Were the Time Force Rangers destined to go to the past ?
 

Was it already part of history for them to go back in time?

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Yes, the original timeline had similar events but all the Ranger died.

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I think history was changed just not enough to cause the time holes to destroy everything.

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Time Force was so confusing! I couldn't understand all the time travel logic.

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that's correct. Alex even stated this during "End of Time" that they were all (Trip, Jen, Lucas, Katie and Wes) destined to die in 2001.

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Thats why Time Force helped the Rangers after they hijacked the time ship. Alex knew they were supposed to go back. Logan didn't know right away. And also didn't know Alex was secretly his boss until after Time Shadow was revealed.

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Time Force higher ups knew this had to happen. Alex was part of a secret group running Time Force but posed as a lower ranked member. The healing dealing device was only known by this group. This is why Jen thought Alex was dead. Alex made sure Jen's teM guarded Ransik because he. knew that they were destined to go back in time. Part of him hoped this wouldn't happen. This is why he proposed to Jen. Once it happened Alex worked out a way for the team to escape without changing history.

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They should have kept the Sentai plot of Alex trying to preserve history to save himself. It woukd have made far more sense. Also Alex should have been the Time Force Captain from the beginning.

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At least Time Force did adapt Timeranger very closely. It could have been better. But American Sentai was much more true to the Sentai than it ever had been up till that point. And set the tone for some Sentai heavy seasons later on.

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Time Force is at its best when it is doing its own thing. Adapting Time Ranger was fine when it made sense with the story they did tell. The show fell into the bad habit of blindling adopting Sentai and got in the way of the excellent arch the first ten episldes started.

I think Alex was saved by the alterations in the Timeline not the magic device. This also changed him to having a higher rank to Logan. It also made him colder but still had feelings for Jen deep down.

I believe the Time Force team was always meant to go back in time. Things did deviate in terms of events. As Alex himself pointed out that history was shifting. Plus we saw the time changes. Originally the Rangers died stopping Frax with Eric saving the day with Quantum Ranger. Biotech Industries figured out a way to copy the TF morphers to defeat Ransik and lead to SPD.

Once Eric got injured protecting Wes and Collins, history changed. The Rangers survived and Wes used the Quantum Controller to stop Frax. Also in the final battle Ransik decided to end the cycle of hate and turn himself in . Biolqbs steal reversed engineered the morphers to help create SPD.