Hey there guys you might not know this about me but i was and still am a Power Rangers fan and i thought with the new movie due out by the end of the month i thought i would look back at some of the key episodes now i want to make it clear i will not be doing this for every season only until we reach In Space nor will i be looking at the green with evil arc if it's multiple episodes then it has be three episodes since it would take to long to get through them all ok let us begin with the very first Power Rangers episode "Day Of The Dumpster".
Ok the plot of this episode is that an evil alien witch named Rita escapes her space dumpster prison which is located on the moon and vows to destroy the first planet she sees (earth) now it's up to Zordon who is a floating head in a tube and his robot assistant Alpha 5 to recruit a team of heroes to defend the world. This episode is really freaking fast paced no sooner are we introduced to Rita are we then seeing the teens teleported to the command center i was hoping that this episode would have been made as a two parter since it would make things more epic but since it wasn't i have to say that this episode is way to fast.
The main cast for the show and the episode are Austin St. John as Jason Lee Scott, (Red Ranger), The late Thuy Trang as Trini Kwan, (Yellow Ranger) Walter Emanuel Jones as Zack Taylor, (Black Ranger), Amy Jo Johnson as Kimberly Hart, (Pink Ranger), David Yost as Billy Cranston, (Blue Ranger) , David Fielding as Zordon , Machiko Soga as Rita Repulsa and Barbara Goodson as the voice of Rita Repulsa the actors i've listed are only a small handful who appears in the episode and for there first time out there not that bad yes at times the acting from the teens can be pretty bad but since this was episode 1 for me at least the acting was ok.
The writing in this episode i thought was very mixed because when you had something good like Zordon's speech explaining the powers you would have something bad for example most of the scenes on the moon palace but then again the writing on this show has never been that great the writing in the new series so far has been terrible but that didn't stop me from having fun with the episode.
Let's be honest there was only two why most of male audience watched the show 1) the action scenes 2) to see the hot pink ranger i belong to both of those and yes the action scenes in this episode are pretty good to be honest but like the story there also really rushed it's like there not only trying to do these really cool moves but there also rushing to get to the next part of the story it really bugged me.
Now this episode and the first and second series of Mighty Morphin got there footage from a show called Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger and while it won't be that obvious in later seasons of Mighty Morphin here it's painfully obvious what's stock footage shot in Japan and what's shot in America for instance when the teens first Morph they find them selves in the city with only a brief explanation as to why they are there and it's obviously not American footage it was almost laughable at how obvious it was.
I can't talk about this episode and not talk about the awesome intro and the even more awesome intro music Ron Wasserman really killed it with the opening music so much so that whenever someone thinks of Power Rangers they think of that awesome guitar and it's so great that they even used a remixed version of the song for the 2011 and 2013 series but you know what theme's even better the Bulk And Skull theme i'm kidding of course.
Overall for a first episode it wasn't that bad it did all the things a first episode should do it introduced the main heroes and villains and set up the story for the show but like i've mentioned it does have problems and sadly those problems keep it from being a perfect 10 so for me this episode is a 7 out of 10