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The remaining zords finally revealed
Morpher review
Morpher review
Those are some weird Zords.
Definitely taking more of the "Assault Vehicles" angle in this iteration. I like them, personally. Less giant robot dinosaurs than dinosaur themed heavy weapons. Tanks with style. Probably going to look really nice on screen. The toys suffer from a severe lack of paint apps.
I dunno, I kind of liked the weird blend of organic and technological in the original MMPR Zords. In Zyuranger, they were actually avatars of the gods of the ancient prehistoric human tribes that coexisted with "dinosaurs" (because apparently mastodons and sabertooth cats were dinosaurs, and humans lived back then too, and I know, I know). So not just technological and organic at the same time, but divine as well. In MMPR, they were just robot vehicles that sometimes acted like animals, but in Zyuranger, they actually spoke -- or they appeared collectively on the horizon and the voice of God emanated from them.
Not gods, god singular. Daizyujin (the megazord) was the protector god of the ancient tribes, shattered into parts during his battle with his evil counterpart. Dai Satan, I believe they called him, somewhat uncreatively. What Power Rangers calls the Ultrazord was the completed, restored form of Daizyujin.
And I agree. The mecha from Zyuranger is among my favorite in all of sentai. Maybe only second to Dairanger. But if they're going to do this movie as a fairly different adaptation of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers concept, I'm glad they're doing something as different with the zords as they are with the suits. I look forward to seeing their take on Zordon as well. In spite of myself, I'm actually intrigued by what they've shown us so far.
Is it just me or do those toys look awful? Not the design but just the construction, they look really cheap.
Dino Super Charge: "End of Extinction": Okay, what? So... the Rangers go back in time and basically prevent not only the entire series from ever taking place, but even prevent the extinction of the dinosaurs -- yet somehow history is essentially unchanged otherwise? And what does this mean for the rest of the franchise? Is this season going to be treated as an alternate universe, like RPM? (I note that it never had a crossover with any past Rangers.)
And is this the first time that the Rangers' big awesome plan to unite everyone on Earth in order to save it... backfired and ended up destroying the Earth? That is an epic fail right there. Even though they got a chance to undo it, it's still pretty darn embarrassing.
So anyway, it looks like there's still a Christmas special coming up in three weeks -- no doubt another lame clip show, and no doubt set before the finale. And then there's an unknown amount of time to wait for Ninja Steel to premiere. I kinda miss the days when the finale of one series would be followed promptly by the premiere of the next.
And is this the first time that the Rangers' big awesome plan to unite everyone on Earth in order to save it... backfired and ended up destroying the Earth? That is an epic fail right there. Even though they got a chance to undo it, it's still pretty darn embarrassing.
So anyway, it looks like there's still a Christmas special coming up in three weeks -- no doubt another lame clip show, and no doubt set before the finale. And then there's an unknown amount of time to wait for Ninja Steel to premiere. I kinda miss the days when the finale of one series would be followed promptly by the premiere of the next.
On PR's official FB page today, they put up a picture of the DT team. And one of the first comments was somebody pointing out, "The DT team doesn't exist anymore thanks to the DC finale".
An the PR page's admin replied, "Blame Barry Allen!"
it was foreshadowed this whole time
An the PR page's admin replied, "Blame Barry Allen!"
it was foreshadowed this whole time
Well, it's like I said before -- this season may have to be treated as an alternate timeline like RPM. It never had any crossovers with earlier Ranger teams, so it's easy to treat as separate.
RPM is an alternate dimension, not an alternate timeline.
As far as what "End of Extinction" does to the existing PR Canon, the descriptions I've heard of what happens lead me to believe that we're potentially looking at a Days of Future Past/Star Trek '09-style scenario where all future seasons of the show take place on a new altered timeline created by the events of EoE and Dino Charge, with everything else that happened pre-Dino Charge still having happened as a "precursor" to DC changing things.
As far as what "End of Extinction" does to the existing PR Canon, the descriptions I've heard of what happens lead me to believe that we're potentially looking at a Days of Future Past/Star Trek '09-style scenario where all future seasons of the show take place on a new altered timeline created by the events of EoE and Dino Charge, with everything else that happened pre-Dino Charge still having happened as a "precursor" to DC changing things.
A meaningless distinction. Science fiction has been using the various permutations of alternate/parallel universe/dimension/timeline/reality interchangeably for decades. There is no functional difference between them as fictional entities. It's like transporter vs. transmat vs. teleporter, different labels for the same thing. And obviously the RPM world is not a "dimension" in the sense of something like Goldar's Dark Dimension or the Netherworld/Sanzu River; it's just Earth with a different history than other versions of Earth. And that's exactly what an alternate timeline is, a world that's like ours except that events have taken a different path.
Indeed, it's actually a far more accurate label than "alternate dimension," which doesn't even really mean anything. A dimension is a single direction, like up/down or left-right. We use "dimension" as a shorthand for parallel universes because they would be parallel to our 3-dimensional world along a fourth or higher dimension we can't perceive, so that we'd have to move through that higher dimension in order to reach that parallel 3-space, but it's a misnomer to use "dimension" for the destination space itself.
That seems unlikely. So dinosaurs are still around in every season of Power Rangers from now on, even the ones that aren't dinosaur-themed? Given that they could barely afford to animate two or three sauropod necks in the closing scene, I doubt they'd be populating the world with dinosaurs regularly from now on.
Most likely they'll ignore things like they have in the past. Each season is a self contained season.
The only time things will be brought us is when the ranger's do a VS episode.
Sentai and Power Ranger's have done this in the past many times.
The events of Lost Galaxy didn't affect Lightspeed and Lightspeed didn't affect Time Force etc
The only time things will be brought us is when the ranger's do a VS episode.
Sentai and Power Ranger's have done this in the past many times.
The events of Lost Galaxy didn't affect Lightspeed and Lightspeed didn't affect Time Force etc
Of course, but those usually aren't that hard to treat as parts of the same universe. Lost Galaxy took place aboard a colony ship away from Earth, so it wouldn't be expected to have any impact on events back home. And most seasons end with the Rangers preventing the destruction or conquest of the Earth, so there's no long-term change to the status quo that would clash with a new season. Having non-avian dinosaurs still be alive in the present is a pretty massive change that's not as easy to just casually gloss over. Especially if you ever want to reference MMPR or Dino Thunder again.
Although there is something to be said for doing a deliberate continuity reboot. After all, the S.P.D. Academy should've been founded last year, followed by the open immigration of aliens to Earth in the years to follow. So arguably Dino (Super) Charge is already in a separate continuity from what came before, and everything subsequent may have to be as well.
Here's 2017 movie Alpha
Ai-yi-yi-yi-yi indeed! That is bizarre and kind of hideous... yet still a lot more suggestive of the original design than Rita is.
Holy crap.
It's definitely in keeping with the design aesthetic of the new Zords. Get rid of the bulbous eyes and it's really not a terrible design for Alpha.
It's definitely in keeping with the design aesthetic of the new Zords. Get rid of the bulbous eyes and it's really not a terrible design for Alpha.
A little bit yeah.Yeah, it's kind of creepy.
What's with the little belly? Reminds me of the robot Marvin from Hitchhikers Guide.