Saturday, October 15, 2011

Power Rangers Samurai - Origins Part 1


Like I thought "Origins" is just the first episode, just like Shinkenger's first episode, with no reference of the past episodes. You would think it would have an opener with Antonio asking how they met, but no nothing like that. Antonio does not appear in the credits. So why postpone the episode? Why not do any editing to it? 


The Nighlok rise and Jayden is told he must join a team, Jii sends arrows to four young people. Mia gets picked up by a big black car. Oooh Kevin shirtless with nice abs and it looks much better than seeing Ryunousuke in kabuki makeup. Kevin is for a swimming match and comes to the black car, thinking Mia is the Red Ranger, saying he didn't see she was a girl (foreshadowing). Emily and Mike all meet, Emily thinks Kevin is Red and he is wearing blue. Jayden comes in a horse hilariously. Jayden's speech sounds like a Reality Show. This so should had been the premiere, it gave me goosebumps. We also see the rarely seen Pink and Yellow cockpits. And about the 18th Leader comment? Clearly about the 18th head of Shiba Clan, the lords in Shinkenger. As for Power Rangers linearly, he is the 15th, not counting RPM and SPD. If you count by seasons and count Charlie, he can be 18th.

Pictures credited to SamuraiCast.com

5 comments:

T.K. said...

My guess for why they didn't show Origins until now: Notice that it wasn't shot in HD (it aired in SD even on Nick's HD feed). My thinking is that Nick originally planned PRS as a SD series, but made the call to invest in HD after seeing the first couple of episodes, and for seamlessness's sake, they decided to start the series at episode 3 rather than reshoot the first 2 episodes in HD.

Lavender Ranger said...

Tk good point. They should had reshot

LUKE said...

haha...I just watch the episode...yeah, copied from Shinkenger; the episode title also didn't suit the episode as well...if it sound "origin", yup, i am agree on the point where Antonio should ask the team how they are united, then one by one they share their story...sadly that never happen...and this also help us to notice something about Saban; he knew that we will say he will copy from shinkenger that why he postponed this two episodes...

T.K. said...

Reshot episodes = Even more $$$ on top of what they spent to switch from SD to HD. I honestly can understand why Nick didn't reshoot if that was indeed the rationale.

Lavender Ranger said...

so do you gets e-mail notifications when I post a comment or something?