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Dear Power Rangers Samurai,

PLEASE, for the love of GOD, invest in some acting coaches for the Power Rangers. I know you must not have much of a budget, considering you keep using all the shitty Sentai footage for battle scenes, but the acting on this show is completely atrocious (even more so than Wild Force, which is quite frankly embarrassing) and is seriously turning me off from watching it.

So, please, get some acting coaches. Otherwise, I don't know if I can handle two more years of this.

No love,

- anolinde

...Hot damn, I really need to go back to that 30 Days of Power Rangers meme. Yeah, I still haven't finished that.

Just wanted to recommend a community to those of y'all on my flist, or to whoever may be passing through:


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themiddleearth is a Lord of the Rings-based challenge community. You join a team (your choices are Gondor, Lorien, The Shire, and Mordor) and then complete challenges (i.e. puzzles, icons, fanmixes, fanfic, etc) to earn points for your team. It's not incredibly competitive, even though the teams are, obviously, pitted against each other - think of it as an excuse to join lots of other people in making graphics and playing games related to The Lord of the Rings. I would highly recommend it!

If you do join, let them know that anolinde sent you. =) Join here!

On the spur of the moment, thanks to foxtree's comment here, I decided to write a crack-y sort of fic where Sky gets transported back in time, and is told by TJ and Rocky that he needs to chill out about being the Blue Ranger.

Here's the result!

Title: Adjusting to Blue
Fandom: Power Rangers (SPD, Zordon era)
Characters: Sky, Rocky, TJ
Rating: PG
Summary: Sky was prepared to sulk for all eternity about being the Blue Ranger, but when he unexpectedly travels back in time, he meets two other Blue Rangers who've faced similar problems adjusting.
Note: For the purpose of this story, TJ and Rocky apparently hang out with each other in Rocky's dorm room. I don't know why, they just do.

( Fic behind the cut! )

Finally watched it! Screw you, Nickelodeon, for not uploading it onto your site and making me download it. =(

Anyway.

Um... I'm not really impressed. As everyone else has said, it didn't feel like a pilot so much as a second or third "Ranger X needs to learn teamwork" episode. While RPM didn't provide any exposition, at first, as to how Scott, Flynn, and Summer became Rangers, there were still other forms of exposition - we could see them all coming together, and we knew from Dr. K's voiceover the general gist of what had happened. This? Not so much. No idea how the team came together, why they came together, etc.

The villains are really terrible. Honestly, the bulging costumes need to go. They're not remotely frightening. I assume, based on the horrible production quality, that they were using Sentai footage. Also, wtf is up with the premise of frightening people into... literally crying a river?

The Rangers themselves... Meh. They're pretty, but that seems just about it. They're also pretty bad actors, though hopefully they'll improve as the season goes on. The girls better have more to do later on, because right now they're just playing cheerleaders for the guys. Jayden seems incredibly wooden and a bit too "The moral of the episode: let me explain it to you" for my tastes. At least Kevin's hot!

Very disappointed by the reliance on the Sentai footage. I'm sorry, I know it's "the original footage" and all that, but it's terrible. Power Rangers needs more slow-mo/explosions and less shitty graphics, and Samurai is SEVERAL steps backward from RPM/Overdrive in that regard. Can we *please* start using more American footage? I'm sure it's a budget issue and most kids probably wouldn't notice enough to make the expense worthwhile, but still. I'm so sick of the absolutely ridiculous things (those arms? Really?) that happen in the Sentai footage.

Bulk and Spike were okay. Still raging over the possibility, no matter how small, of Kim being Spike's mother, but Spike himself isn't a bad kid. I liked his laugh. XD

On a more positive note, the theme was great! At first I was like, "There's no way they're going to fit 'Rangers together, Samurai forever' in that chord," but then they did! It was a pretty solid remix of the original theme. I also loved how they included the non-theme MMPR music at the end, when they did the high-five thing.

ETA: One more good thing - I liked the Megazord cockpit. The new costumes were pretty interesting, too. Also, the animation behind the Megazord as it finished the forming sequence was AWESOME! Yay, oceans! Ahem.

Overall, I'm very underwhelmed and more than a little bitter about the Sentai footage. Also, the whole "Rangers together, Samurai forever" thing sounds stupid. But, assuming we get more exposition/explanation in the future, I could wind up liking it! I won't write it off yet.

So... Since the NaNoWriMo forum keeps flagging my post as spam, would anyone be willing to help me figure out something for a story I'm writing? I'm trying to figure out how to get some of my characters to confront each other in front of a bunch of other people, only I have no idea how to bring it about.

( Situation behind the cut; trigger warning for abuse )

Any help would be greatly appreciated! =)

I think one or two people on my flist might have a guess as to what kind of story I'm writing... ;)

Instead of doing my history reading, I decided to continue with the Power Rangers 30 Days meme. I clearly have my priorities straight.

( Favorite male + female Rangers )

( Other thirty days, for my reference )