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.'
If it's an anime, then no. "Tokusatsu" refers to live action shows shot with special effects. Though that's a much broader range in Japan when one includes non-Japanese works (like how every cartoon ever would be an "anime" in Japan), in the West it's more specifically live action shows along the lines of Super Sentai, Kamen Rider, Ultraman, and the like.SKYWARPED_128 wrote:Out of curiosity, does Blassreiter count as tokusatsu? It's got all the trapping of a tokusatsu show, just that it's in anime format instead of live-action.
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:If it's an anime, then no. "Tokusatsu" refers to live action shows shot with special effects. Though that's a much broader range in Japan when one includes non-Japanese works (like how every cartoon ever would be an "anime" in Japan), in the West it's more specifically live action shows along the lines of Super Sentai, Kamen Rider, Ultraman, and the like.SKYWARPED_128 wrote:Out of curiosity, does Blassreiter count as tokusatsu? It's got all the trapping of a tokusatsu show, just that it's in anime format instead of live-action.
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:Kamen Rider tried making a comeback in the U.S. with KRDK, even with going out of its way to try and be "more serious than Power Rangers" (though, it really didn't help that it was going up against RPM, of all series, at the time), but a bunch of factors inhibited it being as successful as it could have been, most notable of those being the way 4Kids handled its broadcasting with so many hiatuses and not even airing the last two episodes. It's like 4Kids didn't even want anything to do with the show and felt embarrassed by having it air on 4Kids' programming block or something. Adness really got the short end of the stick in their dealing with 4Kids.
What do you mean? I mean, I understand the behind-the-scenes haphazardness of the production side, but the show itself was fine. Quite good, even. Certainly better than Go-Onger, from what I'm told.Madeus Prime wrote:Yeah, what was up with RPM? It was one of the most haphazard series I've seen.
It did keep Dragon Knight as the main hero with Wing Knight as the secondary hero, but also had other Riders being other allies at other points as well. The premise was that all 12 Riders (Onyx/Ryuga didn't originally exist, coming into existence during the series) were originally all part of the same team of heroes, but all of them except Wing Knight (and later Siren) were defeated by the series' main villain, General Xaviax, prior to the series. Xaviax then took their decks and gave them all to other humans that he forced to work for him by various means. These corrupt Riders are fought as enemies throughout the series, as a means to use the Rider War footage of Ryuki. Dragon Knight was the only one who Xaviax was unable to corrupt, and so he fights against Xaviax alongside Wing Knight.Madeus Prime wrote:Another factor, and I've not seen KRDK, but did they keep to the whole "Solo hero with maybe one ally hero" theme? Because that was probably another factor, kids like to watch teamwork, network execs love to watch it even more.
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.'
Madeus Prime wrote:Yeah, what was up with RPM? It was one of the most haphazard series I've seen.
-Kanrabat- wrote:YEah, too many Transformers are in a serious need of a good rim job.
Blast Cannon wrote:This thread is brilliant. Duragrip you are a gloriously weird sexual deviant and I love it.
Sabrblade wrote:What do you mean? I mean, I understand the behind-the-scenes haphazardness of the production side, but the show itself was fine. Quite good, even. Certainly better than Go-Onger, from what I'm told.
LOST Cybertronian wrote:RPM was the best season of Power Rangers period (IMHO).
Okay, that I can understand.Madeus Prime wrote:I don't know, it just felt really weird to me. The zords/mechas were WAY too cartoonish for the realistic-ish tone of the series. Also, gold and silver were so damn annoying, by far the most annoying sixth ranger(s) I've seen.
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:The goofiness of the zords came from the fact that the source material, Go-Onger, was an incredibly campy series with all kinds of lighthearted silliness. But the series' first director, Eddie Guzelian, wanted to make a dark and serious season that both young and old fans could enjoy, since PRM was supposed to be the final season of the show and he wanted it to end on a high note. So, it became a challenge adapting the silly Go-Onger footage to fit the darker nature of RPM, resulting in almost no Go-Onger footage even getting used save for Megazord fights (which were very brief and trimmed down significantly from the Go-Onger mecha fights) and a handful of ground-based monster fights.
Sabrblade wrote:However, the show was not without self-awareness of itself and did acknowledge some of the goofier stuff that Power Rangers is known for, such as the cartoonish-looking zords, the giant explosions that appear behind the rangers upon morphing, the need to scream their Morphin Calls, etc.
Sabrblade wrote:As for Gem and Gemma themselves being annoying, I can agree with that to an extent. When I first watched the show, I couldn't stand them at first. But as the series progressed and we got to see more sides of them, they got better and they grew on me. Especially in the episodes that had them working separately from each other and instead with one of the other rangers, like in the episode where Gem works with Scott and the episode where Gemma works with Flynn.
wilcosu35 wrote:looks a bit like a cross between W and fourze
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:Anyone else here watch Linkara's "History of Power Rangers" series?
Sabrblade wrote:Anyone else here watch Linkara's "History of Power Rangers" series?
Word of advice to those just starting his series. If you're watching the videos on YouTube, you might want to switch over to watching them on his main website, atopthefourthwall.com, since the YouTube versions he uploads might become audio-only videos with stilled images taking the place of episode footage and all video/audio clips of the show being excised altogether, due to copyright strikes from Toei. Saban is A-okay with his HOPR videos, but Toei's got something against his using footage of the show on YouTube, so he has to comply with their wishes in order to get the series onto YouTube.Madeus Prime wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Anyone else here watch Linkara's "History of Power Rangers" series?
Just started them last night.
That was a good series. Twas no In Space or Time Force, but still above average.Madeus Prime wrote:TBH, out of most of the PR series I've watched in their entirety, Jungle Fury is probably my favorite.
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:That being said, the unedited versions of the HOPR videos will still be uploaded onto his main website, which can be found and watched (in reverse chronologial order) here - http://atopthefourthwall.com/other-videos/?ovc=hopr
Sabrblade wrote:That was a good series. Twas no In Space or Time Force, but still above average.
-Kanrabat- wrote:YEah, too many Transformers are in a serious need of a good rim job.
Blast Cannon wrote:This thread is brilliant. Duragrip you are a gloriously weird sexual deviant and I love it.
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