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and because of that a lot of people stopped watching and the show almost got canceled?

I remember as a kid I was losing my patience with Power Rangers a while before Turbo.

Season 3 felt like it kept jerking me around with multi-parters that should've ended in half the time. (Seriously, Ninja Quest is absolute garbage even by Power Rangers standards.).

Then they had that awful "turned into kids" storyline with the alien replacements.

Then Zeo kept doing weird things like turning Bulk and Skull into monkeys. The Gold Ranger arc was a bunch of mysterious build-up just for it to be revealed that he's some random dude we've never met before.

I actually liked the Turbo movie and Justin when it came out. I was less concerned with replacing Rocky and more concerned with Zordon being replaced by this weird ghost woman who only talked in questions and Alpha turning into some bizarre parody of himself who spoke in corporate hip-hop lingo.

The cast-replacement halfway through was the best thing that ever happened to the series at that point.

They kept firing actors because they didn't want them to pay them more.

Kim_Seong-a posted...

I remember as a kid I was losing my patience with Power Rangers a while before Turbo.

Season 3 felt like it kept jerking me around with multi-parters that should've ended in half the time. (Seriously, Ninja Quest is absolute garbage even by Power Rangers standards.).

Then they had that awful "turned into kids" storyline with the alien replacements.

Then Zeo kept doing weird things like turning Bulk and Skull into monkeys. The Gold Ranger arc was a bunch of mysterious build-up just for it to be revealed that he's some random dude we've never met before.

I actually liked the Turbo movie and Justin when it came out. I was less concerned with replacing Rocky and more concerned with Zordon being replaced by this weird ghost woman who only talked in questions and Alpha turning into some bizarre parody of himself who spoke in corporate hip-hop lingo.

The cast-replacement halfway through was the best thing that ever happened to the series at that point. TJ >>>>>>>>> Basic Bitch Tommy

You sure took your power rangers super seriously way before it was cool to do that

Actually I agree with his points. I remember I completely lost interest after they just randomly replaced everyone. Losing Tommy and Adam was unforgivable.

I caught a few odd episodes here and there, thought most of it was stupid/not the same. But then I saw the Turbo finale, then watched up until Space, which I got through maybe half the season before giving up on Power Rangers.

The way they ended Turbo and started Space was really cool, though. And the party of all previous villains and stuff. And I remember a weird TMNT crossover. But overall the Space season fell kinda flat for me in a lot of areas.

But Justin's inclusion was always...weird. I get they wanted a literal kid ranger for younger audiences. But seeing him hang out with the others instead of kids his own age was just bizarre.

MICHALECOLE posted...

You sure took your power rangers super seriously way before it was cool to do that

I mean, I was like, eight years old. Almost all my peers took this stupid kids stuff seriously. >_>

Duncanwii posted...

and because of that a lot of people stopped watching and the show almost got canceled?

did that happen in the turbo movie? thats around when i stopped watching. i didnt really care about rocky that much tho

Yes that happened in the turbo movie
Rocky injured his back in a martial arts tournament and Justin discovered the rangers identities

Since rocky couldn't go save jason and kimberly zordon had Justin take his place on the team

Also fun fact Katherine the girl who replaced kimberly has the pink ranger never got to fight unmorphed until power rangers turbo

By the time she joined the team they always used ninja ranger power to fight in their ninja costumes

Then in zeo they always morphed before they fought anything
Turbo was when they started fighting without morphing immediately again