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Mighty Morphin Power Rangers is based upon the Japanese series Super Sentai .   If you are reading this post, you should already know that.   I’ve mentioned it in previous posts as I have worked my way through the first season of the show.   If you want to get more specific, the first season is based upon the Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger season of the Super Sentai series.   Many of the fight scenes when the Power Rangers are in costume have been taken directly from that series and fitted with American dialogue and an American story to market it to American children. The reason that I am bringing this up again is that I have now ventured into the tail end of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers ’ first season.   I believe I said in the second Pudgy Pig episode that the show was reusing footage that it had used in the first Pudgy Pig episode.   There is a reason for that.   The first season of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers is sixty episodes of televis...

The writers of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers spent their time through the first season writing in recurring story elements and gags that would pay off in later episodes.   The romance between Tommy and Kimberly was established when Tommy was introduced, and the two would be seen together all the time throughout his first tenure with the show.   Jason is always working on becoming a better martial artist and leader for their group.   Bulk and Skull are always being hit in the face with food, falling in or on something, or trying to upstage the main characters. In the most recent episode of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers the writers brought back one of the most entertaining recurring gags of the entire first season.   Zack once again tried to score a date with Angela.   He has attempted this various times throughout the season.   Once he even attempted to woo her to show Tommy how to get Kimberly.   Needless to say, it didn’t work that time. ...

An interesting thing to look at in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers is how they translate the Japanese footage of the Sentai series for American audiences.   The story is surely not the same, but they need to find a story for the footage to work in.   Whether that turns out to be a character story or a simple action story, the footage needs to fit properly.   It is especially important in the character stories though, as the Japanese footage tends to have focus on one of the Power Rangers over the rest. The most interesting character episodes at this point in the series are episodes focused on Billy or Trini.   Neither of them have been built up to any real extent yet.   Most of the series focus is on Jason and Tommy, with some on Zack and Kimberly.   Trini and Billy are mostly left in the dark in terms of getting their characters any realization.   It’s nice to see either character get the spotlight because it helps to showcase who they are. ...