History of Power Rangers/Headscratchers
- In his History of Power Rangers video about Power Rangers Turbo, why was he complaining about Divatox using missiles to make her monsters grow when Lord Zedd used hand-grenades?
- Probably because it looks really fake. I know everything looks really fake in power rangers, but the special effect as bad enough to clearly stand out. Or maybe because the missile thing seems stupid in comparison. She is a space pirate and apparently doesn't have a whole lot of resources at her disposal. Zedd was a great evil sorcerer. So it would be more believable that he could create threatening looking silver bombs, than a two-bit space pirate creating CGI torpedoes.
- Plus it adds an extra, subtle layer of villainy if you think about it. Divatox just blew her monsters up to make them grow. Lord Zedd? He made his monsters blow themselves up. By comparison, Divatox just wasn't as interesting which was the whole point of Linkara's criticism of her.
- Zedd's "hand grenades" looked magical enough, was caught and activated by the creature itself and seemed to be moreso just a method of making the creature grow that was different from Rita's magic wand. They didn't refer to those bulbs as being hand grenades, while Divatox firing actual torpedoes just felt like a lack of creativity. In Space was just firing a "satelaser" but it came across as something tech related (shooting something with energy to make it mutate is a sci-fi stand-by). There was no explanation how blowing something up with a torpedo would make something grow, even if Time Force's "exposed the mutant gene" made no sense it was still a psuedo explanation.
- Probably because it looks really fake. I know everything looks really fake in power rangers, but the special effect as bad enough to clearly stand out. Or maybe because the missile thing seems stupid in comparison. She is a space pirate and apparently doesn't have a whole lot of resources at her disposal. Zedd was a great evil sorcerer. So it would be more believable that he could create threatening looking silver bombs, than a two-bit space pirate creating CGI torpedoes.
- I guess it's a matter of opinion, but it bugs me in his review of season two when he calls the rangers dicks for sabotaging Bulk and Skull's efforts to learn their identities. What, so it's cool and badass when Batman steals evidence of his identity, but when the Power Rangers do it, suddenly it's just mean? Zordon told them to keep their identities secret. And the claim that they could just reveal themselves to Bulk and Skull to make them stop doesn't make sense. What does that mean? That if anyone attempts to learn who Power Rangers really are, they're obligated to reveal themselves to that person? Why? And keep in mind at this point in the show, the rangers aren't friends with Bulk and Skull. Sure, they may not be bullying anymore, but they haven't yet done much to make up for their season one behaviour. Sure, they may have saved the rangers once or twice, but the rangers have saved them plenty of times. The rangers don't owe them anything.
- To some extent Linkara's opinion was probably influenced by his knowledge of what Bulk and Skull would eventually blossom into, but even so there are at least two points in favor of the "the Rangers are dicks" argument. For starters, Bulk and Skull weren't being written as antagonists anymore. They hadn't done anything bad to the Rangers for a very long time and there was no indication they had bad intentions in trying to expose the Rangers' identities. I'm not sure what their goal was exactly beyond figuring out who the Power Rangers were under the masks, but their efforts seemed more innocent than antagonistic. That lends them a little more sympathy. And second, because most of the time the Rangers destroyed Bulk and Skull's evidence in ways that guaranteed they would be publicly humiliated. It's one thing to steal/destroy evidence to protect your secret identity, but humiliating the person you stole it from on top of that feels a bit mean.
- How could their attempts to dicover the rangers' identities be purely innocent? Remember the episode where they had a video tape of the rangers morphing? They were about to show it to a whole room full of people. If the rangers hadn't switched the tape, their identities would have been made public. There would be no way they could possibly cover it up once a whole room full of people found out. And maybe the rangers' actions did humiliate them every now and then, but couldn't it be argued that if the two were humiliated by their investigations, they might be more likely to stop? A tad harsh perhaps, but it's ultimately for the best and not enough to brand the rangers as "dicks".
- That was one of about 4 or 5 different episodes where Bulk and Skull had some sort of hard evidence, but besides the video tape they had plaster footprints (hardly immediately revealing) and the Rangers still went out of their way to humiliate them and destroy that evidence.
- The plaster footprints? That wasn't humiliating them. They had Ritchie, Ernie's new employee, put on some music and the people in the Juice Bar shoved past them. A little rude, but not humiliation (unless you count Skull letting go of the plaster to slap Bulk on the back as humiliation, which... all things considered, was pretty much par for the course for them).
- I think it's more of a problem with them constintly humiliating them. If they tried to find out who they were once or twice, it would be one thing, but as he pointed out, they spent most of season 2 doing this. Hell, I'm more frustrated that the Rangers, over time, didn't try to be more covert with two (that we know of) people following them.
- To some extent Linkara's opinion was probably influenced by his knowledge of what Bulk and Skull would eventually blossom into, but even so there are at least two points in favor of the "the Rangers are dicks" argument. For starters, Bulk and Skull weren't being written as antagonists anymore. They hadn't done anything bad to the Rangers for a very long time and there was no indication they had bad intentions in trying to expose the Rangers' identities. I'm not sure what their goal was exactly beyond figuring out who the Power Rangers were under the masks, but their efforts seemed more innocent than antagonistic. That lends them a little more sympathy. And second, because most of the time the Rangers destroyed Bulk and Skull's evidence in ways that guaranteed they would be publicly humiliated. It's one thing to steal/destroy evidence to protect your secret identity, but humiliating the person you stole it from on top of that feels a bit mean.
- During his Lost Galaxy review, he claimed the song was "trying to tell a story, but just ran out of time." Under the same paragraph, though, he compares it less favorably to the original theme. You know, the one with SIX WORDS (Go, Power, Ranger, You, Mighty, Morphing).
- The original theme wasn't about lyrics. It was about epic guitar.
- Plus, that's just what you hear in the intro. The full version has multiple verses and talks quite a bit about how awesome the Rangers are.
- Well, fair enough, but in the minute Lost Galaxy had, it's a bit more compelling.
- Anyone know if Linkara would at all care about Gobuster if he knew how Power Rangers inspired it was? If he still doesn't fine, I'm just wondering because of how blatant it is in the show.
- Knowing him people have probably told him about it by now. I expect another reference to it in his next video like he did with Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger. He definitely isn’t going to watch it though. He once stated on a podcast that he didn’t care about Sentai because he didn’t grow up with it. He might think it is cool or interesting and I wouldn’t be surprised if his reaction is buried somewhere in Twitter, but he won’t watch it.
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