Being a Power Ranger means dedication. Nobody embodies that more than Tommy Oliver.
Continue readingCoZ Entry #000 – Tommy Oliver
Red Ranger
CoZ Entry #033 – Conner McKnight
You thought the Mighty Morphin gang were teenagers with attitude? Dino Thunder had teenagers with actual attitude. Some of them were good attitudes. Others had some slightly worse attitudes. Bordering on assholes, even.
Completely unrelated, here’s Conner!
CoZ Entry #025 – T.J. Johnson
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Then there’s people like T.J., who seem to check all three boxes and nobody gets upset, cuz c’mon, have you met T.J.? That guy rules. Let’s talk about how much T.J. rules.
Continue readingCoZ Entry #020 – Troy Burrows
“Wow. It took a global pandemic for me to get back on this shit. I think I’m gonna be a bit more productive for the time being, so look forward to more entries sooner rather than later.”
Those are the words I said at the end of my last post. Then a whole lot of crap happened. Just a lot of shit. In addition to that, I had to watch Megaforce again. Do you understand what I put myself through? Unbelievable.
CoZ Entry #016 – Jayden Shiba
Living up to your family’s name can be tough. Especially when you’re a white dude with a super white name who happens to be next in line (kind of) to take over as the head of a generations-old Samurai lineage. All of the best Samurai are in America, of course.
Yeah whatever, here’s Jayden.
CoZ Entry #011 – Leo Corbett
The Rookie Red trope gets its name from Power Rangers, and for obvious reasons. It’s not uncommon for the Red Ranger to be the unestablished one in the group, or inexperienced, or downright lacking any skills that one would attribute to a superhero, but wind up becoming the most prominent and powerful member of the team. Rangers dipped its feet in the water with Andros the Red Space Ranger, though he was very experienced as a Ranger, just not with that particular group.
When the show started “fresh” (sort of) by ending the colloquially-known Zordon Era with Lost Galaxy, they luckily had the budget to dive right into something new. In this sense, one could consider Leo Corbett – a dude who wasn’t even supposed to go to space, let alone become a superhero – the first true Rookie in Red.
CoZ Entry #009 – Sky Tate
Team hierarchy rarely means jack squat in Power Rangers. The Red Ranger is always the leader (okay there’s a few mild exceptions but whatever) and everyone else is generally on the same level. There’s a few instances where one Ranger tends to become the de-facto leader when the actual head honcho isn’t around, such as Billy and Kim in the later seasons of Mighty Morphin. In most cases that just means that they’re the ones who get to yell the morphing call so it’s really not all that serious.
When you’re dealing with Rangers that also happen to be a police squad, though, the chain of command becomes a major focal point of the series. Never has this concept been more significant – and personal – than in the mind of Sky Tate. Continue reading
CoZ Entry #006 – Eric Myers
Disenfranchisement will leave a man with a chip on his shoulder. It can also leave one confused when they see somebody with so many resources not using them to their fullest extent. Also, it can turn you into a bad boy, and everybody loves bad boys.
By the transitive property of bad boyness, everybody loves Eric Myers.
CoZ Entry #004 – Scott Truman
Earning our parents’ acceptance is a bitch. All we want is to be loved and acknowledged, and that desire is even more pronounced during childhood. Too often we find that we’re comparing ourselves to our siblings, and we have to imagine that our parents are doing the same thing. Sometimes if you don’t perceive yourself as “the favorite,” you might start to doubt yourself a bit.
Now imagine you have to deal with all of that, but you’re also a military brat. And also your older brother is the kickass fighter pilot you want to be. And also your dad is your commanding officer.
This is Scott Truman.
Children of Zordon 