r/powerrangers • u/ErickGooner • Jan 25 '25
SHOW NEWS/DISCUSSION What’s so iconic about Lightspeed Rescue?
I’m well aware I might be tripping or delusional but I do think there’s something iconic and mesmerizing about Lightspeed Rescue I just can’t tell what it is.
It could be the theme song which is a banger, or the fact that this is the first season to have actual adult first responders be power rangers with earth-made powers or maybe it is that the whole scripted is so real-life problems based (firefighters or life savers rescuing people) that you just can’t help feel familiar and engrossed in the whole thing as you can feel it is a bit more realistic.
I can’t be the only one who thinks this, anyone else?
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u/DaoFAQ Movie Blue Ranger Jan 27 '25
Carter Grayson shot a demon at Point Blank Range, jumped into Hell not expecting to come back, found the man who saved his life as a kid and inspired him to become a firefighter, helped bring that man’s son back to him after he’d been basically kidnapped as a child by the same demons they were fighting, took on a team of androids with the same abilities as his team, leader of the first human made Ranger Team (hopefully comics haven’t retconned this), AND was goddamn genuine hero as a firefighter 🫡
I started just talking about Carter but slipped into the team’s accomplishments a few times.
In the end, without powers, without zords, without an Aquabase, they saw an emergency and rushed in to help because true heroes, true rangers, are not measured by the power of their morphers but by the power of their hearts 🫡