It was super subtle. And people were losing there shit over something that was barely there. I prefer gay themes to be shoved down my throat

So to speak.

Marley Gilliam I wouldn't mind it literally either jk

The entire film was so subtle it kept making me forget I'd paid to see a power rangers film. It was most disappointing

Who said anything about a metaphor? _Kneel before me mortals!_

Redem10 Rewatch the actual scene where Rita escapes the dumpster. She actually calls for a "coming out party"

Originally, a 'coming out party' was an event in wealthy society (typically in the Southern US) where young, unwed daughters were presented to their peers in society. (Largely as a way of saying, "hey, my daughter is of marriagable age now, whoooo wants to take her off my hands!?") It's one of those things that got co-opted into queer society and then the original meaning largely went away.

If your a homophobe maybe...

superkeaton well her and Zedd did do the nasty since they did have a kid XD

LOL. "Magic wand, make my monster grow!" LOL! That is great. I obviously didn't pick up on that as a 9 year old. But now...OMG...LOL! :D

Boyfriend goals? I don't get it.

@@power-jz1qp the show featured some very attractive young men... some of them saving the world while dealing with school and life. That's a possible ideal boyfriend.

Dude, you would LOVE the new Uchu Sentai Kyuurangers. It's campy and bonkers as hell and I love every bit of it!

Lol

Hex Reviews I'm pretty sure there making 7 more of them 😂😂😂

Cole.Finnegan I know they have a seven part story planned but Lionsgate has yet to green light any sequels and the speculation has been that they won't because of middling box office numbers both domestic and international.

I also think the movie had a charm of its own. It was messy and cheesy as fuck, but i really enjoyed myself and the characters! I'd love a sequel too

I found the movie terrible, but I also want a sequal if they take the writing serious this time, cause it has potential.

Same! Me too! I always enjoyed that.

Well I want more lesbian characters out there so I can relate to them. And plus there are a lot of straight women out there who get off on gay guys so either way, fan service. Although they could have just made both characters gay or bi.

Expect if that was their reasoning, they didn't appeal to those people either. They probably didn't notice. As for Billy, being gay and autistic would be too much for one person in a two hour film that is supposed to focus on a group as a whole. Just my opinion

I think it would be like how the Star Trek reboot movies made Sulu gay as a tribute to George Takei: well-meaning, but completely misguided. Making Billy autistic fits since a lot of his behavior fits, but I can't really recall any indication that the character was gay. (At most he would be asexual.) And like slashandbones said, making him both gay AND autistic would be too much for the movie to juggle. Also I think Hollywood needs to focus on making new gay characters instead of retroactively making old ones gay, but that's just me.

Yeah, Billy had a lot going on already and was easily the heart of the film. Trini needed something to connect her to the audience because she had practically nothing otherwise.

david was gay not Billy. Billy was just the smart one.

This film deserves sequels. And a girlfriend for Trini.

Nah it was mediocre.

What are you talking about? She's got one already! #TriniXKimmi4Ever

Trini and Kim definitely have chemistry (that café scene anyone?), I know there's only about a .05% chance it'll happen, but I'd love for them to include some romance between them in the future.

Emissary of Wind right?!

Emissary of Wind Sad that Trini's actress died.

I will say that I feel like each movie will focus on two to three of the rangers as the remake focused on billy and Jason and I find it hard for them not to make her full gay in the next movie

@@Yveshecox2002 i hate to break it to you bud but every piece of art has an agenda. every. single. one.

I so wanted them to kiss in Time Force!

I'm praying to the universe that we get a female Tommy in the sequel, and Tommy tries to seduce Trini instead of Kimberly like in the original Green With Evil arc.

I would agree, except Tommy/Kimberly was my first ship, and when I ship, I ship so hard. So when it comes up, it still bums me out a little that they broke up, and I'm hoping the movies will ret-con that.

Marley Gilliam I think that it's heading in a Kim/Jason as per the first movie BUT if we get female Tommy (which I wouldn't mind, heck, the original Green Ranger in Japan was the Red Ranger's brother and the Yellow Ranger was male, so it's not like this franchise doesn't have a history of making changes in iterations) it could go Tommy/Trini :)

Giovanni A as one of the older people who grew up with the show (my gods, it's been years), I also love the Mighty Morphin' Kimberly/Tommy, one of my first OTPs even. However, since the Power Rangers franchise is all about changing characters and gender bending and changing backstories and all that, I can appreciate that this new movie series is an Alternate Universe (just like classic MMPR is an Alternate Universe version of Zyuuranger without the time traveling rangers ;) ) So I don't mind not getting Tommy/Kimberly because they're different people. Heck, this new Kim made me think of Buffy more than anything (the looks, the fashion style, the mean girl who changes into a good person storyline, even the way she speaks...), so I see them as different characters. Trini is also different from the zen Trini Kwan. So it all works for me. So far, I'm really liking this new iteration while still loving the old one :)

I loved her. She was definitely a lesbian

I was watching the twitch marathon and was like "Wow Tommy and Jason really cares about each other more than do Kimberley" who herself had one episode where she seemed really into the friend of the week

Jayden and Antonio were hella gay

boy, so do i.

I'm determined that Wes and Eric were two bisexual guys in a relationship that had a bad breakup in their backstory. The subtext is too strong for them.

Joey Allen Good question. I'm not too entirely sure how to answer that myself. I guess female diva popstars are able to be flamboyant and sex positive rather than male popstars.

If he did make an episode about it, I must have missed it. So because both women and gay males were oppressed, they've shared a link that made gay males look up to straight campy women? Am I getting that right?

I guess that makes more sense. I just wish that there were actual studies that I can read, also for google to stop failing me.

maybe because masculinity is toxic in general lol

The straight male identity is one that gay men often come into conflict with, being as there's a significant social pressure to be straight (or at least straight acting) and gay men generally have to assert their own identity independent of that. That often makes it hard to look up to straight men as role models. As for gay men... there *were* no gay men in media when I was growing up in the 90s, up to the mid 2000s. We had Will and Jack from Will and Grace, but that was basically it - that, or a long line of villains (evil) or gay best friends (secondary). So gay culture grew up around powerful, rebellious women, because doing what you want to do in the face of societal pressure to conform to expectations is a powerfully resonant message to a lot of gay men. So we learned to venerate fabulous women. I don't know if this will necessarily continue, since these days, it's reasonably easy to find out gay celebrities and public figures. I don't have to sublimate my desire to see myself represented in media with female divas - there are more than enough gay men, if you know where to look. So I'm curious if diva culture will die out.

+MisfitSlacker I do, but even with that, it still felt a little bit vague to me (and I only cut there because the clip was getting kinda long and I wanted to stay within fair use)

+Holy Guava Matt Baume did a great video a while back that you might find interesting: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/frpyq6un07i7pKc.html This stuff gets complicated, though. I do know that there have been a number of criticisms of drag culture as it relates to trans women. I dunno if that's the sort of thing you had in mind?

rantasmo thank you!

Actually, I think there was a Jewish Ranger on SPD (Bridge I think) based on a one-off line where he declared that it would Hanukkah come early in relations to a new bike.

Levitz, bridge from spd was jewish.

Levitz9 I forgot which series it was, but I remember there was a blind power ranger,who was very reminiscent of Dare Devil.