You might notice I put in the "griping" tag there. Guess why?
It's because the release of new episodes of RPM has become chaotic and unpredictable. Come on, guys, what are you trying to do? This is serialized, and it's best to watch them in something resembling consecutive order.
That being said, the series is happily not losing any steam. Since I last posted, two new episodes have aired (sporadically), and they were great.
I don't have much to say about Ghosts, partly because it's been a bit. (It was awesome seeing Dr. K flip out and hug Gem and Gemma, though.)
In Or Out had me worried for a minute. There was just something in its atmosphere that made me think there was something off.
Then I got over it.
It was extremely funny to note that apparently, Tenaya 7 is significantly heavier than the Rangers are. I thought those Ranger suits were supposed to be heavy or something. (In an episode of the Sentai Dekaranger, when a character morphed, the bike he was riding that was rigged to blow up detected the change in his weight. Not that it said how much, or that Sentai is PR canon, but still...)
Also, poor Ziggy. As the comic relief, he sure takes a lot of abuse, doesn't he?
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Response
Wow, that round of reruns didn't last long, did it?
Venjix's personality, which really doesn't come out very often, came back in force today. The episode kind of begs the question of why he doesn't personally control all his robots, but then, the series would be a lot less fun.
You get bonus points if you noticed that he hinted at possibly being more than just a computer virus. ("I've waited longer than you can know..." or something like that.) This is the first real sign he may actually be that Venjix.
Also, it cracked me up that the henchtypes actually thought Venjix was dead when the twins aced him. I could see Shifter and Crunch thinking that, but Tenaya? Heh, that ranks with her getting owned by Ziggy in terms of "oops" moments.
Venjix's personality, which really doesn't come out very often, came back in force today. The episode kind of begs the question of why he doesn't personally control all his robots, but then, the series would be a lot less fun.
You get bonus points if you noticed that he hinted at possibly being more than just a computer virus. ("I've waited longer than you can know..." or something like that.) This is the first real sign he may actually be that Venjix.
Also, it cracked me up that the henchtypes actually thought Venjix was dead when the twins aced him. I could see Shifter and Crunch thinking that, but Tenaya? Heh, that ranks with her getting owned by Ziggy in terms of "oops" moments.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Friendly Reminder
(As well as an apology for the lack of consistent updates.)
The RPM rerun season has begun. If you for some reason aren't watching it yet, now (or rather, this upcoming Saturday) is the time to get on the boat.
Edit: Whoops, looks like they're doing the accelerated rerun schedule. If you took my advice earlier because you actually hadn't seen the first few episodes, then you may have missed the first. My bad.
The RPM rerun season has begun. If you for some reason aren't watching it yet, now (or rather, this upcoming Saturday) is the time to get on the boat.
Edit: Whoops, looks like they're doing the accelerated rerun schedule. If you took my advice earlier because you actually hadn't seen the first few episodes, then you may have missed the first. My bad.
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Wow, Where Did The Time Go?
Hmm... YouTube seems to have changed the way it codes the widescreen embeds. I'll have to do something about that.
In the meantime, RPM is still stupid awesome.
Thirteen episodes in, and this is still quintessentially Power Rangers being all that Power Rangers could and should be.
Dr. K talking girl talk (while in fluffy slippers) is priceless.
Also, finally we get some development between Dr. K and the Rangers over the Venjix virus.
Let's look back at my earlier predictions and see how they've fared:
Hypothesis One: The person "Dillon" is trying to save is Tenaya 7; he has no clear memories because Venjix moidered his brain while trying to upgrade both of them into whatever Tenaya 7 is supposed to be.
Sub-Hypothesis: They are siblings.
Well, we know Venjix moidered his brain for sure now, and we even know about how he did it. And I'd say chances are still good for this one.
Hypothesis Two: After Dr. K's big reveal (if you don't know what I'm talking about, you haven't watched the promo trailer, and probably shouldn't be reading this), we learn that the Zords look the way they do because she likes cutesy things.
We do have an explanation for the eyes now, and it's not this. Ah, well. (Her love of cute things seems to be confirmed, on the other hand; like I said, slippers.)
Hypothesis Three: This is actually an alternate reality from MMPR through Jungle Fury.
This is actually looking better now with the big reveal from "Dr. K." It could of course be, though, that they used Machine Empire programming as a base, so... I hesitate to care. Venjix's origins beyond Dr. K creating him aren't relevant.
Hypothesis Four: There may be an actual reason for the choices of "Retrofire" Zords made by Bandai.
No word.
Hypothesis Five: The midseason disconnect will be rough this year.
Well... No word.
Hypothesis Six: Once "Dillon's" current character arc is over, they'll pretty much ignore how awesome he was during it.
Happily, this hasn't happened yet.
Hypothesis Seven: Corinth is small and crowded, so Dr. K made the Zords able to take on those tiny forms and teleport for purposes of avoiding city damage due to Zord stampedes.
Well, I still like the idea, anyway, and it hasn't been disproven. The idea, at least, has also been reinforced by the Croc Carrier destroying Tokyo Tow-uh, I mean, that unidentified building in "Ranger Red."
As an aside, the latest episode of Shinkenger was kinda trippy, but I have this feeling it was a tribute to the older sentai stuff, because the monster of the week sounded like the yellow Goranger (who, by the way, is frikkin' awesome from what I've seen of him).
Well, I think I had something else to say, but I can't think of it and I'm on a tight schedule.
In the meantime, RPM is still stupid awesome.
Thirteen episodes in, and this is still quintessentially Power Rangers being all that Power Rangers could and should be.
Dr. K talking girl talk (while in fluffy slippers) is priceless.
Also, finally we get some development between Dr. K and the Rangers over the Venjix virus.
Let's look back at my earlier predictions and see how they've fared:
Hypothesis One: The person "Dillon" is trying to save is Tenaya 7; he has no clear memories because Venjix moidered his brain while trying to upgrade both of them into whatever Tenaya 7 is supposed to be.
Sub-Hypothesis: They are siblings.
Well, we know Venjix moidered his brain for sure now, and we even know about how he did it. And I'd say chances are still good for this one.
Hypothesis Two: After Dr. K's big reveal (if you don't know what I'm talking about, you haven't watched the promo trailer, and probably shouldn't be reading this), we learn that the Zords look the way they do because she likes cutesy things.
We do have an explanation for the eyes now, and it's not this. Ah, well. (Her love of cute things seems to be confirmed, on the other hand; like I said, slippers.)
Hypothesis Three: This is actually an alternate reality from MMPR through Jungle Fury.
This is actually looking better now with the big reveal from "Dr. K." It could of course be, though, that they used Machine Empire programming as a base, so... I hesitate to care. Venjix's origins beyond Dr. K creating him aren't relevant.
Hypothesis Four: There may be an actual reason for the choices of "Retrofire" Zords made by Bandai.
No word.
Hypothesis Five: The midseason disconnect will be rough this year.
Well... No word.
Hypothesis Six: Once "Dillon's" current character arc is over, they'll pretty much ignore how awesome he was during it.
Happily, this hasn't happened yet.
Hypothesis Seven: Corinth is small and crowded, so Dr. K made the Zords able to take on those tiny forms and teleport for purposes of avoiding city damage due to Zord stampedes.
Well, I still like the idea, anyway, and it hasn't been disproven. The idea, at least, has also been reinforced by the Croc Carrier destroying Tokyo Tow-uh, I mean, that unidentified building in "Ranger Red."
As an aside, the latest episode of Shinkenger was kinda trippy, but I have this feeling it was a tribute to the older sentai stuff, because the monster of the week sounded like the yellow Goranger (who, by the way, is frikkin' awesome from what I've seen of him).
Well, I think I had something else to say, but I can't think of it and I'm on a tight schedule.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Commentary...
On the last few things which came up, which I haven't yet commented on.
Shinkenger:
So, the next MOTW's power is to summon spandex grunts to do sleeper holds on people? That's kinda stupid awesome.
As for the latest episode of RPM, well, as always, stupid awesome, and the story behind Flynn is touching and moving. (I thought so, anyway.) Seriously, someone who wants to be a superhero literally his whole life (and purely because he genuinely wants to help people) gets to become a Power Ranger? It sounds bad on paper, but it works so well in the episode.
Shinkenger:
So, the next MOTW's power is to summon spandex grunts to do sleeper holds on people? That's kinda stupid awesome.
As for the latest episode of RPM, well, as always, stupid awesome, and the story behind Flynn is touching and moving. (I thought so, anyway.) Seriously, someone who wants to be a superhero literally his whole life (and purely because he genuinely wants to help people) gets to become a Power Ranger? It sounds bad on paper, but it works so well in the episode.
Friday, May 1, 2009
Weird Tokusatsu: Super God Neiger
[All traces of Chojin/Super God Neiger have been wiped from YouTube completely. I can't say why. However, I now know where the Neiger homepage is! Of course, it's in Japanese. That's what Google Translate is for, though.]
I've never embedded a playlist before, but here we go.
That's pretty slick, actually.
Super God Neiger is probably the single weirdest tokusatsu series I've encountered. It does more blatant product placement than the live action Transformers movie. Yes, that's actually possible.
It's also very formulaic, cartoony, and... food-related.
The main character seems to ride a fish motorcycle. There's a fish villain. And there are something like half a dozen different unrelated fish guns.
Fishy.
Okay, that's bad. But the series is basically made of crack, so if you like watching cracky stuff, well, you'll probably enjoy it. (They also chose some very toned actors [and one toned actress], so if that appeals to you, there you go. We never see their faces, though.)
Be warned, though, one of the "grunt" henchmen, the one with the black and purple boxers, keeps losing them. The boxers, I mean.
Yeah.
I've never embedded a playlist before, but here we go.
That's pretty slick, actually.
Super God Neiger is probably the single weirdest tokusatsu series I've encountered. It does more blatant product placement than the live action Transformers movie. Yes, that's actually possible.
It's also very formulaic, cartoony, and... food-related.
The main character seems to ride a fish motorcycle. There's a fish villain. And there are something like half a dozen different unrelated fish guns.
Fishy.
Okay, that's bad. But the series is basically made of crack, so if you like watching cracky stuff, well, you'll probably enjoy it. (They also chose some very toned actors [and one toned actress], so if that appeals to you, there you go. We never see their faces, though.)
Be warned, though, one of the "grunt" henchmen, the one with the black and purple boxers, keeps losing them. The boxers, I mean.
Yeah.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
You Might Wonder...
...why I'm putting up Thai cell phone service commercials.
Because they're funny, that's why.
Bonus: Drink commercial.
No, I'm not completely sure what kind of drink, or even what language it's in. (And I'm not going to clutter up the page with more embedded movies, seeing as how they're all short and pointless, not to mention totally incomprehensible.)
Because they're funny, that's why.
Bonus: Drink commercial.
No, I'm not completely sure what kind of drink, or even what language it's in. (And I'm not going to clutter up the page with more embedded movies, seeing as how they're all short and pointless, not to mention totally incomprehensible.)
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