So, as someone who's seen Gokaiger, the explanation for why the Gokaigers weren't just handed the powers all at once is because the Gokaigers didn't give a shit about being a Sentai. They knew nothing about the previous teams and were only looking for treasure. So the previous Sentai would test them in order to see if their hearts were really in the fight. The whole point of the show is the Gokaigers learning to love being Sentai. Which they do. When they find the treasure they were looking for, the only way to activate its power is to basically erase all previous Super Sentai. They spend a few episodes figuring out if they want to do it, then ultimately decide that they love being Super Sentai too much to actually do it and fight the ultimate villain. It's just a nice little bit of storytelling that I feel could have been done in Megaforce, but the writers were too lazy to do.

"Oh great! Carter Grayson's here. Give him two guns and a bottle of water and he'll take down the armada in an hour." *Flashes back to Lightspeed Rescue.* Fair point.

Yeah a line here sums it all up: It’s sad when freaking Once a Ranger and Operation Overdrive pays more respect to Power Rangers history.

Carter Grayson is one of those ageless people. He just gets better-looking the older he gets.

I think Ciara Hanna (Gia's actress), said that the reason that there was no development in the Jake and Gia relationship is because any attempts the two made to do more with it was shot down. Apparently the kiss was an improvised moment, I have to admit that I do feel bad for the cast of this show, because you can tell that they wanted to do more but got bugger all to work with. Not that it excuses the trainwreck that Megaforce was.

Want an even bigger nail in the coffin that is megaforce? Gokaiger is getting a “10 years after” special movie. Sentai knows how big Gokaiger is. They appeared plenty of times after their initial show. It’s THAT good 👍🏾

One minor thing I haven't seen anyone mention: when Tommy's rescuing the kid from the car, they superimpose the White Ranger helmet on him, and have him holding Saba. Yet during the actual Legendary Battle, he's in the Green Ranger suit. If they really thought kids were so stupid that they wouldn't care about anything besides fight scenes, how did they not think that would confuse them?

There's some stuff about Megaforce and the unused footage that bugs me. There is a character in Gokaiger named Basco, who is a reoccurring villain in the season. Half of his appearances are literally in tribute episodes to Sentai that were adapted into Power Rangers. But here's the catch: He was a normal actor and wasn't voicing a monster (most of the time). How could they possibly have gotten around that? Well here's another thing: HE SPEAKS PERFECT ENGLISH AND SAID THAT HE'D BE HAPPY TO FLY TO NEW ZEALAND AND FILM ORIGINAL FOOTAGE WITH THE MEGAFORCE RANGERS. So instead of taking the offer that was basically handed to them and using it to help streamline adapting Gokaiger, they just straight up didn't adapt his character meaning we also lost an opportunity for a Zeo, In Space, Lost Galaxy, and Lightspeed Rescue tribute. In the Timeranger tribute episode (an episode that easily could've gotten adapted for a Time Force tribute), they go back to during Goseiger vs Shinkenger, where Ninjaman makes an appearance. As we know, Ninjaman was adapted into Ninjor. Ninjor disappeared during Season 3 and never made a reappearance afterward. So they had an opportunity to bring back Ninjor AND also make a tribute episode for an extremely popular season, and yet never adapted this episode at all!

I actually did speak to Jessica Ray Who played Alyssa from Power Rangers wild force at Power morphicon 2018 I asked her was she approached to make an appearance in megaforce and she said yes they did reach out to her but she also declined the offer because she needed more time to plan the trip meaning her invitation went out at the last minute

Man I have to admit, Lewis laughing mad and shooting at god knows what still creeps me out.

The fact that Power Rangers made Go-Onger which was pretty lame to one of the best Power Rangers season, and then turned Gokaiger, which is the best Super Sentai, to the worst Power Ranger season is mind-blowing

You know what I realized watching this back? You don't even need fly actors out to New Zealand to have them do cameos. Just have them do some voiceover and dub the lines over a stunt guy in a ranger suit. They did a whole movie/double-length episode like that for samurai, so why not do that once or twice an episode? THEN you have them all show up in the finale and take their helmets off for the final battle. It could have absolutely worked.

Why is it that Linkara’s impassioned speech at the end is more powerful than the entirety of MegaForce!!!

Am I the only one truly disappointed we didn’t get Pirate Power Rangers? lol The ship, the weapons, even the fighting style is pure pirate fun, I’d watch the hell out of that.

This is why gokaiger is so much better. It made the thousands of ships destroyed actually mean something.

23:59 Note: Tommy and the real Legendary Rangers died on the way back home.

The finale is so hollow. The entire situation of the battle feels the same as any other battle, with the only thing indicating that this it was the end of the series was because they kept repeating it. All the characters grew so little that they might as well have been the ones from the first episode. Even when Robo Knight, a character that was close to the main team and had been seemingly killed off in one of the few moments of actual emotion, gets brought back, he only gets greeted with a simple "hi, buddy". How does one screw up so badly at this?

From what I heard in interviews and behind the scenes information about the show, it was almost like the producer Jonathan Tzachor was going full Sixth Doctor Era and trying to get Power Rangers cancelled. I mean why not? He clearly didn’t care about satisfying the fans or taking advise on improving the show from the cast and writers. He wanted to make Megaforce shot for shot and treated any outside ideas like toxic because I guess he wanted to preserve the original Goseiger and Gokaiger whether they fit together or not. I feel so bad for the cast and writers. They deserved better.

I have had the opportunity to ask Jason David Frank, Austin St. John, Johnny Yong Bosch, and Amy jo johnson about the “team up” JDF said there were lots of issues but Saban basically asked him as a favor to do it and also not to talk about it anymore. Johnny said he was invited but he was busy with voice work and declined Amy was also busy with other projects she did say she was invited and basically uninvited in the course of two phone calls Austin claims he wasn’t even asked, although he didn’t say it directly he very likely still had beef with saban and likely would not have gone anyways because his and JDF’s beef. They had a panel at a 2019 con with multiple yellow rangers including zero, time force and light sped but the hosts nixed super mega force questions due to “legal reasons”

22:24 I love this part so much, he goes crazy at this scene for this not making any sense for a final time, he goes crazy by laughing, grabbing his gun, and then shooting the gun while laughing insanely 😂😂😂. Also I watched this five part Super Megaforce review because this was when I started becoming a fan of Power Rangers, plus Megaforce and Super Megaforce are my favorite seasons of Power Rangers History.

When you realize the finale of Megaforce is basically a crappy version of Endgame's climax that came out years before Endgame.

It's sad when fan edited videos of the legendary battle has more fanfare, a better payoff, and better editing then the official release

The way you ended this episode had more emotional impact than the way this series ended.

Gotta love all the shots of the other older rangers standing completely motionless before the legendary battle begins. Remember all those times in RPM when Ziggy stood still and didn't do anything? Classic Ziggy.

I'm gonna say this, Overdrive is definitely better, Overdrive has the Mack moment which is better than possibly every scene in megaforce

Who else is waiting for the longest time for the iconic Linkara breakdown to make its glorious return to the channel 22:03

If I had a dollar for every video he’s had to re-upload, I could donate it to his patreon and get him to review Kamen Rider Dragon Knight and then THAT would get taken down and re-uploaded

“He has devolved into saying only a single word” - err... noise.

The true main villain of Megaforce isn't Malchor, or Vrak, or Vekar or Mavro. It's actually Jonathan Tzachor.

That frame of Jake works perfectly for responding to the stupidity present in this series.

22:15 probably one of the most iconic moments of the HoPR series right here. At least it's my personal favorite.

Fun fact:the tensu gets lost episode was apparently the last episode that was made before airing

Imagine if this happened when the Legendary Rangers arrive Tommy : We're here to fix your mess Dino Charge Rangers: We have Zords Ninja Steel: So do we, And at least our team up was something Beast Morphers: Tech is Awesome!

You are definitely right lots of Disney / New Zealand power ranger actors really were available I spoke to Anna Hutchinson who played Lily from power rangers jungle fury at New York City comic Con 2019. And she said if they would have reached out to her back in 2014 she would have appeared. And on another occasion I got to interview firass dirani who played Nick from mystic Force and he loved his time on the show and he told me he was upset they that they never reached out to him. So to make a long story short even Disney /New Zealand actors we're very upset that they never got an invitation to appear in Megaforce or even the legendary battle

Seriously, trying to take two Senati series with such MASSIVELY different themes and merging them together WITH a 20th anniversary special was a disaster. Notable is how Ciara Hanna said they pushed smarter stories and the producers openly told "who cares, the audience is five years old." She clearly liked being a Ranger, just not this series.

It probably goes without saying, but Damaras gets a better showing in Gokaiger - and the fight with him lasts 2 episodes there so like that helped. And yes, he's still called Damaras in Gokaiger. Frankly, the name works in English so yeah, keep it.

So in the end, I feel Megaforce can be summed up as such. An awfully executed anniversary season that, instead of paying homage to all that came before it and showing that this new team could stand alongside every team that came before, it just spewed out senseless fan service without understanding why the fans loved the show, while doing little if anything to improve upon what makes Power Rangers such a fun, unique and awesome universe. Its a sad thing to see, but at least it did not kill Power Rangers as a whole, a fact I am so thankful for.

"The past rangers believe in us or they wouldn't have entrusted their powers onto us." That line doesn't even make sense. In Gokaiger, the other teams lost their powers to fend off an earlier invasion and said powers turned into the ranger keys the Gokaigers used. The other teams tested the Gokaigers to see if they were worthy and when they were, they decided to trust the pirates. Here, not only have a good chunk of those teams NOT lost their powers, but outside of a couple rangers, none of them have even met the Megaforce rangers before the legendary battle! They are fabricating a storyline that doesn't even exist!

I laughed so darn hard when Roboknight came back out of nowhere.

18:03 in Gokaiger, Mavro’s equivalent in that show, Emperor Akudos Gil, might be one of the most THREATENING antagonists in all of Super Sentai! Or at least for me he is. He didn’t show up until the last 12 episodes but you can easily believe that this guy commanded the most powerful empire in the universe. On top of also taking a good 5-7 minutes to actually be killed, despite his forces, the Zangyack Empire, probably still having a lot of equipment to probably come back and finish the Gokaigers off, they apparently didn’t know what to do without Akudos and almost fell apart within a year. That’s an impact people!

I forgot to mention, I find it kind of funny the inversion of team members between Gokaiger and Super Megaforce. In Gokaiger, the main team is all human aliens while Gokai Silver is an Earthling. In Super Megaforce, the main team is all Earthlings with the Silver Ranger being a human alien.

I love your rant. In a fanfiction somebody assumed that the Morphing Grid couldn't handle all the powers active at the same time for a longer period. He wrote a whole story around that idea in which he basically said that the Morphing Grid could only handle the reactivation of the Entire Power rangers period for a short time. He thinks it is a few hours time of the power and the Legendary Rangers didn't want to morph to assist to prevent the death of the Morphing Grid. How they did the massive "Tommy"-thing with like 5 different active powers for this battle is anyone guess, maybe Time Force or SPD (which did have memory wipe technology) assisted in this aspect?

Seriously, even Samurai, despite having its problems, had a decent finale. I actually felt the anguish of the Rangers failing to seal away Master Xandred, and they even came together to form a battle plan, and the battle plan ended up WORKING. You have Xandred completely decimating the Megazord, and the Rangers resorting to the nuclear option that could easily kill them just so they could save the world. Like Linkara just said, why care about something if it's not being treated like it's a major situation. Plus, at least each new zord had its own episode rather than it randomly appearing out of nowhere. Like, Kevin nearly died from heat stroke trying to obtain a Swordfish.

I HATED the Legendary Battle. I mean...most of the shots of the other Rangers are SO brief, like blink and you'll miss them, and they only use like four shots total from the Sentai out of like, 40. Because of a Sentai ranger in the background of said shots? Didn't stop them from using the giant group shot of them running...or any teams in the show itself. They just kept cutting back to the Megaforce rangers like....guys, we've put up with you the whole show, we don't want you, we want them.

It still amazes me how much they blew every single thing Super Sentai did to handle them stuff in a silver plate for references, story beats and cameos They really should have just Goseiger or Gokaiger but not both

The passion for Spandex is strong on this one. Awesome review there Linkara, glad to rewatch it

14:20 I'd laugh at how ridiculous that is but since it's Carter he probably could pull it off.

You know what I think would make this a little bit better? When everything falls to shit, when Troy does his friendship speech, the others actually reject it, having lost hope

It's like Hasbro and Saban wants us to forget Megaforce exists

Okay so...I think I might've come up with a fix-it idea for Super Megaforce. I don't know how many people will read this but here we go: Instead of Troy being a human, he's an Andresian warrior and the reason he's so emotionless and wooden is because he was taught to suppress his emotions during battle so that he'd have no distractions. He had been sent out on a space mission by his father to fight off a group of space pirates who had stolen "powerful Andresian artifacts". These artifacts are going to be sold to the evil Armada if Troy doesn't get them back. Andresia and the Armada have been in a small war with each other for a while now over these artifacts. These artifacts turn out to be the Gosei morphers, the cards, and the Ranger keys. Troy's travel ship gets destroyed and he's forced to steal the space pirates' ship because it's now being hunted down by the Armada. The space pirates' ship is also pretty damaged so Troy has to go to the closest planet there is so he can make repairs on it. What's the closest planet? Earth. He manages to barely outrun the Armada and make it back to Earth where he crash lands in Stone Canyon. Noah, a huge nerd who is obsessed with space, science and UFOs, goes out to look at the crash zone. He's joined by Gia, a tough and courageous girl who is like a big sister to Noah. They're also joined by Jake, the resident jokey guy. They make it out to the crash zone and find the ship which Troy stumbles out of. They try to help him but he bluntly turns them away and tells them to leave. Noah does a little snooping though and looks around the crashed ship, marveling at its alien technology. Jake jokingly interrogates him but Troy takes it the wrong way and nearly attacks him but Gia defends Jake. As this is going on, Emma (a nature loving vegetarian girl) is studying some butterflies when she sees the smoke from the crash. She rides on her bike to investigate it and finds everybody else. Gia finally asks Troy what's going on and Troy explains that the Armada is looking for the artifacts that they have. Gia says that Troy can't take on the Armada alone but Troy insists that he can. Noah asks if the Armada knows he came to Earth and Troy says that he doesn't think they do...but that's when an alarm on the ship starts to go off. The Armada has entered the Earth's atmosphere looking for the artifacts. Prince Vekar sends a message to the pirate ship's screens, warning Troy that they've found him and that they'll destroy Earth if they need to in order to get the artifacts. Troy sighs and recruits the four teens into becoming the new Power Rangers. Is this idea perfect? No but I honestly think it's a lot better than what we got. It would give Troy an actual arc and the other characters would have arcs too

abit late on this, but I think Karone's bit about loving being a power ranger was a call back to how during in space she swore she would never bceome a ranger, but during lost galaxy she did and now enjoys it.

I honestly wish they could've gotten Jason David Frank for an episode where Tommy talks about the various teams he was on (Mighty Morphin, Zeo, Maybe Turbo, & Dino Thunder) to take out multiple birds with one stone. Going from someone initially under the control of Rita. To eventually leading his own team of rangers. Whom he's proud to know fought on without their powers. Just like him (And with the Morphin Master retcons in Dino Fury. I wish they said that Gosei is an old friend of theirs who briefely woke up to restore the powers of the Mystic Force Rangers. And helped the Sentinel Knight pull in Bridge from the future. Regardless of the chance that things like the paradox shown in Once & Always with the forming of SPA)

Now to see how long the video stays up this time.

I just want to make a point I think is only maybe my reading about it but I think is still valid. I think Gia is smarter than she appears to be. There’s a few moments especially in their first season, where she seems to recognize complex scientific concepts but intentionally holds back any information that might make her appear smart. This is a trope but I thought Ciera did it well. It’s just never followed up on in the second season which is why you likely didn’t mention it.

Yeah my head canon is the kid did it the invasion had nothing to do with it. Stole the family car then drove it off a bridge only to be saved by tommy. Also miss the combine harvester music when you freaked out.

I'm sorry you're fighting a crazier battle than these Rangers did in keeping these up Love this analysis of Power Rangers You're awesome

The main thing that always bugged me is that they NEVER explain why the “super mega mode” is pirate themed

This is like the Power Rangers equivalent of the flow of Secret Empire's story. " Yay! Good thing happened we feel good now! Aw, bad thing happened! we feel bad now! Yay! Good thing happened! We feel good again!"

Oh, I wasn't expecting this one to be reuploaded, since part 5 was the only part still upon KZfaq, but I gotta admit I like this version a bit more since you included other series finale clips in the scene where you explain why this has been much better before. Although, I personally would have included more than just Time Force and Wild Force, for base destruction I would have shown the Aquabase being overrun by Batlings, because I thought that was cool, and for overwhelming numbers of footsoldiers I would have used Lost Galaxy's Journey's End with the Stingwingers overwhelming the Strataforce and Centoruous Megazords, but that's just me. Also, there was a way this finale could have worked at least a bit. Now for this I had to rewrite a lot of other stuff from Megaforce, but I'll only briefly explain what's necessary t know before I explain how I reworked the three-part finale. First, while the Rangers kept their regular Megaforce Powers they lost their Zords by sacrificing them to stop Malcore in episode 18. Second, the only Senti team they turn into is DaiRanger, and that's only because in my version I would have them be the Rangers of Orion's home planet that fell to the Armada when they invaded, thus to build up the Armada as at least a bit of a threat, and still allow us to use the Senti footage of the White Mighty Morphin Ranger fighting with DaiRanger suits, and have Orion actually comment on how it's like he's fighting with his heroes from his home planet. Three, I limited some of the upgrades they got with the Zords, they still got the Delta Runner, the Red Lion, and the Jungle Fury move, because I actually thought if those three episodes were reworked they could have been actually good or decent. They also still got the Turbo Falcon so they could form the Ultra Zord to destroy Vekar. They also still got the Ninja Zord, but not as a powerup from the Ninja Storm Powers, they got it from Ninjor. You see, in Gokaiger, the Gokaiger Rangers actually teamed up with the Senti counterpart of Ninjor, so they have footage of him fighting with the Rangers in the Alien Ranger mode. Thus, if they chose to use that stuff, we could have seen Ninjor again, learn what he's been up to, and he could have given them the Ninja Zord by showing their heart and determination to fight for what's right like the original rangers did. Ninjor would then stick around to help Tensu with a special project, to help restore the powers to Rangers that permanently lost them to help in the fight, thus we wouldn't see Ninjor again until the Finale as he would be off-screen doing this. Lastly, Robo Knight was not completely destroyed in Vrak is back, part of him survived and made it back with Orion with Tensu working on rebuilding him, thus keeping him busy for the Finale too. Now we can begin the three-part Finale: Part 1: Mavro arrives pissed about his son's deaths, locks both Demours and Levira up for their failures, and decides not to waste any time, planning to summon all the Armada ships to Earth to finally wipe it out, but he needs time for this, so he sends down the Yellow monster that was with him when he arrived but then was never seen again in Megaforce to do just that. The Rangers fight him, he grows, they blow him up, but he laughs as he explodes revealing the entire Armada arriving. The Rangers point out how Vekar's forces they've been fighting this entire time were only about 1000 ships or so strong, while this fleet is easily anywhere between 10000 to 20000. The Rangers put up a good fight and take some ships down, but they don't seemingly destroy the entire fleet, the entire fleet is there from the start and simply overwhelms them, destroying the Zords. Part 2: Past Rangers arrive and actively help people a lot more and actually fight some of X-Borgs left to guard the people before the Armada returns tomorrow, seeing the past Rangers in action inspires the Megaforce team to keep going and even some regular people help fight off some X-Borgs, before getting helped to safety. The Megaforce team fights the Red guy and the Armada ground forces before Troy and Orion do what they did in the actual episode, with the episode ending with Mavor revealing he survived the crash of his ship and gets ready to fight the Rangers. Part 3: The fight with Mavro goes the same as in the actual episode, up until Mmarvo blasts them and instead of going into Battlizers, they just demorph. But the Rangers get back up to fight, only to be blasted back more, as all the surviving X-Borgs, Bruisers, and Kings Men arrive, being led by Damours and Levira who also survived the crash and want a chance to redeem themselves to Mavro. So now the 6 Rangers face, Mavro, two monsters, and an army of footsoldiers, and Mavro has already demonstrated why he's so strong, so the situation is dire. Then the Rangers from earlier show up with all the other past Rangers already morphed. Then even Ninjor and a rebuilt Robo Knigth arrive, with Ninjor explaining how they restored the powers of teams that permanently lost there. Then the big finale battle begins a mixture of Senti footage and new footage, Ninor's would be Senti for cost-saving, a few different Rangers would team up to fight Demours, Levira, and Mavro, and we'd get some cool original scenes, like a Lost Galaxy ranger passing a Quasar Saber to another Ranger who uses a sword or melee weapon of some kind(like Cruger from SPD or Ryan from Lightspeed Rescue) for a double strike to take down Demours or Levira, Tommy would lend his shield to another Ranger from another team, like that Instagram picture of Mike wearing the Dragon shield, and the ranger in question would block an attack from Mavro with the shield before counter-attacking, the Phantom Ranger would even show up indirectly as a way to save money but still honor him: We'd have TJ and Cassy surrounded by X-Borgs, but before they close in they get taken out by some invisible force, with Cassy noting it must the Phantom Ranger so they can have him their without needing to actually show him if they don't have the suit, thus saving money and still honroing the past somewhat. After Demours and Levira are destroyed, the reaming footsoldiers and Mavro would be pushed back, and using stock footage of all the Rangers Team that use combined weapon finishers, would be destroyed. The End. That would have been a far better Legendary Battle than what we actually got.

God damn! That’s 3 reuploads in less than 48 hours!

20:00 I think it's absolutely hilarious that the one Lightspeed morph they did was Lightspeed Blue, and yet they didn't take the opportunity to use the Blue Mega Battler form, nor did they put Orion in the Quantum Ranger's Battlizer form. I mean yeah, limited by sentai footage and it probably would've been more difficult to remake those costumes by scratch since they were from the Post-Zordon era and were likely sold or disposed of, but considering the weird amount of effort they've put into other scenes, I don't think it would've been impossible for them to pull it off. Then again I guess I shouldn't expect any actual effort for anything to make sense at this point.

That episode which Noah didn't get the humor from that episode, Linkara, you and Noah are not the only ones that didn't laugh at those stupids jokes.

Every Reupload of History of Power Rangers gives me a reaso to rewatch them all

Actually Linkara: the fight in the Sentai was with the keys who's powers they had just acquired: Sun Vulcan, Fiveman, Flashman, Changeman and Maskamn which were the last ultimate powers they needed to unlock "THE ULTIMATE TREASURE IN THE UNIVERSE" which turned out to be a giant triforce

So, I'm just gonna drop my dumbass pitch for what they could have done with Megaforce that I think could have been kinda cool. What if the Megaforce/Super Megaforce powers... were actually the Zeo Powers? (No I swear I'm serious) It's one of the few sets of powers that are still around and you could say that after the Zeo Rangers gave up the Zeo powers for the Turbo powers, Zordon sent the Zeo sub-crystal out and those powers, connected to the morphing grid, developed and adapted the powers of other rangers across time and space. The Zeo Powers are supposed to be constantly improving and getting better and without rangers tied to them (except for Tommy in Forever Red, but you could explain that as just "the original sub crystals" while the Megaforce/Zeo 2 Powers are the original crystal) the powers get stronger and stronger. So set the series in Angel Grove and instead of Gosei and Mr. Burley, have Billy be the mentor/school teacher for the rangers. He is monitoring an alien invasion from the Morphing Grid cave and so decides to make a team of Rangers using the Zeo Crystal. Eventually, their bodies have gotten used to the Zeo 2 powers that they can access more parts of the Morphing Grid, which becomes the "Legendary Ranger Powers". I dunno, I think that bringing back and answering the question of "Whatever happened to the Zeo Powers?" Could have made for a cool concept for an anniversary series, especially with how large scale the threat is and how powerful the rangers are supposed to get by the end of the series.

21:13 I'm just headcanoning it so that this is the first appearance of the Master Morpher.

I don't know why but when linkara psychoticly laugh you just want to laugh as maybe it has something to do with the fact it's halerios how he and critic gets mad and somehow you just want to laugh wait did linkara become the joker?

Man the fact that he still has to be tweaking the existing videos makes me so sad, even though I've seen everything I want the rest ;-; I guess all of us just gotta keep watching his other stuff while we wait...

Really is a shame they had to waste so much potential with this season. Megaforce really fell back into what things were like during MMPR, but without the charm and effort put into it. Flaws, goofiness, and the like are easy for me to get past if I see effort, something magical and fun. Megaforce just couldn't do it as a whole. Sure, an episode or two, but not enough to save it.

So here's an idea for fixing Megaforce story. Let's say the Armada attacks in full force right from the start causing mass destruction and all sorts. This awakens Gosay and makes him call the rangers to action to fight them off, and of course they hesitate unsure if they can do anything, but Gosay shows them people in danger and while some decide to fight the others run away and hide because they're scared, for a time the ones who chose to stand and fight do well but soon are overwhelemed by sheer numbers, they try to moroph but unless all morphers are unlocked and active they can't. Seeing the others get beaten up and blown away the ones who ran away and join the fight helping out best they can, then all at once they morph and do better against the armada. Soon a general type appears doing the big speech of who he is and what the armada will do, they fight and repell him. The rangers try taking out a few ships but it's no use, there's too many and they don't have the power to combat it and retreat to the command center. They ask Gosay if there's anything to stop the armada, he tells them of the zords and other powers, but most of the power is sealed and will only unlock when it is needed. Not being satifised with this answer one of the rangers runs out and trys to be a one man army only to get his ass kicked, seeing them in danger the others rush to his said to help, but of course they're outgunned by the ships blasting them, but they stand their ground and this awakens the zords and at first they fight seperatly doing well and force a retreat for now. Next time a single monster is sent with the foot soldiers and causes trouble, they fight and beat it, but then he grows big. They call the zords fight it but the zords aren't effective and they start wrking together with coorginated attacks and it does do damage it's not enough so they get blasted back, they don't give up and become able to combine the zords into one to make the megazord. They fight and win forcing the bad guys to rethink their plans of attack. next few episodes have a side plot of working to make a barrier to keep the armada out, and they get it working, but the bad guys can get a hand full of small forces through the shield but it takes a lot of energy to even get that through, and this can be why the armada doesn't attack much. From here there can be lessions and them earing the powers and meeting roboknight with him being all "I work alone, or I do not work with filthy humans" or other stuff to have him not work with them, maybe have a scene of him hijacking the megazord to use himself or force combine it with his. And later they become friends. Season final can be the big bad himself coming in to fight, and Robo knight will sacrifice himself with the megazord to protect everyone, for Super Megaforce say this a evolution of their powers but save the megazord attack the armada for the last episode and the reason could be the barrier get's broken by the big bad emperror who just slaps it like it was wet paper. They attack the armada trashing the ships and the such, but the emerror lives so they have to put all their power into the final attack which costs them the super mega power leaving them with just their normal powers but no zords to back them up, then have the other teams show up and help, just fix up some scenes, one being not showing Karone as Astonema since the little kids won't know who she is. Then the reason for the big glow at the end is a final Power Ranger legendary attack that destorys the last of the army, the glow can be the morphin grid sending them home, all going back to where they originally came from while others get sent back into the city to help. And that's how it ends with them being worn out from all the fighting, parting aways but remaning friends and power rangers at heart.

The fan made edit of the final battle is way better looking

I think the reason this season did so much damage was because this one was the big one, like never again will PR be dealt a great anniversary sentai that mostly tried to pander to americans with awesome PR fanservice, thats why the franchise has been in damage control ever since, with all the anniversary focus in ninja steel and the legacy stuff in beast morphers, but the damage's been done

So as a Sentai fan I love the Japanese version of "Legendary Battle" because it doesn't happen at the end of the series IT HAPPENS AT THE START!! The rangers basically leaving Earth at the end like that was actually the combined might of every sentai blasting the Armada away and then their powers become the Ranger keys because the Sentai lose them. Which makes a lot more sense to me than they just vanish into light...

Can you imagine if Andros had spent a total of 1 episode looking for his sister, never mentioned her again, then in the finale he was like “oh my God, Astronema is my sister!” That’s how Roboknight’s inclusion in the finale here feels

I remember being impressed in your overview of RPM, how you reported that the writers/directors of the show had to jump through hurdle after hurdle, minimizing zord footage, capitalizing on settings/filming locations, and basically creating a whole new team of rangers divorced from the sentai, all to create a show that had a completely different story/vibe from the original sentai. In an era of power rangers when the people above were telling them to "just dub the sentai." When I look at this show, I basically see the opposite. they got 10 returning actors from the original shows. They COULD have rewritten the show to work with the actors they got back, i.e. more or less putting in the same effort as RPM: minimizing zord footage that didn't work for the show, re-watching episodes of the shows they're paying tribute to so they can explore the same ethos for the episode, but no. It's like you said, "burn through as much sentai footage/plot as possible," most of which had nothing to do with the returning actors they got, throw in the majority of the returning actors completely haphazardly at the end, and hope to god it works out. Like seriously, how is there no tribute episode with Tommy? A Time Force Episode? or an In Space Episode? You got actors back from some of the highest points in the franchise, and you didn't do jack with any of them!

Can’t tell compelling story in only 20 episodes? Laughs in WandaVision

The Legendary War took place between Goseiger and Gokaiger, the lights of the Rangers going up into the sky was all the previous teams giving up their powers to stop the invasion. And they did the 5 in the movie because I guess they couldn't fit them into the show.

To play the Devil's advocate for a second: I interpreted Noah's "Real ones!" as him being in awe that the "Legendary Rangers" are there themselves - that it's not just the Megaforce team transforming into them

I saw the extended one before I saw the episode and I did not know that Orion was a ranger.

25:36 - Only noticed this now but it's funny to hear Linkara talking about the problems with Megaforce during that screenshot of an injured Troy lying on a rock.

i literally just watched this episode yesterday and it got taken down. I commend Lewis immensely for still fighting the fuckin bots to try and keep this up.

The "spirits of old ranger" for the legendary "war" would also be a good explanation for Roboinight.

At 32:56 ...Exactly... Saban should have invited the Disney Rangers that are NZ/austrailan actors as guest stars in tribute episodes and get rid of Pre-Zyu Sentai Footage and respect the PR mythology... It would have saved money but...nooooo!!!! Jon Tzachor ignored it declaring non-canon... UGH!!! Here are my list of Disney Guest Stars in tribute episode SPD tribute - Boom or Cmdr Kruger RPM tribute - Ziggy or Dr. K Ninja Storm tribute - Shane/Dustin/Tori Wild Force tribute - Cole (Jeez. Rick Medina was in Samurai as Dekar. Why cant he return at least one episode) Mystic Force tribute - Charlie or Xander Dino Thunder tribute - Kira or Connor That what have should have been... Super Megaforce would have been decent...

Your speech is 10 times way better and more emotional than both seasons of megaforce combined

That moment when you see HOPR reuploaded in in your subscription box

Much like Lauren from Samurai, I'm glad that Gia and her actress have gotten more acknowledgment from the fans after the season

Thinking about it: Overdrive and Megaforce both are anniversary seasons (Which apparently PR seems to flub the landing with a lot...) but they both took different approaches to it: Overdrive had higher ups that did care but poor writing ended up with the tent catching fire and things going to hell despite good intentions...while with Megaforce's higher ups didn't care, and just kicked the gasoline but didn't care to light a match and just watched it. I can't tell what would be worse to watch though: A series that clearly did care but crapped the landing, or a series that...didn't. And had mostly just fight scenes.

I was woundering if would keep the freak-out when Roboknight reaper out of nowhere XD

22:20 This reaction needs to spliced together with that scene from Batman Returns. The one where Penguin loses remote control of the Batmobile, and screams in the monitor.

This is the biggest problem when you rely so heavily on Sentai footage and/or plot but don't take the time to explain why. Lewis makes a great point questioning where all the other Rangers are during this whole invasion. Within this series' context, there's no reason reason given. In the source Sentai, Gokaiger, it's explained at the beginning. See, in that series, there were 2 "Legendary Wars". Prior to the start of the series was an initial invasion of Earth from the villains. Somehow, every Super Sentai member was there (I say somehow since more than handful were canonically dead) to fight them off. In the end, they unleashed the full force of their Ranger powers to destroy the bulk of the invading fleet and drive back the remnants. The result was losing the ability to morph, and the powers ended up drifting through space, manifesting eventually into the Ranger Keys. That is why there are no other Ranger teams helping during the invasion.

How many "most powerful/skilled/whatever warrior in the universe"'s have the power rangers defeated now?

What will always bother me about this season is that there’s so much footage from Gokaiger that they can use. There’s a completely awesome Megazord battle from the crossover movie that they could use for the final episode.

22:30 it's like history started collapsing in on itself, he went full..gulp...Critic.

The Legendary Battle, the thing that was getting hyped to be the Finale of the show, and in Gokaiger was an emotional and awesome moment of all the heroes of Earth uniting to save their world with the theme song of Tensou Sentai Goseiger with none of the characters speaking to convey the mood of the battle with all of the Teams uniting their powers to save the world. In Megaforce it's ridiculously short with the Megaforce rangers talking making it lame with no emotional impact or weight. At all. Along with the end was just the current team shooting all of them with the finisher weapon,as if the Megaforce team was the only one that mattered with none of the other teams doing anything important.

I don’t remember the exact quote but Johnathon Tzachor, or SOMEONE at Saban (probably Tzachor), is on record for saying that kids don’t care about story and just want to see action or something along those lines. A, kids don’t stay kids forever. They grow up and realize how stupid some of the stuff they watched is (emphasis on SOME). And B, kids aren’t that narrow minded and stupid. They’re learning stuff left and right, granted they’re in a healthy environment. Also, if this is supposed to be an anniversary season, then show some respect to the adult fans grew up with the series! This was a Nickelodeon show by the way. Imagine if we got the guys who wrote Avatar to write this series! Those guys know how to respect both kids and adults!

So i looked up Goseiger and that show had 3-4 villain factions so the fact they thought it was a good idea to somehow squish all those into 20 episodes is rather insulting. Idk if the villain factions in Goseiger were any better than their Megaforce counter parts, save for Vrak, but it truly is baffling to use Gokaiger for the second season.

That thank you was more emotion than troy showed all season

I forgot about every single one of the Megaforce rangers because of their lack of character development and the fact that they all resemble the Samurai rangers

22:33 well, it happened, Linkara lost his mind. I knew the continuity errors would be the end of him.

I still love how the Robo Knight revival is treated as seriously as Spoony's Ultima 9 bit with Dupre.