#because trini is someone from her before and from those brief glimpses

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No one

Absolutely no one

Me and my broken brain: What if I made a Nevermore Trimberly Au?

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Power Rangers 2017

Guess I’m doing this now, god I hope I don’t make a habit out of making reviews.

Power Rangers was pretty cool. The first bit was kind of dodgy but I got a decent understanding of the characters, I had to take a bathroom break around the time they were by the campfire and got back when they were off to see the witch, so I’m not 100% sure of everything. Alpha, Zordon and Rita all were really good and were easy to accept. 

The rangers were okay, I felt that they bonded a little too easily but I was into it. Jason and Billy had the most natural friendship out of everyone and so they had a pretty good dynamic as far as I’m concerned and both due to the screen time feel the most fleshed out. Billy really feels like the heart of the team, I felt like he was the one I related to the most. Jason really comes off as a guy that just isn’t sure of what he’s doing but when after meeting Zordon, he gets his drive. Zack seemed like an asshole but after a bit of backstory, he seemed a bit more likable. I may have missed Kimberley’s major scenes but she seemed to fit in just barely. Besides her interactions with her family and the campfire scene, I don’t think we really got much out of Trini, she really seems to be an outcast. Out of the 5, Jason and Billy really are my favorite characters due to their dynamic, and I’d like to see more interaction in the next movie.

Honestly, I enjoyed the movie, but it was rife with such weird clichés and moments, that just bring the whole show down. The deus ex machina, the weird conflict between Zordon and Jason, Billy’s lucky fall, the location the command center and the way the coins stop being relevant in the second half of the movie. I am trying really hard not to spoil these things. On the plus side, we got an out of touch, kind of loopy Rita, Jason’s character growth, Billy acting mostly like a normal human wandering into the Power Rangers universe, and the zords vs. Goldar fight. 

It’s nothing to set time aside for, so just wait for whenever you’re free and have some fun. Reminded me of Suicide Squad a little, with the constant barrage of music and the way Rita could somehow make a stone people army, but that’s pretty much it. I’d definitely watch it again for those scenes I missed, though I’d definitely prefer it on DVD.

Edit 1: Finally, the post-credit scene has me so pumped for the sequel. If you have any disagreements or any interesting points, be sure to let me know.

[Spoiler talk below]

I loved the idea of Rita originally being the Green Ranger, especially when in the original Power Rangers she already had the green coin. The fact that she got pulled up out of the ocean by a fishing boat however, is baffling after it being stated that it’s been 6.5 million years. Also, since she can just make puttys with no discernible reason, it makes me wonder if the other rangers could or is it just some unexplained thing.

Zack pulling a hammer on the coin wall was pretty dumb and impulsive and he seemed to be trying extra hard to come off that way throughout the movie which was honestly pretty weak. 

Speaking of the coins, I hated them so much since I saw them in the trailer. You’d think that since we’re dealing with an alien civilization they’d look a little more refined instead of coloured glass embedded in rock. If they could hit a middle ground of gold coins from the original and the coloured crystal thing they had here, I would have loved it.

Edit 2: I love the little details of the new armor, particularly the gold coins that look like the original series’ power coins placed where the old buckles would have been. I need a better look at them but I just love that tiny detail along with the designs as a whole.

It is contrived as hell, the way that they found the entrance to the command center. A bit more effort here would have been wonderful, but no.

I don’t see any reason for Zordon being asleep all those years only to just come back when the rangers show up. It came off as very out of character when he pushed for the rangers to activate the morphing grid just so he could get out and lead again, especially after he told Jason, he was born to to be the Red Ranger.

The coincidental nature of Rita coming back, just as the rangers finding out about the coins really took away from the story. If Zordon or Alpha sent out the coins as they sensed Rita’s return, maybe it wouldn’t seem so glaring.

To the movie’s credit we don’t really hang around the school so much besides brief glimpses so we don’t have to deal with much teen drama. 

Then the morphing grid, deus ex machina, first Billy drowns to death and then gets brought back when Zordon trades his return for Billy’s life. It would make sense for Zordon to come back due to his experience maybe not as a ranger but to some extent. It wouldn’t make sense for Billy to come back because he just drowned, Zordon has his consciousness in the wall, Billy...not so much. Besides bringing the rangers together, this scene served no purpose since we knew he was going to be in the final battle.

When it comes time to take the final stand against Goldar, the second deus ex machina pops up in the form of the smaller machinas becoming the mega machina when the rangers are thrown down the hole. Maybe a quick scene of Zordon or Alpha monitoring the situation could pop up and say something like the Zeo Crystal exposure gave them a power boost to unlock the megazord or some line before about how the Zords true power is unleashed when they are united. Anything to let new fans in on the concept!

I said Billy acted mostly like a normal person wandering into the Power Ranger universe but I did say “mostly”. There are only 2 scenes where he behaves unrealistically, the first comes initially when the 5 meet Zordon and Alpha for the first time, he somehow just manages to read the nebula in the middle of the room and explains the whole reasons of the Power Rangers without any signs of how and then when he somehow triangulates the location of the Zeo crystal despite Zordon saying that the information for it was lost.

Hearing that Tommy’s name in the post-credits and seeing that dragon-like shape on that green jacket has me so pumped, but I feel like it’s too early for him to appear. I feel like after one more movie of world building would be perfect before he shows up, properly.

Next, like any pretentious idiot, I have my own ideas on how the movie should have gone and so I guess here’s how I’d “fix” the movie:

-I feel Zordon should have been the White Ranger rather than Red, to of course prepare for the inevitable future White Ranger. As for where the coin would be, I’d probably stick it in the ship for power over the centuries.

-Zordon should have been awake because there was no reason in the plot for him to be napping. Had he been awake, he could have summoned the rangers or sent them the coins when Rita appeared, instead of them finding the coins on some random night, when Rita also happens to get fished up.

-I was fine with how Jason got himself into the mess in the beginning but maybe he’d be better established if he tried defending someone from bullies but got into trouble for breaking the bullies arm. That way he’d be established as a heroic type but also a reckless, impulsive guy as well.

-Hold the romance between Jason and Kimberley back for at least the second movie, to avoid the teen drama and get better establishment of the characters.

-Change the coins like I said before and maybe have them activate the Zords or activate the Megazord to keep their importance throughout the movie.

-Get rid of the power grid being able to revive Zordon and remove Billy dying at all just for good measure, because come on, no one was buying that.

-Let Legendary Pictures do it instead, they have Pacific Rim for the giant robots and they are working on their Giant monsters for their monsterverse, but I don’t have any problems with their current designs.