Go Go (away) Power Rangers.

   Let's face it, I grew up in one of the greatest era's for kid's TV. There were a lot of great shows, the two best of which were the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. The turtles were my first love, and yes I still own several (a dozen or more) DVD's with episodes of the 80's series, all four feature films and the made for TV film and arcs from the revamped series from the 2000's, not to mention that I still read old issues of the comics it was all originally based on.

   A close second back in those days long ago though were the Power Rangers. I had to rush home from school everyday to catch the 3:30 airing everyday, even those most were re-runs. Back then I must have watched every episode 5-8 times. As the rangers evolved, and I grew older I still watched, but not nearly as adamentily. They evolved from the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers to the Zeo Rangers, from Zeo to Turbo and Turbo to another and another. (Yes they are still evolving slightly, though not linked as much as they were in the past I'll have more on that in the future.)

   I never saw the second film Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie, and the concept of the Turbo Rangers, including the new Zords and having a child magically grow into an adult sized person when morphed seemed off to me. Sure there is supposed to be some suspension of belief but by that age of my life I was already turning into the cynic I am today.

   I've sporadically seen a few episodes here and there since then, but never really been able to call myself a fan since around 1997 or so. I was roughly 12 years old.

   Recently I've been feeling nostalgic and revisiting my childhood; Or the very few vestiges that I had actually abandoned. So I got a smartphone, downloaded the first two seasons of MMPR, roughly 60 episodes and watched majority of them in about a 2 week span. It's not as bad as it sounds the edited version without commercials, credits and the opening theme make each episode between 13-18 minutes.

   What I discovered from this experience though, is that the show didn't get bad as I got older, it was always bad. I also discovered that I must like bad shows, as even though it was bad, nay terrible, I watched them all, and then added Power Rangers Zeo to my netflix que so that I could continue on watching more and more of it.

   I'm sure I'll get sick of it before I get through all 400,000 seasons, but maybe not. Maybe this time I watch it to fruition. There are always more episodes of TMNT to keep me busy though, so I'll probably give up and go back to my first love before to long.

   Stoke me a clipper, I'll be back by morning.

How Sonic is your Screwdriver?

I would gladly credit that art to whoever made it, but I received it in an e-mail and don't know who actually made it.  If anyone out there does know, please tell me.

   That's right Whovians, it's time I got around to discussing the longest running science fiction TV show in the history of the known universe. Doctor Who is more than a TV show or some books or whatever you may try to classify it as. Sadly until recently it went mostly unknown in the US. For a show that has been on the air for the better part of 50 years, it rarely got airtime on this side of the pond when I was younger.  It's a very sad thing really.  It's not like the UK has been hoarding the show, it just never got much interest here as Americans stuck with shows like Star Trek and Lost is Space, both of which were comparable shows to early Who episodes.

   I can't speak definitively as I wasn't alive during much of the first run of the show.  The show originally ran from 1963 until 1989. I wasn't even born until December of 1985, so I think it's excuseable that I missed out on the original run. I also missed the only US broadcast of the TV movie made in 1996, again I was not quite 11 and not yet into Sci-Fi, though had it been advertised during an episode of Power Rangers or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, I probably would have been all over it, though those are blog topics for another day.

   I am ashamed to admit that when the relaunch came about in 2005, I also missed that at first.  It wasn't until mid 2007 that I saw my first episode, seven of them in one day to be exact.  It was the same friend that turned me on to the show Scrubs, where I also first saw it in a Marathon format. Sorry I keep getting off topic, but I've got 25 years of stuff to cover here, and at four or five posts a week I'm actually falling behind... Ooh something shiny on my desk. Once I saw my first few episodes of Doctor Who, they were all with the 9th Doctor for those keeping track, I was hooked.  I've now seen every episode and special from 2005 onward, and probably 100 classic Who episodes.  I own about 25 classic Who DVD's, all the seasons from the re-launch and the 1996 movie.

   Well that's it for now, a quick introduction to my Whovian lifestyle.  Please expect more on the Doctor in the future as well.  I've got lot's of stories, I mean I haven't even touched on the spin-offs yet. We all miss you Sarah Jane Smith.

   Leave me a comment and let me know how sonic your screwdriver is.

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