I assume it's because elements of Scorpina were used in her design and she will fight the rangers at some point.Neverhoodian said:Huh, the latest incarnation of Poison Ivy doesn't look half bad...
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What do you mean, "that's Rita Repulsa?!" She looks more like a generic wood/dark elf than an evil cosmic sorceress.
Everything that made Rita visually iconic is gone here. Where's the comically large headdress? The absurd feathered collar? What about the pointy corkscrew breasts?! You gotta have the pointy corkscrew breasts! What is Lord Zedd supposed to get off on without those?
I was having trouble figuring out why it was that I didn't like it. I just knew there was something off that I couldn't quite place my finger on. Then, I read your post and realized that you hit the nail on the head. There is nothing that we associate with Rita in this costume. It's not even the right color scheme and actually very generic in appearance.Neverhoodian said:Huh, the latest incarnation of Poison Ivy doesn't look half bad...
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What do you mean, "that's Rita Repulsa?!" She looks more like a generic wood/dark elf than an evil cosmic sorceress.
Everything that made Rita visually iconic is gone here. Where's the comically large headdress? The absurd feathered collar? What about the pointy corkscrew breasts?! You gotta have the pointy corkscrew breasts! What is Lord Zedd supposed to get off on without those?
There might be a giant mechanical reason for that:erttheking said:Hollywood. Adapt things and then make them look nothing like the original source material. I mean for fuck's sake, couldn't they at least get in her original color scheme?
I don't know, it comes off more as Scorpina by way of the Green Ranger.Saelune said:Poison Ivy + Kerrigan - Camp = That. Not a good outcome though.
Quick! Someone photoshop boob cones on that!MatParker116 said:[
There might be a giant mechanical reason for that:
The beautiful thing is that we still have those shows and can watch them literally any time.AccursedTheory said:Oh boy...
I'm annoyed by the costume change. It's just... why? MMPR is a decades old franchise that doesn't have a significant group of people who followed it for it's entire run. It's just 'generic punch'em up' for whoever happens to be young. I don't understand WHY they have to reuse old names with new costumes. It's the ultimate reboot bizarro story, because at least with other properties name recognition may matter. In this case, it doesn't. You're just changing things to be a dick to people who remember.
But... I'm just too tired to summon any real rage on this. Too many disappointing reboots/re-imaginings, too many disappointing things as a whole recently. Congratulations, Hollywood, Apathy Inducement was super effective.
God, why would I want to do that. I'm 29 for fucks sake. Power Rangers from my time in Elementary School and afterwards is terrible.Something Amyss said:AccursedTheory said:Oh boy...
I'm annoyed by the costume change. It's just... why? MMPR is a decades old franchise that doesn't have a significant group of people who followed it for it's entire run. It's just 'generic punch'em up' for whoever happens to be young. I don't understand WHY they have to reuse old names with new costumes. It's the ultimate reboot bizarro story, because at least with other properties name recognition may matter. In this case, it doesn't. You're just changing things to be a dick to people who remember.
But... I'm just too tired to summon any real rage on this. Too many disappointing reboots/re-imaginings, too many disappointing things as a whole recently. Congratulations, Hollywood, Apathy Inducement was super effective.
The beautiful thing is that we still have those shows and can watch them literally any time.
Okay, I actually want this to be a movie now.AccursedTheory said:It's the fictional equivalent of reshooting the Lincoln movie, only now he's a space man from the future, but when he was in the future he was from the past, and now he's here not to Emancipate, but to divebomb rebels in a genetically modified giant bald eagle.