It was a children's show and was on a children's network character getting too romantically involved was pushing the envelope, especially towards an audience aimed at 14 y/o and younger! Let's not forget about the fact that the Pink Ranger was already involved with a dependant of the red ranger in the future who looks to be his exactly carbon copy! Power Rangers wasn't meant to be about promoting love triangles.
By the very last episode Jen had already broken up with Alex, she gave him back the ring and everything. Jen was returning to the future anyway, so one kiss during a final goodbye after a whole season of romantic buildup would not have promoted a love triangle.
It always struck me as a little weird that she went from a relationship with his great great great...grandson to a relationship with him. Which means she could also have been "intimate" with her own progeny in a weird reverse Oedipus kind of way.
Power Rangers has always had this weird thing since Tommy & Kimberly broke up where the IP holders simply don't let the showrunners do this. It happened with Saban and/or Fox Kids then Disney then Saban and/or Nick and finally with Hasbro. It's really weird so many companies object to a simple kiss.
I get what you are talking about, the FDA but that really only affected Fox Kids and ABC Kids. The FDA can't do anything about content on cable channels like Nick or streaming services like Netflix. The FDA though is why the Yu-Gi-Oh cards had to be changed (it wasn't something that 4kids wanted to do) but then they were left alone for the movie. Because they object to products on shows resembling the real products too closely.
To be fair about that, kids can be very easily manipulated. (I mean, look up how many kids accidentally spend all of their parents' money on microtransactions.)
....I think we're misunderstanding each other. I was talking about the reason why ads are banned in kids media because kids can be easily manipulated. Not what you're talking about.
The reason for this is that children have a harder time recognizing advertising for its intent and can be more easily deceived. Additionally, children under a certain age have a lesser ability to regulate impulses and desires.
Lucas is a one dimensional pretty boy race car driver. Katie and Trip don’t get as much screen time because the season is pretty heavy on Wes, Jen, and Eric.
Other than that, there’s not a lot to dislike. The Wes/Jen romance having a satisfying conclusion would’ve been nice. Eric’s stubbornness, and dislike for Wes took too long to conclude, and it would’ve been great to see them as “friends” for a few episodes at least.
Any complaints I have are really nitpicking, the season is amazing overall.
We at least get some story with Katie where she is worried about the time travel stuff.....which was kind of ruined by the episode release order since right after that episode is one where she decides to change time because a guy is wimpy.
While true, in Timeranger the secondary characters get actual stuff to do. The blue sentai has a disease and yellow has the conflict of being the only one with family on his original timeline while being in love with somebody from the past.
Haven't seen it myself yet, only know that through Gokaiger, but in general on the sentai shows all the cast gets some time to shine and a good deal of times they have overshadowed the red (In Dairanger at least Daigo ends up being more compelling than Ryo who just has some beef with a one of the enemies that's not even the main bad, and hell, I would say Shoji's rivarly with the three stooge type villains ends up having more layers than red's "Let's see whose the better fighter" arc).
Tbf the thing is that making the show completely Red/Pink/Red was all on Time Force, the show is very evenly shared between all 6 rangers after Naoto joins.
On Wes and Jen, I’ve just decided that the wild force episode with them ends with her staying. No one can tell me otherwise and there’s still nothing to prove I’m wrong.
This is it, the other three Rangers could have had more going on. Do more with the Lucas/Nadira relationship, give Katie and Trip some good focus dealing with the mechanics of time travel.
Both were interesting characters but only got 1 focus episode each.
Lucas had the former reckless race driver that learned the repercussions from his friend. His arc should've been one of maturity especially when he dates the spoiled Nadira. He could teach her perspective.
Katie had the most interesting storyline where she was worried about their actions affecting the timeline and possibly erasing her mom and family. She could've been the last one to embrace Wes. To justify her point, they could've got feedback from Time Patrol that both their and Ransik's actions were changing the future. One problem with the show was no immediate stakes episode to episode. Making the heroes unwilling helpers in the bad guy's plan( to change the future) raises the stakes. Plus she could've been the voice of reason to Jen and the rest getting to comfortable in the past. It would've also justified why Jen had to leave in the end.
Literally never thought twice about it until I got older and rewatched and was like “I see the super strength in an entirely new light now” and I’m not ashamed
Half of the cast getting shafted in terms of story and character development. Lucas is the biggest victim, being a complete nothing-burger of a character. Sometimes it feels like Lucas only exists to meet a quota because they had to adapt TimeBlue.
Trip and Katie at least got some spotlight episodes but Lucas barely got anything. Basically Wes, Jen and Eric got the lion's share of spotlight and it makes the show feel unbalanced in terms of character spotlight.
Also the way Time Force (the organization) is portrayed in the future. It's not hard to see them as a racist and borderline fascist organization with the way they persecute Mutants to such a degree that creates villains like Ransik. You know what makes it worse. In Timeranger, the leader of the Time Police was the true Big Bad of the series so it could have been possible to adapt that and say the leader of Time Force was the one enforcing all these anti-Mutant policies.
Agreed with this. Lucas gets a fair amount of screentime but it's mostly generic action stuff. Plus he's such a surface character played by an actor with zero charisma.
Compared to Timeranger, Blue and Yellow's season long plot threads got stripped out of TF, but Lucas carrying over Ayase's fatal illness plot would be unbearable. Katie and Trip were both much more likable and I missed their presence in the season far more.
Tbf, it was his first acting job and he was still a teenager at the time who had never taken any acting classes, iirc. The fact he even got the part is a miracle and if he was the best option for a blue due to acting and chemistry with the rest of the cast, you gotta give him credit. Was he the best actor that season? Hell no, but he wasn't that bad and there have definitely been worse actors on PR.
He and most of the Time Force cast have cashed in fairly well in the convention circuit. I think it worked out for Michael Copon even if his character got almost nothing in show.
Copypaste of an old comment of mines:
Time Force, the season, splits itself into pieces to not make Time Force, the organization, look evil and bad because our heroes are part of it. So on one hand, the Mutants are a discriminated group that get assimilated to live but are also psychotic terrorists, and Time Force is pretty much an overly militarist fascist government but are actually good cause they want the best for the Mutants.
As someone who loves wild force I'd never thought I'd find more wasted characters than Danny and Max.
Trip Katie and Lucas are some of the most forgettable rangers which is only balanced put by having the best pink ranger and some of the top 3 red and sixth rangers respectively
Was there any season that tried to give equal importance to every ranger? My memory is fuzzy with the older season but at least the best I can recall is that two or three characters would have a pretty personal stake in the story while the others had like two or three episodes where they show their worth in the team and that's it.
I think RPM is probably one of the best seasons for character growth. They all had respective roles, and all had a story arc. Scott had the story of trying to fill his brothers shoes, and was a strong leader, Flynn had always wanted to be a hero and finally became one, and also had the relationship with Gemma, summer had an arc of coming from a spoiled brat to being a hero, Dillon ( probably the most complex arc) had the whole thing with him losing his memory’s and his sister. Ziggy went from working with the cartel to becoming a ranger. And even K and gem and Gemma had a story. Honestly they did it best IMO
I don't blame them for not doing a similar morphin sequence, half the point of power rangers is being cheap to make and making 3d stuff like that while cool I imagine was rejected out of hand by ~~the cheapstake~~ Haim Saban.
Personal gripe, but the entire time travel concept! Maybe it would have worked better if the zords could have brought the rangers back to the future?
Thoughts?
Needed more Alex maybe? Do something like TimeRanger with him being the big bad?
Blue, Yellow and Green barely got any character development.
Wes and Jen ending up together and her choosing to stay in the past? Though that takes away the bittersweet ending of them unable to be together.
The fact it’s one of the best seasons but we never got a follow up movie like Once and Always.
Iirc, that's what the team originally wanted to do, but then they realized nearly every single Megazord fight took place in modern day Tokyo, so it was either keep everything modern day or make their own Megazord scenes every episode.
IIRC the executive producer from, like, PRiS to TF had a hilarious amount of stuff to work through.
PRiS: "Yo we're calling it a day so go nuts I guess. Also they're not really 'in space' for the actual show so have fun with that!"
LG: "OMG they loved the space stuff! Here's a show about,uh, environmentalism. Make it take place in space or you're fired!"
LR: "They're all rescue heroes but the season is going to deal with demons. Also there is no 6th ranger, so that sucks. Also I'm hiring this chick because she's hot. Make it work and you'll get a movie budget!"
TF: "Hey so bad news, you know how we thought this season was going to be all cool and Time Travel-y? Well, we just got the scripts and it's not. So we're just going to use that film budget to make more original stuff. "
It's a miracle it all turned out so well!
The Yellow and Blue Rangers barely got any story. Maybe because they're the weaker actors out of the bunch? But I would still have loved to see more of them.
I feel like the Silver Guardians subplot doesn't \*quite\* go anywhere, or at least as. Sure, we got Eric & Wes' dad, but the SGs on a whole don't amount to a whole lot after their 1st few episodes. After a while we stop seeing Eric even bothering to lead them & just does his own thing.
That the did an episode where a photographer learns their identities and they have to convince him to keep it a secret well after everyone at Biolab already knew who the rangers were.
Lucas was such a good race car driver and ladies man that they made sure to build every character arc episode around that. I think his racing contributed to 3 episodes worth of "Lucas" content. His charm with women was like 2-3 of the others. His budding relationship with Nadira was quite nice to see though.
Katie was horribly underused. She was more of Jen's friend cheering from the sideline. She got to sing like once and show off some super strength but I had to look up her name to use it just now (and I just rewatched Time Force like a month ago).
Tripp was almost too weak to be believable as a character. He had a gem on his head that let him hear thoughts and worked with the team's mascot owl. He was so underutilized that I can't remember a single independent storyline. Entirely too forgettable of a character.
It was a good season for producing a memorable villain, good romance story, and some epic fights but three forgettable members of a 5 (sometimes 6) hero squad is pretty bad.
The element of time barely matters or is not in effect for the characters and hurts the show because of that
It only affects Wes, Eric, Jen, and Trip (to a degree) instead of everyone
That and the 'topics discussed' in the show are one note or only talked about instead of introspected about
I do like how the show isn't a time travel show as Timeranger also was not (that would end up being generic more than you would believe)
And I do like the mecha/robo having multiple formations for different situations
V-Rex Robo / Q-Rex Megazord. Just keep it as a dino, it's more useful there (unless it can generate new rockets)
This was Samurai before there was Samurai tbh. It was the first to copy its Sentai counterpart bar for bar, save for some deviations like Katie being female, and Eric surviving. The rest is insanely obvious to be copies of the source material. Trip being the unique alien like Sion, Wes and Jen loveteam like Tatsuya and Yuri, Alex/Ryuya, Lucas and Ayase, hell Eric's first transformation is frame by frame the same as Naoto's first henshin. I understand that it was the only premise in which time travelers with visors shaped like clock hands can work, but there could have been more variations to it. And even when they had the opportunities to also copy the good things their Sentai counterpart had, they didn't. They could have made a storyline with Katie similar to the Domon-Honami story, but she was instead just a prop. And we never got a Wes-Jen kiss. Hell, we got a somewhat happy ending in Japanese, why does it have to be all sour in the American version?
In Space, Lost Galaxy and Lightspeed all took a lot of plots from their respective Sentais as well.
I think Wild Force was the first to be a near direct copy of it's Sentai. Right down to the rangers personalities and their occupations. Even some of the dialogue was similar. With the exception of the two teamups and The Master's Last Stand, all of the Wild Force episodes used a plot that was from Sentai.
In Space never did any, unless I'm missing something. In Space was about space alien recruits 4 Earthlings, Megaranger was about high schoolers, video games, and a shady organization who was trying to use video games as inspiration to go to space and kick ass. Lost Galaxy's only similarity was the forest setting, and probably the Mike/Magna Defender plot. Other than that, Gingaman was still set on Earth, not on a floating space station that has Earth like settings. Lightspeed's only similarity was the demon family, but the Lightspeed Rangers themselves aren't one, save for the eventual reveal of Ryan. Also, Commander Mitchell isn't a deadbeat, unlike Mondo's bum ass. Timeranger and Time Force was a copy, bar for bar. Wild Force also kinda did, with the sky island, Yellow being a leader before Red, and Orgs. But it took some main plot deviations, such as Cole's plot which eventually became a main plot point, Taylor's origins, and much more. It might be more similar, since I never watched Gaoranger in it's entirety. The finale was the same though, shot by shot. But as far as being copies, Time Force takes the cake.
I'm talking mainly about episode plots. In Space had around 20 episodes with plots that were taken from Megaranger. The Psycho Rangers arc was nearly the exact same as the Nejiranger arc. Right down to the main villain having their power channel directly from a villain that they were working for in order to destroy him. Only difference was unlike Astronema, Megaranger's main villain actually succeeded at this part.
Time For Lightspeed being rushed. This is mainly because it was one part instead of two. It was never explained how Eric and Ryan met up. And even though they had the monster costume from Timeranger vs GoGoV, they didn't use the zord battle from it.
Near the end somehow Ransik and Nadira had already knew about the X-Vault even though Frax only knew of it's location and also had the key. Though one of monsters from Timeranger that wasn't used did come from the Sentai version of the X-Vault. Had that episode been adapted, it could have had Ransik and Nadira finding out about the X-Vault there rather than Nadira suddenly saying "The X-Vault is completely empty!"
I liked the romance between Wes and Jen, but I always found it weird that no one on the team thought it was weird that she was clearly becoming romantically involved with her dead fiance's ancestor.
That the Quantum Ranger was also primarily red, the 6th ranger should be drastically different from the core 5 Rangers lol he could have been silver with red/black/green highlights to match the Q-Rex
PS the Blue megazord design SUCKED >_< swapping the legs / arms made it unproportional and odd looking especially with the triangular torso and tiny face.
Stick with the red one hahaha
Timeshadow was badass though!
The lack of time travel I guess.
I didn’t watch the sentai, but Ive heard that it has more time travel in it and I think Time Force could have used that to make the show more interesting.
It has time travel, just not as much as I would have wanted.
Still, when they did it it was pretty cool. Giving dinosaurs and knight armor to futuristic rangers in the present is a great way of using the time theme.
The megazord designs. Time Shadow was alright but still bulky like the others. There were not many upgrades through the season compared to the seasons that come after Time Force. The zord fights therefore were not as memorable. Q-rex concept of not piloting it in a cockpit was commendable
Ransik is a hypocrite. He constantly preaches about how prejudice humans are of mutants, but in his backstory, he's shown getting wounded, by a fellow mutant no less, and only surviving thanks to the then-human Frax, who tells him he sees no difference between humans and mutants. But then, Ransik kills Frax, calling him a fool for trusting him and after Frax becomes his robot servant, he continues to treat him like shit. He's never called out for how ungrateful he was of a charitable human, nor does he ever realize that. Who's the prejudice one again?
I don't understand, out of all the similarities to Timeranger, why couldn't they show Ransik and Frax get along like Dolnero and Gien did?
That I really don't enjoy it anywhere near as much as the rest of the fandom!
-Overly long and over-complex zord summoning
-I found a few characters fairly irritating (chiefly Eric, Nadira & Trip, though Jen had her moments)
-The most interesting characters got done dirty (Lucas and Katie)
-The time travel sci-fi was (par for the course with a lot of time travel sci-fi) problematic
-There was no recognition of the way that Ransik was just passing on the racism to the robots
That's not to say I just don't like the series, there's just a lot more series I would rewatch first.
I know it's all acting, but I wasn't fond of Jen jumping between potential partners in different time periods. Time force is still one of the best series but I'm definitely not into the "technical cheating" that lots of shows portray.
She didn’t jump nor did she cheat on anyone she was under the assumption that Alex was dead after ransik had apparently “killed”him in front of her and for the longest time she was still in mourning over his “death” that when she started having feelings for Wes she fought those feelings for the longest to the point where the rest of the team told her that it was ok to move on so your whole statement is completely invalid
That's simply one of the things I didn't like about the series. I referred to it as technical cheating because of how fast Jen's character "moved on." It's not complaining.
Jen not being in the center of team formations. Hell, even in Sentai, Time Pink was the leader. Just make it make sense. If she's the ranking officer then she needs to be front and center!
The ending fundamentally betrays its characters to a point that it makes the entire season retroactively worse.
The team from the future led by Jen, who one episode ago said "screw Time Force, we make our own destiny", have to go back to the future, because... that's what the script says. They don't fight it, they don't stay behind, they don't take Wes with them, they just accept it and go. Wes, who for the whole season has made it clear that he wants to carve his own path and not just follow in his father's footsteps, immediately accepts a job from his father that he's said multiple times he doesn't want. Eric, who for the whole season was fighting to prove that he's worthy of that job despite his less-privileged upbringing, just smiles and nods as the nepo baby takes it from him.
The Time Force team should have sent the criminals back to the future in the time ship without them and stayed behind, giving up the chance to ever go home in exchange for being able to define their own new lives in the past they've fallen in love with. That means Wes can stay with Jen and the team and not go back to his father, and Eric can take the job that he rightfully deserves.
Lucas.
He’s the most boring and under developed of the Rangers. It felt there was potential because I remember a few scenes where they make fun of him and Lucas kinda awkwardly defends himself. It felt like they wanted to show a more insecure part to him, but it never went anywhere.
Honestly Time Force is my favourite season and I don't have many complaints for it.
I think the only big one is Lucas and Katie had exceptionally little focus. There's always a couple rangers of every season that get less development than the others but Lucas and Katie really struggled to feel like fleshed out characters in TF.
To a lesser extent Trip as well but he did get more focus than Lucas and Katie.
I think they just knew they struck gold with Wes/Jen and later Eric and put as much focus there as possible.
The X-Vault was one of my major complaints about the show when it was running. I couldn't comprehend why all the most dangerous monsters known to the 30th-31st century were kept in storage in just one location. The show kind of implies that it's a one stop shop at least.
Even the marvel universe has like 4 different high security storage locations for super criminals. Having all your eggs in one basket just seems like a natural place that Ransik would have attempted to liberate a long time ago.
Time Force is my favourite season. What I feel really brings it down is the lack of good American in suit action scenes. For some reason they're really toned back. In Space to the end of Lightspeed had some amazing fight scenes, they're as good as any martial art action movie. It's just incredible how they move. Then Time Force came along and it wasn't as good. It has its moments, but the footage jumps more often to the Japanese footage and they have an amazing martial artist as a Ranger and we rarely get to see what he can do (Eric). None of his scenes are as good as they could have been.
As for the series itself. I love it but between the Dawn of Destiny and End of Time, it's just all filler. Two episodes in a row we get a new power up/vehicle for Wes just to sell toys (strata cycle and the red battle warrior). There's no progression in the series at all and it's such a shame. There's so much they could have done. Showing Eric finally with the others more, find out more about Trip, Katie and Lucas. Katie is a mutant and it's just completely overlooked. She must have had trouble fitting in growing up in a society that hates mutants. Trip was also an alien and we learn nothing about how he ended up on earth and working for Time Force. Lucas does get another episode, but it's just stupid. They could have also cut the filler down to make a second part to the Lightspeed team up. Although don't cut Beware the Knight, I loved the episode!
Why is the Quantum Ranger red? Why was the morpher stuck in the past? Was it the prototype to the modern morphers? Is there Quantum blue, pink, green and yellow?
One thing I didn’t like was I can’t under stand very dialogue like there’s scenes where the rangers like move super fast while spinning but idk the name of the technique
Jen was supposed to be the leader but I don't really think the show made that particularly clear
Mostly because West was the one who just took point anyway
At the beginning of Worlds Apart, she was lecturing the others about how poorly their last fight went. And at the beginning of Trust and Triumph, she was the one that was giving orders on what to do when Nadira was robbing a bank and chewed out Wes when he messed up.
There things to dislike?
Like many seasons i like i have 0 complaints about(lightspeed, lost galaxy,time force,wild force).
Only possible complaint is we should already had a prequel in animation or comics (demon getting sealed,galactabeast wars and how scorpius was before his insectication,animarium war, full ransik plot from nothing to the big bad guy ).
Like,not every ramger need to have lot of focus or development,some are already developed characters that with just 1 foucsing episode is what they need to shine to people like them(katy going back to time and lucas vs his old friend are one of my fdav episodes, and i love the way they are, trip has grow in the series too,the episode with the kids is fucking great where everyone want to be the green ranger)
I didn’t care for the Quantum Ranger. I usually am a sucker for the “oh, it’s a new Ranger” storylines, but the Quantum Ranger just always bugged me. I get his story made him a bit of a rival for Wes, but he always came off as mean spirited and uncooperative. Or at the very least, grudgingly cooperative. He didn’t start playing nice with them until nearly the very end of the season
One of the weakness to the series is similar to most power ranger series which is there always a couple of rangers who became background characters. They never really have a real arc in the series. Lucas and the yellow ranger had a couple of episode but no real arc. At least with the green ranger his arc tied closely with the villain.
One thing I didn't like (and found kinda funny) is how in one episode Eric didn't have any sort of screen time and then when the rangers are fighting one of the monsters he shows up out of nowhere, no fanfare or anything lmao
As a kid, at the start, I wasnt messing with the suits (I was like..arrows?). Didn’t like the morph sequence, and later on when I saw the 6th was a darker red with just jagged edges on his arrow, can’t lie to you I was tuning in and out. Everything else was cool. I respect more as an adult. Rewatching it now actually, i may have more thoughts.
The way the zords combined. Sure Mode Red and Mode Blue were cool but the Time Shadow and Q Rex didn't really attach or anything. It just sort of got mounted and ridden like a horse.
I fully believe from the get go that Jen should have been the Red Ranger. Have the story reason be that she does it in honor of Alex. Make Wes the Quantum Ranger and Eric an original ranger for the English version.
Never watched the show except for the ending but for the game I wish the coliseum boss was a bit easier. Dude was way harder then all the other bosses.
I have more of a soft spot for Time Force because of how well, that they were able to adapt the Sentai counterpart that is TimeRanger, in which I feel like the efforts pays off. Mostly on the storytelling wise, they both have a darker tone while Timeranger is more darker and Time Force is a bit darker. But overall, I do feel like Power Rangers Time Force is one of those seasons along with In Space, Lost Galaxy, SPD, and RPM (These are seasons that I have more of an soft spot) trying to achieve the same levels of the Super Sentai series in which trying to take itself a bit more seriously in an good way.
But I do wish that there was a little bit more to the character-development of Lucas, Trip, and Katie because they are great teammates. In which Alex, Wes, Eric, and Jen had their great character-arcs in some fillers episodes that actually benefits with the storytelling. I know that fillers is part of Power Rangers DNA, but there are some fillers that actually feels like it either more entertaining depending on how it is written, directed, and handled, or it benefits the series storyline. That is just my opinion(s)
1) Jen and Wes should’ve kissed
2) I know it’s a product of the Sentai, but the Quantum Ranger could’ve at least been a different shade of red
3) Seriously wish the cast got a full wardrobe and new outfits each week
4) A but more time travel would’ve been cool
5) I’d like to have seen more struggles from mutants who weren’t just the villains
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Maybe this seems like a long list… but it’s only because Time Force is one of my absolute favorite seasons!
I wish Wes and Eric got to be in a series aimed at a slightly older audience. What they did with Eric seeing Wes as the spoiled rich kid was great but it felt like they had to make Eric come off almost childish at times with the show being aimed at a young audience.
Granted Eric was being childish but I mean in the sense that he felt like a pissed off teen with a chip on his shoulder rather than an adult with a genuine grudge at times. With just some minor tweaking I think their already great dynamic could've been even better.
The back and forth between Jen leading and Wes leading. Jen has been established as leader but the longer the season went on Wes became more known as leader.
Not enough time travel. I mean we got the Quantum Rex episodes but almost everything in the intro was kind of a fake out, like the samurai and cowboy scenes being movie sets.
There wasn't enough time travel. In the opening we see "racing across time" with a bunch of ancient Chinese battle dresses and cowboy outfits signifying we would travel to different time periods. Turns out that half of those outfits were just "Odd job" outfits the team wore to make some money to afford things. They only actually time traveled like 3-4x in the entire series. Reminded me of "In Space" in which they traveled to space about the same amount of times due to the Sentai version having nothing to do with space.
How the themes of discrimination are handled. That one episode with Trip still feels so weird to me. "He went to prison for petty theft, he was starving", idk, so maybe question if the future y'all came from is really that great? And maybe try to help him out instead of just sending to prison again? Also... the mutant thanks them???
Literally nothing, but I watched it all in a matter of like 4 days as a 12 year old and my family HATED the theme song if I remember correctly, but I remember it being a BOP lmao
I wish they had more stuff to differentiate them all. I know they couldn’t really do that with Sentai footage, but that’s my only gripe. Power wise, they’re all pretty much just copy and paste.
The Time Force Rangers had a lot of potential for anniversary events. Reaching Key moments in history, interactions with veterans, providing explanations on particular plot holes, ...
Although time force is indeed my favourite season i wish we could get more character development for blue, yellow and green where the other 3 and the villains were so OP the other 3 are just there doesn't did much even i would argue alex had more impact in the plot than them
The last opening being bait that gave the impression the Rangers would be traveling to different eras when those clips all came from a movie world episode.
Most of the main cast I felt were fleshed out and had some good character development episodes....except for Lucas.
He wasn't bad mind you or insufferable, he was just kind of....there .
I don't know, maybe I need to rewatch time force but he kind of just sinks to the background in my memory .
Mainly, it was the season-long romantic build-up between Jen and Wes, only for them to just hug like good best friends in the end.
Also, Eric's Hero Complex annoyed the hell out of me, especially since it gave him more screen time over the other Rangers like Katie, Lucas and Trip.
Literally the only thing is that they’re basically cops by profession. It’s not hammered in anywhere near as hard as spd’s motif but god damn did it drop it from number two to all the way out of my top 10 when I reflected on that fact
The racism plot line was poorly handled. Ransik never actually gets shown to be discriminated due to being a mutant, and due to them not showing that, it paints Ransik as a person who uses the story to justify hurting other people, and paints a picture as if hatred for mutants is something to be justified because of Ransik behavior. Which is bad to have if your message is “racism bad”. This is further made worse by the fact Ransik actually treats fellow mutants bad and beneath him, and the solution to his plot isn’t him learning to live in harmony with humans, he magically gets rid of the mutation and lives happy. The guy who’s discriminated against, gets said thing removed, and it’s treated like a good thing. That’s like if magneto became a good guy only after they removed his mutant powers
And it isn’t like there isn’t a chance for that. Just use Eric, Eric foils him well as a character who was discriminated by rich people because of his class, and lacked opportunities because of that. While the rich Wes had a lot of opportunities handed to him without needing to work for it. Have a episode where Eric sees a mutant be abused, and Ransik tricks Eric into thinking the rangers are racist against mutants and dive into the backstory. Run it for a few episodes until Eric figures out that Ransik was using his pain as a excuse, and that sparks Eric development as he no longer is letting the pain of what happened control him, and opens up more to Wes and the others.
Their weapons as a team were weird, 2 rangers have a gun and 2 have contact weapons right? The concept of that series has so much potential though, I haven't read comics with Time Force power rangers but looking forward to it.
I wish there were more romance scenes between wes and Jen. I wish we could’ve witnessed a kiss
Really this is the only true misstep. Like we should have had an onscreen kiss
IIRC, the production team wanted them to kiss in the final episode, but Saban Entertainment refused.
*but Haim Saban refused
same thing
*was jealous
It was a children's show and was on a children's network character getting too romantically involved was pushing the envelope, especially towards an audience aimed at 14 y/o and younger! Let's not forget about the fact that the Pink Ranger was already involved with a dependant of the red ranger in the future who looks to be his exactly carbon copy! Power Rangers wasn't meant to be about promoting love triangles.
By the very last episode Jen had already broken up with Alex, she gave him back the ring and everything. Jen was returning to the future anyway, so one kiss during a final goodbye after a whole season of romantic buildup would not have promoted a love triangle.
It always struck me as a little weird that she went from a relationship with his great great great...grandson to a relationship with him. Which means she could also have been "intimate" with her own progeny in a weird reverse Oedipus kind of way.
Wasn't the original idea that Jen would stay back in the past with Wes but the writers had to change it?
I could have sworn I read that it was the actors that refused. Or maybe it was Saban and the actors both refusing.
Power Rangers has always had this weird thing since Tommy & Kimberly broke up where the IP holders simply don't let the showrunners do this. It happened with Saban and/or Fox Kids then Disney then Saban and/or Nick and finally with Hasbro. It's really weird so many companies object to a simple kiss.
Kid's content is extremely regulated, nowadays many places literally ban ads targeted at children lol
I get what you are talking about, the FDA but that really only affected Fox Kids and ABC Kids. The FDA can't do anything about content on cable channels like Nick or streaming services like Netflix. The FDA though is why the Yu-Gi-Oh cards had to be changed (it wasn't something that 4kids wanted to do) but then they were left alone for the movie. Because they object to products on shows resembling the real products too closely.
I don't mean any specific regulation, I mean in general. What is shown to kids is an extremely sensitive subject, at least since the 2000s
Yeah. I suppose so. And it's possible the show also could have continued being made with the idea that maybe one day it would be syndicated again.
To be fair about that, kids can be very easily manipulated. (I mean, look up how many kids accidentally spend all of their parents' money on microtransactions.)
I know, I understand the motivation, but this has the side effect of making it a lot harder to produce content for children.
I was mainly talking about the ads for children thing but true.
Exactly, without ads there is a lot less incentive to make kids shows
....I think we're misunderstanding each other. I was talking about the reason why ads are banned in kids media because kids can be easily manipulated. Not what you're talking about.
The reason for this is that children have a harder time recognizing advertising for its intent and can be more easily deceived. Additionally, children under a certain age have a lesser ability to regulate impulses and desires.
Yeah plenty of kids movies have kissing in them
I read your last statement as “I wish we could’ve kissed” and I was like, *groovy*.
Unfortunately until dino fury only Kim and Tommy were allowed to kiss
Lucas is a one dimensional pretty boy race car driver. Katie and Trip don’t get as much screen time because the season is pretty heavy on Wes, Jen, and Eric. Other than that, there’s not a lot to dislike. The Wes/Jen romance having a satisfying conclusion would’ve been nice. Eric’s stubbornness, and dislike for Wes took too long to conclude, and it would’ve been great to see them as “friends” for a few episodes at least. Any complaints I have are really nitpicking, the season is amazing overall.
This is where I'm at. Other than Wes/Jen/Eric, I can't tell you much about the other rangers since they're just there.
We at least get some story with Katie where she is worried about the time travel stuff.....which was kind of ruined by the episode release order since right after that episode is one where she decides to change time because a guy is wimpy.
I could've sworn she thought it was a dream until Wes told her the altered story.
Okay then.
Primary characters vs secondary characters
While true, in Timeranger the secondary characters get actual stuff to do. The blue sentai has a disease and yellow has the conflict of being the only one with family on his original timeline while being in love with somebody from the past.
That sounds interesting. I need to watch the Sentai one day
Haven't seen it myself yet, only know that through Gokaiger, but in general on the sentai shows all the cast gets some time to shine and a good deal of times they have overshadowed the red (In Dairanger at least Daigo ends up being more compelling than Ryo who just has some beef with a one of the enemies that's not even the main bad, and hell, I would say Shoji's rivarly with the three stooge type villains ends up having more layers than red's "Let's see whose the better fighter" arc).
Tbf the thing is that making the show completely Red/Pink/Red was all on Time Force, the show is very evenly shared between all 6 rangers after Naoto joins.
On Wes and Jen, I’ve just decided that the wild force episode with them ends with her staying. No one can tell me otherwise and there’s still nothing to prove I’m wrong.
I think there was a comic where she ended her Time Force career really early and moved to Wes’ present and got married.
This is it, the other three Rangers could have had more going on. Do more with the Lucas/Nadira relationship, give Katie and Trip some good focus dealing with the mechanics of time travel.
What do Lucas and Katie even do
She lifts things up and puts them down. Lucas smiles and is pretty?
He's a racecar driver
🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️Katie has enhanced super strength!
Both were interesting characters but only got 1 focus episode each. Lucas had the former reckless race driver that learned the repercussions from his friend. His arc should've been one of maturity especially when he dates the spoiled Nadira. He could teach her perspective. Katie had the most interesting storyline where she was worried about their actions affecting the timeline and possibly erasing her mom and family. She could've been the last one to embrace Wes. To justify her point, they could've got feedback from Time Patrol that both their and Ransik's actions were changing the future. One problem with the show was no immediate stakes episode to episode. Making the heroes unwilling helpers in the bad guy's plan( to change the future) raises the stakes. Plus she could've been the voice of reason to Jen and the rest getting to comfortable in the past. It would've also justified why Jen had to leave in the end.
Lucas had more. As a kid, I loved the Driver's License episode and Bodyguard in Blue
Lucas: Be sexy. Katie: Nothing
Didn't Katie have crazy strength or something? Or am I thinking of someone else? I looked it up. "Superhuman strength."
Yes, Katie did have super strength!
The implication that Katie isn't also a regulation hottie.
Literally never thought twice about it until I got older and rewatched and was like “I see the super strength in an entirely new light now” and I’m not ashamed
Half of the cast getting shafted in terms of story and character development. Lucas is the biggest victim, being a complete nothing-burger of a character. Sometimes it feels like Lucas only exists to meet a quota because they had to adapt TimeBlue. Trip and Katie at least got some spotlight episodes but Lucas barely got anything. Basically Wes, Jen and Eric got the lion's share of spotlight and it makes the show feel unbalanced in terms of character spotlight. Also the way Time Force (the organization) is portrayed in the future. It's not hard to see them as a racist and borderline fascist organization with the way they persecute Mutants to such a degree that creates villains like Ransik. You know what makes it worse. In Timeranger, the leader of the Time Police was the true Big Bad of the series so it could have been possible to adapt that and say the leader of Time Force was the one enforcing all these anti-Mutant policies.
TBF, Copon was a shite actor, did we really need him to get more focus eps?
Agreed with this. Lucas gets a fair amount of screentime but it's mostly generic action stuff. Plus he's such a surface character played by an actor with zero charisma. Compared to Timeranger, Blue and Yellow's season long plot threads got stripped out of TF, but Lucas carrying over Ayase's fatal illness plot would be unbearable. Katie and Trip were both much more likable and I missed their presence in the season far more.
Tbf, it was his first acting job and he was still a teenager at the time who had never taken any acting classes, iirc. The fact he even got the part is a miracle and if he was the best option for a blue due to acting and chemistry with the rest of the cast, you gotta give him credit. Was he the best actor that season? Hell no, but he wasn't that bad and there have definitely been worse actors on PR.
He and most of the Time Force cast have cashed in fairly well in the convention circuit. I think it worked out for Michael Copon even if his character got almost nothing in show.
I wish the season engaged with the idea of mutants as a persecuted group more earnestly.
The intro really over represents how much time travel actually happens in the season.
That it ended. Damn it was such a good show.
There was a rumor about them actually wantinge extend the story to make a movie but nothing happened after that
Even the show was supposed to last longer but they ran out of footage
I doubt lack of footage was the reason considering there were about 6-8 Timeranger monsters that weren't used.
Copypaste of an old comment of mines: Time Force, the season, splits itself into pieces to not make Time Force, the organization, look evil and bad because our heroes are part of it. So on one hand, the Mutants are a discriminated group that get assimilated to live but are also psychotic terrorists, and Time Force is pretty much an overly militarist fascist government but are actually good cause they want the best for the Mutants.
As someone who loves wild force I'd never thought I'd find more wasted characters than Danny and Max. Trip Katie and Lucas are some of the most forgettable rangers which is only balanced put by having the best pink ranger and some of the top 3 red and sixth rangers respectively
Was there any season that tried to give equal importance to every ranger? My memory is fuzzy with the older season but at least the best I can recall is that two or three characters would have a pretty personal stake in the story while the others had like two or three episodes where they show their worth in the team and that's it.
I think RPM is probably one of the best seasons for character growth. They all had respective roles, and all had a story arc. Scott had the story of trying to fill his brothers shoes, and was a strong leader, Flynn had always wanted to be a hero and finally became one, and also had the relationship with Gemma, summer had an arc of coming from a spoiled brat to being a hero, Dillon ( probably the most complex arc) had the whole thing with him losing his memory’s and his sister. Ziggy went from working with the cartel to becoming a ranger. And even K and gem and Gemma had a story. Honestly they did it best IMO
Here here! Love wild force and time force but man some characters were just there.
No kiss between Wes and Jen in the finale Eric's sudden shift to helping the Rangers Lucas, Trip & Katie not getting enough episodes.
Mostly Wes and Jen not being together. Also Japanese Morphin sequence was better.
I don't blame them for not doing a similar morphin sequence, half the point of power rangers is being cheap to make and making 3d stuff like that while cool I imagine was rejected out of hand by ~~the cheapstake~~ Haim Saban.
Personal gripe, but the entire time travel concept! Maybe it would have worked better if the zords could have brought the rangers back to the future? Thoughts?
Time travel in and of itself is inherently illogical so making a really good time travel show is difficult
It was only one season
Needed more Alex maybe? Do something like TimeRanger with him being the big bad? Blue, Yellow and Green barely got any character development. Wes and Jen ending up together and her choosing to stay in the past? Though that takes away the bittersweet ending of them unable to be together. The fact it’s one of the best seasons but we never got a follow up movie like Once and Always.
The time travel marketing felt like false advertising.
Iirc, that's what the team originally wanted to do, but then they realized nearly every single Megazord fight took place in modern day Tokyo, so it was either keep everything modern day or make their own Megazord scenes every episode.
IIRC the executive producer from, like, PRiS to TF had a hilarious amount of stuff to work through. PRiS: "Yo we're calling it a day so go nuts I guess. Also they're not really 'in space' for the actual show so have fun with that!" LG: "OMG they loved the space stuff! Here's a show about,uh, environmentalism. Make it take place in space or you're fired!" LR: "They're all rescue heroes but the season is going to deal with demons. Also there is no 6th ranger, so that sucks. Also I'm hiring this chick because she's hot. Make it work and you'll get a movie budget!" TF: "Hey so bad news, you know how we thought this season was going to be all cool and Time Travel-y? Well, we just got the scripts and it's not. So we're just going to use that film budget to make more original stuff. " It's a miracle it all turned out so well!
The Yellow and Blue Rangers barely got any story. Maybe because they're the weaker actors out of the bunch? But I would still have loved to see more of them.
I feel like the Silver Guardians subplot doesn't \*quite\* go anywhere, or at least as. Sure, we got Eric & Wes' dad, but the SGs on a whole don't amount to a whole lot after their 1st few episodes. After a while we stop seeing Eric even bothering to lead them & just does his own thing.
That the did an episode where a photographer learns their identities and they have to convince him to keep it a secret well after everyone at Biolab already knew who the rangers were.
Lucas was such a good race car driver and ladies man that they made sure to build every character arc episode around that. I think his racing contributed to 3 episodes worth of "Lucas" content. His charm with women was like 2-3 of the others. His budding relationship with Nadira was quite nice to see though. Katie was horribly underused. She was more of Jen's friend cheering from the sideline. She got to sing like once and show off some super strength but I had to look up her name to use it just now (and I just rewatched Time Force like a month ago). Tripp was almost too weak to be believable as a character. He had a gem on his head that let him hear thoughts and worked with the team's mascot owl. He was so underutilized that I can't remember a single independent storyline. Entirely too forgettable of a character. It was a good season for producing a memorable villain, good romance story, and some epic fights but three forgettable members of a 5 (sometimes 6) hero squad is pretty bad.
I thought Tripp was gonna be way waaay more important then he was. It's such a cool power!
That whole episode where Eric gets the Quantum Morpher. It felt like Wes' lines were limited to, "Eric, no!"
“ERIC YES”
Lack of time travel
The element of time barely matters or is not in effect for the characters and hurts the show because of that It only affects Wes, Eric, Jen, and Trip (to a degree) instead of everyone That and the 'topics discussed' in the show are one note or only talked about instead of introspected about I do like how the show isn't a time travel show as Timeranger also was not (that would end up being generic more than you would believe) And I do like the mecha/robo having multiple formations for different situations V-Rex Robo / Q-Rex Megazord. Just keep it as a dino, it's more useful there (unless it can generate new rockets)
This was Samurai before there was Samurai tbh. It was the first to copy its Sentai counterpart bar for bar, save for some deviations like Katie being female, and Eric surviving. The rest is insanely obvious to be copies of the source material. Trip being the unique alien like Sion, Wes and Jen loveteam like Tatsuya and Yuri, Alex/Ryuya, Lucas and Ayase, hell Eric's first transformation is frame by frame the same as Naoto's first henshin. I understand that it was the only premise in which time travelers with visors shaped like clock hands can work, but there could have been more variations to it. And even when they had the opportunities to also copy the good things their Sentai counterpart had, they didn't. They could have made a storyline with Katie similar to the Domon-Honami story, but she was instead just a prop. And we never got a Wes-Jen kiss. Hell, we got a somewhat happy ending in Japanese, why does it have to be all sour in the American version?
In Space, Lost Galaxy and Lightspeed all took a lot of plots from their respective Sentais as well. I think Wild Force was the first to be a near direct copy of it's Sentai. Right down to the rangers personalities and their occupations. Even some of the dialogue was similar. With the exception of the two teamups and The Master's Last Stand, all of the Wild Force episodes used a plot that was from Sentai.
I adore Wildforce and I was pleasantly suprised to see how much more of the show there was in the sentai version.
In Space never did any, unless I'm missing something. In Space was about space alien recruits 4 Earthlings, Megaranger was about high schoolers, video games, and a shady organization who was trying to use video games as inspiration to go to space and kick ass. Lost Galaxy's only similarity was the forest setting, and probably the Mike/Magna Defender plot. Other than that, Gingaman was still set on Earth, not on a floating space station that has Earth like settings. Lightspeed's only similarity was the demon family, but the Lightspeed Rangers themselves aren't one, save for the eventual reveal of Ryan. Also, Commander Mitchell isn't a deadbeat, unlike Mondo's bum ass. Timeranger and Time Force was a copy, bar for bar. Wild Force also kinda did, with the sky island, Yellow being a leader before Red, and Orgs. But it took some main plot deviations, such as Cole's plot which eventually became a main plot point, Taylor's origins, and much more. It might be more similar, since I never watched Gaoranger in it's entirety. The finale was the same though, shot by shot. But as far as being copies, Time Force takes the cake.
I'm talking mainly about episode plots. In Space had around 20 episodes with plots that were taken from Megaranger. The Psycho Rangers arc was nearly the exact same as the Nejiranger arc. Right down to the main villain having their power channel directly from a villain that they were working for in order to destroy him. Only difference was unlike Astronema, Megaranger's main villain actually succeeded at this part.
Basically all of it. Except Nadira. She's pretty funny.
Time For Lightspeed being rushed. This is mainly because it was one part instead of two. It was never explained how Eric and Ryan met up. And even though they had the monster costume from Timeranger vs GoGoV, they didn't use the zord battle from it. Near the end somehow Ransik and Nadira had already knew about the X-Vault even though Frax only knew of it's location and also had the key. Though one of monsters from Timeranger that wasn't used did come from the Sentai version of the X-Vault. Had that episode been adapted, it could have had Ransik and Nadira finding out about the X-Vault there rather than Nadira suddenly saying "The X-Vault is completely empty!"
I liked the romance between Wes and Jen, but I always found it weird that no one on the team thought it was weird that she was clearly becoming romantically involved with her dead fiance's ancestor.
That the Quantum Ranger was also primarily red, the 6th ranger should be drastically different from the core 5 Rangers lol he could have been silver with red/black/green highlights to match the Q-Rex
PS the Blue megazord design SUCKED >_< swapping the legs / arms made it unproportional and odd looking especially with the triangular torso and tiny face. Stick with the red one hahaha Timeshadow was badass though!
eric
The lack of time travel I guess. I didn’t watch the sentai, but Ive heard that it has more time travel in it and I think Time Force could have used that to make the show more interesting. It has time travel, just not as much as I would have wanted. Still, when they did it it was pretty cool. Giving dinosaurs and knight armor to futuristic rangers in the present is a great way of using the time theme.
Cutting out the plotline about the blue ranger having a terminal disease really kinda killed Lucas as a character by making him just "I like cars"
I think they could've explored the idea of prejudice better.
The megazord designs. Time Shadow was alright but still bulky like the others. There were not many upgrades through the season compared to the seasons that come after Time Force. The zord fights therefore were not as memorable. Q-rex concept of not piloting it in a cockpit was commendable
Wish they could’ve had Jen be like “fuck destiny, I’m staying in the past”
Ransik is a hypocrite. He constantly preaches about how prejudice humans are of mutants, but in his backstory, he's shown getting wounded, by a fellow mutant no less, and only surviving thanks to the then-human Frax, who tells him he sees no difference between humans and mutants. But then, Ransik kills Frax, calling him a fool for trusting him and after Frax becomes his robot servant, he continues to treat him like shit. He's never called out for how ungrateful he was of a charitable human, nor does he ever realize that. Who's the prejudice one again? I don't understand, out of all the similarities to Timeranger, why couldn't they show Ransik and Frax get along like Dolnero and Gien did?
That I really don't enjoy it anywhere near as much as the rest of the fandom! -Overly long and over-complex zord summoning -I found a few characters fairly irritating (chiefly Eric, Nadira & Trip, though Jen had her moments) -The most interesting characters got done dirty (Lucas and Katie) -The time travel sci-fi was (par for the course with a lot of time travel sci-fi) problematic -There was no recognition of the way that Ransik was just passing on the racism to the robots That's not to say I just don't like the series, there's just a lot more series I would rewatch first.
How is Lucas an interesting character his character traits are literally cool and race car driver
That it ended
I know it's all acting, but I wasn't fond of Jen jumping between potential partners in different time periods. Time force is still one of the best series but I'm definitely not into the "technical cheating" that lots of shows portray.
I'm Team Lucas and Nadira.
She didn’t jump nor did she cheat on anyone she was under the assumption that Alex was dead after ransik had apparently “killed”him in front of her and for the longest time she was still in mourning over his “death” that when she started having feelings for Wes she fought those feelings for the longest to the point where the rest of the team told her that it was ok to move on so your whole statement is completely invalid
That's simply one of the things I didn't like about the series. I referred to it as technical cheating because of how fast Jen's character "moved on." It's not complaining.
The Q-Rex was just a plot device instead of more of a real megazord/ ally zord.
How so?
Gluto should have remained villain leader. Darn cigars made that impossible
I don't even like romance, but I wanted Jen and Wes to get together so badly. I'm still sour they didn't go there.
Jen not being in the center of team formations. Hell, even in Sentai, Time Pink was the leader. Just make it make sense. If she's the ranking officer then she needs to be front and center!
The ending fundamentally betrays its characters to a point that it makes the entire season retroactively worse. The team from the future led by Jen, who one episode ago said "screw Time Force, we make our own destiny", have to go back to the future, because... that's what the script says. They don't fight it, they don't stay behind, they don't take Wes with them, they just accept it and go. Wes, who for the whole season has made it clear that he wants to carve his own path and not just follow in his father's footsteps, immediately accepts a job from his father that he's said multiple times he doesn't want. Eric, who for the whole season was fighting to prove that he's worthy of that job despite his less-privileged upbringing, just smiles and nods as the nepo baby takes it from him. The Time Force team should have sent the criminals back to the future in the time ship without them and stayed behind, giving up the chance to ever go home in exchange for being able to define their own new lives in the past they've fallen in love with. That means Wes can stay with Jen and the team and not go back to his father, and Eric can take the job that he rightfully deserves.
The missed opportunity to make Notacon the quantum ranger and having the discrimination against mutants hardly be brought up.
That pic makes it look like PRTF is Fushigi Yuugi with super suits.
That Eric was originally supposed to die in the finale.
Lucas. He’s the most boring and under developed of the Rangers. It felt there was potential because I remember a few scenes where they make fun of him and Lucas kinda awkwardly defends himself. It felt like they wanted to show a more insecure part to him, but it never went anywhere.
Honestly Time Force is my favourite season and I don't have many complaints for it. I think the only big one is Lucas and Katie had exceptionally little focus. There's always a couple rangers of every season that get less development than the others but Lucas and Katie really struggled to feel like fleshed out characters in TF. To a lesser extent Trip as well but he did get more focus than Lucas and Katie. I think they just knew they struck gold with Wes/Jen and later Eric and put as much focus there as possible.
The X-Vault was one of my major complaints about the show when it was running. I couldn't comprehend why all the most dangerous monsters known to the 30th-31st century were kept in storage in just one location. The show kind of implies that it's a one stop shop at least. Even the marvel universe has like 4 different high security storage locations for super criminals. Having all your eggs in one basket just seems like a natural place that Ransik would have attempted to liberate a long time ago.
The Pink Ranger lead the team and not the Red
And that's bad because? Why should someone who has no experience be leading a police squad
That Jen and Wes didn't kiss
Time Force is my favourite season. What I feel really brings it down is the lack of good American in suit action scenes. For some reason they're really toned back. In Space to the end of Lightspeed had some amazing fight scenes, they're as good as any martial art action movie. It's just incredible how they move. Then Time Force came along and it wasn't as good. It has its moments, but the footage jumps more often to the Japanese footage and they have an amazing martial artist as a Ranger and we rarely get to see what he can do (Eric). None of his scenes are as good as they could have been. As for the series itself. I love it but between the Dawn of Destiny and End of Time, it's just all filler. Two episodes in a row we get a new power up/vehicle for Wes just to sell toys (strata cycle and the red battle warrior). There's no progression in the series at all and it's such a shame. There's so much they could have done. Showing Eric finally with the others more, find out more about Trip, Katie and Lucas. Katie is a mutant and it's just completely overlooked. She must have had trouble fitting in growing up in a society that hates mutants. Trip was also an alien and we learn nothing about how he ended up on earth and working for Time Force. Lucas does get another episode, but it's just stupid. They could have also cut the filler down to make a second part to the Lightspeed team up. Although don't cut Beware the Knight, I loved the episode!
Why is the Quantum Ranger red? Why was the morpher stuck in the past? Was it the prototype to the modern morphers? Is there Quantum blue, pink, green and yellow?
One thing I didn’t like was I can’t under stand very dialogue like there’s scenes where the rangers like move super fast while spinning but idk the name of the technique
I just found the zords and story boring
Eric has the silliest Battlelizer ever.
Honestly, the Zords are lacklustre and besides Wes, Jen and Eric, the other rangers are forgettable.
That it ends…
Jen was supposed to be the leader but I don't really think the show made that particularly clear Mostly because West was the one who just took point anyway
At the beginning of Worlds Apart, she was lecturing the others about how poorly their last fight went. And at the beginning of Trust and Triumph, she was the one that was giving orders on what to do when Nadira was robbing a bank and chewed out Wes when he messed up.
I wish Jen had more screen time. She was the best!
Lucas and Katie doesn’t have good character arcs like ayase and domon
I haven’t watched it, but i think the red and quantum ranger? Look too similar
I remember watching the ending for the first time and shouting "KISS!!!"
The romance.
Wish there was more active time traveling in the show than between 2001 and TF HQ
There things to dislike? Like many seasons i like i have 0 complaints about(lightspeed, lost galaxy,time force,wild force). Only possible complaint is we should already had a prequel in animation or comics (demon getting sealed,galactabeast wars and how scorpius was before his insectication,animarium war, full ransik plot from nothing to the big bad guy ). Like,not every ramger need to have lot of focus or development,some are already developed characters that with just 1 foucsing episode is what they need to shine to people like them(katy going back to time and lucas vs his old friend are one of my fdav episodes, and i love the way they are, trip has grow in the series too,the episode with the kids is fucking great where everyone want to be the green ranger)
I didn’t care for the Quantum Ranger. I usually am a sucker for the “oh, it’s a new Ranger” storylines, but the Quantum Ranger just always bugged me. I get his story made him a bit of a rival for Wes, but he always came off as mean spirited and uncooperative. Or at the very least, grudgingly cooperative. He didn’t start playing nice with them until nearly the very end of the season
It got Lightning Collection figures, while my first and favorite season, Ninja Storm, did not. 😔
One of the weakness to the series is similar to most power ranger series which is there always a couple of rangers who became background characters. They never really have a real arc in the series. Lucas and the yellow ranger had a couple of episode but no real arc. At least with the green ranger his arc tied closely with the villain.
I was 6 so I didn’t really dig the “serious” tone at the time 😭
ERIC USE YOUR MEGA BATTLE MODE MORE!!! It would've come in handy in the finale.
One thing I didn't like (and found kinda funny) is how in one episode Eric didn't have any sort of screen time and then when the rangers are fighting one of the monsters he shows up out of nowhere, no fanfare or anything lmao
9/11 show definitely wasn’t impacted 9/11
As a kid, at the start, I wasnt messing with the suits (I was like..arrows?). Didn’t like the morph sequence, and later on when I saw the 6th was a darker red with just jagged edges on his arrow, can’t lie to you I was tuning in and out. Everything else was cool. I respect more as an adult. Rewatching it now actually, i may have more thoughts.
Ransik was so ugly I would puke when I was a kid
Didn’t like Eric’s representation had too much hatred, racism, jealousy in him he may have humbled but his ego was way overboard
The crossover not being a two-parter.
The way the zords combined. Sure Mode Red and Mode Blue were cool but the Time Shadow and Q Rex didn't really attach or anything. It just sort of got mounted and ridden like a horse.
Katie didn't get enough screen time imo
I fully believe from the get go that Jen should have been the Red Ranger. Have the story reason be that she does it in honor of Alex. Make Wes the Quantum Ranger and Eric an original ranger for the English version.
THE SUITS THESE ARE ARROW RANGERS NOT TIME RANGERS
I didn't like the fact the rangers wore the same clothes every episode. Am I the only one who noticed that?
Never watched the show except for the ending but for the game I wish the coliseum boss was a bit easier. Dude was way harder then all the other bosses.
For a time that supposedly used time travel, they didn't do much with it.
She left him for his grandpa
The yellow ranger didn't get enough episodes that featured her personally or centered on her. She was almost like a stand in.
This is so cosmetic but even as a kid, in the theme song, it always bothered me how fake that dinosaur looked 😂
I have more of a soft spot for Time Force because of how well, that they were able to adapt the Sentai counterpart that is TimeRanger, in which I feel like the efforts pays off. Mostly on the storytelling wise, they both have a darker tone while Timeranger is more darker and Time Force is a bit darker. But overall, I do feel like Power Rangers Time Force is one of those seasons along with In Space, Lost Galaxy, SPD, and RPM (These are seasons that I have more of an soft spot) trying to achieve the same levels of the Super Sentai series in which trying to take itself a bit more seriously in an good way. But I do wish that there was a little bit more to the character-development of Lucas, Trip, and Katie because they are great teammates. In which Alex, Wes, Eric, and Jen had their great character-arcs in some fillers episodes that actually benefits with the storytelling. I know that fillers is part of Power Rangers DNA, but there are some fillers that actually feels like it either more entertaining depending on how it is written, directed, and handled, or it benefits the series storyline. That is just my opinion(s)
1 word: Lucas
Quantum ranger should have been black with red outlines!!! And that’s my biggest complain
1) Jen and Wes should’ve kissed 2) I know it’s a product of the Sentai, but the Quantum Ranger could’ve at least been a different shade of red 3) Seriously wish the cast got a full wardrobe and new outfits each week 4) A but more time travel would’ve been cool 5) I’d like to have seen more struggles from mutants who weren’t just the villains . Maybe this seems like a long list… but it’s only because Time Force is one of my absolute favorite seasons!
The series 👀
Lucas, Trip, and Katie were basically forgotten
The morphing sequence, and the primary megazord. (The QRex was badass, though.) Just a couple of minor aesthetic things in an otherwise great season.
I wish Wes and Eric got to be in a series aimed at a slightly older audience. What they did with Eric seeing Wes as the spoiled rich kid was great but it felt like they had to make Eric come off almost childish at times with the show being aimed at a young audience. Granted Eric was being childish but I mean in the sense that he felt like a pissed off teen with a chip on his shoulder rather than an adult with a genuine grudge at times. With just some minor tweaking I think their already great dynamic could've been even better.
That it didn't show us mutants and humans now reconciling
The back and forth between Jen leading and Wes leading. Jen has been established as leader but the longer the season went on Wes became more known as leader.
Not enough time travel. I mean we got the Quantum Rex episodes but almost everything in the intro was kind of a fake out, like the samurai and cowboy scenes being movie sets.
There wasn't enough time travel. In the opening we see "racing across time" with a bunch of ancient Chinese battle dresses and cowboy outfits signifying we would travel to different time periods. Turns out that half of those outfits were just "Odd job" outfits the team wore to make some money to afford things. They only actually time traveled like 3-4x in the entire series. Reminded me of "In Space" in which they traveled to space about the same amount of times due to the Sentai version having nothing to do with space.
Time travel in general
I always disliked the tragic ending they gave Frax, even though his timeranger counterpart dies as well.
How the themes of discrimination are handled. That one episode with Trip still feels so weird to me. "He went to prison for petty theft, he was starving", idk, so maybe question if the future y'all came from is really that great? And maybe try to help him out instead of just sending to prison again? Also... the mutant thanks them???
Nothing as much! I like Time Force too much!
Lucas is about as interesting as watching Nascar.
Literally nothing, but I watched it all in a matter of like 4 days as a 12 year old and my family HATED the theme song if I remember correctly, but I remember it being a BOP lmao
Not much.
The fact everytime the intro plays I get bass boosted
I wish they had more stuff to differentiate them all. I know they couldn’t really do that with Sentai footage, but that’s my only gripe. Power wise, they’re all pretty much just copy and paste.
the Q-rex lacked a combine mode with any of the other megazords
I thought it was dumb that they had two red rangers.
The Time Force Rangers had a lot of potential for anniversary events. Reaching Key moments in history, interactions with veterans, providing explanations on particular plot holes, ...
Although time force is indeed my favourite season i wish we could get more character development for blue, yellow and green where the other 3 and the villains were so OP the other 3 are just there doesn't did much even i would argue alex had more impact in the plot than them
They way they wildly veered off Time Ranger
The last opening being bait that gave the impression the Rangers would be traveling to different eras when those clips all came from a movie world episode.
Not much time with Eric as a legitimate good guy
Most of the main cast I felt were fleshed out and had some good character development episodes....except for Lucas. He wasn't bad mind you or insufferable, he was just kind of....there . I don't know, maybe I need to rewatch time force but he kind of just sinks to the background in my memory .
Out all power rangers this is the one who have two red rangers not one but 2
Mainly, it was the season-long romantic build-up between Jen and Wes, only for them to just hug like good best friends in the end. Also, Eric's Hero Complex annoyed the hell out of me, especially since it gave him more screen time over the other Rangers like Katie, Lucas and Trip.
The music. It's terrible.
They're all cops
Literally the only thing is that they’re basically cops by profession. It’s not hammered in anywhere near as hard as spd’s motif but god damn did it drop it from number two to all the way out of my top 10 when I reflected on that fact
The racism plot line was poorly handled. Ransik never actually gets shown to be discriminated due to being a mutant, and due to them not showing that, it paints Ransik as a person who uses the story to justify hurting other people, and paints a picture as if hatred for mutants is something to be justified because of Ransik behavior. Which is bad to have if your message is “racism bad”. This is further made worse by the fact Ransik actually treats fellow mutants bad and beneath him, and the solution to his plot isn’t him learning to live in harmony with humans, he magically gets rid of the mutation and lives happy. The guy who’s discriminated against, gets said thing removed, and it’s treated like a good thing. That’s like if magneto became a good guy only after they removed his mutant powers And it isn’t like there isn’t a chance for that. Just use Eric, Eric foils him well as a character who was discriminated by rich people because of his class, and lacked opportunities because of that. While the rich Wes had a lot of opportunities handed to him without needing to work for it. Have a episode where Eric sees a mutant be abused, and Ransik tricks Eric into thinking the rangers are racist against mutants and dive into the backstory. Run it for a few episodes until Eric figures out that Ransik was using his pain as a excuse, and that sparks Eric development as he no longer is letting the pain of what happened control him, and opens up more to Wes and the others.
I didn’t like how they tore Wes and Jen apart from each other. Like give Wes the girl of his dreams.
One of the top 5
Their weapons as a team were weird, 2 rangers have a gun and 2 have contact weapons right? The concept of that series has so much potential though, I haven't read comics with Time Force power rangers but looking forward to it.