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maple/ketra! space piñata, pointy horse, smelly animal. rock visualizer. leaf painter. number user. pfp: gogmazios

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cathoderaydude
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cathoderaydude
@cathoderaydude

sitting bolt upright as I realize why i was never into power rangers

saban: hey kids! come watch as some unrelatable beverly hills 90210 high schoolers have Problems together! sometimes they turn into big dinosaur robots that your parents are not going to buy for you, and i have personally removed all the scenes made by people from another culture that you might become intrigued by. smooth sailing ahead!

k. a. applegate: well if you don't mind a little reading, you can follow along as these angsty tweens learn that humanity isn't perfection, base animal instinct is terrifying but also appealing, and also there's no winning in war

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pendell
@pendell

I never watched a single episode of the show (and never really felt a desire to) but I did own the 1995 movie on DVD and I appreciated how hilariously batshit insane it was. But the power rangers themselves were the least interesting part of it and I do not remember a single thing about them as characters because they seemed like they walked straight out of an Old Navy advertisement.

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garudina
@garudina

my girlfriend talked me into watching it on the basis that the opening sequence of the various Teens doing Teen Activities at the bowling alley reminded her of the similar opening at the mall in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. sadly Ridgemont does not have Judge Reinhold and Nicholas Cage immediately afterward getting into a karate battle with some bullies and winning and then everyone cheers

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garudina
@garudina

I had a very specific reaction of realizing that the Power Rangers' design was too stylized and assumed too many conventions to have been made from whole cloth. These aren't motorcycle helmets. What are they? What other things relate to this?

To this day I have a lingering resentment for the Power Rangers themselves, and it's not just that I wanted the toys and never got them - it's that they were presented to me as an original creation and I could tell, instinctively, that they weren't.

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