wow, what a deep look into all the cosmic fury hype train. i feel like after cosmic fury ends, a lot of this can be forgotten so it’s good to see it immortalized.

Power Rangers works so well when it doesn't talk down to its audience. I feel like this is something that the nick seasons and onward have a terrible problem doing. They constantly talk to the audience as if 5-year-olds are the only ones watching, when that's usually not the case. Secondly, I don't have high hopes when it comes to power rangers moving away from the super sentai/toku in general. The toku aspects of the show are what make power rangers, power rangers. Without it, it's just some generic sci-fi series that tries too hard to be serious and edgy (I'm looking at the 2017 movie specifically). Even if they keep the toku aspects once they move away from adapting sentai footage, the suits are likely never going to be on the same level as the sentai. I find this quite odd, as they've shown that they can make good original costumes and such (i.e., Titanium Ranger, Spirit Rangers, Shogun Mode, etc.). With cosmic fury it appears that they don't even try with the outfits, and it's genuinely sad. I've for real seen fan art that better encapsulates how to add both aspects of the cosmic fury suits and the kyuranger suits in a way that still looks good. Combining recent PR's lack of taking risks, plus the laziness in recent seasons: the future of the show looks quite gray.

I hate it when people try to appeal to the adult fans of kids media but then reply with "its for kids!" Its a flimsy excuse

"Made for children" what kid is even watching power rangers post samurai. The fanbase never grew from its grown-up fanbase.

To me, if Zyato had to change colors, the show runners should have gone with purple for him. Since they are utilizing Kyuranger Mech footage, and the Dragon Mastar is the purple ranger and commander of the team in Kyuranger, it would have been an ideal change of colors to me.

I too was blocked by Simon Bennett, mostly because I criticized Hasbro for their handling of the franchise, and that getting rid of him won't do the show any favors, as it would only lead to someone far worse taking the mantle.

I think the problem is there’s nobody at Hasbro really in charge of the brand right now, so there is nobody to run the marketing for it. Simon Bennett said the production sent a list of things they thought should be kept out of teasers (presumably that list included Heckyl and Fern) but because of layoffs at Hasbro, it went ignored. There are things I do and don’t like but I don’t go and talk a lot about it because of all the drama involved in talking about it. As for Simon, I think he needs to back off, stop searching his name on Twitter and let the show speak for itself.

One thing that I think some people forget is that someone (might've been Simon) originally said that the reason they didn't use the Kyuranger suits was because they didn't want to have to write for that many characters. But I say that you could've still used the kyuranger suits without needing to use all of them. We later find out that there's at least 9 rangers in this season, 7 fury, 1 mmpr, 1 Dino charge. Meaning the "too many" line was just a lie. From my perspective, it makes me think the PR team think they can do better than Sentai, which while not always inaccurate, it makes them come across as arrogant, especially with rumours of them completely severing ties with Sentai I wouldn't have minded if Cosmic Fury was all original, or all Kyuranger, but because they specifically used the zords, but original suits, it makes it come across as more lazy than if they did either or, as it makes them look like they wanted to do completely original, but couldn't be bothered to go the whole way. If they do sever ties with Sentai, I don't think it'd be for the better, it'd be like if the marvel films decided to only make super hero films completely devoid of anything from their comics. See... I'd have more trust that they could do it, and that this series would be good, if i hadn't already been burned by Hasbro before, what with being a Magic the Gathering player too. Some of the worst decisions in MTG have been going on in recent years, and guess who became the CEO of Hasbro, former head of Wizards of the Coast. Hasbro's higher-ups don't care about pleasing fanbases, they only care about taking the most amount of profits, this is evident from the shoddy suits, short runtime, terrible zord toy (yet asking for a higher price tag than previous zords). They don't care about power rangers, they just want a big IP name they can monetize to hell. Pay for suits and footage from the company we actively dislike, or make our own cheaper looking suits to sell are cheaper looking toys for a higher price tag.

Funny thing is Amelia would have been the second female red ranger. In SPD, the character Jack was originally planned to be female, but Disney gave a firm no on it. They were hesitant on making A-Squad Ranger, Charlie female. So in a way, Charlie crawled so that Lauren can walk so then Amelia can hopefully run.

At the core of this issue is simply the fact that Hasbro does not communicate with the fanbase and has shown very little inclination to respond to their concerns. If they want to focus fully on their reboot, more power to them. But that doesn't mean you just leave everything else out to dry and expect the fans to just sit there patiently and quietly.

I think the reason why people are so apprehensive about the show (minus the toxicity) is because the fandom has totally lost faith in the franchise. After a whole decade of extremely underwhelming show really hurts the franchise. Not to mention the amount of things that are going against Cosmic Fury rn (the toys, the suits, Kyuranger comparisons, King-Ohger comparisons, SAG strikes, 30th PR anniversary,...) lots of things for this series to carry and juggle.

Man, I'm glad I only use Twitter to see art, being part of this discussions looks exhausting.

One of my biggest memories of the series was In Space and how it was supposed to be the end of the series. Back then under threat of cancellation they went all out to give the fans the best possible ending that we could be satisfied with had it truly been the end. Starting with Lost Galaxy each season was its own thing but still tied to the previous series with the team up episodes. Each season could have been the last for Power Rangers but that was ok because the full story they wanted to tell got to be told. 10 episodes on Netflix just sounds to me like Power Rangers is going to end with a whimper and not a bang. I know 10 episodes is standard for a Netflix show but it doesn't feel like the story will have room to breathe if they are still your standard 20+ minute episodes. I could very well be wrong I'm just sharing my 2 cents as a fan that lost touch and is a little saddened by the discourse.

Simon is way too defensive. You can tell he has passion for power rangers but only for HIS version of power rangers. I know it's impossible to cater to a whole fandom but When someone at the helm of a show franchise takes sides and bashes anyone who disagrees it loses fans more so over the attitude he gives off rather than the show. Star wars is a prime example of show runners that drastically turned the franchise into their own version and lost tons of fans. And then on social media attacked even more fans.

The suit designs remind me of the cheap Halloween super hero costumes with puffy chests… I feel like that design choice will hurt the show.

You know I just realized something that could have easily solved the Amelia and Zayto color swap issue. Had they adapted the Kyuranger suits then you could have had Amelia be Shishi Red while Zayto is Ho-oh Soldier. And Ho-oh is still a red ranger. Aka it's a win-win scenario. Amelia and Zayto both get to be Red Rangers while you can still have Amelia as a leader. Don't get me wrong I do like Zenith Ranger. It's probably one of my only favorite CF suits due to the unique choice of Champagne Gold as the ranger color. Which is probably one of the few things I'd like to see from fully original ranger teams. More unique ranger colors than the same ones Toei keeps doing. Especially when it comes to 6th rangers constantly being gold and silver most of the time.

This was excellent. Voices a lot of concerns and feelings I've had regarding Cosmic Fury, the fandom, certain creatives, etc.

The latest super sentai kingohger made for kids but has a mature storyline that even adults like to watch it. It was interesting to watch even for a non sentai fans, you can consider it watch a TV drama

The thing i have right now Is that i love the Kyuranger suits and it just feels like a Punch in the gut that they were replaced with the original suits and that will never dee them in power rangers hope that won't come true but still

My take on the design through the new costumes is that it just appears to me that they rushed the decision to go with original costumes they didn't put too much thought into what they look like because it was rushed

This is a great breakdown of the entire mess of drama. I think the source was both sides went very emotional about this, even me looking back which I'm not proud off. I do entirely agree on your stance on the matter, and if I have to point out the sole cause of this, it's Hasbro and the absolute lack of communication, and how the only source of info we got are leakers, which fandom already were apprehensive either cause they sounded sus or they were provided by shady scoopers. And yes, Pooki really needs to stop engaging with this fandom cause even if he has good intentions, it only adds more needless fuel to the fire. This does remind me how James Gunn does online interactions and it's honestly a much better way to go about it. He does QnAs and trivia, but he doesn't go into debates with fans about his work (and trust me, there's this group of people who does tear apart his movies) and whenever he does respond, it's mostly when it comes to rumors and baseless accusations. He clearly knows when it's proper time for engagement and when it's to distance themselves, something that Simon needs to learn.

Genuinely had no idea this kind of discourse was happening in the PR community. It's kinda hilarious, but I'm mostly just sad. Power Rangers has such a potential to be a driving force in modern pop culture. The characters, the lore, everything in it, is so iconic. How is it so easy for production companies to screw this sort of thing up? They're young actors playing teenagers transforming into super heroes to defeat evil. It shouldn't be anymore complicated than that. Feels like the showrunners are just out of touch with the general demographic they're aiming for. It made me wince to see the dude in charge had white hair, that's immediately a bad sign. All you need for a great PR season is likeable characters that the audience can relate to, convincing CGI, and paying homage to where and how the franchise started in the first place. Don't forget your roots, but pave the way for the future. That's what PR has always been about and what longtime fans recognize it for.

In the case of SPD red Ranger leaving the leadership is more like their own adaptation of dekaranger arc with the red Ranger team. Curiously i always felt that part in SPD lack of build up but knowing about the problems with time making that season

This doesn't compare to the negativity the neosaban era faced. Yet you never see neosaban creators and actors acting the way Simon did.

People like kyle higgins and ryan parrot should be in charge of the show. People liie Simon shouldn't be in charge

Personal opinion, I, like all of us, hope Cosmic Fury will surpass our expectations. It is regrettable that they had a perfect Sentai series that could have been used for a final series of Power Rangers as we know it, that could have easily been used to pay respects to all that came before it as a legacy season... And all they took from it was the zords. As stated in this video, the suits for Zyuranger were created with Western viewers in mind. On top of that there were characters that when Americanized into Power Rangers, could easily relate to Power Rangers characters of the past. Some of which, I didn't even have answers for when I first came up with this idea a few years back. But the Hasbro seasons have given rise to fill some in. Lucky the Leo Ranger could easily connect to either of the Red Lion rangers before him. Maybe directly, by connecting him to Leo from Lost Galaxy, or being our tie to Wild Force. I know the latter could be difficult given Cole's actor's... Actions... But Wild Force was still part of the franchise, and deserves inclusion in a legacy series. Spada as our yellow marlin ranger could directly reference Samurai Blue and his Swordfish zord. Though, it would feel like a bit of a stretch. This is honestly the hardest placement for me. Because I could also see him as our connection to Aquitar, and a reference to the 2017 movie where their first yellow ranger was also from Aquitar. Hammie could have been or connection to Jungle Fury. A teenage daughter of Jarrod and Camille. We could even start with some tension between her and Lucky as he gets the Leo zord, but she was after it as her father was the Lion Warrior and her mother was the Chameleon Warrior. Champ is a large robot created by the world's most brilliant scientist... While the Sentai has him being revealed as a mad scientist... This could be how we insert Billy into the series. Garou is the easiest to explain. Cosmic Fury is coming out 2 years before SPD is set... And Once and Always, earlier this year, had Adam and Aisha in the SPA... Garou could simply be Anubis "Doggie" Kruger. And they could even have the Dekaranger crossover footage be a time travel angle where SPD teamed up with Time Force to give SPA a head start to catch up to 2025. If we went Wild Force for Lucky, then Stinger could be out Lost Galaxy tie in, coming from the same planet as Scorpius and Trakeena. Also could be fun to tie Scorpina from MMPR together with that same species. Balance and Naga were originally a hangup for me. But with Beast Morphers, we have a ranger age Gold and Silver Ranger combo that would fit perfectly. This could be the return of Nate and Steel, to help form SPA as part of Grid Battleforce. Nate becoming the Libra ranger to signify his coming to peace with being the creator of Evox, and balancing his life. Steel being the Ophiuchus ranger, represented by a cobra signifying a similar balance as he was originally created as a body for Evox. This is, of course, also out tie-in for RPM. Raptor, I originally pictured as a late series Alpha model from Edenoi, mostly due to her initial duty as command base assistant... But as I already had a tie to MMPR with Champ and Billy, and possibly connecting Stinger to Scorpina. I have instead decided she could be a surviving Cadet of General Evox's Machine Empire army, that was dejected, but taken in by Adam (in particular because of his connection to both Zeo and the SPA) and Aisha, and turned to join the creation of SPA, and aid in human-machine relations. Our version of Kotaro could work as a tease on Justin from Turbo, being a child ranger that morphed into an adult sized ranger, also being a blue ranger with the same gimmick, but also having a child sized ranger form. I can even see a scene where there is objection to him becoming a ranger, and Adam, as one of the leaders of SPA saying, "I worked with a child ranger before. It wasn't all bad." Speaking of leaders, we have Rou. The purple dragon ranger. While I initially had no idea for him, other than bringing Tommy back as a new Dragon Ranger (Rest in peace, JDF). I have a better idea. We had Rita come back as the Mystic Mother in Mystic Force. And we had Robo-Rita in Once and Always. And we currently have Lord Zedd as resurrected when he was at his strongest as a warrior... But it isn't the REAL Zedd it is his evil essence, same as Robo-Rita... This could be Zedd's humanoid return to take the evil version of himself down... Along with the purple dragon Zord, built from the scraps of Serpentera from the moon after it's destruction in Forever Red. And what if the reason Rita and Zedd were both mentor roles in this situation... Was because they both contained the essence of Zordon after the Z-Wave. Which would be released at the end of the series back into his Eltarian humanoid form after the defeats of evil Robo-Rita in Once and Always, and the final evil essence of Lord Zedd. And likely being welcomed into the ranks of the Morphin' Masters as the White Light Morphin' Master (again... RIP, JDF). And we could see Carla Perez return as a youthful Mystic Mother bringing in a new recruit for the SPA (to Adam's shegrin). A reformed (and transformed) Thraxx. As our connections to Mystic Force and Operation Overdrive. Becoming, of course, the Phoenix Soldier. We could even work in the current returning role of Mick, as a tech designer for SPA. Even potentially mentioning how he has a nephew named Boom who would be great at his job. So far we have representation from all three seasons of MMPR, Zeo, Turbo, in Space (with unavoidable mention of the Z-Wave), Lost Galaxy, Time Force, Wild Force, SPD, Mystic Force, Operation Overdrive, RPM, (Maybe) Samurai, Ninja Steel, Beast Morphers, and Dino Fury. But that leaves missing teams unrepresented. Lightspeed Rescue, Ninja Storm, Dino Thunder, (maybe) Samurai, Megaforce, Super Megaforce (the only Super I will reference as it's own due to change in powers, and Dino Charge... Well, I'm sorry... I can't make everything work... But perhaps we could reference them in episodic villains that join Lord Zedd through the season. I mean... But that's just how I would handle the 30th anniversary... Especially if it was going to be the end of the Power Rangers series as we know it with Sentai footage.

I’ve been observing this fandom from the outside for a while now, and I can tell the problem with this community is a combination of entitled man-children who want things exactly their way, and corporate and industry suits who only see PR as childish content.

Simon Bennett did recently made a tweet saying he's not a fan of both super sentai and power rangers. Which put the fandom into an uproar.

Super Sentai is simply better.

I think the main gripes with the suits is that it feels like they're not really striving for "iconic". Like simple can be good like the samurai suits.

The Actress tweeting acting as if the show can't be criticized cause she worked hard was super Cringe. Bruno from MMPRtoys has always been Power Rangers can do no wrong act is the worst cringe.

While PR is made for children i am very very curious how much of the demo are young to middle age adults vs their core demo. I dont really hear people saying their kids watch it usually just other adults (not bad but curious)

I don't think zayto has a downgrade because he becomes a special ranger like Tommy. He is not a leader but becomes like a mentor, a powerful ranger status. So this time was done right.

12:48 omg thank you for pointing these bootlicks out

With Zayto, I get the idea since MMPR did it with Tommy, but the suit doesn't convey it properly.

I could see them trying to make a combined weapon out of the five cosmic fury weapons, but who knows what Hasbro has planned.

Simon Benett doesn’t understand Power Rangers or the fans. Given what he said about it’s Japanese roots, I wouldn’t be surprised if he sends the franchise into failure. It happened with Disney. It happened with Fox. It’ll happen again. I don’t hate female Red Rangers. I hate how this franchise treats fans like idiots. How they treat Power Rangers as just another For Kids franchises. Yet Power Rangers started off in the 90s. We made the show what it was. Without us, Hasbro wouldn’t even have what they have. Nuff said.

I'm a bit surprised people see Zayto becoming Zenith as a downgrade. Yeah the color is weird, but it's very much intended that he's achieved something beyond the symbolism of red. He first ascended into a white ranger color, and now he's becoming this new color never seen before. The name Zenith even suggests this evolution. Since recent trailers show him with a Morphin Master staff, it seems he'll get one of the biggest promotions a ranger has ever gotten. That's pretty impressive, imo. It does leave one question though: is Amelia, despite being a red, the leader if Zayto is in the picture?

this is going to sound mean when i dont intend it to but Simon seems like the kind of person who didnt really have much popularity growing up but now that he suddenly has it, for better or worse, he cant get enough of it and its effecting how he interacts with the community as a whole.

I feel like the mandates royally held back this show for a long time. Saban should haves known coming back that people don't want mmpr nostalgia, especially for kids who didn't grow up with it and should have been telling stories on the level of In Space/lost galaxy to wild force. Those shows are what kept the brand alive and reinvigorated it after nearly being cancelled. Sure an mmpr throwback for the anniversary season would have been cool, but to have it recur throughout the past 12 years has stunted the show so much, when it had the potential to evolve. I've recently started watching sentai and i do love it, and in some ways yeah i prefer it to PR. But PR is the show I began on all those years ago, even dipping after the tmnt crossover cause i felt the show was too childish (I was 9-10) at the time, to then catch an episode of lightspeed rescue and being like, ohh the rangers are more adult and aren't talking down to me and sticking with the franchise since I'm excited for Cosmic fury cause imo, while it has had it's flaws and is nowhere near perfect, Dino fury, especially season 2 was a genuine step back in the right direction and hoping cosmic fury and the reboot follows suit and the show is treated with the respect and creativity it so needs and deserves.

You're reaching if you seriously think that Jack deciding to retire to work more closely with his community is problematic.

Apathy should be more concerning than negativity. At least with negativity people have to actually care and very passionate

This is the season where American-style Tokusatsu goes to die.

Even if the story is good, everything else for me wouldn't. Base sound effects that they been using since Samurai and their usual banter in mid combat sour my experience watching it over time. The suit being essentially blank with silver pad doesn't help either, people could say it not an issue but considering the genre Power Range is in and compare it other similar property like Sentai for example where the majority of them doesn't look like a blank suit that they just brought straight from a costume shop. Everything add up over time just being a mood killer for me.

Simon's comments about Sentai and toku really rubbed me the wrong way. And the whole discussion about Sentai holding Power Rangers back. Power Rangers isn't popular because it's adapting Super Sentai which can be seen as cheesy to a portion of people, it's not popular because of how badly the show has been handled in terms of writing, marketing, and distribution. Recently on twitter someone shared a clip Geats 9 vs. Gazer in a conversation about fight choreography in Owl House. And people who aren't toku fans thought it was really cool. Some say it was better than what the MCU was doing. Showing that the tokusatsu style can be appeal to a wider audience, it just needs to be marketed and distributed better. But Toei's handling of Kamen Rider distribution is a different discussion. Then there's the discussion about Sentai holding PR back in terms of its writing due to the footage. While in some areas I can agree like finding matching locations for footage, past seasons have shown they can work with those limitations. Granted they didn't have those awful Saban mandates but we're talking about future shows. Since Cosmic Fury doesn't have to do those mandates anymore. It'd also be nice if Hasbro cared to give PR more budget to shoot more original footage if some Sentai footage wasn't useable for their story. And while I'm not against Power Rangers trying to do fully original stuff, that'll only matter if the people in charge actually put in the effort to make it the best it can be. Aka making it better than what Sentai is putting out to make the trade-off worth it. Honestly if Hasbro was willing to have original stuff for older audiences while Sentai adaptations still continued for kids programming then there wouldn't be such a massive fuss in the fandom.

This is the most fair handed take on the whole issue. You should be proud of diligence, effort and, research you put into this video.

What they SHOULDVE done was adapt Kyuranger. If you’re going to use the Zord footage, JUST USE THE SUITS.

I think simon is in the wrong business if he can't take criticism cuz he mentioned once he saw a PR KZfaq vid praising dino fury. So I'm sure he has watched the negative vids bashing the show

It’s a tragedy what happened to Andrew Laing, Dino Fury’s Lord Zedd. Honestly, Andrew’s Zedd voice improved in Dino Fury Season 2 for me. Sure, he’s no Robert Axelrod, but that’s just VERY unfortunate circumstance; it’s not Andrew’s fault that they chose to revive a legacy character that they couldn’t get the original actor to reprise.

12:14 I think the fandom does have some overbearing corners. The other day I saw a PR fan on Facebook posing on top of JDF’s grave. He wasn’t trying to be a prick, but come on, that’s just wrong

The Might Morphin' deviated a lot from its original Super Sentai counterpart but it was still beloved due to multitude of different reasons. In fact, in my opinion and experience being a fan of this series and franchise, one of the most famous, arguably most beloved arcs in all Power Rangers Series, "Green with Evil" and "The Green Candle" deviated a lot from its JP counterpart, yet even to this day when I re-watch it as an adult, who also has seen the JP source material, I still love it the way they handled it. Its not really about following the source material religiously. Many PR fans know and are aware that the shows have always deviated from its source material, its about how they present the show i.e. good story arcs, memorable characters, moments, with a big payoff after a struggle.

What happened with George junior exactly? This is the first I'm hearing about it and I just saw that his channel is gone.

The comics are COOKING right now though, Lord Zedd became a power ranger!

Fun fact about Zayto's actor, Russell Curry, he's actually half Japanese making him the first Asian American red ranger in PR.

How much I miss the dialogue from In Space through Time Force.

I’m sorry but No, the “representation” was not good at all. Just gonna go into the red ranger debacle for now but Amelia becoming red has issues. Yes she’s the first full time red ranger to lead a season but her costume is partially re used from a previous pink so it’s not even a fully original red, they had to demote Zayto in order to make Amelia red (which was bad in MMPR also), and the acting and story around it was also off in order to build her as the new red IMO. Overall this is just a forced way to get a female red leader just for the sake of “look look representation!” and this is coming from the guy who loved Janeway as the captain in Star Trek voyager

Holy crap, this video takes everything I've personally had a problem with and puts it into words. The editing is absolutely phenomenal! Subbed!!!

have a lot of people complained about Amelia being red? Im not saying there has been no backlash, but most of what ive seen is being excited for it.

Lauren Shiba is actually proffered over the main Red

Power rangers is a moral of the week show. This show isnt for kids. Especially all the sex stuff people want in it.

To be fair Zayto's color is probably changed because the lead of Kyuranger has an upgrade that turns his suit white and gets an non Red Zord to go with it. Since that's probably most of the Zord fights since they're only having 10 episodes and not a Zord fight every episode so most of the endgame Kyuranger robot fights will be used, that's likely why they did it.

Hasbro: We can't adapt Kyuranger as we can't write 12 characters Bandai & Toei: We did, why can't you? Hasbro: Its too many Bandai & Toei: You've made more than 2 seasons, we're pretty sure that's way more than 12 protagonists you wrote for. Hasbro: We just don't see how. Bandai: My brother in Christ... We did not just pump a ton of money into this like a bunch of CEOs into a corrupt politician's campaign just for you not to use it. Hasbro: T-T

I'm probably gonna be a contrarian compared to everyone else in the comments, but here it goes. I agree with a lot of what MintBari says in this video, and I am sorry Simon blocked you/He was getting harassed by folks going off the rails, though that doesn't excuse his behavior, mind you. I've been made privvy to a lot of BTS info & what Simon said isn't inaccurate. It's very likely that when he first saw footage of GoBusters & he saw the the Rabbit Zord hopping around, he laughed not as demeaning it but enjoying it. That's where I think people are taking some of Simon's posts out of context. Simon should have more tact on social media, I do agree but I think the reason he's doing it is because there's currently no brand manager at Hasbro to do public relations for the fandom & Simon decided to sorta do that with varying degrees of success, obviously. I am still looking forward to Cosmic Fury, but we are just gonna have to wait & see what happens with the franchise as it takes it's first real break to re-energize itself. PS: The sort of thing with the break actually has precedent KINDA regarding how between the ending of Black RX in 1989 & the start of Kuuga in 2000? There was no new Rider show, just the movies for Shin, ZO, & J & that was it. That was a 10 year gap between shows for content so, if Rider can survive a drought for 10 years, Power Rangers can survive a likely 2-year break with the comics, games & other fan-created works.

You can't "positivity" your way out of cancelation and bad creative direction.

I feel the Zenith ranger situation could have been so easily resolved if they gave him a "Tommy Like" Chest Plate. Like Red that is a visual that also stuck in our minds! I do think Amelia becoming red is nice, but now she also has to be a leader. Which luckily seems to hold up. Yet there is also the slippery slope of turning her into a new Rocky. I hope she can lead with Zayto being a "legendary" ranger , coming to their add then the need is most dire, but maybe also having some Solo fights. Similar to the Magna Defender..or as an comparison Flynn (the legendary Librarian) from the Librarians tv show. I am more excited to watch this show than I would others. With so much in house it is a new era. Now if that era is 10 episodes long , or will provide us content for years to come remains to be seen. Yet that is also part of what makes it exciting. Stakes are higher, so is pressure! We judge more, but that is also because there IS MORE to judge. Costumes and roles are no longer tied to anything, themes and choices are now much free, thus judgable. That said, Netflix is a fickle Mistress though, if Power Rangers dies, I at least want it to be on the creators! Not because we killed a show's buzz dead before it launched. It's fine to have an opinion on something unreleased but only do the media thing if you are willing to be proven wrong! Otherwise just disengage!

I think you're reading way to into the race stuff. Your the first person iv heard talking about it before this video i heard nothing of any problems with it. People change ranger colors all the time it has nothing to do with race but the story being told at the time. Zayto disappeard and become a different ranger so it makes sence with them getting new powers that the colors would chamge for some. I meam shit look at tommy, he was green, white, red, red, black. Adam was black and green. And jason was red and gold its just the way it works out doesnt mean its a race thing. Like tj being demoted to blue makes sense in the context of that season considering andros was already the in space red ranger and they others just joined up with him so obviously he would be the leader since he gave them the in space morphers aswell as it being his ship theyre staying on.

Wait I'm sorry what happened with that one youtuber????

Power Rangers died with the RPM series. Everything else after that sucks.

I'm just indifferent at this point about power rangers, and i don't know why. I will admit I was one of those that saw the suit reveal (trough a KZfaq recommended, I am not actively searching this stuff) and was... disheartened? I don't know what feeling it was, but it wasn't good. We can all agree at least that the cosmic toys (from what i saw) are a total disgrace?

I've dealt with Sentai purists before, and it's infuriating to try and explain why PR does plenty of things well, when they don't listen to what I was trying to say. But, at the same time, PR does so many things poorly, that I can understand where they come from, and why dealing with the "Positive-Posies" is about as bad as the purists. I really hope that Cosmic Fury does well, considering that it's going to be the last "proper" season before the reboot happens, but it's hard to really gauge anything with the trailers (that I refuse to watch any more of because I'd like to go in and be genuinely surprised by how it turns out).

The Hasbro seasons restored my faith in Power Rangers. The Nick seasons made me quit watching, and trust me i tried every new season but after the fart jokes in Ninja Steel i was done. When I saw we were getting a female Red Ranger as the lead in Cosmic Fury, I paused and went, "You have my attention." I went into Beast Morphers years after it came out with zero expectations and I was blown away. I actually enjoyed Power Rangers again. Dino Fury wasn't as good imo, but I liked it a lot and I'm looking forward to Cosmic Fury. Being excited about Power Rangers coming out with a new season was foreign to me for like 10 years. I'm concerned about this season but also extremely hyped for it.

for my opinion i disagree,zayto is literally still the leader,in fact whats wrong if i was the blue ranger and i was black its all fine right?,im not being racist but there’s already enough black red rangers TJ,Scott,etc. and none black red rangers like Aiyon,etc. (also remember its just my opinion)

Dino / Cosmic Fury is the Disney Starwars Trilogy of Power Rangers. It retcons some of the most important events & victories of past ranger teams & gives them to the most undeserving of teams. It recycles plot points, characters & elements from better seasons & wastes them.

good thing that i stopped using twitter

Deviates from the sentai... please Simon, Lost Galaxy has done this, and it was fuckin great and a lot of fans liked so much.

couldn't they just follow the train and adapt kyuranger...

What was that bit about North Korea?

9:52 Zayto was sick this season and not a downgrade at all.

I personally didn’t care/like Dino Fury much, its not Megaforce or Ninja Steel levels of cringe, but its just sub par to me. It feels repetitive and even the new stuff they have feels hollow. What made each PR season from the OG and Disney eras, is that sure they had interconnectivity, but still felt unique and separate from each other, even if they were slight dips comparatively. I don't think I gotta talk about the "its made for kids" argument, its pretty much lost any power it used to have. I am a fan of Sentai and Kamen Rider, the notion that we shouldn't compare the PR adaptation to its original source material is just absurd, especially when there has been PR seasons that some deem better than their Sentai counterpart. If people wanna enjoy Cosmic Fury and Dino Fury, that is completely fine by me. I am not here to tell others they aren't allowed to watch these seasons even if i personally think there's better ones already out there. Its such a cop out to say "you just want a copy and paste", no we want a good story. Wild Force is one of my favourite seasons and imo is much better than Gaoranger, because it just does some things way better. Samurai is one of my least favourite seasons because it disrespects my favourite Sentai, which most fans agree is at least pretty good, but adapts it poorly. If there's one thing PR should teach us, is we are stronger together and accepting of our differences, than we are alone unable to listen to others

I think this steven listen fella might like power rangers guys, just a hunch though

After cosmic fury and legend of the white dragon I may move on from power rangers and create my own. Please make a video of legend of the white dragon for JDF!!!

Honestly don't get why people were mad that Simon Laughed at the Sentai footage when he first got on (or the more extreme people calling him Xenophobic) FFS the first season he adapted was Fucking Ninninger, a comedic (or just loud) Sentai season.

I find this whole thing amusing. Take a look at this from an outside perspective. There are grown adults projecting negative toxicity towards a show about spandex wearing heroes fighting monsters in giant robots that’s marketed towards children. All that aside, I genuinely hope Cosmic Fury does well, and isn’t the last season of Power Rangers, but I understand that all good things must come to an end.

I grew up with the original team of Power Rangers and have been a fan of the show throughout its history. I looked forward to the new suits every year, the storylines kept even my parents engaged (my dad loved Time Force), and the music was awesome. They didn’t rely on nostalgia because there was no nostalgia to rely on yet. It’s why PR worked. They HAD to do something new. It wasn’t until Wild Force that we got that first hit of nostalgia. (At the time, Adam’s episode in In Space didn’t feel like nostalgia. Just a part of the story between Carlos and himself). The team up episodes were fun and creative and impacted the story (Lost Galaxy), not an obvious cash grab (even though they were). Forever Red worked because it was a gag for the fandom. It was a one off. It was the cherry atop the dessert after a three course meal, not the whole meal. The problem is they’ve started giving us too many cherries (and with Mega and Super Mega, that’s all we got). Now we can’t go more than 2 seasons without some throwback. That’s just a symptom of a bigger problem, in my opinion. With each passing era, PR gets sanitized. At this point, it’s become so watered down that it’s become pretty flavorless, so they are “forced” to nostalgia bait to keep people watching. It’s not helped by the fact that since 2011, we’ve only had 6 teams. We’d typically have 13 in this time frame. 6 teams and shorter seasons means fewer storylines and when your writers are writing pretty much nothing but filler for 11 out of the 22 episode season until the team up episode gets here for that nostalgia kick, there’s a problem. You can see it across the board too. Let’s look at the toy line. There used to be whole sections of PR toys in the store. Now I’m lucky to find more than a few items of questionable quality thrown in with Avengers of all things. No zords, morphers, blasters, weapons, or masks. The only time we get those are at cons, specialty stores, and any time they do an MMPR rerelease.

With TJ and Jack stepping down from the Red Ranger. Both instances make sense. Andros was already tracking the villains also the others had never been to space before. He is the most qualified. It would make sense for TJ to give up leadership to Andros. He’s putting the team first which is an admirable quality especially from a leader and elevates my appreciation for TJ. Jack wanted out of SPD, in fact he never really wanted to be apart of it in the beginning but took on the role because it was the right thing to do. Giving up his powers and having them going to Sky is so meaningful to both of them. Jason left as the Red Ranger in MMPR and came back as the Gold Ranger in Zeo, Rocky was changed from the MMPR Red to the Zeo Blue. Tommy came back as the Black Dino Thunder Ranger after being the Red Zeo Ranger. Bridge also got the Red SPD powers after Sky and Jack. Tho Syd and Z not changing colours at the same rate is odd… To me, it comes down to does it make sense for Zayto to change from the Red Ranger? And with that, does it make sense that Amelia became the new Red Ranger? I am fine with any ranger being any colour or changing colour as long as theres a reason that makes sense for them. I like the idea of progression in the ranks of the teams. Looking back I actually find it strange that Rocky got the Red Ranger powers instead of it going to either Kim, Billy, Trini or Zack.

Great video!! I’m genuinely excited for the show! The only thing I’ve really criticized this season for was the mid costumes. The Sentai costumes would have been a great treat if this is indeed the final season.

I also go blocked by the super Chad ultra alpha male Simon Bennet. Expressing an opinion will get yea blocked and labeled a troll

The saddest part about this season there was no reason whatsoever to make the Red ranger of female explain to me why that needed to be done and you can't use anything other than why it's a good idea storyline wise

I just want to ride out this current wave of power rangers. I have lost interest in PR, but i stick around because I'm a fan of toku. I always give the first episode of a series a try, but I have no expectations. Dino Fury was fun, so Cosmic Fury should be a tolerable ride. Hopefully their is a reboot happening, but I am cautiosly anticipating it. I hope PR can spread its wings and grow and maybe try and become something new. No more mmpr nostalgia, no more sentai adaptions (not what i would've wanted but I trust they know what they are doing), and most importantly give kids something worth watching. I know very few kids who like PR, but I do know kids who love feeling older than they are, and hopefully, the new wave of PR can deliver on that. But it can only happen with better and more mature writing. Maturity does not have to lead to something edgy. Maturity is about having more emotioinal complexity, and only better writing can make a more mature show happen. I have low hopes, but I hope PR can be better. Also the new aesthetics need to hold up to what sentai have given us. I'll give the CF suits some leeway, since it's Hasbro's first time, but they should learn what make the sentai designs fun and unique and incorporate what they've learned into their own designs. Hopefully the designs for the reboot don't feel lazy, and the morpher and zords should be fun toys aswell, unless Hasbro decides to get rid of the toku-ness of PR. Let's hope Hasbro knows what they're doing.

I really enjoyed this season. Great call backs good action, too many ppl are focusing on negative stuff

should have at least put the trailer at the end of Once and Always

12:43 - I don’t think it’s fair to conflate the people calling others ungrateful and shutting other fans down with simply not saying anything negative about the show

I love this video and your fair, balanced look at the whole situation going on with the show. However, the bit about Andrew Laing came out of nowhere to fans particularly on RangerBoard, and I think the catalyst behind why we thought it was out of left field is because Simon rattled it off in a series of tweets (long since edited) where he mentions things “changed” in Cosmic from Dino, which included “new Zedd VA” and threw “Andrew left from online harassment” in as a reply. Of course, the majority of us had no idea it was happening, so to hear that it happened was an unfortunate surprise. As far as your comments on engagement versus avoidance, it’s VERY HARD to dodge Simon on anywhere, because people love to retweet/quote tweet/screenshot his tweets and post them EVERYWHERE, so unless you go into a cave, you’re going to hear what the man says. You did hit the nail on the head about his sabbaticals, though.

Silly me thinking you were going to not agree with the twitter two year olds. First off not everyone agrees with you about Beast Morphers and Dino Fury, those have felt so much more like Power Rangers to me than any of the Neo saban era aside from Dino Charge. Infact I think season 2 of Beast Morphers really brought back that extra bite the show used to have. The diversity complaint is just stupid especially when no one had an issue with Tj going to Blue Ranger or Jack leaving SPD before. It made perfect sense for both why those happened, Jack's specifically was a pay off to this thing called a charachter arc. Nick, Scott, and Devon all remained as red ranger even as their seasons ended so no this complaint is crap. Your allowed to voice your opinion of course but until the show release's yes you can't judge the full thing based on a few minutes of footage. Otherwise your just being unfair and looking for any reason to not watch the show. I have no problem voicing when this series screws up but I also don't make it my mission to look for things to be mad about. I did see Flaws in Beast Morphers and Dino Fury but they felt much more minor compared to the neo saban era and the good was so much stronger for both. Again it felt like I was actually watching Power Rangers finally. Also my ass sentai purists don't exist either your lying through you teeth with that one or you just have'nt experienced what their like yet. I have and their goddamn obnoxious change even the slightest thing from the sentai even something as small as giving a ranger a different weapon and they'll freak out then do everything in their power to put you down for liking Power Rangers. Heaven help you if you say you don't watch sentai around them.

You def should edit that zato line it sounds like u said “koon color “ no cap lol

I feel like zayto being the “Champaign” ranger is equivalent to tommy being the white ranger still technically the leader just not the red ranger and Amelia is like 2nd in command as red even though red is technically the leader it’s more of a Rocky situation, he was a red ranger but def not the leader.

I kinda like the idea of going into it dark i feel these days we know too much about what is to come and i want to be surprised

Feels like it’s an upgrade though, like promotion of leadership. MM had red as the leader until white became the leader, so now he was red now he’s….got a cape

This is what happens when showrunners hate the ip

What gets me about Power Rangers is how much potential it has and how much it squanders. I think it should go the comic route and stop being for children. Are they really selling that many toys to kids these days? I think its people in their late 20s+ buying the $100+ megazords, morphers and figures these days