[Commander Crayfish]

>This delighful little paradox fits in with all the other delightful little
>paradoxes like...
>How was Diabolico able to contact Cpt. Mitchell if he was still entombed?

Given that he was never seen in a physical body as he was in the later
episodes, I don't necessarily see a contradiction here. There's no way of
knowing for certain Lynn doesn't intend to address the physical "presence" of
the demons even when out of sync with reality. Bansheera cannot enter the Earth
Realm until Grand Cross, but we can't be certain she doesn't physically affect
things with her presence on Earth. I mean, isn't that basically what she did in
"Rising from the Ashes?" Is Diabolico stealing a young boy's soul away from his
father any different? He didn't do anything ELSE.

>If the rangers never rescued the galactabeasts, how exactly does that expalin
>their signature animal on their helmets and sabers?

I get the impression Lynn was intending to address this during the aborted
Ancient Rangers Saga, given the fact that the Dairanger uniforms DO NOT share
the same totem animals as the five Gingaman outfits. In fact, wouldn't that, if
anything, demonstrate the fact that the Quasar Sabers take on a new power
system for each of their various incarnations, right down to appearance? The
Guardian of the Book implies a greater destiny in store for each incarnation.
So once the Dairanger-suited team dies, their templates in the hilt of each
Saber are reset. The series gang was DESTINED to free these particular
Galactabeasts. Since the PRLG team's destiny was NOT in fact completed,
demonstrated by PRLG/PRLR, they could once again release the swords and morph
into their own forms. Perhaps one their mission is once and for all completed
the Sabers will reset.

>And where exactly DID the
>turbo powers come from?

They were conjured forth by the writing department from an unknown source,
given the fact that second season Zeo was not yet in production at the time of
T:APRM's production. They had no idea for certain just what to do with the show
yet, like they could directly tie it all into a season which didn't exist yet?
They did as much as they could, even if Good as Gold provided no significant
transition into the film, they still tied up as much of the plotlines left from
PRZ as they could, because by now Sloan and his staff had to know they wouldn't
get a chance to tie it all up once the film came and changed the status quo of
the series. Clearly Billy's disappearances were meant as a dodge. Judd Lynn
provides a second possible explanation in Chase into Space, when Justin refers
to Eltar as the "source of our powers," and also in the fact that the loss of
the Turbo powers occurs not after the Power Chamber explosion; the costumes
maintained cohesion and protected the teens from otherwise fatal injury, but
after the confirmed fall of the planet Eltar.

>Not to mention how was it possible to see Earth so
>close-up from Jupiter's moon (not that I don't already know this one Sentai).

And if they had made Ganymede into Luna, we'd have had even more complaints
about the fact that in all this time, Rita and Zedd or the Machine Empire had
never tried to take the NASADA facility. Minimal security, responds to Ranger
energy signatures... Certain sacrifices have to be made to accommodate the
footage without invalidating PR's own individual continuity. I'll give you
another example-
Grand Cross from GoGoV. Once that footage runs we will have visual canonical
confirmation that Nemesis, which has been in orbit since season one, and
remained visible in the US Moonbase starfield afterwards, and might have even
been PRLG's "practice moon," is now gone. Now, you can say Nemesis is there
afterwards, maybe even show it again, and I would accept that... You can't
always perfectly utilize Sentai footage and still maintain flawless American
continuity. You have to make accommodations one way or the other. I'd rather
have Ganymede with a disproportionately big Earth off on the horizon than a
super-busy Luna. It's like Metallasaurus jumping back and forth between modes
depending on the footage used, or the haphazard Lights of Orion armor seen on
the Rangers inside the cockpit of the Galaxy Megazord in Power of Pink. Like
any television show, PR's reality is determined by production issues and
footage problems. PR just has the added hard time of needing to try and use
Sentai footage without stepping on their own toes in the process.

>It's PR's little way of confusing all the kiddies out there into trying to
>deduce it to death. But frankly, you can't explain it. So don't even try to
>answer it. It's just an error on Saban's behalf. Be safe!

Oh, for the love of god. If people want to try and deduce something, they sure
as hell can. Nobody is trying to befuddle anyone here, it's an honest mistake.
Every single television show has them to varying degrees. Either you file it
away under suspension of disbelief and move on to something else, or you think
up a clever way of explaining it. Either is perfectly fine. There's no ulterior
motive on anyone's part involved... And don't you hate PR? Haven't people
driven you out of here time and again? Why are you still here, exactly?