#rewatching shows from my childhood

[fnrrfygmschnish]

Just watched the first few episodes of the original Power Rangers and...

It actually holds up surprisingly well!

Like, there's a couple of slightly cheesy lines or awkward deliveries here and there, and the fight with Goldar at the end feels kinda rushed (he just... gives up and teleports out the moment they bring out the Megazord's power sword, even though he was almost overpowering them just before that, without even a comment on seeing something like that before, or even just an "oh crap that's a way bigger sword than mine" -- anything that would give us an idea why he retreated so quick after doing so well beforehand.)

Second episode felt a bit more hacked-together in some ways, but still pretty good overall. I actually don't think I ever saw this one back in the day, I know I don't have any clear memories of the random giant Rita sends down at the end which the Tyrannosaurus zord has a solo fight with rather than the whole team forming the Megazord.

Third episode is mostly morphed fight scenes, so I'm guessing how things go had to follow the Japanese footage closely. The unmorphed/school scenes early on are pretty good aside from a bit of cheese. It feels odd that the minotaur randomly shrunk down to normal size at the end after the Rangers retreat from the giant-size version; I wonder if this happened in the Zyuranger episode too (and if it was explained there, or felt just as random.)

But considering how it's a low budget live action show from the early '90s with a target audience of 7-and-up, that had to rely on footage borrowed from a Japanese show for half the fight scenes on top of that... it really is surprisingly watchable even decades later.

A few odd random things that stand out to me:

I totally forgot (or never noticed before) that Trini is... significantly taller than Kimberly. Looked up the actresses' heights, and apparently there's a four inch gap (5'02" vs. 5'06"), which was right about what I would have guessed after seeing them stand next to each other in the early episodes.

Goldar definitely has a different voice in these early episodes than he did later. Not as deep and grumbly, more crazed sounding rather than being kind of a goofball. I wonder when the change happened.

The background music is great. Does have that '90s kids show "no silence ever" problem, of course... but even aside from the songs everyone remembers (the main theme and various remixes of it, Bulk and Skull's goofy theme, the fight songs with words that start to show up at some point later), there's some nice random background music! So far, I especially liked the creepy theme when the Rangers stumble across weird stuff like when Trini and Kim find the dump site abandoned in the third episode.

It's kind of interesting how gradually their powers get introduced. They don't have their individual weapons until episode 3, just their basic blasters (which I totally forgot could fold up into short sword type weapons, too.) You do get to see the Megazord in the first and third episodes, but it mostly fights with punches or in tank mode at first rather than going for the sword finishing move.

The blonde punk girl hanging out with Bulk and Skull in the third episode reminds me A LOT of someone I know... at the very least appearance wise 😂😂

[burning-sol]

all these bitches have pronouns

[darcania]

For all of the flaws in X-Men Evolution there was a lot it did very well, and letting Wolverine be this grumpy father figure to most of the X-Men was one of them.

[mintleflower]

ignore Rogier ok

[hitrone]

bwoc jump scare because it's time for me to remember them once a year and forget again until the next one

[wolfy1298]

….looking back, Yue might be the reason why I have a favorite character type

[zannolin]

(re-ish)watching ncis in 2023 is like came for the murder and crime solving, stayed for the absolutely unhinged tiva plotline

[westywallowing]

silly little sparkly saiyan boy

[wanderingwoodpecker]

Rewatching a favorite childhood show/ movie is so wild, because like this piece of media was so important to me at one point and became an integral part of who I am, but it's been years since I last saw it. Maybe I even forgot it existed. Everything is familiar, yet unfamiliar, yet ingrained in my bones.

[flamefatalis]

I just realized that Danny Phantom premiered 20 years ago. gOD.

[4arconinoma]

By the way Trish was hoping the entire time to hear some sort of comfort from Bruno and felt upset by his cold and detached demeanor because he's the only person who served as some sort of familial figure and offered her any amount kindness or protection And he did want to say those things to her and when he finally DID offer words of comfort it wasn't ACTUALLY Trish and he only Thought it was Trish and she never got to hear him say those things to her and he has no idea he never got to tell her. Just so you know

[bootyful-seventeen]

I’m crying at the fact that, for me at least, Ben Diskin is on the same level as Tara Strong cuz the man is in like EVERYTHING I watch

[lab-gr0wn-lambs]

Steven Universe.. hit different and I don’t really understand why? Thinking about any of my other old hypefixations, I smile. But Steven Universe just makes me a deeply uncomfortable kind of sad that latches onto my brain like a leech and doesn’t let go for many hours. And I have no idea what it did to deserve that lmao

[crunchycrystals]

hsmtmts you couldve been such a good show..........

[goodmorningglory]

kid me had such good childhood cartoon crushes

[werewolfoffeverswamp]

gonna start using this low resolution picture of die fledermaus from the tick animated show to react to everything. btw. positive or negative what does it matter