Power Rangers was adapted from the thirty three year long line of Japanese special effects television series known as Super Sentai. Power Rangers consisted of 5 teenagers saving the world from (scary) monsters and sometime even an evil ranger(s), which would then join them.
After 16 years of Power Rangers the show has come to an end with its last series 'Power Rangers RPM' which will conclude on December 26, 2009 and part of me feels like I should start watching those episode, I mean Iv been watching PR since I was 3, I even have there very first show in an orange cassette tape somewhere in my house.
I feel like to end this PR blog, I must bring to you the history of Powers Rangers and it wont be like a long novel but I'd like to skim threw the history of it for people who are not familiar with it.
Might Morphin Power Rangers started on August 28, 1993 and with the shows they had back then, the producers thought that may have hit the jackpot and they were right. The first Power Rangers that came together were Jason (red ranger), Kimberly (pink ranger), Zack (black ranger and may I add he was African, ironic?), Billy (blue ranger) and Trini (yellow ranger, who was also Asian...just saying?) and that line up lasted until the 17th episode when the audience and myself was introduced to one of my favorite PR of all time, the evil green ranger Tommy (which actually started my interests in becoming a villain of TV show like him). Though at the end of it the 5 episode arc, he later joined the good side (See; Its morphing Time) and with that they went head to head with Rita Replusa and her goons and it took 4 years and a whole different cast of Rangers (excluding Tommy who was now the white ranger and in charge) To get rid of her (They also made a movie about it too).
-In the middle of this time period they had a small mini series of alien rangers who were children (odd) which only lasted a month.
Skip to 1996 and we see a whole different format of rangers by the name of Zeo with the returns of some other old rangers, Jason - gold, Tommy - red, and also some others from the last season of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
They fought against people no one cared about or even know.
Change of pace and PR: Turbo emerges with mega zords that look like cars, with again at first Tommy is the new red ranger and 3 others that were previously in the other seasons. After the defeat of Maligore, the older Turbo Rangers graduate from high school and resume their normal lives, but are attacked once again by a vengeful Divatox and her forces and an endless supply of detonators and monsters that threaten the citizens of Angel Grove. With that they are joined by new rangers who later take the turbo colors and we dont see Tommy after that for a while (more on that later).
With a second PR movie and another defeat of the PR: Turbo boss, we witness a new set of rangers who now live in space (Power Rangers: In Space) and all that future stuff and a new ranger joining them later on in the season, which is a recurring role threw most of the PR seasons* and few old rangers joining in other episodes.
At the end of it all there command center goes under water and from there on, on February 6, 1999 an underwater command center looks for 5 new rangers, thus making this Power Rangers: Lost Galaxy the 8th season.
After that long story line of space and that same command center, they tweaked it up a little bit and made 'Power Rangers: Lightspeed Rescue' which was just that, light speed rescue and not my favorite. (* Happened).
Power Rangers: Wild Force came along and it was more of a Mighty Morphin meets jungle with again, a bad ranger* and lots of mystic stuff but also included an episode with all the red rangers in the past joining forces to fight Beetleborgs (the episode was titled Forever red).
Skip to 3 months later and the fans of PR are shown a new kind of rangers 'Power Rangers: Ninja Storm' which consisted of ninjas and storms (whenever they called there mega zords). (* Happened).
10 years later and they recreate Might Morphine PR (sorta). Dino Thunder comes together, in which we later see the legendary Tommy Olver (with short hair) who plays there teacher and mentor and perhaps Dr.
Power Ranger S.P.D which again takes place in the future, the year 2025, after Earth has welcomed alien beings to live peacefully with the human race. But peace is short lived, which takes them fighting with those aliens and also a last cameo of Tommy Oliver.
14 Seasons later it feels like harry potter had played apart in this Power Ranger sega finally with Power Rangers: Mystic Force and frankly I have nothing to say about this besides that this was the beginning of the end.
Power Rangers: Operation Overdrive was the third last season which pretty much looked like PR: Turbo except with skinner, winier kids who all wanted jewels.
Power Rangers: Jungle Fury was like another PR: Wild Force, which got me to believe that if this show continued at this rate it would be remake after remake of other ranger seasons.
Power Rangers: RPM was the 17th and last season, the end all be all, and ironically this season was the first season to be set in a post-apocalyptic setting and I say ironic cause its the last season. 2012 last day on earth? so I think the Power Rangers are finally giving up, no one can no longer saves us!
To be honest one of my dream jobs was to be a Power Ranger, a white ranger or black but just once I wanted to repeat those words like those 75 other rangers once said and didnt mean (excluding the first season of rangers and Tommy Oliver).
I would say it with joy as my suit appears in thin air 'its morphin time'!
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