Ha, not that anybody but doubleofive seems to care at this particular moment, but I feel like I need a sounding board to figure out the direction I need to go.
So... yeah. My Power Rangers series was supposed to end after the last one, but I ended up not having enough time to bring things to what I felt were a satisfactory conclusion (stupidly not knowing that YouTube had expanded its time limit to 15 minutes). So suddenly having a fifth video on my hands, I decided to run with it, expanding it into a much larger entity than it would have otherwise been, briefly covering the next three seasons/series, which I consider to be the third evolution of their method of adaptation: updating yearly with the Sentai but still continuing the same storyline.
I've actually written, filmed, and have done quite a bit of editing on this one already, but now I'm beginning to have second thoughts or at least concerns. As I've stated before, my knowledge of things past... eh, the beginning of Power Rangers Zeo is quite limited as I'd stopped watching the series by this point. Linkara's videos have been a godsend for me to figure out just what the hell is going on. My knowledge of the corresponding Sentai is even less. Zyuranger is the only one I've seen all the way through, and that was before I got the idea to even do my own series of videos on the concept. I've watched a lot of Dairanger and Kakuranger but only enough to get me through the subsequent videos. And now I'm suddenly doing three series at once... granted in a much more cursory fashion than before, but it's still been some overload. And I wonder if I rushed into this a bit too quickly.
Also, I've always tried to find a balance between giving out Power Rangers knowledge and giving out Sentai knowledge, and I've never been entirely sure which my audience is more interested in. As for me, my two main through lines for this series have been, "How did Power Rangers adapt Sentai?" and, "If you want a detailed plot summary of Power Rangers, that's what Linkara's videos are for because that's not what I'm doing." When I bring up plot, I try to do so only when it's relevant to the production. That's why Zyuranger Part 2 had a heavy focus on plot because the Zyuranger plot heavily influenced the Power Rangers plot, and it was necessary to know both to understand it. And that's also why Dairanger and Kakuranger weren't covered as in-depth: their storylines had little do with the adaptation, but I tried to cover it where it was relevant/interesting.
But now I'm wondering if I've swung too far the other way and am not including enough Sentai information in this one. I am catering to an English-speaking audience who are probably more familiar with Power Rangers and are more interested in learning about the Sentai, so I've been trying to add in a little bit more about it. And I feel I'd be amiss without mentioning the historical context in which Ohranger and Carranger were created, ie. the sarin gas attacks on the Tokyo subways on March 20, 1995, as that event shaped Sentai, which, in turn, would affect Power Rangers, so I think I'm going to go back and record a bit on the subject.
Aaaand... now I just need to make sure it doesn't become a huge, bloated mess, so I might excise some material as well. Bleh.
If there was a question in here, I don't know what it is. I just needed to write these thoughts down.