Mighty Morphin Power Rangers live blog

So I discovered that the original three seasons of MMPR is on Netflix. Upon finding this, I was clearly obligated to watch from the beginning. I have just gotten to the Green ranger mini series and want to record my thoughts as we go. To be clear, 10 year old me thought this was bad-ass. Without further ado, Green With Evil Part 1

the intro song starts out pretty metal.

I never understood the dressing in one colour thing. Maybe the secret heroes are the group of five kids who ALWAYS wear the same colours.

We begin with a martial arts expo.

Tommy wears nothing but green and does nothing but jump kicks...

Kimberly thinks he's dreamy.

Rita has a power coin for a new ranger and took 17 episodes to figure out that she should use it.

Jason vs Tommy.. the referee looks like he is going yachting after.

Uh oh... Tommy is way ahead.

phew... it was a draw.

Kimberly hears literal harps as she checks out the meat... I mean Tommy.

Later at school, Bulk and Skull hit on Kimberly... luckily green knight, Tommy is here to do the same jump kicks 12 times.

Kim and Tommy have negative on screen chemistry... but more harps so it must be love.

Rita casts a spell whose incantation is just saying what will happen.

NO TOMMY, not the back alley. Not alone!

Putties... Tommy dispatches them easily... by posing a lot?

Garbage can lid comes into play.. E C DUB E C DUB

Rita comes to earth to to take Tommy. And is already on a first name basis with him.

More "spells"

If Rita knows who the power rangers are, why doesn't she just take an ad in the Angel Grave Times?

Hmm Tommy can just teleport into Zordon's chamber, seems like a gaping security hole.

Wait... Zordon KNEW that there was a sixth coin? And that he could just enter the command centre? Lock it Zordon.

aaaaaaand Zordon is gone.

Time for giant Goldar.

Oh no! Teleporting is offline! Good thing we are cleaning our flying car, that we apparently had this whole time.

Alpha 5 is offline. Billy fixes it in about 11 seconds.

IT'S MORPHIN TIME

We have a Giant flying monkey but let's lead off with putty patrol... that will probably be successful.

Nope.

Now it's time for dinozords. Who by the way come from 5 completely different climates. Maybe just park them in Angel Grove? You need them literally every week.

Megazord activated. They go right for the power sword. Wise.

Goldar does air somersaults... it is ineffective.

The green ranger just casually breaks into the Megazord and takes it out.

5 on 1 battle now. Rangers use their numbers advantage to attack one at a time, neglecting to use weapons against the unarmed hostile ranger. Pink ranger is the first one to realize they have swords; promptly loses it.

Back in the command centre... seems like this green guy is super tough. He beat Jason...

And that's that. 4 more to go. Oh Lord...

Sometimes I still feel like I'm 20...

... then I see 20 year olds and realize that, no, I am definitely 30.

31 actually.

I went to the doctor yesterday to get my shoulder looked at. It has hurt for a while, but has recently gotten worse. Wife worries about me and my reluctance to get medical attention so she insisted I go see a doctor. I relented when I couldn't move my left arm one day...

The first words out of the doctors mouth were, "what did you do?" I felt inexplicable shame in saying that I didn't DO anything to it. I told him that it had hurt for a while, and with more shame than necessary I admitted I am in my thirties and so figure that sometimes things just hurt now. I expected a lecture about how things have a root cause and I shouldn't ignore them. His response was worse than I expected: he just nodded sagely.

One of the advantages of living in Peterborough is that there is a free newspaper, and that newspaper is where all the flyers are. Every week, Wife asks me if I want to save the flyers, and every week I become more enthusiastic in saying yes. I save them to read on Sunday morning, before church.

I guess the main thesis of this post is that if most men turn into their fathers at some point, I might be bypassing that and going straight to turning into my grandfather...