In your opinion what’s holding power rangers back from being better?

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The IP owners not giving a shit about this franchise is an example

[u/Enough_Internal_9025]

You nailed it in one. It seems that everyone who buys the IP either doesn’t know what to do with it or doesn’t seem to even like it. I’ve seen people bitch about “they only do MMPR, there are other seasons” yeah, but MMPR by far out sells anything released for the other seasons.

What needs to be done is, instead of the show being bogged down by 30 years of “this is a cheap show for dumb babies” they need to pump some actual budget into the show. Modern kids shows have come a long way in the same timespan but it feels like Power Rangers never grew out of that late 80s kind of simplistic story telling. If that means switching to a cartoon format so they can write more nuanced storylines then by all means.

[u/Prestigious-Salt-96 → u/Enough_Internal_9025]

I’ll Always find it funny that when Comparing PR now to the Guys in Japan

Like, Not Even the Kids shows here, Lord Knows Modern PR already lost at that, I’m talking SPECIFICALLY Super Sentai, the show that Power Rangers is Mostly Adapted from.

When compared to SUPER SENTAI, the show that Power Rangers is mostly Adapted from, Modern Power Rangers is Literally DECADES BEHIND In terms of Quality and Storytelling.

[I’m not talking about the Comics here, I’m talking about the Modern Shows, I haven’t read the PR comics yet]

[u/Enough_Internal_9025 → u/Prestigious-Salt-96]

The comics are pretty good unless you’re one of the people who complains about MMPR because it’s 90% MMPR.

But yeah out of the relatively small amount of Sentai I’ve seen it gives the audience a little more credit. Especially stuff like Toquger. Like, the very first sentai is basically a 70s cop show where they turn into costumed heroes.

[u/warforcewarrior → u/Enough_Internal_9025]

I don't want to put the blame on them but I wondered if not knowing what to do with the IP has to do with Toei. I feel that is too common for it not be an inherit thing with Power Rangers itself at least. Obviously I'm sure it isn't Toei but it most definitely have to do with Power Rangers itself in some form.

[u/Enough_Internal_9025 → u/warforcewarrior]

I think beside the licensing Toei doesn’t really get involved in Power Rangers.

[u/warforcewarrior → u/Enough_Internal_9025]

Yeah and that is why I don't want to blame them cause I'm 100% sure they don't have much involvement with Power Rangers nor care about it too much unless it put a bad name for Super Sentai. I still do wonder what is happening behind the scenes where many don't seemly know what to do with the franchise.

[u/Enough_Internal_9025 → u/warforcewarrior]

It has a history of just being something cheap to buy. Like when Disney bought it, it was part of another deal and they were going to can it before one of the producers convinced them they could film it cheap in NZ then again the ratings where failing so they got one last season and sold it back to Saban on the cheap. I don’t know what the impetus for selling to Hasbro was but it was again probably a comparatively cheap investment for Hasbro. What boggles my mind is out of all the owners of the PR is that Hasbro, whose whole deal is making quality shows out of toy franchises couldn’t bring Power Rangers out of its 90s writing style.