I enjoyed it RIP to Jason David Frank and Thuy Trang we miss you guys 💛💛💚💚🙏🙏

It was a good mix of nostalgia and New elements. I hope future Power Rangers shows take cues from the comics. Rest in peace JDF

Today the final season of PR released. Looking forward to your review. Me for one, haven't been so shocked by a PR season since RPM.

Pretty much covered my feelings. Just wish it had more budget and could have been a mini series.

It was a beautiful tribute episode for Thuy Trang.

This moment alone gave me feels...Down the road, we never know What life may have in store Winds of change will rearrange Our lives more than before... But you'll never stand alone, my friend Memories will never die In our hearts, they'll always live And never say... goodbye...

I really liked the speical, the only thing that was missing was Jen or(Carter) coming back and saying that vengance is not a virtue of a power ranger.

I hope it doesn't become a habit. Ranger shows are already too latched onto the past enough as it is.

The rewatch value on this is crazy high, at least in my opossum 🥰

I pretty much enjoyed the special myself. I would have liked more interaction with the other Rangers. But having it be starring Billy & Zack plus Minh was good enough. And everyone seemed like they were throwing a happy family reunion when putting things together. Creative limitations aside, Once & Always didn’t go above or below my expectations.

I felt like the acting and writing were very poor/cringe, but I still enjoyed it. It's a mixed-positive experience for me

I really only have a couple issues with the special that I noticed on rewatch. David Yost's performance might be a bit too subdued, not so bad as to claim he phoned it in, but definitely not great. The other is that the scenes with Minh trying to morph are really, really cringe.

I like how this anniversary of Power rangers showed Robo rita captured other rangers of Past rangers including Disney era ones like Conner mcknight from Dino thunder and Lunar wolf ranger from Wild force🐺🐺.

Am i the only one who just found Min extremely annoying. Not cause her characters bad. Idk maybe it was the deliervery of the act, her lines or just a personal preference

Didn't love it but I'd love Sequels where SPD gets started. Maybe link Commander Doggie's family attack and JDF giving Grumm a bigger a threat level as he Brainwash SPA❤ .. Agree Robo Rita's return was handled better than Zedd's return

Since we have S.P.A. now and Adam is apart of it. Is he a founder? Since Adam and Bridge we're in the Once a Ranger Special I'm sure they talked. Does that means S.P.A. was started because those 2 met? And since Billy was making tech for S.P.A. and in S.P.D. they said that used tech Ethan had designed does that mean Ethan works for Billy?

I can't be the only one who thought Minh/Charlie looked more like Cassie's daughter than Trini's, right?

My only 2 real complaints were the CGI on the Megazord (not the individual Zords but the Megazord specifically and while I liked the idea of Minh a freakin lot, I found her mildly annoying. Not the actress, just some of the diologue and actions of the character. The 2nd might come down to the fact that I'm in my early 40s now and have developed a disdain for the youth. Those damn kids and their music. 😅 Lol

I never have been able to figure out whether or not the intention here was to bring back the simple charm of the original show or whether that was something that just happened based on the budget and the script. That being said, I agree with a lot of what you talked about here. Your analysis is always incredibly well thought out and generally spot on. I wanted to comment on a couple of other things. It brought me so much joy to see David Yost finally getting what I believed he has been wanting since 1994...a heartfelt, emotional, high stakes Billy episode. If I'm honest, David back in the day was very new and just learning his craft and, to me, wasn't ready to take on too much as an actor. I had some really tough conversations with him back then about the direction of Billy and he made it very clear that he wanted to do more. It ripped my heart out. But it just wasn't his time as an actor. I will always feel bad about not being able to explain that to him more clearly, but you have to do what's right for the show and what your bosses tell you to do. That being said, Mr. Yost has grown by leaps and bounds as an actor and IMHO he gave an emotional, heart warming, real performance that he should be very proud of. I was so happy to see that. He's clearly been working hard and it shows. Bravo, David. It was also nice to see Walter and Kat and all the others back.Such great memories. The whole thing about Thuy was a huge risk. At first I felt like it was kind of inappropriate, but it was handled with great care and respect in the end, and I think it worked really well. I wish they would have spent a little money on the episode as a whole to create some cool VFX and go to some great locations. But that's the thing about Power Rangers I guess, especially if we're trying to bring back the early years. I guess it's appropriate for an anniversary show to look like the show did back in 1994. But, what do I know? I'm not sure what's next for the franchise, but hopefully someone has an idea how to refresh it. Again, IMHO, it could stand a new set of eyes. I'm not sure who's running things since the incredibly sad passing of their amazing CEO, but they need to figure it out if they plan to continue on making new eps. Good luck to them. Truly.

Thank you Disney Brain. Very insightful and open review. You didn’t comment on Rocky or Kat unfortunately. However I know you wanted to focus on your favorite characters. I just wanted to say I really enjoyed Rocky and Kat’s roles in this episode. I know that they’re not everyone’s favorite characters but I’m a huge fan of them and I really liked them in this story. This was a very good review. I actually found your channel while my account was inactive. So I couldn’t leave any comments. I’m going to do my best to catch up on your Power Rangers videos. I hope to leave you more good thoughts over time. This story is indeed amazing. I want to watch it again for sure.

Minh feels like a poor mans Terry McGinnis and the cheesy 90s aspect of the show doesnt help that situation at all.

Billys actor aged well!

I think this special could've been a lot better if it was 10 minutes longer

I expected more from the special TBH, but capturing the Rangers offscreen was a huge WTF for me. This special could have easily been two parts, had other teams in it, developed the time travel angle and had the Rangers interact with their past selves, especially Minh seeing her mom fighting as a Ranger. And what’s up with the morphers now containing the user’s personal memories?

Yeah I can’t lie I wasn’t feeling it with Minh. Her acting just felt like she was trying wayyy too hard compared to everyone else.

I do wish that they would have included JJ Tommy and Kat's son and had him be the green ranger other than that. It was good.

Patiently waiting for Cosmic Fury’s review 🙇🏻‍♀️

Before i start watching this video im gana say i loved this special it was great it had a very great message and granted child avtor wasnt that great. but was justin great? Was turbo still good even with its flaws? Yes it was so ima die on this hill no matter the negatives are. I loved it. It wad great. If you agree good if you dont its ok we have our own oppinions

Did we watch the same special? I agree that there was a lot of potential with some of the concepts, but the execution left me shaking my head. I also don't agree that they handled Trini's character tastefully. I'm glad there seem to be a lot of people who enjoyed it, but I just don't get it myself.

I liked Once & Always because Billy and Zack were given a chance to shine, alongside Minh. However, having Kat and Rocky here is a mixed bag, and the CGI looks gross. Nothing will ever beat Forever Red.

It would have been really cool to see a mystic mother vs robo rita

Couldn't have said it any better :)

I get it’s an anniversary special, but I don’t like Cat and Rocky using Mighty Morphing powers just because. Imo, they should have just used the Zeo Powers

its awful, you guys have really low standards. the fights are terrible and have no weight behind the hits and the acting is worst thing ive seen in a long time. theres no way rita took out most of the team and 2 generic goons capturing the other rangers. how did they struggle so much with those 3 and then be able to overpower them in the last fight. only thing i liked was alphas return everything else is awful. I'll never forgive those flat morph sequences, like you're reprising your role as a ranger show more enthusiasm. 3/10

This special felt like coming home after a long absense and seeing people I didn't realise I'd missed. Like Power Rangers had found it's heart again. It has a tone I wish we could see in the main series. What I mean is the serious moments were allowed to be serious and the sad moments were allowed to be sad without any jokes to undercut them or the directing trying to move on too quickly. It honestly never occurred to me that since the original five weren't there for Zordon's death and had to hear about it after the fact that some of them would struggle with closure and I applaud the special for making me think about it. It gives extra weight to Billy's words at the start when he says Minh needs closure. It's a shame they didn't use the time portal to give us a Zordon cameo or maybe he could have come to her when she almost died and had an out of body experience. I actually thought they were setting that up when Zack said: "You never met him." Speaking of that Trini montage, I feel like it would've been more impactful, at least to me, if they had ended on the clip from "Food Fight" where Trini says: "Hey Rita, you'll have to try harder than that if you want to beat us!" At first, I thought Aisha and Adam were responsible for bringing Doggie Crugar to Earth but he's been here since the SPD ranger were kids so I don't know what they were doing near Sirius. I suppose they could be responsible for ferrying refugees from all the places the Trubian Empire has conquered and that why there's so many aliens on Earth in 2025.

i wish it was longer.

Just watched it. Is it good? No. It is not. It is bland. It never reaches honest emotions. The CGI is unnecessary, they shouldve used practical effects for the zords at least. I dont understand how it turned out so bland. They could have just looked at what worked in Forever Red and go from there. For a better product, go watch Countdown to Destruction and Forever Red. I rewatched them right after the anniversary special and it truly shows how much the previous writers cared about how the scripts come before manofactured nostalgia.

Im sorry i HATED Minh. Maybe that comparison with Korra helped cement why

,Minh successfully made me furious before saving Billy through out the whole thing but by the end I found her quite entertaining

The thing that makes this movie really dumb is the fact that a few things are left unanswered,how did the power coins get remade when zordon and ninjor were canonically the ones who made the original power coins and Rita and Zedd destroyed them? There's also the fact that Billy has been under water with the aqua rangers for over twenty six yrs (yes I actually looked up the air date of countdown to destruction) and thus wouldn't know about Rita or Zedd being changed back or even zordons death since zordon died in space far away from earth because of trakeena and the other bad guys ,there's also the fact that Rita and Zedd's evil energy was purified which is why Rita became the mystic mother. There is also the fact that there no way in hades Billy could pinpoint zordons energy and reconstruct it because a) he wouldn't know zordon died and b) it's been 26yrs since zordons death which means that the energy that once was zordon has likely passed beyond earth or any nearby planets orbit for Billy to try to reconstruct it. There also the fact that the red space ranger smashed I repeat smashed zordons tube aboard a space ship so again there's no way Billy could reconstruct zordons tube because it was made of an unclassified material. This dude is basically trying to retconn everything Saban Disney and Hasbro has done. Period.

Can anyone break down the jacked up time line of this special? How is Tommy green again when he was white when Trini, Jason, and Zack left the show? Maybe I am just thinking too much into this, but I hate it when big plot holes aren't addressed.

JJ should b older by now bhe was 10 the last time Kate was on screen he cnt still be 10

When is Gokaiger review second part coming?

Canon wise it was ALL OVER THE PLACE

How did you get to have this set for not for kids ?

I enjoyed it.. the only thing I really didn't like that ruined it a bit for me is that they cgi'd the zord vs monster fight.. felt it would have been alot better if they went old school with costume fighting instead.

It was terrible an insult to Thuy Trang and JDF.

I've been waiting for you to do this one! Glad you overall enjoyed it. 😊

For a reunion event, it would've been nice to get all the original rangers back together again, but seeing Billy and Zach again after so long was good enough. I found Minh to be an AGGRESSIVELY irritating character throughout. Her dialogue is very stiff and akward even by Power Rangers standards, her behavior is illogical at best and irritating at worst and she really doesnt get much better over the course of the film. The CGI Megazord looks cheap and the battle with Snizzard is very anticlimactic. I do like the in universe explanation for Robo-Rita ala Venjix in Beast Morphers, but the overly serious tone clashes with the goofiness of the premise. This movie is a solid 6/10. They tried to do the hyper serious transition from a kids show thing from Digimon Tri, but didn't take enough risks.

Disney Brain are you actually the brain of Walt Disney himself? Is there a way to bring him back?

The megazord ruined this for me compleyely. The CGI zord made the 2017 megazord look alot better. Obviously someone cut corners somewhere

Once and Always is the proper ending to the franchise and not the dumpster fire that is Cosmic Fury.

Honestly it could be the best thing since sliced bread. I don't care anymore. If I can skip the Batman then this project isn't even on my radar.

I definitely want to see more of Charlie Kersh/Minh Kwan, and I think Hasbro has the budget and time to pull off Power Rangers Hexagon, and put Minh front and center.

Filled with plot holes. Like mentioned in zeo the old power rangers was supposed to be gone forever. Might as well bring back zeo and turbo

I really liked Minh. She's just like all of us (who doesn't wanna grab a morpher and smack down bad guys), and her flaws were extremely understandable for someone of her age and in her position. I think the tone was set perfectly to feel like this is the same show as the og, while not being completely stuck in the 90s.

Voltes V Legacy > this

I loved it. Best pr creation ever. Good mix of nostalgia and new ideas

It was just okay.

I have a lot of feelings, most of them being, this is exactly what I wanted. Billy and Zach finally getting some proper closure and seeimg them on screen again was amazing. Minh was amazing as a teenager with attitude. Without her this woildnt work. Also Hot take I really am happy that Steve Cardenas and Catherine Sutherland were in this over Amy Jo and ASJ.

Man I wish PR 2017 got a sequel

It was pretty mid in my opinion

3 words: Hip. Hop. Kido. 🙌🙌🙌

Min a lil baddie 😅

I thought it was lovely, really enjoyed it!

I just thought it was okay. I personally don’t care about nostalgia, so as a story it just felt flat. Especially when half the original cast that Trini was with is just gone. Minh for some reason is Trini’s daughter yet doesn’t have a close relationship with Jason or Kimberly or even Tommy? I know there are real world reasons why they couldn’t be here, but it feels awkward. And then things that just don’t make sense to me. Now the MMPR is against killing, even though they kill every villain they come across without remorse unless they get away from them. Minh is just unappealing Rita kills a ranger then waits a whole year before doing anything??) even though multiple plots of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers was about her severing one power ranger from the group to kill the others?

It's very good!!!

Reunion with less then half the og team lol was an embarrassment fire whoever decided to not pay red green and pink real rangers

I grappled with this question, but this video is making me want to ask it: why is it that Billy's trying to resurrect him now? Was it something he's been trying to do ever since he found out about the sacrifice, or did something more recent happen that made him pursue this? Does this process retcon how Zedd returned? That aside, I love how this special made the team feel more human than the first three seasons.

Haven't seen the 30th anniversary of Power rangers yet but i did heard that they did a tribute somehow of the Tragic passings of Thuy trang and Jason david one of the most coolest actors🦣🦕.

Was Once and Always Good? No it was not. 😂

0/10 terrible. Didn’t include the 3 most popular rangers lol wtf where they thinking

I honestly thibk they should just an anime based off the comics

Even by Power Ranger standards, it's very poor.

They should have done something for Tommy too

David Yost’s acting was plain terrible…

What if during Karone’s trial to get the Lost Galaxy Pink powers, she WASN’T hallucinating, but a manifestation of the Astronema energy able to actually PROJECT how it appeared before?

Personally i loved that 30th aniversary episode Specially how they handle the fact that the actress of trini is not with us anymore sadly and also gave a closed to her caracter Also the part with the legacy of the yellow power

It has it's heart in the right place *BUT* the execution, direction, dialogue, performances (sans Walter Jones) and effects are really *cheesy* , subpar and cheap. Not in an endearing way.... more in a cringy way in our current HD 4K landscape. 👈👈 This is not something that will win over new fans, it just reinforces that Power Rangers is a dated relic of the 90s.

Such an odd choice to not only make Trini a single mom, but to apparently have had Mingh out of wedlock. She didn't take the father's last name, so she never married, or the father ditched her, or Mingh is a sperm bank baby or an unplanned pregnancy.

This was a morphinominal special and tribute to Thuy Trang. I loved it!

Maybe I'm alone in this, but you'd think a special meant to celebrate MMPR would have had more effort put into it. Everything from the sets and acting make it look like they had the budget of an episode of the original series. Nobody sounds genuine in the show, Yost especially. For whatever reason he sounds bored and disinterested in every scene, even ones that are supposed to be emotional. The fight choreography both in and out of the suits is poor, not even on the level of the zyuranger fights. Forever Red was a far better tribute for presumably a similar budget.

I enjoyed it I watched it 4 times !!! An actual mmpr mature story with the cheese the ending RIP JDF & Thuy Trang!!!!

I enjoyed the special.

I think it's funny how they actually made a direct reference to the 2017 movie, and most people missed it. The tagline for the advertising for the 2017 movie was, "Together they are more." In this, Robo Rita quips to her minions, "Together they are more... Power for me!" So if anyone watched this, and wondered why she said that line the way she did... Yeah... 2017 movie advertising.

I no longer care about Power Rangers.

Loved what you said about Billy messing around with powers he doesn't understand. I like the idea of him putting his intellect to use like this because he can't cope with the loss of Zordon. However, it was a bit disappointing that dude is linked to SO MANY ranger teams including a number of other geniuses capable of utilizing the morpin grid. Would've been better to link up with a number of them to double check his figures before hitting the start butting reviving Rita... That's what made the ending scene at the juice bar a bit alarming. He and Zac were stunned when Minh mentioning the images of her mother that the grid seemed to give her as the coin/morpher allowed the power to flow through her. Billy was like "Well, the grid can make the impossible happen. Maybe I shouldn't give up on bringing Zordon back after all..." DUDE, STOP! Think about it before you try again before you revive King Mondo or Divatox or heck a number of the 1000s of monsters, generals and foot soldiers that were vaporized or cleansed by the Z-Wave!

When Zack explained to Minh that Zordon was like their father so that she could understand where Billy is coming from and see how similar it is to what she had been trying to do all along, the difference is Billy still moved on with his life and was trying to make things better for other people whereas Minh only really cared about herself and was playing the hero role tangentially. It’s only when she learns this lesson that we get another later scene I like of Minh finally following in her mom’s footsteps and saving Billy. I also think Zack taking on the role of her father to give her that heart to heart about their father (Zordon) was another nice touch

Awesome video loving it

It very fun rest in peace Trang and Jason David Frank 💛💚💚💚💛💛💛

It’s really bad. You all know it too. It’s really bad

The stupid queer scene was not needed. Why they force that crap is unknown to me. I almost turned it off but it was almost over at that point but it was something I have to not let my child see.

I like what they did with Trini's death. Minh's rage is certainly understandable. Though the fact she doesn't have a father brings up some questions. I like the pairing of Billy and Zack and I kinda wish that got played into them being a couple. Speaking of which, that one scene where Minh had to rescue that gay couple felt super pandering. It's sad that JDF is no longer with us. We could have potentially had an MMPR/Zeo crossover (the OG MMPR team + Minh along side the Zeos). Maybe JJ will eventually be an onscreen character and maybe even inherit the Master Morpher.

I like how Zack being a politician is something from the comics

Adding what was said I honestly wouldn’t worry if Divatox was brought back. She only “defeated” the power rangers because of Goldgoyle and let’s be honest the Turbo rangers weren’t up there with the MMPRs or Zeo rangers.

The special was amazing

Honestly it hits in the nostalgic feels

Divatox....🤮🤮🤮🤮

I hope Netflix does a full new season for mighty morphin power rangers

Good vid but wish u commented on how they worked around the other rangers that didnt return