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Because I am really curious I watched the penultimate episode of SMF, having only seen clips so far. That was just stupid, especially near the end. The silver ranger left, but they had Gozyujin footage to use so it's just like "  well the Q-Rex is sitll here, lucky us."
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Nov 23, 2014 16:50
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Poison Mushroom posted:Nobody likes SMF. Its annoying since its pretty much Power Rangers: Wasted Potential. Occasionally, they seem to have some sense of what they could do with it, and then... then they don't bring back more than two rangers prior to the finale, they don't do anything with Gosei as his own character, they throw in pointless sentai footage whilst going ~New Powers~, and in general there are too many questions raised which they don't even bother tackling. I think what sums it up most is how literally generic everything is. They're a 'Mega' force, or they have 'Ultra' powers, or 'Super Mega' powers. With other seasons, if the writing failed or was mediocre, you could at least fall back on a given team's particular style and aesthetic to direct how fights and storyline played out. Even in Mystic Force or Operation Overdrive or hell, Samurai its clear enough what those shows are supposed to be about, even if they screw it up in the long run. But what the hell is Megaforce about? Its not about celebrating the anniversary, because outside of perhaps three or four episodes in the whole damned thing, they don't. They just use the powers because they have the stock footage that says they can. 'Protecting the Earth'? Well, okay, but that's what every Power Rangers series has as part of the schtick. By trying to 'encapsulate' the franchise, Megaforce only manages not to stand out in it.
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Nov 23, 2014 17:14
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Astro Nut posted:Its annoying since its pretty much Power Rangers: Wasted Potential. Occasionally, they seem to have some sense of what they could do with it, and then... then they don't bring back more than two rangers prior to the finale, they don't do anything with Gosei as his own character, they throw in pointless sentai footage whilst going ~New Powers~, and in general there are too many questions raised which they don't even bother tackling. Thanks for hitting the nail dead on, Astro Nut. Megaforce feels like the most generic series since MMPR, but MMPR was the origin, so it made sense to be generic, this is just lazy. Even Dino Charge is going for the same electricity/dinosaurs theme Kyoryuger had, so we know they can do the theme.
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Nov 23, 2014 17:35
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I'm cautiously optimistic about Dino Charge, from what I've seen of the cast and who's in charge.
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Nov 23, 2014 17:41
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Poison Mushroom posted:I'm cautiously optimistic about Dino Charge, from what I've seen of the cast and who's in charge. Funny you mention that: There's a trailer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebu9oPWZ7WE Kinda annoyed they're still using 'Its morphing time!', but aside of that... Holy crap original effects shot. Original villain. Dammit I don't want to be betrayed again.
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Nov 23, 2014 18:15
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SMF would've been rad if they at least had decent music. Like, it's just really boring tunes throughout the fights and one video really pointed out how a simple OST change could liven things up enough to ignore the bad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU9zTUruqxk
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Nov 23, 2014 18:16
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Also just discovered - turns out, the new Blue is a fanboy. As in, he watched Kyoryuger and geeked out when he got Nossan's approval.
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Nov 23, 2014 18:25
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Astro Nut posted:Also just discovered - turns out, the new Blue is a fanboy. As in, he watched Kyoryuger and geeked out when he got Nossan's approval. Plus he's extremely handsome to boot. The full package  But yeah, I like how diverse this cast is so far, with only 2 white bread guys, which makes sense for the Ian counterpart.
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Nov 23, 2014 18:46
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Solaris Knight posted:Plus he's extremely handsome to boot. The full package
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Pink is really, really pretty 
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Astro Nut posted:Also just discovered - turns out, the new Blue is a fanboy. As in, he watched Kyoryuger and geeked out when he got Nossan's approval. Yoshi revealed he got to preview Ninninger. What makes me intrigued about this is that they're filming sentai in New Zealand. I don't think they've done that since Gekiranger.
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Poison Mushroom posted:We haven't had a non-white Red Ranger since like, RPM, have we? Two things 1) TECHNICALLY that's only been two seasons. Just, you know, Nick sucks a butt. 2) Megaforce Red is, I think, Hispanic? So if he counts or not I'm not sure.
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Nov 23, 2014 19:22
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Astro Nut posted:Funny you mention that: There's a trailer. That actually looks like it'll be decent, although the new villain looks kinda lame(also the whole Bounty Hunter being the Big Bad just feels ridiculous, like if they made Lobo the main villain for a Superman movie or something)
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Nov 23, 2014 22:43
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At least this guy can do the whole It's Morphin Time well from the sounds of it.
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Burkion posted:Two things IIRC he's either Hawaiian or Samoan.
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No he is a robot.
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Burkion posted:1) TECHNICALLY that's only been two seasons. Just, you know, Nick sucks a butt. Wait a second, I watched RPM on Netflix and it was at least three years ago. How many episodes did Samurai and Megaforce have?
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Nov 23, 2014 23:12
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SKY COQ posted:No he is a robot. Oh oops I read that as Dino Charge Red somehow. I'm pretty sure Megaforce Red came from a wonder bread factory.
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Nov 23, 2014 23:14
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Some Numbers posted:Wait a second, I watched RPM on Netflix and it was at least three years ago. Samurai and Megaforce got split into two seasons each, with each one getting a Super ______ as a second season. Samurai was just split down the middle, Super Megaforce adapted the next season of Sentai. If they hadn't skipped Go-Busters, we'd be super behind on adaptations.
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jivjov posted:Samurai and Megaforce got split into two seasons each, with each one getting a Super ______ as a second season. Samurai was just split down the middle, Super Megaforce adapted the next season of Sentai. If they hadn't skipped Go-Busters, we'd be super behind on adaptations. Yeah, I knew that, it's just mindboggling to think that despite squashing Goseiger and Gokaiger into one show, they're still that far behind. How long was the break between RPM and Samurai?
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Nov 23, 2014 23:19
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Some Numbers posted:Yeah, I knew that, it's just mindboggling to think that despite squashing Goseiger and Gokaiger into one show, they're still that far behind. How long was the break between RPM and Samurai? About 2 years.
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Nov 23, 2014 23:21
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Oh yeah, there was that remaster season of MMPR in there too. Not sure how we'll handle that for the podcast. I'm thinking a single episode discussing what's new and different, and maybe a redo of our Day of the Dumpster review with the perspective of being almost 20 seasons later.
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Nov 23, 2014 23:30
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jivjov posted:Oh yeah, there was that remaster season of MMPR in there too. Not sure how we'll handle that for the podcast. I'm thinking a single episode discussing what's new and different, and maybe a redo of our Day of the Dumpster review with the perspective of being almost 20 seasons later. Getting a little ahead of yourselves, aren't you?
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Some Numbers posted:Wait a second, I watched RPM on Netflix and it was at least three years ago. About 40 episodes each, just took so long cause Nickelodeon has a retarded policy where a show can't show more than 20 new episodes in a year(Ninja Turtles seems to be the exception to that rule), and it's crippling the franchise
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jivjov posted:Oh yeah, there was that remaster season of MMPR in there too. Not sure how we'll handle that for the podcast. I'm thinking a single episode discussing what's new and different, and maybe a redo of our Day of the Dumpster review with the perspective of being almost 20 seasons later. POW! ZAP! MORPHINOMINAL!
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SpazmasterX posted:POW! ZAP! MORPHINOMINAL! Well poo poo, now we don't have anything left to talk about in the episode. Thanks.
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Well that was something. They at least had a bunch of cameos which is nice. Also the Zeo team was missing Red I noticed. Not really sure how the RPM Rangers were there but I guess you can just say the Turbo Falconzord brought them over. I also must have missed how Tommy got the Green Ranger powers back somewhere.
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Twelve by Pies posted:Well that was something. They at least had a bunch of cameos which is nice. Also the Zeo team was missing Red I noticed. Not really sure how the RPM Rangers were there but I guess you can just say the Turbo Falconzord brought them over. There's a very good explanation to all of this, but unfortunately the final battle is about to start so you'll have to come back later.
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Did you guys do the unaired pilot already? I only listened from MMPR 3 because that's how far my podcast program would go back. Also, for the lovely toku show you always do between seasons do you think you'll do Los Luchadores at some point? It's... pretty insane.
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greatn posted:Did you guys do the unaired pilot already? I only listened from MMPR 3 because that's how far my podcast program would go back. Also, for the lovely toku show you always do between seasons do you think you'll do Los Luchadores at some point? It's... pretty insane. Well now that you've MENTIONED IT I guess we're going to have to. What do you think of the show so far? Anything we need to improve on? ...and I'm not sure if Jason and Wade ever did the pilot-I know I haven't. That'd be fun to go to some time.
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Nov 24, 2014 03:49
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Can I have a link to the podcast ?
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Nov 24, 2014 03:58
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Burkion posted:Well now that you've MENTIONED IT I guess we're going to have to. I like it. I think there was a big improvement when you moved to shorter summaries and then commentary, but I think in Turbo and In Space this has made some episodes overly short, and feel like a lot of details get skipped over sometimes. I feel like maybe if you could find a middle ground that would be great. I think the important episodes like premieres, finales, sixth ranger introductions, deaths, team ups, villain changeups and other noteworthy episodes could use the old format.
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Dirt Taco Scuba posted:Can I have a link to the podcast ? http://www.wadejobkar.com/ The main website, you can find us on Itunes under, I believe, Podcasters With Attitude. greatn posted:I like it. I think there was a big improvement when you moved to shorter summaries and then commentary, but I think in Turbo and In Space this has made some episodes overly short, and feel like a lot of details get skipped over sometimes. I feel like maybe if you could find a middle ground that would be great. I think the important episodes like premieres, finales, sixth ranger introductions, deaths, team ups, villain changeups and other noteworthy episodes could use the old format. Yeah I think so as well, as far as the improvement goes. I, at the very least, try to give the more plot important episodes more breathing room in my summaries of them, and will definitely be doing so as we get further into In Space- stick around for Adam's return for a dose of the old days, but I do agree some episodes tend to run shorter than they should. Mind you some episodes deserve to be that short. loving TJ baseball episode. Wade has been trying to get us into a good 12ish minute span, so hopefully we'll hit that sweet spot soon. Also unrelated to anything, but my God do I love Lord Zedd. Lord Zedd might be the best toku villain. He's certainly the most proactive. All of his schemes were geniusly convoluted and all of them involved either splitting up the Rangers, taking their powers, making Evil Rangers, or Time Travel In Some Form Or Fashion. Or all of the above. Only some times would a monster actually FACTOR in the plan. He was great.
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I'd prefer closer to fifteen or twenty usually, honestly. One thing that hardly gets a mention anymore are whatever is in the credit bloopers.
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greatn posted:I'd prefer closer to fifteen or twenty usually, honestly. I've been trying to convince Wade to let us run a little longer. I mean, some of the bullshit filler episodes don't warrant much discussion, but every so often we get a really solid one like Always a Chance and record for a solid 45 minutes. No idea what's gonna happen to that one in editing. As for credits bloopers...there really haven't been any good ones lately. Its just a line flub or two. And not even the hilarious double entendre type gaffes, just a guy derping a line a couple times.
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I think there's a good one coming up where TJ calls Ecliptor Darkliptor and then asks wait what's his name this episode? I have no idea how I remember that.
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greatn posted:I think there's a good one coming up where TJ calls Ecliptor Darkliptor and then asks wait what's his name this episode? I have no idea how I remember that. I do remember that one. Yeah, that's the only funny one in recent memory. Speaking of recent; watching Legendary Battle now, and I'll give them some credit, the handful of ranger cameos at the front are pretty cool. This is what the whole season needed to be. Just like Gokaiger was.
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Every year Japan sends Saban a box full of parts to their awesome show. Attached are a set of somewhat vague instructions that could be interpreted in a multitude of way to use the parts in the box to make something pretty good. Every year Saban fucks it up somehow.
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Burkion posted:Lord Zedd might be the best toku villain. Are you saying in any series, Japanese or American? Because Enter was a drat good villain.
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