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I liked that Dimensions in Danger, rather than having people talk about how awesome Tommy is all the time, just had him do awesome stuff mostly uncommented on. That's the one part I didn't like about forever red, (well that and the toy commercial serpentera ending), everyone is in complete awe of Tommy but in that episode in particular he's not really doing anything anybody else isn't doing. Tommy does a lot more in dimensions in danger than he did in forever red, and had more screen time, but somehow didn't feel as over saturated. And also Holy poo poo that loving falcon zord. Never in a million years would I have thought that would happen. I missed the henshins in this episode but jeez from a storytelling economy standpoint they probably saved themselves like 5 minutes by not showing any.
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If they had spent the effort to redo all the old morph footage for how the actors looked at the time, that would have been neat. It's really incongruous on In Space when Adam abruptly gets a haircut for two seconds as he morphs.
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Watching the big fight again, while Tommy’s doing Tommy shenanigans and everyone pulls their blasters, I think to myself, “there’s no way every one of these suits has sidearms” and I pause the video and rewind it a couple times And there’s Trent, just kinda holding his Quill Sword backwards and kinda pew pewing lasers out of the pommel
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I'm sure abarekiller could do that if he really wanted to, I'll allow it.
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I Actually think that was something they did in Dino Thunder. I'm pretty sure he fired lasers from the 'eyes' on his dagger pen. Also yeah, it was really nice to not have people talk Tommy up, while also having Tommy totally live up to his legendary reputation. A lot better than the alternative of HE'S SO COOL when he does poo poo all
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Trent can totally do that with his sword. He can also create energy arrows.
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Yeah, he doesn’t do that in the Sentai, but with all the footage they had to film for the evil clone arc and burn off more footage of Abarekiller being a dick, they did that add that. I’m kind of surprised Trent is still popular, as they basically took a character better than Evil Tommy and boiled him down to not quite as fun. But the suit has always looked incredibly stylish and has one of the few non-black visors, so...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okWKUer8bhI&t=29s yep Drago Sword arrows check out
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The only real moment like that was right at the end Ninja Steel red before going into the portal basically turns to camera and says "Wow, what an epic adventure that was!" Come on dude, that wasn't necessary. But also wasn't particularly egregious. I
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Craptacular! posted:Yeah, he doesn’t do that in the Sentai, but with all the footage they had to film for the evil clone arc and burn off more footage of Abarekiller being a dick, they did that add that. I think they were picked mostly on availability and willingness, not popularity.
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I remember Gai doing the arrow attack as Abarekiller in the Abaranger episode of Gokaiger.
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A.I. Borgland Corp posted:The only real moment like that was right at the end Ninja Steel red before going into the portal basically turns to camera and says "Wow, what an epic adventure that was!" Come on dude, that wasn't necessary. But also wasn't particularly egregious. I Isn't "epic" basically Brody's catchphrase?
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Craptacular! posted:Read the Shattered Grid finale. It’s loaded with lots of nods to famous comic superheroes and other big events in those comics, it does feel very heavily focused on Tommy being more awesome than everyone, and you get this feeling of “he hosed up the entire franchise just to achieve THAT?” In a lot of ways, Drakkon’s end goal is pretty similar to some Sentai villains, and it’s not inappropriate. It’s just... wildly reverential to DC Comics in particular in how it gets there. One small neat thing that I didn't think I would ever say is I'd really like a one-shot at least of Lauren. It's easy to make me like, say, Jen. Lauren was trickier.
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https://twitter.com/PowerRangers/status/1034923655225135104?s=19 OMG if they were going to make Funko Pop monsters they sure as hell picked the perfect ones
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Nodosaur posted:why the heck is Pumpkin Rapper so popular? He's ridiculous Also watching those dino Thunder clips God I don't know when they made it so that ANY TIME they used their guns they had to yell FIRE or LASERS but I hate it. I love it but I hate it.
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How am I supposed to know those aren't lethal tracer bullets that can kill people instead of harmless lasers that just blow monsters up.
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A.I. Borgland Corp posted:How am I supposed to know those aren't lethal tracer bullets that can kill people instead of harmless lasers that just blow monsters up. It's just That supercut's action is SUCH a sharp contrast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7okO_n5ph4 With this Could you imagine how ridiculous Manga Defender would be if he called out LASERS while firing his laser shotgun at innocent civilians?
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Nodosaur posted:why the heck is Pumpkin Rapper so popular? Probably helps that Zedd used him a lot* *that's one of the more interesting things about Zedd, he's able to resurrect old monsters with minimal effort, and thus explains why he keeps reusing a small group of his monsters, he already knows their capabilities and thus it's easy to fit them into his plans
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A.I. Borgland Corp posted:https://twitter.com/PowerRangers/status/1034923655225135104?s=19 Pudgy Pig might be my first Funko Pop. drat that's nice. And the dead shark eyes work nicely.
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Nodosaur posted:Isn't "epic" basically Brody's catchphrase? It's not that far off from Takaharu's, if you think about it.
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Caphi posted:It's not that far off from Takaharu's, if you think about it. And they both deliver it just as well
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mateo360 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okWKUer8bhI&t=29s Right but in this he isn’t drawing the arrows he’s just pew pewing out the back
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Right but he’s just shooting lasers out of it, not speed drawing and stuff I guess I’ll concede
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David Fielding is on Twitter, I found out today. There's nothing particularly remarkable about his tweets, mostly YouTube and fan art for power rangers stuff but every time I see a tweet from him it gives me joy For example: Ron Wasserman rearranged his favorite MMPR song "We Need a Hero" for piano https://twitter.com/DavidJFielding/status/1034994792642560001?s=19 John Wick of Dogs fucked around with this message at 03:53 on Aug 30, 2018 |
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Sockser posted:Right but he’s just shooting lasers out of it, not speed drawing and stuff What some people aren't making clear is that, on a rare occasion, he did just shoot lasers like that. Like his big flashy move was drawing the arrows, but once or twice he just flipped the thing around and fired lasers out of it.
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 Today on Power Rangers, the episode you never knew you wanted.
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A.I. Borgland Corp posted:I liked that Dimensions in Danger, rather than having people talk about how awesome Tommy is all the time, just had him do awesome stuff mostly uncommented on. Oddly Forever Red felt more like a Jason episode to me than a Tommy episode.
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Lizard Wizard posted:
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Burkion posted:
That's probably the most annoying part of all the modern shows now that they dropped the slow mo wire-fu/ gratuitous explosions.
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So one interesting thing I noticed Green Ranger Tommy is consistently portrayed as his strongest Ranger power, across all of them. I guess it's because it's his first power and...probably most famous? But Fighting Spirit and Ninja Steel imply that it's his straight up best powers for hand to hand fighting.
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which is a clear retcon because each of his successive forms were clearly upgrades to his previous ones Zordon straight up called the White Ranger an even more powerful ranger, the Zeo Crystal was stated to be stronger than the power coins, and Dino Thunder Black destroyed giant monsters on his own.
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I personally think Zeo would be his strongest but he's basically using a facsimile of those now.
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Nodosaur posted:which is a clear retcon because each of his successive forms were clearly upgrades to his previous ones I mean, to be fair I'm not sure White Ranger Tommy was ever meant to actually be stronger- Zordon was more referring to the fact that it couldn't be taken away by evil powers like Green. (And it was stronger than Green was by the end due to how depleted the Green Ranger powers were) When the Tommy Clones duked it out, Green and White were pretty dead even, and the Dragonzord stomped the White Tiger Zord. Zeo Red absolutely should be his strongest powers though, but as Al pointed out, he's not drawing directly from the Zeo Crystal anymore so who knows
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Dragon might be the powers he has the most affinity for, really. Rita chose him because he somehow resonated with them. Then White Tiger was made just for him but as a way to keep him from evil. Given how his personality changed when he got it, White Tiger might have actually included some kind of mental deal. Both of his red powers, he kinda just... got, they're not particularly Tommy's in some fundamental way. Dino Black? I dunno. Maybe they were his first attempt at recreating Dragon.
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