Dr. K being an L-esque kid genius who just has a thing for cartoon animals is lowkey a pretty genius and funny explanation for why the zords are animal cars.
@@isaachernandez2592 yes but obviously it doesn't share the same story as the soul engines and he was praising the power Rangers writers for their adaptation
Ironically, it makes me think she only made them animal zord just to try to retrieve the little to nothing of fun the project sucked out of her childhood.
@@skyslasher2297 Oh it wasn't, I think even Bandai helped out with the rest of the budget after half the season used all of the budget they had beforehand.
RPM was PEAK Power Rangers. Great writing, great acting, great character for every ranger (especially Ziggy, Dillon and even Dr K), great humour, highest stakes, and a menacing villain that actually brought humanity to the brink of extinction. It was so dark and intense for Power Rangers and I loved it. It got to the point where I don't even watch other PR seasons anymore, I just revisit RPM every now and then
Sorry I don’t get if this is just a reference to the wire or a reference to like an actor who was on it or something, if you could explain I’d appreciate it
@@gabrieldevoogel6225 seems like a reference to the wire, omar is a character who would whistle the same tune for intimidation rpm has a lot of references to other media :D
@@lounowell4171 oh! Wow! That’s awesome and honestly adds to her intimidation as it implies this was a way she played as a human, the theory of implicit memory says that certain memories become key to people, like how they interact with family or siblings, so to me it reads as Tanaya mimicking her playing whistles from her as a kid into a more intimidating form
@@lounowell4171would you listen to an RPM sequel idea I had, I don’t really write fanfic anymore but if another (hopefully adult or intelligent teenager) to gimme a judge on what they think before I waste time on something potentially bad
If Linkara ever re-records this, I'd want him to expand on the demos of the theme even more; specifically the one that was performed by Dan Avidan. I can hear it now, "Yes; Danny Sexbang of Ninja Sex Party and Game Grumps... Made a Power Rangers demo theme. Small world, huh?"
@@MegaAnimazing Ironically the second did use "Go Go Power Rangers" meaning Disney could have accidentally started that god awful trend before Saban did
For me, this is absolutely a stand alone series. Almost every other incarnation of Power Rangers is trying to save humanity from impending doom. Here, it happened. The Power Rangers didn't save the day. The heroes didn't come in time. Humanity is hanging on by a thread at one last city Matrix style, only to find that the one who creates their Rangers to save us all from annihilation is in fact the one who doomed them in the first place. I loved the twist, the opening song was perfect for the gritty tone. The fan opening was perfect for the Senti version, it would have never worked for RPM's much darner tone. Looking at the comical Zords was puzzling enough to me back then, add a light and spritely jingle and I'm gone. At least the actors really brought the reality of the situation to life. Especially Olivia Tennet's Dr. K. So burdened with her creations atrocities against humanity, determined to do whatever it takes to kill the virus before it kills us all. Yeah, we haven't felt that kind of anxiety since Tommy kicked the rest of the Rangers asses for 5 episodes straight. Despite the Zords, this is my favorite incarnation writing wise. The rest were cookie cutter compared to RPM.
"The rest were cookie cutter compared to RPM". It's gotten to the point where I don't even watch other PR seasons anymore, I just revisit RPM, they just pale compared to this
Every single time Dillion and ziggy talk in this video I laugh. Either at how bad ass Dillion is or how eccentric ziggy is. These guys have great chemistry and acting chops to pull off lines that would probably have been cringe by anyone else lol
This is the type of Power Rangers/ "darker" story telling I wanted as a kid (Outside of Power Rangers, Gargoyles was my favorite show at 4 years old if that tells you anythign)😬
It tells me you were a 4 year old of exceptional taste. More to the point, I'm a sucker for this style of dark story, from a spectrum starting at the Galactica Remake (first half, certainly), through Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, through this and even to A:TLA despite it being _mostly_ a fun, vibrant romp: _very_ dark backstory, dark overall situation to overcome that necessitates dark moments and, certainly in the case of Galactica, flawed characters given just how damaged they are, but with still with a real sense that people are doing their damn best in spite of it all. I'll take that over, "everyone is awful, often for no reason," _every_ time. It's hard to write because it's hard to put yourself in the shoes of people who experienced what the characters have to know what works as flaws while keeping them believably sympathetic but, when you _do_ get it right, it's usually outstanding.
Scott is a soldier, Flynn was both a volunteer fireman and peace corp member and Summer is shown to have trained in martial arts prior to the events of the series.
Nah the bigger weirdness in power rangers (witch I found out) 1 of vengix genrals kinda looks and sounds like chubo from power rangers ninja storm.........and It's weird yet we love weirdness in power rangers XD
There is a reason dr k designed the RPM suits the way she did design them. As shown in the series she was kidnapped after men in black saw her with a little girl when she was about 5 years old, because she was able to calculate extreme mathematics, and then taken to a goverment facility named "alphabet soup". She was manipulated to believe she was sick and couldn't go outside. And she was instructed to work on ranger tech and since she was kidnapped as a child she never had a proper childhood so she designed the ranger tech to reflect what she could have had before she was taken away. This is basically her using her imagination. I wont give anymore info on that because that would spoil things more than i already did
He mentions that backstory in a later part. It's interesting to think that Dr. K made the ranger suits as colourful as possible in response, and defiance, to the men in black that originally took her.
I think I can understand why they called it RPM especially since well what RPM actually stands for revolutions per minute and given what happens in the show in the future I think the name still stands
35:30 In this shot, we briefly see Fresno Bob and Santa Claus in the same shot. Fittingly prophetic because Fresno Bob's actor would later play Santa in the Neo-Saban seasons.
"I judge the the theme for its overall quality not how much it matches the show" *listens to mystic force theme* "When you think of a series about magic and mystisism,does your mind turn to Hip-Hop" *folds arms, lowers 1 eye-brow and raises the other*
Yes, and then he said, "there's no energy to it, nothing there to get the viewer pumped if something awesome is happening." It's not just that it doesn't fit for him, but that he didn't think it was good.
pokehunterhd Actually, he later mentioned in part one of his HOPR - Mystic Force videos that "There is no energy to it. Nothing there that would get the viewers pumped if something awesome is about to happen!" So yeah, it's that the official theme song for Mystic Force didn't actually fit him, it's just he didn't think it was all that good to begin with. Now, in my opinion. I personally don't actually like the Mystic Force official theme song because to me, it felt like Disney was belatedly pandering to the "urban" audience of kids that watch Power Rangers and trying to make it all "hip!" and "with it!!" like they think they've actually reach out the Black community by adding in more multi-cultural music in various Power Rangers themes?!?!? Uh no!!! That doesn't work like that, especially in Power Rangers. I mean, if you wanted to add a hip-hop song into a Power Rangers season, then its' best if it actually worked as an insert song when the rangers aren't fighting the monsters or as an ending theme song. But never an opening theme song. Case in point....the NickToons short-lived animated series, "Voltron Force". It also had a Hip-Hop opening theme song, but it really didn't match the tone of the actual show. I mean people who knew about or grew up watching Voltron, they'd expect to hear the classic theme song from the original. Not a discount Will.I.Am Hip-Hop song. Bottom-line, the opening theme of Mystic Force just didn't work for some fans nowadays. If you liked it, fine. More power to you. But for people like me and Linkara, we did not like it because it didn't really give almost everyone, the excitement of waiting for something awesome to happen in the show. That's about it.
Dane Lang Well, I would argue that not all of Linkara's resources are accurate. But, as far as his reviews go, some of them are based on just his feelings about how he reacting to certain things such as the use of a hip-hop theme in Mystic Force over a traditional rock theme for the opening sequence of that show. But to be fair on one thing, the hip-hop theme for Mystic Force really didn't actually get its' target audience pumped or excited for the next episode every time the show came on the air back then. It just felt like something you'd hear from a Black-Eyed Peas album. That's about it!
Little Dylan detail I noticed is how he takes a very small sip before giving the flower water in the first episode, desperate but still kind to the world, but in the last episode he has the spare to give any of the dozens of flowers he finds water, helping not only propagate life, but also allowing Dylan to sustain himself and the two with him, meaning it shows that he’s less boarder-line S*icidal tendencies with how much he throws himself at danger
I can’t believe that an alternate universe is the setting for a Power Ranger season to finally have military involvement outside of lost galaxy, which if you go by the DRPR Version of the PR timeline, lost galaxy and rpm take place in the same continuity. I’m just gonna go with that version of the continuity. I mean, the original pitch for RPM was for the series to take place on Mirinoi from lost galaxy. So, I guess jake a.k.a. database ranger took that idea and ran with it. He incorporated it around the 20 or 30 episode Mark, and he’s added his own spin to it.
Hayden I would say power rangers rpm is of the one of the better seasons of power rangers because it's actually pretty good and nowadays we barely see any good seasons and dino fury is not the best season of power rangers but it's OK.
Also a series where citizens and people are shown to die and stay dead as well as other things you wouldn’t think power rangers would touch like indoctrination like Doctor K or mutaliation like Tenya
Honestly, I've never really understood why people consider the actual RPM theme more fitting than the fan favored demo track. Sure, it's a darker song, but RPM is ultimately a pretty hopeful series, a soaring pop punk song fits a lot more thematically imo. Plus, pop punk blew up in the 90s around the same time Power Rangers did, so it works as a full circle theme for the intended final season.
It's an interesting one. 'Dark setting and backstory/sparks of hope that can't be extinguished and ultimately triumph' is one of my favourite kinds of storytelling but it's _very_ hard to keep the tone in balance. I prefer the demo too (even if I feel the lyrics could use another draft) but I can definitely see people coming down the other way.
You know, I think I know of a way that the talking Zords could be implemented into RPM. By having it that each of the Zords have an individual A.I, that has the job of assisting the rangers in fighting Venjix. Dr. K could have also uploaded a firewall into the A.I. For each zord, to prevent them from being taken over by Venjix.
@@joserobertosolismerlin5527 In addition to the firewall, to prevent any of the A.I from going rogue, Doctor K would give them a sense of morality. They would be kind of like the Beast Bots from Beast Morphers, and here are their names and characteristics: Speedy the Eagle Racer: a speedster who’s quick on his feet (or in his case, tyres) Leo the Lion Hauler: A guy who’s smart and laidback Berry the Bear Crawler: a sweet and loyal friend. Fin the Tail Spinner: A real tough guy. Wulf the Wolf Cruiser: A quiet, but loyal friend. Crunch the Croc Carrier: a guy who likes to be loud and known. Soar the Falcon Chopper: a real chipper guy. Stripe the Tiger Jet: a patient but quick kind of gal. Blue the Whale Jumbo Jet: a happy-go-lucky and laid back guy. Tusks, Fang and Spike the Paleozords: Brutish and simple minded fighters (think of the Dinobots from Transformers).
I've never understood the argument that the demo was too "happy" for RPM because RPM is supposed to be dark and gritty. Because honestly, RPM ISN'T dark and gritty. It has its moments, the post-apocalyptic premise is darker than your typical PR season, but the show NEVER shies away from the fact that it's Power Rangers. You've got rangers fighting with baby carriages, "I'm Scottish!", the fourth-wall breaks, "that is not spandex", basically Ziggy's entire character, etc.
It's a good point. Similarly to Lewis pointed on in his Time Force review that there's a difference between having a sympathetic backstory and actually _being_ sympathetic, there's a distinct difference between having a grim, gritty backstory and setting and actually being grim or gritty in your storytelling. Look at Fullmetal Alchemist (the manga/Brotherhood, anyway) - the protagonists' backstory is utterly horrifying, several of the other _heroes_ were recently complicit in an act of genocide and the forces pushing the nation towards some unspecified but definitely unpleasant fate appear all but unstoppable for most of the run. Yet, while it too has its moments (oh, my Christ, does it have its moments), the narrative itself is utterly awash with themes of redemption, the futility of revenge and the merit of sticking to your ideals even when they can seem almost childish in the face of all the world can throw at you.
Exactly! You need those lighter moments to keep people invested and eager to see if/how they win. Because the dark moments will mean nothing without the lighter ones. Even in universe, people need the brighter colours for morale just like the sky hologram.
I wonder how many grinders Dillon could actually deal with. Maybe thousands, millions, or even billions. Heck, Venjix should’ve sent the whole entire fleet of grinders.
I actually like the focus on Dillon and little of ziggy it’s different same thing with it taking place in a apologetic world which again I love it’s different then what we are use to also it was keep me watching after almost every single season of power rangers I know every single thing that will happen example who will be a ranger cuz of there first time on screen and them wearing the same color as there ranger outfits and when they get a new zord cuz the villain is so powerful yet they get defeated in the same episode at least with beast Morphers I was shocked in the first episode cuz evil rangers and In dino fury where the pink ranger is a alien and the red ranger “dieing” in the end those where amazing to see and I hope in cosmic fury we get more plot twists like that that’s what makes power rangers great when you know what’s gonna happen then it gets turned on it’s head
Tanaya seven never got to finish her monologue. I wonder if the original version of the series had ever given her the ability to finish what she was going to say. Final evolution of robots? Final evolution of humans? Who knows.
"What's a Power Ranger?" "What's a Paladin?" Fittingly funny since Boom Studios just announced Power Rangers Paladin Force as one of the multiverse Power Rangers in Power Rangers Infinity.
I really enjoyed this season a ton, and would binge it over and over again on Netflix til they pulled all the seasons after Mighty Morphin and before Beast Morphers, thanx again for that Netflix or Hasbro maybe
Fun fact: All of season 1 of Beast Morphers is gone from Netflix, except episode 10. Season 2 is still currently on Netflix(as of this reply), but IDK for how much longer?
@@Andy_Draws0209 Agreed. And I was planning on streaming Beast Morphers when I had time, only to find out half the series is missing. Which is why I tend to prefer physical media(aka: Blu-Rays and DVDs) over digital media. Since nothing stays online forever.
9:45 YEA, But he made it work! 14:05 playing it pretty serious from the start 16:16 not a bad idea… 18:32 I’m sure that would’ve fixed everything…no problems whatsoever… 32:07 and the self referential humor begins😂 36:00 oh course…evil glowing eyes are the best qualification for green rangers
9:53 although I’m sure he was tearing his hair out working with the budget as I think it’s a pretty safe bet this is so far the power rangers with the least amount of sentei footage currently.
Which is the falcon Zord we saw in Shper Megaforce…and of course because tZacher had no interest in story, the Falcon Zord was never properly explained. Damn Tzachor is a fucking idiot
I would’ve chosen name like Power Rangers war robots or something, and with the sentai footage, you wouldn’t even have to worry about the copyright stuff from Pixonic which are the creators of the War Robots game.
As I was watching the fight from Jungle Fury at the beginning I was wondering... HOW THE HECK THERE WASN'T A FIGHTING GAME BASED ON THESE CHARACTERS! - THE FAN GUY LITERALLY HAS AN ATTACK THAT HAVE SCATTER DAMAGE WHEN HITS! -THE CHAIN-BALLMASS CAN KNOCK BACK THE FRONT ENEMY TO HUT THOSE BEHIND! -DOMINICK CAN CIRCLE SPREAD GUN SHOTS! I Know about the budget but they could at least do this since JF was supposed to be the final season and so a fighting game should suffice those who wanted something that PR was based on, cool guys doing martial arts battle against others and they have a good cast and variety.
Only after you stop watching the show does it bring out its best season yet. This was the case with rpm, this was the case with jungle fury, this was the case with even dino fury i have been hearing its pretty dark.
It's funny that, after so long having ups and downs getting to grips with the series did Disney knock it out of the park with their last two. Even if they're not to people's tastes, they're so much more focussed on characters and theming than anything they'd overseen before.
I actually don’t mind the multiple Continuities in digimon sure it sucks that say tamers doesn’t team with the 01 and 02 team but it changes up the cast and honestly I just see it as different dimensions digimon has delved into the idea of different dimensions like the dark ocean in adventure 02 and even if it wasn’t as explained in the battle of adventures movie because it was just fight scenes with zero substance omnimon was a dimension fighting mephistomon and Sakkumon was a multidimensional being so I’m willing to except it as just different dimensions and I think it works but hey multiple continuities aren’t for everyone
I’m actually on the opposite end of the spectrum, and advocate for reboots, if only specifically for superhero comics. Namely because writing sensibilities/standards for comics have changed pretty dramatically since the 60s (or hell the 30s) and it’s nice to get updated versions of those stories that new readers can get into. Like seriously, I do not know how ppl nowadays can read Ditko era Spider-Man unironically. I tried, and I just can’t, and that example probably aged the BEST out of any gold/silver age comic.
"Like seriously, I do not know how ppl nowadays can read Ditko era Spider-Man unironically. I tried, and I just can’t, and that example probably aged the BEST out of any gold/silver age comic" Why's that?
@@dylansharp8471 Probably better than other silver age stories at the time, but it still suffers from a lot of antiquated writing styles for comics at the time: characters talking in unrealistic exclamations, characters describing an action you can clearly see on the art, plus just an overall sense of cartoonish-ness and one-dimensionality (especially for spidey's rogue's gallery) that makes me tilt my head when writers like Mark Millar and Alan Moore praise said era, and cite it as a source of inspiration during their tenures with the characters (in Mark Millar's case anyways)
If the Universal Bio-Electric Field (aka Morphing Grid) is based on living things, wouldn't it be really weak with the area of NO LIFE across the world?
So do we know WHY RPM went with the sentai footage it used? Like did they have no choice? Did Disney pick the first Sentai show name they could find out of a hat and tell Eddie to get over it? I'm just saying, considering the uh, "colorful" nature of his response to the zords, choosing literally any other show might have made things easier
Its because up until Dino Charge, Power Ranger always adapts seasons of Super Sentai in the exact order of release, they've been doing this MMPR season 1 (which adapted Zyuranger) . Go Onger (RPM) came right after Gekiranger (Jungle Fury), that's why it was used.
And since Power Rangers was moved to Nickelodeon, the show has to have 20 or so episodes per season. Meaning that Power Rangers where very slow about adapting certain Sentai.
Thankfully Nick is no longer a factor. Their asinine season length rule is stupid enough on its own. But then Samarui suffered them showing the series out of order for NO FUCKING REASON! Seriously, whoever made THAT call should be banished from the Entertainment industry.
GEE I wonder what other power ranger shows would've based on car OH idk POWER RANGERS TURBO :P P.s dont worry I'm not THAT pissed off just.....not dumb
From what i read, Disney only wanted Fox Family Worldwide for Fox Family since they had MLB programming rights for some games which is why they bought it and had received everything that Fox Family Worldwide had under it hence why Disney owned Power Rangers.
@@harrybechtle4333 No, from what i read, Disney only wanted Fox Family Worldwide for Fox Family since they had MLB programming rights for some games which is why they bought it and had received everything that Fox Family Worldwide had under it hence why Disney owned Power Rangers.