way that showed that their skills were evolving and so were their powers. 

Overall Score 3/5

Jungle Master Mode
The fifth team power up used by the Jungle Fury Rangers. I really thought the suit design showed that they were of a higher skill. However, I did not think the way they acquired the power up was a bit lack luster. I just wish that they had to show their skills to their Masters instead of just fighting their fears.

Overall Score 4/5

Super Samurai Mode
The sixth and most recent of the team power ups used by the Samurai Rangers. While they did not use this as a team power up per-say,  I'll still count it as such. I thought the back story on the power up was cool but it kind of dragged (like everything else in Samurai). Also, the power up didn't really show that it was a power up, it was just a fancy white vest.

Overall Score 2/5

Power Rangers Season Ratings

Here are my rating for every season of Power Rangers (so far) from 1 to 5.
MMPR1 - 3/5
MMPR2 - 4/5
MMPR3 - 5/5
MMAR - 3/5
Zeo - 5/5
Turbo - 3/5
In Space 5/5
Lost Galaxy - 4/5
Lightspeed Rescue 3/5
Time Force - 4/5
Wild Force - 2/5
Ninja Storm - 4/5
Dino Thunder 5/5
SPD - 4/5
Mystic Force - 2/5
Operation Overdrive - 1/5
Jungle Fury (1st half) - 2/5
Jungle Fury (2nd half) - 3/5
RPM - 5/5
Samurai 2/5
Megaforce - 3/5 (To change as season progresses)

Critiques and Changes: Power Rangers Jungle Fury

Critiques
So with my reviewing of Mystic Force done, I decided to rewatch Power Rangers Jungle Fury. Overall, I think that Jungle Fury is a pretty good season. Don't get me wrong, the first few episodes are terrible but as the series progressed, I thought the season was getting pretty good especially during the time Grizzaka came in and RJ became the Wolf Ranger. I think this was due to the face that this was due to the 2008 Writers Strike and new writers came in to write for the series. Rumors circulated that previous writer of the franchise Judd Lynn came in under an alias to write for the series which show cause the writing was a big improvement.

Changes
Overall, I think Jungle Fury concepts and story is a great one but it has much that could be improved upon.

Masters
One thing that should have been more integral to the plot was the Beast Masters. Most of the masters were only seen in their introduction episode and the final episode. I think that if they didn't want to spend money on hiring actors to be on the set for a large amount of episodes, they should have used the Animal Form suit used in the final episode. To explain why the Masters looked liked this, they could have said something under the lines of they were changed into these forms while trying to seal away Dai Shi during the first Beast War. 

The Overlords
Another group of masters that I felt were undeveloped were the Overlords. I liked that these three were teaching Jarrod to further his potential but they kind of felt underused. After Grizzaka came in, Carnisoar and Jellica were pretty much turn into yes men to Grizzaka. I think it would have been an interesting concept to use the Overlords fight alongside or accompany certain Rinshi Beasts that fall under their element.

Jarrod/Dai Shi Relationship
One things that seemed confusing to me was the who Jarrod./Dai Shi concept. Was Jarrod possessed by Dai Shi or was he influenced by him? If he was so strong, why did he need to Overlords to train him? I think a better concept to the character would be was to have Dai Shi become tempted to lead his army as a figurehead like Gruumm in SPD and have him collect fear for him so that he could grow stronger. When Grizzaka comes in and the Overlord turn on him, it could be interpreted that the Overlords want to be the one to lead Dai Shi's army.

Spirit Rangers
A really great concept Jungle Fury had but wasn't executed to a better extent was the creation of the Spirit Rangers. I think these three should have been students to the three masters that go with the certain animal spirit. If they wanted to make them evil, they could've had the same plot where the three masters get captured but change it to them getting forced to fight for the Dai Shi Clan.

Conclusion
I think Jungle Fury is an adequate season with the first half being "meh" and the second half being "awesome". However, there are things that could have been improved upon but hey, at least all the rangers get development unlike Mystic Force where only the Red Rangers gets focus. 

Power Rangers Megaforce Episode 9 - Prince Takes Knight Review

Now this is how you write a Power Rangers Episode!

I liked that we finally have Troy tell the team that he is having those dream (however he doesn’t tell them about the other rangers involved). I like seeing newly filmed footage of the interior of the Warstar Spaceship and Vrak in both his forms. Vrak had a compitant plan and the monster was smart with his plan of draining electricity to increase his power. I really liked seeing the rangers in the Command Center two episodes in a row and Tensou and Gosei actually doing something to help. The unmorphed fight scenes was really cool even though it was a bit lacking. 

Now for the things I found a bit confusing. The monster (Psychotick), was he apart of the Toxic Beast or the Warstar cause I know he belongs to the Yuumajuu in Goseiger. If they have a set built for the Warstar spacship (which in my opinion looks a lot nicer than the Japanese footage) why don’t they make new footage with Bluefur and Bigs in it. Also, where were Bluefur and Bigs in this episode? I think that they could’ve helped a great deal.
 
Overall I give this episode a 5/5, I really liked this episode. There were little to no one-liners during fight scenes and when there were some, they didn’t make me want to rip my hair out. To no surprise to anyone, this episode was co-written David McDermott who wrote He Blasted Me With Science to which in my opinion was the best written episode so far in the season before this one. Saban needs to make this guy head writer cause his episodes are well-written and makes power rangers feel like a show that takes itself seriously.

Critiques and Changes: Power Rangers Mystic Force

                                                                        
Critiques
For the past couples of days, I've been re-watching Power Rangers Mystic Force and out of the 32 episodes of the season, I only found a handful of the episodes enjoyable. 

Nick-centric
I'm not saying I completely hated the season, I just found that this season had a lot of flaws. For one, the only ranger to have focus is Nick, The Red Ranger. I know that Power Rangers is a series that gives a lot of focus to the Red Ranger but my gosh he had a lot of focus. The first seven episodes of the season had the main focus on Nick. Even the episodes that look like they're going to focus on another ranger ended up turning into a Nick focus episode. Let's take the episode Code Busters for example. The episode starts with Vida, The Pink Ranger and Chip, The Yellow Ranger getting character development and halfway through the episode, Nick becomes the main focus. It wouldn't be bad if Nick was an interesting character to focus on but he was a really boring character. I think the first episode of the season that I actually liked was Strangers Within which was the first episode that had the focus on two other rangers.

Minority Rules
Another aspect of the season that I didn't like for this season was the large cast of comedic relief characters. In this season, we have FIVE comedic relief characters which are Clare, Phineas, Jenji,Toby, and Leelee. I wouldn't have a problem with this if the rangers were well developed but this season has the comedic relief characters getting more development than the rangers. I just felt that Bruce Kalish and co. wanted to write a mythical fantasy show and they used Power Rangers to fulfill their wishes.

Changes
I really like the premise for Mystic Force but the focus isn't on the rangers, they're on the side characters . If I was in charge of this season, I would have done a complete overhaul and given the characters a greater sense of development.

Mystic Lineage
For one, the Mystic Warriors were an interesting concept in the first episode that should have been executed more to tie the story together. I would have made all the rangers be offspring to the Mystic Warriors and were sent to the Human Realm like Nick was. Even Clare was connected to the great war being The Gatekeeper's daughter. It would've made them connected to the past war and made it easier to develop the story and the characters. A good plot device I would have put in the show would be the rangers trying to live up to their parents lineage.

Ancient Titans
Also, the "Ancient Titans" would have been a stronger concept within the show. They would have been the teachers to the Mystic Warrior instead of Snow Prince which didn't really make that much sense. They would have also been the one's that gave the rangers their Legend Warrior Powers. 

Character Connecton
Another aspects that I would have added was a connection between the characters. I would've kept the situation between Nick and Koragg but would've made it more interesting. Nick would be under the influence that Koragg was the one who defeated Lianbow in the great war and the reason why Nick fights Koragg constantly is to avenge his fathers defeat but in reality, Koragg was Nick's father.

Vida and Necrolai
In the episode "Stranger Within" Necrolai turns Vida into a vampire. I would have given Necrolai a backstory where she had a fierce rivalry with Pink Mystic Warrior and in present day, she would've had one with Vida as well. 

Daggeron and Calindor
An aspect of the show I would've pushed further would be the backstory between Daggeron and Calindor. I would've made Daggeron and Calindor brothers. Calindor would've been tempted to the dark side because Daggeron was the better fighter and was more revered by the creatures of the forest so he chooses the side of evil to get from under his brother shadow.

 Daggeron and Madison
We all know that Madison had the least amount of character development out of all the rangers. Since the sentai footage had a lot of interaction between Blue Mystic Ranger and Solaris Knight, I would have made Daggeron Madison's father. It would make sense to do this with all the interaction between the characters in the Sentai footage and Madison running to Daggeron frantically in Mystic Fate Part II would make more sense. I would also not make Vida and Madison sisters cause those two being siblings didn't really do anything to further the plot.
 

                                                                

 Conclusion 
To conclude, I think Mystic Force was an average season but it had many plot holes. I think if the writers wrote the rangers in greater depth, Mystic Force could've had great potential and would be more respected in my eyes and the rest of the fandoms eyes.