Power Rangers SPD - History of Power Rangers 

So while Linkara added an edit in About Mark Harris, I'd like to spend a comment expanding upon such for the unawares. As Harris IS the credited person responsible for 'Kalishplosions'; in every incident of that issue in the Disney, Neo-Saban and Hasbro era's his name is cited in the credits as the stunt coordinator for them (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MdpZ1LE97so.htmlsi=djNHQwdXYOs5Gj4f&t=1328). Thus showing through those credits that Neither Kalish nor Sakamoto Were culpable for them. This has been known publicly in the fandom for a LONG Time; and was something being called out even before Linkara made the original SPD video a decade ago, yet kept being spread because those that believed it often did not look for evidence outside of Power Rangers to confirm or deny culpability...even as such examples became more and more prevailent with time. This is not a 'blame Linkara' post, by the way; a LOT of people spread this to-this-day with no Malicious intent, to the point the 'Kalishplosions' page on the Ranger wiki has suffered edit wars over proper credit for them even when sources are cited, to say nothing about how bad TVTropes Still is over this and similar misinformation. Ergo, the youtube links throughout this post providing video evidence of such in play. For The problem effects in question DO predate Bruce Kalish's time on the show, and it makes no sense for the screenwriter to be responsible for effect-works. They Start in Ninja Storm, and become more prevailent IN Dino Thunder. While Koichi Sakamoto *Stopped directing for Power Rangers after Wild Force*, at least with any regularity for it to be him who was responsible. With one of his best works he did for Power Rangers before he got sent upstairs being his directing on "Forever Red". (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KAVU-tvHpyk.html) If one has few complaints about "Forever Red"'s stunt work, that's because that is to the Sakamoto standard seen of his later work (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CuqZQVnad14.html) , with him taking the techniques he and fellow stunt Director Makoto Yokoyama developed during their time on Power Rangers (which began with Zeo) back with them to Japan to develop them further. He moved to a producer position after Wild Force (that being part of the reason why he was mis-blamed), while he and his stunt team split their time between Japan and New Zealand to begin doing action scenes for Toei on Super Sentai and Kamen Rider, as well as Tsuburaya on the Ultra Series (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-b3SFwyrbMVA.html); and at the time of SPD's production he was also doing some work on Magiranger (adapted as Power Rangers Mystic Force) as part of him building in-roads with the company; him transitioning to full-time directing for them and others when Power Rangers' production closed out at RPM (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jmM6Kqm5ySs.html). He still does work for them (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8hSQoUIhL2w.html), and has even directed several movies (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ME9Lt8eEN0Y.html) both part of those franchises (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iZi-WNSe0Sw.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PZjxLay8Rjs.html) and independantly such as The live-action adaptation of "Hurricane Polymar" that Discotek Media recently imported (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-e0TWrjULbnU.html). Linkara has even reviewed other Tokusatsu series which features Sakamoto's Directing outside of the 'History of Power Rangers' videos; he was one of the main directors of "Kamen Rider Fourze" (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QSyzq8dF_cA.html). And in absolutely no credited work of his has he Ever showcased *ANYTHING* that even remotely approaches the problems of the misnomered "Kalishplosions", they are fully inconsistent with Sakamoto's directing. Sakamoto's use of Pyrotechnics and other stunt and effects-work emphasizes the strength of either the hero or villain in turn, not weakness as became PR's problem. He Showcased them able to resist being damaged by the attacks they receive or an enemy presenting how strong they are to be a legitimate threat. (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lrBqm6HR4co.html) If an attack misses or does nothing to the assaulted it showcases the capability of those involved to dodge/Deflect/resist injury and their will to fight on. (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-J2kAq1DxX1E.html) These are all things absent from Kalishplosions, which make those harmed by them look weak and pathetic and as an excuse to break from battle or exclude participants from it, especially when such is staged to look like they deliberately missed so-as to not harm the actors...which is also a consequence of the decline in cinematography in the second unit/stunt team when Harris fully Took over. For Harris was hired on to replace Sakamoto beginning with Ninja Storm; which is why one *begins* to see 'Kalishplosions' two full seasons before Bruce Kalish even entered the picture as a showrunner, only for them to become ubiquitous when he fully took over. So When was Mark Harris promoted into being the head/Full-time stunt Coordinator/action Director for Power Rangers? At *SPD*. Which ties into the other name in the matter that has been frequently overlooked; Makoto Yokoyama, the other senior stunt director and choreographer that had worked on Power Rangers Since Zeo, who had in turn become the senior-most stunt director beginning with Ninja Storm when Sakamoto was sent upstairs. Makoto Yokoyama resigned from doing Power Rangers' stunts after Dino Thunder, that being *WHY* Harris was promoted. He left in 2005 to begin his work for the "Garo" series, the Adult-demographic Horror-focused tokusatsu Franchise Created by Super sentai/Kamen Rider monster designer Keita Amemiya. (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2nLS2DmxDDE.htmlsi=ymHh2e0Oa59UHoeO&t=1052 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aD71cRr_foM.html) If those reading this have not heard of it (or have only seen the franchise's anime incarnations) I recomend giving it a watch; as a LOT of the series is available through home video purchase or streaming or even here on youtube (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2n2hFQr58aw.html), and was even successful enough to have had a tie-in event with the MMO Final Fantasy 14 where one could aquire their armor which is still part of that game today. And a lot of the techniques used in the series were first pioneered in Yokoyama's time on Power Rangers (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mqOhibuwo9k.html). But again, that is telling where all the talent went to cause this devolution; it went back to the Japanese productions. Whereas Mark Harris remained working on Power Rangers through the end of Cosmic Fury and "Once and Always", thus why the original effectswork problems that started at Ninja Storm and became overbearing with SPD never sufficiently improved (Some would say it got WORSE), even when the franchise started back up again. (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Sk7fwFbQuVA.html) Ergo, again, why Kalish has been wrongly blamed in this as well since the issue outlived his tenure, and the coincidental timing obfuscated the responsibility. With Sakamoto directing on super sentai however, that in turn leads to why this is STILL a mistaken assumption left in circulation. As series that made heavy use of Sakamoto's Directing have seen adaptation into Power Rangers (of note being Kyoryuger and Ryusoulger being adapted into Dino Charge and Dino Fury, respectively ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CloKnJqrN8k.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1j7Ih27begw.html), and those who have Not seen the source material will not always be able to tell where the japanese stunts for suited action scenes end and where the Power Rangers original ones begin. Which only ultimately adds TO the confusion even among the well-meaning.

2:06 "why even name the individual rangers instead of just calling them by their colors?" Dr. K: noted.

Fun fact I learned regarding the Sentai. The Morpher's judgment feature apparently sends the information to a planet where time flows faster, so in the time it takes for the Suspect to be judged, an 8-month investigation occurs to see if they are guilty or not, so there's a bit more due process there, we just don't see it. Mind they also just straight up execute those who they find guilty so....

i legit thought you were going to hold off uploading this till 2025 because that would've been so fitting!

Boom: "I'd be psycked to be the Red ranger" Twelve years later, the actor gets Boom's wish when Mick gets to be a temporary Red Ninja Steel Ranger. Hilarious.

Surprised Linkara wasn't told why Sam/Omega Ranger is a ball of light. Disney refused to pay for another main cast member, so the ball of light was a compromise. Kalish actually stated that he regrets doing it that way and would have cut him entirely if not for Sentai footage. A better option would have likely been to maybe make Boom the Omega Ranger or maybe use Piggy or Kruger's physical actors, but I guess they couldn't do that.

TV Tropes says that Jack resigning from SPD was supposed to lead into a reunion tv movie where he re-joins the team but it never got off the ground.

There’s a little detail I really like in the episode “Zapped”: Syd is put under mind control, and Bridge breaks the spell by tricking her into morphing. So SPD morphers are brainwashing-proof. That aligns really well with the big twist: the A-Squad all freely chose to side with the villains.

"Efficient, but not aesthetically interesting" is a good description of pretty much all the design work this season honestly.

I honestly love that they’ve always fought in a quarry. The implication that sunny seaside Angel Grove has a thriving quarry industry just tickles the right parts of my brain

I read on a Power Rangers Wiki that Bridge wears gloves because the actor had tattoos on his hands [Similar to Dino Thunder where Jason David Frank always wore long sleaves to cover up his ink].

3:31 Looking back, that "football armor" is probably just repurposed motocross gear from Ninja Storm. With the budget Disney gave this season, it's not surprising, but at least it looked convincing enough back when it first aired.

Interesting Sentai Fun-Fact: The Judgement scanners in Dekarangers are actually explained as an entire trial taken place on another planet where time moves slower than any other planet in the galaxy. Thus they can have as much time as needed to fully deliberate and come up with a proper verdict. Also, when you mentioned that "Wormhole" was supposed to be a DVD Special, that probably explains why they did the whole memory erasure. They probably weren't planning to make it a normal episode, so the ending makes it a "non-canon" episode.

Something of note: Power Rangers SPD and its Sentai counterpart, Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger have an...interesting relationship. Namely, Dekaranger has actually adapted plot points and costumes that were exclusive to SPD for team-ups they had with other Sentai teams after their series was done, and for anniversary specials they did. Hell, there is a Japanese dub of Power Rangers SPD, and the actors voicing them in Japanese are the Dekaranger cast. It's REALLY weird, but also kinda cool, and shows that Super Sentai and Power Rangers can inspire and have a positive influence on each other. Speaking of, though, Dekaranger was actually my first Sentai. Beforehand, I was solely Power Rangers. I knew a little bit about Super Sentai, but it was mostly word of mouth. One day, during RU-vid's infancy, I saw a video called Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger: The Movie, and I was stunned, because I had no idea the Sentai got theatrical releases (I'd later find out EVERY season had movies shown in theaters). So, I watched it...and I was suddenly hooked. I wanted to watch more of Dekaranger, learn more about this team, and learn more about Super Sentai in general. So, I kinda have an interesting relationship with Dekaranger as well, and to SPD by extension.

2:06 "Why even name the individual Rangers instead of just calling them by their colors?" And somehow this sound clip travelled through an interdimensional rift, where Dr. K thought it sounded like great advice.

1:21 I admire Cosmic Fury for actually buckling down and explaining how this bright future came to be. Lesser shows would’ve resorted to a sliding timescale.

Technically, this is the final season in the chronology of Power Rangers.

A Princess Bride reference in POWER RANGERS of all things. What a bizarre world we live in

You can tell that Greg Aronowitz (one of S.P.D.'s Showrunners) really brought a lot of creativity into this Season. Shame he didn't stay on for at least Mystic Force and Operation Overdrive.

"SPD is bad with this, but other seasons are much worse." Operation overdrive cough.

13:20 I don't get why so many villains are dismissive of Earth when so many evil forces have been defeated and/or KILLED there.

Ironic that Disney made cool Power Ranger shows with catchy theme songs that doesn't repeat "Go Go Power Rangers!" here.

29:53 and yet somehow we still haven't had a Power Rangers Dynasty Warriors game. Missed opportunity if you ask me.

I cannot explain to you how I've been binging retrospectives about things I enjoy recently and Iegit went on your channel, saw nothing, doomscrolled for like 15 mins and then BAM a new video. I appreciate you. Not just for making these pockets of ADHD brain meaningful, but because I genuinely enjoy your videos and I'm grateful that you continue to make them. Thank you from the bottom of my heart (depth not withstanding)

“And yes, it is a Ron Wasserman piece” and the LAS-wait a minute. Man I guess it really hasn’t settled in that he came back for Once and Always. Sure his last theme song is a remix but surely there’s original tracks in the special that would count if one was to be looking for them

You uploaded this on July 11, 2024. Exactly 1 year before the supposed complete conquest of Earth according to the message. Coincidence or intentional?

You either die a hero or live long enough to become a villain. Me, realizing Jack Landors actor, Brandon McLaren, plays a major antagonist on the Rookie.

I just noticed that the SPD Morpher works like the Psycho-Pass guns.

Law & Order: Teenagers With Attitudes Unit

The reason their helmets look the way they do is because the sentai dekaranger was originally going to be a train themed sentai. Where the helmets mimiced different types of bullt trains.

Hard to believe that there’s only two more seasons left that are not on RU-vid.

something interesting i learned recently is that the stunt actor for sydney was just a very petite looking guy with a wig on, and i wish i was that guy because that sounds awesome

A big missed opportunity with Sam as a character is that they could have had at least 1 episode of future Sam interacting with young Sam. Young Sam was said to have been recruited into SPD. Meaning that apparently, this police academy has a children's cadet program. If they wanted to keep it light-hearted but emotional, they could have focused on the same theme already established in Sam's introduction, the fact that the kid is very lonely. Future Sam could have already known how Young Sam felt in the Academy, alone, othered, sad. He could have acted as his young self's imaginary friend. This ball of light that gives him advice and support. You can finish the episode with Future Sam telling his young self that everything is going to be fine, that he is going to meet some great friends and do great things. Then Young Sam is introduced to a new child cadet, a girl. During the finale, it will be revealed that this girl is the Nova Ranger, bringing the thing full circle and implying the bond and history Omega and Nova have.

according to Andros' actor from In Space, when SPD wrapped, the A-squad helmets were apparently thrown into a woodchipper, since disney didn't need them anymore. Also, the helmets were apparently on loan from Toei, and they weren't happy about it. I don't know if this is true or not. This was from a podcast clip that I saw a few years ago.

From what I’ve read, Bruce Callish wanted SPD to be as close to an adult series as possible. It shows. Also fun fact this season got dubbed into Japanese and said dub was done by the cast of Dekaranger the sentai the series was based on. So we have a show from Japan have some of its footage used for an adaptation to another series that gets translated back to Japanese by the same crew of the original series

It's funny when you think on it... SPD has a judgement system, right? Remind me, who is the Egyptian God of judging the dead? I don't even doubt it was intentional

Oh boy, it’s that time once again. Fun facts about the original sentai Dekaranger 1: the end credits music for the sentai was an upbeat jazz song. 2: the commander was also a dog, however instead of the rubber mask in PR, it was an animatronic mask with fur, and the mouth on it was slow rarely matching the dialogue 3: the show had more of a detective feel to pair with the police theme. 4: the red ranger was the new member of the team 5: it was recently given a sub by shout factory 6: in the sentai, S.P.D stood for Special,Police,Dekaranger 7: in the Sentai broodwing was voiced by Ryūsei Nakao, who some may know as FRIEZA from dragon ball

At the 20-minute mark, insert Michael Bay joke here.

This is probably the first and only time that Power Rangers has had three levels of footsoldier in a season. Crybots, Blue Heads, and Orange Heads.

I can explain the explanation for VI. Omega ranger in Japanese version is basically special unit Dealing with the toughest and meanest of enemies. And those cadiets went through rigors of training and having to make toughest of choice. But in return, they gets high respect and allow to break some protocol.

This series makes me wonder which Ranger teams were actually _paid_ to be Rangers. Here are some top-of-my-head examples: SPD & Lightspeed Rescue are government-run, I'd imagine they'd receive a stipend, especially since the latter team were pulled from their civilian jobs to be recruited. Overdrive is easy since Dr. Hartford is rich and can buy an army. While RJ probably wasn't loaded, it's a good bet that he let the Jungle Fury team work in his pizza shop at a decent rate to earn some spending money while providing free room & board to the essentially homeless Rangers. If the Time Force team's future timeline didn't establish universal basic income, there's good odds that their paycheques are stacking up & waiting for them when they return to the year 3001. Does anyone have any other suggestions?

Well, this remake came totally unexpected. But, if I had a nickel for every time Linkara uploaded two remakes of history of power rangers within the same year, I’d have more than two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird to think that it happened more than twice.

I’m a simple man. When I see a new (or in this case remastered) episode of History of Power Rangers, I click on it.

This season took a band of misfits and let them become heroes. There was the back up team.

Funny thing about the Nova Ranger. She was in 2 episodes of the sentai but they didn't use any of her footage for this so they really did just throw her in for no reason other than to sneak a toy in the last minute

24:24 Man, it's weird when "Years aren't 365.25 days of 24 hours" is a reasonable in-universe fact in Power Rangers

One of my favorite things about spd was how it got us away from the concept of the “over-powered red ranger” that started in dino thunder, and swapped in a more interesting concept- the reluctant red ranger. Jack didn’t want to be a power ranger at first, and was only the red ranger for as long as he NEEDED to be. Even though I love characters that WANT to be power rangers, but it was kinda refreshing to see a character who didn’t feel like it was their destiny at first or something.

It's Trent's actor, Jeff Parazzo, voicing Tommy in "Wormhole". Points to him for trying, honestly, since JDF, as he said, was never contacted about that team-up. I'd rather have someone else voice the character than hear archived dialog. Anyway, Bridge is definitely my personal favorite of the B-Squad because of how much fun he is to watch. Matt Austin really did a terrific job with the role. If I were to ever meet the guy at a Power Morphicon convention, I'd shake his hand and say to him, "Man, I'd honestly wanna have some toast with Bridge, even the buttery kind. I also kinda wish I had his power to read someone's life energy or that of an area. It looks like it could be pretty handy." 2nd edit: One of the writers for S.P.D. actually confirmed that they just happened to have the old Red Time Force costume, so your theory on them reusing it like they reused the Space Ranger suits for the A-Squad turned out true.

0:01 "I am... The Keeper!" "Keep this!"

Ah, the series that started the kalish-plosions. It’s kinda interesting how it truly STARTED with the first one that had a three-letter title, and then it ENDED with the next one that had a three-letter title. Pretty fitting if you ask me.

Gonna be honest, despite how cynical we are oof the police nowdays i'm glad series like this does exist i know plenty of friends both irl and online who became police officers BECAUSE of this series and have tried their best of uphold the values this series taught, its a pity that they are squashed by older cops just being... well scumbags, but i hope one day in the future we will have a police force like this that care more about the people then just abusing power

I know you don't really care about Super Sentai but kudos for getting this video out this year when Dekaranger celebrated their 20th anniversary

The funny thing about Cruger's nickname of 'Doggie' is that 'Doggie Kruger' was his Japanese counterpart's real name, something the narration in the first episode felt the need to point out as if to say "No, we're not kidding".

I just realized. There's not many seasons left for Linkara to do... Just Mystic Force and RPM... After that... It's all over. That is, until we find out if Hasbro is really going to go through with the reboot, or just continue on post-Cosmic Fury. In either case, I'm sure Linkara would appreciate one less project on his seemingly-over full plate.

Bridge, the original Vibe Check

This is also the debut of Kelston Henderson in Power Rangers!

in Dekaranger, the justice "scanner" connects to the police hq in the middle of the galaxy where time apparently flows really fast so they could trial a criminal for years only for it to take like 60 seconds at the crime scene

Kruger erased the rangers memories in wormhole because the SPD rangers thought it unfair that only they got to remember working with the Dino Thunder team

The “Wes is Sky’s dad fan theory” has been debunked by everyone. Even the show runners have stated that Sky’s Dad is not Wes nor related in any way. Especially as he was an adult working at SPD in 2001. That’s how the team got civilian powers. Also it wouldn’t fit what we know about how the Chrono Morphers work. As neither a child or brother would have the exact matching DNA to Wes. I believe that Cat pulled a copy of the Chrono Morpher from the archives but was unable to fully recreate the powers. Which as the real Time Force Red Powers were still in use made her copy weaker allowing for the death of Sky’s dad.

I will always love how Cruger has some lizard-like traits in his design as well as his canine appearance. It makes him seem more alien than the fluffball from the Sentai.

Reflections is my favourite episode of the show It was awesome to see sky become the red ranger and mirloc is a great villain for sky he kinda reminds me of willem dafoe’s green goblin with his voice and taunting mannerisms

2:06 Dr K: challenge accepted....

29:37 my headcannon is that SPECIFICALLY the S.P.D. rangers' suits are made from hyper advanced nanotech mixed with holographic technology to make the helmets look the way they do. ESPECIALLY for Shadow Ranger, it makes sense that the nanotech would make a helmet to cover his giant dog head, but holographic technology makes the helmet look like he has a smaller snout instead of his giant "Anubis" snout. But again, that's just my headcannon. It's a futuristic season, afterall.

I was just watching an old version of this earlier today coincidentally. Glad to be able to watch the new version of HOPR SPD today. Edit Note: I was also watching HOPR Operation Overdrive before this and my god, there's SOOO much flaws in that season. Second Edit Note: In the Sentai SPD is based on, Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger, the Omega Ranger (Or DekaBreak in the Sentai) *WAS* the 6th Ranger, hence why he has the Roman numeral for 6 on his suit.

Although it's a different format [with two separate episodes rather than a two-parter], this is the last season to have the traditional 'team up' with most of the previous team. Unless I'm mistaken, subsequent team ups usually involved members from several seasons [or in 'Clash of the red rangers' case it's a prior season team up with just 1 team member returning].

Linkara keep up the great work as always I really needed this today I’m off sick from work and your content always makes me feel better

Hurray! You got this one out before the 20th anniversary of it next year!

Honestly, Gruumm should have been in Power Rangers Mystic Force because he looks like he fits in that series as an undead, demonic villain. Why couldn't the main villain be a cyborg scientist and fit in more with the Krybots and giant robots?

38:31- From what I’ve read, that actually was the reason. Disney didn’t want to pay a full time face actor for their work, so just made him a ball of light because hiring just a voice actor was far cheaper. 53:36- Apparently the person doing Tommy’s voice in the episode is Jeffery Parazzo, Trent’s actor. Yet another sign of Disney being cheap. Seriously, they couldn’t just put a microphone in front of Jason David Frank and have him say a few lines?

Our FIRST Power Rangers series for my brother and I. Didn’t watch all of it when we first watched it, but this show got us into Power Rangers. The omega ranger should’ve been BOOM!

Kat may have only gotten to morph once, but she was part of the base roster in Battle for the Grid, and I think that's pretty neat~

This is a blessing; I look forward to Mystic & RPM.

I have a headcanon that I think explains the whole shadow ranger snout situation. The process of morphing seems to partially alter the biology of the person morphing. When Justin morphed, he suddenly grew two feet and gained a physique similar to the other rangers. When aliens morph, they become more human, such as zenowing shinking down and loosing his wings while morphed, Kruger's snout disappearing, or the Aquitar rangers' somewhat larger heads being able to fit into the helmets. This could either be from the people making the powers, ie zordon, time force, etc, have only figured out how to get the morphing process to work for an adult human, so other beings that try to morph get changed to fit those parameters while they are morphed. It could also be because the nature of the morphing grid is such that it changes your body into the form that is most suited for the power, and that form just so happens to be an adult human. If you want to really be meta and pedantic, this could also explain the minor differences in body types of the American actors and their sentai counterparts.

the Kruger images make me feel Kruger is staring into my soul

Great to see another one of these. Been watching since HOPR started so really enjoy these re-dos.

So this is what happens when you bake a cake for Darth Vader but you don't put any sprinkles on it

So I've seen others briefly mention it, but not go into detail. Dekaranger - SPD's Sentai - backporting the Battlizer. See, Sentai does the teamup a bit differently, using it in crossover movies with the previous season. So when Magiranger vs Dekaranger came around - going direct to DVD in 2006, after SPD had wrapped filming - Toei would have seen it, and clearly someone liked it, so they gave DekaRed the Battlizer - both modes of it. What's fascinating is that from Jungle Fury onwards, Power Rangers stopped doing Battlizers, but from Shinkenger (Samurai's Sentai), they started introducing the Red Ranger Exclusive Power Up, even if it could be passed around. In other words, the Battlizer mantle swapped hands.

One headcanon explanation I have for Kruger's snout is that PR Helmets are their own pocket dimensions, which is why most of the times when they remove their helmets, they dont have helmet hair. Kim's line in the very first ep is the only line of the show I can come up with to disprove this BUT the actual actors taking the helmets off solidifies my headcanon

The worst part about spd is finding out how few episodes it got

I miss when my main concern with power rangers was " What will the 2025 season be, spd 2.0? Ohh maybe a season taking place 2005..." Now my concern is "IS POWER RANGERS CANCELED" This brand is so lost its sad.

I really love that at the end of wormhole that Sam and Tommy both did not get there minds wiped so they would know about the team up it makes sense kind of since Sam is a time traveler and Tommy would be one of the Rangers that would team up with wes and others in other team ups

"Thanks, Sentai footage." Well it's hardly the Sentai's fault, it's the studio's for choosing to use that over making an original Zord for the A-Squad.

Kudos for leaving the explosion rant in lmao 🤣 😆 One of my favorite seasons, ngl 🎉 loved the team Jack, growing into a good leader and realizing that he can trust his decisions, Sky learning to accept his teammates and trust Jack in his role, Bridge proving that outside the box thinking is sometimes the way to go, Sydney proving she is not just a spoiled rich girl and a hardworker, Z actually getting to make the bigger difference she wanted, and Doggy being a stout mentor and leader eventually facing down his own demons. Grum was a huge presence and proven threat since beginnings. Well written and geat season 👏 👌 👍

One theory I've read is that Danny Delgado was Z's dad (who married the flower girl). Be cool, but I'd hate to imagine him dead.

Huh. This is uploaded very shortly after Connor's Time Force vid. I am not accusing you or anything. Its just a funny coincidence. XD

Imagine watching Power Rangers SPD in Surround Sound, only to be hit with the first three notes of the theme song while falling out of your chair.

"Despite one not knowing what a clock looks like" Sadly, that's real. My friends and fam who are teachers always say that kids nowadays don't know how to read traditional clocks

Good to have this video back one of my favorite seasons

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Even the MythBusters didn’t have that many explosions 21:16

I really did enjoy some of the comedy of this season. Bridge was always a treat and is still today one of my favorite Green/Black Rangers of the series. But man, that part where Piggy asks the Universe for a sign that he did the right thing, only for his Food Truck to be zapped and blown up had me rolling. Like God straight up went, "I want there to be NO misunderstanding here. You F'ed up."

14:17, to whom finds this, will be satisfied to witness the greatness of!……: *LINKARA’S RANT ABOUT HORRIBLY USED EXPLOSIONS IN POWER RANGERS*

I couldn't see anyone else bring this up, but the episode Reflections was actually based on episodes 28 and 29 of Dekaranger. Instead of it being a blue ranger episode it was an episode for their 6th ranger Tetsu. They of course changed this for SPD since their 6th is a ball of light for the majority of the run. The bad guy didn't kill Tetsu's dad but killed his girlfriend and like we see in reflections he had to cover everything including his eyes so that the bad guy couldn't get out but like in SPD he makes him cry and gets out that way. Tetsu was a very serious character at this point in the series and these episodes help show why he became that way but it also starts his characters growth into a less stoic person.

SPD also cut a Ranger from the Sentai, who only appeared in the movie. As to why there are so many Rangers? The Japanese name is Dekaranger. Deka is a slang term in Japanese for detective, but it also means "ten" in English, hence it can also be read as "Ten Rangers."

54:38 Even if it's expensive to have JDF back in New Zealand, they could of at least have JDF to do some voice-over as Tommy for the crossover. I mean they literally have JDF voice-over as Tommy once before in Dino Thunder when Tommy got stuck in his Ranger Form for a few episodes. *Facepalm*

Personally I think Kruger's wife being dead is a lot more better and impactful for him knowing that he can lose those he loves and cares about.

Yes!! I've been waiting for the recap of SPD. I personally liked SPD. For the most part I thought it was entertaining and enjoyable. Characters were good, overall plot was okay, theme song awesome. Apart from the overused explosions and some...dumb filler episode bits, I'd rank it up there in my top 5. Also Bridge is my spirit animal.

I believe that in Power Rangers canon some Rangers wrote memoirs about their adventures and experiences. I believe Carter Grayson's became an elementary for every new Power Rangers. it goes like this: "Carter Grayson's School of Ranger Tactics: 1. Be a Badass 2. Anyway start blasting everything End. Bestseller On more serious note. Boom's speech in the SPD command center in the finale is one of the best motivational speeches ever made in entertainment history. The only speech that tops it is Mashall Pendlecost's speech from Pacific Rim "Today we cancel the APOCALYPSE".

The ball of light was basically “SUPPOSED” to be a way for people to not recognize him as the grown version of the kid they recruited and/or so they couldn’t run DNA tests and such but they ended up revealing it too early anyway.

So happy I remembered to comeback here I was waiting for this reupload