Power Rangers and Crime: Bulk and Skull: Part 1: Bullies

There is no doubt the impact Paul Schrier and Jason Narvy had on the impact on the franchise, having roles in episodes for over half a decade with the franchise.
However, imagine if their roles remained the same in the beginning? A little bit darker, a little less campy?
In the Day of the Dumpster pilots and the first few episodes of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers series, Bulk and Skull were portrayed as misogynist bullies, foils for the weakling athletically deficient Billy even though he knew a few flips or two to portray. They constantly got in fights with the Rangers, with a sort of homage to the 50s greaser 80s punk rock homage delivered in the 90s. (Guess we can't blame out of college writers who don't have kids or are in high school to actually know how being there actually was.) The homage was supposed to be inspired by Laurel and Hardy, Saved by the Bell bullies (capturing SBTB's tone even if the show was not known to have bullies outside of possibly Tori's brother). Sure, even the Rangers themselves were overconfident, flawed in culture, but Bulk and Skull were supposed to give kids the lessons that bullies are not supposed to be cool, (even if you can meet Bulk and Skull really is at Morphicon!)

Would the show not been revolutionary if they had shown that Bulk and Skull had dysfunctional parents, or some sort of social deficiency that made them into these terrible teenagers?) I guess the show did not want to get too Public Service Announcementy with their 90s Fox Kids friendly material. (lots of censors had already took away the fights from the pilots and the 80s punk gangster tone of Bulk, Skull and friends.)
It does however as mentioned before demonstrate the formation of bullying.
However, the rangers do counter bullying from Bulk and Skull with counter bullying of their own against them. They do not try to understand or empathize with them, but keep them as their enemies, defending themselves from gangs like people growing up in the urban 90s would experience.
Heck, the Power Rangers actually promote bullying through name calling against their monster enemies. It is not self defense in this case, but rather a circumstance of dealing with their own hierarchy of needs to build some sort of militaristic form of confidence. Oddly enough, does Skull's parents not where militaristicish garb inspiring Skull. This might have been possibly what inspired him to join the highest form of civil service that Rangers do not join, the police. 
Also, according to wikipedia, the silent treatment is also a form of bullying. So what do people do?
Oh well, one can only hope the future of the franchise as a Terrence Malick film.
Till then, we'll just have to enjoy this:

(Was Bulk an influence on Skull or the other way around?)

Technical Scene By Scene Analysis of Quasar Quest Part I

Sometime in the not to distant future,

the Earth begins a search for a new world

The television screen begins with with dark empty space contrast with bright stars of different galaxies ready for the next person to explore. Including this one:

The show then directs us to the Quasar Sabers, a number of extras looking on as burly men attempt to unsheathe them. There are not so subtle shots of Maya in the background, which give nothing for Cerina Vincent to do, but look confused and not develop her character. If she was done by James Cameron, she would most definitely be 10' tall, blue and CGI.

The foot soldiers charge them like insects trying to survive, swarming to consume a piece of food for their species.

Notice the curves of the corridors, going from the first curve, to an asymmetrical one into a bunch of paths.

Ms. Morgan?

I have no idea if the Earth's polar ice caps look like this, but boy does it look awesome.

I have a bad feeling about this?

"I have a feeling we forgot something."

Skull is in a messy house, ill-lit for whatever reason. Guess that house that poses as once Kimberly's just never was allowed to have the shades up. The colors remind me to Viva la diva!

"Passport!"

"Alright!"

Fight scene

"If anybody deserves to go, you do."

Furio still tries to unlock the power of the Quasar Sabres. Maya Running.

A lot of settings that look real if they aren't. The airport suitcases' tram. The airport. A chase scene.

A low budget replication of 2001: A Space Odyssey

Leo Colors: Blue

Songs that sound like the demo for Final Fantasy VIII.

Let's Go, Alice!

Does Power Rangers Need to Create Racism to Create a Good Villain?

In the 1980s, there was a very popular cartoon called G I Joe, a Real American Hero. The good guys were not well developed and have cheesy lines,as are the characters in Megaforce. G. I. Joe has a heavy influence based on the Japanese cartoons from the Super Robot genre: its animation. its premise of a good vs a demonized evil. What was more particularly odd about Cobra however, was that Cobra consisted of actual human beings. Sure, there name was that of a serpent. However, they were more or less created of the same genetic material, DNA as you and I, (provided this is not read by extraterrestrials). They were given Eastern influences like a Eastern European Baroness, a Middle Eastern-like base after the Iran-Contra scandal and a city that was their equivalent of Shangri-la. The show was created at the peak of American prosperity in the Republican Reagan era.
Currently, we live in a heavily divided America, with a less so divided world. Countries fear the problems of the Middle East and North Korea. The military is given discounts everywhere, and are as popular in media as American sports. Who can blame them given the fear instilled to them by both drill sergeants  tough environments and stressful situations?
Sure, it would give Power Rangers a cultural feeling. A backwards, misunderstood one, but one that would be covered by the press and enjoyed by someone of some sort of intellect, propagandized or not.
Haim Saban is well known for his politics. He can turn himself into an American hero, the hero of Jerusalem, albeit a problem that was started by the Allies in the first place.
And this is not to say that this has to be a bad form of racism. The show could be an allegory of the times a la Animal Farm or something.
The show can also make American look admirable to kids again.

I've been joking in case you have not been able to tell.

With the new GI Joe film coming out, I sure do hope that nostalgia is gone and looking forward is the way of the future. I'm not saying we have to go with the counter culture anti-Vietnam peace movement with Power Rangers, but at least give us Darth Vader-ish villains we can hate, yet sympathize with Power Rangers! It's a kid's show that should teach about tolerance, especially in a show that mimics the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers!