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Neither shirts nor skins!

Jan 04, 2010 23:01

Shortpacked!: 1993 is back, in more ways than one.

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linkara January 5 2010, 07:17:37 UTC

See, I love that they've cleaned it up and it looks good (I too giggled over "A new episode of Power Rangers") but what gets to me are when they clearly edited out fight bits that I guess are too violent now even though they weren't 17 years ago, but also those stupid captions. This isn't a comic book adaptation - we know Rita Repulsa is an evil Sorceress and that the Sabre-Toothed Tiger Zord is for the yellow ranger!

dvandom January 5 2010, 07:44:31 UTC

Except in the toys, where the Saber-Toothed Tiger Zord is for Tommy. (The new "rider" sets that can combine with the MegaZord or other new vehicles have Red with T-Rex, Black with Mammoth, Blue with Triceratops...and Green with a yellow Saber-Tooth. D'oh. Girl figures get zero respect.)

lots42 January 5 2010, 08:53:46 UTC

Power Rangers TOO violent? What? What? I don't even...oh god.

queenanthai January 5 2010, 12:13:30 UTC

The sad thing is that you were the first person I thought of when I saw this monstrosity, only I figured I can't really accurately reproduce screaming and crying via e-mail.

lukeblast January 5 2010, 19:23:31 UTC

I'd wager that the shorter fight scenes were to allow for more/longer commercial breaks, rather than any actual content. They didn't add any extra footage, so by default, that cut time was commercials...

Not terribly uncommon practice these days, unfortunately. I've seen shows just a few years old get scissors taken to them so they can squeeze in another 30 seconds of ad time.

shortpacked January 5 2010, 22:52:40 UTC

I'm glad I never watched any Beast Wars on its run on Fox. Man, I heard of some awful things that got cut.

weds January 5 2010, 22:20:48 UTC

Ten bucks says it's not about violence so much as a theoretical upcoming Blu-Ray release aimed squarely at the retro market.

What really makes me feel old,,, and morbid linkara January 7 2010, 10:40:21 UTC

is that the actress that played Trini died about 10 years ago.
Car accident IIRC.

Re: What really makes me feel old,,, and morbid linkara January 8 2010, 00:17:31 UTC

Thuy Trang. She was also in "The Crow: City of Angels." I do believe/think that was the last thing she acted in...

Really talented person, too, from what I recall of her background. Doing taxes and being too lazy to hit Wikipedia or IMDB to see what her life was like, though. =/

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