Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Powewr Rangers Survey 28: Favorite Under a Spell.



I actually feel a little guilty. On the one hand I am kind of neglecting updating this thing, but on the other, I said I was trying to move away from Mighty Morphin' for these answers. Well I'm sorry, but I grew up with Mighty Morphin' so the majority of my answers are gonna come from there. As such, I nominate the immortal Green with Evil Saga, one of the most famous and popular PR stories of all time and the introduction for Tommy Oliver. Yeah, his personality was kind of bland, but for a show like this, that means very little. In the early years, anyway.

This was the first time we saw the Rangers really get their asses kicked, so you knew this was big from the start. I'm not quite sure if there were any hypnotised character eps before this one, but if not, this is the father of the whole PR trope.

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Power Rangers Survey 27: Favorite Morpher.


I can honestly say I have never really cared for the Morphers, so I'm gonna go with Mighty Morphin'.

Sunday, December 19, 2010

Mental Covers 13: The Split.


It's a sad and strange day when not even the same person can get along with each other any more. Even stranger when the person gets up and leaves while remaining in the building.

Back in the early days of development, Mental was actually two minds trapped in one body. While originally they would alternate on who was controlling the body, I eventually gave the sane personality the boot by having him mentally killed off via origin story. After rebooting it AGAIN, I decided to drop that idea altogethor.

You will notice that this is quite possibly where the quality in the covers begins to dramatically slip. There are still many covers to go, mind you.

Power Rangers Survey 26: Favorite Morph Call/Sequence.

One of the few I remember apart from the MM was the Lightspeed Rescue morph. Most people have complained that the LR suits look terrible and you know what? I disagree completely. Yeah, they look a little weird, but I think it works for them pretty well. But even moreso complained about is the Morph sequence, inwhich the Rangers are smothered by giant shields of goo which cover them in their suits.

Yes, it's weird, but it's a bit different to the oh so many flashing lights and the suits appearing on them. I have no problem with that, mind you.

Saturday, December 18, 2010

Power Rangers Survey 25: Favorire Uniforms.

Of course I'm going to instantly think back to the Mighty Morphing suits. Even without the fact that they were the first, they just have a sort of simplicity to them which states "We came first, bitches!"


However, if I had to choose something that wasn't out of nostalgia, I'm going to choose the Wild Force uniforms. Keep in mind that this is off the top of my head and chances are that there is probably another uniform I like a little more. And ironically, because they remind me a little of the Mighty Morphing days.

But the real reason? The shark suit. I love this suit and think it is awesome. Maybe it's because Sharks are cool, but this suit just sort of speaks to me. It heavily reminds me of Shark-Man, a comic series by Image.
In my opinion, it was actually pretty good, being based in what I think was the future where most of the world was covered in water, meaning that our titular hero was not stuck with the same reputation as Aquaman.
However, it used an extremely Uncanny Valley artstyle, in no way helped by the often disturbing images, and only seemed to last three issues. Don't ask me why, in fact by what I understand the series had at least one year between issue one and two. Strange.

Anyway, Sharks are cool.

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Power Rangers Survey 24: Favorite Zord.


Nothing will ever beat the classic Mighty Morphing Megazord. Maybe it's nostalgia, but this was one of few to actually do anything for me. For some reason, the multitude of following Zords seemed more like 'generic giant robots' and hardly interested me. Maybe this is because there were too many that didn't actually look like it was made from giant robot animals.

BTW, I saw an ep of Jungle Fury featuring a giant yellow Penguin Zord. Upon explaining my confusion for such a strange idea, random_fan gave an interesting rebuttle. Let me make this clear to you all, giant yellow penguin robots on skateboards are cool, but are in now way comparable to giant robot tyrannosaurus rex's emerging triumphantly from a volcano. This is science fact.

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Power Rangers Survey 23: Favorite Non-Earth Location.

Sorry for the wait, I've been busy and lazy.


The Moon. The Moon houses one of the most iconic moments of the series, namely, Rita emerging from her Dumpster alongside her gang of miscreant space monsters. As we all know, this scene was infamously shot in broad daylight so that it did as little as possible to resemble the moon, especially considering that later on in the series, nay, later on in the EPISODE, we see the moon surrounded by the pitch black darkness.

But of course we can't forget that the moon also housed Lord Zed's palace, and the Machine Empire's place. I'm sure there's more, but I can't remember.

Saturday, December 4, 2010

Power Rangers Survey 22: Favorite Earth Location.


Why none other than that glorious quarry where all those monster fights take place in so many seasons. Forget Angel Grove, the Command Centre, or The Moon, Power Rangers defining location is this Quarry. With all the monster fights, it can honestly be claimed to have brought any Ranger fan more happiness than any other.

Friday, December 3, 2010

Power Rangers Survey 21: Favorite HQ


I'm going with the Command Centre. Obviously because of nostalgia and all the usual stuff, but also because technically, it's two different HQs in one! Well, starting from Zeo anyway. It also has the honor of giving children nightmares after being destroyed twice by the villains, the second time being permenantly.

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Power Rangers Survey 20: Favorite Teamup.


Forever Red. Even with a hundred restrictions placed upon it by Disney and a few plotholes, FR still manages to be complete and utter proof that Power Rangers is badass. In one of the least popular seasons, no less. In fact, I find it ironic that Forever Red is so disliked and has two of the best team ups. Weird, eh?