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Saturday, January 28, 2017
Monday, January 23, 2017
Power Rangers Time Force Episode 36, "Circuit Unsure" 15 years later
Circuit loses some data about the future losing him confidence.
Trip needs Circuits help to defuse a bomb.
Will he receive the help?
I'm not sure if the Alex storyline was executed perfectly, but enjoyable episode, even if Circuit could've died when no one defused the bomb.
Trip needs Circuits help to defuse a bomb.
Will he receive the help?
I'm not sure if the Alex storyline was executed perfectly, but enjoyable episode, even if Circuit could've died when no one defused the bomb.
Power Rangers Time Force episode 34, "Reflections of Evil" review
There's a mirror monster who summons multiple enemies for the Power Rangers to defeat.
Will the Rangers succeed?
This isn't the last episode so they do.
Mirror enemies.
Cool to fight a bunch of other enemies.
Missing opportunity to fight enemy Nejiranger.
The use of music really camps up what could've been some sort of pimp monster in Timeranger.
Will the Rangers succeed?
This isn't the last episode so they do.
Mirror enemies.
Cool to fight a bunch of other enemies.
Missing opportunity to fight enemy Nejiranger.
The use of music really camps up what could've been some sort of pimp monster in Timeranger.
Thursday, January 19, 2017
Power Rangers Time Force Episode 35 15 Years Later, "Nadira's Dream Date"
"Nadira's Dream Date" is about a mistaken identity.
Nadira reads a note from Lucas.
It's actually meant for his first Race Car.
L-M-A-O.
The Race Car reference does fit the character well.
Ransik playing father figure to Lucas works out quite well. I'm unsure if it fits the show, but then again, I find most of Ransik's villainy in the show to be lame. especially in the finale.
They probably spent so much money on Gluto spent on the end, but it's hilarious.
Corny MMPR shipping episode
Nadira reads a note from Lucas.
It's actually meant for his first Race Car.
L-M-A-O.
The Race Car reference does fit the character well.
Ransik playing father figure to Lucas works out quite well. I'm unsure if it fits the show, but then again, I find most of Ransik's villainy in the show to be lame. especially in the finale.
They probably spent so much money on Gluto spent on the end, but it's hilarious.
Corny MMPR shipping episode
Monday, January 9, 2017
God Neros: from beginning to end
God Neros is one of the most well written characters of toku history.
Inspired, by the antiwar antiarmy antigovernment themes of Shotaro Ishinomori's Kikaider, Metalder's nemesis is a war profiteer. Neros has very little to be liked about him. Spoilers alert:he kills Koga, he has multiple opportunities to create the destruction of Earth to favor him in situations. He mindcontrols Mai's father into fighting Metalder in one of the darkest moments of the series.
He became powerful through the power of United States gangsters.
Also, note that the United States takes over Japan.
Singapore is brought along to the mix a well.
And I would even consider Metalder to be less in canon with the canon-less Metal Heroes, because of Metalder's references to real life sittuations.
Yet, in the end, despite the fact that God Neros has ruined the world and possibly destroyed it, there are a lot of interesting notes in his production. Like what Rob Ager said about making the Germans in Saving Private Ryan absolutely evil people and not suffer during their deaths, Metalder does the exact oppoisite. God Neros has one of the most gruesome deaths in toku history, despite being one of the worst possible villains. First, Metalder throws a sword, and first off, it hits him, and he reacts to it. It doesn't look bad ass or cool, as if he was like the Terminator or Rambo: This is the 80s, and he's a bad guy, who exploits charity's so that he can make money off the weapons and suffering of the world, and he grunts. It's a human grunt. He isn't played off as superhuman or I dunno! He's vulnerabile. He's no devil after all. And he already has the upperhand on a cyborg who's life is fading before his eyes and shouldn't have anymore.
God Neros' Clark Kent is an actual human persona.
Now, there's a bit of interesting stuff in the final blow on Neros. My first reaction was that the ending wasn't dark enough, because it wasn't clear what happened to both Metalder or Neros. Was Metalder truly lobotimized? What's Metalder's fate? Where will he hide? Will Ryusei live on?
And Neros' death is interesting as well. Neros' death is censored, so I sorta first reacted as a guy in my 80s, why'd they censor that for such a dark moment? He's decapitated. First off, the decapitation is barely seen. 1) it censors it. 2) there's no moment where you're like wow, that's huge ass Death Star explosion Ho-shit. Like there's really no time for you to react to that death before we get to Neros' aftermath of possibly destroying the Earth. Now it sorta dehumanizes him as we don't see his body or give him a funeral, or figure out what happens to the rest of his army and generals and crime syndicate-
But we can fill in the blanks.
Also, his decapitation is sort of like that as if you had witnessed a Guillotine during the French revolution. You don't see the head, and we hope it's painless especially after he makes a rather sympathetic humanizing grunt full of vulnerability.
This is unlike most tokusatsu, where explosions are edited in with bad guy fights or they do something really awesome like pull out an organ and make it explode.
Metalder kills off a human being in the end. This is opposed to a God, although what Metalder wants to be is a human.
Inspired, by the antiwar antiarmy antigovernment themes of Shotaro Ishinomori's Kikaider, Metalder's nemesis is a war profiteer. Neros has very little to be liked about him. Spoilers alert:he kills Koga, he has multiple opportunities to create the destruction of Earth to favor him in situations. He mindcontrols Mai's father into fighting Metalder in one of the darkest moments of the series.
He became powerful through the power of United States gangsters.
Also, note that the United States takes over Japan.
Singapore is brought along to the mix a well.
And I would even consider Metalder to be less in canon with the canon-less Metal Heroes, because of Metalder's references to real life sittuations.
Yet, in the end, despite the fact that God Neros has ruined the world and possibly destroyed it, there are a lot of interesting notes in his production. Like what Rob Ager said about making the Germans in Saving Private Ryan absolutely evil people and not suffer during their deaths, Metalder does the exact oppoisite. God Neros has one of the most gruesome deaths in toku history, despite being one of the worst possible villains. First, Metalder throws a sword, and first off, it hits him, and he reacts to it. It doesn't look bad ass or cool, as if he was like the Terminator or Rambo: This is the 80s, and he's a bad guy, who exploits charity's so that he can make money off the weapons and suffering of the world, and he grunts. It's a human grunt. He isn't played off as superhuman or I dunno! He's vulnerabile. He's no devil after all. And he already has the upperhand on a cyborg who's life is fading before his eyes and shouldn't have anymore.
God Neros' Clark Kent is an actual human persona.
Now, there's a bit of interesting stuff in the final blow on Neros. My first reaction was that the ending wasn't dark enough, because it wasn't clear what happened to both Metalder or Neros. Was Metalder truly lobotimized? What's Metalder's fate? Where will he hide? Will Ryusei live on?
And Neros' death is interesting as well. Neros' death is censored, so I sorta first reacted as a guy in my 80s, why'd they censor that for such a dark moment? He's decapitated. First off, the decapitation is barely seen. 1) it censors it. 2) there's no moment where you're like wow, that's huge ass Death Star explosion Ho-shit. Like there's really no time for you to react to that death before we get to Neros' aftermath of possibly destroying the Earth. Now it sorta dehumanizes him as we don't see his body or give him a funeral, or figure out what happens to the rest of his army and generals and crime syndicate-
But we can fill in the blanks.
Also, his decapitation is sort of like that as if you had witnessed a Guillotine during the French revolution. You don't see the head, and we hope it's painless especially after he makes a rather sympathetic humanizing grunt full of vulnerability.
This is unlike most tokusatsu, where explosions are edited in with bad guy fights or they do something really awesome like pull out an organ and make it explode.
Metalder kills off a human being in the end. This is opposed to a God, although what Metalder wants to be is a human.
Power Rangers Time Force 15 Years Later Episode 27-30, "Frax's Fury" "Dawn of Destiny" "Fight against Fate" and "Destiny Defeated"
Overall, the episodes are still very strong. Yet there is adaptation decay, as why would the robots still work for Ransik? No failsafe by Frax? Ransik can program?!
One of the laughs from the villains sounded horribly forced.
When Venomak bites the rangers, some fight frames seem missing.
I wonder if they can weaponize Venomak's fangs.
28 does more with the Collins-Wes relationship.
However, they sorta don't really establish why Collins likes money other than stuff we'd just assume not watching the show, like power, etc or just rich guy tropes.
Anyway, Collins reveals he cares for his son and attempts to kill Ransik stating he'd never give him the antidote if he knew. I guess it was cool they didn't rely on the flashback trope.
Eric is given some time as a second in command of Biotech.
Episode 29 has a lot of blunders.
Alex plays "bad guy" by saying they should wear Time Force suits. Really meh.
They couldn't go the "he looks like Alex, but maybe isn't necessarily?"
"This is your base of operations?"
Just a civilian. Put on your uniforms.
It's a shame, because Jason Faunt plays this new version of Alex better than he does Wes.
"Looks like you've been working really hard."
Wes meanwhile has to care for his dad who defended him the previous episode and has to worry about his legacy. The family legacy.
I also think that originally Eric was supposed to establish that he wanted the Collins Biotech company power, instead of rich guys, but it sorta got lost in editing, it seemed. Also they seemed to want to put a wedge between Wes and Eric, but that wasn't done thoroughly either.
Wes is given the power of Biotech.
Alex could've made it so that he wanted to keep his timeline so that he'd exist.
Minor notes of Episode 29-30 to get them out of the way, since they're related.
30 Destiny defeated
Eric and Birds again. I think this was probably influenced by the intro of Timeranger with birds.
Best scanner?
So they have a storyline about Wes and his dad. Then they have a storyline about Wes and rejoining the team. Sorta inconsistent.
Why are they stronger with Wes?
Riding the Q-Rex.
Eric helps Wes see his dad.
Not in bed trope.
Alex hard on you trope.
Why have Jason Faunt play two characters opposed to someone who looks like his son. Luckily he does a good job playing the son.
One of the laughs from the villains sounded horribly forced.
When Venomak bites the rangers, some fight frames seem missing.
I wonder if they can weaponize Venomak's fangs.
28 does more with the Collins-Wes relationship.
However, they sorta don't really establish why Collins likes money other than stuff we'd just assume not watching the show, like power, etc or just rich guy tropes.
Anyway, Collins reveals he cares for his son and attempts to kill Ransik stating he'd never give him the antidote if he knew. I guess it was cool they didn't rely on the flashback trope.
Eric is given some time as a second in command of Biotech.
Episode 29 has a lot of blunders.
Alex plays "bad guy" by saying they should wear Time Force suits. Really meh.
They couldn't go the "he looks like Alex, but maybe isn't necessarily?"
"This is your base of operations?"
Just a civilian. Put on your uniforms.
It's a shame, because Jason Faunt plays this new version of Alex better than he does Wes.
"Looks like you've been working really hard."
Wes meanwhile has to care for his dad who defended him the previous episode and has to worry about his legacy. The family legacy.
I also think that originally Eric was supposed to establish that he wanted the Collins Biotech company power, instead of rich guys, but it sorta got lost in editing, it seemed. Also they seemed to want to put a wedge between Wes and Eric, but that wasn't done thoroughly either.
Wes is given the power of Biotech.
Alex could've made it so that he wanted to keep his timeline so that he'd exist.
Minor notes of Episode 29-30 to get them out of the way, since they're related.
30 Destiny defeated
Eric and Birds again. I think this was probably influenced by the intro of Timeranger with birds.
Best scanner?
So they have a storyline about Wes and his dad. Then they have a storyline about Wes and rejoining the team. Sorta inconsistent.
Why are they stronger with Wes?
Riding the Q-Rex.
Eric helps Wes see his dad.
Not in bed trope.
Alex hard on you trope.
Why have Jason Faunt play two characters opposed to someone who looks like his son. Luckily he does a good job playing the son.
Power Rangers Time Force Episode 20 15 Years Later, "Quantum Secrets" review
So they use the footage where Naoto gets killed off quite early in the friggin 20th episode.
Eric has a thing for birds prior to flying.
As cheesy as some of the green screening is, at least we saw Conwing's limb chopped off even if frozen.
Eric has a thing for birds prior to flying.
Conwing was played by Sean CW Johnson who previously worked with Southworth on Lightspeed Rescue, where Southworth was a stunt man.
Morphing Cyclobots and Conwing were cool.
Jen doesn't want Eric to be tough. I would've preferred it however, if she had just explained Wes to Eric, albeit that probably wouldn't have worked either since it'd either be sappy, hocky or Eric just wouldn't listen.
Eric getting Jen's blaster was cool.
Mega Battle.
Power Rangers Time Force 15 Years Later Episode 19 "Trip Takes a Stand" review
So Power Rangers Time Force is known for dark themes such as racism, classism, etc.. and "Trip Takes a Stand" is a big factor into that.
Did the monster and Trip really have to run so funnily in such a serious episode about racism?
When did Eric start hating aliens? He doesn't mention it in previous episodes, in addition has no problems with races of other humans. He's the antihero so whatever, make him do evil things, or unlikeable things.
In contrast though, Dan Southworth saying the gun didn't work, . Although, you could've made it even more interesting by making that less clear and even more fitting of his character.
Frax controlling a mosnter seems more evil later when you find out what happened to Frax.
Why is Eric all of a sudden referring to criminals as mutants?
I believe the original idea was that Eric just does his job, which is my original premise along with the diversity theme.
Did the monster and Trip really have to run so funnily in such a serious episode about racism?
When did Eric start hating aliens? He doesn't mention it in previous episodes, in addition has no problems with races of other humans. He's the antihero so whatever, make him do evil things, or unlikeable things.
In contrast though, Dan Southworth saying the gun didn't work, . Although, you could've made it even more interesting by making that less clear and even more fitting of his character.
Frax controlling a mosnter seems more evil later when you find out what happened to Frax.
Why is Eric all of a sudden referring to criminals as mutants?
I believe the original idea was that Eric just does his job, which is my original premise along with the diversity theme.
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