Found the perfect song to describe my feelings toward Power Rangers

[Lonewolf92]

and while the hell I'm still watching/trying to quit even after Samurai sucks and I haven't actually thoroughly enjoyed a season since Lightspeed.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YagfJF1CDY

[Anza Power]

I think I know what you're trying to say and you're not alone, the new seasons of PR and especially Samurai is nothing like the old seasons that we grew up on and they don't entice the same emotions not even nostalgia, but I still watch it cause I never want to admit I've out grown something that was a big part of my childhood...

[gokaiblue]

I get what you're saying, and the song reflects that well.

Now if only Stevie Nix wasn't singing it. Not too sure if I can take the lyrics seriously with someone who sounds like a goat singing it (lol jk).

[DigificWriter]

I'm surprised you picked the original Fleetwood Mac version and not the much more recent Dixie Chicks' cover version. I hadn't thought about the lyrics of the song in relation to PR, but that might be because, although I've been incredibly disappointed by a few seasons, those disappointments haven't dimmed my overall enjoyment of and love for PR. It's still a great song, though, and really could apply to the PR fandom and the ways that opinions about the franchise and various seasons therein are constantly changing.

[Fenix84]

This is one of the funniest, truest, and most tragic posts I've ever seen regarding PR. Great job picking a song that really embodies what it's like to be a PR fan.

Oh, mirror in the sky, what is love?
Can the child in my heart, rise above?
Can I sail through the changing ocean tides?
Can I handle the seasons of my life?

God, that last line there can be taken figuratively AND literally.

Well I've been 'fraid of changing cause I built my life around you.

So true. So much of the fandom is chained to this show out of senseless devotion. Even those who've been long disabused of the notion that PR is great and sacred and must be protected so it can continue rising to new heights (like me) are sticking it out because of completionist tendencies.

Man, I really feel bad for you that you haven't thoroughly enjoyed a season since Lightspeed. For me, it's Dino Thunder. The nostalgic throwback season. The last season where continuity actually mattered, and PR knew how to do PR. Since then, we've had a succession of showrunners who haven't had a clue. PR's identity has transformed into that of a show forever in search of itself. Even RPM, the one good season in the seven years after DT, was written out-of-continuity. Made in an unsustainable way, by a guy who wasn't very interested in telling stories in the PR style. Despite enjoying the one-year rise in quality that came with RPM, I wasn't in love with it. The last season I truly loved was DT. I remember feeling sad when "Thunderstruck" concluded, a bit disappointed but undoubtedly hungry for more. I felt down because I knew that I'd never see most of those characters again. I haven't felt that way about PR since.

A sad thought dawned on me a couple weeks ago. Come 2012, we'll be eight years away from DT. As long as the entire life of a long-running series. Almost a DECADE. As far from DT as Time Force was from MMPR season one! We're at the point where we could have nostalgia for the nostalgic throwback season! And in that length of time, the show has done almost NOTHING. It's only gotten worse and worse. Which is why I get so annoyed whenever I see an apologist telling people not to criticize the show, because we're supposedly "lucky to even have a show anymore." This is the most downtrodden, beaten-down fandom that I know of. People are either resigned to the fact that PR will continue on its downward slide, or begging for more abuse while trying to convince themselves that it's really awesome.

I said it in another post this weekend. If it wasn't this forum, my fanfic writing, and the fact that I somewhat enjoy the mental exercise of writing about how the show is falling apart, I don't know if I would still stick around. Because those things bring me pleasure, not the actual show these days.

But time makes you bolder,
Even children get older.
And I'm getting older too.

[Lonewolf92]

I'm surprised you picked the original Fleetwood Mac version and not the much more recent Dixie Chicks' cover version. I hadn't thought about the lyrics of the song in relation to PR, but that might be because, although I've been incredibly disappointed by a few seasons, those disappointments haven't dimmed my overall enjoyment of and love for PR. It's still a great song, though, and really could apply to the PR fandom and the ways that opinions about the franchise and various seasons therein are constantly changing.

I almost went with the Glee cover, but I didn't want people to think I was coming out as a lesbian for Power Rangers.