I remember hearing once that the actors for Megaforce/Super Megaforce asked for more character development and were told "no one cares about the characters, they just want action."
I watched a video of their panel at Power Morphicon, and you could tell they wanted to do all the cool Gokaiger stuff....the Silver Ranger's actor ( yes, I even forgot the character's name....that's how bad MegaFarce was ) even explicitly mentioned being disappointed that he didn't get to be GokaiChristmas, and Jake's actor even did his best impression of Ikari Gai saying GokaiSilver to introduce him as he came in. By the end of the whole thing my biggest take away was "why couldn't they have even 1 thousandth of that personality in character?" ...2nd biggest was "they clearly loved Gokaiger & wanted to do all that fun stuff...they just earned my respect"
also, from what I've heard, one of megaforce's actors/actresses (can't remember if andrew gray or ciara hanna) looked at the dino charge cast and said "it seems like they're allowed to have more fun than what they allowed us" or something like that
newageBoundhippie the Neo Saban series all had awesome casts. The cast singlehandedly saved Ninja Steel for me and is also the reason I don’t really hate Super Megaforce as much as most people (as much as I hate that season)
I always felt bad for the Megaforce actors. I imagine it must have been really frustrating to not have anything substantial to work with for a character. Troy is a bad character but I feel it that the acting is bad because of inexperience meeting bad direction and nothing to actually do with the character.
A lot of the production team actually had a lot of cool ideas, but those ideas were all shot down by the producer in favor of just shoving in more fight scenes.
Well maybe they could repair that if Zyuohger being adapted (since there's Gokaiger team up on it) and have scripter from time force or dino thunder to do zyuohger adaptation script (Please bring back bruce kalish and jackie marchand). Making troy finally become captain marvellous instead captain horrendous
I feel one of the biggest problems with Megaforce is that the producers just wouldn't listen to anyone. They were so sure they were going to make the best anniversary season ever that they ignored the fact people actually kind of hated their ideas from the very beginning. I still remember Tzachor initially announcing Megaforce on Twitter and the backlash he got from the idea of, rather than giving both Goseiger and Gokaiger their own adaptations or just skipping Goseiger altogether, the idea of combining the two. People hated the idea from the start, especially those of us who knew how amazing Gokaiger was, but he just trucked on, minimizing and ignoring criticism and even saying, "I don't understand why everyone hates my ideas!" It turned out to be even worse than any of us could have imagined.
One of the problems with that is you can't really go wild. Gokaiger are clearly pirate-based team, and if you mix pirates and power rangers with Neosaban black-and-white morality you can't go anywhere but 'rogues to heroes' route, which is basically copypasting Gokaiger plot.
@@cjaypaz9842 You're missing a point I tried to make. Wild Force CAN go differently, rerardless of whether it did so or no (personally, it falls into 'meh' season category for me) because of the theme here. But you have pirates to work with. An entire 5 to 6 man team of pirates. Gokaiger works because Sentai characters can take darker turns and can be more morally gray, unlike most their ranger counterparts, whose negatives is usually either 'teamwork issues' or 'evil mind control' (basically why I despise Tommy in favor of Burai). So even if Neosaban would try to go pirates, they'd just end up as some fellas in NOT SPANDEX goody two-shoes heroes saving the world for the sake of saving the world, rather than it being a side effect of a way less noble goal, along the way to which Gokaigers turn into actual heroes saving the world. With Rangers, 'pirateness' will end up being the facade even a child won't buy.
As painful as it was reopening some of these wounds, I think that it's necessary to acknowledge the failures of the past to learn to do better in the future. Hopefully, Hasbro will take notes from these seasons.
Justin Riley I'm just afraid they're going to take the wrong notes. The BM theme is almost as generic as those of Neo Saban, and the first episode is pretty rough in terms of storytelling. The visuals are pretty good though, and match up well with the dental footage I've seen.
See, I actually liked that Disney tried so hard to pay homage to the source material - with some scenes being shot-for-shot - that there was that rumour of them being done for plagiarism by Toei :P Though it that's true, then I imagine that's why Jungle Fury ended up getting too far away from said sources.
The one thing I hate about bad seasons is there are actually good characters in them that are wasted. I would have loved to seen more out of Noah in Megaforce but nope cheap fan service instead
They should’ve done what they did with Samurai with Super Megaforce. I’d rather see the Gokaiger plot copied point for point than the abysmal Super Megaforce story
Hiromujin Not to mention a team of aliens who never even knew what rangers were, learning what it means to be a ranger from old fan favorites from each team would’ve been amazing
they should've honestly skipped shinkenjer because it was too Japanese to adapt cheaply, do goseiger instead of samurai and then do Megaforce with only gokaiger (and obviously get better writers during all of this)
Oh my god I wasn't crazy! Casey is such a good character he really does make even Super Megaforce tolerable! I thought I might just be biased as hell lol
I couldn’t agree more this was the worst most disappointing season of all time such a waste of potential the megaforce Rangers should have been a separate team from the pirate ranger and Troy played by a different actor should have been a space pirate like andros and they should have spent the season collecting and earning rangers keys
Thanks to the "Super" tag, we missed this: 2011: Samurai (the FULL adaptation) 2012: Angel Force: A proper GOSEIGER adaptation with a COHERENT storyline 2013: Pirate Armada: THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN THE ANNIVERSARY SEASON, even if they copied stuff like calling the red ranger Captain Marvelous (that name is cool) PEOPLE WOULD HAVE WATCHED IT
I still think that Samurai would have made a lot more sense if Jayden had been trained as the sixth ranger, but after Lauren's injury (while training Emily in the rewrite, combining some story threads) and Antonio's theft for the Gold morpher, he was promoted to Red Ranger. Instead of the 'are you the red ranger?' gag in the first episode, they were all expecting Lauren to show up - all accept for Emily - and they're all surprised when Jayden rides in on a white horse (the planned introduction for Gold Ranger Jayden). Due to his status as a 'sixth ranger in training', Jayden's brash attitude and skill set would have made a lot more sense, as he was being trained to a much higher level, with the expectation that he'd be jumping in when the Rangers required the additional power, and staying sidelined when they didn't (never escalating the fight). His development would have been to become a team player, but his occasional slips into lone-wolf status and Master Ji's obvious pride would have made more sense as well. . . . At least, from my perspective.
Samurai was the season that introduced me to super sentai, I loved Shinkenger and continued watching both versions. And I was furious when I found out what Megaforce and Super Megaforce could’ve been
@Shan Chaudhry Tzachor: "No! We must shove as much sentai footage as we can, even if it has sentai only ranger suits that weren't used, even the core five Dairanger suits!"
I like to call the Neo-Saban era the "great depression era" of Power Rangers, because yes we get angry at the era A LOT, but more then anything, ESPECIALLY with 'Super Megaforce' we're depressed and disappointed, because Saban basically took the greatest peak that Power Rangers was ever at thanks to Disney, took it back and just DESTROYED all the time and effort and TLC that Disney put into the franchise DESPITE budget issues and always at risk of being cancelled, and Saban gave us a DECADE of shallow characters, poor stories, boring villain's, lazy witting, poor acting just to name a few out of the grocery list of problems! THANK GOD Hasbro has started things right with 'Beast Morphers', a season that has just started but already has me hooked!
@Shan Chaudhry Dino Charge (Super Charged not witstanding) was fine but even it had its share of executive meddling in some parts. That I cannot let slide no matter how decent the season was.
When watching Super Megaforce I felt like they were mindlessly transforming into past rangers just to show off the suits again, not as an actual battle strategy. And I felt like that during the whole season
Poor Neo-Saban seasons... but I agree. :P And good point about whole Gia/Troy and Taylor/Cole situation. I would say that in both cases yellow should be the leader, all tho Cole was at least trying and Troy... well, he was doing his own thing, whatever it was.
How ironic it is that Operation Overdrive had a red ranger that was a robot that acted like a human, where as MegaForce had a red ranger who was a human who acted like a robot
One point that was missed especially with the Neo-Saban era was that long break period. Also Nickelodeon not really promoting the shows to the last minute.
Unlike most people I don't count the super seasons as a separate season since they're just the second half of the story. I do count Super Megaforce as a separate season because of the simple fact they change the suits and zords similar to the seasons of MMPR where the change of zords marked as a new season. I also use Sentai as an indicator of where a season starts and ends since Power Rangers was using footage from one season over two years. But the argument of one season versus two seasons is similar to the argument of if Lord of the Rings is one book or three.
Would definitely swap ninja steel and mega force, ninja steel wasn’t that bad. Nothing except super Megaforce was as bad as that. At least the robo Aiden arch brought more emotion than both megaforce seasons combined
Well one thing Neo Saban era did produce, was some desent openning themes for the show, thou I will grant that Samuari openning is just a retool of the original Mighty Morphin theme!
I felt that some characters such as Brody's dad Dane could have been invested into a lot better. He could have served as a second mentor for the Rangers, not to give them moral support or advice, but new fighting techniques to take down Madam Odius and her monster henchmen.
Super megaforce should've been a separate season as it made no sense to have pirate based powers be a power up to the initial megaforce powers as there was no connection between the two. Plus, it makes Orion a little confusing as well because he was both the 6th ranger but only when they went into their super mega mode or whatever. They should've just had the gosieger suits for one series, with it ending with the rangers losing their powers just before the armada came to earth which could've led into the next season where Gosei and Tensou provide the rangers with their new pirate based powers that also gave them access to every ranger team before them (while omitting suits that were sentai only) which would've made Orion's inclusion feel less awkward. Also, I agree about the acting and lack of development for the rangers and, especially, about paying tribute to power rangers past as a lot of the episodes in super megaforce felt like they were paying tribute to the sentai rather than power ranger history.
Disney should get the Power Rangers fights back and reboot the series by turning it into a Power Rangers animated series on Disney+. The series would be a retelling of the original team (Jason, Kimberly, Zack, Trini, and Billy) with Rita Repulsa, Goldar, and Lord Zedd as the main villains and Zordon and Alpha-5 in supporting roles. The animation would be similar to Star Wars: The Clone Wars and their would four seasons about with the main focus being are heroes balancing both being heroes and high school students and the season would be set in each year of high school.
@@shouryaaswal5681 I wouldn’t say Disney ruined Star Wars, yes the movies were bad but all else has been excellent. As for the idea, personally Disney should make their own versions of Samurai, Megaforce, etc
@@tinothetuna215 I don't wanna offend anyone but we all know what its gonna be like. Red ranger will be a trans queer lgbtq + person with no personality and the villians will just be pollution and every episode will be a lecture on climate change. Given how souless disney has become and the amount of propaganda they are shelling. This is exactly how its gonna be. Then when fans will not watch it they will call us a racist bigot fandom.
Power rangers samurai was the first season I ever watched and I fell in love with it. And I don't see why it gets so much hate like it was never lacking in story telling. My favorite stories were of deker and dayu. Deker and jaden. And above all master xan return like when he did come back he showed that he was like no other villlan that the samurai rangers had faced before and most of the time when he blasted the rangers they demorphed . but yeah those are my thoughts
It s like you read my mind bro Samurai was the first series I ever watched too and it s my favourite I think the villains really steal the show but in general I m more of a fan of the villains generally in power ranger they look really cool and have great personalities
Turbo: I actually liked it when it first aired given that it was the new season when I started watching TV, I was like 3 years old. However, 23-year-old me does find it being just as episodic and formulaic as Zeo but worst at time. I'd say it's more of a nostalgic guilty pleasure. Super Ninja Steel: It improves on its predecesor, but that is not saying much. (Super) Samurai: I had high hopes for it when it first aired but it is almost a 1-to-1 copy of Shinkenger, if with Bulk and an OK version of Skull. When I first saw it I thought I missed an episode or 6, with the introduction of a new zord out of the gate, then I thought that it may have been a localization thing when imported over to Latin America, but no. Starting the series at a mid-way point can work, but it's quite tricky to pull off and they didn't. Megaforce: You have arguably the best looking set of rangers ever, Christina Masterson and Ciara Hanna are both beautiful women and Andrew Gray, Azim Rizk and John Mark Loudermilk are good looking guys, but good looking isn't a personality trait (which is something that even the 2017 movie understood). And Robo Knight at times feels more human than Troy, which is not much Andrew Gray's fault as it is more to the bad script and bad direction. Ninja Steel: Forgettably bad. I don't really recall that much from this season other than a few moments. All characters are bland and uninteresting. I'd rather take Megaforce and Super Megaforce because they are like a car crash that I can't turn my attention away from. Super Megaforce: Arguably the easiest one to adapt into a legacy season given that the Sentai was an Anniversary season that revisited previous seasons, they have a pirate theme that they didn't even bother to explain. They could get away with that in the earlier seasons because it wasn't that prominent in their suits as much as this one is. They could have thrown so many references to previous seasons and nobody would have complained if they were done right, like making the Blue Ranger the smart nerd of the group that comes up with ideas, that sounds an awful lot like Billy or to some extent like Cam. A newcoming Red Ranger that is suddenly thrown into position the position of leading a team (Andros, Leo, Cole, Jack, Nick, Casey and maybe Wes). You can have an episode of one of those rangers meeting with Troy and showing him how to become a leader, ideally it would have been Cole being the one that fitted the least when he joined, but given some circumstances that would be impossible, next in line would be, imo, Jack timetravelling (or Troy timetravelling) Interesting how the bottom six (counting Samurai and Super Samurai separate) are all Neo Saban seasons...
@@pathofthedragon I omitted Mack because he willingly jumped to the leadership position despite Mr Hartford's denials. But now that you mention it having him teach Troy how not to have the emotional range of a doorknob and act less robotic would be interesting
Gokaiger was the best Sentai Season; and making Gokaiger a stupid power up just pissed me off. They had the potential of making an amazing and memorable show if they had just STUCK to the original story. The charm of Gokaiger was that it was a group of random space pirates understanding why it was important to save earth and not be selfish. They also had to EARN those powers. Unlike here they were like 'eh you can have my power' ughhh I really wished Gokaiger got a redo.
With beast morphers airing currently, I hope that there’s going to be a super megaforce team up. It’s not just for fan service, but adapting one of go busters vs movies (either as a two parter or a one hour special) could give the super mega cast a chance to get developement that they didn’t get in their season. Hasbro has more money than Saban, so they are more likey to do the team up. They just need to find a cost efficient way to bring the actors of the special. We’ll have to wait until the second half the the year to see if the team up will happen. Also for the other go busters team up, it would be harder to adapt because it has a larger cast. It would be more expensive to bring the actors. But Hasbro can still find a cost efficient way to bring the casts if they can. Plus if the team up happen, we could get a cameo from the Toq rangers if Hasbro plans to do Toqger next. But that will be for next year if beast morphers did the dino team up. Probably starting from the Zyuohger adaptation, team ups will be easier to do because there will be one full season and there will one team up starting from the Zyuohger adaptation
I do love this stuff, and find it inspiring. I'm kind of wanting to make a form of Power Rangers Simulator of sorts... but well, there are a few steps: 1) Binge watch all of Power Rangers. Making certain to take breaks occasionally. 2) Go back, and try to come up with "rules" and stats for how the world seems to work, different methods of doing things (Power Ranger Power creation, Monster Creation, Invasion, Regions of Power Rangers) 3) Note time travel based stuff 4) Make a pen and paper test game of sorts... and see what attempting to redo various episodes and series ends up looking like. If the series cannot be replicated without issue... then I've done something wrong. If I have to jump through hoops... I've done something wrong. 5) See how pen and paper test demos work with different Teams swapped with different villains... or just mixing up teams. 6) Try introducing some elements that should hypothetically work--based upon power ups that appear in the show. See how those work. 7) After getting a demo-able pen and paper test game, start working on making a simulator using ASCII/Unicode and developer graphics. This... this is not something that is likely to appear tomorrow or next month. Maybe I might have something together in 2021... for the Pen and Paper test part. Think something similar to how Dwarf Fortress works--except without getting the M-Rating that Dwarf Fortress kind of automatically gets (if you cannot see what you are doing getting Ao or M--and inspiring several ethics discussions in Dwarf Fortress... you are not playing the game right). Maybe something to force an E-Rating (even though this will never go to the ESRB). You can put projects for your centre of operations, give suggestions to your Ranger Squad, work on upgrades/mods for their powers. You would not be directly controlling what gets done though. These videos... and some of the comments... kind of get me pumped up a little bit.
I am 100% in agreement about Super Megaforce…. not only because of the points you made but because it was such a magnificent colossal fall from its source material.
I love how almost all of these were Neo Saban seasons save for I think one. That says so much. But yeah, this makes sense. I'm still planning on writing my own Power Rangers season, and since you're kinda THE Power Ranger guy on RUclips in my books, I'm relying on your videos to help me figure out how to make a good season of Power Rangers. Essentially, you strike me as a true fan, like how I am with both Digimon and MegaMan, and you're one of the few honest to God PR fans I know of that isn't elitist or who hasn't moved onto Super Sentai. And THANK YOU for bringing up how Samurai was just Shinkenger in America. That's my biggest issue with it honestly. Shinkenger is probably my favorite Super Sentai, because it made great use of Japanese culture in order to tell a story that was both heartwarming and absurd, which I feel is something Power Rangers has always done to some degree with its story plots, at least the GOOD ones. That said, PR Samurai failed because it just did what Time Force did with Mirai Sentai Timeranger, just retell the Super Sentai story with different actors and a few different story plots here and there. The problem here though, is that it worked for Time Force, because the premise was time travel, a universal concept that ALL cultures can appreciate. Shinkenger is based STRICTLY on Japanese culture, which just looks stupid in America. Also, someone tell me why not ONE of the Rangers in Samurai was Japanese! Jaden Christ over there even has a JAPANESE LAST NAME! And without the Japanese characters leading, the story being so Red centered just looks stupid. It worked in Shinkenger because they were emphasizing Takeru was the Samurai Lord, and the others were his retainers. Makes sense that he'd get a bit of the spotlight, but they never forgot to develop the other characters. PR Samurai just did it because Jaden is the Red Ranger, nuff said. NO! That's not enough said. I didn't plan on this being so long. Just know that I loved this video, and your work in general.
Damn, Megaforce and Super Megaforce were my favorite ones because of the aspect of becoming past power rangers, and they made me watch the old seasons(not all of them), but your point of not having character development is really true, but as always I'm easily entertained
I do believe Turbo was one of the worst seasons but I gotta give it to the fact that T.J and them legitimately save that season and also Turbo does have one of the best finap episodes in the series. But anorher great video from the awesome Disney Brain.
@@GerardoIPerezU Hey man I honestly agree with you my friend. I think its crazy that there are a legitimate number of seasons now worse than Turbo lol.
@@melissamurray8307 I honestly dont know if that would've been the case considering that the show had to suck for us to get In Space to change the formula as we know it for the series. Turbo is just one of those you have to fail in order to succeed. But I can also see what you mean.
compared to the last 2 Disney era series, and all of the Neo Saban series. I am enjoying Turbo a hell of a lot more. Also, Divatox is one of the best Characters for me.
I remember watching Gokaiger for the first time and being blown away by the cameo episodes. I'd never watched a Sentai season before and as a gateway into it I felt like it was perfect. The tributes acted as re-introductions as well as actual homages, and the VS movie with the Goseigers was really good. A PR version of Captain Marvellous would have been interesting to see given his grey-area morality, and they could have had a Gai type character who knew everything about the past ranger teams helping them along. When I heard about it not getting a full adaption I was genuinely crushed, and now my other 3 favourite Sentais have been somewhat thrown under the same hammer to an extent as well. Kyoryuger was fun and Dino Charge didn't quite manage to translate it over without being overly cheesy, Ryusoulger's Knight motif was an interesting way to bring back a Dinosaur themed season and was a missed opportunity with PR completely ignoring the Knight theme, and now given recent news Kyuranger won't be getting a full adaptation either. HUGE missed opportunity for the first ever 12 Ranger team!
Ninja Steel personally didn't offend me as much. Unlike Megaforce and Samauri, which I have tried and failed to watch, I happily watched the entire season. (Haven't watched Super Steel yet since it's not on Netflix.) The season has obvious problems. The easy conflict resolution, the stereotypical characters (Sarah), and the fart jokes are particularly offensive. However, for some reason, I enjoyed it. Can't really explain why. Maybe it's just a guilty pleasure or something.
Ninja steel is bad, but you can watch it... Super ninja steel is painful... so, don't watch it. I forced myself to watch it just for the sake to finish the season... but, it felt like I lost 20 min of my life everytime.
Years later im glad Hasbro is making their footage for power rangers like Its not that i dont like sentai footage but when it comes using the footage it feels like its forcing u to get characters into certain locations and stuff
Transition from Megaforce to SuperMega Force didn't make sense to me. I was really looking forward to what they were gonna do with Gokaiger's pirate theme.
I honestly feel like the Megaforce seasons could've worked if they'd drawn on more than just superficial comparisons to the original. "We have a juice bar!" Neat! Have Bulk run it! "We have a quirky science teacher!" Is the eccentric scientist from In Space still around? "The mentor is a student of Zordon and half as believable!" Here's a thought. Make it a Wizard of Oz scenario and make Skull, who you made rich in Samurai, the man behind the curtain. This way, we have a team chosen by someone with no idea what he's doing who happens to be a fanboy with knowledge of the original lore and enough funding to gain access to the tech, and they're surrounded by unlikely mentors who can help them evolve from the most unlikely group into true legends. Potential for an actually effective "liar revealed" scenario, too. But hey, "no one cares about the characters, they just want action," right?
Samurai was weird because it's literally Shinkenger. Like they actually recreated episodes almost note for note with that. They localized some stuff but the plots were actually very similar. Like the episode where Antonio is swapped with a fish so he can't use his barracuda morepher actually happened in Shinkenger except ShinkenGold used a sushi morpher and was swapped with a sushi roll. Also, the villains that had little to do with ninja wasn't really Ninja Steel's fault. You can blame Ninninger for that, they used a lot of source material for that.
For whatever reason whenever I would watch a Neo-Saban era series it would have the atmosphere of plastic, in that beginning it would be like watching a sorta fake power rangers. I believe this was from the acting or perhaps even the writing but there was a clear difference from Samurai onward with the only exception being Dino Charge. While older yet more modern series like Ninja Storm, Dino Thunder, SPD, Mystic Force, and RPM would feel much more life like and I think it was due tot he same reasons, the acting and writing.
In PR Samurai my problem was Jayden not fully understanding the meaning of TEAMWORK. Also his secret that his sister was suppose to lead the team but decided to learn the sealing symbol so he had to lead the team, it's not a big deal. The only question I wanted to know is can both of them be the red Ranger at the same time, I think they could. In PR Megaforce, Noah is the only one that deserves the spotlight because he improve alot.
Honestly about the Ninja Steel enemy aesthetics, I could say from everything that I've learned about Japanese culture (from Gaijin Goomba) that it somehow makes sense since almost all of the enemies are based on Yokai (especially the cat one with the clock because it is indeed heavily associated with ninja) but yes, they didn't seem like they belong together despite the Japanese roots (and for the life of me, I don't know what is going on with that galaxy TV show madness). But if I had to nitpick on what is supposed to change in the show, it would have been the actual theme instead (and remove the intergalactic show thing altogether). I'm not saying that Ninja Steel is bad in a way, heck I was actually excited about the actual potential of it. But if they were to match with the enemies, I think they should introduce a new thing into the franchise that is also another aspect of Japan that I'm surprised they've never come up with yet. Onmyoji. For reference, onmyoji are government assigned individuals that practice the art of onmyodo that is a mixture of Buddhism and Shinto (not sure if Taoism is also included) and they are the astrologers that predict what will happen in the future, are responsible for making the calendar and... Exorcising spirits, or oni/ demons aka yokai. Y'all can probably guess where this is going xDDDD I would like them to have an onmyoji based Power Rangers/ Sentai. Like imagine the coolness if that happens. Also fun fact: the most famous Onmyoji is Abe no Seimei who is basically the Merlin of Japan. So, we got introduced to Ninjas and Samurai Samurai- Warrior Ninja- Rogue Onmyoji- Mage I swear if they actually introduce the onmyojis, I'd be so happy and the trifecta will be complete :')
Just to be clear, Super Megaforce will always and forever be the worst season if only for the fact that they wasted SO MUCH POTENTIAL. Goukaiger was absolutely amazing, and for them to waste that is criminally insane.
So...Super Ninja Steel is only slightly better than Super Samurai because of a change in the second half? How on earth does that work when Dino Super Charge is placed higher? Also, every season past Samurai who used the "Super" name were doing it not knowing what the Super meant. The "Super" in Samurai was a reference to the Black Box, and how it turned the rangers into Super Samurai. Idk how people still dont know this. Samurai was bland, but it did have it's powers explained at least.
The title is dumb to super megaforce this is the anniversary season of power rangers they could have picked a better title and actually done the pirate theme
Mega/SuperMega are perfect examples of why you don't choose a male model to be the anchor of your power rangers team. Good news is I think Ninja Steel might get upgraded to third worst season after seeing the monstrosity Nickelodeon has created with Beast Morphers. One dimensional villains, overly slapstick comedy and completely wooden rangers. I've only been able to watch three episodes and every. single. one. landed with a "thunk" that shook my childhood to it's core.
Turbo - Fighting for not car safety and eating too much pizzas Super Ninja Steel - The only moments are the crossovers, the rest are still bad Samurai and Super Samurai - A piss poor Shinkenger and first two seasons Spongebob kills retro PR fans Megaforce - I know what I thinking, Goseiger are angels, but Saban is the satan, it's Mega-Garbage! Ninja Steel - Stick with Ninja Storm instead Super Megaforce - Super Mega Garbage! They should've called Power Rangers Captain Force! 😂😂😂😂😂
one of the worst things about samurai in my opinion is they made bulk a samurai wanna be and DIDN'T adapt the american samurai story from the sentai series. i freaking love it when bulk is a hero. if they weren't adapting storylines all the time from the sentai version then i would of understood them leaving that one out.
Yup. Pretty much agree. I mean I think Megaforce and Ninja should Switch but never mind. Fart jokes are horrible and cringeworthy. Only season I think needs to be less hated is Overdrive. Solely because the season overall isn’t great. It’s more like a 6/10. It’s just decent. I think Linkara is mostly wrong saying that it’s worse than Megaforce or Super Megaforce. At least Overdrive didn’t piss on the Legacy.
Linkara didn't provide much reason why he thinks Overdrive to be still worse than Megaforce. One of the reasons is that the characters are more likable, but for me to like the characters or even acknowledge them as characters I have to get past the bad acting and I can't. Most of the Overdrive cast are dicks, but I can view that as an actual character flaw. In Overdrive I see bad characters. In Megaforce I see bad actors struggling to act. Also Overdrive was just another season, so it didn't really have any hype to live up to, unlike Megaforce which was meant to be THE season.
While I agree Troy Burrows being a flat as board character is not the fault of his actor, I do think Andrew Gray is partially to blame due to his failure to deliver most of his lines convincingly. Almost every time he spoke, I always thought, “Was that the only take...?”
What I agree, partly, and disagree that are the worst (Part 2): Power Rangers Turbo = Partly Disagree Power Rangers Super Ninja Steel = Agree Power Rangers Super Samurai = Agree Power Rangers Megaforce = Agree Power Rangers Ninja Steel = Agree Power Rangers Super Megaforce = Agree So why is it mostly agree? The Saban Era (Mighty Morphin - Wild Force) done it better, my favorite from that era has got to be Wild Force. But when Disney took over they only made it relevant from Ninja Storm up until SPD, those series they made in that era were good, but then from Mystic Force it just... doesn't really make it as exciting anymore, from that point on they made the series and the Power Rangers just plain silly. Adding additional series after one and another Super this, Super that. It's just, there's no need for it. From that point on they just made it look crap nowadays, not even Beast Morphers could comprehend. Sorry if this pisses anyone off but it's my opinion.
I think just about anyone with a functioning brain could come up with better ideas for Super Megaforce than the actual writers of that season. How hard would it have been to have the returning Rangers who appeared in "Legendary Battle" to each have their own focus episode? There were also plenty of Ranger actors who were from New Zealand who wouldn't have to be flown in to make appearances either. Cole's actor, who was Deker in the two previous seasons, would have been the perfect cameo for the Wild Force tribute episode since the Mega Rangers got access to Red Lion.
You know that Super Megaforce is bad when they have one of, if not the best ranger costumes and they spend every chance they get trying to distract you with older lesser costumes... Especially glaring when you realize that Gokaigers that it's based off of is amazing...
I liked Samurai. It was my introduction to the series and I remember watching EVERY episode with my little brother. We cried during the finale because we just got so used to it being there every weekend. Then MegaForce came out. My little brother sort of followed it, but I hated it. From the first episode it was so stupid. He much preferred binging the older series on Netflix. And I’d watch one or two of them - In Space - for example.
I really feel like I need to make a video about why Samurai is far better than everyone gives it credit for. While I do understand your complaints towards the season, I think there's a lot more there that people never really discuss. Samurai is a season I watch at least once a year, because I enjoy it so much, and genuinely would put it in my top 10 seasons, maybe even top 5 if I think about it enough. I know it sounds like I'm a Samurai fanboy, but I genuinely think there's a great season there and I want to help people see there's more than what it's given credit for.
I briefly got back into watching Power Rangers with Megaforce. And...then quickly got back out of watching Power Rangers. I think the only reasons why I lasted as long as I did were, 1) the promise of the mother of all Ranger battles in the first episode, and 2) yowza Ciara Hanna is nice to look at!
Even though Megaforce was a somewhat "call back" to MMPR, I enjoyed it! My dislike PR seasons include: MMPR season 2 (because Zack Taylor left) and season 3, Turbo, Mystic Force (Green Ranger should've been leader), Operation Overdrive, and Super Megaforce (Black Ranger changed to Green with 0 explanation).
I am very torn, you are not the first person to be...well...highly critical of Turbo. And I get it, ostensibly it's not a great season, even I will admit that. However, I disagree that it shook things up in harmless or useless ways. In fact, I daresay it was the reason we got such epic and heavy stuff with In Space a year later. The four part arc from "The Darkest Day" to "Clash of the Megazords" was one of the most epic arcs since Ninja Quest. "Parts and Parcel" was, I daresay the prototype for the In Space episode "Mission to Secret City" I suppose I'm being picky with my episode selections, my ONLY point is there's a lot more good stuff about Turbo than people remember.
Not gonna lie both megaforce seasons got done dirty... Like they had no good development except Noah for like 2 episodes focused on him and troy was written as a jerk for no reason what so evee
I remember hearing once that the actors for Megaforce/Super Megaforce asked for more character development and were told "no one cares about the characters, they just want action."
I watched a video of their panel at Power Morphicon, and you could tell they wanted to do all the cool Gokaiger stuff....the Silver Ranger's actor ( yes, I even forgot the character's name....that's how bad MegaFarce was ) even explicitly mentioned being disappointed that he didn't get to be GokaiChristmas, and Jake's actor even did his best impression of Ikari Gai saying GokaiSilver to introduce him as he came in. By the end of the whole thing my biggest take away was "why couldn't they have even 1 thousandth of that personality in character?" ...2nd biggest was "they clearly loved Gokaiger & wanted to do all that fun stuff...they just earned my respect"
@@newageBoundhippie maybe actors in the future should pay attention to the past seasons.
@@monterriohamilton7783 It's not the actors and actresses fault. They have to work with what they been given.
also, from what I've heard, one of megaforce's actors/actresses (can't remember if andrew gray or ciara hanna) looked at the dino charge cast and said "it seems like they're allowed to have more fun than what they allowed us" or something like that
newageBoundhippie the Neo Saban series all had awesome casts. The cast singlehandedly saved Ninja Steel for me and is also the reason I don’t really hate Super Megaforce as much as most people (as much as I hate that season)
I always felt bad for the Megaforce actors. I imagine it must have been really frustrating to not have anything substantial to work with for a character. Troy is a bad character but I feel it that the acting is bad because of inexperience meeting bad direction and nothing to actually do with the character.
I heard somewhere that he was supposed to have an acting coach, but they never gave him one.
So troy= anakin skywalker?
A lot of the production team actually had a lot of cool ideas, but those ideas were all shot down by the producer in favor of just shoving in more fight scenes.
Well maybe they could repair that if Zyuohger being adapted (since there's Gokaiger team up on it) and have scripter from time force or dino thunder to do zyuohger adaptation script (Please bring back bruce kalish and jackie marchand). Making troy finally become captain marvellous instead captain horrendous
What a shame for such attractive female rangers to be in such a bad season.
Gokaiger the greatest anniversary season of Super Sentai, Super Megaforce, the worst season of Porwer Rangers
@Kūra its to bad they messed up both gokaigers and the season before they both had great story's and characters in japan
Can’t believe they waisted Gokaiger on super megaforce
Its like what happened with turbo. Car ranger was a hit in sentai then turbo was a total flop.
@Muñoz same for me and them come maga force and i was just disapointed
You are absolutely true mate
I feel one of the biggest problems with Megaforce is that the producers just wouldn't listen to anyone. They were so sure they were going to make the best anniversary season ever that they ignored the fact people actually kind of hated their ideas from the very beginning. I still remember Tzachor initially announcing Megaforce on Twitter and the backlash he got from the idea of, rather than giving both Goseiger and Gokaiger their own adaptations or just skipping Goseiger altogether, the idea of combining the two. People hated the idea from the start, especially those of us who knew how amazing Gokaiger was, but he just trucked on, minimizing and ignoring criticism and even saying, "I don't understand why everyone hates my ideas!"
It turned out to be even worse than any of us could have imagined.
If you can't understand why people hate your ideas, then you don't understand what makes other ideas good
Super Megaforce = the one time they should of copied the sentai. Gokaigers with the returning rangers was awesome!
Yeah but that was because toei put a lot of money into gokaiger Saban did not do the same for super megaforce
@@matt1998hew that's is very stupid for a anniversary season
One of the problems with that is you can't really go wild. Gokaiger are clearly pirate-based team, and if you mix pirates and power rangers with Neosaban black-and-white morality you can't go anywhere but 'rogues to heroes' route, which is basically copypasting Gokaiger plot.
@@ВладиславШаклеин-ч7м they did that with Wild Force and it's Sentai counterpart though the pasting of the plot i mean
@@cjaypaz9842 You're missing a point I tried to make. Wild Force CAN go differently, rerardless of whether it did so or no (personally, it falls into 'meh' season category for me) because of the theme here.
But you have pirates to work with. An entire 5 to 6 man team of pirates. Gokaiger works because Sentai characters can take darker turns and can be more morally gray, unlike most their ranger counterparts, whose negatives is usually either 'teamwork issues' or 'evil mind control' (basically why I despise Tommy in favor of Burai).
So even if Neosaban would try to go pirates, they'd just end up as some fellas in NOT SPANDEX goody two-shoes heroes saving the world for the sake of saving the world, rather than it being a side effect of a way less noble goal, along the way to which Gokaigers turn into actual heroes saving the world. With Rangers, 'pirateness' will end up being the facade even a child won't buy.
As painful as it was reopening some of these wounds, I think that it's necessary to acknowledge the failures of the past to learn to do better in the future.
Hopefully, Hasbro will take notes from these seasons.
So far they have beast morphers has had more world building and lore in 2 episodes then Saban did in their full neo era
Justin Riley I'm just afraid they're going to take the wrong notes. The BM theme is almost as generic as those of Neo Saban, and the first episode is pretty rough in terms of storytelling. The visuals are pretty good though, and match up well with the dental footage I've seen.
@@jeggsonvohees2201 Personally I actually really like the Beast morphers theme. The problem is that it's too short.
Disney Era >>>>>>> Neo-Saban Era. It had to be said.
Only time disney did not screw up with a seriez
Saban Era = Disney Era
I could not agree with you more
I mean, Disney's seasons have been hit-or-miss but at least they bothered actually experimenting even if they didn't always work out.
See, I actually liked that Disney tried so hard to pay homage to the source material - with some scenes being shot-for-shot - that there was that rumour of them being done for plagiarism by Toei :P
Though it that's true, then I imagine that's why Jungle Fury ended up getting too far away from said sources.
"Jayden and his backup dancers" BYE.
The one thing I hate about bad seasons is there are actually good characters in them that are wasted. I would have loved to seen more out of Noah in Megaforce but nope cheap fan service instead
Same, and here in Latin America, they were dubbed by really good dubbing actors
"develop backwards" you are the best 😂
Wouldn't that be derailing?
They should’ve done what they did with Samurai with Super Megaforce. I’d rather see the Gokaiger plot copied point for point than the abysmal Super Megaforce story
D3AniMs it would have actually been good since Pirates is a pretty universal concept.
Hiromujin Not to mention a team of aliens who never even knew what rangers were, learning what it means to be a ranger from old fan favorites from each team would’ve been amazing
they should've honestly skipped shinkenjer because it was too Japanese to adapt cheaply, do goseiger instead of samurai and then do Megaforce with only gokaiger (and obviously get better writers during all of this)
Oh my god I wasn't crazy! Casey is such a good character he really does make even Super Megaforce tolerable! I thought I might just be biased as hell lol
The actor even wrote that episode, just in case you didn't know.
I couldn’t agree more this was the worst most disappointing season of all time such a waste of potential the megaforce Rangers should have been a separate team from the pirate ranger and Troy played by a different actor should have been a space pirate like andros and they should have spent the season collecting and earning rangers keys
Again......Megaforce takes the frosting as the worst season of Power Rangers.
And that frosting is made with cyanide.
You got that right they drop the ball on the 25 celebration. What a session.
If you told me ten years ago that seasons worse than Turbo would be churned out on a yearly basis. I would have said that you were crazy.
@@aliastheabnormal i know we had no idea of what was to come.
Monterrio Hamilton AGREE
Thanks to the "Super" tag, we missed this:
2011: Samurai (the FULL adaptation)
2012: Angel Force: A proper GOSEIGER adaptation with a COHERENT storyline
2013: Pirate Armada: THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN THE ANNIVERSARY SEASON, even if they copied stuff like calling the red ranger Captain Marvelous (that name is cool) PEOPLE WOULD HAVE WATCHED IT
Blame Nick for that
@@Dave102693
No. Blame Tzachor. Fortunately he was apparently fired after Super Mega-Fail.
@@anirudhviswanathan3986 I agree to that, but the split up of whole seasons is Nicks fault.
@@Dave102693 Nick should just stick with SpongeBob and the Loud House and not fiddle with Power Rangers anymore!
I still think that Samurai would have made a lot more sense if Jayden had been trained as the sixth ranger, but after Lauren's injury (while training Emily in the rewrite, combining some story threads) and Antonio's theft for the Gold morpher, he was promoted to Red Ranger. Instead of the 'are you the red ranger?' gag in the first episode, they were all expecting Lauren to show up - all accept for Emily - and they're all surprised when Jayden rides in on a white horse (the planned introduction for Gold Ranger Jayden). Due to his status as a 'sixth ranger in training', Jayden's brash attitude and skill set would have made a lot more sense, as he was being trained to a much higher level, with the expectation that he'd be jumping in when the Rangers required the additional power, and staying sidelined when they didn't (never escalating the fight). His development would have been to become a team player, but his occasional slips into lone-wolf status and Master Ji's obvious pride would have made more sense as well.
. . . At least, from my perspective.
i love you
There's a rewrite? Where can we find that?
@@xenolegenddbz2424 I tried, but it's just so cringy
I honestly cant say jack about samurai and super samurai because I loved it but I do see where you guys are coming from
Ninja Steel was when I stopped caring about PR but Beast Morhers made me care about it again
Doggy AMG Well that surely didn’t take much time, did it?
Samurai was the season that introduced me to super sentai, I loved Shinkenger and continued watching both versions. And I was furious when I found out what Megaforce and Super Megaforce could’ve been
Samurai made me quit honestly
Super Megaforce is the WORST???
Well, we already knew
@Shan Chaudhry Tzachor: "No! We must shove as much sentai footage as we can, even if it has sentai only ranger suits that weren't used, even the core five Dairanger suits!"
FAR TOO COMPLEX FOR YOU TO UNDERSTAND!
@@MegaAnimazing they even had a full dairanger fight
super megaforce isn't a worst season
@@jeevan4710there's a simple explanation for that
Can we call the Neo-Saban Era the Power Ranger Dark Ages?
I like to call the Neo-Saban era the "great depression era" of Power Rangers, because yes we get angry at the era A LOT, but more then anything, ESPECIALLY with 'Super Megaforce' we're depressed and disappointed, because Saban basically took the greatest peak that Power Rangers was ever at thanks to Disney, took it back and just DESTROYED all the time and effort and TLC that Disney put into the franchise DESPITE budget issues and always at risk of being cancelled, and Saban gave us a DECADE of shallow characters, poor stories, boring villain's, lazy witting, poor acting just to name a few out of the grocery list of problems! THANK GOD Hasbro has started things right with 'Beast Morphers', a season that has just started but already has me hooked!
except ninja steel and megaforce all the seasons are good
@@ryanrandall788 The Disney Era had amazing seasons such as SPD and Jungle Fury. Sadly, NICK took everything we loved and destroyed it.
Jeevan Sajeev yeah
Dino Charge was good
Don't even get me started on how incompetent the Armada was.
Emperor mavro didn't even put up a challenge to me vrak made them sweat
Jayden and his backup dancers
Dude you didn’t have to murder them like that
Super Megaforce is the reason Fanfiction exist. Thanks for another great video!
On Turbo, you forgot about Divatox, who somehow destroyed the power rangers main base despite her incompetence.
For me the second half of Turbo when they changed haft of the cast was the worst for me.
@@PharaohYami2I disagree. That’s when it got better.
I will never get tired of your “Jayden being Jesus” jokes. XD
"Jay-sus"
@@francescolombardi3438 this comment didn't age well, especially with his smile
I sum up the ENTIRE Neo Saban Era in 2 words: EXECUTIVE MEDDLING!!!!!!!!
I agree that Viacom Media Networks’ meddling was a contributing factor due to the Neo Saban eras general bad quality.
@Shan Chaudhry Dino Charge (Super Charged not witstanding) was fine but even it had its share of executive meddling in some parts. That I cannot let slide no matter how decent the season was.
Also Haim Saban - the american version of Shinichirou Shirakura.
My brother loves Samurai, I can't wait to show him shinkenger.
When watching Super Megaforce I felt like they were mindlessly transforming into past rangers just to show off the suits again, not as an actual battle strategy. And I felt like that during the whole season
Im gonna say it...
Power Rangers Dino Charge is the BEST Neo Saban Power Rangers.
Change my mind
It was crazy to catch up on,but it’s good
Agreed
1. Dino Charge
2. Samurai
3. Ninja Steel
4. Megaforce
Somewhat, id also say that samurai isn't too bad
In my opinion, Dino charge was the WORST season EVER!!!
Poor Neo-Saban seasons... but I agree. :P
And good point about whole Gia/Troy and Taylor/Cole situation. I would say that in both cases yellow should be the leader, all tho Cole was at least trying and Troy... well, he was doing his own thing, whatever it was.
Taylor/Zack? Don't you mean Trini/Zack? Lol.
@@terradx Nope. I meant Taylor/Cole. I don't know why I changed his name at the beginning but later used the right name. :P
Troy was being a robot, more so than the actual robot in both seasons of Megaforce.
How ironic it is that Operation Overdrive had a red ranger that was a robot that acted like a human, where as MegaForce had a red ranger who was a human who acted like a robot
One point that was missed especially with the Neo-Saban era was that long break period. Also Nickelodeon not really promoting the shows to the last minute.
It's Megaforce...right?
Edit: It was super Megaforce, but I was still close. lol
Unlike most people I don't count the super seasons as a separate season since they're just the second half of the story. I do count Super Megaforce as a separate season because of the simple fact they change the suits and zords similar to the seasons of MMPR where the change of zords marked as a new season.
I also use Sentai as an indicator of where a season starts and ends since Power Rangers was using footage from one season over two years.
But the argument of one season versus two seasons is similar to the argument of if Lord of the Rings is one book or three.
Would definitely swap ninja steel and mega force, ninja steel wasn’t that bad. Nothing except super Megaforce was as bad as that. At least the robo Aiden arch brought more emotion than both megaforce seasons combined
To add to that Rangers fighting monsters on a game show was a fresh and original concept.
@@psquared2020 But they didn't do anything with it. Yeah it was original, but in the end it functioned the same as any other villain setting.
Agree. Ninja steel didn't work but I can see that they're atleast trying.
Well one thing Neo Saban era did produce, was some desent openning themes for the show, thou I will grant that Samuari openning is just a retool of the original Mighty Morphin theme!
Pay no mind to the vocal hiccup @4:16 It's only... your imagination! Yes, that's it...
It's far too complex for us to understand.
@@AgilityDZN
It's sad that line comes from the one of the only competent villains in the Neo-Saban era.
There's a simple explanation for that.
I felt that some characters such as Brody's dad Dane could have been invested into a lot better. He could have served as a second mentor for the Rangers, not to give them moral support or advice, but new fighting techniques to take down Madam Odius and her monster henchmen.
Dane Romero, Brody's dad, could have fulfilled a role just like Ninjor of MMPR season 2.
Man, I swear. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person in the world who actually LIKES Turbo.
@Gameslayer 9000 Agreed.
I enjoyed the movie. Didn't really watch the show but for a few episodes but it was still fun to watch all the same.
It had some good points, but it damn near made me stop watching and I had been with the show since episode 1.
@@dustynvega Yeah, those first 19 episodes are a doozy. Quite the hurtle to get through to get to the good stuff, that's for sure.
Turbo is my favourite season but passing the torch was a downslope
Super megaforce should've been a separate season as it made no sense to have pirate based powers be a power up to the initial megaforce powers as there was no connection between the two. Plus, it makes Orion a little confusing as well because he was both the 6th ranger but only when they went into their super mega mode or whatever. They should've just had the gosieger suits for one series, with it ending with the rangers losing their powers just before the armada came to earth which could've led into the next season where Gosei and Tensou provide the rangers with their new pirate based powers that also gave them access to every ranger team before them (while omitting suits that were sentai only) which would've made Orion's inclusion feel less awkward. Also, I agree about the acting and lack of development for the rangers and, especially, about paying tribute to power rangers past as a lot of the episodes in super megaforce felt like they were paying tribute to the sentai rather than power ranger history.
Disney should get the Power Rangers fights back and reboot the series by turning it into a Power Rangers animated series on Disney+. The series would be a retelling of the original team (Jason, Kimberly, Zack, Trini, and Billy) with Rita Repulsa, Goldar, and Lord Zedd as the main villains and Zordon and Alpha-5 in supporting roles. The animation would be similar to Star Wars: The Clone Wars and their would four seasons about with the main focus being are heroes balancing both being heroes and high school students and the season would be set in each year of high school.
Knowing how disney is these days,
I think they would just ruin. If they can ruin star wars and marvel, they can easily ruin power rangers.
@@shouryaaswal5681 I wouldn’t say Disney ruined Star Wars, yes the movies were bad but all else has been excellent. As for the idea, personally Disney should make their own versions of Samurai, Megaforce, etc
@@tinothetuna215 I don't wanna offend anyone but we all know what its gonna be like.
Red ranger will be a trans queer lgbtq + person with no personality and the villians will just be pollution and every episode will be a lecture on climate change.
Given how souless disney has become and the amount of propaganda they are shelling. This is exactly how its gonna be. Then when fans will not watch it they will call us a racist bigot fandom.
Hasbro should hire you as a consultant.
Big Daddy God Complex Jayden of Nezareth.
Power rangers samurai was the first season I ever watched and I fell in love with it. And I don't see why it gets so much hate like it was never lacking in story telling. My favorite stories were of deker and dayu. Deker and jaden. And above all master xan return like when he did come back he showed that he was like no other villlan that the samurai rangers had faced before and most of the time when he blasted the rangers they demorphed . but yeah those are my thoughts
It s like you read my mind bro Samurai was the first series I ever watched too and it s my favourite I think the villains really steal the show but in general I m more of a fan of the villains generally in power ranger they look really cool and have great personalities
@boom gaming I couldn’t agree more
If you knew Japanese culture and respect it you will definitely hate Samurai
Same Samurai got me into power rangers I actually enjoyed it although I was 7 when it came out I still loved it
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As much as I did not like the Neo Saban era shows, I will say that they were killing it with the theme songs.
Turbo: I actually liked it when it first aired given that it was the new season when I started watching TV, I was like 3 years old. However, 23-year-old me does find it being just as episodic and formulaic as Zeo but worst at time. I'd say it's more of a nostalgic guilty pleasure.
Super Ninja Steel: It improves on its predecesor, but that is not saying much.
(Super) Samurai: I had high hopes for it when it first aired but it is almost a 1-to-1 copy of Shinkenger, if with Bulk and an OK version of Skull. When I first saw it I thought I missed an episode or 6, with the introduction of a new zord out of the gate, then I thought that it may have been a localization thing when imported over to Latin America, but no. Starting the series at a mid-way point can work, but it's quite tricky to pull off and they didn't.
Megaforce: You have arguably the best looking set of rangers ever, Christina Masterson and Ciara Hanna are both beautiful women and Andrew Gray, Azim Rizk and John Mark Loudermilk are good looking guys, but good looking isn't a personality trait (which is something that even the 2017 movie understood). And Robo Knight at times feels more human than Troy, which is not much Andrew Gray's fault as it is more to the bad script and bad direction.
Ninja Steel: Forgettably bad. I don't really recall that much from this season other than a few moments. All characters are bland and uninteresting. I'd rather take Megaforce and Super Megaforce because they are like a car crash that I can't turn my attention away from.
Super Megaforce: Arguably the easiest one to adapt into a legacy season given that the Sentai was an Anniversary season that revisited previous seasons, they have a pirate theme that they didn't even bother to explain. They could get away with that in the earlier seasons because it wasn't that prominent in their suits as much as this one is. They could have thrown so many references to previous seasons and nobody would have complained if they were done right, like making the Blue Ranger the smart nerd of the group that comes up with ideas, that sounds an awful lot like Billy or to some extent like Cam. A newcoming Red Ranger that is suddenly thrown into position the position of leading a team (Andros, Leo, Cole, Jack, Nick, Casey and maybe Wes). You can have an episode of one of those rangers meeting with Troy and showing him how to become a leader, ideally it would have been Cole being the one that fitted the least when he joined, but given some circumstances that would be impossible, next in line would be, imo, Jack timetravelling (or Troy timetravelling)
Interesting how the bottom six (counting Samurai and Super Samurai separate) are all Neo Saban seasons...
Tbh, they could even have had Mack mentor Troy.
@@pathofthedragon I omitted Mack because he willingly jumped to the leadership position despite Mr Hartford's denials. But now that you mention it having him teach Troy how not to have the emotional range of a doorknob and act less robotic would be interesting
This vid has megaforce and super megaforce written all over it
2010s were rough for the rangers. Except for shattered grid. That was cool.
Also Super Ninja Steel is second worst behind Super Megaforce. Barely anything going on! In fact, I'd equate it to Megaforce season 1.
Gokaiger was the best Sentai Season; and making Gokaiger a stupid power up just pissed me off. They had the potential of making an amazing and memorable show if they had just STUCK to the original story. The charm of Gokaiger was that it was a group of random space pirates understanding why it was important to save earth and not be selfish. They also had to EARN those powers. Unlike here they were like 'eh you can have my power' ughhh I really wished Gokaiger got a redo.
With beast morphers airing currently, I hope that there’s going to be a super megaforce team up. It’s not just for fan service, but adapting one of go busters vs movies (either as a two parter or a one hour special) could give the super mega cast a chance to get developement that they didn’t get in their season. Hasbro has more money than Saban, so they are more likey to do the team up. They just need to find a cost efficient way to bring the actors of the special. We’ll have to wait until the second half the the year to see if the team up will happen. Also for the other go busters team up, it would be harder to adapt because it has a larger cast. It would be more expensive to bring the actors. But Hasbro can still find a cost efficient way to bring the casts if they can. Plus if the team up happen, we could get a cameo from the Toq rangers if Hasbro plans to do Toqger next. But that will be for next year if beast morphers did the dino team up. Probably starting from the Zyuohger adaptation, team ups will be easier to do because there will be one full season and there will one team up starting from the Zyuohger adaptation
I really hope that happens. I really liked that special (especially the final megazord battle).
I do love this stuff, and find it inspiring. I'm kind of wanting to make a form of Power Rangers Simulator of sorts... but well, there are a few steps:
1) Binge watch all of Power Rangers. Making certain to take breaks occasionally.
2) Go back, and try to come up with "rules" and stats for how the world seems to work, different methods of doing things (Power Ranger Power creation, Monster Creation, Invasion, Regions of Power Rangers)
3) Note time travel based stuff
4) Make a pen and paper test game of sorts... and see what attempting to redo various episodes and series ends up looking like. If the series cannot be replicated without issue... then I've done something wrong. If I have to jump through hoops... I've done something wrong.
5) See how pen and paper test demos work with different Teams swapped with different villains... or just mixing up teams.
6) Try introducing some elements that should hypothetically work--based upon power ups that appear in the show. See how those work.
7) After getting a demo-able pen and paper test game, start working on making a simulator using ASCII/Unicode and developer graphics.
This... this is not something that is likely to appear tomorrow or next month. Maybe I might have something together in 2021... for the Pen and Paper test part.
Think something similar to how Dwarf Fortress works--except without getting the M-Rating that Dwarf Fortress kind of automatically gets (if you cannot see what you are doing getting Ao or M--and inspiring several ethics discussions in Dwarf Fortress... you are not playing the game right). Maybe something to force an E-Rating (even though this will never go to the ESRB). You can put projects for your centre of operations, give suggestions to your Ranger Squad, work on upgrades/mods for their powers. You would not be directly controlling what gets done though.
These videos... and some of the comments... kind of get me pumped up a little bit.
I am 100% in agreement about Super Megaforce…. not only because of the points you made but because it was such a magnificent colossal fall from its source material.
I love how almost all of these were Neo Saban seasons save for I think one. That says so much.
But yeah, this makes sense. I'm still planning on writing my own Power Rangers season, and since you're kinda THE Power Ranger guy on RUclips in my books, I'm relying on your videos to help me figure out how to make a good season of Power Rangers. Essentially, you strike me as a true fan, like how I am with both Digimon and MegaMan, and you're one of the few honest to God PR fans I know of that isn't elitist or who hasn't moved onto Super Sentai.
And THANK YOU for bringing up how Samurai was just Shinkenger in America. That's my biggest issue with it honestly. Shinkenger is probably my favorite Super Sentai, because it made great use of Japanese culture in order to tell a story that was both heartwarming and absurd, which I feel is something Power Rangers has always done to some degree with its story plots, at least the GOOD ones. That said, PR Samurai failed because it just did what Time Force did with Mirai Sentai Timeranger, just retell the Super Sentai story with different actors and a few different story plots here and there. The problem here though, is that it worked for Time Force, because the premise was time travel, a universal concept that ALL cultures can appreciate. Shinkenger is based STRICTLY on Japanese culture, which just looks stupid in America. Also, someone tell me why not ONE of the Rangers in Samurai was Japanese! Jaden Christ over there even has a JAPANESE LAST NAME! And without the Japanese characters leading, the story being so Red centered just looks stupid. It worked in Shinkenger because they were emphasizing Takeru was the Samurai Lord, and the others were his retainers. Makes sense that he'd get a bit of the spotlight, but they never forgot to develop the other characters. PR Samurai just did it because Jaden is the Red Ranger, nuff said. NO! That's not enough said.
I didn't plan on this being so long. Just know that I loved this video, and your work in general.
Whenever you write your own season, I'll be down to check it out!
Two: zeo and turbo
Super Megaforce is one of the few things I ever seen to be hated by absolutely everyone lol
A lot of my friends were willing to ignore most of it until the Legendary Battle. That ws the final straw.
I'd love for you to do a Top 10 Megazords, Battlizer or Team Power Ups (SWAT, Super Dino Mode, Lights of Orion, etc.) List!
Ha, I hate the fact that they don’t change their opening lyrics to fit the word “Super” into the theme.
Damn, Megaforce and Super Megaforce were my favorite ones because of the aspect of becoming past power rangers, and they made me watch the old seasons(not all of them), but your point of not having character development is really true, but as always I'm easily entertained
I do believe Turbo was one of the worst seasons but I gotta give it to the fact that T.J and them legitimately save that season and also Turbo does have one of the best finap episodes in the series.
But anorher great video from the awesome Disney Brain.
Turbo was bad at the time, however, this few past seasons were terrible. They actually made me like Turbo...
@@GerardoIPerezU Hey man I honestly agree with you my friend.
I think its crazy that there are a legitimate number of seasons now worse than Turbo lol.
It would have been pretty good season if TJ and the others were there from the beginning.
@@melissamurray8307 I honestly dont know if that would've been the case considering that the show had to suck for us to get In Space to change the formula as we know it for the series.
Turbo is just one of those you have to fail in order to succeed.
But I can also see what you mean.
compared to the last 2 Disney era series, and all of the Neo Saban series. I am enjoying Turbo a hell of a lot more. Also, Divatox is one of the best Characters for me.
Who else want Hasbro to remaster the Neo-Saban seasons?
I remember watching Gokaiger for the first time and being blown away by the cameo episodes. I'd never watched a Sentai season before and as a gateway into it I felt like it was perfect. The tributes acted as re-introductions as well as actual homages, and the VS movie with the Goseigers was really good. A PR version of Captain Marvellous would have been interesting to see given his grey-area morality, and they could have had a Gai type character who knew everything about the past ranger teams helping them along. When I heard about it not getting a full adaption I was genuinely crushed, and now my other 3 favourite Sentais have been somewhat thrown under the same hammer to an extent as well. Kyoryuger was fun and Dino Charge didn't quite manage to translate it over without being overly cheesy, Ryusoulger's Knight motif was an interesting way to bring back a Dinosaur themed season and was a missed opportunity with PR completely ignoring the Knight theme, and now given recent news Kyuranger won't be getting a full adaptation either. HUGE missed opportunity for the first ever 12 Ranger team!
The Casey episode was definitely my favorite Super Megaforce episode. Then again, look who wrote it.
Ninja Steel personally didn't offend me as much. Unlike Megaforce and Samauri, which I have tried and failed to watch, I happily watched the entire season. (Haven't watched Super Steel yet since it's not on Netflix.) The season has obvious problems. The easy conflict resolution, the stereotypical characters (Sarah), and the fart jokes are particularly offensive. However, for some reason, I enjoyed it. Can't really explain why. Maybe it's just a guilty pleasure or something.
Ninja steel is bad, but you can watch it... Super ninja steel is painful... so, don't watch it. I forced myself to watch it just for the sake to finish the season... but, it felt like I lost 20 min of my life everytime.
They didn’t have to use the Sentai stock footage of the Sentai exclusive suits
Years later im glad Hasbro is making their footage for power rangers like Its not that i dont like sentai footage but when it comes using the footage it feels like its forcing u to get characters into certain locations and stuff
Transition from Megaforce to SuperMega Force didn't make sense to me. I was really looking forward to what they were gonna do with Gokaiger's pirate theme.
I honestly feel like the Megaforce seasons could've worked if they'd drawn on more than just superficial comparisons to the original. "We have a juice bar!" Neat! Have Bulk run it! "We have a quirky science teacher!" Is the eccentric scientist from In Space still around? "The mentor is a student of Zordon and half as believable!" Here's a thought. Make it a Wizard of Oz scenario and make Skull, who you made rich in Samurai, the man behind the curtain. This way, we have a team chosen by someone with no idea what he's doing who happens to be a fanboy with knowledge of the original lore and enough funding to gain access to the tech, and they're surrounded by unlikely mentors who can help them evolve from the most unlikely group into true legends. Potential for an actually effective "liar revealed" scenario, too.
But hey, "no one cares about the characters, they just want action," right?
Samurai was weird because it's literally Shinkenger. Like they actually recreated episodes almost note for note with that. They localized some stuff but the plots were actually very similar. Like the episode where Antonio is swapped with a fish so he can't use his barracuda morepher actually happened in Shinkenger except ShinkenGold used a sushi morpher and was swapped with a sushi roll.
Also, the villains that had little to do with ninja wasn't really Ninja Steel's fault. You can blame Ninninger for that, they used a lot of source material for that.
For whatever reason whenever I would watch a Neo-Saban era series it would have the atmosphere of plastic, in that beginning it would be like watching a sorta fake power rangers. I believe this was from the acting or perhaps even the writing but there was a clear difference from Samurai onward with the only exception being Dino Charge. While older yet more modern series like Ninja Storm, Dino Thunder, SPD, Mystic Force, and RPM would feel much more life like and I think it was due tot he same reasons, the acting and writing.
In PR Samurai my problem was Jayden not fully understanding the meaning of TEAMWORK. Also his secret that his sister was suppose to lead the team but decided to learn the sealing symbol so he had to lead the team, it's not a big deal. The only question I wanted to know is can both of them be the red Ranger at the same time, I think they could.
In PR Megaforce, Noah is the only one that deserves the spotlight because he improve alot.
When I hear megaforce I gasped in pretend to be shocked
"the super mega bottom of the barrel" made me chuckle
Honestly about the Ninja Steel enemy aesthetics, I could say from everything that I've learned about Japanese culture (from Gaijin Goomba) that it somehow makes sense since almost all of the enemies are based on Yokai (especially the cat one with the clock because it is indeed heavily associated with ninja) but yes, they didn't seem like they belong together despite the Japanese roots (and for the life of me, I don't know what is going on with that galaxy TV show madness). But if I had to nitpick on what is supposed to change in the show, it would have been the actual theme instead (and remove the intergalactic show thing altogether).
I'm not saying that Ninja Steel is bad in a way, heck I was actually excited about the actual potential of it. But if they were to match with the enemies, I think they should introduce a new thing into the franchise that is also another aspect of Japan that I'm surprised they've never come up with yet. Onmyoji.
For reference, onmyoji are government assigned individuals that practice the art of onmyodo that is a mixture of Buddhism and Shinto (not sure if Taoism is also included) and they are the astrologers that predict what will happen in the future, are responsible for making the calendar and... Exorcising spirits, or oni/ demons aka yokai. Y'all can probably guess where this is going xDDDD
I would like them to have an onmyoji based Power Rangers/ Sentai. Like imagine the coolness if that happens.
Also fun fact: the most famous Onmyoji is Abe no Seimei who is basically the Merlin of Japan. So, we got introduced to Ninjas and Samurai
Samurai- Warrior
Ninja- Rogue
Onmyoji- Mage
I swear if they actually introduce the onmyojis, I'd be so happy and the trifecta will be complete :')
Just to be clear, Super Megaforce will always and forever be the worst season if only for the fact that they wasted SO MUCH POTENTIAL. Goukaiger was absolutely amazing, and for them to waste that is criminally insane.
It is fixed
So...Super Ninja Steel is only slightly better than Super Samurai because of a change in the second half? How on earth does that work when Dino Super Charge is placed higher? Also, every season past Samurai who used the "Super" name were doing it not knowing what the Super meant. The "Super" in Samurai was a reference to the Black Box, and how it turned the rangers into Super Samurai. Idk how people still dont know this. Samurai was bland, but it did have it's powers explained at least.
Before I started getting into the power rangers fandom, I had a notion that everyone loved the NeonSaban era... guess not
Super Megaforce!
"Look how they massacred by boy"
Piss me off that Megaforce and Super Megaforce ignored the fact that SPD and RPM are set in the future.
The title is dumb to super megaforce this is the anniversary season of power rangers they could have picked a better title and actually done the pirate theme
Mega/SuperMega are perfect examples of why you don't choose a male model to be the anchor of your power rangers team. Good news is I think Ninja Steel might get upgraded to third worst season after seeing the monstrosity Nickelodeon has created with Beast Morphers. One dimensional villains, overly slapstick comedy and completely wooden rangers. I've only been able to watch three episodes and every. single. one. landed with a "thunk" that shook my childhood to it's core.
I always thought the problem with Turbo was how the super sentai footage of Carranger was meant to be a parody of super sentai.
Turbo - Fighting for not car safety and eating too much pizzas
Super Ninja Steel - The only moments are the crossovers, the rest are still bad
Samurai and Super Samurai - A piss poor Shinkenger and first two seasons Spongebob kills retro PR fans
Megaforce - I know what I thinking, Goseiger are angels, but Saban is the satan, it's Mega-Garbage!
Ninja Steel - Stick with Ninja Storm instead
Super Megaforce - Super Mega Garbage! They should've called Power Rangers Captain Force! 😂😂😂😂😂
one of the worst things about samurai in my opinion is they made bulk a samurai wanna be and DIDN'T adapt the american samurai story from the sentai series. i freaking love it when bulk is a hero. if they weren't adapting storylines all the time from the sentai version then i would of understood them leaving that one out.
Yup. Pretty much agree. I mean I think Megaforce and Ninja should Switch but never mind. Fart jokes are horrible and cringeworthy.
Only season I think needs to be less hated is Overdrive. Solely because the season overall isn’t great. It’s more like a 6/10. It’s just decent. I think Linkara is mostly wrong saying that it’s worse than Megaforce or Super Megaforce. At least Overdrive didn’t piss on the Legacy.
Linkara didn't provide much reason why he thinks Overdrive to be still worse than Megaforce. One of the reasons is that the characters are more likable, but for me to like the characters or even acknowledge them as characters I have to get past the bad acting and I can't. Most of the Overdrive cast are dicks, but I can view that as an actual character flaw. In Overdrive I see bad characters. In Megaforce I see bad actors struggling to act. Also Overdrive was just another season, so it didn't really have any hype to live up to, unlike Megaforce which was meant to be THE season.
Out of like the almost 30 seasons there’s 17 “real worst seasons?” Lol
Top 10 suggestion: Best and Worst comic Relief characters.
Mega force had such a Big time rush feeling
(Yeah I know nick era but in that one is way more noticeable)
While I agree Troy Burrows being a flat as board character is not the fault of his actor, I do think Andrew Gray is partially to blame due to his failure to deliver most of his lines convincingly. Almost every time he spoke, I always thought, “Was that the only take...?”
What I agree, partly, and disagree that are the worst (Part 2):
Power Rangers Turbo = Partly Disagree
Power Rangers Super Ninja Steel = Agree
Power Rangers Super Samurai = Agree
Power Rangers Megaforce = Agree
Power Rangers Ninja Steel = Agree
Power Rangers Super Megaforce = Agree
So why is it mostly agree?
The Saban Era (Mighty Morphin - Wild Force) done it better, my favorite from that era has got to be Wild Force. But when Disney took over they only made it relevant from Ninja Storm up until SPD, those series they made in that era were good, but then from Mystic Force it just... doesn't really make it as exciting anymore, from that point on they made the series and the Power Rangers just plain silly. Adding additional series after one and another Super this, Super that. It's just, there's no need for it. From that point on they just made it look crap nowadays, not even Beast Morphers could comprehend. Sorry if this pisses anyone off but it's my opinion.
I think just about anyone with a functioning brain could come up with better ideas for Super Megaforce than the actual writers of that season. How hard would it have been to have the returning Rangers who appeared in "Legendary Battle" to each have their own focus episode? There were also plenty of Ranger actors who were from New Zealand who wouldn't have to be flown in to make appearances either. Cole's actor, who was Deker in the two previous seasons, would have been the perfect cameo for the Wild Force tribute episode since the Mega Rangers got access to Red Lion.
You know that Super Megaforce is bad when they have one of, if not the best ranger costumes and they spend every chance they get trying to distract you with older lesser costumes...
Especially glaring when you realize that Gokaigers that it's based off of is amazing...
I was waching a video by the black nerd and he interviewed them THEY WERE ALL GREAT LIKE THE CAST WOULD RIGHT A BETTER SHOW I FEEL SO BAD FOR THE CAST
I liked Samurai. It was my introduction to the series and I remember watching EVERY episode with my little brother. We cried during the finale because we just got so used to it being there every weekend. Then MegaForce came out. My little brother sort of followed it, but I hated it. From the first episode it was so stupid. He much preferred binging the older series on Netflix. And I’d watch one or two of them - In Space - for example.
I really feel like I need to make a video about why Samurai is far better than everyone gives it credit for. While I do understand your complaints towards the season, I think there's a lot more there that people never really discuss. Samurai is a season I watch at least once a year, because I enjoy it so much, and genuinely would put it in my top 10 seasons, maybe even top 5 if I think about it enough. I know it sounds like I'm a Samurai fanboy, but I genuinely think there's a great season there and I want to help people see there's more than what it's given credit for.
I also liked samurai a lot
We all know In Space is the best season with Lost Galaxy, Dino Thunder, Ninja Storm and Mighty Morphing Being great too.
And let’s not forget about RPM, Time Force, SPD, Jungle Fury and Lightspeed Rescue. Wild Force was also pretty good.
I love Turbo!!! While the movie was pointless and unnecessary Power Rangers Turbo will always have a special place in my heart!!!
I briefly got back into watching Power Rangers with Megaforce. And...then quickly got back out of watching Power Rangers. I think the only reasons why I lasted as long as I did were, 1) the promise of the mother of all Ranger battles in the first episode, and 2) yowza Ciara Hanna is nice to look at!
The Phantom Ranger is Judd Lyn!
Even though Megaforce was a somewhat "call back" to MMPR, I enjoyed it! My dislike PR seasons include: MMPR season 2 (because Zack Taylor left) and season 3, Turbo, Mystic Force (Green Ranger should've been leader), Operation Overdrive, and Super Megaforce (Black Ranger changed to Green with 0 explanation).
I am very torn, you are not the first person to be...well...highly critical of Turbo. And I get it, ostensibly it's not a great season, even I will admit that. However, I disagree that it shook things up in harmless or useless ways. In fact, I daresay it was the reason we got such epic and heavy stuff with In Space a year later. The four part arc from "The Darkest Day" to "Clash of the Megazords" was one of the most epic arcs since Ninja Quest. "Parts and Parcel" was, I daresay the prototype for the In Space episode "Mission to Secret City"
I suppose I'm being picky with my episode selections, my ONLY point is there's a lot more good stuff about Turbo than people remember.
Neo-Saban could be great. The Sentai gives so much .
At this point it’s impressive how bad Neo Saban fucked up the iteration of Goseiger AND Gokaiger.
Not gonna lie both megaforce seasons got done dirty... Like they had no good development except Noah for like 2 episodes focused on him and troy was written as a jerk for no reason what so evee