How is Saban going to handle this one?

As we know, well...those of us that care about this sort of thing, Saban got the rights to Power Rangers, which is made using footage from the Super Sentai series. Currently, we are on the Shinkenger Series, which the American 'remake' calls Power Rangers Samurai....seriously? Samurai? ._. ANYWAY....

Next we'll get Goseiger, which are Angeled themed. I like how Saban kept to the story of Shinkenger, somewhat, in Samurai so I'm excited to see how he handles Goseiger.

HOWEVER!

After Goseiger is Gokaiger. Pirate Themed, which is awesome...however this is where the issue comes up. Gokaiger has their team using the powers of all the previous taskforces. Since this brings in heroes that Power Rangers never had, I wonder how Saban is going to handle this series. It's a good serious, mainly because of this guy:

CAPTAIN MARVELOUS!

So I want to see what Saban does with the series. However, I am worried that he may choose to skip this series instead of trying to explain the existence of Rangers the US never saw before.

Thoughts?

They'll do it and leave another plot hole in the series (at least to US fans).

Ummm... it will be done by a dumb plot point spoken by the American actors and dubbed over the helmeted rangers with stock footage.

Zombie, I was talking about the whole rangers we've never had in America thing, not the series itself.

Besides, Saban has the series again so we don't have to worry about Disney killing it. Only series I liked under Disney was RPM, it was a lot more darker and serious than it's Japanese counterpart and I liked it more, which is rare since I tend to like the Japanese counterpart of PR more than PR.

In theory, it could actually be a good thing. By having a mix of known and unknown powers to call on , it could add touch of mystery and widen the scope of the legend of the Power Rangers. i.e. What 'we' know of is just the tip of the iceberg.

True. To us, the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers have always been the FIRST of the Power Ranger teams. However, in a few series they introduced something called the Ranger Matrix, which allows people to morph into Power Rangers. It's never been explained how LONG it's existed, however we can assume it's been some time since according to the intro to Power Rangers Samurai, people have been morphing since the Fuedal Era of Japan. We know it can be damaged, we also know that people can be reregistered (or unregistered) from the Matrix. Also, the Ranger world is shared by the Rangers, as proven by the various Cross Overs we've had and the Existence of Bulk in Samurai, his new 'sidekick, Spike, is actually the son of Skull....say waaaaat?

My husband thinks one possibility is early Ranger teams get morphed into alien rangers, like what they did with Kakuranger when they brought that footage over. I can't argue with that...

They could use it to tell stories of Rangers of the past..as in revisit characters OR tell the story of rangers that existed before in the universe...

Are we two seasons behind instead of just one season that we had before the Nickelodeon handoff?

If so, I could see them skipping pirates entirely.

Any one here remember the comic book adaptation of the original MMPR movie? In it they called Zordon's original team the Order of Meledin(sp?) so just call the Gorangers that and that can explain why their costumes are so goofy :P The rest they can explain as aliens, alternate dimensions(like they are going to do with the Samurai/RPM crossover episode) and Man-Made Rangers(Like Lightspeed Rescue). I mean in the PR universe we have numerous references to the Morphing Grid so that can be your easy explanation. When ever the Pirate Rangers change into a sentai without a PR counterpart just have a brief pause with some Alpha 5 type character (hopefully less annoying) giving a brief history of that team. Yes a few teams will have to be skipped or altered slightly but hey thats what editing is for. My only hope is that they keep the leaders name Captain Marvelous

When I was a kid, I -loved- Power Rangers. Like seriously, I was obsessed. I thought it was the greatest thing ever.

Then (around the time of Dekaranger) I was introduced to the original source material.

I have never - looked - back.

The original Sentai is far superior to the watered down mutilated American counterpart.

TV-N, Over-Time, GUIS, and all the other fansub groups are amazing for the work they do.

Gokaiger is really turning out to be an awesome series. After Gekiranger, I had lost hope with Go-Onger. It was craptastic. Then we got Shinkenger - OMG :O~~ So awesome. Then Goseiger... meh... and here we are at Gokaiger.

As for how they would incorporate it into Power Rangers lore, as someone previously mentioned, there were ancient Rangers on Earth - but also there were "space" Rangers as seen in MMPR/Kakuranger and Power Rangers in Space/Megaranger.

Either way, I doubt they will do good by the series. Dino Thunder was the last decent PR series. It went all downhill after that.

As a side note, I heard a rumor that Saban also registered "Power Rider" and that it would be a Kamen Rider show possibly based on footage from Decade.

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Most likely with Gokaiger, they'll either cut out the non-US Sentai teams, explain them as different ranger teams that we haven't seen from around the world or different planets, or just use the pirate footage.

I'm hoping it's not the latter. You can't explain why several of the merchandise mecha look like the Dekaranger PatrolStriker, GaoRanger GaoLion, and etc, without bringing up some questions.

Goseiger will not be angels, due to it being a religious reference.