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Way back in the early ’90s, this show appeared. I hated it… I mean, I was in my 20s, and it was a blatant Voltron ripoff* which was campy and geared at young kids. It was cheaply made to capitalize on the Jurassic Park dinosaur craze at the time, and I think it even helped influence the naming of the Toronto Raptors basketball team because of the whole “Look, kids will watch anything with dinosaurs” deal. The show was dorky, badly written, corny, and totally uncool. Annoyingly, though, it was the only thing on TV when I got home from work, so I’d turn on the TV for some noise and go do something else, like reading or BBS surfing on my computer. As time went  by, it would catch my attention in the background and it seemed to get a little better. By the time the evil Green Ranger came along, I actually was intrigued and often when the ex-wife got home from work, she’d catch me actually sitting watching Power Rangers. I began getting a lot busier and getting home later in the day, and pretty much lost interest. In total I probably only watched 20 or 30 episodes of the first series (which I just discovered lasted 145!). I actually took my youngest brother to see the first movie in the theatre back in the summer of 1995, but at that point I had lost any connection to the storyline. Since then, I’ve maybe seen 3 episodes of any of the Power Rangers shows over the last (wow is it really?) 16 years. It didn’t stick with me like Transformers, Star Blazers (Space Battleship Yamato), G-Force (Science Ninja Team Gatchaman) or Superfriends or any of the other “kid stuff” that I actually geek out over when a new show or movie is created using those properties. So - can someone please explain to me why I was welling up with sentimental tears while watching the first two episodes with my son when I found Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers on Netflix today? *Ironically, the Japanese series Super Sentai, the basis for the original Power Rangers, is an antecedent of Go Lion, the series that was turned into the North American Voltron. Weird, huh?

Way back in the early ’90s, this show appeared.

I hated it…

I mean, I was in my 20s, and it was a blatant Voltron ripoff* which was campy and geared at young kids. It was cheaply made to capitalize on the Jurassic Park dinosaur craze at the time, and I think it even helped influence the naming of the Toronto Raptors basketball team because of the whole “Look, kids will watch anything with dinosaurs” deal. The show was dorky, badly written, corny, and totally uncool.

Annoyingly, though, it was the only thing on TV when I got home from work, so I’d turn on the TV for some noise and go do something else, like reading or BBS surfing on my computer. As time went  by, it would catch my attention in the background and it seemed to get a little better. By the time the evil Green Ranger came along, I actually was intrigued and often when the ex-wife got home from work, she’d catch me actually sitting watching Power Rangers.

I began getting a lot busier and getting home later in the day, and pretty much lost interest. In total I probably only watched 20 or 30 episodes of the first series (which I just discovered lasted 145!). I actually took my youngest brother to see the first movie in the theatre back in the summer of 1995, but at that point I had lost any connection to the storyline. Since then, I’ve maybe seen 3 episodes of any of the Power Rangers shows over the last (wow is it really?) 16 years. It didn’t stick with me like Transformers, Star Blazers (Space Battleship Yamato), G-Force (Science Ninja Team Gatchaman) or Superfriends or any of the other “kid stuff” that I actually geek out over when a new show or movie is created using those properties.

So - can someone please explain to me why I was welling up with sentimental tears while watching the first two episodes with my son when I found Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers on Netflix today?

*Ironically, the Japanese series Super Sentai, the basis for the original Power Rangers, is an antecedent of Go Lion, the series that was turned into the North American Voltron. Weird, huh?