Recently, one thing bothers me. Do you remember TV show “Power Rangers”? It’s first season specifically, when the PR world was still ruled by Reverend Zordon? I wonder if the figure of main villain, Lord Zedd, wasn’t too gruesome for younger audience? Just look:
Body without skin, visible brain. Mask with a sharp, unpleasant shapes distorted in a grotesque smile. Metal implants stuck in the whole body. And guy appears in the show watched by 3-4 aged childrens! Don’t you think that guy suit better to Mortal Kombat, than Power Rangers?
He was perfect. The physical manifestation of badass. The entire look, the snakes, the blood, everything made you fear him. Hell, even the few times the rangers actually fought against him, they were wiped easily.
Zedd was perfect (until Mondo and his machine empire came in and ridiculed him).
Keep in mind, the PR was all about the clear separations between good and Evil. Everything was so clear cut between the two (Except for the true heroes of the series, Bulk and Skull). In the first season you had the Goody Goodies fighting against a supposed empress of evil who turned out to be more of a buffoon than anything else. With Zedd, you had the very clear distinction that he was evil incarnate and that the only reason he failed was the ineptitude of his henchmen.
Power rangers taught me that the cultural identity of black and yellow people is merely a reflection of their skin color. White people truely are the rainbow of diversity. Which is why they make such great leaders.
Clear cut definitions between good and evil? Wasn’t there usually a Ranger, in a couple different series, who flaked back and forth? They always ended up good but that threat of them going back usually lingered didn’t it? I could be totally wrong but first it was Tommy the Green//White ranger who waffled and then in a later series there was another one (Silver?)
Green went from Pure Evil to Pure Goody Goody. It was all mind control.
Even when GoseiKnight appeared who fought both the Rangers and bad guys, he did it because he condemned all men for polluting the earth in the ultimate goody two shoe bullshit.
Edit; Maybe you mean White Ranger in Dino Thunder? Again, mind control made him act evil. And when evil he was a total douche, and when good he was the goody goody artist.
What caught me off guad…I wa in some store like KMart or something and saw PR Season 1 action figures…the cheap 2 dollar kinds. I look and they got Rita. then I look at what she was wearing… (0_0) she had friggin ‘cone boobs’
