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From some posts on Rangerboard,it sums up my thoughts in the recent Teamup:  
You had to go into this with realistic expectations, as they couldn’t get everyone back so most of the past rangers were always going to be background fodder.
 
Despite this, Grid Connection should have been foolproof to write. We’ve had five episodes of set up. And the Sentai Dino War contains 14 minutes of usable footage. That leaves more enough time for them to introduce Jason, drop a line to explain why the old teams are back, and pay off Goldar’s return.
 
Instead, the Sentai is mostly discarded. Gone are most of the team-based attacks of the different Rangers (including MMPR) fighting together. Out goes the final showdown between Jason & Goldar which renders Goldar’s resurrection mostly pointless. The Zords are edited down to a blink-and-you’ll miss it appearance. Seeing as this episode is supposed to sell the re-issue of all these toys, dropping the footage must mean they have something special planned?
 
Nope. Instead, the team up stuff is trimmed for a plot about the Morphin Grid attempting to murder Devon so it can give him a coin so Devon can make a phone call to summon Jason. Huh?
 
Still, at least ASJ’s return can save things? Nope, again. He barely does anything. They flew him around the world to film less than 3 minutes of footage, most of which is spent with the other characters going “OMG, UR JASON!”
 
Jason is the king of memorable one-liners (“You’ve had it bird brain!”, “I defy Zedd to grow his monster now”, “You’re monkey meat”). However, here he doesn’t have a single in-character moment save for a line about Serpentera which was cribbed from Tommy in Forever Red. You could swap out Jason (or Goldar for that matter) with any character and nothing would change.
 
And his acting…. He just screams all his lines. The final scene where he talks about the future of the Rangers, sounds like a blood curse. I know he isn’t the best actor, but that’s why we have directors.
 
To be fair the production crew had multiple problems to deal with. ASJ seemingly only had limited availability (even though he was spending 3 days in NZ?), they couldn’t get back the DTs and there was no footage of the dino teams interacting with BMs. So there were always limits on what they could do.
 
However, the lore had solutions for all these problems. Need to explain BMs absence from the Dino War footage? Put them in Goldar’s dark dimension dealing with the power candles. Can’t film many scenes with ASJ? Use a stunt double and pop him in Jason’s Zeo bandana disguise. (If Goldar is kidnapping rangers to his dimension, it would make sense that Jason would be incognito). Need to explain the DTs? Bring back Elsa (who’s actress you used a couple of episodes ago) and say she’s still good but now working undercover, pretending to be one of the reanimated villains. Then when she reveals her stratagem, splice her in the Dino War footage and make her the spokesperson for the DTs. You could even splice in a few fights with the BMs, so they feel like a part of the team-up. Can’t get Goldar’s voice actor back? Say this new Maximus is Goldar and Scorpina’s son, thus paying off what happened to Scorpina and why Goldar wasn’t around for C2D.
 
But that’s the problem with these anniversary specials. No one who works on the show cares about the lore. They just toss in a few actors and call it a day.
 
They couldn’t even give Jason a morph. Megaforce had a Red MMPR morph. Cheap-o web series Meow Meow Rangers had a morph. Yet, here nothing. Worse still, after shoving ‘Go Go Power Rangers’ down our throats for a decade, they suddenly drop it for Jason’s scenes.
 
What’s sad is that everyone who worked on this is different from the team who brought us Legendary Battle. And yet it’s the EXACT same mess: They had the footage, the resources, and the actors but blew them to do garbage.
 
And yeah, including the footage wouldn’t have made this episode awesome. But it would have at least been the bare minimum for a good team-up.
 
It’s seems that for Hasbro MMPR is not an action show, but a cheesy pseudo-comedy (which is the only way you can explain why they do a Mighty Murderin’ Meteor story in place of using the fight footage). Yeah, cheese is an integral part of PR, but there’s a balance to it. If Hasbro doesn’t understand this, then it does not bode well for their future MMPR-centric ventures.
 
The whole point of this TV show is to shill toys, and they dropped all the toy footage for nonsense. Unbelievable.  
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It was a letdown, but honestly? I’m glad this arc happened. This show is so obsessed with not having real plot between the first two and last two episodes, so when we get an arc, especially one that is actually entertaining and lasts more than two episodes? Even if the payoff was kind of a letdown, I think the road there was worth it.  

 
Something I liked that was probably unintentional, is that we got teams from all eras of the show. MMPR for Saban, Dino Thunder for Disney, Dino Charge for Neo-Saban, and Beast Morphers for Hasbro.
 
No funny meta joke about how Snide looks just like Zeltrax even though the Dino Thunder rangers are the ones to defeat Snide.  
Another recurring problem with these team-ups, we get no insight to what the Rangers are doing these days. Jason gets nothing, the rest of the MMPR and Dino Thunder rangers get nothing. Why can’t they just give a simple sentence to what they were called away from? Operation Overdrive did this right and SPD did this right. SM, NS and BM all failed at this. We haven’t seen these characters in years and we want to learn what they’re doing after their season ended. Shouldn’t Conner have a large franchise of soccer camps by now? Ethan developed software that SPD uses, maybe Grid Battleforce uses it too? Is Zack’s hip-hop kido a widely accepted way of martial arts? Maybe Kimberly was in Coral Harbor for the Pan Global games? So many missed opportunities that only take a couple of sentences and a few seconds to work.
 
Summary of improvements:  

 
If the writers had personally come to your house punched you in the crotch while you were watching “Grid Connection”, that still puts it ahead of “Dimensions in Danger”.  
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And I have to admit, I’m nominating “Devon, you will be hit by a meteor” for the funniest not-intended -to-be-funny line in this entire season. I actually laughed out loud at that.  
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They have “Goldar” and Jason face-to-face after over 20 years and they don’t even use the footage of the MMPR fight Goldar…
 
These current writers still don’t know how to write for PR. Mandates be damned because of everyone has ‘em. We don’t have good writers and it shows.  

 
Why would the Trex coin be inside of a meteor when he easily used it in FR? They REALLY cant decide on how rangers keep getting their powers back, huh? It seemed like such an asspull.  

 
And here we go again. Devon’s regressing as a character for the sake of plot. Why does he still have the same flaws from season 1?  

 
I liked Finders Keepers too,but I wouldn’t say it’s the Avengers Endgame of…MMPR?  
They weren’t even there?!

@Dex Stewart
 
If that aint Hip hop aikido someone is getting beaten up

 
This is a weird thing I found in eBay,A Power Rangers fitness tape.

@Ebalosus  
I get that,but that season has a couple pretty good episodes in there. They got the best teamups, Reinforcements from the Future and Forever Red,and one of the darkest villain origins in The Master’s Last Stand.  
Sing Song is all about a passive aggressive Zord,and that concept alone is freaking hilarious.  
There was one episode where Jindrax tells Master Org that the latest monster had,”…fallen,and can’t get up.”

@Dex Stewart
 
Cheers. I probably wouldn’t like Wild Force, since being from NZ we get environmental messages showed down our throats all the time, thus have little interest in seeing that reflected in my entertainment.

@Ebalosus  
I’d say give the pilot episodes a go. They’re usually a good indicator of whether or not you’ll like the series. Really,it all depends on what you like.  
If you want a more serious tone series,the original Saban era, MMPR-Wild Force. The Disney era has it’s moments. I like Ninja Storm and RPM. Most fans would probably say check out Time Force or RPM.

@Dex Stewart
 
Looks like it’s time to cancel PR then amirite? /s
 
Anyhow, if I rewatch PR, what series should I stop at? From watching Linkara’s HotPR retrospectives, the suggestion is light speed rescue.

 
Lol Gasket said the thing.

@Ebalosus  
Malaysia had an interesting way of censoring Power Rangers,they actually would mute out the Morphin in Morphin Time. I saw a clip of it once, Jason pulls out his Morpher and says:“It’s…Time!”  
Recently,due to hype around the 2017 movie featuring an LGBT yellow Ranger,that movie almost got banned. Along with the live action Beuty and the Beast remake. Then the head head of the censorship board or something looked at the movies and was like,oh wait,there’s nothing bad here.  
Here’s the Malaysian dvd.

@Dex Stewart
 
It’s aired here since the 2000s IIRC, and was never banned as a certain someone on this site claimed.

@Ebalosus  
Yeah, I remember reading about that. I find it funny anyone could view it as violent,when the crreators went so far out of their way to make the characters role models.I guess no one actually watched the show. You guys in NZ get it now though. After only about a decade of filming there.

@Dex Stewart
 
I remember when it first aired here in NZ, and after a couple of months Karens frowned it off the air because they were concerned about its impact on children.

Power Rangers is 27 today.  
Any thoughts on that?