Feb 24, 2011 05:33
Just have to say. Even though life has been interesting, it is to note: Power Rangers Samurai, as much as I like Power Rangers, is sucking balls.
Seriously, there is more character in the first ten minutes of RPM then the first 3 episodes of Samurai.
In just the first minutes of RPM you get an idea about:
- Title Sequence: 1 minute
- Mystery Voice is helpful
- The Current State of the World
- Current state of the world is really, really bad man.
- Black Commander Guy takes guff from no man.
- Hicks is a toady yes man
- The Scottish Guy saves people at risk to himself
- Black Commander takes no guff from even his own most basic human emotions
- Including any grief over the loss of his sons
- Loser son survives
- White chick is crazy and saves people
- One year later
- The Wastelander protects the innocent and kicks more ass then could be considered legal on family television
- Ziggy is a loser with a heart of gold
( You don't know his name until the 12 minute mark, but you know he's a kind hearted loser )
Things I learned watching the first episode of Samurai:
- Ranger Green is a douchebag, and I hate him.
- Ranger Green's Friends are bigger douchebags
- Bulk is this season's source of wisdom. Yet the series will never acknowledge his innate awesome.
Two seasons of 20 episodes is not better then One season of 32 episodes.
Especially when that 32 episode season has what appears to be 2 'filler' episodes, a making of and a clip show with notable plot advancing points, and an actually explosive 3 part finale. Where your 20 episode season starts with 3 filler episodes in a row, pissing off your established fanbase.
I won't say worse then Turbo just yet, and it's not quite as bad as Overdrive. But Samurai makes me long for the plot complexity of Ninja Storm.