Power Rangers: Operation Overdrive Review

Hello everyone, this is Jason David Frank and

you are listening from the Command Center Geekcast

Radio Network. Welcome to a collaboration between

the Geek Cast Radio Network and the Pop Culture

Network. This is from the command center of the

podcast, episode 18. I'm your host, T .F. John

Mike, and joining me is Scotty Cash. Hello. How

are you? I just did this. I just did the salute

to you. You can't see it, but I did it. I said,

how are you? Yes. Salute through the hair. That's

right. Oh, wait, what hair? Anyway. Yeah. So

yeah, we are a month late with this one Stuff

just couldn't be helped. It's my fault. I know

it's not it's not even your fault all last month.

I was between Between September and now September

we had Batman week at GCRN where we did a bunch

of different blogs on Batman We did a I think

close to a five -hour podcast on Batman uh...

the whole bunch of stuff let this past month

october just kind of ended earlier earlier in

november uh... we did seem to you week which

is what's true stuff and now i'm diving into

bond month where between now and the right before

christmas movie revolt dan and i are going to

review eighteen of the twenty three bond films

and uh... i've just been so busy with that and

and just so busy with everything else, the GCRN

that we do over there, because I am pretty much,

I would say, 75 % of the podcasts that are over

there. So yeah, and I really enjoyed, I mean,

we'll get into it. I enjoyed watching Overdrive,

but by the time... I finished, and by the time

you finished, you had stuff going on, I had stuff

going on, and we just couldn't get to it last

month. It was just not possible. But this allowed

us to be able to get back on our regular schedule

of being able to post on the 11th of every month,

having to wait this long. Yeah, that's true.

Yep. So what's been going on with you, sir? I

don't know. It's been an emotional rollercoaster

the last two weeks. It's just been ridiculous.

I was in a Greek wedding. One of my great friends

got married, and he's Greek. If you've never

seen a Greek wedding, that's just ridiculous.

I had a drink out of a cup. First of all, I don't

like floaties. I barely ever drink after my daughters.

And those are the only two people I'll ever drink

after. And my, you know, my good buddy Abe, which

is the Greek guy, he knew that I was like that.

Well, they were passing this mug around and there's

a little bit left in there. And he was like,

you know, one of your guys, he's a drink from

this. And he looks over and he goes, Scott. And

I'm like, are you kidding me? Oh, God. I was

like, it's on. So that the 90 ,000 year old Greek

minister comes over and he's like, Scott. And

he hands me this mug or this like, I don't even

know what you call this. It's like This golden

like I don't even know what it was. It's a chalice

Like drink and I was just like I'm not happy

with you right now and I just drank this crap

But yeah Wow that that really sucks Yeah, but

it's a great time though. I mean the wedding

was awesome. The recession was awesome and then

A day later, my grandmother passes away. Sorry

to hear that. Yeah, she was ill. She's in a better

place now. But it was just like, oh, so happy,

so sad, so happy, so sad for the last two weeks.

It's just been crazy. Yeah, yeah. We've got the

usual reply from Chaotix on the last episode.

Oh. I was going to say, I don't even remember

what the last episode was, but it was Mystic

Force, that's right. So he says he had commented

both on the PCInforms and over at GeekCasterdio

.com. Fantastic episode, guys. Glad to see that

you ended up enjoying Mystic Force in the end.

Told you it wasn't that bad. I hope Mike's gotten

used to Xander by now, because there's another

planned Xander moment in Overdrive. Yeah, I'll

get we'll get to that when we get to it I didn't

necessarily see chip as the smart one more just

the nerdy one his excitement over getting to

wear a cape never ceases to amuse me The wolf

guy from wild forest that you were thinking of

is an aku. Yeah, I thought of that as soon as

soon as we stopped recording episode 17 back

in September. I was like Zen aku. That's exactly

who it is. I was like I definitely agree that

Mystic Force's final battle scene was all kinds

of epic. I think the people's echoes, cheers

of we believe in magic combined with the amazing

background score really added a bit of oomph

to it. I also agree that Dark Wish was a really

well done multi -parter. I wouldn't disparage

RJ from Jungle Fury so soon, Scotty. He is actually

one of my favorite characters from that season,

and there is much more to him than his really

chill persona implies. I love the character,

just fine. I could just do without the stupid

fake Keanu Reeves voice. Yeah, yeah. That's all

for this month. Keep up the power pack work.

A couple of things we got to go over since the

last time we had an episode. Actually, Spade

of the Vault Matrix, our Sentai contributor actually,

I found this out from him. If you go onto iTunes

and you search, I'm actually doing it now so

I can pull it up. If you search Ron Wasserman,

they released Power Rangers Redux. Wow. It's

essentially, it's $9 .99 on iTunes. I will put

the link in our post on geekcastradio .com. It's

essentially a Redux version of the original Rock

Adventure album. But it also includes instrumentals

this time around I think the redux versions of

the songs that were on the original rock adventure

album I think what it is taken out of them is

the the vocals like like in go green ranger you

hear Jason's or not go green ranger you hear

man in In go go Power Rangers you you would hear

Jason say back to action or it's morphin timer

You would hear battle scenes from whatever episode

the song is in I don't think those are in these

versions. I think these are just the songs. That's

pretty sweet. So for $9 .99 on iTunes, that's

not that bad. And like I said, I will make sure

I put the link in our post on geekcasterio .com.

I don't know if it's out there. I haven't really

searched for it. I've been pursuing other interests,

outsider Power Rangers, in between our records.

I don't know if there's a full -on, like, actual,

not Comic -Con or convention version of a trailer

for Megaforce. No, I don't think so. I have not

seen that yet. There isn't. OK. All right. Well,

I'm sure we'll see it eventually. What else?

What else? What else? We've got a bunch of new

iTunes reviews that we'll talk about at the end

of the show. Very, very cool. And thank you to

all you people. We'll review those at the end

of the show. No one really Replied to us about

whether they like spades clip moved up or Where

it was originally so I don't know where it's

gonna fall in this episode are just gonna have

to depend on on what? On Scotty and I's flow

of the episode I guess so let's let's get into

it for the overview. We've got Power Rangers

operation overdrive abbreviated as PR. Oh prove

Yeah. Well, Pru, if you take the R out, it's

Poo. Yes. How about the season? on the standalone

JetX networks in other countries. The program

is co -production between the Walt Disney Company

and TOEI. It is also broadcast on the terrestrial

network ITV in the UK. It's unique among Power

Rangers series Operation Overdrive has the Rangers

exploring, operating and fighting in many different

countries around the world rather than focusing

only on their home city of San Angeles. In search

of their objective, the Rangers have been to

Atlantis, unnamed islands in the Atlantic and

Pacific, St. Lucia, Istanbul, London, Portugal,

Indonesia, Norway, Mexico, Egypt, Florida, Greece,

and Japan. To specifically battle villainous

attacks, they have visited the Rotuma Island,

Australia, Brazil, and Stonehenge. This is essentially

Power Rangers. Meets where the world is Carmen

San Diego is what this yeah, you know it wasn't

that poo comment really wasn't I was joking it

really wasn't that bad I mean they had a really

no it wasn't I I really liked overdrive. I thought

I wasn't going to like overdrive at all Yeah,

they had they had a good story. They had good

characters. There wasn't a lot of there wasn't

too many filler episodes they had Thor and Loki

and Thor had he manned shield and there for whatever

reason but I mean, overall, it was a good season.

Is it top five? No. Is it bottom five? Maybe

just above that. So it's like right in the middle

of decent seasons. And for those of you who have

been listening to us since episode one of this

podcast, you know that Scotty and I kind of fall

on two sides of a line where he'll absolutely

loves the uh... the jungle animals in the in

the animal stuff and actually can't stand the

technical stuff where i like the technical stuff

like s p d like this uh... and i'll i i like

the jungle stuff but i don't it's not my favorite

it's you know the animals or do not my favorite

i kinda like seeing how different uh... organizations

used that you know military type vehicle uh...

This one overall the one thing it had going for

it that was really unique other than the whole

traveling around the world thing The Red Ranger

is an Android. Yeah, which completely threw me

off and I absolutely loved it What threw me off

about it was because at one point? Max dad I

forget what his name is off top my head. I'm

sure I'll see it when we get to the characters

Max dad says to the butler at one point Well,

it's only been two years and I'm thinking yeah

The dude is looks like he's 17 18. How the hell

is it only two and then once that once that turn

happened I was like Holy shit. I'm sorry. Holy

crap. That's you know, that's not That's not

what I was expecting at all. That was pretty

awesome. His name is Andrew. Mr. Hartford. That's

what they called him. Yeah. Yeah. Mr. Hartford.

Yeah But no overall, I really enjoyed the series.

I thought it was great I will say I didn't feel

it was very I mean it was good, but there was

never a time where I was on the edge of my seat

I could the Six Ranger was kind of soft overall

Yeah, they've already done the whole you're from

the past even I mean with kind of like Zunaku

where on and a Wild Force where they were kind

of ahead of not Wild Force Where was it? Yeah,

Zunaku Mystic Force. Mystic. What was Wild Force,

wasn't it? A lot of force. What was his real

name, his human name? Uh, not Carrick. Well,

not Carrick, Merrick. Yeah, well, Merrick, you

know, it was just kind of the same. They already

really told that story. It's kind of the same

thing. He was, uh, he was, he was that monster

thing at first and then the Senpai Ranger or

the Sentai. What the hell's his name now? Gosh.

I just finished a season like yesterday. Set

the they've done it three times so far. They've

done it with the naku with With with wild force

they did it with the purple dude in mystic force

And what's her nuts his husband also kind of

do that was zane too Yeah, yeah, I mean, but

he was like from a different planet where he

didn't really know a lot He's just kind of like

what huh? Yeah Yeah, I mean, it's repeating themes

throughout and I don't quite mind it. I didn't

really care for it. I will say the one thing

that kind of floored me, although I wish they

would have used some of the original theme music

more, was Once a Ranger. Yeah. I kid you not,

I'm a grown 32, almost 33 year old man and I

cried that whole episode, both those parts every

time. It was awesome. Just because and and it's

Adam I mean, you know, okay sure I can see it,

you know, you know us as Tommy fanboys You know

getting teary -eyed for Tommy, but I still I

didn't I didn't even know that Adam was gonna

show up and it was like, holy crap That's awesome.

Yeah, I liked it and I like cuz at first I was

kind of like Well, now, I said, now this is stupid.

Now, what the hell? They lost all their powers.

And they're like, oh, you know, we tacked into

the Morford grid, and they're only allowed to

have their powers for X amount of time. So I

was like, oh, OK. At least they touched on that.

And they weren't just like, hey, look, they still

have their powers. And this was where, I don't

know, we're kind of jumping ahead before we get

into the characters, and we're kind of talking

about the anniversary episode. Because it was

the 15th anniversary, this was where you had

the I think it was a different voice I could

be wrong but this is where you had the alpha

6 alpha so yeah I still love the original alpha

I don't like any of the other ones they're they're

too annoying They just don't sound well if they

would have done their own voice instead of trying

to mimic that alpha It would be a little different.

You know what I mean? Yeah, of course. I'm like

a deep man voice, but they could have done something

else besides Someone at a party trying to do

an alpha voice. You know, that's what it sounds

like Yeah, and why the hell did it have to be

Xander? Why couldn't they they could have because

I love Xander. That's why Yeah, they had to do

My name's Xanda, one last time, just for me.

I hate that crap. So yeah, alright, let's get

into the Overdrive characters here. You've got

Mackenzie Mack Hartford, the Red Ranger. A fan

of Adventure Stories, his physical power is apparently

superhuman strength. He is the android son of

Andrew Hartford who acts as the team's dispatcher.

What did you think of Mac? I liked him to be

honest. He was I mean again. I kind of felt like

the whole series Lacked intensity, but overall

I mean they still did a good job I like his character

how he ended up being an Android and his character

development and how He kind of just gave up on

himself, and he's like screw it You know you

guys can just rebuild me and they come to find

out that you know He had a heart and you know

I liked him. He was good I like Mac Again, it's

something that I have not seen in Power Rangers

to this point You know because we see you know

Cogs and putties and you know whatever other

robotic You know droids on droids These are not

the droids you are looking for move along You

know you know we we've seen other robotic like

like putty -like villain -type characters, but

we've never actually seen an android that becomes

a Power Ranger. And I kinda got the feeling that

something was up before it was revealed when

Andrew was like, no, you can't be the Red Ranger,

blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I think it

would be creepy as all hell if Andrew was the

Red Ranger at first, if Mr. Hartford was the

Red Ranger. because that would just be weird

i mean if you were going to do an adult team

of rangers and not a team team of rangers i can

see it but i'm glad that he finally you know

realized hey my son can take this you know my

son can you know be responsible here so welcome

uh... you know uh... come to find out the reason

why later on was are not all makes sense because

he's an android you know Then you have William

Will Aston, the Black Ranger, a spy for hire

with the physical powers of enhanced hearing

and sight. Before being recruited, Will was carrying

out a mission in Brazil. He is portrayed by Samuel

Benta. He is often shown expressing disbelief

in super -mundane phenomena, such as the existence

of dragons and other oracular powers of Chalice.

I liked how he became a ranger. Mr. Hartford

actually paid him to go steal something from

himself And he was like wait, this is yours and

he was like, yeah. Yeah, that's mine. I just

want to make sure you could do it This is I'm

trying to see I'll say was this 2007 yeah, this

is okay. Yeah now I know when I um When I first

watched the series and I saw this character.

I was like, hey, it's a male version of of of

stella from the italian job back in two thousand

three there was a remake of the sixties version

of the italian job and it was a i have no idea

what that is the italian well i'm telling you

okay the italian job is a two thousand there

was a two thousand three remake of the nineteen

sixties movie and the two thousand three remake

it stars shall we start on a stella Mark Walberg

and a bunch of other people it's got Seth Green

in it and it's essentially she is a safecracker

and That's essentially what will here is as well.

I was like when I was watching I was like, oh,

hey cool. Yeah I like will but I think it took

him a little bit too long to realize that he

needed to Work with the team instead of just

on his own. Yeah this team that this this season

focused a lot on teamwork Yeah, I'd say more

than any other episode. I mean season I apologize

Yeah, and if it didn't it just maybe it's just

me picking up on more teamwork than any other

episode because they just really pushed the teamwork

envelope on this one They did they really did

You then have Dax Lowe who is the Blue Ranger

an underappreciated stunt actor and practical

joker with the power to leap immense distances

prior to become a Ranger Dax was working in Hollywood

He was portrayed by Gareth Youn. Dax was often

the source of comic relief in the films. I don't

care for Dax. Probably one of the worst Blue

Rangers in history. Wow. If you look at it like

that, I guess yeah. It wasn't awful, but he was

very forgetful. He had his moments, but it's...

You've seen Wayne's World 2, right? Yes. Dax

Lowe's entire character is how Wayne and Cassandra's

father are talking when they're fighting over

Cassandra. Oh, yeah. You know, that whole fake

talk thing. A scene. Yeah. That's exactly what

Dax was the entire season here to me. I was like,

really, like, he had his, like, maybe one or

two moments, like, close to the end of the season

when he kind of, you know, came out of his shell.

But it was just too cliched. Yeah for me anyway

What about your thoughts on him not really? I

mean I gotta agree with you I mean just again

none of these none of the Rangers really Stuck

out to me. I mean they didn't they did a good

job, but they're there none of them are even

in my top ten Rangers of any color you know I

mean they're just don't even I mean even the

sixth Ranger, which you know a lot of the six

Rangers are my favorites It's just like even

ties on it's kind of like nah Yeah Next down

the line, we got Veronica Ronnie Robinson, the

Yellow Ranger, a confident and sometimes overtly

competitive stock car racer. Her physical power

is superhuman speed, which exceeds even the capacity

of the eye to note. Before becoming a Ranger,

Ronnie was competing in the Italian race. She

was portrayed by Caitlin Murphy. Again, as we've

said, generic, stereotypic, Outside of Mac Almost

all okay for me outside of Mac and Rose all of

the Rangers are Stereotypical Rangers out of

the original five and I'm not counting ties,

right? Out of the original five Every one of

them the other three outside of Mac and and Rose

for me are all stereotypical Character types

and I was like really you can't come up with

original character traits for these people Rose

Ortiz, okay, finally, a pink ranger with a brain.

Yeah, and I'll tell you what, Rose is probably

my favorite character on the show. Yeah, no,

I'm not saying that past pink rangers have not

been brainy. I'm saying that usually it's the

blue or yellow ranger or a Billy Trini type of

thing. This time, you know, just like in Time

Force, Jen was the pink ranger. She was essentially

the leader. once you know, at least until they

accepted Wes as their leader. Here you have Rose

who is the Pink Ranger and she's the brains and

she's the tech girl and she gets it and everything

else and I really really enjoyed that. I thought

it was a breast of fresh air. Pardon the pun.

And then you have Tizon, the Mercury Ranger.

I hope Spada's clip can enlighten me on this

because I don't get the Mercury powers at all.

I like the suit, it looks cool, but... Mercury

power, really? Yeah. Pretty magical. It's probably

one of the worst Six Rangers we've ever had.

Yes. That's probably very accurate. Any thoughts

on Tizon? I'm with you. It's like, if you're

gonna put, I mean... It sucks because the more

you talk about them. I'm like man. Yeah, I do

hate this person but like as a team they did

good You know, I mean they came to get you're

gonna compare Rose Not maybe not Rose Rose. Well,

I loved I did really like Rose But you're gonna

compare Ronnie the yellow ranger to the past

yellow Rangers are like why she can't lace their

boots up Hey, let's look at Dax as a blue ranger.

Why you can't lace their boots up. Hey, let's

look at whereas a black ranger. Yeah, he's terrible

and then you know i mean it's like but if you

put them as a team they did they did good as

a group yes as a team they did good as a group

but the whole the whole tyson thing the whole

thing with his power was like hey let me split

my molecules up and infect people with mercury

really that's the way you're going seriously

that's the way the writers wrote this damn thing

that's pretty sweet huh it's pretty Lame is what

it is. That's honestly what it is. Because the

first thing I thought of was, OK, lead -based

paint or lead poisoning from chewing on a number

two pencil. That was the first thing I thought

of when I saw this character's power. I was like,

yay, he can turn himself into a puddle. Really?

That's your power? That's pretty epic. Yeah,

this is very lame. Andrew okay for allies you

got Andrew Hartford who is max quote -unquote

father and adventure billionaire who created

the operation overdrive Power Rangers to find

the genius Find the gems of the Corona Aurora.

I like Andrew. I like mr. Hartford. I think he's

I think it was a well acted thing. I like the

actor portraying him but at the same time It's

It's so weird having him plus the butler You

know Andrew's to me is there for Whatever financial

thing they need or whatever new, you know new

funding for new Zord technology Whereas the butler

ends up having the more emotional moments with

any of the Rangers. Yeah, not just Matt Yeah,

well instead of Andrew or mr. Hartford doing

being the good cop and the bad cop, they just

split it up. So it's like Spencer had to come

in and be like, look, your dad's hard on you,

but you need to believe in yourself instead of

Mr. Hartford caving and being like, look, I love

you, and I'm hard on you, but you need to believe

in yourself. So all I do is split it up and add

another character. Yeah. I just think that was

a waste though. I mean, have one or the other.

And it goes to the whole point of anyone, not

just fathers and sons, but anyone having quote

unquote daddy issues of, oh, my dad's not around

so much, or my dad's off doing this, not paying

attention to me, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

And that, for a lot of people watching this series,

is probably going to, if you are a person whose

dad wasn't around. My dad, when I was younger,

He was around Up until the time he met his like

my parents divorced when I was two in 82 my dad

and I visited each other once a week till about

87 when I was seven he met his his then girlfriend.

They got married. They then moved down here to,

Kentucky And then obviously I didn't see him

that much so I mean overall In my life, my dad

hasn't been there that much. So I can see someone

like me having a past like that, where that would

affect them watching this series. But at the

same time, I don't think it was needed. I just

don't. And then, you know, getting to the end,

both Andrew and Spencer try to reassure Mac of,

oh, you are more than the sum of your parts.

You know? Yep. I don't know. uh... any thoughts

on on mac uh... mac uh... spencer and her and

and sensor yeah i'm not very well i can't i mean

spencer i like he was comical he you know he

he was snarky i thought he was cool uh... it's

showing a slightly different side essentially

this is almost even though it is not a good dinosaurs

it's uh... it's this series is essentially died

dino thunder white If you take Anton Mercer and

Andrew Hartford and just give Anton a butler,

it's essentially the same damn character. I'm

not saying, no, I'm saying the characters. I'm

not saying the series. I know what you're saying.

I hear you. Saying the characters. I hear you.

No, I agree, though, that what's his name, Rod

Loisius? Did a great job of acting for Mr. Hartford.

Yeah. Definitely. Yeah. And then you got the

Sentinel Knight, who is the original guardian

on the Corona Aurora. Big fan. I like him. I

thought it was pretty cool. Yeah fan kind of

I kind of I just took the mercury ranger out

and in my brain That's an ally. This is six Ranger

Yeah, yep Very awesome I like how they're Bridging

the gap Essentially with this being the 15th

episode or 15th anniversary with this season

They bridged the gap with a majority of all generations

of rangers with the replacement rangers or the

retro rangers between Adam and Adam from Mighty

Morphin and Tori from Ninja Storm and Kira from

Dino Thunder. Bridged from Time Force and sadly

Xander from Mystic Force. I almost said Magic

Force. What the hell? Well, you're pretty close.

Yeah. And then you have the Alpha 6 which we

talked about and then you got Vela Which is essentially

is Tyson's fiancee and Macurian and fellow member

survivor of the Intergalactic search and rescue

team of which Tyson was also a member She wasn't

there much, so I don't have any I don't know

like the last couple episodes. Yeah And I'm gonna

point something out towards the end towards the

end when we're almost done Well, knowing the

allies did you have anything for the allies?

No, I mean, I guess I wouldn't really consider

the those Rangers allies I would consider The

allies like the Sentinel Ranger or Sentinel night

Spencer and mr. Harford and also my boy the Yeti

nor nor Yeah, it's gonna take us into the villains

because in Power Rangers Operation Overdrive

there are four competing factions of villains

that the Rangers must battle in order to prevent

them from acquiring the Corona Aurora's five

gems. You have Flurius, the master villain thrives

in Sub -Zero climate on a glacier surrounded

by foot soldiers called the Chillers. Flurius

was. Didn't really like flurries. He reminded

me too much of the ice guy from the real threat

knows reindeer like claymation show Yeah, and

then plus I could not stand his stupid mustache.

I wanted I hated it The hatred for his mustache

went into the character So he must have done

a good job because I was wishing he was dead

every time he talked or I seen him It was also

mean mean to my boy Norj Yeah, he was mean to

Norg. I liked Flurius. I think that between him

and his brother, which we'll talk about here

in a minute, they're essentially useless villains

here. There's no real plan between either one

of them. You wanna talk about your boy Norg?

I mean, there's not too much to say. I wish I

could compare him to another character. another

series, but I don't know who I would compare

him to but he was just like he was he was obviously

a yeti he was he was known as Flurius's lap dog

a few different times throughout the throughout

the series but he's pretty much just like a gopher

that was always trying to impress Flurius and

every time he finally did something good Flurius

would just send him off like oh well you suck

You know, it's about time you finally done something

get out of my face. I would almost compare him

to briefly probably piggy from SPD but only because

I would only compare Norg and piggy together

because They have the same character where they

both that's fit where they eventually want to

do good The only difference is Norg doesn't betray

his friends. That's very fair. That's very fair

And then you have Moltor, the brother of Flurius,

must live under conditions of extreme heat, and

thus dwells in a volcano. He was originally human

until his attempt to steal the Corona Aurora,

which transformed him into a demon filled with

fire and reptiles, mainly consisting of the bipedal

lava lizards. He was frozen solid and shattered

by Flurius when he turned to the ladder for refuge.

He is voiced by Mark Ferguson. These brothers

are essentially completely useless a Sibling

rivalry for villains that makes no damn sense

to me whatsoever You just don't and both of them

end up getting destroyed in the end of course

they do I mean that Yeah, whatever I could have

done without no tour I mean I'm old toy. He did

alright. There was nothing that was like stuck

out about him that I could be like, you know,

it was good about him So whatever So then you

have camdor the armored ninja working with mirror

tricks Who lives inside her necklace until being

freed by a machine that was stolen by will he

creates and enlarges them? The monsters working

for him He's essentially a finster with armor

Mmm. Well, plus he's a badass, though. He is

a badass, yes. So Finster was like a sissy nanny,

and Kamdor was a man's man. I liked how he was

in her necklace for so long. Yeah. I thought

that was cool. And I like that the villain or

one of the villains of the series ends up having

a rivalry with a different Ranger other than

Red Ranger. Yeah. Yeah, I mean throughout the

series, I kind of felt like Black Ranger was

the leader. He was always like the tough one

that went out by itself to make, to do the fighting

when usually that was the Red Ranger. There was

many of, there was many of episodes where the

Black Ranger or Will went off by himself to take

on so -and -so or to even up this or to even

up that, you know what I mean? So it was kind

of like, he's obviously not the leader because

Red's always the leader, but it kind of felt

like Will was definitely second charge. Yeah.

um... and then you got Miritrix, an evil ninja

who co -leads the third faction of villains.

She is the ally and servant of Kandor. Until

her failures to defeat the Power Rangers convince

him to abandon her as useless. He then imprisons

her in the same jewel in which he was held captive

and is not known what happened to her after Kandor's

destruction. Although Flurius and Will are shown

saying that Miritrix died with Kandor. It is

suggested that she had learned of the Corona

Aurora's existence in the then -perceiving hunt

for its gems through Dax, whom she had seduced

and was portrayed by Ria Vendiverse? Vendiverse,

I guess. I liked her. She was alright. She's

not the hottest thing in the world to look at.

But she was okay, but she essentially turned

into a servant. Yeah. Which was, eh. It was fine.

Then you got Mig, a green alien feline who, with

the assistance of fellow fear cat Cheetar, attempted

to free his kind from the mirror in which they

were all sealed. After being defeated by the

Rangers, he was revived by Flurius, who used

his powerful gyros to turn him into a cyborg.

He was later destroyed by Tizon, the Mercury

Ranger. He was voiced by Kelsen Henderson. Honestly,

it's been about three or four weeks since I watched

overdrive. I don't remember this character at

all It was part of the two fear cats that were

in the entire pretty much the entire thing Because

they got pretty sure they got destroyed pretty

early in the series and I was like well I was

stupid they could have went a long way But then

they came back and it was like the fear cats

was they were pretty much ties on uh... got spent

in the atlanta size on enemies but not i i i

like the fair cats i like the fear gets to i

think they're great uh... they're very awesome

so uh... you know i really enjoyed that uh...

i enjoyed that whole and again the it seems like

you know i i don't like again you know what once

we get the status quo will find out but I don't

know what happened in the Sentai to the point

of why the American series has these guys against

those guys and those guys against the... It's

like they're trying to get four shows into one

with Taizan has his own villains, the Rangers

have theirs, Flurius and Moltor are essentially

fighting each other because of sibling rivalry

and then you've got Miritrix and can't... This

suffers from too many villains is what it really

does. Yeah, there is a crap ton and then the

fear cats also have Bangalore He comes in they

bring him in so there's actually three three

fear cats throughout Yeah, the deal But yeah,

I really I really love their their fits Yeah,

I thought the fear cats were awesome. I really

did. I thought that was a really cool thing there

and then This is all kinds of continuity hell

here in the in the once a ranger the villain

of that is Thrax the son of rid repulsa and Lord

Zed he returned to seek revenge against the sentinel

knight from imprisoning him in space dumpster

he temporarily United the four factions and successfully

severed the overdrive Rangers connection to the

morphing grid He got destroyed by a newly re

-energized sentinel knight. He was portrayed

by Glenn Levy. Okay When the hell in the last

15 seasons or 14 seasons whatever When the hell

did Rita and Zed have a kid? See this is how

I kind of figure it They must have banged as

soon as they met because there's no way that

that do because when did Zed come in season 2

and This is season 15. So that's 14 years ago.

There's no way that you're gonna tell me that

Thrax is a 14 year old Either that or he ages

like ET where it's just like you know like maybe

it's dog years it's like every year is like seven

seven years you know what i mean yeah i don't

know it's obviously storyline so they're not

like you know right and i mean it you know it's

just kind of like oh that's you know interesting

definitely nitpicking and you yeah you love nitpicking

but this time i'm going to agree with you because

this it was kind of dumb I mean, it's not even

a nitpick. It's it's a legitimate problem with

with the continuity of of the American Power

Rangers franchise where When the hell did this

happen right now if the listeners or if the people

that are kind of are gonna come on on? Geocast

radio or in the pop culture Network forums if

you guys have theories let us know we'll read

them in in the next episode because honestly

Well, there can't be a theory these either 14

years old or No, but what I'm saying is if the

listeners have theories on when it happened on

how it happened is what I'm saying But they met

at season two, right? Yes, they they met at season

two. They hated each other. She put the spell

on him Well, so I mean, I guess technically SPD

was in the future So we don't actually know when

this is because this is after that but now they're

back, you know So I mean technically this could

be You know, I don't know Write in people. Let

us know what you think And then you get the chillers

in the lava lizards. I like the chillers better.

I thought they were Way better than the the the

lava lizards Either way All right Let's get into

the arsenal. The overdrive tracker. The overdrive

tracker is the morpher for Operation Overdrive.

It is a fully functional cell phone equipped

with multiple additions. A black light that can

decode hidden messages. The turbo wheel, which

allows the rangers to execute commands. And extra

keypad buttons to be used for summoning their

various zords. The morphing call is overdrive,

accelerate in order for the rangers to morph.

The triple wheel must be spinning when the morphing

call is uttered This is usually done by running

it down the arm or any available surface like

a sword. I Hate this thing. I know you're gonna

say that this okay. This is the dumbest thing

ever. Okay, I Take take Dino Thunder. It's essentially

a key you flip your wrist you grab the key you

put it You know you you insert it into the other

hole Okay, I get that. This is the thing that

has a wheel that you have to either drag down

a surface, whether it's your arm, whether it's

a sword, whether it's a skateboard ramp. This

is just stupid. Yeah. Yeah, because they were

hitting it off whatever they could find to more

- Exactly. Yeah, I liked I liked their morphing

sequence. I'm not against or really for the tracker

I did like how I also hated it. Sometimes I did

like how I hold had multiple functions though

because it was like a light It was a scanner.

It was it was just all kinds of different stuff.

They're different Seasons that way instead of

just having a more for that serves one purpose.

You know what I mean? It's like And I also like

tell me how they wore it on their arm and where

they wore it. I Know you don't like how the wheel

spins, but it's like it's perfect. They grabbed

it It was already in place. Boom. You know what

I mean? Yeah. Yeah, I mean, yeah I love the morphing

sequence that that happens after I think that's

really cool But but the whole activation of the

morpher I was in order to become the Rangers

that that's really what's getting me I wish they

would have done more with the wheels because

I did like how their suits were like in a briefcase

like in a Almost like an iron man case. Yeah.

Yeah, I really did like that I wish they would

have done something a little bit more at that

I don't know what I guess I didn't I haven't

thought about it in the detail, but I really

I really liked it Yeah The mercury morpher this

is the morpher wrist worn morpher allows ties

on to become the mercury ranger It is a rotatable

bezel and LCD screen like the other Rangers his

morphing call is overdrive accelerate He activates

the morpher by pushing a button I like this one.

I think it's kind of cool. I don't know. A lot

of the times I don't have a lot of opinions on

the morphers because they're just what gets them

to do the morphing sequence and gets them in

the suits. I mean, I don't know. It's like, you

know, okay. You've got a morpher and then you

usually have a weapon. Usually I would like the

weapon more than the actual morpher. Yeah. the

zip shooter oh boy this is essentially a zip

line parachute flare signal I guess it's cool

um I don't remember again it's been a few weeks

since I've seen everything in the series so I'm

not my brain has turned to mush by this point

they didn't use it a lot yeah that's what I figure

because if they had used it more than once or

twice I probably would have remembered it better

Then you get the shark special hydro aero recon

craft the shark which was built by Andrew Hartford

is a sleek looking jet -like vehicle is capable

of great speed in the air and on the water and

is the Rangers primary mode of transportation

The shark is driven primarily by Ronnie the yellow

Ranger. Now. Why does she get to drive? I don't

know I Like the shark, I think it's cool. I don't

know thoughts No, I'm no Not necessarily The

control console drivers used by the Rangers to

control their drive Mac zords They collapse into

suitcase like form and then expand when inserted

into the control panels of the zords They all

have a steering wheel and two gear sticks with

in their confines Thoughts on the control console

drivers thing. I was talking about earlier. It

wasn't too bad. I liked it Liked it. I thought

it was cool. But it again I don't know if it's

because Ronnie was a race car driver in the series

But it just reminded me of every time they get

into the Zords Oh, hey, we got to bring our steering

wheels with us, right? You know Where exactly

do they carry these while they were fighting

before? Exactly. It's kind of like Optimus Prime's

trailer. Where does it go? You watch robot chicken,

you know where it went Then you get the Drive

Defender, the personal sidearm for the Rangers.

The Drive Defender features both a blaster mode

and a saber mode. Each Ranger possesses his or

her own weapon. The Red Ranger wields the Drive

Lance, a spear with a retractable blade. The

Black Ranger wields the Drive Slammer, a giant

sledgehammer that resembles a driveshaft. The

Blue Ranger wields the Drive Vortex, a handheld

fan that can create strong winds. Here, let me

blow you away. Just goes to show how pathetic

the Blue Ranger is in this series. The Yellow

Ranger wields the Drive Claws. Two handheld bulldozer

implements. So stupid. So dumb. It is. So dumb.

So dumb. The Pink Ranger wields the Drive Geyser,

a powerful water -based gun. Unlike the other

Ranger's weapons, the Drive Geyser is not made

to look like any specific part of the vehicle's

chassis. Instead, it is this weapon which resembles

a miniature version of the sub -driver. It can

launch a powerful, concentrated flow of water.

So essentially, it's a Super Soaker. Yes. Seriously?

That looks kind of like a jet ski to me. It always

looked like a jet ski. Google it. The weapons?

the weapons for the ranger rangers in the series

outside of like the lance and the sabers and

the guns these weapons all suck even the lance

sucked what happened to the red ranger sword

yeah yeah it's like this is the second or third

time that the red ranger hasn't had a sword right

because there was another one that we we came

up with yeah i forget which one or maybe i'm

confused and it was sentai It was one of Spada's

clips that gave us the first time that the Red

Ranger didn't have a sword. I don't quite remember

I don't remember either but These weapons in

this series were either Inserted into the series

because of toys or they were made for the series.

So toys could be made. That's all it's for Well,

no one not even girls are like, you know what

I want Bobcat back. Oh, thanks for my hands You

know it was worse than all those the mercury

rangers The drive detector yes metal detector

Lance blaster and metal did oh my god so dumb

and Then other weapons you've got the defender

vest and drill blaster protective vest and two

-ended blaster weapon that can be used by any

Ranger one end based on cemented right So essentially

it's a toy its weapons to create toy toys for

the line and it's construction Equipment it was

swap mode At least SWAT mode had a had a purpose.

Yes. What was actually really cool? Yeah The

civilian vehicles the Rangers used these vehicles

in pre -battle before they are morphed Dax blue

Ranger Ronnie yellow Ranger and will black Ranger

pilot their own personal ATVs Or motorcycles,

while Rose, the Pink Ranger, Mac, the Red Ranger,

and Tizon, the Mercury Ranger, and any other

allies traveling with them, such as Spencer or

Andrew, travel in a Humvee. Again, this is essentially

combining series. The Humvee, uh, hello, Lightspeed

Rescue. Right. You know, uh, the ATVs, um, Ninja

Storm, anybody? I don't, I don't... I don't know

if all this stuff was inserted here to pay homage

to the last 15 years at this point of Power Rangers

or what, but essentially this series with the

weapons, with the vehicles, it's essentially

copying or similar copies of every other series

vehicles. Yeah, and I think that's kind of what

they were going for. It's like, if it's not broke,

don't fix it. We've had past success. Hey, let's

do this, this and this and see how it works.

And then you get the the hover tech cycle the

hover tech cycle developed by Hartford Industries

exclusively for the black ranger It can transform

into a helicopter type vehicle that is equipped

with the powerful lasers used for land and air

combat Any thoughts on the hover techs? I didn't

really care for it. I don't I mean I wish I didn't

I Don't know why I'd pink on it. I mean, I'm

not against pink I just can't figure out why

it was it was I mean it was black because it

was the black Rangers But why was it pink? It's

a girly mobile! Then you got the transtech armor,

a high powered machine that can be piloted by

any of the rangers. It's default mode is a four

-wheeled vehicle mode which destroys monsters

with its claws but can also change into a freestanding

mech configuration which can fire powerful energy

blasts as a finisher. Trans tech. I don't remember

the trans. Okay, the trans tech armor is that

goofy ass stupid thing? That it was like an exosuit

Mm -hmm, and it was like it kind of looked like

have you ever seen a client with a chance at

meatballs? No, okay I didn't like it here. Let

me Exo suit so it's kind of like Daniel from

transformers the movie. Yeah, it's bigger than

that It's like a car with legs is what it looked

like. I kind of right. All right. Okay. Yeah

Yeah, every time I got it and I was like, oh

I hate that thing Then you get the Sentinel sword

when the Sentinel Knight merged with the sword

Excelsior It gave him the power to transform

into a sword bow to which the Rangers are able

to carry with them big fan You like this thing

absolutely liked it, okay The way I see the Sentinel

Knight and the Sentinel sword is the Sentinel

Knight is King Arthur and the Sentinel sword

is Excalibur That's the way I see it I'm with

you So I like that and then because of the Sentinel

sword You have the Red Sentinel Ranger. Matt

can use the Sentinel Sword and Special Morpher

that resembles the red version of the Mercury

Morpher to merge with the Sentinel Knight and

become the Red Sentinel Ranger. The face of the

Sentinel Knight is hidden in the chestplate and

is able to talk. So it's pretty much a powered

up Red Ranger. It's a battleizer for Matt, yes.

For the first time, I'll say I like this one.

Really? I could deal without the Sentinel. Having

his own opinion in the chest, but he looked badass

and then he had the sword mode The swords came

off the back and I just I was a big fan of it

I Like the design of this thing But the fact

that the chest opens up and the Sentinel Knights

head is in there. That's just creepy as all hell

That's just creepy hmm All right, so let's move

on to the artifacts here We've got both arranging

the villains travel the world in search of the

Corona jewels to aid them They must uncover special

relics that serve as clues in the lead lost that

lead to the lost jewels The Corona Aurora is

a crown resembling that worn in medieval Europe

But claimed to be of divine origin is also commonly

called the crown of the gods To prevent its capture

to those of negative interest the Sentinel Knight

scattered to the crown its jewels across the

earth At the opening of the film series the crown

was in Andrew's possession From which it was

stolen by Maltor following the destruction of

Maltor's lair the ownership the crown passed

to Flourish Etc etc, etc Essentially, this thing

is the Matrix of Leadership of Power Rangers.

Yep. I don't have any real thoughts. I mean,

I like the design on it, I guess. I mean, I don't

really have any thoughts. I don't really have

any thoughts on any of these artifacts. I mean,

I don't know about you, but did you have anything

on any of the artifacts that you wanted to talk

about? Not necessarily. There was nothing that...

I don't know. I liked the idea of it. But I mean,

I don't know I liked how word they had to go

to all the different places and right and I liked

I like because there was For all the bad stuff

in this there was some really good stuff in this

too. And this is some of the stuff that I liked

Yeah, I liked how they went to all those different

places You know, I liked how they had to solve

some different riddles. I liked how they had

clues You know, I mean it it made for a lot less

filler episodes, even though they were kind of

all, you know filler episodes You know what I

mean? Yeah, yeah, so I liked I liked how all

the jewels, you know, they were trying to fight

for the jewels. They reminded me a lot of Nicholas

Cage movie is Tret lost treasure. What the hell

is that movie called? National Treasures where

you know, they were kind of going for the same

jewel in this and it was kind of neat You know,

I mean they're both fighting for the the same

jewels throughout throughout the series So I

liked it Let's uh, let's talk about the zords

as we often do but first of all what This might

be the one series that we agree on on on on the

zords um First of all the name drive max zords

drive max really? that's Because it's kind of

like ooh maximum overdrive. It's You got the

dump diver, the speed driver, the gyro driver,

the dozer driver, and the sub driver for the

primary drive mag zords. None of these are interesting

to me at all. The only thing I liked about this

entire thing is how they could do the arm switching.

I do enjoy the arm switching. Overall, I hated

it. Hated it. And like when they got on the giant

Ship thing like the carrier zord. I can't think

what else card now. I just wanted to fast forward

the battle fleet. Yeah. Yeah They also have auxiliary

drive max zords the drill driver the shovel driver

the cement driver the crane driver and the sonic

streaker okay, so Power Rangers that are construction

workers nice rescue runners 3 2 1 battle fleets

drive commander drive carrier drive fighter drive

attacker and drive roller the drive max Megazord

did you have any thoughts on the drive max Megazord

no about the same I like some of the what I liked

about the Zords is as As each Zord was introduced,

what I liked about it was, hey, here's Zord's

1 through 5. Here's 6 through 10. Here's 11 to

15. Here's 16 to 20. I do like the numbering.

Yeah. I like that. I thought that was cool. And

I like the overall, the big gestalt and big all

combine everything Zord. I like that. But a Megazord

is supposed to do something. A Megazord is supposed

to... inspire awesomeness and I'm sorry this

series doesn't do that hmm at all it just does

what is um Bruticus that's what it is it's Bruticus

from Transformers Oh Bruticus he's the combaticons

right that's this that's what this is yeah although

Bruticus is much better yeah I agree Bruticus

should have made it up an appearance All right,

so we are we're gonna head to spade his clip

and see what's what's going on with the sentai

And we'll come back after this. Hey folks, Spade

of the Bolt Matrix here, and today we are talking

about Bokehanger. Airing from February 19, 2006

to February 11, 2007, Go! Go! Sentai Bokehanger

marked the 30th anniversary entry into the Super

Sentai franchise. Powerful relics from the past

called Precious had begun to appear around the

world. In order to prevent these dangerous items

from falling into the nefarious hands of the

Negative Syndicates, the SearchGuard Successor

Foundation was formed. SGS Foundation is a non

-government organization that gathers lost Precious

from around the world. To that end, they have

created the Bokenger. Bookinger is based mostly

on treasure hunting and the adventures that come

with it. The series also brings some unique ideas

to the forefront such as different villain factions

interwoven throughout the series. Sadly by the

end of the series there are so many open -ended

plot threads that it kind of makes the series

feel overly wasted and not a lot of time spent

closing up these plot threads. The Rangers themselves

are a mix of different Sentai character types.

Serious slash Job, focused red, rebellious black,

smart guy blue, clumsy yellow, and stoic pink,

and then later, tragic backstory silver. But

thankfully by the series end, the viewer understands

what shaped these characters into the people

they are now. If the different character types

sound like they've been used before, that's because

each ranger was based on a ranger from the past.

Red and Pink are based off their counterparts

from the very first Sentai. Himitsu Sentai Go

-Ren Jet. Black and Yellow were based on their

counterparts from the 15th Sentai. Chojin Sentai

Jetman. Bokken Blue is based off of Battle France

from the third Sentai, Battle Fever J, and Bokken

Silver is based on Burai, the Dragon Ranger,

minus the murderous antagonism, from Kouryu Sentai

Ju -Ranger. The villains, however, are just kind

of mostly there. There are four main villain

groups that make up the Negative Syndicate, the

Godom civilization, the Jaryuk - the Jaryuk clan,

Dark Shadow, and the Questers. Each main villain

of these groups, or the leader of the groups,

were based on, albeit very loosely, old mecha

from the past series. Good luck guessing which

ones were - were based on what, as nobody's been

able to nail that one down. Now, the Godom civilization

is an ancient and dead race, an ancient Earth

civilization led by the High Priest Gaja, who

is awakened from his slumber by archaeologists

and decides to resurrect his lost empire. The

Jaryu clan is a tribe of genetically engineered

dragon men. Dark Shadow is a ninja clan which

steals precious purely to sell them for profit.

And the Questers are originally two members of

the demonic Ashu tribe, sworn enemies of Eiji

and his family. Uh, then they were resurrected

by the Godom civilization, and given cybernetic

bodies, and then they were set up by Dark Shadow,

and then the remains after they were destroyed

were combined into mechs, and they are really,

really weird, but they're pretty much just evil

cat people. Bokinje does have a few firsts, however.

It was the first series to have multiple different

villains in the same series. It was the first

time that nine and ten different mechs combined

into one robot, and is the first and so far only

series to have more than one set of foot soldiers.

So there were like four or five different versions

of putties for that series. The series is not

free of falling into Sentai tropes, however.

Some classics include yelling the names of the

attacks, the secret organization that nobody

seems to know about, and the mechanic trope.

The mechanic trope is the one character that

stays back at base and fixes and builds all the

mechs. But it's really weird because, you know,

I would think more than one person would need

to be able to fix these giant robots. But the

one trope used most egregiously has to be the

All the myths are true trope. That's the fairy

tales, legends, etc. are all completely true.

Why? Because plot reasons, that's why. Overall,

Bokkenger was only okay. It did pretty well in

Japan and was one of the higher or middle -higher

grossing series of the of the 90s. The mecha

was cool, the suits were neat, and the weapons

were unique and the Rangers themselves were good

callbacks to the Rangers of the past. Where the

series falls short though are the villains and

the sheer number of filler episodes. There were

something like 10 to 15 and even maybe even 20

complete filler episodes that had nothing to

do with the plot or character development. There

just wasn't much to the series as a whole. It

was kind of like Sailor Moon. You could take

the entire series and cut it down to just a couple

of episodes. But those episodes were fun and

are worth a look if you get the chance. So this

is, I've been Spada the Bolt Matrix taking a

look at Goku Sentai Boukenger. You can find me

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catch you guys next time and let's go back to

the command center. Thank you once again Spada

for for for giving us that that insight to Boukenger.

I believe that's how he pronounced it. They essentially

copied it for the American version. Well, no

because I thought he was saying that the regular

Rangers were supposed to be past Rangers Right.

Well, that's not how this is and I was kind of

confused Was it? How what's he mean like the

rate that the Rangers actually came back and

played another part or No, I think he means that

they were supposed to be it's kind of like it's

kind of like uh Gokaijer then where they kind

of they like they resemble their powers and they

kind of have their mechs but they just couldn't

figure out what mechs go with where yeah okay

yeah i don't know but as always we appreciate

spade's hard work and putting together that sentai

clip the uh the working early working title for

this series for the american version was power

rangers drive force but was later changed to

relic hunters and then operation overdrive I

might have refused to watch it if it was Relic

Hunters. We might have went right to Jungle Fury.

If the series had Tia Carrera in it, I'd watch

it. She was on Relic Hunter. Anyway, Cassandra.

You know, the sad thing is now I have to put

in one of the Cassandra songs from Wayne's World

into this episode. Put the first one she played

when Wayne was there. Yeah, yeah. Early pre -production,

July 26, 2006, the series logo was posted on

a fan message board called... Funero board? The

same logo was later featured on the Disney website.

RangersSecrets .com is part of the preview for

the series. The logo is very similar to that

of the parent series Bokehnder in the basic design

and format. I honestly like the logo. I think

it's really cool. Yeah, it was nice. And I like

their suits. Yeah, I like the suit song we think

about that song We'll get we'll get to that After

after we talk about the the seasons in the end

the season in the end the synopsis in the episode

Well, we'll get to the music So for the overall

synopsis, you know pretty much The whole point

is they have to find the jewels to the Corona

Aurora and reunite that and stop the villains

and everything else. Do you have any favorite

episodes from this season? What is the Hammer

episode? War of the Hammer? Okay. Where Thor's

in it with He -Man's shield. That's my favorite.

Oh, yeah. Because there's a point in that where

he's blocking lightning or something, maybe from

Loki or something. That shield looks just like

he man shield. Yeah, it does doesn't it? Yes

I Think that's home in a way the two -parter

home in a way I think that's what that no cuz

that's where because they're looking for the

hammer It's got hammer in the title. Hold on

a second. I was grabbing a water. Oh, it's hammer

time Yeah, that's what that's that's the episode

Obviously the always a ranger episodes were was

sweet Yeah Before we get too far ahead I want

to point out And this isn't the only series to

do it But it's kind of like I know I I know I

refer to refer to wrestling a lot But it's kind

of like what wrestling does when they have a

pre main event And then they put a crappy women's

match in there and then they go to the main event

But sometimes the main event isn't as good as

the pre pre main event. So like Let's see what

episode would have been maybe home in a way.

No. Yeah, I guess home in a way Where they start

building up to where that statue comes alive

where they get a hold of that statue the bad

guys And then they make it big and they put that

piece on it I'm like, okay, they can make it

they could they could put this over like four

or five episodes and make this really good but

instead they end up killing that thing in one

episode and then have two poop episodes and then

go back into the finale i just really wish they

wouldn't do that why don't we just build instead

of just having a two parter have like a three

or four parter and take out that crap uh cut

episode or whatever you want to call it yeah

were they were they're looking into uh mac's

brain yeah we could have totally done without

without that yeah we could have i think it was

way back when we could have got rid of way back

when and ran with home and away, home and away

two, two fallen foes, nothing to lose and crown

of punishment. Yeah, I can agree with that. And

it's not just a series that's done it. There's

been multiple series that have done it, but it's

just kind of just kind of like, I wish you wouldn't

do that because it's like, oh, God, this is getting

really good. I wish I could. I want to say it

was which ones had the dark Rangers in it. Oh.

I know it was an SPD was a time force No, it

was the guy that had the the guy that was in

like Nomad or whatever like are the with Russell?

Ecliptor it was in space in space Yeah, yeah,

like that was building up to be a huge huge ending

and then they're just like look you're dead They

put them on trading cards or whatever and I don't

like yeah Yeah, that was in space. It was like,

luck, you're done. And then now we're just going

to have a crappy episode and then go into this

end episode that's not as good as the last two

episodes. And again, looking at some of these

episode titles, this series took it as a joke.

The underwater world, that's essentially Kevin

Costner's water world. you know whether or not

at all cost it's hammer time it's hammer time

face -to -face behind the scenes out of luck

well I think they're just trying to keep it simple

and light -hearted that's why they don't have

any intensity in the Rangers you know times that

any of the Rangers snap off and just like badass

mode you know think they were just kind of going

light -hearted with the entire series and And

that kind of that's that's what kind of affects

me. You know what I mean? It's just kind of like

yeah You know, there's a lot of good things a

lot of good things about this season There's

a lot of bad things. So it's like that's why

it's like It's it's the seasons. Okay Yeah, you

know So the the music I remember saying in past

episodes when we got to this episode that I really

The only part of the song I really the theme

song I liked was the chorus Operation over as

I watched it. I found myself liking the entire

theme more It isn't one that I would listen to

on a regular basis at all But I came to enjoy

it more than I enjoyed the mystic force thing.

Oh, it's I hate it. I hate it. It's terrible

Yeah, I don't like it whatsoever and the mystic

forces It's they're equally terrible You know,

it's not terrible jungle fury We'll have to wait

until I get to that Haven't got to that one yet.

I'm too busy being a mi6 agent over there in

England anyway Getting into the reception and

legacy and toys and all the stuff. Do you have

any of the overdrive toys? Do you want? Not not

one of them usually there's like there's something

where I'm like, oh, you know what? I'm gonna

look at that and I'm gonna see about that because

I'm still looking for the Titan Megazord from

Mystic Force because that thing was I still like

that thing that was badass but I can honestly

say I don't I I mean if I if I caught the figures

all six of the figures at a toy show and they

were complete for a decent price I might pick

them up just to have them because I like having

the sets like that but I would never I don't

want any of the mega zords I definitely don't

want any of the I don't want the morpher I don't

want it was just better off if I just don't even

bother with this crap um I want I don't know

force hammer and he -man shield I don't know

if I know currently um Shout Factory is only

up to Lost Galaxy in their DVD releases their

new DVD releases I don't know if when it was

still when the DVD rights were still with Disney

I don't know if Disney ever released volume sets

of overdrive on DVD, but You know eight bucks

a month Go on Netflix you can watch it there

I would say if you're one of those Power Rangers

historians that love seeing the the Team Up episodes,

watch the Once a Ranger 2 -parter. Yeah, definitely.

You can find that on YouTube. Well, yeah, but,

you know. I'm saying if they don't have Netflix

and they're not gonna watch the entire series,

just YouTube it. Yeah, that's true. It's definitely,

it's definitely worth watching. I mean, hell,

the series is probably, you know, worth watching.

Am I gonna ever watch it again? No. No. No, for

sure not. There's no way in hell. But it's just,

there's this more, there's other stuff to watch.

that I would like to re -watch other than this.

Alright, so we're going to go to an ad break

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about this season. So we'll be back after this.

Greetings, this is Pete Geistin with my personal

review on Power Rangers Mystic Force. At the

time of this recording, I am now in the middle

of Operation Overdrive. Anyways, first off, I

would like to say thank you for not playing my

first voicemail. That was a bit of a cluster

F -word for me. Anyways, on to the review. Mystic

Force, in my opinion, is good. It is... It is

underrated for what it was. It wasn't as bad

as it could have been, or as people stated, but

again, opinions are opinions. I kind of like

to morph us in a way, like, yeah, I know it's

kind of silly that there's cell phones, but I

mean, come on. What else could you've done to

hide a wand? Exactly. Um, the daughter's name,

uh, Necrolyte's daughter's name was actually

Leely. Or Lele. One, one of the two. Um... But,

um... Yeah, yeah, like, my... My favorite character

was, um... For the season was, um... V, Necrolyte,

and then the Sphinx Care. Um, mostly because,

like... Anyways, the Zords, I found really cool.

Like, the whole Ranger string into the Zords.

That was a pretty cool concept for the Six Force

Imagine Ranger and all that stuff. And, yeah,

Spheta, this is for you. This, of course, wasn't

that bad. It could have been worse. It could

have been turbo. One of the other characters

I liked was Udonna. I don't know why I just liked

her. Probably because she is the second White

Ranger leader. character next to Delphina or

whatever the Quichin White Ranger's name was.

And this is also the first series in which we've

seen the kind of return of Rita Repulsa, who

was later renamed Mystic Mother. I thought that

was pretty cool of how they brought back Rita

in some way shape or form. And that is actually

part Sentai too. Like that's the same actually

to play Rita and Bandora in the original Mighty

Morphin Power Rangers. Now, there is unfortunately

nothing else I can say on Mystic Force. I'll

go to Overdrive. Yeah, I know what you mean by

how bad the music sucks. But I mean, Mystic Force,

at least for the beginning of the song, it wasn't

that bad. It just added a sense of mystery, and

then it gets ruined with the lyrics. Overall,

Mystic Force was a good song. With a good series.

Missing Fortune is a good series. Overdrive is...

Meh. So -so. Yeah. Anyways. Missing Fortune is

a good series. I did like the cast. Mostly because,

in some way, she performed. They were all relatable

to a person that you probably hang out with in

real life. Like... Like V is the music -loving,

loving one who is like always one who likes to

keep the party moving. All the characters are

relatable and always cheerful. This has been

my personal review of Mystic Force, and this

is T -Geistan signing off. You are listening

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my final thoughts on overdrive I enjoyed it for

the story That's pretty much it the story and

once a ranger the zords sucked the characters

suck For the most part Not really that great

of a series at all On the other hand, I can watch

this more than I can watch Mystic Force. What

about you? If I had to pick, I would probably

pick Mystic Force. I really did like the story,

though. It just lacked a few things, you know,

overall. I did really enjoy the Red Ranger Mac.

His story how you know, he ended up being an

Android and that wise father didn't I mean like

I said There's a lot of really really awesome

things and there's a lot of really really bad

things So it's just like they just wash each

other out. So it's kind of like just a decent

series It's not it's definitely not You know

not tough I was probably not in the top ten if

I had to list them But you know, it's worth watching

if you're a Power Ranger fan, it's obviously

worth watching. Yeah And of course, as always,

when we can remember to do it, Chaotix has written

in about his thoughts on Overdrive. They juggle

around so many villains is that is that real?

Apparently so the Black Ranger even stole the

poster that was to be auctioned off at the charity

the first Morpher con. Oh my god I'm gonna have

to look into that What a friggin' jerk. They

juggle around so many villains that some become

underused and the theme song is absolutely terrible.

You think the Voltron Force theme is bad, oh

ho ho, you ain't seen nothin' yet. However, the

team up was great. Awesome to see Adam and Alpha

Six back in action and the end jokes are awesome.

The only weak part is that the Overdrive Rangers

are in it. Nor was fun and the production values

and sets continue to be superb. So pretty much...

Mine and his opinion are exactly the same. What

do you got coming up on the award -winning video

series from the Command Center? You know what,

to be honest, absolutely 100 % nothing. I just

did episode 40 and I was actually supposed to

put 41 out this week and I started looking through

my Ranger tubs and I just don't, I don't know,

I don't really have, I mean I've done everything

that I have. I really need to get that Titan

Megazord. I'll probably take like a month or

two off and hit up some toy shows and try to

build a little bit more Power Rangers stuff up,

but I don't know. It's sad to say, but 40 episodes

is a lot of Power Ranger toys. Yup. Yup. So thank

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So thank you so much for that review. It was

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show they have great chemistry together It is

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For conversation, if Saban makes a serious miniseries

for the fans of Power Rangers, you can bring

back any combination of veteran rangers. We've

talked about this before. We appreciate you leaving

it in your review. We've talked about the veteran

rangers thing before. And until they actually

do it, I'm not even going to give anyone an answer,

because I don't know what Saban is going to do

in that case. And the final one is from a long

-time fan, Tao Care. Best Power Rangers podcast

I've come across. 5 -star review. I found this

podcast by accident while browsing the internet

one day, and I have been a fan ever since. Scottie

Cash and TF2 and Mike are good hosts, fun to

listen to, and even though they tend to forget

things here and there, which leads me to yell

at my computer to correct them or help fill in

the blanks since they are forgetful even though

the fans will help them afterwards. Spirit of

the Bolt Matrix is a great addition to the podcast

with a Super Sentai portion, giving us the info

on differences in the original source material

and the American adaptations. If any, gone prime

examples are being Upper Ranger, Car Ranger,

Die Ranger, Decker Ranger, He essentially lists

a lot of the other ones. I don't know why people

would like the Sentai segment to be longer and

the iTunes reviewers never did give an answer

so they are just complaining for the hell of

it. Yeah, we don't know either. No one ever emailed

me or emailed into our sites to let us know why

they want the Sentai clip sooner in the podcast.

My favorite episodes are when you had the interviews

with Barbara Goodson. Barbara Gordon, yeah, that's

right. We talked to Batgirl about Power Rangers.

Hell yeah, we did. Barbara Goodson and Robert

Axelrod, the voices of Lloyd Zed and Rita Repulsa,

the interview with Daniel Southworth from TimeForce,

and the interview with Jason David Frank, all

of the episodes going over the Zordon era, Power

Rangers, and Power Rangers Dino Thunder, where

Tommy Oliver, Dr. O, as Connor Ethan and Kara

called him, made his final appearance as a veteran

Power Ranger, at least for now. The reason why

Jason David, oh, yeah. He goes on to say in the

iTunes review of why Jason David Frank took off

time from Dino Thunder. We got that after the

episode. We actually heard it from him, actually.

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TFG1Mike with Scotty Cash, the Jungle Fury champion.

Thank you for listening. Until next time. I honestly

don't know what it is about Jungle Fury. I actually

watched it when it was airing. I watched like

the first four or five episodes and then I don't

know what it was whether I moved somewhere whether

I lost interest I'm not really sure so I'm I'm

going into that one with an open mind I do remember

seeing like the very first episode and I know

that I watched more than one but I remember the

whole you know I forget what the Daishi yeah

Daishi and the other kid the little scrawny kid

was it Nick? The kid that eventually becomes

the Red Ranger. I can't think of his name. At

this point, I can't think of his name. We'll

talk about it next month. But I remember seeing

the two of them fight over who was going to be

the Red Ranger. But other than that, I don't

remember anything. So I'm going to have to go

back and watch that. Well, actually what happened

was Daishi was supposed to be the Red Ranger.

But he ended up being the dickhead because the

guy that ended up being the Red Ranger was just

the towel boy. Yeah, but but he ended up having

like a tiger inside of him or whatever and The

master was like yeah dickhead you're out tiger

boy. You're in So then the tag in the lion then

the bad guy becomes Daishi. Oh Boy, that's a

lot of woods to go through. I did I really I

promise you I really do love jungle fury I mean,

it's the red ranger is he's one of my favorite

rain rangers. He does he does a really good job