Tuesday, November 22, 2016

How Power Rangers Time Force relates to the Western World 15 years later

The show is about technology and the horrors of it.
The ability to engineer time travel and create.
Racism as illustrated from mutants.
A Les Miserables-like lack of sympathy for criminals.
Genetics and genetic engineering.
Pharmaceuticals.
Being replaced by robots and being afraid of it. Why not just let it be?
Big corporations inherited by rich kids.
Corporations that can hire RoboCop OCP like armies and manufacture weapons, all for money.

Jen Scotts can be interpreted in two fashions.
For feminists, she is a woman who is capable, suffers great loss, and shows great strength.
She loses a man he loves
She has multiple friends who can be mutants: Trip, with a gem on his head and natural green hair, Katie with super strength and possibly even Lucas, who can drive every possible vehicle.

For anti-feminists, she is a bit of an idiot, who is a power authority. She loves a man basically because he looks like the man she used to love, yet both men are completely different. She also originally accussed the man of being a rich guy who never did anything, despite the fact that she's from the future. She could've recalled hearing of a rich guy like this knowing martial arts and admiring him for. She also could've just researched it, having future technology. NOPE.

There may even be a reasoning behind why they do jobs for money, when Wes has all the money he wants.
However, she does make the good point that he doesn't even have a position in his dad's company, so what the heck did he do exactly?

Katie is strong yet isn't treated differently for it. She's embraced, even if she is the one doing the strong embracing.

One of the good guys is a racist.
One of the bad guys wants revenge for a hate crime from his act of love, an act or robots.

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