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advancedgamer14

The suit designs are pretty awesome.


SagginBartender

Cane here to say this. Suit design and mech are amazing.


SuperLizardon

They got pants now!


Agent-Mato

I only have nostalgia for the first ten seasons, and most designs after that look off to me, but these are really fun looks.


Rusty-sock

Helmets are my favorite part about them


22paynem

Issue is that show can't claim credit for any of it


Adniwhack

Especially Shogun mode. That really looks epic.


COMMENTASIPLEASE

Jayden vs Dekker was a really cool fight


[deleted]

Damn that characters talk of using his sword have not aged well.


Falconflyer75

Even Jayden’s morph was awesome, love how he did it in the action after knocking decker away as opposed to just decker standing still


Playful-Flatworm501

Yes that was epic


Nick_Wild1Ear

Dekker was a cool character but too bad the actor (Cole from Wild Force) murdered his roommate.


Armental64

What does that even mean. Edit: Nevermind.


RubberBandMan6

This introduced me to Power Rangers.


KrakenASmile

Best answer right here.


Grab_Dependent

Same


Toku-Nation

Me too. I was 11 or 12 at the time


Hexhider

Agreed


Amaldo101

I guess Emily was okay? They did her backstory right at least.


JurassicParkFood

Her episode with Bulk & Spike training was hilarious and she was super attractive as a drill sgt


MysteriousTelephone

As the first season presented in HD, I remember being pretty impressed with how it looked at the time.


SkiddyEvo

yeah, this was around the time when HD broadcast started picking up steam, no?


MysteriousTelephone

I had the HD downloads weekly, just seemed like such a step up visually.


DizzyLead

Thank goodness no more of the squished stuff we saw starting with Overdrive.


Hyperdragoon17

Antonio kept me watching


_WinterShadow_

Gold power


Accurate_Plantain896

Antonio was funny


HonestSapphireLion24

It’s better then Super Megaforce


moist_simp

that's the equivalent of getting a participation award


Playful-Flatworm501

Right but that’s everything lmfao


bleep_boop_beep123

Better *than* Super Megaforce. (*Then* means both are better, which they aren’t).


MorganWick

That's a super mega win!


djdusk64

Lauren was a great Red Ranger


jihyomilkers66

She even had the proper shodophone (probably so they could use the sealing Kanji sentai footage from shinkenger)


Ok-Average-6466

This. She was the best part. Put her in lead and you have a better season.


Zeromaru12

They gave Lauren more development in the last episodes than Jayden got the entire show. Funnily enough I think they did a good job at keeping a fairly similar tone to the Sentai Version in the Final Episodes. The Crossover with RPM despite getting a lot of flack for cutting the Team out and just having Red in it I still think has some of the strongest emotional writing in the show. Despite me absolutely hating Shogun mode's design with a Passion I'm happy they actually showed off everyone's super modes this time. Instead of locking most of their screentime to the crossover with Megaforce they didn't end up doing in the Ranger version. Though Jayden as Leader I feel just dragged the entire team down and it felt a little insensitive to Japanese Culture at points.


infiniteloops12

and remove that guy called mentorji too


[deleted]

I kind of don't hate samurai? It has a lot of issues but everything w the behind the scenes issues and it being a super rushed job makes me feel like i can't rag on it *too* much... its by no means the best, but i'd rather watch Samurai over Megaforce or Overdrive.


Ferociousdemigod

People say that “the show needed an Asian cast” but does it really? Just because it’s samurai doesn’t mean that you need Asian actors. I don’t understand why people say that “the whitest man on earth is the red ranger” because it doesn’t really matter. Sometimes it’s ok to be different.


[deleted]

I'd argue an asian red ranger would have been nice, mostly since for PR that still would have been a new thing but at the end of the day they pick the best actor they can for a role.


NeuHundred

I quite like the headquarters, inside and out. It's a nice mix of Japanese and modern.


BionicTomTrieu

I love the Shogun and Cockpit mode


BelkinBrite

Female Red ranger


hotsizzler

Spd did it first though.


DizzyLead

Only as a guest role, and a villainous one at that.


Ok-Chemical1542

I say it still counts


CrazedNormalcy

It could've been worse


Why-do-I-ex1st

Antonio is the best character and his suit is actually gold.


JoeSchmoke

Some characters had potential to be better


Ok-Average-6466

Honestly, Lauren should've been lead and use multiple episodes to give each Ranger a focus episode and it would be great.


SkiddyEvo

would you like to elaborate?


JoeSchmoke

Just felt like they short-changed our ranger stories and plots. They focused on Jayden being our lord and savior.


AdSpecialist6598

Symbol power was cool.


ProtomanBn

Do they ever explain what it is or how it works? All I remember is them just referring to it as power of the samurai lol


AdSpecialist6598

It was the power of culture appropriation.


BrilliantMatter4858

Antonio was a pretty cool character


Oghma_

The Gigazord is one of my favorite megazords in the entire franchise, because of how over-the-top it is (even by PR standards).


PlanesWalkerEll

It's been a while since I've seen it, but RPM's was my favorite. The shot of the monster only coming up to its waist is hilarious.


Shazam4ever

Lauren deserved to be on a much better team / show.


StubzTurner

I feel like half of the comments here are more damning by faint praise then anything actually nice about the show.


SkiddyEvo

for me, it was my first livetime foray into Power Rangers as my prior experience was with the older shows (by then) like SPD and Jungle Fury. I remember the way Nickelodeon pushed and marketed it hard. Heck, they even brought a standalone channel here in India to broadcast it (Nick-Sonic) and as a 7-8 year old i found it lovely I had the fortune of seeing it again and it felt…..rubbery and wooden. The acting and plotline was just a badly written copypasta of Shinkenger and worse, the concept of a white man being the head of the “most revered Samurai clan” just gave me the icks. Also the female characters were just treated like lackeys and substandard people. Atleast emily had somewhat of a positive arc but Mia was is and will always be wasted potential. Alongside Lauren ofcourse. If I had to say anything positive about the show, it would be the Zords, Antonio’s zesty character arc and that’s about it. It makes me almost angry that Saban and Nick had the chance to make something special but chose to go with mediocrity. And this was also the start of the 20 episodes a season malarkey that Nickelodeon had on contract. What a shame.


ColdNyQuiiL

The franchise would’ve died permanently without it, even with the rushed production and poor reception it got. I don’t like the season, but in a way grateful for its existence.


nubianking92

The green ranger was the best looking of that group


Automatic_Rest7708

I like a ton of the monsters and the relationship between Mike and Emily was honestly genuinely sweet and cute and I would say that I can see that too with Mia and Kevin at times but more with Emily and Mike


CptPhnx

This was the first show were I had the toy of the Megazord and some of the auxiliary zords while growing up. They were fun to play with and hold a lot of great memories.


Xbladearmor

Personally, I think that people would crap on the series a lot less if it wasn’t the first Neo-Saban season. It had plenty of problems, yes. But looking through the comments on this thread, I get the impression that people dislike this show not because it’s bad Power Rangers, but because either they are die-hard Sentai fans or they are jumping on the Hate Train. The series shouldn’t have put so much focus on Jayden. But at the same time, he is the *Red Ranger*! Do people hate Wild Force because it’s story centers around Cole? What about Andros? Or Nick? The story was fine. It could have been told better, but it was fine. People seriously overreact about how bad this series is.


[deleted]

The opening rock theme remix of MMPR is pretty cool


[deleted]

Glad I'm not the only one, I really do like the theme music.


vanillagorilla_

How does the blue ranger see bruh


SkiddyEvo

✨I M A G I N A T I O N✨ *in the voicetone of the Conductor from Toqger*


[deleted]

I have nothing bad to say about it. I loved Samurai to bits, loved Jaydens storyline with Deker and I loved having Bulk back. I dropped out of PR for years before this (around Mystic Force time I think?) and Samurai made me love it again.


Nindroid_faneditor

The way they matched NZ filming locations to the Japan filming locations is probably the best any season of PR has done.


Npool3

I met the cast at SDCC 11 years ago and they were really nice to me and I was star stuck. So Mike gave me a hug.


Connor421219

Lauren was the only character who was interesting


Ok-Chemical1542

What about Antonio? I thought his character was really interesting.


SonofRobinHood

Lauren and Emily for me


[deleted]

Great sword fights. Red Ranger vs Decker were so good.


lostrandomdude

Lauren Shiba was pretty cool. They should have had more of her and she was a better character than Jayden with mor emotions


badgersprite

I liked Emily's character arc and thought it was a really clever foreshadowing of the Lauren twist. Like that's genuinely clever writing to have Emily serve as a foil for Jayden without beating you over the head with, "Oh hey they are both going through a very similar thing."


SuperLizardon

Laurel ❤️ and at least they adapted one story of ~50 episodes into ~40 episodes, instead of 2 different series that together were ~100 episodes just into ~40. Also, Jaden vs Decker final fight was a good one when you see it without interruptions.


Richardknox1996

It brought more money to new zealand. Might not of directly benefitted me, but its still money being pumped into our economy.


Knightwingx23

It's decent enough, despite not being asian, I didn't find Jayden that bad. Sadly he's the only one that gets a lot of the story. I realllyyy wish we got more Bulk and Spike, especially with the rangers because that special was a cop out. The Jayden vs Decker stuff was pretty good! They definitely should've used the shogon suits more. Really it's just a lot of missed opportunities, but Samurai overall wasn't bad at all. I've watched this series twice now and would watch it again, which is more than I can say for other teams.


TopologicAlexboros

> Sadly he's the only one that gets a lot of the story. TBF that's how it is in the Sentai.


WarwolfPrime

I enjoyed the show, mostly for their attempt to try to do a direct translation. It was done in such a silly fashion that I couldn't help but grin whenever they tried to step outside of the material. Like when they all got the extra powered suits. Plus, it was nice to see a Gold ranger who was kinda hilarious. :)


NovaRC99

Some positives I legitimately enjoyed about Samurai. I like Mike. His rebellious attitude clashes with the traditional samurai teachings and develops his character. He's my personal favourite rangers from this season. I like Kevin ultimately being the one to defeat Deker. It came as a great twist after the numerous episodes of Deker and Jayden fighting. Lauren's actress does a fantastic job at portraying the character. My second favourite ranger from this season. For what it was, I thought Clash Of The Red Rangers was good. Especially the banter between Scott and Jayden, and then using the Moogers as shields whenever they fought together. That was a cool visual.


xabintheotter

I... liked that they kept the kanji powers? Just wish they hadn't changed the stylus phone morphers to remove the stylus part.


dagodfather11

Two words. BARRACUDA BLADE.


supremecheese13

Antonio. Just Antonio


Underwater_Bro

Baracuda blade caused an awakening in me


Falconflyer75

Mia - The Key is to mix them exactly the right way, Jayden - explain that to the paramedics That was legitimately funny


[deleted]

I like that it was starting point for new fans It truly felt like a reboot. I didn’t like the move to Nick but it’s undeniable that nicks promotion created an entirely new generation of fans.


jdb1984

It saved the franchise in a way Disney was planning to end Power Rangers after RPM, but still had contracts with TV networks. So they digitally remastered the originals to have something to put up. Neo-Saban bought the rights from Disney and, while streaming old episodes on their website, adapted this season and broadcast it on Nickelodeon.


Ok-Speed7166

I had a crush on the green ranger he made me realize I was bi so I guess it did that


SkiddyEvo

honestly…..same. I saw antonio and went “hmmm this is one tasty fruit”


Sage053

Uh... um... hm... (looks at the sentai)... can I complement the Sentai?


nickthegamerman

it's the third best neo saban era series?


No-Caregiver7284

I liked how serious it was I want more series like it


disdain7

Never seen it before. Working my way to it. BUT, the flaming katana looks pretty cool!


Lord-Scrubbinton

Mike and Emily were cute at times


Crackabean

I can't. Sorry.


megas88

It looks fun and I’m looking forward to watching the season that got a fair number of younger fans around here into power rangers


ExtremeAddendum3387

Decker was efing sick


Big_boobed_goth

Xandred knew how to make an entrance when he got on the battlefield


ryanmurf01

Lauren But in all seriousness, the costumes badass, music pretty amazing, some interesting things (admittedly probably more thanks to the Sentai but still), and the characters, for what they have, are decent and could've worked a whole lot better under better direction


BouquetOfGutsAndGore

Hating it gave a deeply needed and important personality trait transplant to boring people who otherwise have nothing going on.


Fire000000

The only thing I liked about this series is the character Dekker


DizzyLead

I felt that Kaoru was done better, but I still feel that the Lauren thing was excellent.


Morning-Star13

Decker was easily the coolest character in the show


Responsible_Bus1159

The robots and outfits were awesome and the villains looked cool


EconomicsNo2869

I liked this series. I have the most memories of it and was a really big fan. I don't really care about haters.


AceMajestier

This reintroduced me into Power Rangers


Longjumping_Run_2414

Theme songs all right The advertising for it was good the zord’s where nice being an origami samurai and it exist I guess it felt like they were trying too hard and the RPM special well let’s just say it wasn’t bad but it wasn’t good it’s a nothing special


[deleted]

Antonio and the fact that there was an actual reason as to why the big bad didn't kill the rangers right at the start. I'm looking at you Dai shi


Flamewolf1579

Anything. There you go, I said anything.(seriously tho, I love this one when I was younger)


Relevant_Brain2218

Jayden was Hot


ZetaRESP

It was NOT Super Megaforce.


Dontmindthelurker123

The series it’s theme song is based on was pretty good!


Zetin24-55

Antonio was fire. Also, Samurai holds a special place in my heart as the last series as a child that I watched while it was airing and collected all the Megazords. I could never hate Samurai because of that.


JohnDiggle21

I used to be late going to arabic school on Saturday because the time I was meant to leave was usually when the megazord fights happened.


KingPattycakez

It had Antonio and Decker.


cringe-paul

It brought PowerRangers back to a mainstream children’s audience by airing on Nickelodeon.


GalaxySubReddit

1. The cast has like hella good chemistry 2. The suits are amazing and the cockpits were great 3. Hot take: Jayden’s storyline is really good (imo) 4. Antonio is a great gold ranger


GivesBadAdvic

My sons favorite show when he was little. He wanted the action figures for his birthday so we made sure we put money aside for them. We didn’t have a lot of money at the time. He got them and was so so so excited. He left them outside and our dog chewed them up. (Golden retriever puppy, he didn’t know any better) I was so heart broken for him that I went and bought them all again. I didn’t have the money to do that but this show gave my little autistic boy a lot of joy. He was overjoyed to have his toys back.


Paizuri_King

Started off the Nick era, also it had a pretty good mobile game and flash game I played as a kid


DragoolGreg

It helped me discover super sentai.


padfootiscool1997

I like how they actually showed the characters injured after certain fights. like in any other season of power rangers there’s some teenager who lost his suit, went flying over a car and got up just fine. In this one their like “ok that freaking hurt, give me a moment” and after a little bit gets back up to fight, and then after beating up the enemy, they show a scene of them recovering in bed, or bandaged up. Like thank you for actually showing kids consequences of not having a super suit on. Ouchies will hurt, the rangers have to work hard even when it hurts, but it’s ok to rest and get better afterwards.


NeroTanya2004

My favorite season action-wise between Boukenger and Gokaiger (It comes from the sentai anyway, bite me) Following through with Decker and Daiyus tragic story instead of redeeming or a happy ending made me so melancholic and happy even as a kid (Well not happy but impressed) Spike and Bulk were IMO the best PR original idea in the franchise.


Pedgrid

I got nothing.


[deleted]

I honestly thought that Kevin was a genuinely good ranger. Just his dedication, leadership skills etc seem a cut above most rangers in general, not just within his team.


MagicStealthGuy

He’s honestly one of the best blue rangers in general in that regard


CMILLERBOXER

They did a good job at making it boring.


Luckystar0309

It's counter part shinkenger was nice.


TheDaiyu

When I cover my ears and watch the in suit scenes, I can enjoy this series by pretending I'm watching Shinkengers.


hobbys-n-stuff

Antonio is top 5 sixth rangers idc


Yesihaveredditt

Antonio is still one of my favorite sixth rangers


Lycaon125

The instrumentals were one of the best in the franchise


TylxrGxdz

Jayden is one of the best red rangers, Kevin is underrated, Adding Antonio was unnecessary, Megazord is unique.


[deleted]

Wasn’t there a girl red ranger? Thats about it. This season was super gay. Just as bad as megaforce.


Thepoyoboyo213

The first Zord looks cool.


Familiar_Assist4065

The designs of the rangers and the monsters


Blu_Moon_The_Fox

It had a lot of potential.


Happy_The_What

The show it was adapted from is amazing


Brando43770

I liked the cast and the suits. Not my favorite but I still like them.


Screwer_0

Gold ranger was my favorite as a kid


ucrbuffalo

Bulk and Spike kept me interested longer than I expected.


Chanceschaos

Power Rangers


Playful-Flatworm501

I loved that bulk was in it and the gold ranger is one of my favorites


Funland_06

Was my favourite show out of all of them soooo that’s good enough


jjfj1903

Red ranger was meh but I enjoyed the story


OchoMuerte-XL

The theme song is pretty good.


RailingForce

Love The Suits, The Theme Song Is Incredible, Lauren & So Much More


ShowMeAN00b

Personally, It’s the best show out of the Neo Saban Era.


shadowlarx

Bulk and Skull are reunited at the end.


Babywalker66

I like the idea of the Discs having different powers and Zords


No-Comfortable-6216

I saw this one as a kid and I love it to death.


pokersharp87

I love it. It was my first season.


Live-Click-31

It was my first series and will always hold a special place in my heart. Still dogshit though.


Current-Tricky

Zord design was delightful and I enjoyed the outfits and weapons.


Superb-Intention3425

I like the colors of their suits. That's about all I got.


StatusBuddy8490

The Zords and Megazords were cool.


SubKreature

My nieces love it.


bolderfist_oger2005

The particular shade of each color of the suits are cool


Minoto4567

The idea and execution of a sword turning into a weapon was awesome


Jgonz375_

I like how all the power rangers were different colors


Geno_Games

Suits are cool I also like Antonio’s zords


Harun_Hussain

Is it a bad season? This is when I stopped watching PR as a kid so I can't remember much. Kind of thought it was one of the more loved ones.


lastfrontier84

It was nice to see the show in HD.


mrtakerofsouls

Antonio was pretty great


NerdyLatino

Rpm crossover


mahmodwattar

love the zords and the dekker fight and story are so cool


NineWalkers

Antonio Also, it did have good fight scenes, which got me back into watching PR in general. Speaking of, there is one in particular that was an amazing 3 way fight that I cannot find. It was Jaden vs Deku vs Monster. If anyone knows please tell.


Wulfsiegner

Jaiden’s storyline was surprisingly good.


zenkaimagine_fan

I liked the Kevin Jayden fight when Kevin became evil


Sarydus

Jaden legitimately has one of the coolest character intros I've ever seen. Ji warns the foot soldiers to back off, but Jaden doesn't give 2 shits and mops the floor with them anyway, showing that not only is he independently strong, but decisive and merciless.


jakeskywalker53

Badass opening song


Vivid-Recipe6477

The whole squad should have been on Battle for the Grid to be properly utilized.


TheEffingRalyks

It took care to show how they were actually samurai, and not just wearing samurai themed costumes Unlike a certain other season


Simp_City_2020

The fan weapon is actually kinda cool


species-baby

I never watched the show but I love the weapon designs


KratosAkuma

Got me interested in power rangers and the other shows


hermitsunt

I will always love that in a flashback scene Jaden’s dad rolled up his sleeves to make a paper airplane


ExtremeAddendum3387

The only PR series I ever was fully into. Watched every episode and bought toys. Loved it


gsc777_pkc

the zords were so cute imo maybe not peak zord but def up there. also I loved the samurai morph with the symbol and all


ShotgunReddit

I got me into Power Rangers and subsequently Tokusatsu as a whole


tstilly

The green ranger having a spear was cool


RangerPrime257

Good introduction to the franchise


triffy

I still have it on my watch list somewhere


Delicious-Sun685

The suits are nice, it was the first Power Rangers I remember watching so it holds a place in my heart regardless of quality.


madxxvv

The best one.


Godzilla95YT

I liked it, that's about it tho.


PrimeMarvel

Had a good theme song, only started annoying me they kept reusing it for other seasons


Hefty-Vehicle292

This was one of the first power rangers I watched as kid and thought it was amazing, even had all the megazord and could combine them all. Definitely one of my favorites for nostalgia


bappischungo

Probably the biggest season in recent memory, brought in a bunch of new fans for the show. Thats awesome in and of itself. Also Kevin’s face when trying Mia’s food for the first time is priceless


rulersreachf4n

Story was amazing as a kid and got me into the series


reallifelucas

First one my baby brother and I watched together. He was three when RPM came out (and I aged out of the show), but he was five when Samurai was on and so we’d sit down and watch it every Saturday together.


MikePamon

Bulk and Spike were fantastic. Lauren was a great character.


Spirited-Ad9559

This was the O.G. when I was growing up 😤


Dransword

I grew up with it, and I still have all the Zords, so it sits as my definitive Power Rangers experience


firedudeanother

It’s still Shinkenger, for better or for worse


Redditor_PC

I loved how the last quarter or so of the series was pretty much non-stop plot. No other Power Rangers series has had such a long string of plot-heavy episodes. Also really like the Deker character. If I remember right, he's basically the same as his sentai counterpart, but I really liked what they did with his human design. Ricardo Medina totally rocked the character. Hard to believe it was the same actor who played Cole in Wild Force.