Aesthetic Displeasure

In 2017, the Pandora's Box of nostalgia laid bare before the world in the form of Power Rangers 2017. It wasn't a reimagining or a reawakening. It was a reboot meant to kick start a new cinematic franchise. It teased a classic Green Ranger (now female), a Zeo crystal (beneath the Krispy Kreme), and five somewhat familiar but also modern teens with attitude.

What could've been just fine as a Breakfast Club by way of Transformers crashed and burned so hard on the side of the celluloid planet that even five years later- it's a struggle to remember why it was the way it was and what the creator hoped for.

Take a journey with John and Magnus through how other Ranger series and movies foreshadowed both the joys and mistakes that Power Rangers 2017 makes and examine how stunt casting, a lack of camp, and a forced training montage conspired to halt something in its tracks that has been shown to succeed in fan mediums and from the minds of Boom! comics.

It truly is a wonder. But maybe not so morphenominal as it could've been.