The End of the Power Rangers: Finales from Mighty Morphin, Super Megaforce, Cosmic Fury, etc.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 มี.ค. 2024
- Power Rangers has ended... multiple times throughout it's 30 year run. Here's a look at why some season finales are spectacle without substance, and how some truly capture the best of what the show has to offer.
These are all the finales from Mighty Morphin, In Space, Wild Force, SPD, Super Megaforce, Beast Morphers, Cosmic Fury, and everything in-between!
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Erm... what I said was Zeo's finale... wasn't Zeo's finale. (Not that the actual finale for Zeo was a finale at all).
I somehow Mandela Effected myself into thinking that Zeo's "A Season to Remember" was the final episode. That is false. It's actually Good as Gold. OOPS.
Turns out, that one episode is out of order in my library. That probably explains that. So uh... do me a favor and cover your ears and eyes for that section. Don't skip ahead, just cover them and meditate for a minute.
And that wasn't even Zeo's finale at all, but Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie acted as a true finale to the Zeo series, which is so weird.
Zeo's finale is complicated
No, your library is in the right order. Even though Good As Gold is when Trey took back the Gold Ranger powers and they defeated King Mondo, A Season To Remember was shown after it.
Ahh, you need the watch time, don't you!
This can't be happening
In Space/Lost Galaxy/Lightspeed Rescue felt like a trilogy of great finales, and a big part of that has to be how 95% of those endings were completely US made footage. Using the Sentai finale footage as a prelude to the actual finale was a genius move and a great way to raise the stakes right before everything hits the fan. Plus all 3 used some great downtown Los Angeles location shooting to really raise the scope of the final attack.
Agreed and well said! I should've pointed it out but yeah, it was smart on them for using the Sentai finale in that way. I think that's the about the best cast scenario of adapting. Cause it's not just them taking that ending and remaking it, or doing something 100% original. It's about them taking what made the ending so good and going further with it with their own twist.
Thanks for the comment! :)
I'm so surprised someone is so spot on to the last detail about their opinion, almost like it was me stating it.
I literraly don't have to add anything more to what you said. And you must be the only person other than me that has described those three as a trilogy. Indeed for me those three seasons feel more connected thematically to each other, than lost galaxy is to in space according to others. Thematically, they all so a post-invaded humanity rising through its darkest hour to take the lead as the only defenders of good left in the universe, in Lost Galaxy without ranger powers of their own yet, in Lightspeed with their first-made ones and in time force with the pinacle of ranger powers realised where the only threat humanity has left to face is its own dark side of bias and discrimination against one another (humans and mutants basically).
But the main point of my comment is that I am surprised someone has seen those season in the same light as I did and has reached the same conclusion.
Jungle Fury wasn't just the one where the villains didn't invaded and wrecked the Rangers base, it was the one where the Red Ranger invaded and wrecked the villains base. Thanks Casey, you absolute madlad!
I honestly really enjoyed the endings of Ninja storm, Dino Thunder, Jungle fury, RPM, & SPD. The rest were pretty meh for the Disney era
Ninja Storm was pretty neat. Dino Thunder had a fitting kingly finale. SPD had the buildup. Jungle Fury was rushed asf but the previous episode, where Casey fights Jarrod was peak. And RPM...man what a perfect goodbye for the disney era
Yeah I enjoy those finales too.
I thought the mystic force ending was good as well.
@@cyberhero5559that literally ends in a dao ex makima beam finale was terrible
Don’t forgot wild force
Countdown to Destruction will always be my Number 1 Finale.
Of course, the best Power Rangers DVD, which I own, also inclooted the Lost Galaxy and Lightspeed Rescue team up, which nobody outside of that little girl actor enjoyed filming.
I want Power Rangers to end when Super Sentai ends
We sadly never get what we expect. But that’s fine. Because what came out was good. And that’s fine. Because we learn to grow with what we all watched :)
It could end before
I know this will become an independent show as it is getting a reboot.
I want Power Rangers to make original rangers and not be tied to Super Sentai anymore
They re rebooting it with no super Sentai footage
I remember watching the Wildforce finally as a kid and was sobbing because the zords were alive and had emotions.
You sound like the kind of kid who would've kept their Tamagotchi/Webkinz/Neopets alive for years.
@@mintbari I mean yeah. I had no life
Coutdown to Destruction and The end of time are great, but my favorite finale is "The End of Power Rangers" from Wild Force. Seeing the rangers losing their power and still fighting (with everthing taking place at night and raining) it was pretty epic and perfectly capture one the key messages in the franchise: With or without powers, the rangers never give up and keep fighting (something that Overdrive drop the ball in their crossover Once a Ranger).
Best: Now the Final Fury.
Worst: Legendary Battle.
Honourable Mentions: Doomsday, The End of the Power Rangers, Storm Before the Calm, Danger and Destiny, One More Energem and End of Extinction.
Love for Jungle Fury in chat and Lightspeed in the video, i'm sold. Now the Final Fury is incredible, as a growth of the team, presence of the masters, the original rangers and even Jared and Camille joining the team, it's poetic if you think about Casey's POV, he didn't gave up on Jared, and Jared didn't gave up on himself, Camille saw that she could be better, even disguised, made a nice friendship with Lilly and saw Jared under Daishi's influence, Theo learned to accept mistakes and use instincts more than knowledge, RJ is a great teacher and also could grow and learn during the season and also Don got a good understanding on not being so carefree, but, not pushing himself too much to make silly mistakes while trying to help, this is my favorite season alongside Lightspeed Rescue, both endings show us that not just being Power Rangers makes them heroes, but also, trusting each other, accepting their differences, teaching new things along the way and most important of all: NEVER GIVING UP UNTIL YOU'RE OUT OF OPTIONS. You can kamikazi to destroy your megazord, deal with THOUSANDS OF DEMONS to rescue a friend or give up being a Master just to be kicked out by your own old master, from the same order you once were part of, just to purge the big bad evil spirit that's taking control of one of the most skillful students of said order, just because YOU KNOW IT'S THE RIGHT THING TO DO (Time Force nod here).
Adding end of extinction but not countdown to the destruction or journeys end or the end of time is wild all better finales than jungle fury
@@Deity_devil Space, Galaxy and Time are overrated. Also, I like what I like. Cope. There’s no need to get upset over opinions on a kids show + you replied to a 3 month old comment 😂
@@tokublwhovian those are objectively the standard for rangers finales they aren’t overrated at all in space literally saved this franchise from cancellation wanna know what’s overrated mmpr that series is so boring
@@Deity_devil I agree Mighty Morphin is (also) overrated & boring.
I think the problem is that they are writing for kids, teaching the good values and putting out happy endings and also not thinking too hard because they’re kids and thinking “wow cool laser!” It’s not a problem per say but maybe why the endings are how they are
I think that's part of the answer. Only reason I say that is because there were mandates put in place on the writing staff to make it kid friendly starting with Samurai. By Beast Morphers, they eased off of that and they were practically gone by Cosmic Fury. Whether it be influence from either Nickelodeon or Haim Saban (who issued the mandates), that was no longer the case come Cosmic Fury and the overall writing still suffered.
I just don't think the staff on the show really knew where they could take it/were passionate to take risks. This isn't a fault to them, they did their jobs. But it's the difference between someone who cares about what they're making and someone who may just be doing it because it's a job (which is 100% totally valid btw).
9:35
Not sure about Hurricanger or Abaranger, though Magiranger and Gekiranger would end up doing the same thing in their finales (they even say it's a random new technique in Gekiranger), which checks out since this is during a time where they'd adapt the Sentai's story, while including an overarching original story.
- In Hurricane they pretty much due their “Hur….Ri….Cane!!!” Finisher on the big bad.
- Abaranger’s final fight was them just destroying the big bad with a final mech battle, Basically the episode where Zeltrax pilots his own robot in Dino Thunder before the finale.
- mystic force’s finale was pretty much just the Magiranger finale, just changing “I have courage” into “I believe in magic”
- Gekiranger had a pretty different finale from Jungle Fury. They still both had the fight where they fought Daishi/Long in his big dragon monster form, but in Gekiranger that wasn’t the actual final fight but rather Long then became small and in order to beat him, the gekiranger’s had to learn dorinki from Rageku, Kata and Maku. Something that jungle fury totally took out
Huh, I never knew this. I have actually seen Magiranger and Gekiranger but not the first two. I just assumed that, since it happened twice, that it wasn't a pattern. Especially since I saw Dekaranger and SPD took more liberties with it's finale so that threw me off. Thanks for mentioning this!
The finales of the Post-Zordon seasons were all just peak fiction. No season since has ever ended on such a high note.
Though the SPD finale is also pretty great, imo. The B-team’s fight with their evil superiors, Cruger’s final fight with Grumm, and Jack retiring and Sky earning his title as a full time leader. Some really nice full circle moments from that season.
Oh yeah, looking back I should've mentioned the A-squad vs. B-squad fight. That was a lot of fun!
Not all the finales after the zordon era are “peak fiction”
@@Deity_devil that’s just your opinion, but want to elaborate?
The only part I didn’t like was Jack giving sky his red powers he was the only one that fit that role
My favorite endings are countdown to destruction, the fate of lightspeed, storm before the calm, thunder struck, endings,, crown and punishment, now the final fury, samurai forever, one more energem/ edge of extinction, void trap, the end
4:50 I like how you added the unknown into the mix of villains
And in one of the crowd shots when I talk about Dino Supercharge! Such an iconic PR villain!
@@mintbari On the same level as Venjix and Ransik
Dont agree with disney seasons being mid. Minus several using collective powers, i saw no issues. Far better than even some saban endings like rpms or spd.
yeah the only finale i really didnt like was mystic force's finale since it was pretty much just the magiranger finale
Starting in Season 2 the show was definitely serialized... both Season 2 and Season 3 make no sense if you don't watch them in order. Especially with the amount of cast changes in Season 2 (introduction of rocky, adam, aisha) and having both the green and white ranger. Season 2 you have the whole story arc of Kim leaving and Kat coming in, Zedd getting married, and multiple megazords...
Lightspeed rescue had by far my favorite base destruction
Agreed 👍
I love your thumbnail for this video
Thank you, it's disgusting lol
@@mintbari Do you watch anime?
"Zeo didn't have a proper finale, instead ending on bizarre Christmas episode."
Huh?
Last I checked, the series ended with Hawaii Zeo and Good as Gold, which was a proper finale. Don't get me wrong, I love your videos about Power Rangers and your knowledge of the franchise is usually very on point, but that left me very confused.
You're absolutely right, see my pinned comment that I just posted.
I made a big stinky oopsie, and for that I will turn myself into the proper authorities.
The Dai Shi and Casey fight in the Jungle Fury finale is so intense
lightspeed rescue being the literally perfect season.
but now, I really like the in space and rpm/beast Morphers ending
I dug Lightspeed when I watched it. But I didn't watch it as it aired, I didn't see it until all the shows were on Netflix around when Samurai was the current show.
That's something I feel a lot of people take for granted. When I was a kid, we didn't have complete VHS or DVD releases of a season so I never got to see the end of Lost Galaxy until I got my hands on a foreign release. I only knew Lost Galaxy had a finale because they flashed back to it when they released the team up with Lightspeed Rescue on VHS.
The Finale for Power Ranger Zeo was actually Good as Gold. Season to remember was film earlier in the season but didn't air because it wasn't the holiday season.
You're right, see my pinned comment. I honestly just made an error in my rewatch of the all the finales while writing this two months ago. But tbh, it really speaks volumes to Zeo's lack of a finale that I can watch any old episode and assume it's the last one. Good as Gold is definitely better, but not as a finale. Just as any old episode of the show.
I do think you're not fair to Cosmic Fury , Zayto turning into a Morphing Masters was basically his character so it didnt come from nowhere .
Also i dont think Zordon's spirit helping them undermines once and always
I think they could've had him turn into a Morphin Master without doing things like cheapening his death, demoting him, making utterly boring as a character, etc. Maybe I should've clarified in both this video and my cosmic fury ones that I don't mind him being a Morphin Master. It's just that there's so much collateral to his characterization that it doesn't feel like he's earned it. I think he had potential during the Waking Nightmares episode where confronted his old team. But had they leaned more into the survivor's guilt angle, it would've made his death a lot more impactful. Instead, he's spouting off cool, cool, coolios and eating flargon cakes. He doesn't have to be 100% edgy and dark, but nothing he's done in his past really informs his behavior as a character.
And Zordon's spirit absolutely undermines Once and Always. Billy accepted that he had to move on. He chased a dream of bringing back Zordon and paid the price of his friend (Trini) dying. And for him to go wide-eyed at the revelation that Aiyon met him undid that lesson he learned. Once and Always didn't have much going for it, so why undo arguably one of the most mature lessons of "moving forward?"
I remember rewatching Dino Thunder, since it's one of my favourite seasons, and finding the finale so 'meh'. No main villain going giant as a final threat, no Megazord, just a Power of Friendship Beam (it didn't help that I watched it shortly after finishing Shinkenger and Go-Busters).
Also, it's so funny that Linkara was the one to bring light to how good Lightspeed Rescue actually is :v
The reason why dino thunder didnt have a megazord fight with mesagog going giant its mainly due to Mesagog being an original villain and not from abaranger so the US team would need to make their own US megazord fight and since this was only disney's second season, i dont think they wanted to spend the extra money just to make a set as well as fly over the zord suits just to use for 1 fight in the finale, so they just decided to do a ground fight.
@@arkanamaster4961 Really? I had no idea. Such a shame.
I'm not sure if that was intentional... Linkara *bringing* *light* to *Light*speed Rescue. But if it was, I caught it haha.
So the last dino themed show made Mesogog's dream real?
I like to see "recruitments from the future" as the finale of Time Force though.
Ya know, I never put two and two together, but you're right. Dino Charge essentially accomplished Mesogog's plan haha. They'd get along!
Reinforcements from the Future comes off as more of an epilogue to me than a finale proper.
@@mintbariYes, but it's a damn good epilogue. Ransik is not only redeemed, but cured, Nadira grew since the events with the baby, and Wes and Jen got a moment for themselves together once more. Plus, the orgs lore gets a boost.
*Menwhile Tommy:* What have you done!
9:45 In the case of Ninja Storm, the attack wouldn't destroy Lothor. It was suppose to just push him and make him fall into the abyss. Dino Thunder couldn't use this attack without losing their power and Mystic Force was able to use this attack bc they were power up by the magic of the people and the mystical creatures.
Those all sound like technicalities. If the basic objective was to "defeat the bad guy," then the point still stands and they had the ability to do so the whole time. I think you get what I mean, so I don't have to be 100% verbally specific when it comes to examples like Lothor. But the Dino Thunder team had no other threats so this is about the same stakes as the writers just giving them a gun that can one-shot Mesogog(s). For Mystic Force, I never got the impression that they had extra magic from the people/mystical creatures. At best, the combined magic from them gave them back their powers and that's really all that we can guess the extent was. I think of it from a writing perspective and see it more as the crowd hyping them up to "believe in magic," despite the circumstances, because a big theme in the season is belief, which allowed them to remorph and essentially have another go. That being said, if it only accomplishes them morphing, then we can likely assume this is just their regular magic that they're simply concentrating.
Great video keep up the hard work!
Thank you!
My top 10 are Countdown to Destruction, The End of the Power Rangers, The Fate of Lightspeed, Thunder Struck, The End, Doomsday + Hog Day Afternoon, Journeys End, Danger & Destiney, The Nemesis, & The End of Time. Honorable Mentions are Now The Final Fury, Chase Into Space, Endings, Storm Before The Calm, & Evox Unleashed.
Dishonorable Mentions A Season to Remember, Crown & Punishment, Legendary Battle, End of Extinction, & Galvanix Rises.
Well to answer why Ninja Storm, Dino Thunder, and Jungle Fury likely had lack luster endings due to them being unable to use the Sentai footage too much because because one of the Rangers died in the story. Also the final fight was half suitless fight.
Lightspeed Rescue has always been one of my top 3 favorite seasons only behind SPD and ahead of Timeforce
You should do a video like this on all the Power Rangers crossover episodes like when two teams meet each other
amazing video as always
Thanks!
Time force ending is the most favorite countdown to the destruction number 1 but post zordan era is the best seasons to me
you know for the last scene of Power Rangers lightspeed rescue I was still trying to find that soundtrack of it because it was like the best soundtrack I have ever heard and sometimes when I hear it I wish it would be put in all kinds of last scenes in a show’s finale
Have you seen my "Music of Power Rangers" video? I go deeper into the music and I looked all over during the research portion of working on it to find the scores (for all the seasons). I haven't been able to find anything new in the two years since I worked on it but I did mention what little I found. There was a false lead about a month ago when the entirety of Jungle Fury's soundtrack suddenly appeared on Spotify, only for it to be fan ripping the music (and possibly cleaning it up with AI). I believe they've since taken them down.
I would absolutely be elated to get my hands on the soundtrack for Lightspeed Rescue and the other Post-Saban and Disney eras.
Even if Some of The Finale Do Suck, Ya'll Can't Deny That Some are Still Epic in Their own Ways... Especially During The 2nd Seasons of The Neo Saban Era
Super Samurai Had The Rangers Attacking Master Xandred Without Holding Back
The Super Megaforce Rangers Using Different Legendary Modes in The Extended Legendary Battle
Dino Charge Using Sledge's own Ship Against Him in order to Restore The Earth
Ninja Steel Blasting Madame Odius With The Powers of The 6 Ninja Stars While The Go Go Power Rangers Theme Playing
for Samurai and Megaforce, those were awesome moments due to being scenes taking from both their japanese counterparts. The only original thing that was in the samurai one was having the shogun mode since that wasnt from the japanese one.
Excellent video. A good finale is important. As a kid it was Thunder Struck from Dino Thunder since it was my first. However I do like Lightspeed and Time Force's finale. I never knew people didn't like Lightspeed. Still good finales you picked
Message boards pre-2007 will tell you all about Lightspeed lol. It wasn't until Linkara did his History of Power Rangers series did people come around. But if I'm being honest, the PR fan community is so small, all it takes is one content creator to sway general opinion.
Lightspeed Rescue is my top fav PR season. I know it may sounds bias becaude it's my childhood.
When I was a kid, we don't have much and fortunately, we have DVDs. So, what do you guessed? I watched those DVDs all the time. Replay it all the time despite it's only like 4 episodes for PR Lightspeed Rescue.
As I grew up, I still love the season. Plus, I'm glad everyone enjoys it and the music just rocks. Eventually, I got curious about the sentai counterpart and I watched it.
In the end, I actually love both, the Sentai and PR. The Sentai involves family theme for the heroes and villains. It makes it more cruel when you think about the Queen was willing to sacrifice her own children in the sentai version. For PR part, I love how they change few parts. Eg, they change how Olympus became this super demon. It's different in both.
Enough of me yapping because it'll never end. If anyone willing to give GoGoV a go, I think it's good for me.
Power rangers forever ❤
32:17 this part completely took me out. You sir owe me a coffee that I spit up from laughing 🤣
Haha, Power Rangers is so good when you give the characters guns.
10:09 hey blame Magiranger for Mystic Force's final fight.
They were under no obligation to use it.
@@mintbari They needed the money to make their full of GCI "live" action remakes.
but in all seriousness, at the end of Lightspeed Rescue I thought they were running to meet the Time Force Rangers (yes, it had been announced by then) so I thought it was setting up for the Crossover Episode
Man Divatox and Scropina was top tier 🥰
31:33 and it looks better than whatever was in the 1997 spawn movie
My top seven favorite endings are End of Time from Power Rangers Time Force, Countdown to Destruction from Power Rangers in Space, Journey's End from Power Rangers Lost Galaxy, The End of the Power Rangers from Power Rangers Wild Force, The Fate of Lightspeed from Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue, Endings from Power Rangers SPD, and Now the Final Fury from Power Rangers Jungle Fury.
Can wait for power rangers reboot and cartoon 2025
Carter is literally the Steve Rogers of this universe
The Queen’s Wrath is a perfect finale, I did think it was a four parter until you mentioned it’s release. Lightspeed remains one of my all time favorites. I never knew it wasn’t a popular season, I always thought it was relatively well liked. It’s by far the most “realistic” and that’s what made it so good.
Man idk why for beast morphers they could’ve called the prey mantis zord the beatle zord and be called the beetle ranger they did keep the stag beetle I think for jay ( I forgot what his name was in beast morphers)
Yeah, it’s really Stupid!
actually steel's zord was called a scarab in beast morphers
Well at least it was a beetle at least
Kind of wish you mentioned the cracked visor and Leo's willingness to sacrifice himself to stop Trakeena
Super Lord Zedd in Cosmic Fury was basically like Super Shredder in Secret Of The Ooze. The most AWESOME lookin bad guy, who's like powerful ass shit, and it ends in an anti-climax.
This is just me but I just wanted to see Lord Zedd just blow up like every other villians!!!
Tell me about it. I feel like they just shoved him under the rug with the most convenient solution. I just don't get the sense that he's gonna be left alone on that planet. Eventually, someone's gonna fetch him.
@@mintbariplease at least watch all three seasons so you actually understand or even know what the end is. Zedd is imprisoned on a planet that will force him to relive his worst nightmare and will do the same to anyone that goes there. The only way to escape is to learn the lesson it’s trying to teach and actually changing. Also Ayion sees Zordon, Zayto does not.
@matthewrosenthal753 Literally did, made a whole video about it.
There's nothing stopping the writers from getting around the nightmare planet rules. Send a robot, idk. Problem solved.
And Zordon influenced the whole Zayto thing after Aiyon spoke to him.
Perhaps *you* should be the one to watch it.
@@mintbari What is preventing the writers from blowing up Lord Zedd? If it's the matter of saving him for later, there's a million ways to bring him back to life after he blew up.
@@mintbari Influencing is not the same as sending. The only person Zordon actively sent anywhere was Ayion. I did watch Power Rangers all 30 seasons. The good, the bad, and outright dumb (Dino Super Charge). And the Robot thing wouldn’t work, as Zedd is trapped in his own worst nightmare and by what was said can’t be released from it, without doing exactly what was said. It’s the nature of the planet. Also I never liked the Zedd return period. It was done through a monster that was subsequently destroyed. He was supposed to be from Zedd’s most evil point, which would have been long before his marriage or his first appearance in the show, and let me say again the monster that revived him and therefore powered that version was destroyed so how is his Zedd clone still around anyway.
I consider mmpr ninja quest pt1 to be mmpr season 2 finale they should have just had ninja quest a 3 parter and had the episode the zords got destroyed just name like a new evil or something like that but my God seeing the thunderzord being destroyed like that was horrifying as a kid and even now as an adult it's scary because it was unexpected and dark as hell
Lightspeed rescue has a better visual representation of hell than the 1997 movie spawn
Have you already done a video on Power Rangers team up episodes?
The Power Rangers X Evangelion mash up was perfect. Only thing missing was a Shinji ranger 👏🤣👏🤣
I thought about adding in another Evangelion edit... but let's just say that any idea involving a hospital room would've been too disturbing lol. (So maybe a no to the Shinji ranger?)
I know you have a sarcastic tone, but you can't disrespect Zordon.
He's literally a fictional character lmao.
@@mintbari, I get that, but he still made a difference in alot of our lives. Even today, in the comic books or RE-watching MMPR-SPACE [movies included], he's still making a difference. In my opinion, everyone could've and still could a "Zordon" in their life. It's not who he was, but what he represented. You say fictional, I say maybe just not in this Universe.
@4:14 nice touch LMAO 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I didn't add anything, that's how it originally aired.
Power Rangers Chicago Fire?
what a freaking cool concept!!
They should have stayed at the concept after Zeo. Going from coyping the next Sentai season to skipping and doing 2 season series was a big mistake in my eyes. The sendoffs lost a lot of emotional weight with the change.
14:16 On what source did you find proof that Dino Fury retconned Megaforce’s final battle? I searched it up, and all I could find were discussions on Dino Fury retconning MMPR.
Because it wasn't a retcon, it was just an explanation for the Megaforce's final battle.
I don’t know o rather liked the Mystic Force final as it sort of reminded me of Sailor Moon’s Season 1 finale. As they both use Team Work and combined all of their Positive Powers/Magic to overload and Beat the Big Bad of the Season. They both did it the same way too by Filtering all of their Powers and Magic in to the leader and after doing so the leader Defeated or I guess Destroy is the more popular term? The said Big Bad of the Season.
My favorite finale is RPM.
Fascinating seeing Lightspeed Rescue so talked up, especially for its grand finale. If you ask me, the Troika arc / defeat of Diabolico is even better. I've sung its praises plenty, particularly in what it meant for Diabolico's and Bansheera's characters, but it's like Doomsday meets The Green Candle.
The sixth ranger is redeemed and is fighting for the good guys, as you do, so the demons immediately take a shot at him and take him off the table. All the while, Diabolico is sending out his very last monsters because he only has one shot at the rangers before Bansheera dethrones him. No "we'll get 'em next episode" this time. Ain't gonna' _be_ a next episode at this rate. It's him or the Rangers. With Diabolico no longer messing around, the Rangers are getting taken to their limits like never before. It seems almost as if Diabolico's Troika monsters have the Rangers' number. Even after Diabolico burns through his minions (even going as far as to kill one of them himself just to grow him), it's clear why Diabolico is the one in charge. He even no-sells the Rangers' finishers, a staple of any final boss fight in Power Rangers. Even the Rangers' best zord gets a hole blown through it, a level of mecha gore that Power Rangers had never done before. (Though to be fair, this had a lot to do with the source sentai, Go Go V, featuring a significant bump in special effects compared to its own predecessors.) Shifting down to the Lightspeed Megazord wasn't a grand plan to combo into the Lightspeed Solarzord. Not with Ryan off the table. It genuinely gave the impression that the Rangers were intending to go down swinging.
The only reason the Rangers won that fight was because Ryan went to take care of business on his own, where he was likewise getting beaten within an inch of his life because he had to fight a monster unmorphed. Nothing was coming up Rangers anymore. Unlike with Troika, there weren't any more new toys coming to save the day at the last second. (Given how much earlier Ms. Fairweather pointed out the Max Solarzord was complete, it's likely the Rangers knew about the Lightspeed Solarzord.) The Rangers just had to use what they had available to them as their functional options actively dwindled. It's one of the tensest arcs in a kid's show this side of Digimon Tamers, and one I revisit periodically to this day.
The Lightspeed Solarzord is just awesome in its own right, but even more so in its context. It's sort of the Mega Dragonzord of Lightspeed, even though stacking zords had been falling out of fashion in more recent years. Sure, you had your Ninja Falconzords and your Astro Delta Megazords (both of which appeared fairly early in their respective series...), but the Power Rangers meta had been leaning more towards super zords for a while now in place of the old "everybody pile on the Ultrazord". The Shogunzord. The Super Zeo Megazord. The Rescue Megazord. The Mega Voyager. And so on. Lightspeed itself even had the Supertrain Megazord, a big fan favorite and one of the most positively remembered elements of Lightspeed Rescue outside of Mike Chat's fight choreography. But what's less remembered is how infrequently the Supertrain sortied. For the Supertrain to predate the Lightspeed Solarzord was almost a purposeful narrative misdirect (especially when the Omega Megazord would come out later and be the _real_ super megazord equivalent). So when the _Supertrain_ gets scrapped, the audience is thinking "ok, best case scenario: Ryan gets back and the Max Solarzord and Lightspeed Megazord tag team Diabolico and drive him off to get atomic wedgied by Bansheera." You were almost led to believe that zord stacking wasn't a thing in Lightspeed Rescue. But then you realize that Diabolico took Ryan out first thing, so the Rangers never got a chance to zord stack... until now! Cue the Wasserman-esque series leitmotif, and the rest is history.
Y'know how it's a big meme in Megaforce that Gosei keeps throwing toys at the Rangers for random acts of not giving up in the face of minor inconveniences? I feel like the Lightspeed Solarzord is the ur-example of what those instances were trying to do. No one needed to audibly commend the Lightspeed Rescue rangers for their massive brass balls in the face of certain defeat. Their courage and resourcefulness was rewarded didactically. So when the Lightspeed Solarzord finally descended from above on the force of its foot verniers like a giant mecha angel covered in blaster cannons, it felt earned in a way that Gosei's handouts never did. As the Hyperdimension Neptunia anime once put it, "they defeated the monsters with the power of love and also probably lasers. Hooray!"
That was fun
You know we're getting a reboot Power Rangers universe next year right? 😎🙂👍
I know, I literally said it in my last three video so I didn't feel like bringing it up here. But the show as it is did end, that's been confirmed.
@@mintbari I didn't know that sorry 😔
Not anymore
Glad to see I'm not the only one who think Lightspeed Rescue is a masterpiece. I really loved everything about it.
Hate to say this but I am more interested in the Japanese original versions since in the English version of made the storyline kinda interesting back then but nowadays it's just been boring to me after I stopped at RPM series and never resume after that when they should have made it somewhat interesting as villains names their own gadgets arsenals and vehicles and including weapons should have a much better naming than just saying power this power that or even their own transformation devices as call it something else at least than just morphers all the times as I thought the definition of morphers means a watch or device wrist to your hand or something like that than cellar or other devices they just keeps calling it nothing else than morphers all the times each newest PR series
I’m sorry but Comic Fury is fine but it’s just felt weird to me. I have still never seen the last episode of a Power Rangers to ever be made and I don’t know why, but for some reason I can’t watch that episode.
You should have mentioned how they copied the "I am Spartacus" scene in Countdown To Destruction.
You know what's funny? I've seen Spartacus (granted, it was years ago), and never put two and two together lol. But also, all of cinema is derivative. Lion King is a watered down version of Hamlet.
I've struggled to keep up with PR for past few years, the formula is just tired and the camp isn't camping enough to be camp, it's just cringe. If they could recapture what was achieved in the In space - Lost Galaxy era they could absolutely revive the franchise. Karone's storyline is probably the best character arc in the whole franchise.
I don't blame ya. The show can be painful to watch nowadays.
I can't remember the storyline reason for why they made Justin stay on Earth. Feels like after everything he went through, he'd wanna see shit to the end as well.
He didn’t want to leave his dad
He didn't want to leave his dad behind. Story-wise it makes sense. His mom died (established in the Turbo movie) and his dad could barely be there for him as it is. it was something he still struggled with during the team up in Space. I'm also sure Justin has crazy abandonment issues considering that and also the original four Turbo rangers peacing out on him lol.
Could please do something with jungle fury that was my childhood but no one talks about it
To me, this is how I view of each of the eras:
Golden Age: MMPR - Wild Force (Best)
Silver Age: Ninja Storm - RPM (mid)
Bronze Age: Samurai - Current (poor)
Pre in space PR was mid turbo finale carried pre in space 💀😭 Disney era isn’t mid at all
In terms of actual super sentai what series has he watched they pretty solid but the last 2 seasons where really good oddly enough
Pretty sure non
See? Real ones like me and MintBari know that Lightspeed Rescue has always been an all time great PR season with the best finale 👌🏻 but yeah it’s crazy that they nailed Lost Galaxy through Wild Force with all time high endings and never really recovered after that
31:57 Carter willing to go to Hell was GOATED tbh.
Im so tired of mighty morphing that wasn’t even the series I grew up on
My favorite finale will forever be Lightspeed Rescue.
Based bloodbunniprince :)
I see a lot of Bulk and Skull in even later episodes. Was that true or did my eyes deceive me? Having not watched this series since 1996, I’m curious how far they went.
Bulk and Skull were main characters until In Space. In Lost Galaxy only Bulk stayed on cause Skull’s actor just wanted to direct for PR and other projects. After lost Galaxy, they were no longer main characters. Bulk and Skull did make cameos in the 10th anniversary special Forever Red. Bulk also became a side character in Samurai with also taking care of a new kid who was Skull’s son in universe. Skull also makes a cameo at the end of Samurai
This, plus a cameo on a billboard in Once and Always!
That cool
The thumbnail pulled me into this video, lol.
Anyway, with the power rangers getting a reboot next year, they really need to step up their game.
I think them taking as far a step away from how the show has been handled the past decade and starting fresh is the best bet for the reboot. I don't think it's a problem that's unique to filming in New Zealand, I just think they got into some really bad habits that they couldn't fix (despite literally everyone pointing at them and the people working on the show being well aware).
@@mintbari yeah, my perspective to power rangers is not the same after knowing the scandals. It's heartbreaking and tragic as a power ranger lover back when I was a wee lad.
However, even as a grown ass man, I'm still looking forward to the reboot (if there's any news).
It'll be a surprise if they have an original theme for the rangers.
Speaking of, my favorite pr ending has to be jungle fury.
Lightspeed rescue has a better looking hell than the movie spawn
Did your voice got deep? Or is it your Mike?
Also Eva reference
Nope. Same voice. I did have a bit of a nasty canker sore so maybe I was speaking slightly differently. There's a lot more lip movement when you're trying to talk and enunciate for VO.
11:17 Well that’s insulting.
As much as I don’t like wild force, it’s finale had me tearing up when the zords were destroyed.
NOT THE UNKNOWN 💀💀💀
Countdown to destruction with the end of the power rangers being a close second
This video really reminds me of how Kidz Bopified the endings have become over time.
"The rangers scale a giant monster ala Shadow of the Calloses"
*que the theme*
Or Sonic Frontiers
*Que Undefeatable*
Also I feel bad for Olimpius. He, along with Diabolico, disserve a second chance at life.
Divatox has always been a fave. But the Alien Rangers don’t get enough respect.
I have a crush on Ciara Hanna
Wait, was it me, or did I saw Eye Guy in hell beating Bansheera?
Probably. They used a lot of old monster costumed for the shadow realm. They do this all the time, such as the patrons of the Wild West bar on Onyx or the audience of Galaxy Warriors during Ninja Steel.
@mintbari kind of likes countdown to destruction. There were a lot of monsters from the first mmpr seasons. Since they used suits from differents as well as suits that didn't appeared at all in those seasons.
Honestly think you’re a little harsh on Cosmic Fury’s ending. The show was a victim of Hasbro’s lack of interest in the property & not being able to expand or capitalize on moments they set up but had to rush or skip over due to the limited episode run.
Having Zedd give up his powers ties into the storyline of Olly learning to be more evil by having him use the Zedd’s lessons & wisdom right back at him because why the hell would Zedd sacrifice power for the greater good 😂
It’s an improvement from the Neo-Saban era endings but it still falls into the the same writing tropes like Deus Ex Machinas
Highly disagree with the characterization of some of the disney era finals. Specifically SPD and mistic force.
Edit: (had to drive home)
So i just wanted to say up front that S.P.D and Mystic Force are my personal favorite seasons, but i also wana make clear that it is perfectly valid to not like the shows or their endings.
For S.P.D, the full invasion of Earth and assault of S.P.D head quarters is absolute gold to me. Seeing non power ranger try to fight Grums and brood wings forces is nerve wreaking. And seeing B squad take down A squad is an iconic moment to me. And not to mention that kurger is the one to bring in Grum.
As for Mystic Force, i thought the solution was pretty clever. After trying force and being beaten down the rangers harnessing the world's good magic to overload the master while not original is pretty on brand for how the rangers always had to think outside the box with their magic.
The Rangers: We are so Super Mighty Morphin Fucked Up...
but my question is that after 30 years on tv will there be any more new power rangers series n the future but to answer your question. The answer is yes this is the end of it
I almost don't even believe it's over. It seems foolish to end it now. I'll be sad if it's actually over for good
0:38 the last decade have been mid* 2011-2023
What if it is not the end?
What if what lol? Unless they say otherwise, they confirmed the show in it's current format is over. So it's literally the end. I just didn't wanna mention that in this video cause I've mentioned Jonathan Entwistle's name in the last three I did haha.