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14 Nov

Power Rangers Beast Morphers Season 2 Episode 18 Review: The Silva Switch

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This POWER RANGERS BEAST MORPHERS review contains spoilers. I have never been more surprised at an episode of Power Rangers than I was for ‘The Silva Switch.’ In the middle of the story, out of the blue, with no warning, we got an elaborately choreographed song and dance number featuring Steel in Nate’s body as the entire cast, augmented with backup dancers, sing about great it is to be human. I…. I am beyond stunned and delighted. I never imagined this could happen in Power Rangers. There’s never been anything like this! The most “musical” the show has been was Zeo’s ‘Another…

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07 Nov

Power Rangers Beast Morphers Season 2 Episode 17 Review: Goin’ Ape

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This POWER RANGERS BEAST MORPHERS review contains spoilers. I’ve never been more conflicted about an episode of Power Rangers Beast Morphers. This show has never had more energy and a sense of purpose than this episode. The fights have weight, the choreography is ten steps above normal, the emotions are dialed to eleven, and the Rangers are even allowed to have conflict! Every scene builds on one another and the pacing is tight while still allowing the proper emotional beats to land. The problem is that the inciting incident that drives the plot is deeply flawed and contrived. Misunderstanding conflicts take a…

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05 Nov

The Power Rangers “Reboot Universe” Is Exactly What The Franchise Needs

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In the early 1990s Mighty Morphin Power Rangers burst onto the scene and quickly became one of the hottest kids shows on the planet. Millions of toys were sold, ratings went through the roof, multiple copycats were created, and a big budget movie was put into production. Power Rangers’ place in pop culture was cemented and secured a long future for the franchise. However, as the years went on and Power Rangers continued on television its fame slowly evaporated. It fell into the background; successive seasons of the TV show were enjoyed by new generations of kids and hardcore fans…

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31 Oct

Power Rangers Beast Morphers Season 2 Episode 16 Review: Golden Opportunities

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This POWER RANGERS BEAST MORPHERS review contains spoilers. Power Rangers for the last six years has featured many plot lines revolving around the Rangers’ parents. It makes sense for the show to tackle the ways teenagers relate to their parents. Not only is it a great source of conflict for stories but also it’s especially relatable to the kid audience. For many children relationships with their parents are the most important things in their lives. Seeing superheroes they look up to having similar relationships can mean a lot. Unfortunately Beast Morphers really missed the mark with its depiction of Nate and his…

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24 Oct

Power Rangers Beast Morphers Season 2 Episode 15 Review: Grid Connection

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This POWER RANGERS BEAST MORPHERS review contains spoilers. During the middle of this much-hyped Power Rangers team-up episode Jason and the Dino Charge Rangers are walking in a quarry, trying to get to Evox so they can box him in as the Beast Morphers team goes around the other way. Jason says, “We’re gonna need to scale that cliff.” What a great scene that would have been; seeing Jason work with the Dino Charge Rangers to overcome a problem. They could have tried different tactics to get up the cliff, maybe fight off some foot soldiers that tried to block their ascent.…

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22 Oct

Link Tank: How the Nintendo Power Glove Found a Second Life

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The Nintendo Power Glove may have been a commercial dud, but its technical innovations changed the gaming industry. “The Power Glove was not a failure. Sure, the licensed accessory for the Nintendo Entertainment System from 1989 remains an infamous piece of retro tech — a game controller made into a right-hand glove, as if an Apple keyboard were stitched to an oven mitt — and was sold at retail for less than a year. But it still made money for those who invested in it, and its technical innovations paved the way for the next 30 years of gaming.” Read…

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17 Oct

Power Rangers Beast Morphers Season 2 Episode 14 Review: Making Bad

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This POWER RANGERS BEAST MORPHERS review contains spoilers. For an episode filled with clips from the past the most Power Rangers thing to happen is actually the B plot with the Rangers tracking down a diamond thief. Mostly because there are five diamond stores in Coral Harbor and they have names that all go in alphabetical order for A to E.  Albert’s Gems. Bright Stones. Coral Harbor Jewelers. Diamonds of Distinction. Elite Diamonds. That is so cheesy and perfectly Power Rangers. Of course the city would have diamond stores in alphabetical order! Obviously! I love that it’s a huge part of this…

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14 Oct

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Comic Ends With A Giant Zord Battle

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The Boom Studios Power Rangers comics have given us things the TV show never could. Hundreds of Rangers in combat on the moon, monsters impossible even for Toei to create, and storylines that we could have only dreamed of. However, one of the best things to come out of the Boom comics are the Zord battles. As cool as they are in the show, the ability to render a Zord battle on the drawn page is something to behold. The things that can do when they don’t have to move a person in a costume or a model around have…

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10 Oct

Power Rangers Beast Morphers Season 2 Episode 13 Review: Finders Keepers

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This POWER RANGERS BEAST MORPHERS review contains spoilers. In watching ‘Finders Keepers’ I was struck by how normal everything seemed. I don’t mean this is a normal episode because it clearly isn’t, but how all the Rangers acted around each other. Sure there was a little surprise from the Power Rangers Beast Morphers team meeting the Dino Charge Rangers but it was mostly matter a fact. There’s a problem and they need to team-up to solve it! I wish more teams were able to interact this way. There doesn’t need to be a giant world ending battle. Sometimes the two teams crossing…

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03 Oct

Power Rangers Beast Morphers Season 2 Episode 12 Review: The Greater Good

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This POWER RANGERS BEAST MORPHERS review contains spoilers. I’ve often talked about wanting Power Rangers Beast Morphers to tackle some slightly weightier ideas. Not because I’m an adult watching this show and wanting it to reach my level but because that’s what some of the best kids TV is doing now. They present stories with complex themes that have the characters make unique and interesting choices that propel them forward. Critically though those themes can relate to kids. In a series like DuckTales for instance, they’ve talked about abuse but it’s done through the lens of magic and shadow possession. It’s fantastical…

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26 Sep

Power Rangers Dino Fury Cast, Release Date, Trailer Revealed

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It’s morphin’ time! Power Rangers is heading into its 28th season and that means it’s time for a brand new team! After two years of Power Rangers Beast Morphers a new team will step up to the plate to become the newest in the long line of Power Rangers. Fans have been eagerly awaiting this announcement for months now and it would have most likely been revealed at Power Morphicon if it wasn’t cancelled because of COVID-19. Thankfully Hasbro PulseCon allowed us to meet the new cast virtually and we’ve got three of them below. Russel Curry will play Zayto,…

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26 Sep

Power Rangers Beast Morphers Season 2 Episode 11 Review: Intruder Alert

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This POWER RANGERS BEAST MORPHERS review contains spoilers. It’s a shame this Power Rangers Beast Morphers episode is genuinely really solid except for one glaring issue. The guest character is a cop. The main plot follows the Rangers mistaking Chaku, a cop, for a bad guy. First off, I don’t see the difference in those two descriptions. Second, it continues a long history in media of cops being portrayed as the good guys, which as we’ve seen recently (but has been true forever), isn’t the case. Thankfully this wasn’t as bad as Super Ninja Steel’s infamously awful ‘Sheriff Skyfire’, which taught the…

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24 Sep

Ratched: Sarah Paulson Steps Into Her Power

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At this point, it’s no surprise when Sarah Paulson signs on to a Ryan Murphy production. The actress calls him her “greatest champion,” and he’s known for working repeatedly with the same stable of actors. Paulson is a clear talent, a name that has come to signify a show is “prestige” by her mere presence. But with Ratched, Paulson steps up in a new way, as an executive producer with decision-making power and as the titular character who carries the series, rather than a member of an ensemble cast. During a virtual press conference about the show, Paulson opened up…

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19 Sep

Power Rangers Beast Morphers Season 2 Episode 10 Review: The Evox Snare

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This POWER RANGERS BEAST MORPHERS review contains spoilers. Beast Morphers has been in real danger of being one of several Power Rangers seasons that might only be remembered for having a team-up. It’s happened before with Wild Force, Operation Overdrive, Super Megaforce, and Super Ninja Steel. These were all seasons that were heavily critcized by fans so the team-ups, whatever their quality, easily took all the spotlight. To this day those seasons usually only come up in discussion because of their team-ups. With all the news of returning cast members for Beast Morphers, especially the original Red Ranger, it could be very easy…

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10 Sep

The Boys Season 2: Giancarlo Esposito on the Hidden Power of Stan Edgar

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This article contains spoilers for the first three episodes of The Boys Season 2 One of the major lingering questions when it comes to The Boys’ main offenders is the true role of Vought International CEO Stan Edgar. So far, the character has been played calmly and deliberately by Giancarlo Esposito, who is still best known for his major villain roles as Gustavo “Gus” Fring in Breaking Bad and Moff Gideon in Disney+’s live-action Star Wars series, The Mandalorian. But you’d be forgiven for wondering why he’d sign up for a role on the popular Amazon comic book series as…

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03 Sep

Marvel’s Avengers Max Power and Level Cap Will Keep You Grinding for Hours

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There’s a lot to do in Marvel’s Avengers, the new action-adventure game starring Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, who are on a mission to take down MODOK and his Advanced Idea Mechanics, an evil tech corporation hellbent on taking over the world. On top of a single-player campaign with 19 core story missions, there are also over 80 War Zone, Drop Zone, and Iconic multiplayer missions to choose from in the game. And if you want to hit each character’s max power and level cap, you’ll need to do quite a bit of this stuff. With max power set at 150 and…

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27 Aug

Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart Gameplay Demo Shows off the PS5’s Power

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Insomniac Games released a new gameplay demo for Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart during Gamescom’s opening night ceremony, and it featured possibly our best look yet at the potential of PS5’s power potential. While the demo was described as seamless gameplay footage captured from a PS5, it should be noted that the sequence it showcased looked fairly scripted. Our best guess is that it’s taken from a segment early in the game that is meant to serve as a kind of preview for what’s to come. As such, it’s still a little hard to tell whether or not the game…

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26 Aug

Power Rangers: Sins of the Future Reveals Wes and Jen’s Love Life in Exclusive Preview

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Ever since the end of Power Rangers Time Force, fans have wondered what happened with Wes and Jen. Their love was real and true but Jen went back to the future, leaving Wes on his own. We got a brief look into their lives in the Time Force/Wild Force team-up but it seemed like Jen’s main home was still the future. Yet, the couple seemed very much in love. How did Jen and Wes make their relationship work? Could they? Power Rangers: Sins of the Future has the answers to those questions and a whole lot more. Previously announced in…

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18 Aug

Netflix’s Project Power, and the Creatures That Inspired Each Ability

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Spoilers for Project Power to follow Not for nothing are we called Den Of Geek. So when we were given the chance to chat with Project Power directors Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost and discovered that for the film they basically became massive science and nature nerds in creating some of the effects, this was very much ‘our bag’.  Project Power imagines a world where a street drug, just known as ‘Power’ imbues the user with almost super-heroic abilities but for just five minutes. The trouble is, exactly what powers you are going to get can’t be predicted. Some get…

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15 Aug

The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Movie We Almost Got

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Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie is a cult classic amongst ‘90s pop culture enthusiasts and Power Rangers fans. Even with its fairly standard ‘90s adventure movie plot, wherein the Rangers lose their powers and have to go on a mystical quest to gain new ones, the film still sticks in the mind. Main baddie Ivan Ooze chews all the scenery, there are some impressive fight scenes, and the Rangers save the day by kneeing a monster in the balls. Yes the CG is dated, the story doesn’t hold up to some of the better episodes of the show, and…

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