Why Operation Overdrive's Characters Don't Work(Mostly)
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I still prefer Operation Overdrive over Megaforce
Well I’d say that’s everyone’s opinion
Join the club, dude.
@@davidotoole2853 Sure is a damn shame that the actors portraying the characters of Megaforce and have better relatable and realistic personalities than the actual characters do in the show.
@@xgray2012 Having met Azim Rizk, I can confirm that this is true! Probably true for the rest of them too. They seem like a fun bunch from what I could gather at PMC.
I Prefer Overdrive over Megaforce, Turbo, and Ninja Steel!
What if they changed Mack's backstory from being a robot son who was created "just cause" to being a robot recreation of a living son that Mr. Heartford had but lost due to illness in the past. Everything else leading up to the reveal could be more or less the same, but it would help to explain why Mr. Heartford wouldn't make an army of robots, because he only ever wanted his son back and doesn't want to see him die again. Then Mack's character could struggle with whether he is the same person as the person e was based on or whether he was something different, and you could keep the thread of him devaluing his own life because he figures he can be rebuilt. I think this could've made for some good drama and touching father son moments between the Mack and his dad.
I know this may be a bit darker than Rangers typically went but seeing as RPM started with the red ranger's brother dying I don't think it would have been totally outside the realm of possibility.
More-so on that, Mr. Heartford was so preoccupied with his job/lifestyle that he was not there when his son died. This could foster the weak team dynamics and weaker will of the team as a sort of mirror: just as Mr. Heartford once valued his work over his own family, the Ranger team he calls together values their own individual lives over their metaphorical family and the larger purpose this gives to their lives.
Just as Mr. Heartford had to find a larger purpose or goal in his life than being a goddamn real-life Indiana Jones, so too must Operation Overdrive find their own purpose/meaning/whatever in protecting the world from a great and powerful evil. Which then emphasis is given to seemingly-cut character-interaction scenes and continued development from previous episodes so that those elements, well, are included in the show. Even give a clip-show episode where the Rangers recount each others' involvement and contributions to the team as a means of motivating them to go back to being Rangers and actually engaging in their mission.
And all the while, giving time to Mack's "secret".
This thread, these ideas, are incredible! And honestly, several of them are still plausible, even though we'll likely never get a confirmation one way or the other. Mr. Hartford lied about Mack's true nature his whole life. Who knows what other skeltons he's hiding in the closet, figuratively or literally.
So Astro Boy? Your idea sounds like the first episode of the anime, except that the kid Astro was based off of died because of a car crash. I'm not convicting you of theft, I'm just saying that's what came to mind when I first read your draft.
I like the idea but Power Rangers tends to be a bit darker and has better writing in only 2 situations. 1) When the series is about to be cancelled like In Space or RPM. 2) When the brand is about to go over to another company like Time Force was the last season before going over to Disney. Both the writers and show runners for those 3 seasons said that those circumstances allowed them to do more.
To go one step further maybe Hartford was looking for treasure because he spent the majority of his money on building Mack and he was going to sell whatever treasure he found to get his money back.
I think this season gave a group of young people that were clearly adults with successful careers and jobs, but then had them all act like children, fight each other like children, and quit the team like children, children who also before being brought together had no relationship with each other and certainly were not siblings to one another. Other vehicle series like RPM and Lightspeed Rescue and SPD, though their rangers were young, they came off as mostly adult like when the squabbled, dealt with personal doubt, and they weren't a group of adopted spoiled siblings to a rich guy, but acted like friends and comrades, a acted like adults enlisted into a mission important to the future of mankind and the protection of all the know and love.
Overdrive was filled with self absorbed thrill seekers who just want to drive zords, find treasure and be famous, tyzon being the one exception to this.
Gokiranger in the Senti has certainly proved you can do cocky adventurers well, but Overdrive does not pull it off.
I agree with this. Dsyfunctional is the best way to describe these characters. They don't feel like a team. They feel like random strangers that are forced to do a group project or else they'll all fail together. The main character's conflict of realizing he isn't human was handled okay, but aside from that the characters don't work for me because they're such weak-willed people. All these characters had lives before joining the team, and they're lives aren't affected too much while being rangers.
The best part about PR or any other 5-man band is seeing how they live their lives being rangers. But here, it feels so off. At every opportunity when the going gets rough, these rangers are the first to quit. When other rangers are willing to continue the fight, these people go back to their normal lives, AREN'T SATISFIED, and then come back of their own free will. How lame is that? It's not even because they really want to (iirc) it's because they kind of just give up.
Overdrive isn't the worse season to me, but damn was the team dynamic really shoddy.
The crazy thing is, Overdrive's characters do have moments where they feel more bound to each other than when they are first forced together. The issue is, I don't think said moments have much to stand on. The LG team cooked together, trained together, slept in the same rooms, remembered each other's birthdays, comforted each other after heavy battles and/or fights, laughed with each other to stave off the aforementioned heavier moments, and also encouraged each other. Overdrive however seemed content with just existing together.
Honestly, the best part of this season was their Zords. Apart from the Battle Fleet.
I liked some of their Zords, but over time, it just felt like I was watching Transformers Energon, lol.
@@TheDisneyBrain agreed the zord looks looks like optimus prime in energon. I rly like the show for its treasure hunting aspect reminding me of Huntik Secret and seekers. Also when sentinel prime fuse with the red ranger during a crossover two parter is just awesome.
Wooo, do Energon review, please.
Nah. Zord were shit in overdrive.
I felt that was one of the worst parts of this season Lol. Lack of interesring theming.
The Idea that a man so lonely he build his own robot son but realise that "son" would never be a real human. And the "son" will have to struggle between the human and the robot side. The idea was so good, i don't know how they could screw this up.
Hey guys!! I know I've been pretty inconsistent/late with responding to comments lately. It's not an easy thing to keep up with since in three days time, there's usually over 100 to read. But it's been harder now because the real world has gotten even busier just when I thought things on that end were starting to feel a little more under control. As if life, I suppose.
But I do love discussing these topics with all of you, but RUclips doesn't always tell me when you guys comment, which is why I vastly prefer using Twitter to converse. I'm much more active there, so stop on by!
Also... *heavily inhales*... SHUT UP DAX!
*then proceeds to bang head against wall*
Why have you stopped with the song lyrics?😢😢😢😢😢
Hey, great video! Also, I hope things on your end will work out for the better DB. Hey, can you check out Dino Charge? I’m a huge of Dino Charge because that’s what really got into PR lore, and is one of the reasons I’m going to major in acting and film studies when I get older.
Maybe for PR OD chartaers traits are down because of Super Sentai 30th season, it cause a bit of tuning to japan sillyness to american jokes. Maybe accientedly mix up or lack of conffenss in the Diseny listing for cast.
Could you please do a video on why the characters of Samurai and Super Samurai or Megaforce and Super Megaforce don't work?
Usually a new team/Ranger comes in to replace the current characters and fans would want the original team to fight for their spot and stay, like with Spd and the A Squad.
Except with this season, Once A Ranger happened and everyone wanted the older Rangers to take over. That was the beginning of the end for this season.
Save us RPM.
Actually Jungle Fury saved us
@@akaredrobranger I remembered it so little that I forgot the season that came next.
@@chikowashere I would argue that neither saved us from a numbers perspective. Disney just didn't care enough about properly marketing two of the better seasons of all time, which in turn led to Saban buying back the rights. It made for better, more ambitious seasons, ironically enough, but because there weren't as many eyes on the finished product during the time of airing, I wouldn't save they saved us in the way In Space did. Even though I'd rank both at least on par with or above In Space.
Hmmm. It isnt like Ninja Steel isn't doing all that great. Apparently PR is at its lowest viewership(as of Aug 2017), dipping below 1 mill viewers for the first time ever. Fortunately that was under Nickelodeon. Hopefully Hasbro doesn't completely foul up marketing PR like Nick(having a SUMMER-HIATUS? How stupid can you be at marketing)
Still it gave me the chills when Flurious destroyed his own brother in a rather graphic non Disney like way and all of that because of a slate he didn t get ...
Yea I remember that even as a child! I was slightly traumatized from that, like damn you kill your own brother wtf
1. I know that Disney never really cared for Power Rangers anyway; but I recall reading at the time on RangerBoard that in regards to this season, they cut the show's budget down a lot and also allegedly told the production/writing team something to the effect of "Just dub the Sentai footage and be done with it".
2. Disney also tried to muscle in on controlling the production of the parent Sentai series, but Toei was like "no!"
3. They also allegedly cancelled PR after this, but Jetix UK had Disney under contract for one more series.
4. I actually thought Ronnie and Rose were cute :) (had to end this list on a positive note)
Dubbing the Sentai... I'm having bad flashbacks to my first ever experience with that very thing in the form of Ultraman on FoxBox. It was... eye opening, LOL.
Oh I remember catching Overdrive back in 2007. I saw Dax open his mouth once in the pilot, I changed the channel immediately. And I was a hardcore Disney PR fan back then.
Thanks Overdrive for making me miss most of Jungle Fury!!!
LMAO!
I feel that Overdrive might have been a, no pun intended, test drive for Jungle Fury
In Andrew Hartford's defense, he said that he never had the time to find a woman to settle down with and raise a family, which is why he wanted to build Mack. Though this still never explains why he didn't make a robot wife as well if he was that lonely.
The other problem of course is that he was able to recruit a team of rangers to live that exact same life style very easily. It shouldn't have been that hard to find an Indiana Jane
Or of course adopt a child, i meam he is rich find a corrupt social agent and bribe his way out of the burocracy.
I'm maybe late but that's the problem about him, if he wants a child for himself, then why doesn't he adopt a child for himself? he's a rich person, it's a little scary from a psychological point of view that he's trying to making a robot child for himself and try to satisfy his pain, especially if he is an adventurer, smart and has a good psychology.
@@nailthunder5945 I was so shocked with the reveal but I knew something was up as soon as the “dad” said “Mack arrived 2 years ago” made me wonder what that meant, if he was adopted or something. But yeah I agree, it’s a bit strange that he would do that instead of going the simpler/more normal route.
I agree with you on the team dynamic of Overdrive. Boukenger's team dynamic was better aswell as their characters. For instance, Nanami(Ronnie's counterpart) was a Lemurian Princess and that was something that the series gave hints of until it was revealed in the counterpart of "Ronnie on Empty" parts 1 and 2. Also, Kamdor's counterpart was this so called Paper Crane Ninja called Yaiba of Darkness who wanted to cover the earth in darkness. To do this he slaughtered all of Innou (Will's counterpart's) former scavenger group before he joined the Boukenger's. However, he left Innou alive because he wanted Innou to be the one that ignites the darkness to fulfill his motive by allowing the hate to gradually build up, even though his former group would bully him. If you compared Overdrive with Boukenger's, it would have been amazing to hear you're opinions on how Disney could have developed Ronnie and Will. Maybe, the reason Will took his job in the first place was to prove he was better than his former crew and took the job in Overdrive with the slight hope of getting revenge on Kamdor. With Ronnie, it's a bit of a tricky one, but maybe, like Innou, Will finds and takes her in like a sister when he is younger as she is an orphan, lost in the forest and desperate for some form of guidance. As she was running from foster home's a lot when she was a child, she decides to become a racecar driver as she "has the need for speed".
Ronnie's Sentai counterparts name was Natsuki, not Nanami
At first glance I thought this was titled 'Why the Operation Overdrive Characters Don't Matter'. And I don't disagree. I watched Samurai and Megaforce and I remember not liking them. I watched this season, and I don't remember a single thing about it other than there being a Mercury Ranger.
It was weird re-watching that Thor and Loki episode of Overdrive with the context of the current Marvel movies. Real weird, lol...
From Samuell's own power ranger wiki: Benta is considerably unpopular within the Power Rangers fandom because of an incident at the first Power Morphicon; four banners were circulated amongst the actors and actresses in attendance for them to autograph. The autographed banners were to be auctioned off, and the proceeds to be donated to charity. Benta, however, opted to keep one of the banners as a souvenir and refused repeated requests from convention staff to return the banner he took. As a result, he has never been invited to further conventions due to his misconduct.
So the guy plays a thief and is one in real life. Huh.
Believe it or not, Operation Overdrive was the first season I watched as it aired since Turbo. I watched many Power Ranger episodes from various previous seasons on RUclips before they started getting stricter with copyright infringement and Operation Overdrive happened to be the next new season after I started watching Power Rangers again.
Interesting! A similar thing happened to me, except I ended up not watching Rangers as they aired anymore during the Mystic Force run, so for awhile, I didn't even know how it ended. Then, Samurai of all things brought me back, which in turn led me to watch and re-watch seasons much better than Samurai, lol.
Anyone else noticed that we got a plot twist involving a Red Ranger for three seasons in a row?
Mack in Overdrive and Nick in Mystic Force are the two that immediately came to mind. Not sure about the 3rd plot twist though.
I'd Rose was my favourite ranger. My favourite character is Norg. I think he's hilarious
I actually Overdrive more than Ninja Steel and Megaforce at least. Overdrive had Spencer and Mack's robot arc was actually decent until the Pinocchio ending.
The Pinocchio ending is one of my biggest complaints about this season. Mack had come to fully accept who and what he was. One fight and a few minutes of story later and his coming to terms with himself didn't matter at all.
mack: i'm a real boy
Yeah, the real boy thing was an okay moment, but what it really does is counter the fact that Mr. Hartford proves to love Mack regardless of his true nature. And it also serves as yet another one of Sentinel Knight's game breaking abilities that makes him such a poorly thought out character.
But yeah, Mack's lighting quick conversion has nothing on Princess Viera's. She changed her mind about galactic politics quicker then it would take me to order a pizza.
so true
The fight choreography was pretty good 🤓
I have an idea instead of mr.H never meeting the right women and all that he did meet the right women and they had a kid but he died. After human mac died the mom leaves and mr.H gets real depressed and stuff then eventually makes android mac. It would make a more hard hitting moment and it could of been used to work on some mom story or whatever
a bit clichè, don't you think?
@@marcopohl4875 cliches are a thing for a reason
@@accidentalmadness1708 That feels like the more probable backstory given what we see of Mr. Hartford. It might very well be something people have seen before in other movies or shows, but I could see them focusing in on the idea of life and what it means to be human as a great theme compared to whatever the theme was supposed to be in the Overdrive we know.
I hated this season so much, but it's been a few months since I watched it and I've calmed down. I still hate it, but the biggest backing off I've done for the season was on Mack. He pissed me off a lot in the second half, I hated his pissy attitude to his dad. Still don't like him, but I can see the potential in him to be a great character, the other character discussions I very much agree with. Really good video. I've only seen up to and including RPM, and Overdrive is easily the worst for me.
Oh man, you stopped watching on a high note, lol. Not sure you want to experience what happened next. Although I would say give Dino Charge a try. It's probably not for everyone, but it's the only time during the Neo-Saban era where I felt genuinely excited about a new episode coming out.
Watch Megaforce once and you'll start liking OO😂
THE ZORDS AND MEGAZORDS WERE STILL THE BEST PART OF THE SEASON!
And the op
IYO how much of Overdrive's problems do you think could be blamed on the Writer's Guild Strike?
Great question! So I'm not 100% on the time frame of the writer's strike. I know it affected Jungle Fury the most though. But if it was on going throughout the run of Overdrive, then yeah, definitely could be seen as detrimental. But Jungle Fury had the same issue for half its run, which should in theory have made the season more disjointed than previous ones. And yet, everything found an amazing way to connect, right down to beginning and ending with a towel. So maybe they just found better replacement writers for Jungle Fury. But Overdrive just feels like a season written by 100 people in 100 different rooms, doesn't it?
Hey, just wanted to say that I recently discovered your videos (like maybe a week ago) and I HAVE SEEN EVERY SINGLE POWER RANGERS VIDEO. I think your perspective is so interesting and you make me consider things that I never thought about before. I always try to find cool channels with Ranger videos but they never have deep reasoning/good analysis, and when I found your channel I got exactly that. I would love to see a full series on Lightspeed or maybe a countdown of your top favorite moments from the series! Thanks for always consistently posting super cool vids :)
i agree with you 100 percent
Thank you for your kind words! I never get tired of hearing how I allowed someone to thinking about things a little differently. It's the whole reason I do what I do :)
Hartford should have built Mack after his real life son who died in an accident with his mother. But then again, it's disney.
Shortest way I can describe the episodes Operation Overdrive - Great ideas with incredibly poor execution.
I'm not sure if I hate this or Megaforce more.
Overdrive was good ideas, bad execution.
Megaforce was ZERO ideas AND bad execution....
Megaforce, overdrive had cool desings and a goo variety of the zords (sentai wass kicking ass earlier 2000), the verry poor execution is what keep to be viwed in the same lenz as spd and rpm. Megaforce had everything to be the ultimate aniversary season but instead they ingnored the bulk of good season due pure spite/lazybess (spite for the disney era season) and make a dull and uninspired show with so many poyential misse that i would not care if they remake it from the ground using only the gokaiger stuff wile pretending that megaforce never existed.
For me, it's disappointing to see good ideas go to waste. But nothing is more depresing than laziness.
I think Will should've meant it when he quit, as he would be a jerk to Mack about his status as a robot, and Mack would want him off the team, and he would say, "You don't have to kick me off, because I quit! And this time I really mean it." And they would need a replacement Black Ranger, Andrew Hartford would take on the role, and would start having arguments with his son. This would fit the Sentai Footage where the Red and Black Rangers bicker all the time.
You don't always need character development to make a good character. For me even if the blue ranger didn't develop he was a good character overall. He didn't need to change to be a better character he was already a good character. He was funny and engaging.
Characters personalities is what makes characters good.
Yes character development is important
But not all characters need to grow to make them good characters. You can have characters learn from their mistakes and stuff. But not all needs too.
If you have an engaging character in general it doesn't need to be developed .
I like operation overdrive it was an ambitious season and i liked all of the characters
Definitely don't see a comment on O.O like this every day. Ha.
I agree!
I got to admit this was my favorite season I watch it everyday how could you not like this 😂
I enjoy Operation Overdrive´s, I love the twist with Mack because after that you expect that all of that were just a dream, and the ending was epic, better like the Supermega Force ending
Great review and glad to see you are a fan of time force and rpm.If I made a top best list those be in the top 3.Intresting review and good work.
Thank you! And yeah, I'd agree, even though my woefully outdated Top 10 Seasons video doesn't do the best job of conveying my current thoughts. Update video to come soon though!
"It's harder to know what matter and what shouldn't and it makes harder to care."
That sums up all the bad things about this season. And I really like Dax (cuz I have a crush I'll admit it)
The timing was funny on this one, A few days ago, I was having a discussion with someone else about Overdrive. Realistically speaking (keyword realistically not Ranger Universe), these characters, outside of Mack, all had established careers outside of being a Ranger. Hopes and dreams that they had accomplished (Dax sort of). So when they were completely sidelined, it felt natural for them to go back to those careers rather than waiting around the Hartford estate. Many of you keep arguing that that's not what other Rangers have done, but these aren't the other Rangers. I posed the question to several people that don't watch Power Rangers and every time it's the same answer. All of these people would go back to their jobs if for nothing else than to have something to do.,
Many people seem to forget that other super heroes have quit at some point in various comics or shows. In Superman 2, he quit. Spider Man, Captain America, Iron Man, the JSA, and the Fantastic Four have all quit at some point. Even Bruce Wayne has quit. Some of you will balk at this, but hear me out. The story line that is important to this discussion comes from the DCAU. There comes a time when Bruce Wayne is physically unable to continue and at one point grabs a gun and aims it at the criminal. He grows bitter and becomes pretty much a hermit. Along comes Terry McGinnis who eventually shows Bruce that there are things he can do even if he's not the one out fighting.
Back to Mack. Mack never quit. It could be argued it was because he lived there, but he himself stated that he still wanted to help. Through discussion with Sentinel Knight, he learned that there's an item that could destroy the powerful being. Mack decided to go after it. He first checked in with Rose, one of the smartest people he knows. She told him where to find the information. It then occured to her that Mack was up to something and she called the others. I'm assuming here that it was Will that trailed Mack, but that's a huge assumption. Even when getting the sword, Mack refused to give up. The others come along and try to help. They get frustrated again (this shows their poor characters better), but still, Mack doesn't quit. He was the inspiration for the others and eventually, as a team, they got the sword. Mack showed the other Rangers that there was still things they could do even if they weren't fighting and they asked Hartford for their jobs back. They stated that they would e willing to do anything Hartford needed them to do. Of curse, I wish that aspect had been explored more. It could have lead to some truly great character development.
Sorry for the rambling, but I've been thinking about this for awhile now and wished to share it.
I do agree that they handled the whole comcept poorly.
So you're trying to defend the show while still pointing out it handled that plotline poorly.
RONNY IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE YELLOW RANGERS EVER! BTW I LIKE HER BECAUSE OF HER "LUCKY SOCKS"!
Yeah people saying Overdrive is the absolute worst season ever is like saying Man of Steel is the worst Superman movie ever. It doesn’t even come close. Considering this season tried to respect the lore of PR and try out new creative ideas for its 15th anniversary unlike Megaforce and Super Megaforce which spit and shat on the franchise in its 20th anniversary. Those are truly the worst seasons. This doesn’t compare tbh.
Overdrive Indiana Jones type adventure had so much going for the characters to develop well. There were 5 main villains. Also I always felt like the team was already fully developed since the beginning
Do you think you can ever do your favourite zords across all the seasons?
I might, but it would be a difficult video because there's not much I can say about why most Zords are better than others. There's unique angles present with RPM's intentionally child-like designs and a few teams of Zords that are very much living, thinking, feeling creatures, but that's about it as far as having a real conversation goes.
Even though this season is the weakest of the Disney era it is still better then most of the neo Saban era.
Btw, I actually liked OO... Just so you know.
Will you review any Disney Channel shows like Tangled the Series or Elena of Avalor?
Hey Disney Brain! I’ve got an idea for you. How about you do a top 10 video comparing the rangers with the best/strongest civilian powers! This would include the Ninja Storm, Dino Thunder, Overdrive and SPD seasons. What do you think?
It's a unique idea, but I'm not sure it's suited towards the type of top 10's that I do. Which is to say, I don't see most civilian powers as important of character defining enough to rank them against each other, or even engage in much of a conversation about them. However, it might make for an interesting topic to discuss civilian powers in a broader sense, just as we've been discussing team dynamics for the past two weeks.
2:55: "If he's this bad at getting dates, despite his interesting stories and insane wealth,"
I don't think that's how it works. Not defending Overdrive -- it has a well-deserved reputation at the bottom of Ranger history -- but just that basic idea, it's far more likely that he had no trouble at all getting dates... with women who were looking for someone insanely wealthy. But if he wanted someone who actually cared about him, rather than some gold digger, it's perfectly normal that he'd have trouble finding the right woman with so many wrong ones eager to throw themselves at him.
3:15: "Instead, what we get is a plain, ordinary, everyday sort of mentor."
Remember that this came out in 2007. It wasn't until 4 years later that *Person Of Interest* gave us Harold Finch, the definitive look at how to do the character you want Andrew to be and get it right.
I pretty sure that's what he meant when he said he was bad at getting dates manson.
I love OverDrive! It was entertaining at least, not in fact of story line, but I love it!
Can we talk how Mac bonded to the morphed since he’s a robot?
Honestly Overdrive has never impressed me, positively or negatively. As a kid I remember being bored by it, and I can't say that's changed. We've had way worse seasons both before and since, but there aren't any that I care less about. Even Ninja Steel conjures more emotions from me, albeit extremely negative ones.
Ninja Steel conjures up the need for me to face palm repeatedly, lol. But a lot of that is the fact that back when Megaforce was airing, I could watch it just to keep up and then promptly forget about it. Nowadays, I have to pay attention to all the details, which leads to more headaches.
If only Disney had actually tried.
Would have helped! But to be fair, they didn't care at all about RPM and that turned out well. Not that well profit margins-wise, but a great season. Overdrive is one of those rare seasons where perhaps they would have benefited from not trying as hard in some areas to give more focus to other areas.
I like the Boukenger characters better than the Operation Overdrive characters.
There was also the Corona Aurora or whatever he was called but there's no way anybody would ever have enough time to go over it in one video.
Excellent video, as usual. You have a way of putting into words what my brain is thinking.
Until I saw episodes of Samurai and Megaforce, I used to think this was the worst season. Now I see it more as the "WTF were they thinking" season. I've never actually finished watching this one, mainly because I disliked the characters. I found out Mack was a robot through fanfiction, and that the 6th ranger was a monster(?) with this discussion vid. Further reason for the WTF.
I read a giant ranger crossover fic once where it made the OO team the villains of sorts. Don't remember the name, and I never finished it, but it was really good. It showed me that Mack could be an excellent ranger, while it grounded the entire team. Like, Will and Dax were full-on for the bad guys.
These rangers are just totally a missed opportunity. There are so many cool tropes they could've tried with these characters, like making Will someone to be redeemed or making Rose more like a Luna Lovegood, but they're just wasted. There is a good ranger team in here SOMEWHERE, but unfortunately the only place we'll get it is Fanfiction.
I wholeheartedly approve of anything that makes anyone closer to the wonder that is Luna Lovegood :)
I always found the "Red Sled" argument such a petty reason for the two brothers to squabble over. Like, I get that Moltor loved sledding as a kid but did it really need to keep popping up? Why couldn't they have written it to where the two brothers hated each other because during their adventure to claim the crown and its jewels, the two tried to backstab and trip each other up in order to reach it first. Which could be why the Jewels reacted in the way they did, because they sensed unrest and hatred in their hearts.
One mind boiled with rage, the youngest becoming Moltor. Whilst the other's heart ceased to unthaw, the oldest becoming Flurious.
Imagine if they did a 3 part arc called “Sins of My Father” doing a backstory on Mac, his father’s past & what happened to his mother!
I don't know why but after learning about the behind the scenes of this and other PR series I'm inclined to believe that there were more episodes planned or made for this season but were scrapped for money reasons
besides the hammer and ice blaster the weapons were cool imo. A Turbine and excavator claws were very unique for weapons
ah the "Build an army" line, while yes an army might have been more powerful, it would be harder to control and trust every troop, also that would be a lot of morphers and as we all know "to much pink energy is dangerous."
They didn't need to use morphors.
@@fightingmedialounge519 looking back to how the Silver Guardians fared against the time force baddies, people without morphers would be dead weight and body count
@@zabladestorm except they didn't have powers and we've seen non powered rangers defeat minor minions.
Overdrive excellerate
After watching this video, I think I get why so many people hate Operation Overdrive. It had potential. So so so so so so much potential. But like you said, it was safe. It refused to take risks and as a result, we got a mediocre Power Rangers season, (and that's me being nice). With other seasons, they definitely took risks. Even Power Rangers Turbo, one of the worst seasons according to popular opinion did this with its finale. The Rangers losing, the Alliance of Evil kidnapping Zordon, and the Ranger's base of operation being blown to smithereens. I wish things were executed better with Overdrive, that way it could have been a good or at the very least, decent season.
How about a vedio of
Top 10 siblings in power rangers
That would be cool
I actually liked Overdrive as a kid, and while it certainly has flaws, there is still some good in it. While as you said, the Mac and Mr. Hartford stuff didn't do all that it could have, it still did something very well. While it's nowhere near the level of, say, Wes and Mr. Collins (who actually DID buy an army), it still interesting.
Also since no one's said it yet, SHUT UP DAX!
At the end you sum up my biggest issue with this "team", in that they really aren't. They are mostly just co-workers that tolerate each other for the sake of the job. There are moments where they feel like more, but that's all they are. That could be interesting if these were interesting characters, but they really aren't. To me Mack is the best character of the season since I do like his story, and his sorta change in attitude after his reveal. Yeah it could be better, but its the only thing from these characters that sticks with me. Dax is awful, Will isn't much better imo, Rose is mishandled, and Ronnie I never really felt much on. I just don't get the most dedicated thing you're trying to sell here. Since even you admit that there could have been scenes that lead to that; but tbh she quits just as easily as everyone else except Mack. The empty trophy is meaningless imo since all 4 have a moment like that. Its not special, its just stock writing because they can't just have the team permanently disband. They quit for generic reasons, and come back for generic reasons. Nothing interesting is really done with this. Its lazy drama that just makes the reserve team look a hell of a lot better and the one I wish we were watching for this series.
Hey Disney Brain, will you do a livestream sometime? I think it'd be pretty cool. #PowerRangers
I'd actually love to do that, but I currently don't have the type of computer that could run such a thing. Currently, I've been looking into ways to have a podcast where I invite subs on and we can chat Rangers or anything else in real time, but that is proving deceptively complicated as well.
I would of liked if Hartford lost his adopted son due to one of his own adventures. That would explain building Mack and giving him the adopted sons memories. Let Mack question if hes just a replacement for the loss son or if he became his own boy at some point.
I’m a generally easy-to-please person, and I also grew up with this show, so I personally love Overdrive. Don’t get me wrong, it’s had its good and definitely bad moments, but to me personally, its a great season.
I think you neglected how interested and curious abot mack Rose would have been. After all robots were supposed to be her specialty and yet here is Mack who is better than anything she has built. I think the wasted a potentially great love interest between her and Mack with Mack questioning if she was interested in him or his circuitry.
That's an interesting idea! Or perhaps highlighting Rose's lack of enhanced interest in Mack's robotics as a way to symbolism her own renewed sense of human connection, so not even she sees him as just a robot. But that would be asking a lot of Overdrive.
Mack had potential honestly, i mean he's better then the red ranger we get later but hey. I ultimately wished he asked what happened to the other Mack robots though.....Dax......well......he's not the worst ranger i've ever seen. That honor belongs....again to that very same red ranger we get later. But Dax was just......there......and he can be very annoying....like....a lot. And the fact that he wants to be director, he's got a lot of work to do cuz he didn't do SHIT to deserve to be a director. Will......no comment......but I will say this.....he has no sense of progression. Ronnie she's a bright force that sorta brings the best outta this team......however.....we've never really got to see her competitive spirit blossom because of this, it kinda feels like they gave her two personalities they didn't know what to do with. Plus "Once A Ranger" damaged her character worse than it did Mack's, if she was the glue that held the team together then she should've been the one who talked her teammates into staying and helping out the veterans instead of endorsing their decision to leave. Rose is probably my favorite ranger on this team, Rose was fine except the whole teaching her what fun is thing. which truth be told....is dumb....im srry....it is....only other problem i see with her is she could've used her teacher skills to learn about the team around her, like Kendrix did in Lost Galaxy. Tyzonn is the most fleshed out out of any of these rangers, interesting concept, terrible execution, not as bad as Orion but not better then who came before him.
"everyones favorite season" i liked it...
Ngl, in childhood I only watched Overdrive and Mystic Force, because these were all I had on those CD discs, so I really liked them, but guess which season I was rewatching more than other? Yep, the Mystic Force. They're still dear to my heart, but when I learnt that there are other Power Rangers and also thing called Super Sentai Bokuranger...
Let's not forget the episode " Once A Ranger " I was like can the old team of rangers take over the rest of the season ?
I mean Operation Overdrive team got on my nerves about them wanting to give up so damn easily had me shaking my head
in 2007.
The thing is Once A Ranger never addressed the "skills" the Overdrive Rangers were supposed to bring to the quest. In practice, Rose and Will were probably the only ones with actual skills that were specifically relevant. Dax could fight and Ronnie could drive, which weren't all that specific to the mission. Rose was a genius researcher and Will could traverse the traps where the items were hidden, in theory. However, other that fighting, the returning Rangers didn't really have skills that would aid in that kind of treasure hunt.
It's probably what the main problem with the episode was. It treated the Ranger's mission as a typical Ranger mission, defeating evil. The quest should have had the priority when there were no innocents in danger. Keeping the Corona and jewels out of their hands was the important part, not beating them up.
why didnt Andrew Hartford just adopt a boy, instead of building one?
My theory is that since he didn't have time for dates, he probably didn't have time to change diapers either, lol, or just didn't want to. So he picked the option that, perhaps ironically, requires less maintenance than a real boy.
I gotta say, I personally really like Will. The growth thing definitely is a valid critique, but I personally saw it as a person who was set hard in his lifestyle, learned lessons, but struggled overall with the application of them until the end of the series, and when you look at Operation Overdrive like that, I think it makes the characters more bearable if you dont like the series, and more genuine if you do. And considering all the stuff that Will schemed and tried to do, whether he pulled it off or not, those were the highlights of the season to me.
The only good thing about Overdrive, was the Mach twist... The gorgeous girls couldn't even save it in my eyes
Are we getting a top 10 red ranger video?
Yes we are! But that likely won't happen until after I review Lightspeed Rescue, whenever that ends up being. That way, I'd have thoroughly analyzed almost every Red Ranger that will likely be appearing on said list.
Wow I just realized watching this that taizon and Orion are pretty much the exact same charicter
It's Tyzonn. That's his name.
Overdrive was the ranger season that was on when I first discovered the show. It holds a special place in my heart for that reason.
When I recently watched the entire series on the Official Power Rangers Channel on YT, I really enjoyed this series to be honest, and yes, it's not the best series or anything compared to what came before it, and yes, the characters weren't all great, but I loved Ronny as a character and one of the most beautiful Rangers and I think Mack was a brilliant character, despite his storyline of being discovered as an android being a bit of a let down in that way, but I still enjoyed the series.
My problem was that they didn't need four different villains who fought against the Rangers in different ways and I think that they would have been better if they had the villains all work together instead of against each other, and the Rangers too, especially at the end when Flurious was the main villain all along, in this series, but just like in the original series where you had the main villains together in one place and working together, or in Lost Galaxy where you had one main villain and then a side villain for a few episodes and back to the original villain again, or in Lightspeed Rescue, where you had Vypra as the main villain for the most part, and then Queen Bansheera, ended up being the main villain all along, and that's just my opinion of course.
I enjoyed Operation Overdrive, despite its flaws and issues and the characters were great, but I still think Ronny, Mack and I also loved Rose for what she was, and Tyzonn was great in some ways, but I know there were some things where I wished it could be done better, but I still enjoy it.
Can you do an overdrive rewrite?
Dude you're the best
Boukenger > Operation Overdrive. NUFF SAID
Boukenger, Shinkenger and Gokaiger are all undeniably superior to their Power Rangers counterparts....and the only time the reverse is 100% true is that RPM is infinitely better than Go-Onger
@@newageBoundhippie don't forget goseiger is way better than megaforce and i enjoyed go-onger it was a comedy season and i took it as such but don't get me wrong i loved rpm as well
@@dimitriross6555 its demostrates how bad megaforce is that goseiger is conssidered one of worst sentai seasons smh
My dream is to live in a world where the future KyuRanger adaptation is also considered better than the Sentai. I love the heck out of KyuRanger, so if Hasbro could actually improve on some of their missteps while forging an interesting story while returning to the final frontier, it'll be one of the happier future videos I'll ever make.
That said, I really do need to watch more Sentai. But I feel like if I watch a season that has already been adapted, I'll get too caught up in "Why the heck didn't they use this plot point?!" mode, LOL.
@@TheDisneyBrain you will but it'll also be fun to see how diffrent the plots are and why they used certain monsters for certain things and the villains omg toqger for example as a whole was meh,but the villains were excellent
Man could have injured himself in his adventures and chose to make his son than to adopt as it would be dangerous for human child for his misson
Would be a better twist if the father of Mak was the leader of the Evil force! That would be pretty good.
I liked this season for a lot of reasons, but overall it is rather lacking in a lot of ways I must confess. I also for one appreciated the number of villains, though the yeti was a little bit much for me XD
Given the time that this was most likely posted he have not SEEN the levels this goes
I'll take Overdrive over Megaforce and Ninja Steel anyday! Plus Maybe His Dad had a son, but he died, and then he created Mac to look like his son!
I heard Operation Overdrive had a lot of production issues.
With most likely affected the end result of the show.
Regardless, I like this series growing up.
Actually, according to the rangerwiki page of Operation Overdrive. The producers had pitched Operation Overdrive as "Power Rangers meets Indiana Jones" to the head executives of Disney. Which they liked, but was only giving the production of the season a miniscule budget. Which sure as hell explained why the execution of these ideas on Operation Overdrive's season suck. I mean, seriously. The ideas aren't the problem for this season. It's the execution of these ideas that are hurting the entire season of Operation Overdrive.
Sad, isn't it?!
All true, but one thing I'll never blame budget on is poor character growth. I mean yeah, the writer's strike was around that time, so maybe that played a part, but a lot of my favorite Ranger moments weren't the expensive ones. Jason Faunt got paid the same paycheck when he firmly told Eric that they both fought to change their destinies and they both succeeded. Would have been cool to see a Red Ranger Zord team up in Forever Red, but I would have just liked to see these actors interact more. I think personal elements like that are more of what's missing from lesser seasons, but especially a few more recent seasons.
Good video
how awkward must be for mack play a megaman game with his father? "hey look he knew all the way he was a robot! that makes all a lot more easy right dad? "
LMAO!
If Boom Studios ever made a series of comics for not just Mighty Morphin but for all the seasons then I would've made comics of the worst seasons of PR and make them better than the shows themselves. Plus I would remake those terrible seasons to start over and make new and good stories. I mean I would've made the Alien Rangers into actual ninjas like they should be!!
I love Operation Overdrive.
It still way better then ninja steel. Ninja steel is a disgrace
Ninja Steel isn't even memeable the way Samurai is. I wish it could be stupid funny instead of just stupid...
Just finished Boukenger and WOW did Disney fuck up here. They had all the character dynamics, cool suits AND villains from the sentai they could use and they just...I don't even know how they thought Operation Overdrive was ok. I really don't.
one of the biggest disappointments for me going from Boukenger to Overdrive was that we lost the entertaining Mr Voice and gained the cringe-inducing Norg :/
It's really sad that the thing I liked best about Overdrive was the suits, lol. It's a statement so perfectly contrary to a lot of my Ranger beliefs and thoughts, and yet, here we are.
I feel like zeds son shouldn't of been his soon but zed should be his role modle and is angry that he retired
The only thing I liked about this season was the 'Once a Ranger' crossover which I know you have your problems with as well, but you know what, this ENTIRE season has problems, so when all is said and done, after previous episodes before it, it's not too hard for me to believe that a character is able to resurrect power coins, bring back ninja storm powers that were lost forever, travel back through time to get a ranger from the future etc etc, also the last straw for the OOD team for me personally was when all these old rangers showed up to temporarily do they're jobs until they're powers in the morphing grid was fixed to restore they're powers, they just QUIT, without even trying, they all quit and took off while the old rangers LITERALLY did everything, granted they got they're powers back, but the OOD rangers did NOTHING to help get they're own powers back. The way they so easily gave up is disgusting when you think about the past rangers and how far they were willing to go, the wild force team lost they're powers, lost they're zords, lost EVERYTHING, it was raining, it was cold it was dark, evil had won, but damn it they kept on FIGHTING! Or how about that time Wes in Power Rangers time force was willing to DIE fighting off an entire army of aliens BY HIMSELF in order to defend the earth. How about the time The mighty morphin team lost EVERYTHING in a fight with Rita's brother and some other monster, they LITERALLY went out to search for new powers, and they did EVERYTHING they could get there! ALL these and so many other examples before the OOD team that makes them look SO bad in comparison, and none of them were challenged in this way either, making this team EASILY one of the worst in Power Rangers.
I didn't know the blue ranger was jakie chan
If the whole team we're androids like Mac that would more interesting.
Especially if/when they discover the true.
I thought this was an okay season I thought the morph was kinda cheesy but it was an okay season
I think Spencer is my favorite character in operation overdrive
Make Mr Hartford lose his wife and child due to one of the seasons enemies (going to go with Flurious). Let's say he found the crown or whatever in one of his adventures and play him off as a cocky character in his youth. He outsmarts Flurious somehow and goes back home to his beautiful wife and child. Then on a night out of celebrating his new find, with his family and Spencer Flurious appears. He trashes Hartford and to knock Hartford down a peg for his cocky attitude he takes his wife and child from him. Hartford is devastated that he can't protect the crown even. Spencer even tries to intervene but before Flurious can get the crown the Sentinel Knight shows up and banishes him. The knight is weakened for some reason but tells Hartford he needs to protect the crown and find the jewels or else what happened to his family will happen to the world. Hartford snaps out of for the brief moment and agrees but the weight of him losing his wife and child he makes Mack and also searches for the jewels of the crown with no luck. Mack is to fulfill the void of his loss. He buries himself in his work and in turn isolated himself aside from Spencer and Mack. If you're going to have Mack's big reveal be his a robot than Hartford needs a big secret backstory to add weight to Mack's reveal. Not to mention it would add even more weight to how Mack treats his dad when he finds out and how bitter he was. Mack being a replacement son would have much more tension.
I was thinking maybe if his wife had a misscarraige or maybe she dies while pregnant causing Andrew to build a son in order to replace the one he lost
I actually stopped watch Power Rangers after Operation Overdrive. For some reason it turned me off so much I couldn't watch any other Power Rangers that came out after it.
I didn't even watch Power Rangers from Mighty Morphin', I started watching around Wild Force and Every other show after till Operation Overdrive.
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