Deviation Actions
Since it's getting close to when Dino Charge toys should be coming out/Black Friday to early December is your best bet, I would like to talk about some things about Super Megaforce that I learned during the run.
*foreclosure* If you know this info already, I apologize in advance.
It's no surprise that Super Megaforce is one of the worst seasons especially for it being an anniversary of Power Rangers like Operation Overdrive was. There is of course a person who is to blame for all of the crap that Super Megaforce along with Megaforce went through and thusly, everything was left a mess: Johnathon Tzachor.
Because of Tzachor, a lot of the things from Samurai to Super Megaforce that were gonna make the seasons great were scrapped by him so he could adapt the sentai plots instead of making more original material/& I know that shooting more original footage is expensive.
Now sometimes, adapting the plot of a sentai episode can work if you have the right writing team behind it, but if you have a writer that tries to make a good original episode around said footage, Tzachor will take that and edit it to be more of an adaptation of the Sentai episode's plot. An example of this is where Casey from Jungle Fury/Jason Smith actually announced before he came back that he would be writing some episodes of Super Megaforce/4 to be exact. However, I watched those episodes and I couldn't see much of Jason's writing in them/Especially in the Samurai tribute where Troy says "Fire-Smasher, Dual-Mode" where it just showed one fire-smasher striking the monster rather than 2. Easy fix: Shoot new footage showing Troy using 2 Fire-Smashers.
Another thing to point out is that the rangers don't get a specific character development episode. I'll bring up a big example - Ciara Hanna aka Gia, Megaforce Yellow. There is NO SOLID character development episode to her and that is honestly sad because I would consider Gia the second in command of the team & she is that bad-ass.
Heck, I'll bring up another one: Andrew Gray aka Troy, Megaforce Red. He didn't get a character development episode either. He's had the visions of the Legendary Battle throughout Megaforce but then, the visions just stop once Super Megaforce rolls in. He also never tells the other rangers about the visions either/Gia somewhat knows about his visions from what I saw. Heck, Troy was supposed to be written with a military family background to his character but that got dropped like nothing else & it didn't make it into the show, which makes Troy a mix of Alata & Marvelous a lot of the time.
The villains aren't that great either: Admiral Malkor? barely does a thing and the one who does do a lot more is Vrak/Which makes me think that Vrak should have been the main villain of Megaforce.
The Armada doesn't get a pass either. Vekar was actually bad-ass sounding but around Episode 9 or so, he started to resemble Warzu Gill more and more. I'm guessing the writer for the serious Vekar left when Tzachor made Vekar more like Warzu Gill/Again, I'm guessing since I couldn't find a straight answer.
Going back to the episodes, a lot of them didn't make a whole bunch of sense. The biggest offender of this is Episode 13 "The Grass is Always Greener... or Bluer". It crammed 3 plots from the Sentai into a jumbled mess: The Body Switch with Blue & Green/Missed opportunity for comedy, the Super Mega-Cannon, and finally the "unlock" of Mini-Zord from Ninja-Storm. I know he's called Ninja-Zord but I'm calling him Mini-Zord because that's what he is. Gosei says they unlocked the powers of Ninja Storm. HOW?! They didn't use Ninja Storm ONCE in the entirety of the episode and yet you say they unlocked Mini-Zord? NOPE. I'm calling bad-writing here, Gosei.
JDF at a past convention said that you shouldn't look for explanations in Super Megaforce but that can only go so far without fans making their own head-canon about what the heck is going on.
One of my friends on FaceBook actually gave an idea concerning the use of the DaiRanger suits:
"I personally wished they explained the usage of the pre-zyuranger suits much better, like for example: say the dairanger suits are actually the thunder zords manifested as ranger powers."
That idea could have actually worked in the show, and I commended him for that idea.
My own personal head-canon for the Legendary Battle is that the Morphing Grid called for the Rangers to join up for the fight and with the aid of someone like the Sentinel Knight, maybe Ninjor too, they restored the powers of those rangers who got their morphers wrecked. For teams in the future, the Morphing Grid would have simply called those teams to battle when they were still active/You could even edit in some more Gokaiger episodes into the final battle showing the past rangers fighting like Wolf Warrior, Sentinel Knight & etc. Heck, you could have done an original Megazord fight at the end of the waves of X-Borgs by having Mavro return & grow, transforming into Black-Cross King and he revives a lot of monsters, leading the rangers to call forth their Megazords into battle against the waves of enemies. And since Black-Cross King was destroyed by the GoRanger Grand Power, you could edit the footage to when the Megazords use their energies in a blast against Black-Cross King and that would instead destroy him instead of forcing him back.
There you go, Super Megaforce. I have just fixed up your finale to be much better and I even had some more ideas on top of that/I have seen the finale and that version was a JOKE. I'm willing to bet the fan-edits of the finale will be much better than the actual finale we ended up getting.
There are of course a LOT MORE problems than what I just mentioned, but basically, due to executive meddling in this show that stops it from being quite possibly the greatest season since In Space & Time Force, Super Megaforce is sadly not the greatest season of the show since Saban got the franchise back.
There is hope that Power Rangers gets the reboot it rightfully deserves with Dino-Charge because Judd Lynn confirmed at Morphicon 2014 that he was returning to the show & that Tzachor was let go.
I wish all of the actors from Super Megaforce & the cast and crew from Dino-Charge luck from this point forward. I'm sorry for the huge post but I had to get this off of my chest or it would nag at me for the rest of the year. Catch you guys later.
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Goseiger could have worked as an anniversary, I'm sure of it... a strange one, but hear me out. You may have heard, once, that Ohranger was initially designed to be an updated version of Goranger; it was to be that show, but with the developments of Super Sentai up to that point. While these plans failed because of terrorist attacks, the Goseiger adaptation could have done the same; be Mighty Morphin', but with the developments of the Power Rangers up to that point... whatever they may be. Sure, this may require original footage of Gosei Green, but still... it could have possibly worked.
Then again, this is Tzachor, who loved being faithful to Sentai. From what I heard, early plans revealed that the plot of Megaforce was to be identical to Goseiger, save for high school plot elements being added in... which is a similar approach to what Samurai did with Shinkenger; not sure how Gokaiger was included in this... if it was there at all. That sounds terrible, considering how... not good Goseiger was, but at least it sounds more cohesive and focused than the final series... but oh well.
Anyway, Megaforce inspired me to do two things: 1) recut the series to adapt only Gokaiger, with Goseiger being a separate adaptation, and 2) Plan adaptations for every Pre-Zyuranger series, which included Dairanger as a conclusion. I could show you them if desired...