Trivia / History of Power Rangers

• Approval of God: Simon Bennett, one of the directors for Power Rangers Beast Morphers, praised the episode on Beast Morphers, calling it an "amazing summary" and saying that "So much work has gone into this".
• Dear Negative Reader:
  • Although it has since been edited out upon re-release, Linkara once started an episode of HOPR talking about the fans who constantly berate him for a schedule or ask him "when's the next History of Power Rangers", going as far as to criticize Linkara's other works (like Atop the Fourth Wall) and trying to force him to only work on HOPR. He says that while he is honored that so many people are excited about this side project, it's just that, a side project, and all nagging him to get it done faster will do is make him not really want to do it at all. However, in his Megaforce review he does harken back to these fans and says while they did irritate him at the time, he really is thankful to them and all of his fans for supporting him to much and showing so much love to what is basically a grown man looking for deeper meaning in a children's television show.
  • In the RPM examination he quotes a critic/troll on the forums who mocks him for spending so much time looking for deeper meaning in a lighthearted kids' show, and he points out the truly dark and deep elements this season has while still being a fun, overall lighthearted kids' show.
  • His Once and Always/Cosmic Fury video opens with him addressing comments on his previous video that mocked him for assuming that Beast Morphers was in a different continuity from Dino Fury and the main timeline. He explains that this was just what he thought, and even though it still doesn't make sense to him, he fully understands (in part to Simon Bennett confirming it) that Beast Morphers is part of the main canon despite what he thinks of it.
• Executive Meddling:
  • This has sort of happened to History of Power Rangers itself; Linkara has said that as a result of him joining the Power Force (a group of officially-endorsed fans), Saban has requested he only use clips from official sources, meaning he can't use rips of TV broadcasts (as evidenced by logo bugs in the corner of the footage). This is part of the reason for the delay of the Operation Overdrive review, as he had to wait for the Shout! Factory DVD release. On the bright side, this means the quality of the footage used in his reviews very much improved, and Linkara got the time to go back and re-edit the previous HOPR episodes with the official DVD footage.
  • Thanks to YouTube seriously cracking down on copyright claims, and the fact that it's about the only reliable video hosting site left (this after four previous hosting sites Linkara tried to use all went under) the Updated Rereleases of the episodes all feature significantly less footage than they previous had. While the rerelease of MMPR simply cut a lot of scenes to under the 10 second mark, the rerelease of Operation Overdrive saw many clips completely removed, instead being replaced with a lengthy still image of the scene for Linkara to talk over. This especially applies to the re-releases of In Space and RPM, which had to be delayed significantly since their original videos featured copyrighted music that Linkara was against removing completely. Instead, he decided to record original covers of said music, but that proved to take a lot longer than he originally thought it would, leading him to simply skip the two seasons get back to them later. Unfortunately, he couldn't get the cover of 'Under Pressure' done, so he decided to just use an instrumental piece of music with a montage of clips of the prior seasons. This will most likely be the case when it's time for RPM to be redone as well.
  • In another case of Tropes Are Tools, Linkara has elected, since the re-edit of the Lost Galaxy review, to combine all of the previously multi-part seasons into 1 longer video as opposed to a few to several shorter videos. This provides a more seamless presentation and can easily lead to fewer videos needing to be re-edited in the future to deal with copyright claims.
• Follow the Leader:
  • The series is extremely similar in style to the reviews of SF Debris. The two reviewers are friends so this was probably intentional. Linkara asked for permission for the use of "Under Pressure" in a similar way that SF Debris did in his review of Star Trek: The Next Generation's finale for the finale of In Space. He's also been known to point people toward SF Debris' "Doctor Who" video if they have questions about where to start watching.
  • In regards to Power Rangers, the fanbase has changed its opinion on several seasons, characters, and aspects of the show following Linkara's retrospectives - for example, Carter Grayson used to be considered one of the more boring Red Rangers, but now has the reputation of a Memetic Badass. This is lampshaded in the re-edited version of the Lightspeed Rescue, wondering if it was his original review that helped change the opinions, or if it was due to time.
  • History of Power Rangers in turn inspired Dragon Ball Dissection, due to its creator Mistarefusion following the trend. As a coincidence, both are series are related to Toei Company.
  • Another show that was inspired by History of Power Rangers is History of Kamen Riders created by Marcosatsu. Even the credits lampshade it by saying that the show was inspired by History of Power Rangers.
• God Never Said That: Fans got upset when they heard (from the TV Tropes HOPR main page) that Dino Charge would be Linkara's last video and that he had no intention of covering any of the future seasons thereafter. Finally, Linkara had to make an official post on Tumblr calling the editors of TV Tropes out that they had misunderstood his "State of the Wall" post, and that all he meant is that with Dino Charge he will be completely done with the series for now, since he very well can't cover any of the new seasons until they air in full and the DVDs are released, which could mean a break between HOPR episodes of around 2 years plus each. In fact, Linkara has even stated that the only way he'd stop doing HOPR episodes was if either Power Rangers was officially cancelled or if he stopped making any videos (even Atop the Fourth Wall) altogether.
• In Memoriam: Linkara dedicates his review of Power Rangers Dino Fury to Jason David Frank, who passed away on November 19th, 2022.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes:
  • Not at the moment, but due to Vidme (the site Linkara uploaded episodes to) shutting down, Linkara effectively announced that he was going to invoke this trope in regards to the original versions^note and some of the semi-edited versions that were made to get around Content ID claims of all pre-Operation Overdrive episodes once the site shut down^note since that's when he started using official sources; all episodes onwards met his current standards, and were made using footage from official sources; now that the site is shut down, the only way you can watch the original or semi-edited versions is to have downloaded them/watch them from someone who downloaded them.
  • As of this post, the full reviews of SPD don't seem to be available on any streaming service, and Lewis has yet to re-upload it to Youtube's current standards. Thankfully, it can be found on archive.org here.
• Schedule Slip:
  • A rather minor one, but his episode reviewing Megaforce was scheduled for release on December 24th, 2015, but due to the sheer volume of work the episode was requiring from him had to be pushed back to December 27th instead. It's the only time this has ever happened, since it was only one of three seasons that actually had scheduled release dates to begin with. He actually makes a nod to this when he announced his remastered release of Turbo, which came out in late February 2017.
  • The same had to happen in Dino Charge, due to exhaustion and too much on his plate.
  • He also had to delay the redone version of the In Space videos to December 2017 at the earliest, due to his work on Atop the Fourth Wall and the need to try to work Queen and David Bowie's "Under Pressure" into the video, since the clip he used in the original was long enough that it'd get claimed for copyright on YouTube, and there'd probably be no way he'd get away with it, so he had to commission a cover instead. In the end, the redone version was preceded by the videos for later seasons Operation Overdrive (which was released on December 31, 2017) and Jungle Fury (which was released January 13, 2018) before finally being released in early December 2019, with "Under Pressure" cut altogether.^note Instead, Linkara uses a various series of clips with quotes from Zordon with stock sentimental music playing in the background.
  • In a State of the Wall update post, Linkara said that RPM has the same problem as In Space, as it requires a cover to the song "How Far We've Come" from Matchbox 20 and there's no official word of when that will be released. Because of that, he has decided to start back at Lost Galaxy and get those re-releases done until the covers are completed.
  • The Ninja Steel review was moved to early June 2019, while originally being slated for a May 24th release, due to Lewis's busy schedule.
  • Beast Morphers was originally set for July 29th, 2021, but had to be pushed back due to the editing process looking like it would take a while. Additional editing issues pushed it from late July to August 3rd for Patreons and August 4th for everyone else.
  • He was supposed to have four of the re-edited episodes (for Time Force, Wild Force, Ninja Storm, and Dino Thunder) out for April 2022, but unfortunately was unable to do the latter two due to some Atop the Fourth Wall episodes taking longer to produce than he expected, so he decided to only get the first two out in the second half of the month and will get back to the other two at a later date.
  • The Dino Fury review ended being the most delayed episode of the lot. First, it was planned to be out by later November 2022, but it was pushed back when Linkara failed to watch all the episodes due to other obligations. Then, December came and he finished watching them, but did not start editing due to the holidays. Then January 2023 came, and the nightmarish post-production of Winter of 83' came along, making Linkara fall behind further. He eventually finished it in February 2023.
  • Cosmic Fury ended up being pushed from a late January 2024 release to an early February 2024 release date due to combining the season and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Once and Always into one video. Combined that with the fact Cosmic Fury is a serialized season with no filler episodes, it made Linkara realize how much he underestimated the workload.
• Screwed by the Lawyers: As mentioned previously, part of the reason that the original versions of old episodes are harder to come by is the fact that they utilized a larger amount of footage lifted directly from the show (as well as other sources), which now runs afoul of YouTube's Content ID system. The Content ID system has also caused a couple of other issues.
  • A redoing of the In Space review for YouTube was promised as far back as 2017, but only emerged two years later [in December 2019]. When questioned, Lewis revealed that the reason for this was that he still wanted to replicate the montage of the series up to that point from the original review, but of course due to copyright could not use the original version of "Under Pressure" by Queen and David Bowie, and instead had to find an artist to do a cover. A different, instrumental, track was eventually used.
  • The review for Ninja Steel begins with Lewis explaining that due to even further crackdowns on YouTube's Content ID system, he'll now be forced to utilize even LESS footage of the show than beforehand, and instead resort to verbal recaps and still frames.
  • In the 2022 YouTube re-edit of the Wild Force episode, Linkara mentioned how this was somehow averted for the original 2010 version of it, where he was somehow allowed to play the entire 2-minute explanation of how the Anamarium and Wild Zords exist uninterrupted on Blip, despite friends of his not being afforded the same luxury by the site for other projects when it came to copyright and fair use enforcements.
  • You could say this has had a minor positive effect on the making of the videos, as sometimes when Linkara has to do re-edits of some of the videos to get around the copyright claims, he'll actually go and find other footage to replace it rather than just using still frames, trim it down even further, or use footage from elsewhere in the episodes. For instance, when Part 3 of the Megaforce review had to be taken down due to copyright claims, he replaced the Super Megaforce footage under his commentary with footage of Ninja Storm when he mention's Cam's powers being, "A samurai ranger who wields an ancient electric ninja guitar." Other corrections or changes sometimes like this get added too elsewhere.
• Shrug of God: If History of Power Rangers will at all continue after the reboot that's planned for 2025. Lewis admitted he was genuinely uncertain at the time of the Cosmic Fury video going up.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Originally, Linkara planned on retaining the "Under Pressure" montage for the In Space remastered video. However, he eventually decided to scrap it due to the amount of wait he had to do for the cover, and that when In Space was released, it would be without the montage. When the second part of the remastered retrospective was released, a different montage was in its place; highlighting the seasons before it mixed with an "in memoriam" to Zordon.
  • In a more humorous example, at the end of the Beast Morphers review, Linkara admits that he'd wanted to give Scrozzle, Evox's general, various insulting nicknames such as "scrotum" or "scrabble" in a similar vein to how he made fun of the pronunciation of Pai Zua. This didn't pan out because the character was so dull Linkara legitimately couldn't remember his name.
  • When Linkara began doing the remastered videos, he originally planned on giving just Season 1 of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers the full treatment and have the other seasons be just touch ups. But beginning with Season 2, he decided to go full force on all the seasons.

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