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Old 01/07/15, 10:20 PM   #4
prblackforce
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Default Re: Should power rangers be more mature than what it is now?

There's a certain level of maturity in PR that I want. It has to be way more mature than what Samurai and Megaforce gave us with all that baby-like expository dialogue. It also doesn't have to be as dark as RPM. I still want PR's goofiness but in a way where the characters and writing is solid enough for them to touch on things in a sensible way. For example, in a lot seasons, we had rangers contemplate the consequences of their actions, technique, or way of life and have that build them as a character and provides good morals for kids to learn from. We got none of that in Samurai or Megaforce. For example, in Lightspeed's third episode, Carter is forced between putting out a fire, that Vypra made in order to set off explosives, or saving a boy from getting hurt. Either way, someone was gonna get hurt but if he had made the choice to save the boy instead of the fire, then everyone, not just the boy, would have been injured or killed. Another is in RPM's Ranger Yellow when Summer, being a spoiled rich girl questions her own actions when her butler, Andrews, attempts to provide for her, and even protect her, in the face of danger. She finally grows when Andrew dies, solidifying the dangers of the situation in her and how she needs to mature herself to the character she grows to be in the first episode. Leo's atonement for what happened to Mike during the earlier parts through the end of the Magna Defender/Lights of Orion arc in Lost Galaxy is an excellent form of character development, one that spans over a believable amount of time that feels natural with also natural growths and outcomes. In the beginning, he feels he doesn't deserve the powers as Mike pulled out the saber and that he should have saved him instead. Later, he is seen training often, to not let his inherited powers go to waste. When the Magna Defender appears, he is reminded of his brother and when he finally finds out that Mike is inside of him, Leo refuses to destroy him when he is offered the opportunity to. When Mike finally returns, Leo tries to give the red quasar saber to him but ends up keeping it for himself. We need this kind of storytelling and maturity in Power Rangers! I don't want life lessons to be "THEY TOOK OUR WEAPONS! RANGERS NEVER LET GO OF THEIR WEAPONS!". PR needs to show it's competence through the right amount of maturity. It's probably the only way for the series, as a whole, to grow to the levels of DC and Marvel where being an adult fan of them is seen as okay. (Not that being an adult fan PR is bad, it's just too niche and people will always associate what they see on TV currently, which is the Neo-Saban stuff, with what builds the majority of the fandom.)
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