Shadowman wrote:william-james88 wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Ironhidensh wrote:On the last decade, Power Rangers have gotten very silly (even by the standards set by the earlier sillyness),
I'd say the nosedive into silliness has only really come with the Neo-Saban Era from 2011-onward, since Disney went out on a high note with RPM being one of the coolest PR series ever.
I was watching both Dino Charge and the original MMPR on netflix this past year and both seem just as campy and silly but the effects have gotten better. I find them just as fun and enjoyable and even preferred Dino Charge since they didnt have the bullies (who I CAT believe they brought back for Samurai)
You've got to get through the entire Zordon era to really appreciate Bulk and Skull. They started getting way better during Zeo (Then again, so did everyone) and the finale to Power Rangers In Space being easily their greatest moment on screen.
Yeah, of all the original characters, Bulk and Skull were really the ones who had the most pronounced arc to their character growth, even if it spanned across several seasons. They start off as bumbling idiots who think that they're actual intimidating bullies in MMPR season 1, then start a new life goal of trying to uncover the Power Rangers' secret identities (believing that doing so will make themselves famous) in MMPR season 2, then become better citizens when they join the junior police force and work under Lt. Stone in MMPR season 3, and then continue on being cops before they and Stone get fired and open up their own private detective agency with Stone in Zeo...
...and then get turned into chimps in Turbo and spend the first half of that season pitifully trying to get Det. Stone and other people to recognize them (rather than, you know, grabbing a pen and paper and trying to write "We are Bulk and Skull" or something), but thankfully get turned back into humans by Turbo's halfway point and spend the rest of that season trying to find jobs. And then finally, Bulk and Skull take up an apprenticeship under Professor Phenomenus during In Space, with the trio's new objective of seeking out proof of alien life (which is kind of odd considering every enemy that ever previously attacked Angel Grove was an alien). Bulk and Phenomenus (but not Skull) would even go on to make further infrequent appearances during Lost Galaxy, where the two ran the Comet Cafe aboard Terra Venture. Even later, Bulk and Skull would appear again, reunited, in one episode of Wild Force (the 20th anniversary episode) in which Bulk runs his own little poolside resort cafe called Bulkmeiers.
Across all of this, the two went from jerkish "bullies", to less-jerkish Ranger-admirers, to more friendly rookie cops, to private investigators, to (*sigh*) chimps, to odd job workers, to scientist assistants, to (for Bulk and Phenomenus only) cafe staff members.
And then Samurai and Super Samurai would continue Bulk further by having him be a Samurai enthusiast wanting to train Skull's son, Spike, in the ways of the Samurai (or what Bulk
thinks being a Samurai is like), while the Super Samurai finale would reveal Skull to have (
somehow) become some kind of a successful rich guy with his own limo.
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