History WebVideo / HistoryOfPowerRangers

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* HypeBacklash: Downplayed; While he has high praise for the season, he feels that the fans overhyped the show just a little bit.

The most current review thus far is of ''Series/PowerRangersBeastMorphers'', which was completed while ''[[Series/PowerRangersDinoFury Dino Fury]]'' had just begun. Linkara has [[http://atopfourthwall.tumblr.com/post/135918669558 announced]] that since the series will be completely caught-up, new episodes will only be released after a new season has aired in its entirety and the official [=DVDs=] are released (assuming seasons are normally split into two mini-seasons and that the [=DVDs=] are released on time, a new episode about every two years). There are also possible episodes depending on Patreon requests, and will likely focus more on ''Power Rangers'' [[FollowTheLeader "copycats"]] like ''Series/MaskedRider'', ''{{Series/Beetleborgs}}'', ''Series/VRTroopers'', and ''Series/TattooedTeenageAlienFightersFromBeverlyHills''. He's also going back and addressing the mistakes he'd made in earlier videos and has tentatively announced that he plans on remastering all the previous episodes of HOPR up to ''Operation Overdrive''.

** His usage of the ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' clip of Rocket laughing and mocking that "that's not a real plan", which he even lampshaded to have used in three consecutive seasons, except that the joke worked in all three seasons.

** The [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy "That is not a plan!"]] clip shows up for the third consecutive time in the reviews of the Neo-Saban era. Linkara even notes how strange it is that he's able to keep using it.

** ''Wild Force'' was [[GreenAseop environmentalism]].

** ''Wild Force'' was [[GreanAesop environmentalism]].

** ''Wild Force'' was environmentalism.

* GreenAesop: In the rerelease, Linkara elaborates on what he feels the problem with the show's environmental theme is - an extreme lack of nuance due to being oversimplified for the target audience, combined with fall out from bad pop culture and pop-science ideas from [[TheNineties The 90's]] about nature's apparent "perfection". This results in the show, in his view, taking an almost reverential attitude towards its own subject matter, but not having anything substantial to say other than "don't pollute".

* WhatCouldHaveBeen[[invoked]]: In a more humorous example, Linkara admits that he'd wanted to give Scrozzle, Evox's general, various insulting nicknames such as "scrotum" or "scrabble". This didn't pan out because the character was so dull Linkara ''legitimately'' couldn't remember his name.

* GreenAesop: In the rerelease, Linkara elaborates on what he feels the problem with the show's environmental theme is - an extreme lack of nuance due to being oversimplified for the target audience, combined with leftover pop culture and pop science attitudes about nature's apparent "perfection" from [[TheNineties The 90's]]. This results in the show, in his view, taking an almost reverential attitude towards its own subject matter but having no actual solutions to the issues it presents and, ultimately, having nothing to say other than "don't pollute".
** This gets especially frustrating to him during the Animus/Kite arc, when Kite starts ranting about how much damage humans are doing to the environment (see {{Anvilicious}} above). The Rangers can't seem to think of a rebuttal other than "humans don't mean to pollute, it's a byproduct of progress", and even end up ''agreeing'' with him that humans aren't doing enough, forgetting to address such things as conservation groups and alternative energy sources. Animus' own solution is even worse, since taking the Wild Zords away [[NiceJobbreakingItHero effectively dooms humanity and nature both to destruction at the hands of the Orgs]].

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: In the rerelease, Linkara feels that the environmental message, if written with more nuance, could have lead to more interesting educational and storytelling moments. For instance, he floats the idea of talking about how pollution has been a problem since early civilization, even in a supposed utopia like Animaria, as well as how human advancement would always involve exploiting nature to a degree and what humans are doing to try and mitigate the damage. This, he feels, would have helped especially in the later episodes to counter Animus/Kite's preaching about the evils of mass-scale industrial pollution.

** For ''Mighty Morphin'', it's the classic Magic vs. Technology with the rangers using technology to defeat the forces of evil that use magic. Lightspeed Rescue also uses this theme.

* GenericDoomsdayVillain: His main problem with the series, the villains aren't very interesting. Notes that it feels a little worse than it might be, as the two previous seasons (''In Space'' and ''Lost Galaxy,'') had villains with ''very'' strong characterization, from Astronema to Trakeena.
** Also notes that except for the invasion of Lightspeed's headquarters at the end, the villains never really won major victories against the Rangers.

* CharacterDerailment[[invoked]]: Despite being a well-written season overall, Linkara notes several characters change with no explanation. Eric starts as being cold and rude, but mellows out towards the other Rangers halfway through the season for some unknown reason, Alex was a heroic Red Ranger when the season started, but then turned into a "douche-nozzle" when he came back from the future, and Katie spends one episode paralyzed in fear that her actions in the past will alter the future and cause her to lose her family, but in a subsequent episode is sent back to the 1900s where she happily changes small things without worry.

** While he thought ''[[Series/PowerRangersTimeForce Time Force]]'' itself was a very good series, he didn't find the villain as sympathetic as everyone said.

** ''Time Force'' itself fell into this for Linkara- while he admitted it was a great season, the amount of hype he'd heard from fans made him concede that he still preferred ''In Space''.

* EasilyForgiven: When Shayla [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath tries to convince Dr. Viktor Adler/Master Org to stop being evil]], she mentions that Cole already forgave Dr. Adler for murdering his parents ... seriously confusing Linkara since said forgiveness ''[[PlotHole never happened]]'' (on-screen, anyway).

** He also sometimes goes into details about certain rangers that he likes over the rest of the team, so far having done Katie in ''Time Force'', Cam in ''Ninja Storm'', Chip in ''Mystic Force'', Rose in ''Operation Overdrive'', RJ in ''Jungle Fury'', Antonio and Lauren in ''Samurai'', Gia in ''Megaforce'', and singling out Zack as his favorite of the original ''Mighty Morphin'' in his Remaster of Season 1.

*** Option 2: The new timeline is "''Jurassic Park''ed". Despite saving the dinosaurs from going extinct from Sledge's asteroids, dinosaurs later became endangered or went extinct later on in this new timeline, but via TheButterflyEffect, the main change from stopping Sledge is either the endangered angle or that people could bring dinosaurs back to life. This keeps continuity mainly untouched, but just alters circumstances surrounding the events.

* CutAndPasteTranslation: [[invoked]]This is the first season since ''Mighty Morphin'' to integrate two different Super Sentai series. What was done differently was ''Mighty Morphin'' utilized ''Zyuranger'' costumes as the primary outfits for the first three seasons and used the mecha footage of the two other series to flesh out the story (which required American-made footage with them still in ''Zyuranger'' outfits). Megaforce used ''Goseiger'' for the first 20-episode season and then blended ''Goseiger'' and ''Gokaiger'', the big anniversary season where they switch costumes constantly, for the second season by using ''Goseiger'' suits as the base costume and then upgraded to ''Gokaiger'' just to upgrade to all the other costumes. Also, the season used StockFootage of the Super Sentai anniversary paying homage to past shows that were never made into ''Power Rangers'' series (pre-1992). It made for quite a headache in trying to juggle all these costume changes. Linkara suggested it would have been easier to keep the ''Goseiger'' outfits as they already had a "mystical card" system in play with their motif, which would be easy to modify to include new Ranger powers, rather than complicating it all by switching to ''Gokaiger'' just to use a separate device altogether. That, or just destroy the ''Goseiger'' powers altogether and make a clean switch to the ''Gokaiger'' powers, to avoid the need for switching between the costumes at all.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: InUniverse, when a series misses an opportunity, Lewis usually has his own take on what the show could have done instead, such as making Major Havoc the end villain of Turbo, or making Bulk and Skull the Rangers' [[SecretKeeper secret keepers.]] Taken UpToEleven with Megaforce, where these sort of suggestions make up almost a third of his complaints.

* WTHCostumingDepartment[[invoked]]: Absolutely ''hates'' the Overdrive Ranger's suits for several reasons, including the [[BroughtToYouByTheLetterS weird insignia on the chest]] that looks like corporate branding, the gaudy use of chrome, and the useless and oddly square-shaped shoulder pads. Tyzonn's Mercury Ranger suit is even worse, as Linkara says it took what was already wrong with the Overdrive Suits and turned it UpToEleven with even ''more'' chrome, bigger shoulder pads, and the odd choice of orange and purple accents.

* RelationshipWritingFumble[[invoked]]: Calls the writers out for pairing Mike and Emily up [[LastMinuteHookup in the final episode]] when, except for a single line of dialogue halfway through the series, the two had pretty much nothing hinting that they felt that way about each other.

* GreenAesop: In the rerelease, Linkara elaborates on what he feels the problem with the show's environmental theme is - an extreme lack of nuance due to being oversimplified for the target audience, combined with leftover pop culture and pop science attitudes about nature's apparent "perfection" from [[TheNineties The 90's]]. This results in the show, in his view, taking an almost reverential attitude towards nature, but having no actual solutions to the issues it presents and ultimately having nothing to say other than "don't pollute".
** This gets especially frustrating to him during the Animus/Kite arc, when Kite starts ranting about how much damage humans are doing to the environment (see {{Anvilicious}} above). The Rangers can't seem to think of a rebuttal other than "humans don't mean to pollute, it's a byproduct of progress", and Animus' own solution is even worse, since taking the Wild Zords away [[NiceJobbreakingItHero effectively dooms humanity and nature both to destruction at the hands of the Orgs]].

* NatureIsNotNice: Brings up kudzu, cogon grass and privet - highly invasive plants - as a counterargument to the show's idea about nature being harmonious.

* PlotHole: Is confused by the lack of explanation for where the Orgs came from if Animaria was so harmonious with nature and didn't pollute. There's also the awkward fact that the people would have ''needed'' to use nature for food, clothing etc., making Shayla's statement of everyone "respecting the importance of nature" confusing.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: In the rerelease, Linkara feels that if the writers had tried to be more nuanced with the environmental message, it could have lead to more interesting educational and storytelling moments, such as addressing how human advancement would always involve exploiting nature to a degree and what people are doing to try and mitigate the damage. This, he feels, would have helped especially in the later episodes to counter Animus/Kite's preaching about the evils of mass-scale industrial pollution.
** He also points out that it could have helped fill the PlotHole (see above) concerning where the Orgs came from - perhaps air and metallic pollutants could have created them.

* GreenAesop: In the rerelease, Linkara feels that the show's major theme of environmentalism suffers from an extreme lack of nuance due to being oversimplified for the target audience. He also blames leftover pop culture and pop science attitudes about nature's apparent "perfection" from [[TheNineties The 90's]] as a contributing factor. This results in the show, in his view, having ultimately nothing to say other than "don't pollute" and having no actual solutions to the issues it presents.

* RageBreakingPoint: Throughout the first half of the review, Linkara is mostly annoyed at certain replacements (such as Dimitria and Alpha 6) but otherwise never exactly yells out these changes (aside from the unexplained reason why the Zeo Powers were pushed aside for the Turbo Powers). It's only when the four veteran rangers decide to give their powers to four new people that he has enough and breaks into a RantInducingSlight.

* RantInducingSlight: A chunk of part 3 of the review consists of Linkara ranting about the "bizarre form of laziness" of the show creators. This includes:
** [[SkewedPriorities Editing out Sentai-only Rangers when one Super Megaforce Ranger uses the Sentai-only suit in some areas, but leaving Sentai-only Rangers completely unedited when the entire Super Megaforce team uses the Sentai-only suits]].
** [[invoked]][[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot Not using the Sentai only teams to expand the mythology of Power Rangers]].
** As mentioned in MerchandiseDriven entry, how the toys they show is advertising are doing a better job handling the ''Power Rangers'' anniversary than the show advertising them.

* RookieRedRanger: Discussed when Devon is made the leader of the team when he has no previous experience and isn't even a member of the Grid Powerforce agency. That being said, Linkara does also point out Devon quickly steps up for the role and is a good leader, overall.

* GreenAesop: In the rerelease, Linkara feels that the show's major theme of environmentalism suffers from an extreme lack of nuance due to being oversimplified for the target audience. He also blames leftover pop culture and pop science ideas from {{TheNineties}} about nature's apparent perfection as a contributing factor. This results in the show, in his view, having ultimately nothing to say other than "don't pollute" and having no actual solutions to the issues it presents.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: In the rerelease, Linkara feels that the show could have used the environmental message for more interesting educational and storytelling moments, such as addressing how human advancement would always involve exploiting nature to a degree and what people are doing to try and mitigate the damage. This, he feels, would have helped especially in the later episodes to counter Animus/Kite's preaching about the evils of mass-scale industrial pollution.
* TranquilFury: Linkara starts his review with this while addressing the overly demanding fan base of the series asking for the new episode.

* UnfortunateImplications: [[invoked]] Occasionally discussed, often with the lampshade "whoops." Aside from the original ''Mighty Morphin''' having Zack as the black ranger and Trini as the yellow ranger, Tommy, who would be established as having Native American ancestry, would become the red ranger in ''Zeo''. Later in ''Samurai'' he discusses the caucasian Jaden having the family name "Shiba" and Antonio playing up his Latino mannerisms when his actor is American with Thai ancestry.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: [[invoked]] Sometimes he starts a video with a short, personal monologue about the behavior of the fans watching the videos and how it is actually [[WhyTheFandomCantHaveNiceThings affecting his enthusiasm]] for the project, or about recent events that are related to Franchise/PowerRangers but not so much specifically this project. He has admitted that this dates his videos to very specific time periods, and makes them outdated very swiftly.

* ScrewThisImOutOfHere:[[invoked]] Linkara explains that this trope is unfortunately why Billy was written off. Due to David Yost being harassed by production due to his sexuality (the '90s weren't kind to LGBTQ members), he basically walked off the set one day and never came back.

* FridgeHorror: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]], he notes that if Sky's father was Wes, that unfortunately means that Wes was killed by Murloc.

* UnfortunateImplication[[invoked]]: Linkara mentions that, once again, the Black Ranger is portrayed by a black man:

* RaceLift: Zig-zagged, he actually has no fundamental issue with the team being multicultural instead of all Japanese, rationalizing that one of their ancestors may have been adopted or just not Japanese and married into the family, although he does admit that Jayden having the very Japanese last name of Shiba while being Caucasian was just odd. Given that ''Power Rangers'' hasn't had an Asian Red Ranger (white or black, with some argument towards Native American and Hispanic) yet, it would have been a nice touch and probably more appropriate. He also calls out the fact that Kevin acts bigoted towards Antonio at first due to him not having any "Samurai heritage", even though Kevin is ''clearly'' not Japanese himself.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Points out that this works against the season- due to only having 32 episodes, and spending too much time focusing on the side characters and the lore of the universe, the Rangers themselves don't have much to do.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: With 10 core rangers and three main villains (one of which has a fiancée and another who is technically two characters by way of JekyllAndHyde), Linkara notes that there just wasn't enough time to give everyone CharacterDevelopment. He does, however, note that while many characters don't develop, almost all of them at least had fleshed-out personalities (a huge improvement over ''Megaforce'') and that the story of the show doesn't suffer for it. He is also thankful that despite there being so many characters, there was only one primary 'villain general' this season in Fury, as opposed to other seasons that usually have several that rotate regularly.

* StaticCharacter: Despite liking Carter, Linkara admits that he doesn't get much development. However, Linkara doesn't mind this because Carter's badass moments made up for it and said that it was okay for characters not to have major arcs as long as we are given something interesting.

* StaticCharacter: Notes that Bridge doesn't have any significant CharacterDevelopment compared to the rest of the team, but he didn't have any huge flaws to overcome and his general quirkiness is what made him appealing in the first place.

* SpotlightStealingSquad: Points out that Mack was the Ranger who got the lion's share of the CharacterDevelopment, consequentially leaving the rest of the cast [[StaticCharacter without any solid individual character arcs or growth]].
* StaticCharacter: Accuses Ronnie & Dax of being this specifically, but notes that Mack gets most of the character development for the season.

* StaticCharacter: [[invoked]] Linkara notes that Tyler and Ivan don't get that much character development, but he doesn't find their personalities too annoying (even liking Ivan's chivalrous personality). After the previous series, he's just happy they ''have'' personalities.

* StaticCharacter: Linkara points out that while none of the characters get actual CharacterDevelopment (aside from Sarah's short arc of being less arrogant), they weren't unlikable for him to dislike them, and they each had distinct personalities.

* GreenAesop: In the rerelease, Linkara feels that the show's major theme of environmentalism suffers from an extreme lack of nuance due to being oversimplified for the target audience. He also blames leftover pop culture and pop science ideas from {{The90s}} about nature's apparent perfection as a contributing factor. This results in the show, in his view, having ultimately nothing to say other than "don't pollute" and having no actual solutions to the issues it presents.
** This gets especially frustrating to him during the Animus/Kite arc, when Kite starts ranting about how much damage humans are doing to the environment (see {{Anvilicious}} above). The Rangers can't seem to think of a rebuttal other than "humans don't mean to pollute, it's a byproduct of progress", and Animus' own solution is even worse, since taking the Wild Zords away [[NiceJobbreakingItHero effectively dooms humanity and nature both to destruction at the hands of the Orgs]].

* GreenAesop: Linkara feels that the show's major theme of environmentalism suffers from an extreme lack of nuance due to being oversimplified for the target audience. This results in the show, in his view, having ultimately nothing to say other than "don't pollute" and having no actual solutions to the issues it presents, wheras ''Mighty Morphin''''s take on environmentalism was shown as more proactive.
** This gets especially frustrating to him when the Rangers can't seem to think of a better counterargument to Animus other than "humans don't mean to pollute, it's a byproduct of progress". Animus' own solution is even worse, since taking the Wild Zords away [[NiceJobbreakingItHero effectively dooms humanity and nature both to destruction at the hands of the Orgs]].

* TheyWastedAPercetlyGoodPlot: In the rerelease, Linkara feels that the show could have used the environmental message for more interesting educational and storytelling moments, such as addressing how human advancement would always involve exploiting nature to a degree and what people are doing to try and mitigate the damage. This, he feels, would have helped especially in the later episodes to counter Animus/Kite's preaching about the evils of mass-scale industrial pollution.

** In the red-edited version, Linkara sees that the armor from the Animarium Warriors are parts from the Quantrons.