Sunday, April 30, 2006
The Power Rangers
I don’t really watch TV anymore, aside from what I get off the internet or when I’m waiting on a wash machine in some strange location. I hear that power ranger show is still going. How is that even possible? I wonder if the writing got any better. When I was a kid, I loved the show for awhile. But I started getting upset; the bad guys never deserved to win. Their tactics sucked, they had the ability to send tons of monsters to this planet but usually just sent one. Unless of course they decided to send a whole bunch of old defeated monsters to fight, but those guys got wrecked. After a super hard fought battle, the bad guys would just give up. Why not just send more monsters? Or send in more of those puddy things? If the rangers were really that drained, the minor minions should finish them easily.
Also, the rangers had to defeat every monster twice, once on the ground and again in their zords.Here was a huge flaw in the bad guy tactics; the zords were way more powerful than the rangers. And when the zords formed together as one, it was like fighting a god of war. What were the bad guys thinking? Why didn’t they A. send more monsters to help out and destroy the zords or rangers on the ground. B. just destroy at least one zord unmanned (the bad guys could watch the battles from the moon, couldn’t watch the zords go back into their hiding spot?) or C. kill one of the rangers when they haven’t morphed? Without one member of the team, they couldn’t form into a complete unit and the good guys would be screwed! The show was about team work right, well, there is no team in death! Honestly. I remember one episode the bad guys snuck into a ranger’s room but didn’t kill the ranger. They stole her doll. What are they thinking? She was right there, they teleported right next to her! Why didn’t they just shot her in the head and say good game. Or teleport the ranger into the sun. Or just summon a giant monster to step on the ranger’s house while they were sleeping!
Also, how’d this little group of “rangers” manage to outfit and maintain so many weapons of mass destruction without any government involvement? They never got any funding or resources, yet they always seemed to have all the ammo and raw materials they needed. Repairs never took more than a couple of minutes. These monsters would knock those machines all over the place, but the machines were brand new the next day. Also, why’d the monsters only attack one city? Why not just go all over the place and kill off humanity? Without any support those rangers would eventually die, who’d feed them and drive them to their “juice bar?
Who knows, maybe that show actually has some good writers. Someone who’s read the art of war like, 40 times. That’d be awesome. No way am I going to watch it, because I know the version in my head is far better than anything their 4 dollar budget is going to create. Sometimes dreams truly are better than reality.
Also, the rangers had to defeat every monster twice, once on the ground and again in their zords.Here was a huge flaw in the bad guy tactics; the zords were way more powerful than the rangers. And when the zords formed together as one, it was like fighting a god of war. What were the bad guys thinking? Why didn’t they A. send more monsters to help out and destroy the zords or rangers on the ground. B. just destroy at least one zord unmanned (the bad guys could watch the battles from the moon, couldn’t watch the zords go back into their hiding spot?) or C. kill one of the rangers when they haven’t morphed? Without one member of the team, they couldn’t form into a complete unit and the good guys would be screwed! The show was about team work right, well, there is no team in death! Honestly. I remember one episode the bad guys snuck into a ranger’s room but didn’t kill the ranger. They stole her doll. What are they thinking? She was right there, they teleported right next to her! Why didn’t they just shot her in the head and say good game. Or teleport the ranger into the sun. Or just summon a giant monster to step on the ranger’s house while they were sleeping!
Also, how’d this little group of “rangers” manage to outfit and maintain so many weapons of mass destruction without any government involvement? They never got any funding or resources, yet they always seemed to have all the ammo and raw materials they needed. Repairs never took more than a couple of minutes. These monsters would knock those machines all over the place, but the machines were brand new the next day. Also, why’d the monsters only attack one city? Why not just go all over the place and kill off humanity? Without any support those rangers would eventually die, who’d feed them and drive them to their “juice bar?
Who knows, maybe that show actually has some good writers. Someone who’s read the art of war like, 40 times. That’d be awesome. No way am I going to watch it, because I know the version in my head is far better than anything their 4 dollar budget is going to create. Sometimes dreams truly are better than reality.
# posted by MaximumTacolord @ 2:53 AM 
