There's "Hamlet," there's "The Godfather," and then there's the five-part "Power Rangers" episode "Green With Evil." These episodes intorduce Jason David Frank's Tommy Oliver, a new kid with some pretty great martial arts skills. The monsters and Megazord fight among the buildings of a city (think "Pacific Rim"), until the good guys finishes the baddies off - Mortal Kombat-style - with a gigantic sword. While they begin as human-sized alien baddies, they almost all transform (thanks to Rita's evil witchery) into giant, Godzilla-sized monsters. The villains also bear some footprints of Japanese culture. The Power Rangers each have their own giant robot that they control, called Zords, and the robots can combine to form the Megazord, a giant, Voltron-like monster-fighting robot. "Power Rangers" was based on the Japanese "Super Sentai" series, and a lot of its trademarks are very Japanese in nature. Zack's the cool, athletic one, great at sports and dancing, always quick with a joke, and popular with the ladies, and of course is best friends with Jason. Trini's extremely shy, though she also knows kung fu, so who knows why she was shy in the first place? He's the nerd on the science club, and while he's not the best fighter at the beginning, he becomes stronger and more independent throughout the show. Kimberly is the popular valley girl at school, though she grows throughout the series.
Jason's the de facto leader of the Rangers, a good-looking, tough martial arts expert who's the bro of the group. The Rangers were all very stereotypical teenage archetypes: Zordon, who's an imprisoned space wizard that appears as a floating head, and his robot Alpha 5 hand-pick five teenagers who are pure of heart to become the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, protecting Earth against Rita's monster invaders with their own dinosaur-based fighting robots called Zords.Īnd if that doesn't make sense, just watch the intro a few dozen times. In a nutshell: Rita Repulsa (who's evil, if you couldn't tell) and her monster minions are freed from their moon prison. I was going to say the concept's pretty basic, since I understood it at around three years old, but trying to explain it gets a bit complex. We can only pray the reboot doesn't forget this key component to the series. Instead of going the sci-fi route for the music, we were instead treated to a "Rocky"-inspired power anthem with an immediately recognizable guitar riff and lyrics so simple that you can't help singing along.
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Great TV theme, or the greatest TV theme? The music for the Rangers, like their outfits and cast, has varied over the years, but this theme stands out as the best of them all.
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