10 story tall robot that somehow needs no maintenance and doesn’t rust while being stored in the ocean wasn’t immersion breaking? The flute dagger to summon it was!?
I know you’re just being tongue in cheek so this isn’t directed at you, but I loathe these sorts of quips as a response to people who point out things that are immersion-breaking.
Yes I know there’s talking animals in this movie or magic or whatever, but that doesn’t mean anything’s on the table; the world presented still has its own rules that need to be internally consistent. Sure, people can have different thresholds for where that line is, but dismissing people when they bring up something that stood out to them as if one diversion from reality means there can’t be a line at all is ridiculous.
Yeah, but why is one infraction worse than the other?
Robots that need no maintenance is a lot more immersion breaking than a strange sounding sci fi instrument.
“Robots needing no maintenance” is like “the characters never go to the bathroom.” What does or doesn’t happen off screen isn’t nearly as immersion breaking as something both directly depicted and focused.
Probably could’ve been more clear, but I’m not actually talking about the flute or even Power Rangers. Just venting a bit about a pet peeve I have with a particular sentiment online where people seem to say that if something has anything outlandish or unrealistic then the suspension of disbelief can’t have any bounds and that’s silly.
Power Rangers is so outlandish in general that it’s a bad example, I was just using the previous comment as a jumping off point for my little ranting tangent.
Right - people apply the rules they already know. Hermoine has a magic wand, but that’s not carte blanche to whip out a lightsaber, just because those are also fictional. Or a gun, even though those are real.
It’s also the fact that the more fundamental something is and the more familiar we are with it, the less you can fuck with it.
I can accept that a cat is able to talk since they’re mostly physically capable of making the sounds and there are obviously other animals capable of talking (birds, and uh, humans), but you’re not going to get away with a normal guy just inexplicably not needing to breathe because you forgot about that when writing the script.
It’s actually made of ceramics
Where is your Zordon now
The saltwater keeps it clean though
Was it stored in the ocean, or was that the easiest place for the Morphing Grid to bring it over?
Because that shit is its own dimension, and can be used to store shit. Including people, and possibly souls?
Not that far off, but instead of using a phylactery, his body is preserved by Time Crystals.
Except when it isn’t, and he’s part of the Morphing Grid.
Except when he’s not, and then he’s an alien warrior.
Except when he’s not, he’s the leader for his entire species until it gets betrayed and enslaved, leading to the whole Time Crystals thing.
… Power Rangers is fucking complicated, okay?
Holy shit, and he used to be the cutest old man I’ve ever seen. And then later a black dude, several robots, and a ghost. Trans people don’t feel at home in their own body because of some comparably small equipment issues. I can only imagine how traumatized this guy is.
They don’t stop at Zordon, either. Look at the Zeo Rangers.
They had to use their special Morphing crystals to defeat the evil crystal, and in doing so, were sent back in time to the prehistoric era. While back in time, they defeated the main villain before he could get the evil crystal. He was also hauling the meteor that killed the dinosaurs, because that was part of his plan.
This led them to an entirely different timeline where dinosaurs never went extinct. This is a canon event, every time they’re officially referenced, the dinosaurs get brought up. Dinosaurs just exist in their modern day.
Uhh, are the dinosaurs the same as our fossil records or are they new? Like, is it all triceratops, diplodocus, and tyrannosaurs, or did they invent new ones? Because I’m super about it if it’s the latter. Most dinos didn’t last more than a few million years before shifting. A hundred million years seems a silly amount of time to avoid speciation
They’re the most basic dinos you can think of. No big evolution changes, no development, just like they somehow got pulled from the past and planted into the modern day.
I wish BOOM had done more with them, given that the comics were allowed to actually, y’know, make their own shit happen. Still, highly recommend, it’s Power Rangers but without the “for kids” restriction. They’re written for an older audience who wants that PR feel but more matured without delving too deep into the “Dark and Edgy” feel. Gave some cool concepts, like a Ranger who can control the dead who was formerly a member of a team based around Alchemy.
But in the second movie we see that Zordon has a real body that’s inside his tube 🤷
I spent 5 minutes trying to read about this before discovering the multiple completely separate, but also kinda not, continuities. It’s too much for me
Yeah, but man… space rangers!
When they tried giving it fresh water, it got mad.
And it was cool AF.
No doubt
That’s cause of the magnets.
Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.
c/ picturesyoucanhear
