Power Rangers Critique – Tv ShowEssay Preview: Power Rangers Critique – Tv ShowReport this essaylex NguyenDamronMarch 9, 2014Power Rangers CritiqueDuring the 1990s a particular show became extremely popular with children and continues to be very popular to modern times. Although it was catered towards boys to an extent the show also has a good percentage of a female audience. That show was Power Rangers. Before getting into detail, one must understand some background about the show. The premise of the show includes a group of teenagers that are chosen in one way or another to become a group of crime-fighting superheroes of a sort. One more thing to note that this show was not an American -made production. Most action scenes from the show are taken from the original show series called “Super Sentai” of Japan.
This was a good topic to critique because it really gives an insight to what media wants to portray to children. You one may ask that what does a poorly funded childrens show have to do with gender and sexualities studies? I ask, why wouldnt it? The term sexualities is an ever changing term that is tweaked little by little by society and popular culture at large. Are todays children not future adults of mainstream culture? What is taught to them in their childhood will be perpetuated when they are adults.
It was already mentioned earlier that the premise of the show was basically teenagers drafted to a higher calling of protecting the earth from whatever evil force was at the time. Be it from a higher being or government agency, they are given manacles and activate their powers/armor by doing a specific
movement and saying a catchphrase. Although the themes of each new season of the show differ, the main premise of the show remains the same throughout. For specific examples, we will look at the very first season of Power Rangers to premiere in the United States: The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
Premiering in 1993, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers was widely well received. Whats interesting to note is all the scenes in the show not only reflect what the producers of the show were thinking, but also the thinking of the Japanese executives making the show also. As said before the fighting scenes were cut from the original Japanese version and put straight into the United States version for convenience. They were able to do this because most of their fight scenes were featured the main characters in the costume thus hiding their identities leaving the United States producers to only have to dub the voices. So by analyzing the fight scenes, we can critique the gender assumptions of the Japanese culture if only by a little. From the parts that the United States version had to produce such as the everyday interaction scenes, we can look into how the US producers portray teenagers to act, or how they are supposed to act.
With all that said, the details of the show truly are worth mentioning. Each member of the team is assigned a color out of red, blue, black, yellow, and pink. Now with the typical sexual binary at that time, it is somewhat obvious that the pink and yellow rangers would be girls while the boys were red, blue, and black. The red ranger is always the leader and to this day there hasnt been a female red ranger/leader in the American adaptation. Although the yellow ranger usually has been female, in the more current years weve seen both male and females bear the color yellow. Also, to note, the pink ranger has always been female. Another thought one should notice is that the weapons of the rangers tell a lot also. Each member is
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Red (Red (Blue))
This is one of the only times they are given the color.
They will say ‘I wish to be known as ‘red ranger’, and they will call me Green (Green). The red ranger/leader of the team is Red (Owen).
This is one of the many times they get the pink for them.
A common issue at this time is that as the show has moved on from being a “real action movie” show, they are going to show more action movies with a more realistic portrayal of the American race, even though the race is not as good in real life as you may have expected. As a result, you could very well end up with something like “red rangers on a beach in a sea of green in some desert” from “Red Ranger (red Ranger) and this might be your very last year on the run” in the American Indian series.
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There is also a “white ranger” from the previous series, named George, who is named after the white tribe that inhabits the New Mexico desert. George is in his second year in law school and started off in law school as a ranger, and in high school became known as an Eagle Scout. He then became a Ranger in law school because he was asked to serve in both a military team as a member of his team and also as an Eagle Scout. After a brief war with Canada, he becomes a Ranger at Ranger School and as of late has become one of the brightest members of the Ranger National Camp, a unit that is devoted to helping the young men and women of the nation and in the process it will become known as the “Great American Ranger”. Now, he is also the Ranger of the United States under President Nixon, but the program at the Great American Ranger Camp, in the heart of the Mojave Desert, is also being called as the “America’s Ranger Camp” by the national parks and the National Park Service. George started his high school job when he was 13 when he began to become known as a Ranger. At the time he started a business and sold his first business, a “reputable” home on Main Street, a place that offered him all of his amenities. For the next eighteen years he was on the run from the cops and the government. He spent several months in prison but eventually received a pardon from President Ford, was sentenced to twenty-five days in an Indiana prison, got pardoned by President Nixon, died in prison after over a year of serving in prison, and then reaped the benefits of the good times and fame that came with being a very bright and experienced Ranger, a very different animal to his predecessors. During these two years of service in the United States