Thursday 1 November 2007

Top 5 Power Rangers Series

No, wait, stick with me! It being my youngest boys 4th birthday today I thought it only fair I pay tribute to his favourite program. I realise that the Power Rangers are probably very few people's idea of good television but as a father of two boys I have earned a grudging respect for the super powered, martial arts, monster bashing series now in its fifteenth season. Maybe it's some sort of defence mechanism but having initially been forced to watch it with son #1 I now find I actually quite enjoy watching it with them, even if it does inevitably lead to son #2 diving from sofa to armchair in an attempt to recreate the latest episode.

1.
Power Rangers SPD. (2005)

2.
Power Rangers Dino Thunder (2004)

3.
Power Rangers In Space (1998)

4.
Power Rangers Wild Force (2002)

5.
Power Rangers Ninja Storm (2003)

Barring the first three seasons Power Rangers have had a new team for each new series. This means each series brings in a new premise and new characters and whilst generally everything else remains the same it keeps the program fresh. Each show is a frenetic mix of martial arts, giant robots, evil monsters and teenage drama that manages a certain form of kitsch charm. It's like a blend of Monkey and Captain Scarlet but set in an average American high school/cop show/comedy. Some of the greatest episodes involve team ups between Power Rangers from different seasons enabling huge numbers of primary coloured heroes to do battle with ever more bizarre looking enemies.

Probably the favourite episode of both my boys was aired during PR Wild Force, a 20 minute special called
"Forever Red", in which ten Red Ranger's team up to do battle with the surviving members of the evil King Mondo's empire to prevent them resurrecting Lord Zedd's personal war Zord Serpentera. Oh yes. An episode which also sees an exceptional use of a piece of Power Ranger's recurring dialogue "we've only got one chance!" this is then followed by some inexplicable piece of action which wins the day for the Power Ranger's but is rarely something I would have expected their "one chance" to be.

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5 comments:

VJ_M said...

I use to watch online power rangers episodes and luckily i have seen all these series online.Power Rangers Dine Thunder (2004) I like the most.

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Jetix is pretty good for showing reruns of old series, both my sons still enjoy it at the moment and we're getting to see some older shows we've not seen before.

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