I feel like maybe it was his lack of skin and exposed brain that made him scary. At least until parents complained and he basically turned into a cartoon character.
(also Power Rangers is just a live action Voltron clone, so I cba.)
Power Rangers and Voltron take different approaches to the "completely rip apart a Japanese product to make something so we don't have to make our own show" plan. While Voltron takes unrelated shows and splices them together, Power Rangers actually creates US-made content in order to further a bigoted, Amero-centric agenda of wiping out any expression of foreign culture, because God knows children can't deal with that.
I feel like maybe it was his lack of skin and exposed brain that made him scary. At least until parents complained and he basically turned into a cartoon character.
He did get more victory's with Rita and even got a one on one fight with Tommy.
I feel like maybe it was his lack of skin and exposed brain that made him scary. At least until parents complained and he basically turned into a cartoon character.
The Shredder from (old school) Ninja Turtles is scarier than Zedd could ever dream of being.
I'm with you. The voices and music are naff in comparison to the Japanese, but there's that nostalgic air about it that you can't really define.
I gotta admit I still like the music though. I never had any problems with it and still didn't when I first had access to the internet and found the original dbz eps. I don't hate the original either. I like them about the same.:p
My real issue with Power Rangers has always been that it looks so obviously fake.
The actors' fight scenes aren't believable (eg. someone does a roundhouse kick which a small child can tell did not connect, yet the enemy falls down); the Rangers' dialogue while they're in uniform is made to look stupid by repeated and unnecessary head nods every time someone speaks; the Zords look like toys; and Rita's voice-acting doesn't match her lip movements or appearance.
About the only interesting character in the whole of Power Rangers is Zordon.
My real issue with Power Rangers has always been that it looks so obviously fake.
The actors' fight scenes aren't believable (eg. someone does a roundhouse kick which a small child can tell did not connect, yet the enemy falls down); the Rangers' dialogue while they're in uniform is made to look stupid by repeated and unnecessary head nods every time someone speaks; the Zords look like toys; and Rita's voice-acting doesn't match her lip movements or appearance.
About the only interesting character in the whole of Power Rangers is Zordon.
You're also apparently in your 30's so you were too old for it when it came out and thus are never going to have the kinds of feelings/memories for it that we do. If it had come out two or three years later I'd probably be agreeing with you. You say a small child can tell, but when I was 10 the thought never crossed my mind. I've actually been watching it again now that the whole series is on Netflix and boy am I amazed at just how much there was I never noticed as a kid.
When I used to play World of Warcraft, there was a raid boss that said something like "Feel the power of THUNDER!" And he said "thunder" in such a way that just about every time I was ever present to fight him I felt the need to say "CATS, HOOOOOOOOOOO!" immediately afterwards.
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All nostalgia'd out now.
An American anime nerd. I'm in my 20's and still play Dungeons and Dragons but I'm not nostalgia...ing from that.
I was actually singing this in my car loudly today, on the subject of nostalgia for people in their 20's.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frGLMtGsotc Woo-ooo!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb0rw5xIyGc
I still say this needs to be Newt Gingrich's theme song.
Did you have an NES? Of course you did. You now have the Space Music from the Capcom Ducktails game stuck in your head.
You're welcome.
Dude, I have already have a remix of it on my iPod.
Edit: And it's the MOON music. This is important stuff!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=er-T5FjRc40&feature=related
Metal thonged villains where scary in the 90s.
I do not care, for it is gay.
I do not like green eggs and ham.
I do not like them, Sam I Am.
(also Power Rangers is just a live action Voltron clone, so I cba.)
I'm in my early 30's.
Then I have gambled all and lost.
I feel like maybe it was his lack of skin and exposed brain that made him scary. At least until parents complained and he basically turned into a cartoon character.
Technically, Power Rangers' source material is older than Voltron. Who's ripping off who now!?
He did get more victory's with Rita and even got a one on one fight with Tommy.
They're all ripping off Super Street Fighter II, the monomyth of our generation.
The Shredder from (old school) Ninja Turtles is scarier than Zedd could ever dream of being.
I was never scared of either of them.
Also, Noozles was better.
I'm with you. The voices and music are naff in comparison to the Japanese, but there's that nostalgic air about it that you can't really define.
I gotta admit I still like the music though. I never had any problems with it and still didn't when I first had access to the internet and found the original dbz eps. I don't hate the original either. I like them about the same.:p
The actors' fight scenes aren't believable (eg. someone does a roundhouse kick which a small child can tell did not connect, yet the enemy falls down); the Rangers' dialogue while they're in uniform is made to look stupid by repeated and unnecessary head nods every time someone speaks; the Zords look like toys; and Rita's voice-acting doesn't match her lip movements or appearance.
About the only interesting character in the whole of Power Rangers is Zordon.
Zordon Bulk and Skull and with Rita and Zedd's antics as a marryed couple where much more intresting for me then the plots.
You're also apparently in your 30's so you were too old for it when it came out and thus are never going to have the kinds of feelings/memories for it that we do. If it had come out two or three years later I'd probably be agreeing with you. You say a small child can tell, but when I was 10 the thought never crossed my mind. I've actually been watching it again now that the whole series is on Netflix and boy am I amazed at just how much there was I never noticed as a kid.
...dammit, where the hell did she go? Anyone know?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roiJizt8jxw&t=20s
EDIT: Also... THIS.
EDIT AGAIN: and THIS.
I was once beat with a rolled up Car Carpet City, because the wooden spoon had been broke over my arse the day before. I was a bold child some weeks
You have only gone and made me do this.
When I used to play World of Warcraft, there was a raid boss that said something like "Feel the power of THUNDER!" And he said "thunder" in such a way that just about every time I was ever present to fight him I felt the need to say "CATS, HOOOOOOOOOOO!" immediately afterwards.
Yes.
The worst I ever got was a plastic soup spoon on the back of my hands. Of course, I was always sitting so standard spanking didn't exactly work on me.
A plastic soup spoon? You must've had the softest skin of any child in the southern states!
On the contrary. I've been pretty callous-y since I was at least four or five due to wheelchair.
Never did me any harm.
....
THE APRICOT-LEMON ARMY IS TAKING OVER MY MIND!!
AHAHAHAAA!
WEEEEEE!!!
WE WOULD RIKE TO PLAY!
Well... I have callous-y... fingertips.
You win the round Pantaloons... :mad:
About the only thing I nostalgiad over in this thread.