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I had known about this some for quite some time, specifically after I finished season 1 of AoT years ago.

It wasn’t until recently that I learned the translation of one of the best parts of the song.

Mit Trauer und Entscheidung im Herzen

(With sorrow and confidence in our hearts)

zeigen wir den Willen weiterzugehen

(we show the will to move on)

Niemand darf eigensinnig seines Lebens beraubt werden

(No one shall be willfully deprived of their life)

I recently closed the chapter of a 2 year relationship pursuit. And for some reason, this song had been playing in my head in the days after making the decision to move on.

So good it makes me wanna type away like i used to. 

Just got back from my first viewing of the Power Rangers and i’m glad to announce I am very satisfied with what was put on the big screen. Like most movies i didn’t have any crazy expectations for the film, just minor details here and there like the story going its own route to make it different and unique from the original show but still keeping true to its essence.

My only worry for this reincarnation of a great past time from my childhood would be the fact that the old shows (and even first 2 movies) were just so corny, so bad yet so good. Trust me, there are times when i come across clips and what have you, from the old shows that make me cringe when i realized how lame and corny it was. How could they possibly make this movie NOT corny? 

Why and how was i so drawn to this kind of entertainment? The power rangers taught me a sense of unity and it was probably what opened my eyes to being a part of and trusting your team (besides the Knicks). My favorite color back then was blue, so naturally Billy was my favorite ranger despite being the total opposite of his personality. 

If you’re a true fan, if you were there from the beginning till maybe the 3rd-4th generation of Rangers, and you don’t have high expectations of the new movie, you will probably find yourself feeling so much nostalgia from your childhood and it will open your eyes to how much the first group really made you appreciate the essence of wanting to become a power ranger. 

This is as far as I’ll go in regards to not spoiling anything. So if you haven’t seen it yet and plan on seeing it and don’t want me to ruin anything, stop reading here and come back later after you see it. If you don’t care and just want to keep reading because you’re bored, by all means go for it, just don’t say i didn’t warn you.

*SPOILERS*

The fact that they changed the story a little bit was already an indicator that i did the right thing in not wanting to expect anything from the movie that would impress me or even predict. Don't ask me how i remember this, but if i recall, the very first episode of the power rangers season 1 has something to do with a dumpster. Dumpster day or something. I don’t know, i just remember reading it, yes i could (somewhat) read at 5-6 years old. I remember Alpha and Zordon were already established in their ‘Command Center” and sensed Rita Repulsa’s escape from captivity. Want to know how she escaped? Go watch the original ORIGINAL intro of the series and you’ll see astronauts pushing over the lid of a genie stove top releasing the alien witch. The movie has her as a FORMER RANGER, the GREEN RANGER to be exact. Some will think it’s lame, i thought it was cool and acceptable. 

Recruiting. 

How the movie’s story pits the potential rangers together is a testament to the original series and how Zordon ordered Alpha to recruit “individuals with attitude.” The new teenagers portraying our beloved Jason, Zack, Billy, Trini, and Kimberly were all somewhat trouble makers/rebels. All of them rebels in their own right. All of them having something deep inside that could only brought out about themselves through each other, something we could really appreciate with the original rangers. 

Morphers? 

Remember it’s morphin time? And BOOM, out comes the morphers that EVERYBODY HAD AS A KID, well, almost everybody, and the rangers TRIBEAMED their transformation into rangers and the awesome theme came on and you know shit’s about to go down. I appreciate the fact that they really displayed these ‘rebels’ having a dark side to their personality and using the good inside them to be their source and spark to their armor.  Five strangers becoming friends and willing to do whatever they had to do for the greater good of their town. 

The Zeo crystals. 

I didn’t realize the importance of the crystals on the show until the Zeo rangers came about (potentially setting up a new franchise). It was referenced on the show numerous times as well. But what granted our rangers their powers were their crystals, or on the show the gold coins with their Zord animals on them.

OH, don’t worry, i’ll get to the Zords. The movie gives us a better perspective of how these teenagers with attitude came about and ‘trained’ as Rangers to defeat Rita. The show pretty much put them in suits and rangers like billy and Kim magically learned martial arts whereas Jason, Trini and Zack were already established martial artists. The new rangers were forced into training by Zordon and even Alpha. 

Backstories. 

The writers and producers did just enough to cover each character’s lives leading up to their discovery of the power coins crystal things. All well enough for them to be unique and appreciated in their own right. Billy the nerd with some loner/awkward issues who’s father disappeared (passed away perhaps?), Zack being a wild rebel with a sick mother, Jason the star jock athlete with a desire for trouble and a disappointed father, Trini (pronounced Trin-E in the move, not Treen-e like the original show) who jumped schools every year because of you guessed it, being a rebel and then Kimberly, who had personal issues ‘not being a good friend’ i guess? She was a cheerleader also vs. the Kimberly from the 90′s that was a gymnast. 

ZORDS.

Again, i’ll reiterate, there were times when I realized the old show was corny as fuck. And yes, the old Zords, while being badass in their own right, were still corny... as fuck. They were literally just remote control toys that were zoomed in on by the camera to make it seem like they were huge robots on TV. HOWEVER. If you were to fuse a real life Gundam wing with a Beast Wars transformer, you’d probably get a Zord from the new movie. The massive robot reference to crushing Bumblebee was very poetic. I’m glad i had a good crowd because they laughed and applauded that. But these new Zords? I’d say they were pretty fuckin awesome. I just personally feel like they made those corny robots toys that were on screen, cool and transformer like. Just again, in their own unique power ranger way. 

TRUE ESSENCE.

I mentioned ‘essence’ earlier in this write up and that essence is something that could only be felt if you were part of the beginning. When the original rangers, despite being so cheesy and corny, made you want to be a ranger SO BAD. The concept of the power rangers teaches us the power of unity and what the team could accomplish if they worked together. They struggled to reach the full potential of their powers, almost 2 weeks even (11 days to be exact b/c thats when Alpha calculated Rita could strike). But they did to the expense of Billy who later on was revived by Zordon as Zordon realized it wasn’t his team to lead. Remember when Zordon was about to die in the 1st Mighty Morphin Power Rangers movie? the adorably HOT Kimberly at the time said, “You’re like a father to us all.” Zordon guiding the Rangers towards the right direction to reach their potential, and giving Billy the 2nd chance to live showed qualities of just that in being a father like figure to the rangers, something he’s very accustomed to in the show and previous movies. In the old show, there were PLENTY OF TIMES when the rangers “were at their doom” at the hands of Rita and Lord Zed, but they somehow ALWAYS found a way to win. 

I’ll give you a perfect example of true essence. When the rangers and their Zords were pushed to the edge and they had to ‘hold the line’? Their struggle vs Goldar. Man... seeing the commercials I KNEW that the Mega Zord was going to be formed and it was going to kick serious ass, but the moments leading up to that they were all ready to die TOGETHER? I’m not gunna lie, i had the same feeling form up in my feels when Woody and Buzz held onto their friends at the end of Toy Story 3 before the claw saved them (shouts to swag surfer). As the cinema Gods as my witness, NO MOVIE has made me feel that way since Toy Story 3, LEGIT, until the new power rangers because I KNEW WHAT THE OUTCOME WAS and yet there i was, sitting on my seat reminding myself, “wow... i haven’t felt this urgent sorrow for ANY GROUP OF CHARACTERS since toy story 3.” And then they fall into the pit and you hear the Zords forming and i get this huge relief and burden lifted off my shoulders and i applaud with the crowd thanking God the tears forming in my eyes didn’t stream out b/c that would've been really embarrassing. But yeah, i’m applauding, the crowd is applauding and Billy has that comic relief line of Mama Zord-Mega Zord and as they try to advance the entire Zord falls over. Well fcuking done. No really, they didn’t just magically download the program to operate a “65 million year old alien robot” in a few seconds to their brains, they actually taught themselves how to operate their respective body part that was formed by their Zord. Again, unity, team work, Power Rangers... WOOOOO!!!!!!

I’m still kind of in shock at how much i actually enjoyed this movie. And i think that’s due to the fact that the crowd i watched the movie with was probably one of the better crowds i had watched a movie with since i got to Washington. Really. The movie culture here isn’t as passionate as what we have in New York but anyway back to the movie.

Alpha 5 said his signature line 2x,the black guy is actually the blue ranger and the asian is the BLACK ranger, both the pink and yellow rangers are cute & hot AF, Rita made her monster grow and said her token line as well. There weren’t any communicators, there wasn’t a bulk or skull even though i think the bully in the movie was supposed to be one of them i’m not too sure. Mid credit scene = Thomas Oliver = Power Rangers 2. Speaking of Tommy, the actor and actress who played they original Tommy and original Kimberly cameos probably had the biggest applause of the movie. Boom. Might be a little too early to bring in Lord Zedd in the 2nd movie, MAYBE hint or reference him like Rita did in regards to the Zeo crystals.

Future?

The Power Rangers have a generation of fans that first started watching and admiring them at such young age that are now PROFESSIONALS, MARRIED AND WITH KIDS. Granted, the series has gone onto bumblefuck abyss because i obviously lost track of where the TV series has gone, that old generation could show their kids what they used to watch, and be like, “That movie that’s out? That’s a remake of the ORIGINAL rangers, the founding fore fathers of what you young maggots are watching now” kind of deal. 

I AM PRAYING that this generates enough revenue and popularity that they make a nice, LONG MOVIE SERIES because THERES SO MUCH potential. Maybe something Disney could look into working a deal with Saban b/c there’s just too much to let slip away. You got franchises like Fast and the Furious that’s gone off track from how great it was before the 4th/5th movies, but could somewhat catch up to and pass GI Joe (unless they actually cross over with, wait for it...), and maybe be half as good as the Transformer series (yes, GI Joe and Transformers could crossover, because they have in the comics). I look at transformers and think thats a good goal to strive for, because movie series like James Bond, LOTR, the Matrix, and Star Wars are just at an elite level. Then I see franchises like the Underworld, Resident Evil movies (sorry, i’m just not a fan of them) and Sharknado (IDK how and why people find those movies entertaining), and it gives me hope that the Power Rangers movie reboot could just be the thing we need in the movie industry to keep it interesting unless Japan and Hollywood could work something out to bring Gundam Wing to life. 

*CUE BLOG SOUNDTRACK ENDING CREDIT AND MOVIE RATING THEME = VAN HALEN - DREAMS*

ANYWAY. 9/10 Power Rangers. I’m going to see it again. WITHOUT A DOUBT.

Off topic final thought:

Hello tumblr, it’s been a FAT MINUTE. Typed this up for my family and thought some might appreciate this write up. Let me know your thoughts!

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TIME KILLER/STORY TIME!!!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tGsSijjJtc

See that link? It’s to a theme of a car in this anime series. You can open it and listen to it while you read it b/c it’s quite fitting for this entry. If you can’t listen and read at the same time and are interested, listen to the beginning to about 1:56 then fwd to 2:56. Everything will be explained.

Who remembers my blogs on tumblr? Well, this write up will explain what happened to my car this morning on my way to work. You guys know that my car, Snow White, is my baby. 

She’s a 2012 Dodge Challenger RT, with pricey upgrades to make her essentially faster. Snow White, your niece, just got done with these upgrades and has been on the road being broken in for about a week. 

Her upgrades required a month of precise surgical engine bypasses. In that month, to help keep my mind off the car i was shopping decals for Snow. I had come across this cool Japanese decal 

And learned about this anime called ‘Wangan Midnight’. This show was around in the mid 2000’s about a series of cars in Japan that raced on the longest highway in the country, where loops/exits enabled the highway to become a circuit called ‘Wangan’. Unlike the popular drag and roll races here in the States, this show revolved around acceleration to top speed with track like maneuvers. The series goes into detail on building and tuning & mainly consists of the driver’s building their cars to become faster than one another. 

The main car, a blue Nissan Fairlady Z31, is discovered and driven by a high school kid named, Akio. The Blue nissan’s nickname is ‘The Devil Z”. Akio learned that the first owner had died in a car wreck, and every time the car was rebuilt & brought back to life by another owner, it would crash on the Wangan. This show opened my eyes to how to build Snow, and with consultation from my inner circle of car gurus and junkies here, the information i learned from the show was 100% valid. So because the show gave me another level of inspiration, i decided to order the decal and install it when Snow was ready which was just two days ago. 

I even downloaded some songs of the anime’s score that was played throughout the show, just for shits and giggles since i like to listen to OST’s and scores of movies/shows from time to time. Well, this morning pulling out of my apartment complex, i noticed the “Voice of S30z” (the link i provided) was playing on my iPod. Before i took off, I realized that the song had magically synced onto my iPod. I keep track of my songs and my playlists and i know FOR A FACT that i didn’t sync the song. Didn’t pay mind to it as i let the song play (possibly the song you’re listening to now if you opened the link.)

About 20 seconds into the drive, and the check oil notification comes on the dash and less than 1o seconds later, the check engine light comes on. Again, i didn’t pay mind to it, it was just indicating that i had to check my oil when i realized, Snow was refilled with BRAND NEW oil that didn’t have no more than 200 miles put on her yet since she was brought back to life. The next thing i know, her acceleration felt funny and she started struggling to breath as the engine legit began choking. Nervous, i’m SMHing, but i get her to go only 100 feet more taking a turn where she coughed and died on the road with traffic flowing behind me. Hazard lights went on, took my warning triangle out and started doing my checks. I checked the oil and tranny fluid and everything seemed fine. 

Tried to start her and she just wouldn’t budge but the battery was still on. After about a minute or two, I was trying to call some people when i noticed the song was still playing so i randomly played the next track and turned off the radio. Nobody answered my calls since everyone was at work.  I remember taking a deep breath and literally thinking to myself,

“Snow, we’re so close to going home. I can’t afford to replace anything in you now. Why are you doing this?”

Just for the fuck of it, i tried to turn her over again.

Boom.

She started. Bit my lip and thought it was too good to be true so i let her sit for a few minutes when ppl started calling me back. I felt confident enough to drive her so i pulled my warning triangles in and lightly drove her to the nearest auto zone which was a quarter mile where she stalled. The pedal felt fine, brakes were good. She was running smooth. Got to auto zone, explained what happened and the clerks ran their checks on the computer to see what the check engine light was on for. This is where it gets weird.

Three different ppl checked with three different tuners and no codes popped up on the computer. The mechanic said exactly, “I don’t know what to tell you. Usually when the check engine light comes on it means you have to check something and 90% of the time we get codes for people. There’s nothing popping up stating that something is wrong with your car, sir.”

So i sat in snow letting her run in fear thet she would die again. I noticed i was sitting in silence hearing the lobe of the engine when i decided to look at my iPod. I back tracked and noticed the fucking Voice of s30z song. I got chills RIGHT AWAY. And i deleted the song RIGHT AWAY. I legit could feel my heart starting to beat faster. COULD I HAVE CURSED MY CAR?! I didn’t wreck her but i just felt bad vibes after noticing the song and how it magically synced onto my iPod and played this morning. 

OBVIOUSLY, i could be overthinking as something could be wrong with snow, BUT SHE WAS PERFECTLY FINE her first week back. She was fine when i drove my friend to the airport this morning as well & I haven’t raced her because i’m still breaking her in.

WHAT DO YOU THINK?

A couple of my friends who know the show and know what happened are told me today to remove the decal. LMFAO. I’m highly considering it.

Anyway, i hope you enjoyed. Just felt weird with the story of the anime + the decal and the song randomly appearing on my iPod, which isn’t entirely a comforting kind of song either lol.