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Well, I see the resemblance.

So, is that where the name came from, though? An alien Power Ranger?

(By the way, that's probably the very worst alien make-up ever seen on screen.)

I always thought she liked dolphins, but didn't like the letters o and s, and she replaced the letter o and s with e, because I thought that was her favorite vowel.

I remember when I used to like the Power Rangers in the 5th grade. Rita Repulsa's actor doesn't look that bad behind all that makeup.

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Amazing Grant wrote:
So, is that where the name came from, though? An alien Power Ranger?

Apparently, the Alien Ranger names were based on characters from an obscure Latin text (although I don't know how true that is). Perhaps our Delphine was inspired by the same source.

^_^

Guys, I'm pretty sure she's named after Mt. Delphine in Canada.

I remember when I used to like the Power Rangers in the 5th grade. Rita Repulsa's actor doesn't look that bad behind all that makeup.

THAT episode. I remember that one. I honestly thought that that was the end of Power Rangers, considering it had a grand battle and all an epic finale. I stopped watching it because it was perfect in ending, but they crapped it out with lesser worthy PR shows. It's the Buffy season 6 of the PR world.
~Neo

Poison Eggroll wrote:I always thought she liked dolphins, but didn't like the letters o and s, and she replaced the letter o and s with e, because I thought that was her favorite vowel.

Er. Delphine is a somewhat popular French name -- not that I knew that at the time I decided to be Delphine on the net. It's originally from Delphi or Delphinus or something, some Greek dolphin story. I don't remember exactly and I'm too lazy to look it up.

Although I do like dolphins.

You're a Power Ranger just like Dawson, admit it.

chriscaffee wrote:You're a Power Ranger just like Dawson, admit it.

You're not cleared for that information.

The funny thing is I had a crush on the Green/White Ranger in the fifth grade. And now that I look back, the Green/White and Red Rangers were <i>so</i> doing it.

I think Tommy's GIRLFRIEND was Kimberly. And the green ranger is exempt from any gayness because he has the Dragonzord.

Why does everyone try to turn everything I love into some kind of sick homoerotic fantasy: Sonic, LOTR and now Power Rangers. At least BattleTech and guns are safe, for the moment.

chriscaffee wrote:I think Tommy's GIRLFRIEND was Kimberly. And the green ranger is exempt from any gayness because he has the Dragonzord.

Why does everyone try to turn everything I love into some kind of sick homoerotic fantasy: Sonic, LOTR and now Power Rangers. At least BattleTech and guns are safe, for the moment.

Firstly, people can be bisexual. Actually, no, firstly I was KIDDING, you stooge. Firstly secondly, people can be bisexual, myself case in point. And thirdly, <a href="http://www.dontfeedthewriter.com/11t/gunporn.jpg">this is not worksafe</a>. And also not realistic, before you get on my case about it. :P

Firstly, people can be bisexual.

NOT THE GREEN RANGER

Actually, no, firstly I was KIDDING, you stooge.

Thanks for enlightening me. I had no idea. Honest.

And thirdly, this is not worksafe. And also not realistic, before you get on my case about it. :P

Why is his finger on the FUCKING trigger?

I dunno, why is he shoving a gun up there in the first place? It's cold, metal, and the sight (is that what it's called? The bit on the very front of the barrel) can't feel all that great, either.

Why does everyone try to turn everything I love into some kind of sick homoerotic fantasy: Sonic, LOTR and now Power Rangers. At least BattleTech and guns are safe, for the moment.

A) Tails and Charmy together form a vortex of gayness so powerful it threatens to swallow us all.

B) LoTR, at least in the original novel form, had nearly no female characters. The female characters that WERE around were generally treated like furniture in terms of character development. It's the Transformers syndrome - there are so few female characters that all bonding and relationship interaction between characters is strictly male/male.

C) I hate PowerRangers, but considering that the US cast is generally made up of theater-house rejects - there's gotta be quite a few rangers played by gays. And they do run around in rainbow-coordianted colors.

ITS MORPHIN TIME

chriscaffee wrote:I think Tommy's GIRLFRIEND was Kimberly. And the green ranger is exempt from any gayness because he has the Dragonzord.

Why does everyone try to turn everything I love into some kind of sick homoerotic fantasy: Sonic, LOTR and now Power Rangers. At least BattleTech and guns are safe, for the moment.

Actually, in Mech Assault 2 when you use the battle armor and latch onto another mech it kinda looks like it's assraping the mech. Killed that for you too.

Oh and I liked Power Rangers way longer than I should have, like three years, but it was never good. I'm amazed it is still going.

It's the minds of fanboys/fangirls: Everyone is bisexual... if you want them to be.

The MechAssault series is a bastardization of BattleTech to begin with. A fun bastardization, but definitely the result of rape regardless.

I didn't know until yesterday that Power Rangers was not exclusively a US show. Apparently there was a Japanese version.

Well, the scenes with the Rangers actually in action were just cut from some Japanese show, right?

It beats the heck out of me, but that's what I've been told.

They were. PR was a Japanese show before being imported to America, so they just did Voice-Overs on the Japanese scenes.

It depends on the season. Power Rangers gets its footage from a continuing series called Sentai. Its story, characters, locations, and everything changes each year, which is why PR keeps changing costumes and everything each year.

For the first three seasons though, they stuck with the same costumes from the sentai series "Zyurangers", and just took the giant robots and White Ranger outfit from "Dairanger" and later "Kakuranger". However, this lead to problems because they couldn't use as much Japanese footage. Like, in the first half of the second season, they used the Dai robots, but fought leftover monsters from Zyu. The robot fights were spliced together and the robot and monster were never on screen at the same time. When White Ranger came in, they started using Dai monsters and the situation reversed. The Rangers and the monster were never on screen at the same time. In the third season, they just brought over the monster costumes from Japan and filmed fight footage in the US. Only Japanese footage used was in robot battles.

So then they started doing what the Japanese did and started changing the costumes every year so they could make better use of the Japanese footage, though they kept the same actors and situations. Later they would follow the sentai format and start changing the plot, actors, villians, and location each year. For the last three years before Disney bought them out, they actually followed the Japanese plot unlike the show's early years.(The Time Force season, unlike the first season, was actually deathly serious)

Using snips of Japanese stuff to make superhero shows was all the rage awhile back. Man, remember Superhuman Samurai Cyber Squad? Or what about Big Bad Beetle Borgs, wasn't it done the same way? I guess it was also advantageous because they could bring over the corresponding toys, as well.

I'm not sure who they think they are fooling, though. Even when the very first season of Power Rangers aired, I thought it was jarring, and I was like 12 years old. All the Japanese footage was washed out and grainy compared to the American-made portions, and the Japanese actors movement was much more spastic and exaggerated than the scenes with the American actors in costume. And then there was the whole Rita Repulsa lip-syncing issue. It was just a big mess in general.

You watched Power Rangers when you were 12? What a loser.

I remember I stopped watching PR around the time Kimberly got booted/Katherine came in. I'm sure if I watched the old Power Rangers now, I'd probably laugh and cringe uncontrollably.

I miss the Power Rangers parody on Animaniacs.

Also, Tommy's back in the latest season of Power Rangers, it seems. As the new ranger's teacher or something like that. And it went back to the Dinosaur themed robots. Thanks a lot for sparking my interest on why Power Rangers is still running and what kind of themes they went through.