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Gaffer Tape
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Gaffer Tape's YouTube Reviews of Awesome Candy-Creating Goodness! (The Facts of Life/Star Trek III Conspiracy!)
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20-Jul-2010, 8:58 AM

Ha, I'm afraid you'll be a bit disappointed then.  I really only intended to go through the Mighty Morphin era with a coda lasting through "In Space."  Mighty Morphin is the only era I'm familiar with (as I already stated, I actually stopped watching right around the beginning of season 3 with a brief resurgence around Alien Rangers and into the beginning of Zeo).  Also, Mighty Morphin is what I feel is the most interesting in terms of adaptation.  Season 1 is a fairly straight (as far as Power Rangers goes) adaptation of Zyuranger with seasons 2 and 3 being more of a Frankenstein monster reassembly approach that was never really attempted again afterwards.  Then subsequent seasons, as far as I can tell, return to the more straightforward season 1 approach although with a more seasoned and matured mindset in terms of storytelling and productions.  So I've really been trying to chart those awkward beginning years where they were trying to find their footing as well as revisiting a childhood favorite with an overly analytical adult gaze.

Granted, like Linkara, doing these videos has rejuvenated my interest in Power Rangers to the point that I might actually bother doing research on the later series.  But on the other hand, I've already watched so many episodes of Power Rangers and Super Sentai in such a short amount of time that it's soon going to produce an effect in me not dissimilar to what's exhibited in A Clockwork Orange.  =P