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Shadowman wrote:-Kanrabat- wrote:Don't get me wrong, I DO love some bad-ass, ass kicking super heroine. It's just that naturally, and BIOLOGICALLY, it's a man's job and function.
Okay, that's just as blatantly sexist as it is silly. Women can't be superheroes in fiction because they're not as tough as men? Tell you what, you go fight Rhonda Rousey, then you can't talk about who's tough.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
-Kanrabat- wrote:Shadowman wrote:-Kanrabat- wrote:Don't get me wrong, I DO love some bad-ass, ass kicking super heroine. It's just that naturally, and BIOLOGICALLY, it's a man's job and function.
Okay, that's just as blatantly sexist as it is silly. Women can't be superheroes in fiction because they're not as tough as men? Tell you what, you go fight Rhonda Rousey, then you can't talk about who's tough.
Ahem... How about some logic here. Ronda is a figher and an athlete. I'm just a random out of shape shmoe. OF COURSE she'd wipe the floor with me. Where the hell did I say that having a p-nis give you magical super powers? Before using buzzwords, think for a second. If I compare a man and a woman, I compare them on an EVEN level. With similar overal age, health, fitness, and skills. And one thing that is pretty obvious is on the physical level, a man will ALWAYS be the strongest and fastest.
Identity politics can't trump biology. That's why Ronda REFUSE to fight male MMA fighters. That's why the Olympics and any sports events are separated by genders. That's why admiting trans "women" in women sports make for some hillarious situation.
There is also that TV and movie trope calle "waif-fu". A petite 110 pounds woman (who have no super powers) can easely dispatch a mob of 250lbs+ men, that are supposed to be fighters, without breaking a sweat. Sure, one may know kung-fu, but kung fu dosent give you super streight and stamina. It's fun to watch, sure, but it's in the same category as huge fiery explosions and magical bullets that throw people and light things on fire.
Wigglez wrote:Just remember. The sword is an extension of your arm. Use it as if you're going to karate chop someone with your really long sharp ass hand.
Sabrblade wrote:SO, how 'bout them Japanese-based heroes in spandex et al, guys?
At this point, I've no idea.william-james88 wrote:Sabrblade wrote:SO, how 'bout them Japanese-based heroes in spandex et al, guys?
I dont care much about the spandex stuff, I am more fond of the mecha. Just wondering, you think Saban will be ignoring the cube stuff and go directly to Kyuuranger? Would make sense to me.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Sabrblade wrote:At this point, I've no idea.william-james88 wrote:Sabrblade wrote:SO, how 'bout them Japanese-based heroes in spandex et al, guys?
I dont care much about the spandex stuff, I am more fond of the mecha. Just wondering, you think Saban will be ignoring the cube stuff and go directly to Kyuuranger? Would make sense to me.
People say that they skipped ToQger for how silly its source footage was even for Power Rangers standards, and yet for their Ninja Steel adaptation of Ninninger, they're portraying the main villain as an intergalactic game show host. If silliness was as big an issue (among others) that led them to skip ToQger for Ninninger, then it sure doesn't show if they're just going to make Ninja Steel be silly anyways.
Wigglez wrote:Just remember. The sword is an extension of your arm. Use it as if you're going to karate chop someone with your really long sharp ass hand.
Shadowman wrote:I like that you're trying to use "logic" to claim that women can't be superheroes, as if such a thing is a realm governed by logic. (It's not) And then in the last line, you try to pass it off as the same thing as "huge fiery explosions and magical bullets that throw people and light things on fire." You know, signature elements of the very series we're talking about. You might as well say women being great fighters is about as real as using giant robots to fight giant monsters.
You're just being a sexist idiot so I'm going to start ignoring you now.
Shadowman wrote:Sabrblade wrote:At this point, I've no idea.william-james88 wrote:Sabrblade wrote:SO, how 'bout them Japanese-based heroes in spandex et al, guys?
I dont care much about the spandex stuff, I am more fond of the mecha. Just wondering, you think Saban will be ignoring the cube stuff and go directly to Kyuuranger? Would make sense to me.
People say that they skipped ToQger for how silly its source footage was even for Power Rangers standards, and yet for their Ninja Steel adaptation of Ninninger, they're portraying the main villain as an intergalactic game show host. If silliness was as big an issue (among others) that led them to skip ToQger for Ninninger, then it sure doesn't show if they're just going to make Ninja Steel be silly anyways.
That's definitely just an excuse, they've never had an issue with "too silly" before, and even if it was, they always found a way around that. Like turning the silly borderline comedy of Go-onger into the very dark and serious Power Rangers RPM.
I like the new suits. I think Gold's helmet is a bit silly looking, but otherwise they look pretty cool. Black is a pretty bulky looking dude, I wonder what he's got going on there.
william-james88 wrote:Sabrblade wrote:SO, how 'bout them Japanese-based heroes in spandex et al, guys?
I dont care much about the spandex part, I am more fond of the mecha. Just wondering, you think Saban will be ignoring the cube stuff and go directly to Kyuuranger? Would make sense to me.
And speaking of spandex, here are some nicer images:
Indeed. Oftentimes, Power Rangers will promote additional toys made by Bandai of America that weren't in the original Sentai versions. Historically, the most famous (or infamous, depending on your view) of these BoA toy promotions was the Battlizer, which formally originated in Power Rangers In Space. Most recently, the Dino Drive form of the Dino Charge Rangers, which they use only within the cockpits of their megazords, is another example of PR-original product placement.william-james88 wrote:Just wondering, but the goal of the saban show is also to sell toys right? That's what I am assuming here.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Sabrblade wrote:Indeed. Oftentimes, Power Rangers will promote additional toys made by Bandai of America that weren't in the original Sentai versions. Historically, the most famous (or infamous, depending on your view) of these BoA toy promotions was the Battlizer, which formally originated in Power Rangers In Space. Most recently, the Dino Drive form of the Dino Charge Rangers, which they use only within the cockpits of their megazords, is another example of PR-original product placement.william-james88 wrote:Just wondering, but the goal of the saban show is also to sell toys right? That's what I am assuming here.
-Kanrabat- wrote:It's the same reason that I don't want to see any male as a magical girl...
Sabrblade wrote:Most recently, the Dino Drive form of the Dino Charge Rangers, which they use only within the cockpits of their megazords, is another example of PR-original product placement.
I'm not certain of the real world origin of the Dino Drive forms, but as the Dino Drives are similar in concept to the Mega Modes and Shogun Mode from Samurai and Super Samurai, I could imagine the Dino Drives being a similar case to those, whose origins were that Bandai conceived the Mega Mode and Shogun Mode for the toyline first*, and so when the Samurai show was made, Saban worked the Mega Mode and Shogun Mode concepts into the show in order to promote the toys that Bandai had already come up with.william-james88 wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Most recently, the Dino Drive form of the Dino Charge Rangers, which they use only within the cockpits of their megazords, is another example of PR-original product placement.
So those were all new costumes made by Saban and not taken from Japan?Wow, I thought they would avoid something costly like that (I guess they thought the toys would pay off).
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
william-james88 wrote:the idea of reusing molds to minimize costs (which is probably what happened with the 5 inch dino drive figures) brings up a big question I have with how expensive molds are. Being a TF collector, you would think molds are the most expensive thing to produce with John Warden having to show how they can be reused excessively just to get a green light on Combiner Wars, or the constant struggle to redoing lost molds.
And then I look at Power Rangers toys and how Bandai of America will make all new molds for every mecha. Sure, bandai as a parent company saves on the cost of design since the designs stay rather similar, but they have to redo all the molds. So one would assume that making molds cant be that high a cost in their business plan if its actually the way they have of saving money.
Wigglez wrote:Just remember. The sword is an extension of your arm. Use it as if you're going to karate chop someone with your really long sharp ass hand.
I did that when I got all the Megaset DVDs from Shout! Factory. Though, I must admit that I didn't start from the very beginning, but instead from where I'd last left off of my previous attempt to re-watch MMPR. I originally started from the beginning back in 2010 when Disney did the reversion of MMPR season 1. When that was over, I decided to keep going with the season by watching the remaining episodes online, but never made it through to the end of the season. So when I got the first two DVD Megasets, I resumed with MMPR where I'd last left off, starting with "Grumble Bee". From there, I went all the way to the end of RPM, "Danger and Destiny, Parts 1-2", once I acquired the remaining Megasets. I didn't continue into Samurai from there since, well, I was already watching Samurai and the subsequent seasons on Nick at the same as when I was watching the DVDs.Shadowman wrote:So a while ago I decided to take advantage of what Netflix has to offer and watch all the episodes of Power Rangers they have available. Which is all of them. And I'm being real with it, too; Day of the Dumpster all the way through to End of Extinction, in order, and not a single episode skipped. No matter how much of the episode involves Troy, I gotta watch it.
Keep going, man! You're almost to the New Zealand seasons, which I honestly feel had more good seasons that bad seasons under Disney's term.Shadowman wrote:I'm nearly done with Wild Force and so far, honestly, I don't regret it. I was actually shocked at a lot of episodes I had never seen before, and just how much I didn't pick up on as a kid.
Yeah... As bad as it is, there are still a scant few episodes that are (or at least make an effort of trying to be) actually good. They just... can't make up the other 90% of the show's badness.Shadowman wrote:I still know I'm going to have to actually watch Megaforce, though...
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Sabrblade wrote:Though, does Netflix have all the movies too?
Sabrblade wrote:Keep going, man! You're almost to the New Zealand seasons, which I honestly feel had more good seasons that bad seasons under Disney's term.Shadowman wrote:I'm nearly done with Wild Force and so far, honestly, I don't regret it. I was actually shocked at a lot of episodes I had never seen before, and just how much I didn't pick up on as a kid.
Yeah... As bad as it is, there are still a scant few episodes that are (or at least make an effort of trying to be) actually good. They just... can't make up the other 90% of the show's badness.Shadowman wrote:I still know I'm going to have to actually watch Megaforce, though...
Wigglez wrote:Just remember. The sword is an extension of your arm. Use it as if you're going to karate chop someone with your really long sharp ass hand.
What? They don't even have the "Clash of the Red Rangers" Samurai movie (which technically takes place during Super Samurai)?Shadowman wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Though, does Netflix have all the movies too?
The most they have is the extended version of Legendary Battle. I had to go to other sources for the Turbo movie, since I consider that one to be an actual episode.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
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