SPD Thoughts
 

So its all ready that time of the year, the time to get ready for the next PR season. What our your expectations for SPD?

Well I assume SPD will follow DekaRanger at the beginning. You can tell this from the Press Release. But as the season goes on there will be more originality. Things will start off With A Squad getting captured. Our Three B Squad members will meet two theieves. Later B Squad and the two theives will be recruited by Anibus to become the SPD Rangers. All that of course is from the PRess Release.

Now over the course of the season Cheif Anibus will used his own Ranger Powers. Will get a White Ranger sometime after that. Given us the biggest PR team ever. As to weather they have a counter part for Deka Swan is anyone's guess. From what people have said I would assume Kat would morph into the Deka Swan counter part at least once.

I expect Emporeor Grumm will be a dark villian much like Mesogog. It would be interesting to see interction between him and Anubis. I expect a lot of the henchman to be dark as well , save Piggy.

I expect the tone of the story to be dark ( at least by PR standards). Hopefully we will get some good story archs that will carry things into the end of the year. There is a little uncertianity how things will go since we have new showrunners. Which is kind of exciting.

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I believe SPD is going to be a let down. You cant expect much from the PR Universe anymore thanks to new production staff. See I think that due to the Ranger Academy thing, its going to be a futuristic repeat of LSR. Light Speed Rescue had their own "WE MAKE RANGERS HERE" attitude and the show bombed. Perhaps worst season I can remember. They used technology to make their own morphers and have their own rangers and no one liked the idea much, even adding a Ranger who wasnt even in the Sentai version didnt help. our version of SPD will just be a futuristic repeat of that show in my opinion. But who knows, mybe we will get good production staff this year to make up for that?

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I guess were going to have to wait and see. I am not going to judge SPD till it at last is half way done. Even than the jury will still be out. I think Doug and Ann did a good job on NS and DT. I have faith Kalish and his partner will do a good job with SPD. But I understand your aprehension.

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I believe this show is gonna bomb worse or as equal to NS's bombing and is NS is the worst. LSR was better than NS on its best day. DT was better than NS but not as good as any of the MMPR Productions best, it was however on the level of Zeo.

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I'm afraid Cheetamus is right. I also believe that the reason a lot of people liked Dino Thunder is because of Jason Frank's Tommy character. It brought back memories of when Power Rangers was enjoyable.

Hey! Maybe that's what SPD needs to do...

They can bring back Amy Jo Johnson.

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LoL, Hey Avery, any relation to IndyWarz Matt Avery?

And on a side note, SPD will most likely bomb...I mean just look at the costume for the bad guy..looks like he is the love child of Skeletor and Lord Zedd.

But I guess LSR did have a few advantages of Ninja Storm,

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I think you guys are putting the nail in the coffin of SPD a little early here. I mean we have barely seen any info on the new show beyond the press release and what we know from DekaRanger.

I don;t think people only loved DT because JDF came back. Yes it diffinitly added greatly to the enjoyment of the season. But people liked DT for other things besides the MMPR nostolagia. They liked the story archs, action, and more. If DT was a boring directionless show even JDF couldn;t save it. Sure DT is overrated a bit. I would be the first to attest to that but I surely wouln't hinge all its success on JDF's return.

Now that said to me JDF doesn't neccessarly reflect PR's glory days. I think Power Rangers was at its best during Space-WF. I loved the older seasons too but don't feel like they can compare to the writting of that period. NS-DT was good too just not quite as good as Space-WF. I thought it was great seeing JDF back and having nods to the past. I just don't think PR went downhill after JDF left as a regular. The writing got better, not because of JDF" depature, just because it did. If you mean people responded to their nostolgia and a yearned to when PR was innocent I would agree with you to an extent. While there are a lot of MMPR-Turbo fans too, I just can't count MMPR-Turbo as my favorite PR era.

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I also believe that the reason a lot of people liked Dino Thunder is because of Jason Frank's Tommy character. It brought back memories of when Power Rangers was enjoyable.

That must be the number one reason I detested it, it wasn't enjoyable back then. Only good part was the Megazord battles and they @#%$ that up with Tommy in his days as the White Ranger

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My two little boys have every tape/dvd of PR from MMPR to DT and when given the choice, they always choose the early series. I guess that's what I mean by "enjoyable"... like "Classic Power Rangers".

Let's face it... none of this stuff is award winning material anyway.;)

And yes, Green with Evil... I am that same Matt Avery.:eek

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I see your point. Even though MMPR seems more cheesy you can look back to those days as an exciting time to be a PR fan. I just think the show has been better writing wise in the last 7 years or so ( from Space and Beyond).

There are people who like MMPR the best and would react to Tommy's return in the way you described. So its all subjective in many ways.