However, the fans still had some hope. Super Megaforce would be adapting the anniversary extravaganza, Kaizoki Sentai Gokaiger, which featured the rangers morphing into all the past seasons of rangers. So fans speculated some of this season’s magic would rub off on Power Rangers. To put it in other words? They hoped Super Megaforce would get past the near bottom basement bar Samurai and Megaforce set. We actually get scenes utilizing the side characters of Ernie and Mr. Burley and we even get a great joke involving Jake receiving green powers despite his original color being black. After twenty episodes of barely any action taking place out of suit? It’s a welcome change. We see the rangers are actually hurt from the alien armada, linking it to the Megaforce finale, and an ending scene at the school calling back to the first episode. It’s the little things that help this premiere stand out. Even the fight that takes up a solid seventy five percent of the episode works, although if we keep having fights this long? Well, let’s hope not. With an alien armada invading the rangers have to call on their new Super Duper Ultra Mega Super Suits (patent pending on that one.) I was pleasantly surprised how well the changes were handled, even if the editing on the all red morph was awkward. The changes all had some weight to them and I even felt something positive for Samurai! That takes a lot. Sadly, Andrew Gray as Troy has not improved since Megaforce. I’m certainly not blaming the actor; I don’t think any of them are bad actors. They’re all just directed so poorly. That, and given some of the worst dialogue Power Rangers has ever seen. “Super Mega Rangers, that’s a Super Mega Win!” Ugh. In fact, re-listen to Troy’s line when they have to revert back to the Super Megaforce powers from their Mystic Force forms. Then go watch the English dub of Speed Racer. His lines are delivered exactly the same way. It’s painful. We’re introduced to our new sets of villains and they are painfully dull. I know you can only do so much in a premiere but they come off as wildly generic. It doesn’t help that they all sound like the same actor voices them. Hopefully they’ll be given something to do, and with the connection between the Prince and Vrak they might actually get a chance to shine. The other big element I’m wondering how they’ll handle: the anniversary aspects. Changing into the past teams. This episode was fairly low key about it, preferring to focus on the Super Megaforce powers, so we’ll need to see how big a deal they make them in future episodes. Having the rangers actually say the respective morph calls (even if they forgot them for S.P.D. and Ninja Storm) was a nice touch, even if the simple task of having their respective theme songs play was lost. So I’m cautiously optimistic about this season. Hopefully I won’t be let down like I have been for the past three years. But now I want to hear from you, faithful readers. Do you agree with me? Could Power Rangers Super Megaforce actually be enjoyable? Or do you think the premiere was just more of the same? Comment and let me know! Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for all news updates related to the world of geek. And Google+, if that’s your thing!
