Terms And Tendencies

I have a marked tendency to say ridiculous things, and in order to make myself a bit more understandable, I want to try to explicate some of my oddities.

Terms

Not terms of use, vocabulary terms. When talking about things, I may tend towards my own peculiar terminology. For instance:

• I tend to call a certain type of Power Rangers villain the "ninja death tank." This term is really fairly self-explanatory, but I want to be clear-a ninja death tank is tougher, faster, and stronger than anybody he or she fights. Any fight with a ninja death tank is going to be a curb stomp battle in the NDT's favor... unless the good guy has pulled out the SUPAH NUU UPGRADO SYSTEMU that tells you the fight has been escalated, in which case it's usually still a curb stomp battle, just going the other way. I will have a lot of other terms for different types of monsters, when I think of them, but that's probably the big one.
• I will probably tend to mix up "official" terms a lot unless I've been carefully perusing info sites a lot. This is also true for character names for several seasons, primarily Time Force through the most recent season, as I've increasingly been forgetting characters' names unless I either particularly liked them or characters had a tendency to shout them in an alarmed fashion a lot. ("NICK! NICK!") Sadly, the other night I was actually able to name off nearly every Power Ranger from earlier seasons without much effort. Whether or not I get these things right depends how much time I have when I'm posting.
• I will call the giant robots Zords even if I'm talking about the Sentai version. For that matter, I'll call the Sentai "the Japanese version" and Power Rangers "the English/American version" even though this is not 100% perfectly correct. Deal with it.

Tendencies

I will relentlessly make fun of things that I think deserve making fun of. In an essay I'm currently editing so I can put it up here, I insinuate repeatedly that Zordon is an incessant liar. Whether or not I believe it (I do actually sort of think this), it's a habit, and it'd be harder for me to break this habit than come up with a more polite way of saying I think he plays his cards close to his nonexistent chest.

I will probably have a lot of things that I will try to codify somehow. For instance, I will probably at some point do a reasonably detailed blog about ninja death tanks, and then make a list of notables, and then make a bunch of similar articles about other "types" of monsters, and... You get the idea.

This blog will make an attempt at being a "regular" information site as much as or more than a "regular" blog. There are a lot of info sites about Power Rangers and the like, I know, but few of them are what I would call "fun"-a joy to read yet still informative. I've seen a few sites like this, such as TVTropes and the Transformers Wiki, but not any for Power Rangers. Many truly exhaustive ones, yes, but none are quite "fun."

Anyway, I'm carrying on, which is another of my tendencies, so for the moment I'll stop yakking and get to work on actually making this content. See ya.

Content Incoming

(Sorry if you tried to read the wall of text version. Blogger is so stupid sometimes.)

I suppose I should establish right away (yeah, right) what this blog is for.

This is not a "blog-blog." I don't just post any old thing in here. That's what my other blog is for. If you're looking for completely random humor or some such junk, that's where you look.

This is a blog about Power Rangers, Super Sentai, Masked/Kamen Rider, and any other cheap live action special-effects driven TV shows (or movies) that are at least theoretically aimed at children sometimes. And this blog, rather sadly for my mental health, perhaps, will try to take these subjects halfway seriously most of the time. Not to say I can't have fun doing it, though, and the sarcasm tags are likely to be enabled. (If I have some random Power Rangers/whatever humor urges, I probably will also express some of them here.)

As the title indicates, of course, the primary focus will be "Power Rangers proper," whatever the heck that means. It comes from a pet theory of mine involving the Power Rangers universe.

You see, there's a phenomenon in Power Rangers where, at insanely convenient times, a conveniently good-aligned character, power source, weapon, or Zord will show up without any warning whatsoever, or with a bare minimum of warning. Or there will be a character with access to incredible technology and knowledge, such that you can't believe that it was developed independently.

My convenient explanation is simply that Zordon has been sitting around in that doggoned magic tube for an awful darned long time, and it makes sense that he would have been burning all of that time productively instead of simply wasting it waiting for some stupid space dumpster to open. Ergo, all random stupid good things that happen in Power Rangers must therefore be a Backup Plan By Zordon(TM).

I decided this blog needed to be made rather than just thought about, by the way, because right now seems to be one of the most interesting times to be a PR fan. We have a Kamen Rider "dub" being produced over here, a long wait until the new season (which promises to be most interesting, whether good or just plain awful) starts, and a really retro and nice sentai coming out in Japan. I also need to vent (heh) my inner tokunerd to someone other than my sister, who seems to be sick of it.

And for those of you visiting me from my other blog who think "This guy likes Power Rangers? What a weirdo!" That's why I'm spinning the blog off, so you don't have to put up with it.

More information incoming when I feel like it. Ta ta.

Coming Soon...

I guess.