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+====== Power Rangers ======
+{{ img:b:r:power-rangers.png?460 |Power Rangers}}
+**Power Rangers** is a really weird Western franchise adapted from a Japanese franchise.
+Like almost everyone, I started by watching it as a child. I can't really remember which season I started with, but it was probably S.P.D., Dino Thunder or Ninja Storm.
+{{tag>shows speculah}}
+===== Reviews =====
+No reviews yet because while I usually write reviews with a bad memory, my memory here is especially bad.
+===== Speculah & Analysis =====
+==== Meta: Really Damn Weird ====
+If Power Rangers didn't exist, a concept like it would have probably never been a thing.
+The idea was to take an existing [[lb:shows|TV Show]] (Super Sentai) with all of its scenes pre-filmed...then take out all the Japanese acting and replace it with new American (New Zealand) footage and dubbing. Then the story would be re-written to be more American™. This way, you keep costs down (because you aren't filming any of the fight scenes) while advertising toys.
+The genius who came up with this was Hans Saban and only the gods know how he managed to convince the Japanese to let him borrow the footage.
+It's entirely possible I'm making a big deal out of something that, realistically, is just dubbing taken to its extreme, but it's still a really weird idea.
+Somehow though, this //worked//.
+For most of its existence, Power Rangers' biggest advantage was //cost//. It was cheap to make and consistently made cheaper. There were several times when it faced cancellation, which forced them to find ways to cut costs (or do the opposite, like //In Space//). Though I imagine that at this point in time, //Power Rangers// is un-cancelable.
+==== 90s Show ====
+For some barely explicable reason, most people in pop culture assume that Power Rangers was just a 90s thing that ended in the 90s...despite it continuing basically non-stop from Mighty Morphin' all the way until today-ish. [[you>PAm4DHXrAXU|Case]] in point.
+My guess is that most people just think of Power Rangers as //Mighty Morphin'// Power Rangers, rather than Power Rangers.
+===== Trivilinks =====
+  * [[tmdbm>2328|TMDB]]