Aegis85 wrote:
they have the spirits coz they learn at the dojo right? that's obvious.
i still dont like geki. they r too childish. esp mascots
Nuuuuu, you aren't getting it. >.< lol
The spirits aren't the problem, but it's how they're magically colored the same colors as the rangers. The only one that didn't have a colored spirit was Casey.
And I was making a reference to how they morph again. The morphing grid mumbo jumbo makes things too confusing.
In the introduction of the Rhino Ranger RJ clearly told him that it will "morph up his rhino spirit."
Now with the first three rangers, they had to tap into the morphing grid to get their powers.
The theme and the morphing grid inferences just are annoying. The term morphing is alright, but the way the need to have these glasses just to plop on a suit doesn't really work.
The morphing grid reference then has us asking, "How da heck do you explain the morphing grid and then have the zords come out through the rangers' spirit?" Because although the spirits can cause physical damage, they shouldn't be able to grow into actual zords seeing that they are using the morphing grid and all.
And them training at the dojo really doesn't give enough reason on how they're able to summon these strange colored spirits either. The master's spirits could have been done a bit more...realistic, seeing that they don't have instant-colors - a good example would be...the Elephant master releasing a NORMAL animal spirits and then Yellow Ranger girl could use her morphing powers and say something cool to equip the armor.
To sum it up, it's more like why bring in the morphing grid when you have these spirits from the start; just stick with what Geki used instead of trying to be original and trying to sell crap. lol
But in all seriousness, I can see where you're coming from with Geki being childish, but that's only to a certain extent. Geki was meant to be funny, epic, and most definitely bad ass. Jan had his moments, but they were very understandable seeing that his character was based on Tarzan; you could tell he needed to understand things, but that's what made Geki fun. Ran was really nice and Retsu was just really cool, you'd never see them act immature unless the situation called for it. Ken was just funny and was a nice comic relief, while as Gou was just pure bad ass win.
And you can really see the childishness coming from Jungle Fury. Let's take when they get Jungle Master mode. Instead of facing actual hard challenges like Gekiranger did, they had...to do the most childish things; Casey had a fear of monsters under his bed (wtf, you fight them every Monday night), while as Theo had a fear to...sing (seemed a bit like an episode of Hannah Montana), and the Yellow Ranger's name and fear always try to leave mah mind. And don't make me talk about both RJ and White Ranger person. RJ is cool and all, and he's a sorta sweet teacher, but he is no Shafu. He's more like a rip off, lol. And the White Ranger is even worse than Ken - well to me. Although Ken was a goof off, he reallllllllllllyyyyyyyyyyyy was able to live up to the "Just feel it!" thing which is why he's so playful.
And although I agree with you on the "mascot" thing, I really don't think it's a big deal. My problems are with the Morphing, the obsessive "YES!", the way how they have the backstory/storyline and plot messed up (Dai Shi, supposed ultimate evil being of this series being TAUGHT by his subordinates and even being surprassed by them), and then it's those sunglasses (gah, they make me want to stick a fork in my eye whenever I see them).
And let's be completely honest, Gekiranger had a lot more "mature" things (the only exception being Jan), and the overall plot was AMAZING. Jungle Fury just
generally sucks, but only because of their lack of explanation and their bad storyline telling - the characters are fine, but that doesn't make a good series at all. Master's/Sensei's are cool for both, but I prefer the Jungle Fury ones because they were more serious. And yeah...another long post from Grimmy. x_x;;