I can't find much of anything on it save for that it existed and when the host died ,which wasn't that long ago.
Power Rangers was pretty easy to hate back in the day. It was a little kids show, despite the violence and SFX scenes. I was in 4th or 5th grade when it got big, and clueless relatives got me Power Rangers toys for some of my last toy Christmases.
Much sadness.
I wore the hell out of my Silverhawks PJs with wings.
I was a little younger than that when it first was brought over, but I have zero nostalgia for Power Rangers because I was the one kid who wasn't allowed to watch it. Not because of violence, though; my mom tested out a single episode with me and thought it was too "weird" (Japanese) and dumb so I wasn't allowed to watch it ever again.Power Rangers was pretty easy to hate back in the day. It was a little kids show, despite the violence and SFX scenes. I was in 4th or 5th grade when it got big, and clueless relatives got me Power Rangers toys for some of my last toy Christmases.
TBF, Power Rangers as someone already mentioned followed some Japanese series in terms of having the latter as its source for stock animation and fight scenes. The only real problem with that (and related shows such as VR Troopers and Beetle Borgs) was that once the stock footage was used up, that was it. There was no ability to deviate from the source footage, something that stifled any opportunity to make these shows creative and impressive on their own.
Mummies Alive seemed to have an interesting enough premise, but it always felt as if the writers didn't know what to do with it. This is probably why it barely lasted for one season and failed to reach the 65 episode threshold needed for syndication from what I remember. Once again, this was an example of a failed attempt to cash in on the fad of the time -- which in this case was mummies.
I'm willing to bet that the sword was removed to comply with the 80s standards for cartoon violence. Many cartoons were watered downed or defanged to make sure they didn't have too much violence, and they had to have an end-of-episode moral such as "Don't play in the street" presented in the campiest, cheesiest way possible. Other cartoons from the era such as MASK, He-Man, She-Ra, etc. also had these elements. In the case of MASK, the crime-fighting plots gave way to vehicle racing (of all things) for the final 10 episodes without warning largely in part to comply with the mandate to tone down the cartoon violence. To this day, many people that grew up watching the show absolutely hate the ten racing episodes with a passion and prefer the first 65 episodes before the switch.
Pretty much the exact opposite for me really, I couldn't get enough of it. I drew the line at Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills, though. Got to have SOME standards.Power Rangers was pretty easy to hate back in the day. It was a little kids show, despite the violence and SFX scenes. I was in 4th or 5th grade when it got big, and clueless relatives got me Power Rangers toys for some of my last toy Christmases.
The Wayside School books were some of my favorites growing up. There was a lot of surreal humor that couldn't really translate properly to the screen, so you needed to use your imagination for some things to make sense. That's why the TV show never worked. Plus it was a boring run-of-the-mill cartoon even without the influence of the books.
There was an official final script for Dungeons and Dragons and the episode was recently finished. This is canon, btw
I hated that show when I was kid mainly because the main character was an unlikeable little shit who got other people in trouble for his own selfish desires.
