[OOC] CLOSED - Ultimate One Universe: Season One

[Eddie Brock]

Tommy is the original Gary Stu and a garbage character who we've been forced to endure because Jason David Frank was the first actor to realize that there was money to be made off the nostalgia. /hottake

Amendment: Tommy was an incredible villain and a character whose arc was exhausted the second he lost his powers. Bringing him back as the White Ranger was PR's jumping-the-shark.

[AndyC]

Tommy is the original Gary Stu and a garbage character who we've been forced to endure because Jason David Frank was the first actor to realize that there was money to be made off the nostalgia. /hottake

Amendment: Tommy was an incredible villain and a character whose arc was exhausted the second he lost his powers. Bringing him back as the White Ranger was PR's jumping-the-shark.

@Eddie Brock

It always made me mad that Jason got screwed over for Tommy, letting a former arch-enemy take over the team. It's like whenever Magneto does a face-turn and everyone's just okay with him leading the X-Men despite all those times he tried to kill them. Meanwhile ya boy in the T-Rex has been loyal since day one and suddenly he's relegated to sidekick duty. I call bullshit.

#RedRanger4Life

[Supermaxx]

I had no idea three consecutive people could have strong feelings about Power Rangers. This is wild.

[HenryJonesJr]

Listen, I was 5 (or whatever) when I watched the show and Green/White Ranger looked the coolest. That's all that matters.

Plus his sword talked. Game. Set. Match.

[Eddie Brock]

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It always made me mad that Jason got screwed over for Tommy, letting a former arch-enemy take over the team. It's like whenever Magneto does a face-turn and everyone's just okay with him leading the X-Men despite all those times he tried to kill them. Meanwhile ya boy in the T-Rex has been loyal since day one and suddenly he's relegated to sidekick duty. I call bullshit.

#RedRanger4Life

@AndyC

On the one hand, Saban didn't have a choice once Austin St. John walked off the production. On the other hand, Saban did have a choice: Pay your actors more than extras.

At least the positive consequence was that Jason never played second fiddle to Tommy. No, that "honor" was reserved for Rocky, the second Red Ranger and a man with all the charisma of a sea sponge.

[Divine Darkness]

You people make me feel so frickin' old!

I couldn't tell you which episode I saw first, this was my first exposure to superheroes:



The Super Friends were also running at this time.

[Eddie Brock]

I had no idea three consecutive people could have strong feelings about Power Rangers. This is wild.

@Superboy

I'm telling you: I will make a Power Rangers game on this site, and I will find two -- maybe even three -- people to join me!

[HenryJonesJr]

I'm still working on my indy game concept when I have time. I'm trying to make the world rock solid so that it "makes sense", at least as much as it possibly can....

So don't expect that for a while. haha

[Hound55]

"And thus, despite nearly concluding their first successful season on the forum, the boards were split in twain.

Between those who worshipped at the alter of Tommy the green Usurper, and those who saw him as a false idol in jade..."

[Eddie Brock]

Although, to split hairs, while Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers indoctrinated me into the world of dubbed Japanese sentai madness -- and left me forever wanting to grow up to be the Red Power Ranger -- these nerds were the realest:

[AndyC]

I could never get into the sentai genre myself, but if we're talking suitimation and tokusatsu effects, ain't nobody can step to the realest mothafucka:

[Eddie Brock]

Pure sentai is still too wild for me, but Power Rangers adds enough of an illusion of conventional plot structure to achieve palatability. But man... no one can deny the Japanese's creativity.

Yeah... that's the right word for it. "Creativity."

[HenryJonesJr]

I could never get into the sentai genre myself, but if we're talking suitimation and tokusatsu effects, ain't nobody can step to the realest mothafucka:

@AndyC

youtube.com/watch?v=FGRHqvC7f_o

[Master Bruce]

It's weird for me when it comes to Power Rangers and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, because despite devouring all things superhero related when I was young, I was a pretty late bloomer for both. Well, I honestly got way more into the Rangers than I ever did the Turtles, but I've come to respect both properties as a relatively mild fan. Time Force was my gate into the Rangers whenever I was about 11, after dabbling with Lightspeed Rescue. Then I went back and watched Mighty Morphin later on, wasn't super into it, but liked the concepts around it enough.

With TMNT I flat-out never had an interest in until, oddly enough, the Nickelodeon cartoon from just a few years ago. I think because I really didn't quite figure out what their thing was beyond being radical party dudes, and saw all four of them as interchangeable. Catching the Nick cartoon on a lazy afternoon actually laid out their personalities plainly, and I got intrigued enough to read some issues of the IDW run. So I've been more interested since, though I still know barely anything about the lore.

The weirdest superhero I ever got into beyond the big two was Spawn, largely because the movie came out at an impressionable age for me and the character looked neat. Obviously the comics are damn near unreadable garbage, which I found out when I was old enough to get my hands on them, but I've long held out a dream of being able to rewrite him from the ground up and make him more than just a pissed off, burnt Punisher/Batman knockoff. So if your indy game ever takes off, @HenryJonesJr, consider that my tentative reservation.

[Hound55]

Pure sentai is still too wild for me, but Power Rangers adds enough of an illusion of conventional plot structure to achieve palatability. But man... no one can deny the Japanese's creativity.

Yeah... that's the right word for it. "Creativity."

@Eddie Brock

Or as the Western World calls it... the Sex Offender Register.

[Supermaxx]

Speaking of indie characters, I was reminded of this with the most recent Thor post. I gotta finish reading Invincible one of these days. Shit was metal af.

[HenryJonesJr]

It's weird for me when it comes to Power Rangers and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, because despite devouring all things superhero related when I was young, I was a pretty late bloomer for both. Well, I honestly got way more into the Rangers than I ever did the Turtles, but I've come to respect both properties as a relatively mild fan. Time Force was my gate into the Rangers whenever I was about 11, after dabbling with Lightspeed Rescue. Then I went back and watched Mighty Morphin later on, wasn't super into it, but liked the concepts around it enough.

With TMNT I flat-out never had an interest in until, oddly enough, the Nickelodeon cartoon from just a few years ago. I think because I really didn't quite figure out what their thing was beyond being radical party dudes, and saw all four of them as interchangeable. Catching the Nick cartoon on a lazy afternoon actually laid out their personalities plainly, and I got intrigued enough to read some issues of the IDW run. So I've been more interested since, though I still know barely anything about the lore.

The weirdest superhero I ever got into beyond the big two was Spawn, largely because the movie came out at an impressionable age for me and the character looked neat. Obviously the comics are damn near unreadable garbage, which I found out when I was old enough to get my hands on them, but I've long held out a dream of being able to rewrite him from the ground up and make him more than just a pissed off, burnt Punisher/Batman knockoff. So if your indy game ever takes off, @HenryJonesJr, consider that my tentative reservation.

@Master Bruce

The computer animated Nick show is GREAT, and the IDW Turtles run is even better. My two favorite forms of Turtles media ever. The IDW run does a really great job of melding the best ideas from the various incarnations

And noted. I’m going to hold off on even putting anything out about it until we’ll into next year. Getting married/honeymoon in May and June, and I don’t want to neglect this game while doing wedding stuff and starting another game. So maybe sometime next summer

[Hound55]

Being outside of the US, comics for me were all Phantom/Tintin/Asterix until late high school.

Loved Footrot Flats comics strip stuff as well, which probably had a big influence on that Spruce: Batcow run thing I did briefly.

[Byrd Man]

Being outside of the US, comics for me were all Phantom/Tintin/Asterix until late high school.

@Hound55

You have no idea how bad I want to write a Tintin story in one of these games.

[Weird Tales]

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You have no idea how bad I want to write a Tintin story in one of these games.

@Byrd Man

you'd like these if they became real books