Who's Crying Now? Hopefully not me

"Look at me! Do you see any tears?!"
Sure, the actor who plays Troy does not have the right charisma, but he at least works hard to get a performance out of himself under the production schedule's limits.

The bully plot does not seem to have to be there and got resolved way too easily. I doubt we will see any of these characters in the future, and since we saw very little of them, hopefully for the better.

Side note, are the extras ever the same? How does class in this town work?

Also, Creepox has not been around long enough and have enough character development for me to care for his destruction. He seems to be an overrated grunt in my opinion.
Wikipedia lists him with a superiority complex. However, not much can be done with it in a Nickelodeon/Saban Brands context. He's not exactly as Amon Goth memorable.

There really was not much to this episode. Ultrazord already? I super duper dog dare you!

Why are the Power Rangers Megaforce writers so fucking incompetent?

Seriously.
You still have problems writing episodes?
I understand Saban does not pay, but you chose this job for a reason. You may want job security.
I understand that screenwriters do not need to take screenwriting 101 classes to get their job.
But seriously, what the fuck are you doing?

United We Stand
The beginnings of most of these episodes do not set up for the rest of the episode so well.
Gia and Emma dirt biking in the middle of the woods, nearly killing themselves for no reason while discussing how awesome they are as if this was Dr. Strangelove or something. (Wouldn't that be an interesting premise for Power Rangers?) What the fuck does any of that have to do with their friendship and saving the world from a motherfuckin alien invasion? Are you selling fucking Power Rangers mountain bikes or something? Seriously, what was the point of this scene supposed to convey.

I get it... She likes bikes. She likes nature. But it's a bit one note. You're not really developing the characters, the setting or the conflict. They hang out. Does that truly make them friends however?
Maybe Gia can talk about how Jake is creeping her out, but does not know how to react or something. Maybe they can talk about their journeys as heroes and how much trust they put into each other.

Robo Knight
What the fuck does Jake liking Gia have to do with Jake running into all his classmates? What does the friggin teacher running into a hoe have to do with the Robo Knight? (Epiphany: Are we supposed to picture the Jake as a teacher running into hoes in the future? That's the only saving grace for that intro.)

In the words of the Dude, why the fuck does everything have to be a motherfuckin travesty with you, Saban? What the fuck did any of that stuff have to do with the Robo Knight? What the fuck did any of that have to do with Robo Knight? What the fuck are you talking about?
For a mass marketing corporation, you figure marketing 101 would be to advertise the main feature or toy of the episode! Here's the Dude's can for your downfall Donny shows. Now shut the fuck up, Donny!

I trip on acid watching the beginning of Prince Takes Knight

"Some scientists believe that dreams can tell the future."

Where the fuck is the evidence of that? Cite something. Here goes Saban and teaching me what wombats don't look like again. (VR Troopers)
"Oh come on!"

"Ah! A snack and snare job! I'm in." He continues while squatting, "I, PsychoDICK, master of the draining energy am the man for the job!"

Capture Robo Knight! We'll drain him dry and reprogram him!

In the words of Jake, Oh come on!

Power Rangers Theme Park Tie-In?

Robo Knight The Episode And the Knight Analysis

The good:
I really like the Robo Knight character. I would've liked him more if he had more homages to Alex Murphy or Metal Heroes. However, he's good where he is at. There's a mystery built around him.

There's a lab.
The Billy ripoff has a lab. Yay.

They went to the Command Center for once.
Yay. They actually talk to Gosei and Tensou actually making them characters on the show opposed to not using them at all. Yay. Maybe we can become fans of them.

The bad:
Jake and Gia.
It's a Robo Knight sixth warrior episode. This barely went anywhere and took away from the episode.
They have not established whether there should be a reason for us to root this on other than "the show told us to" and I do not see chemistry between the two.

The environment
What the f**k does the environment have to do with a f**king alien invasion? F**king invade with your millions of your monsters and boogers. This is not an unconventional auteur made show where you are trying to take risks like RPM. Don't do this Dune invasion crap when you're not David Lynch.
This isn't Wild Force. You're not trying to be Wild Force. So why try to be Wild Force all of a sudden? This isn't Wild Force! I repeat this is not Wild Force.
What are you going to do after the polluting mutants are done in the series? There's only 3 of them!

The ugly:
The intro. I will be writing a NSFW article about that.

Power Rangers In Space Vs MegaForce Aliens In Space

It is probably unfair of me to compare the grand 4-part ending-intro of Power Rangers Turbo-In Space to MegaForce, but I'm going to do it anyway.

They both consist of teams of teenagers. They both have enemies from Space, so one would figure that there would eventually be an encounter up there. Both introductions are directed by Jonathan Trachzor.

Conflicts:
Turbo/In-Space
(Beware SPOILERS)

• Goldgoyle shows up
• Destroys both Megazords
• The Turbo RAM
• Zordon shoots a distress signal from Eltar.
• Dimitria and the Blue Senturion leave
• Divatox invades the Command Center.
• Divatox captures Lightning Cruiser and Storm Blaster
• Divatox infiltrates the Base
• Zordon/Dimitria can't go back to Earth
• Rangers lose powers
• Rangers lose Justin
• Although campy, Alliance of Evil gathers
• Zordon is revealed to be drained of powers
• Andros and the others mistake each other for enemies
• Astronema does not make a mistake
• Rangers are sent back home to Earth by Andros
• It is implied Andros does not want to lose another teammate
• Alpha goes missing
• Rangers are captured

MegaForce:
Monsters want to attack Earth. Defend it. Homework. Do not mess up hair.

Tensou Sentai Goseiger Vs PR Megaforce First Impressions

With the first couple of episodes introduced, I would like to compare Tensou Sentai Goseiger with Power Rangers MegaForce.

Here we go!

Production Values/Song:
Goseiger wins by a ton. It's original. It's very upbeat. It does not do a bad job at ripping off Go Go Power Rangers. Did I mention it did not do a bad job at ripping off Go Go Power Rangers?
Goseiger's original footage was great., albeit the kid footage was unadaptable which had some problems for MegaForce.

Premise: A bunch of protectors of a galaxy vs "teenagers with attitudes."
Sure it is not a promising comparison being put into a preschool pseudo teenage soap opera.
Then again, it happened with Mighty Morphin and it turned out just fine.

Unnecessary kid storyline vs unnecessary teenager storyline
Audiences lose both ways. MegaForce gets a slight lead for not forcing the issue too much to be like Goseiger, even though they basically just copied Mighty Morphin.

Rockstar weapons vs not an homage to the Rockstar monster:
Though it already was, MegaForce did make the show a little less camp, so the points go to MegaForce for good adaptation.

Overall, both had horribly flawed introductions that did not establish much of the show. MegaForce established who has the hots for who and that Noah's a nerd, but no reason for them to protect Earth.
Goseiger only established that Black and Yellow are siblings and that Gosei Red forgets things like Tommy! (Why are there so many Mighty Morphin references in Goseiger that MegaForce wisely does not use.) Watching Goseiger makes you realize that the choices MegaForce used could have been worse (or better..)

The Anatomy of a Song (Megaforce vs Mighty Morphin)

In addition to the analysis of the shows, I've decided to analyze the songs as well.
Oh Juliet! What is a rose, by any other... lyric?

Power Rangers... Megaforce!
I literally felt sick. Didn't help that I played Antichamber with its weird framerate before watching it.

Vs...

Ah!
After 1000 years, I'm free!
It's time to conquer Earth!
Alpha, recruit a team of teenagers with attitude!
Go Go Power Rangers!
Go Go Power Rangers!
Go Go Power Rangers! Mighty Morphin Power Ranger-ers!
Go Go Power Rangers!
Go Go Power Rangers!
Go Go Power Rangers, You Mighty Morphin Power Ranger-ers!
They've got-
A power and a force that you've never seen before!
They've got-
A power and a force that can even up the score!
No-
one-
can ever take them down!
The powers on their si-yi-yi-yi-(a million)-ides!

Repeat chorus.

Not to mention that Power Rangers did not only consist of a mere theme song. It was a opera and ballet of music. Not a shouting match. The silences of In Space building up what was behind the shadows of the universe. The classical music of Lost Galaxy demonstrating what kind of legend Lost Galaxy would present.

Power Rangers Megaforce Episode One Review: Unmega Mission

Nagisa Oshima, Kaneto Shindo, Ingmar Bergman, Jean Luc-Godard, etc., I've betrayed you! I caved! It was me all along! I did it! FORGIVE ME!

In case you did not know, (and you probably don't cause I only need one toe to count how many people read this site) I watched  on youtube, to make sure I would not give it a view. (

And I don't regret it.

It's not Samurai.
Unfortunately, it's still a lot friggin close than I would like it to be. And the two shows are essentially sharing the same bed at the moment!

They did not copy it shot-for-shot.
In fact, there's this awesome helicopter shot of a Red Ranger practicing on a rooftop that a Sentai director would have came up with himself.
It's not exactly indie, but then again Asylum can do those same shots as well.
Instead of copying the script from Shinkenger and adapting it poorly, they copied the script from Mighty Morphin and did it poorly.
I still have to wait for a few more episodes to see if there is character development in the show. However so far the show is still making the same mistake most (children's) shows make by creating characters, instead of people one can relate with. This stuff just does not hit right away like in Mighty Morphin where in High Five, you learn that Trini has a fear of heights and in A ZEO Beginning where we forget about that entire kid mess and have to have that awkward transition into learning about how Tanya's character worked in Shooting Star.
Or perhaps they are just directed to be annoying. I dunno.

Gosei's Olmec or Zordon now. And there's a robot that's supposed to be Alpha. Cute. Very cute...

They also fight the monsters once they leave their "command center" like in Mighty Morphin. The fight scene's actually a lot more dynamic than the original Mighty Morphin fight. They carried over the fact that the enemy is not given much depth or reason for us for us to care about them "attacking Earth," but then again Rita did not either (aside from an earthquake and a wonderful combination of performance by Machiko Soga and Barbara Goodson!)
They get flipped over.

They morph.

It's morphin' time.

In fact the whole episode is like that:

Nothing vs introduction of iconic character. "Don't leave! You'll miss my coming out party! That's when I destroy the nearest planet! Hahahaha!"

Introduce school.
(School that establishes they go to school and how smart they are and who they like)
VERSUS
(Establishes characters favorite hobbies after trying three different pilots including Bulk and Skull!

Billy demonstrates a fighting weakness, which gives his character a flaw, an arc to overcome. Sure, it is not established in this episode, but is fully utilized in later episodes. His character ends up growing the most in possibly all of Power Rangers history. You could debate the hardships of everyday school is their arc.)

Establishing they're friends, er... Classmates rather trying to survive a suburban school with no arcs.
Vs
Friends trying to survive school bullying, the stresses of every overachieving kid. Earthquake on Earth

One shot of the enemy base.
Vs.
Shots that establish the enemy base are constantly shown throughout the show.

You couldn't even make up a name for the new Ernie? Not Richard or Mr. Ginelle? How about just let him be a dessert guy without having a specific name?

Which brings me to...

Nitpicks:

I also don't like the idea of one of the Rangers having the hots for one of the original five. It's a Mighty Morphin homage and that did not happen in Mighty Morphin.
To quote Mr. Plinkett, "I don't like things that are different!"
(WHY KIM?! WHY?!)

Haha! Nature! Can't good guy friends just accept your other friends' beliefs?

To make things worse, it was directed directly by Trachzor himself! -_- So any nitpicks I have are directly influenced by the producer himself.

At least, they'll have guest stars to save this season...