Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - The Movie - Part 1

[second_batgirl]

I... don't think there are enough words to express how much I love this movie. I saw it in theatres. Twice. And I clearly remember forcing my parents to tape the Access Hollywood segment about the movie. (At least I think that was what it was? Whichever one of those shows covered it.) I owned this movie on VHS. It fills me with glee. So, yeah. (I

Comments

[queenriley]

The only time Rocky is shown to be, well, anything at all other than a person to stand there in red is in those three episodes. He gets no development, no plot points, no characteristics, nothing at all outside of those episodes, except a few poorly acted one liners. I can't say it's fair to base a character's entire personality on a few poorly acted one liners and not the minuscule amount of actual developmental episodes said character gets.

I see nothing wrong with some characters being less intelligent than others, or showing that average is a good thing and nothing to be ashamed of. It's all okay and I think it would have been great to show some of them, any of them, struggling with academics. It would have done the show a world of good to have actual C averages, tutoring sessions, or somebody discussing difficulty with learning a new subject. However the show did not choose Rocky to be this character (didn't choose anyone to be this character, really), so fandom forcing him into that role irks me.

As for it striking you as two-fold bullshit, do you also call this for Jason, Zack, Kim, Tommy, Aisha, Adam, Kat, and Tanya? Because they are only shown to be smart when the show wants them to be, and they supposedly keep up with Billy in all his classes, yet fandom rarely ever calls them out as being "the dumb ones". For some reason, this mantle goes to Rocky and Rocky alone, despite the others getting far more character development in various directions, where Rocky's only development shows his intelligence.

[manwe_iluvendil]

I see your point, and I agree that it is unfair for Rocky to be shunted into that position without a lot of just cause. I guess the groove most people get is from him not having a lot of personality and reading it as not a lot going on upstairs. I do see your point. It is the only development we really get on him.

But for the record, yes, I do feel it's equally unrealistic for all those characters to even be in the same classes as Billy, unless it was something like wood shop, music, or home economics: some class where book learning doesn't guarantee success, and thus it wouldn't be an automatic score for Little Boy Blue.

If some of the smarter characters were in honors classes for their year, while Billy was taking honors classes a grade or two above his... that I'd buy. But then again, we're talking about a public school where six kids have EVERY SINGLE CLASS together, so I guess hoping for realism is kinda stupid of me in and of itself.