Power Rangers

[Chris3123]

Power Rangers Super Ninja Steel is getting an 8pm/7pm timeslot on Nickelodeon FOR THE ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL on August 28th!!!
*snip*

Awesome! I knew they were going to do a special with some past rangers, but I wasn't expecting this many.

So, this begs the question. Why them? Do they all come on their own accord, or are they chosen (like Sentinel Knight chose the rangers in Once a Ranger)?

Also, two of them are from other universes (Gemma and Koda). I'm hoping for some kind of a decent explanation for why they are coming over, but the show hasn't always been good about that (Sentinel Knight went out of his way to bring a ranger from the future for no apparent reason, for example).

 

[Awesome Possum]

Anyone checking out Boom! Studios' Shattered Grid comics? Overall, I find their books run cold and warm but sh***'s really hitting the fan with the latest issue...

The comic has been great. I'm really interested to see where it goes after this arc is over.

 

[Samurai8472]

Lupinranger VS Patoranger episode 25

https://www.mp4upload.com/f1973h5mf2mv

Pretty good episode. The episode also confirms how to open a gold safe - two safecrackers are needed because it has a 6-digit code. Seeing both teams cooperate was fun, and my favorite moment was easily when Goodie ousted Keiichiro from the main cockpit and subbed in Tsukasa instead.

Sentai's started to try out Motion Capture work now too. I'd noticed Kamen Rider had done it a bit with Build, but these Mecha fights have been making it very apparent with LuPat. It's obviously still in trial phases given how rarely its used, but I appreciate the advancements in their technology.

This week's Lupin Collection is the Liveman brace

So Dogranio now has to rethink his strategy of a future successor since it's looking likely there won't be.

Kamen Rider Build episode 41

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Spoiler: Build

Kamen Rider Build

Episode 41
Gentoku's fashion sense continues to be hideous, and the main cast continues to have a great chemistry with each other. The plot twists keep coming.

I love how it was a clip show that still advanced the story and an episode that means something.

Also just the fact that they explained why some of the best matches are just so weird, and just the idea behind Best Matches in general. Kudos for world building...Build.

Episode 42
The road to foreshadowing the movie continues with the appearance of the Silver Dragon bottle this week. The action continues to be impressive, and of course Sento's dad is a villain. Rider's been consistent with that over the past few years - dad's almost always got something up his sleeve. Now to see how Sento deals with it.

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I think part of the reason Another Build entered the picture was to keep Sento's old suits in rotation. If he's mostly using Genius (and occasionally RR/TT) these days, everything else falls by the wayside. Enter dad. Of course, it also served to raise the stakes and introduce the Gold Rabbit bottle to get the other half of the movie form ready. Build continues to be really good with what it's doing.

Build is currently on episode 46. It's taking a break this week. Sentai is not taking the week off

 

[Christopher]

I loved seeing both Sentai working together. Of course it would be Tsukasa who proposed it -- Keiichiro is too fanatical in his hatred of crime, while Tsukasa's more of a pragmatist and strategist. It's also nice that they needed to devise a strategy to hold Raimon and get to his safe, rather than the usual practice of just throwing more and more brute force at a problem.

Kairi: "Don't touch other people's things." Umm, aren't you a professional thief?

The Build videos aren't coming through yet.

 

[Samurai8472]

Oh. It should be working now. Both Build and Lupinranger summer movies will debut tomorrow.

Cross Z Build- Banjou and Sento's bottles together

Lupin Tricolor

 

[Christopher]

Also just the fact that they explained why some of the best matches are just so weird, and just the idea behind Best Matches in general. Kudos for world building...Build.

Yeah... The explanation for why the "elements" are random Earth objects and animals almost made sense, although it doesn't make the costume designs any less silly.

In any case, I've really come to appreciate Takada Kaho, the actress who plays Misora. She's really good at poignant, dramatic acting.

Speaking of Misora, when the news claimed the Riders had turned against the government, I was thinking a Mii-tan broadcast could help spread the truth. Instead, we got a joke about a Mii-tan body pillow, which is just creepy.

I think part of the reason Another Build entered the picture was to keep Sento's old suits in rotation.

Makes sense.

Build is currently on episode 46. It's taking a break this week.

So I guess you won't be continuing the 3-per-week pace much longer. The KR wiki says there are 49 episodes in all, so we're nearing the end.

 

[Samurai8472]

Kamen Rider Zi-O cast revealed with synopsis and character breakdown

http://tokusatsunetwork.com/2018/08/kamen-rider-zi-o-character-descriptions-revealed/

New promo video, this time via Bandai's YT. It begins with a brief intro to the old Riders, then shows parts of the main trailer, but also features a bunch more new footage too.

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Another trailer

https://twitter.com/ryo_kr91020/status/1026715191927431168

The monsters of the week look like twisted versions of the previous heisei riders. The show has alot of potential with the antagonists aiming for their own Demon king and the main heroine of the season being from the future.

It also looks like Build and Ex-Aid's cast do a little passing of the torch. It could be more than passing of the torch which would be cool to see some of the Build cast stick around.

 

[Christopher]

The idea of a main character who wants to be a king doesn't appeal to me, but if the idea is that he's a flawed and potentially villainous character that the other leads need to guide onto a better path, that could work.

I'm pretty confused about the timelines here. It looks like Zi-O is able to collect and adapt the powers of previous Heisei-era Kamen Riders, perhaps by going back in time and interacting with them. But Build explicitly exists in an alternate universe from previous Riders. So can he cross timelines as well as times?

 

[Samurai8472]

I'm pretty confused about the timelines here. It looks like Zi-O is able to collect and adapt the powers of previous Heisei-era Kamen Riders, perhaps by going back in time and interacting with them. But Build explicitly exists in an alternate universe from previous Riders. So can he cross timelines as well as times?

I heard there's a ramification from Sento's actions in the next few episodes of Build that will answer that.

The idea of a main character who wants to be a king doesn't appeal to me, but if the idea is that he's a flawed and potentially villainous character that the other leads need to guide onto a better path, that could work.

There's that whole "rebelling from your destined path to do what you want to" angle

The future says Sougo will be the demon king but he'll strive to correct/ rebel against it/grab on to his own future.

We also have the two villains who want their own king set up for the future

 

[Christopher]

I heard there's a ramification from Sento's actions in the next few episodes of Build that will answer that.

Uh-oh. I hope that doesn't mean

Spoiler

he'll change history so that the Pandora's Box disaster never happened. I hate that kind of resolution.

There's that whole "rebelling from your destined path to do what you want to" angle

The future says Sougo will be the demon king but he'll strive to correct/ rebel against it/grab on to his own future.

But the thing is, he still wants to be a "good king" instead of an evil king. That's still a hunger for personal power and dominion over others, and that's a bad thing regardless of what you imagine doing with that power. I don't think any kind of royalty is good, unless they're purely a figurehead in a democratic state, and even then they're still just a bunch of rich elitists.

 

[Kelthaz]

We're actually getting a sequel to the 2017 Power Rangers film.

https://screenrant.com/power-rangers-hasbro-movie-sequel-development/

 

[Christopher]

I dunno... What the press release actually says is "a new Power Rangers movie as a follow-up to the 2017 release." Reporters seem to be jumping to the conclusion that "follow-up" means "direct sequel," but that's reading a lot into a single word. The press release is specifically pertaining to licensing plans, so it's focused more on business than storytelling or continuity. They might just mean "follow-up" in the sense of keeping the brand going as a movie property, which doesn't necessarily require keeping the same continuity (see the Batman and Spider-Man film franchises). Indeed, the original two Power Rangers feature films were in different continuities -- the first was an alternate version of the storyline that subsequently opened the third season of the TV series, while the second was in the TV continuity and was essentially the pilot for Power Rangers Turbo.

And of course, the PR/Sentai franchise has always had a loose approach to continuity anyway, with different seasons starting over with new casts and storylines that may or may not cross over with previous seasons. So a new movie could feature a new cast and characters and still be a loose continuation. There are many possibilities.

 

[DigificWriter]

^ I think you're being a little too loose in your interpretation of the phrase "follow-up", personally, but we'll see.

 

[Christopher]

^ I think you're being a little too loose in your interpretation of the phrase "follow-up", personally, but we'll see.

I'm just saying it's best to be cautious and avoid getting too excited over a single word. It's always smarter to wait for more information than to rush to an assumption of certainty.

 

[JD]

We're actually getting a sequel to the 2017 Power Rangers film.

https://screenrant.com/power-rangers-hasbro-movie-sequel-development/

Wow, that is cary timing, I just watched the 2017 movie on Amazon Prime this morning.
I actually really enjoyed the movie, I haven't seen the show since I was a kid so I can't judge it as a PR movie, but approaching it as a sci-fi/superhero movie, I liked it. I do have a feeling it was very different from the show, I can't really see the show having jokes about jerking off bulls, or a character arc involving sexting.
I thought they did a goof job of making the Rangers flawed, but still likeable, and the actors all did a great job. Elizabeth Bans was a lot of fun, I'm surprised there was any scenery left the way she was chewing it, but that kind of performance for a role like this. Bryan Cranston and Bill Hader were also both good, I was a bit surprised they gave Zordon the whole ulterior motive for helping the Rangers, but him giving up him giving up his one chance to come back in order to bring back Billy instead was a nice redeeming moment.
It took a bit longer to get the the action than I expected, but it was nice to get so much focus on character development, and once we got to the action I liked it.
After this I would love to see Dean Israelite take on a MCU or Worlds of DC movie.

I dunno... What the press release actually says is "a new Power Rangers movie as a follow-up to the 2017 release." Reporters seem to be jumping to the conclusion that "follow-up" means "direct sequel," but that's reading a lot into a single word. The press release is specifically pertaining to licensing plans, so it's focused more on business than storytelling or continuity. They might just mean "follow-up" in the sense of keeping the brand going as a movie property, which doesn't necessarily require keeping the same continuity (see the Batman and Spider-Man film franchises). Indeed, the original two Power Rangers feature films were in different continuities -- the first was an alternate version of the storyline that subsequently opened the third season of the TV series, while the second was in the TV continuity and was essentially the pilot for Power Rangers Turbo.

And of course, the PR/Sentai franchise has always had a loose approach to continuity anyway, with different seasons starting over with new casts and storylines that may or may not cross over with previous seasons. So a new movie could feature a new cast and characters and still be a loose continuation. There are many possibilities.

I have a feeling if it was going to be a reboot they probably would have said so somewhere in the article and probably would have tried to distance it from the '17 movie, rather than calling it a follow up, and probably wouldn't actually include a 2 in the title.

 

[Christopher]

I actually really enjoyed the movie, I haven't seen the show since I was a kid so I can't judge it as a PR movie, but approaching it as a sci-fi/superhero movie, I liked it.

I thought it was imperfect but had a good character story at the heart of it. I liked its focus on the formation of an unlikely friendship among such different people, all of them accepting each other and drawing strength from the bond they formed. But the characters are so different from the MMPR characters that it seemed arbitrary to reuse the same character names. They could've just given the characters different names and it would've worked as just another Ranger team like all the others on TV. I know, I know, I'm usually the one saying it isn't wrong to reinterpret established characters, but bringing in new characters and teams is such an integral part of the Sentai/Rangers franchise that it seems odd to me to try to recreate a decades-old team instead of just adding another new one.

I have a feeling if it was going to be a reboot they probably would have said so somewhere in the article and probably would have tried to distance it from the '17 movie, rather than calling it a follow up, and probably wouldn't actually include a 2 in the title.

Except that what the statement actually says is that Hasbro "will work with a film studio to develop a new Power Rangers movie." Which implies that they haven't even picked a studio yet, let alone actually started developing the movie. They can't say anything definite about the movie because they don't know anything yet. The original press release is not specifically about a movie -- it's about Hasbro's overall licensing plan for the Power Rangers property that it's just acquired and its intention to maintain a smooth transition of ownership from Saban, with the movie just being one facet of that. This is not an entertainment news announcement, it's a business news announcement probably aimed at shareholders, to assure them that the intellectual property will continue churning out merchandise on a reliable schedule.

 

[JD]

Oh, now I see what you were talking about there. That definitely is a lot more vague than the Screen Rant article made it sound.

 

[Christopher]

Oh, now I see what you were talking about there. That definitely is a lot more vague than the Screen Rant article made it sound.

Which is why it's so important to read the news defensively. Website journalism tends to be incredibly sloppy and reckless with the facts, with hardly any journalistic standards and no editorial oversight to speak of. And a lot of it is about spinning and exaggerating things to make them sound like bigger deals than they actually are. It's always important to follow the links to the original source and read what it actually says, instead of what the clickbait headlines claim it says.

 

[Kelthaz]

I'll confess that I didn't read the original press release. It is vague on what Hasbro has planned for the future of Power Rangers in film.

 

[Samurai8472]

When it says "Follow up to the 2017 movie" I just interpret it as "The next movie after the 2017 movie" Nothing about it sounds like "The next movie will be a sequel to the 2017 movie"