Garhdo Goes Geek

Hello my friends! Welcome back to my blog, where today we will be completing the Watch Order for the entire Power Rangers franchise. As I've said before this is a franchise very dear to me and is one that its current owners Hasbro seem to have all but abandoned, which is a shame as several of the series we will talk about will be the ones that Hasbro actually oversaw, and many of them did things that many older fans of Power Rangers had been asking for for a long time, becoming quite well-liked as a result.  I'm also going to take the time here to talk about a couple of other things in Power Rangers that are very much worth discussing, and actually play some role in the ongoing development of the franchise going forwards.  Also while my opinion on some of the previous seasons have varied, I generally think all of these are of decent, if not very good quality, and as a result I have positive opinions of all of these shows and would describe most of them as well worth a watch, e...

Hello my friends, and welcome back to my blog. So I wanted to talk about Power Rangers today, which is one of my favourite franchises despite its ridiculous, over-the-top and incredibly cheesy nature. I devoted my 75th episode of my podcast to it and discussed how much I love it, especially how it has an interconnected nature that builds a mythology across thirty years of a franchise history. However I freely admit that is is a very repetitive franchise, and for anyone interested in watching it it is an incredibly formulaic show with tropes that you may soon grow tired of, and in many ways this is by design. Power Rangers is a children's television franchise, but more than that it is a Western-made adaptation of a long-running Japanese superhero franchise called Super Sentai. Super Sentai is part of a genre of shows known as "henshin" (transforming) heroes, and is part of a filmmaking style that is quite common in Japan known as tokusatsu, a term which literally translate...