sadlikeknives | Vampy Babbles About Power Rangers, Of All Things

So, the other night, I had a conversation with Telly that combined nostalgia for our childhoods and the very very recent.

My AIM doesn't archive, so I had to recreate it from what she's sent me. Which wasn't all of the conversation.

vampychick19: So, you remember my temporary obsession with Power Rangers in Space earlier, and how I defended it as a show with a complex plot?
teleute24: ...yes.
vampychick19: I've developed a temporary interest in a less healthy version: Power Rangers Time Force. Complete with not only the biggest bitch in Power Rangers history, but quite possibly the history of all of broadcast television, Jen!
teleute24: Okay, why is she a bitch?
vampychick19: Keep in mind I've only picked up a few things about the show here and there, and extrapolated from there. It sounds interesting. Especially the parts with the bitch. It's set in 2001, I think. But four of the main characters are from like, the year 3000 or something. Their names are Trip, Lucas, Katie, and Jen. Which I'm sure is what we'll be naming our kids a thousand years from now, when we've mastered time travel.
teleute24: And already this is a strange show.
vampychick19: Their hairstyles and clothing styles are astonishingly twentieth-century like. Well, except Trip, but he just has green hair. And may be an alien, I'm not sure about that part...
vampychick19: Anyway, these four (henceforth known as TLKJ) find out about...I don't know. Some kind of super-threat to the twenty-first century. So they resign from Time Force, which they work for protecting the timeline, steal their team leader (Alex)'s morpher, and hop on back to 2001. Alex's morpher is tuned to his DNA, which sounds like a horrible, bad idea to me.
teleute24: Me, too.
vampychick19: Oh, they also steal another morpher. More on that, later.
vampychick19: Oh, yeah. And Jen is engaged to Alex. She doesn't tell him what they're doing. She just goes.
teleute24: And suddenly the bitchiness is becoming clear.
vampychick19: So, now they're in...I don't know what the town is. It's not Angel Grove. They hook up with this guy named Wes doing odd jobs and basically being street people while not saving the world from evil. They live in a clock tower. Wes is the prodigal son of a company owner who's founded his own team to fight the evil, including a guy who used to be Wes's friend, Eric. Mostly, Wes and TLKJ spend their time saving Eric's ass.
vampychick19: At some point, Eric sees the light and joins Wes and TLKJ. Oh, Wes also looks shockingly like Alex (my understanding is, this is because they used the same actor)
vampychickSo they give him Alex's morpher.
vampychick19: I would like to pause for a moment and point out the unlikelihood of their DNA being compatible across a thousand years.
teleute24: Yeah, I'm not seeing it.
vampychick19: Well, for one thing, I don't think Trip (who's known Alex the longest) was too happy about it. This and the 'same actor' thing has led to speculation that Alex was a clone of Wes. But we'll never know.
vampychick19: Jen. Starts. Crushing. On. Wes.
vampychick19: She's engaged to Alex!
vampychick19: And she's all making googly eyes at this other guy. She's a bitch!
teleute24: Wow, she's a bitch.
vampychick19: But wait, there's more. So, last episode of the season, Alex shows up. He's gotten access to the Time Force files and found out what's going to happen to TLKJ and Wes and Eric, and it's not pretty. Wes and Eric talk TLKJ into going back to the future with Alex (but somehow manage to keep their future!STOLEN!morphers in the deal)
vampychick19: Oh, and I think Jen kisses Wes.
vampychick19: In front of Alex.
vampychick19: Who, as far as he knows, basically blinked and now this is happening.
vampychick19: Wes and Eric fight the bad and emerge victorious. Eric angsts over Jen. And they still have their morphers, which won't be created for about 990 years. The end.

*Note. None of this information is guaranteed to be accurate or make sense. It's just how I understand it from my temporary insanity/research binge. It's actually kind of interesting. Especially the part with Jen, the biggest bitch ever.

Now stop laughing at me.