happydalek | I have a problem.

I've been doing a lot of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers reminiscing over the past couple of days.* It seems MMPR is mired in some kind of purgatory of distribution rights between Disney and Saban or Bandai or whoever else owned pieces of the pie, so those first 3 seasons of the show, classic as they have become, are still not available on DVD. So thank jeebus for youtube, where kind people have made quite a selection of episodes available of MMPR (and the original ""Kyouryuu Sentai Zyuranger" show that all that stock footage came from, some with fan-made English subtitles). That's when I remembered that I had actually taped on VHS the whole 5 episode "Green Ranger" saga back either when it first aired, or one of the first reruns of it. I actually found the tape today, and much to my horror, discovered that in the ensuing years, I HAD TAPED OVER IT. Instead I found an old episode of Maury Povich about animal rescues, the werewolf episode of R.L. Stine's Goosebumps TV show, "Talitha Cumi" from The X-Files, and the series finale of Star Trek: Voyager . All that remained of the original recording of MMPR was the second half of the final episode of the saga. I am so mad at myself! What remained of the episode was in relatively good shape, too, considering the age of it. Far superior picture quality to what's available online. I AM SUCH A BAD FANGIRL.

But you know what's even worse than that? I can't even believe I'm admitting to this, but I stayed up past 2 AM this morning writing Power Rangers fic. Over 1,600 words of it! The writing on the show was just so basic and poor, and I made the mistake of reading video comments and watching convention footage that gave me ideas.... NOT GOOD.

*I'm going to blame The Nostalgia Critic from thatguywiththeglasses.com for it, since he did a post about Power Rangers: The Movie that came out '95 and made me click on it and start feeling all, well...nostalgic for the old stuff.