Saturday, October 18, 2014

Power Rangers Super Megaforce, "All Hail Prince Vekar" should've been a villains centric episode

I don't like Man of Steel.
I don't like the Dark Knight Rises
I don't like the Amazing Spider-Man
I don't like the Avengers.
2012, really sucked.
BUT
At least it didn't have Power Rangers Super Megaforce!
They have their positives, while Super Megaforce had them then completely destroyed their valiant efforts.

Power Rangers Super Megaforce, "All Hail Prince Vekar" sucks, but doesn't matter due to lowered standards

Jason Smith seemed like he was basically told to write down whatever the production crew told him to do, but do what he can with the dialogue.
And he tried his best!
With some help from Judd Lynn, we will hopefully see some better work.

Vekar's "jokes" still suck, not being serious enough to be cool or campy enough to be hilarious.
You really appreciate both the Japanese and American voice actor for Damaras on this show, since:

  1. The Japanese voice actor just blows the American's performance way out of the park
  2. The American voice actor worked with what he could in such a short time span and with such an incompetent ADR director. In spite of all the trials and tribulations he went through, he made it across to youngsters that Vekar's life is in danger and that he cares for his Prince, given some sort of possible brainwashing or propaganda that led him to this state. It's quite powerful storytelling given what the show should not have and reaches above expectations, even if it does seem like a bad Power Rangers Samurai copy and paste, (It's just the state of things we're at now.)
Vekar is able to appeal to the VERY FEW of those who buy into his humor, while at the same time conveying some sort of giving him a western adaptation of an underdog role. It really should've been a two part episode, but oh well. It also would've been interesting if Vekar was given a line of respect for Troy being leader of the Power Rangers Super Megaforce or condemning him for it, given the nature of the episode being "adapted" into being an episode about failure, accomplishment, and honor, one of the very lessons that the father series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers was about. That would've been something interesting I would've played around with and definitely could've been done.
Oh and Troy dies and nobody cares.

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