@@nicky2stars He literally calls every alien he meets the vaguely slur sounding names he gave his own transformations, and we still love him anyway, thats a very common joke in the Ben 10 community
‘The only black character is a criminal!’ You mean the character that the show used to take a more nuanced view on crime, and why people commit them? Oh and let’s not forget his partner in said crimes was white. Love how she just glosses over that.
I think the show does come off as racist when we don't see human criminals ever being taken down often,it feels like it implies that aliens commit more crimes
Cruger is a prime example of why they call it "Morphing," and not "changing into spandex suits." No way a dog nose fits inside that thing *unless* they're being changed at the molecular level.
That is not a point in favor of people antagonizing her; in fact, it bolsters her argument. Three white/white-passing cops arresting a Black man and a Hispanic woman, but then the Black guy is placed in a position of authority (which he goes on to abuse by being lazy and shiftless) is an...interesting needle to thread.
1. What that one person did was racist towards her. Not even him being genuine in his tweet. Cause if he wants to make a point. Don't be racist about it and attacking her cause she is white. The point is she tried to be a savior. Virtue signaling. That was the problem which was worse when ppl argued against her. Ppl she tried to defend and talk over for 2. What also made it bad is when ppl are being hypocritical and defending what she said and did too
@@kuggacouragegx6093 As a white person I think she is just a dumb and lazy, the fact that she put in so much to virtue signal but didn't take the time to actually watch the show says everything about her. She is the same type of white people who blatantly tell black people like Edris Elba that he isn't black enough to play a black character because he wasn't stereotyped enough. He didn't eat the cultural food of chicken and watermelon, (sarcasm btw but these woke whiteys literally said this type of stuff) He didn't have the black friend group and the way he talked wasn't black enough. These woke people need to figure out what exactly they want from the minorities because so far while say they go through oppression by white republicans the liberals are telling them that they can't even find the place to get their own I. Ds without a whitey holding their hands or how about the fact that now they want black students to be graded differently so they don't have to learn the math and do essays like other students. These woke people believe minorities to be stupid and Ignorant and need someone like her to talk for them. ALL OF THEM ARE LIKE THIS. Japan is more progressive culturally than these the woke.
People who say the words "Be an ally" or "trying to be an ally" aren't ever your ally because they don't see you as people. They see you as something that needs saving. Something that needs protecting. Something that can make them look better if it looks like they are helping it. But, not people. They don't really care about what you want or need only what they THINK you want or need.
trans allies will out a trans person to make a point while having a conversation with someone who will probably follow said trans person into a dark alleyway with a knife.
Both the cop based ranger teams Time Force and S.P.D tackled racism. In fact power rangers has tackled things deeper like the cycle of hate. No matter on whatever side of the fence you are on the outragers are just jackasses with an internet connection.
Time force actually had a good episode dealing with racism with the yellow ranger dealing with someone who was racist to her when they found out she was black. It bothers her, and she gets advice from the green ranger to tells her about how even in the future that racism still exist, and that he feels she should ignore it when directed at her, cause at the end of the day, she is a power ranger, and actions speak louder than words. Something that the racist guy learns when he is saved by her for the second time in the episode, and express both that he is sorry for what he said, as well as surprise that she was willing to save him despite how he treated her in the previous encounter.
@@antonioro1229 and what they did was a great thing. And the time force monster too. But now days when ppl or shows do it. They do a terrible job at it and missed the whole point, also what sucks is how ppl who watch these shows don't follow these messages irl where they make excuses or try to cause divide
@@kuggacouragegx6093 After reading you guy's words it's just astonishing and encouraging that day after day more realize the media we grew up with had a better display/understanding of the "problems" we're having today
@@draykohunter6805 true. Cause there are times teaching about homophobia and racism was more impactful and meaningful but wasn't forced nor any bs. But alot of ppl who watched that don't learn from it then make bad decisions and give bad messages now days
@@thesswb4463 Linkara doesn't know that much, he only gave time between seasons so he didn't make first episode impressions. He also learned a bit from earlier attempts, being real extra with reacting to Turbo instead of a proper analysis.
Gonna be upfront and honest. I’m a black guy, and SPD was my favorite series out of all of them. Hearing her say “The black guy started as a criminal” makes me livid. For her to say that, three things had to make that thought concur. She’s blind to the very subject of criminalization within America, she didn’t bother to understand what Jack and Z(Elizabeth) were doing for the greater good of the poor, or she simply wanted to be the “I’ll speak for the black people and defend them” like this is the fucking blindside or some shit. Honestly, it could’ve been all the above. The worst part is that instead of admitting she was wrong, she drops it immediately and blames it on the fandom rather than taking accountability for her mistake.
@@TheUncivilizedNation It's true. In Zeo, he went on some "spiritual journey" or something like that and ended up finding his long lost brother David Trueheart, and his father Sam is a Native American played a real Native American actor, the late Frank "Grey Wolf" Salsedo. Say what you want about PR but they've been consistently diverse since the very beginning.
Yeah Allison... She used to be a fun content reviewer of B-movies like 10-15 years ago, then went all insane and extremist who takes everything way too seriously.
The PR community is probably one of the least toxic fandoms out there. That's because it's been inclusive since day one, and diversity was one of the corner stones of the show from the start. Yes, we all know the original Black Ranger was Black, and the original Yellow Ranger was Chinese, but as a kid you didn't notice (because we aren't inherently racist), and the show never drew any attention to it (as it should be), and the casting call wasn't intentioned that way either, it just ended up that way (perhaps some subconscious bias took place, but I do believe they didn't consciously decide on their final casting choices for that reason). Regardless, you'll get bad actors in the PR community like you do any other community, because the world is a big place, but in the PR community, because of the foundations the show was built on, these toxic people are an incredible rarity. Comparing the PR community to, for example, the Star Wars or Marvel community, is like black and white, pun not intended. Honestly, it sounds just like a typical case of "you disagree with me so I'm going to call you toxic and an 'ist, rather than rebute your counter arguments because I'm not smart enough for that" that we often see from these far leftist virtue-signalling, usually white, women. All snap judgments, poorly analysed 'feelings', personal prejudices, and thinly veiled racism/sexism posing as "an ally", that is common place on twitter these days. She shouldn't have targeted Power Rangers just for some clout attempting to follow the same trends that ruin every other franchise these days. It was disingenuous to do so, and the Ranger community is naturally inclusive enough to pick-up on that. She just bit off more than she could chew.
Actually, funny thing about the casting. The Yellow Ranger was originally portrayed by Audri Dubois, who is Hispanic, as shown in the pilot version of the very first episode. But when she dropped out Thuy Trang was brought in. And according to Walter Jones, he was originally the Blue Ranger, but the producers wanted him to switch roles so the original Sentai footaged would line up wih the idea of his character being the Red Ranger's best friend. They asked if he was okay with the change, to which Walter yes, as he thought the suit was cooler. But you are right abut the implications, as Walter confirmed the staff did realize it a bit later. But yeah, it's not as "racist" as most people thing.
1. Walter White and Thuy Trang looked awesome in their suits. 2. I miss when 'normal' and 'irreverent' were the fad and thus made it harder to know who is for real and who is a toxic fake.
PR fandom is still toxic, it's left unchecked because it's a small, niche fanbase that doesn't act out usually. Best believe the show's inclusive nature doesn't stop racists or bigots from existing, fandom just knows to call that out while remaining hush hush on their personal opinions. Being unchecked means outside viewers would make those reactions, and fans get triggered and cut down words to make that person a ignorant fool. Another example, the current showrunner mentioned production issues with setting up civilian fights, a handful of fans only saw "civilian fights.....not worth it" and got triggered by that alone.
Speaking about Jack from SPD, shoutouts to the one episode Jack, knowing the monster they're fighting killed Blue Ranger Sky's father, himself a red ranger, when Sky was a kid, *gives him his own morpher to fight and finally bring the guy to justice as a Red Ranger* . I dunno i just was reminded of it and it was pretty cool to see when I was a kid.
Did they just call the people who disagreed as 'refusing to talk about it', when those people were blocked by her in the first place? Logic? Mental gymnastic? What?
I loved how, people outside the fandom tells the fandom they are the problem. When they weren't even fans to begin with. My favorite Power Rangers series was Mystic Force.
I love that she was like "I brought up issues and they refused to talk about it." Yet, not only did people engage to talk about it, BUT THEY BROUGHT RECEIPTS!!! They all pretty much said "Hold on! You're jumping the gun. It's not that bad." But she's caught up on "Of COURSE they make the ONE black guy on the show a criminal before he joins the team! How come it's always black people have to be criminals, thieves and thugs? And during a season about cops? REALLY?" I get it. But, it really wasn't that deep. Also, it was before everything blew up and got more severe in the public eye with Treyvon Martin 4 years later.
That "apology" of hers made my eyes roll SO DAMNED HARD!!! And that apology was RIGHT OUT of the performative ally apology playbook! Copy-pasted! Girl, shut UP!!
People like her are why Lupinranger VS Patranger did not and never will get a Power Rangers adaptation. I somehow was even blocked by that girl and I actually have never even heard of her till I saw this video.
This always happens when someone comes in swinging at a fandom and the fandom bites back. It's not that they made a mistake, it's the fandom that's the bad guy. Her response at the end was just "I'm sorry for what I did but if you think about it, I'm the victim here and y'all are the true villains". And then come in the white knights. "Oh sweetheart! You got bitten by the dog you kicked in the balls while he was eating? Well, guess we should put down the dog!".
@@ExeErdna Yeah,gatekeeping is actually a good thing. Look at what happened to gaming when gamergate fell. Now the entire gaming space is neutered and sterile,there's no culture left.
So did she never finish watching SPD? That would’ve been peak irony because the entire point of the show was to re-examine prejudices you may carry. So imagine her not watching the show at all specifically because she was prejudiced against it.
Jack being a selfless individual is WHY he became the red ranger in the first place. He has a noble soul. To call him a common criminal is just disgusting. He is far more than a criminal, he was definitely rough around the edges at the start however he always put the needs of others before his own with his initiative. Which is why it was inevitable he'd return to his community. He would never abandon these people given what we learn of him throughout the series.
His time in SPD however has prepped him for tougher challenges and gave him a lot more perspective in life, which will prepare Jack for pretty much anything that comes to his community.
Yh he was literally red ranger material from the start, leading what's essentially a charity to help others who have to struggle for being alien and/or poor and shunned by the rich... who happen to be 2/3 SPD B team at the start, whom have certain opposites, Sky being the racist and Syd being a rich posh spoiled brat. Both because of how their childhood but not excused because of it, to have their ignorance displayed as negative and not the cause of it being the negative (dad killed by an 'alien' and grew up posh and rich) because both's ignorance could have been avoided and eventually were corrected. Jack is objectively and subjectively the most good ranger throughout the entire series. With Bridge as the nicest and kindest, as green ranges are in the Disney era.
In regards to the sexism, it's actually a point really well handled as Sky goes from "but, she's a girl" to "Sir, I will follow anyone you choose to be the red ranger"
Her fanboys are hilarious, when she couldn't handle the criticism she hid. It's amazing how the fandom is only "toxic"because they pointed out her garbage
I'm black, and I never considered SPD racist. I'm so sick and tired of people deciding what I as a black person have to be offended by and what is safe for me
I've seen a pretty 50/50 mix if POC feeling it's racist vs it being fine. It's honestly a divisive topic especially with the main point I've seen is on how the handle the red ranger overall compared to other red rangers
@@ayajade6683 I thought the west stopped calling people who weren't white "colored" fifty years ago? Kind of like there was a whole movement to stop that kind of dehumanization. The whole newspeak idea of treating everyone that's not vaguely European-ish as a singular hegemony somehow finds a way to be more unironically racist than the Democrat's racial policies in the 18th and 19th century.
@@KopitioBozynski I find the term "people of color" very racist. The same people who push that stupid phrase are the ones who are willingly wanting to go back to the segregation days pre-Civil Rights Act.
“As for Power Rangers, which is what started this whole thing, I’m Good” Yeah? And so are we. The community is much better off without people like her.
I think there's a trend with people who do unintentionally racist/sexist/homophobic stuff where they say they now know better but decided to step away from whatever brought their "ism" into question. Correct me if I'm wrong but if the whole point is learning, why not take the lesson and take in the media under this new perspective? I'm not gonna learn to be less sexist if I stay away from women, I'm just going back to where I feel safe in my own opinion. Now she made up her mind that she "can't like it anymore" which kinda reminds me of what people say on pipelines.
Performative activism sucks. It leads people to only look at thing at a surface level and rush into judgement so they can call it out and gain brownie points.
A lot of people use "Copaganda" as a buzzword to mean anything with cops in it that doesn't cast them in an evil light. Even when the story doesn't really glorify them, or worse the series actually talks about the systemic issues with policing. It's kinda sad.
And it is such a weird thing to even make into a buzzword. For all the talk these people talk, they'll still dial 911 if someone breaks into their house.
It's a show for kids and kids don't understand adult stuff like racism, police brutality, corruption, and whatnot. They just want to watch good guys fight bad guys and save the day. UPDATE: but I also believe they need understand the concept of gray morality as in “good” guys aren’t always good and “bad” guys aren’t always bad, but they shouldn’t go full on SJW/Fuck the Police/Fuck Trump either.
@@haileyshannon7548 Still, how would you feel about a kids show where a bunch of nice CIA operatives have to infiltrate an “evil” South American nation. “What’s wrong with that? Kids don’t need to think about ‘politics,’ they just wanna see the good guys murder the bad guys!” Portrayal matters. It’s why people want more minority representation.
Often times my main gripe with these incidents is not so much that they are "speaking/defending for a minority group", but that their opinions are just terrible overall. I would still think the "oh look, of course they made a black guy a criminal" a terrible take even if a black person were to say it. I just find it sad that too often people are blinded by the idea of being woke or progressive that they fail to realize the opinions they share or defend are simply not good or just plain wrong.
It’s always funny when we throw buzz words like “racism” at a series where one of the best red rangers in PR ( the leader of the team ) was a black person
Power rangers spd was not racist I found it just like any season its the power rangers job to stop any monster that attacks any person in the show this lady has believe they are racist cause she has nothing better to do but complain about something she has no idea what is going on in the show
Jungle Fury is the season you could most call racist and that's just because they have 4 white rangers. I think it's the only time the percentage is that high.
I think that this touches on a major issue with modern film criticism. She isn’t approaching SPD as a work of art to be critiqued and analyzed on it’s own merits, but as a political statement, a representation of reality, or a reality. It’s not good or bad because of overarching themes and how well the show works them in without being too subtle or elusive, it’s good or bad because of random minor issues that bug me in particular. It’s such an egotistical approach to film critique.
I hate how modern criticism and reviewing of tv, film, comics, etc... is not on the merits of it' story... but just on what cause it's promoting. And complaining about it always gets the 'X WAS ALWAYS POLITICAL' as if people have no idea that an episode of Star Trek is still not the same as a campaign ad during an election. I honestly feel most critics now fundamentally believe any and all stories need to be messages for contemporary social/political issues, and that's sad.
@@Fordo007 This is same reason why Hasbro won't adapt Lupinranger vs Patranger, because they're scared people are gonna judge it based on that, especially when they are just blabbering on about nothing.
I found this video in my suggestions and my response is don't call yourself an ally or claim to be woke if you don't check your own bias. We have to evolve as people and learn to do better. Also don't let others ruin your enjoyment. Watch power rangers, have fun with it.
Actualy she is the very original definition of woke Woke was a slang in black omunities that meant being awake to the fact racism is everywhere Its literaly being over paranoid having a world view that demonises none black people snd thinks everyone hates u its like a communist blaming the capitalist for his bread being moldy
I wish she tried to watch the original japanese series. The magical guility thing was INCREDIBLE WORSE on the original series. On US, it was a permission to capture the person for judgement (like a arrest permission). On Super Sentai, was a execution order. They got permission to KILL the monster of the week based on the machine. I wanted see the reaction of who much US actually fixed that thing compared to the original series.
Honestly, I don't really get how growing up enjoying S.P.D. was a big deal to any Dekaranger fan since imo the Red Ranger Battlizer was my favorite part of the show, I mean don't get me wrong I know Super Sentai came first but imo I enjoyed the late 90's and 2000's Power Rangers seasons imo because the Battlizers are my favorite part.
In Dekaranger they did explain that the order come from a planet that time move alot faster then usual. So they use it as a place to give quicker judgment to criminal, so what we see are few seconds of waiting order could've taken months and years in that planet to list out all criminal act that monster had done to give a proper judgment on them.
"it's the fandoms that ruin the series" Someone literally making comments of how a series is racist when it isn't and how it is problematic yet they only got to episode 2
Wait did she really call for understanding when she blocked people politely informing her that she could be wrong? It's almost like her entire body is made of hypocrisy.
3:08 I think it was the T Tops episode, where it's revealed that he was framed for a crime he didn't commit, and Bridge was the only one who caught on to it, and it showed how SPD was too quick to jump to conclusions, and how it reflects the police in real life.
Bridge was able to fool the person who may be able to fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, and some of all of the people....some/all of the time (idk).
19:30 This is a great sentiment, but what's often missed in situations like these (and what causes people to ask "how did they think behaving like this was a good idea,") is that people like Allison behave like this in the first place because they don't _want_ to talk to others about the issue at hand, they do it because they want to use the topic to morally grandstand above the hoi polloi. You basically nailed it when you said they're just talking _at_ people. (Linkara has been guilty of this for his entire public existence, but in this case, he's only here because Allison is his friend; friends take priority over issues they say they care about and the marginalized people they say they care about because that's just how our brains work, so he feels compelled to bend over backwards to defend her when she wrongs those very same people.) They are not allies, they are people who think they're smarter than they actually are, and this situation is the end result; they don't think they need to care about context, they don't think they need to do a deep dive into the subject matter (Allison legitimately saw nothing wrong with raking SPD over the coals with 1.5 episodes watched and zero regard for context and nuance) and it inevitably shocks them out of their comfort zone where they are a Good Person™ when this behavior ends up blatantly marginalizing the people they claim to support. Alison blocking those people is how she handled the cognitive dissonance of the reality of "you are actively harming marginalized people" with her view of herself as "I am an excellent ally" in her head. Instead of being universally praised for her take, she was confronted to her face about her behavior being poorly thought out and leading to her being unintentionally racist; the double standards she and others defending her ran to is really nothing more than a coping mechanism. It needs to be said in simple terms because not having this click is one of the reasons why outside observers frequently become confused at how this behavior works; Allison and people like her are not acting out a public persona while behind closed doors they pet a floofy white cat while they plan on how to secretly hate the people they say they support. They genuinely believe they're good allies. They genuinely don't see anything wrong with this behavior. This behavior happens when they can't avoid being confronted with the fact that they're terrible allies, because they've invested their self-worth into this image they've cultivated for themselves as an infallible Good Person™. They are not _evil_ and I genuinely believe that despite having used "Good Person" as a sarcastic pejorative to describe how they see themselves; they lack any of the self-awareness needed to understand what their behavior really is, because they can't afford to have that self-awareness in the first place. They can _not_ accept _ever_ being wrong because the entirety of their being is at stake, they will make whatever rationalizations necessary to believe they have done nothing wrong even as they do blatantly obvious things like blocking the very people they say they support for the high crime of disagreeing with their take. They have to do whatever is necessary to make those responses _go away,_ whatever is necessary, of course, _except_ for responding with "thank you for giving me more to think about on the topic, I'm sorry my initial response was actually dismissive of the people I'm supposed to be an ally of." This is also why they never accept context as an argument, which frequently gets worse than it does here and leads to the banger of a take "context is just an excuse/let's take the context out of the equation." Allison is never going to even consider that something like "the aliens are not illegal aliens who are also literal aliens with the cop characters busting them for being illegals, they're literal criminals who happen to be literal aliens as well" has any relevance because the context softens the problem she's moralizing about, and so context can't be allowed to 'count.' All of this is fairly plainly visible... 23:30 ...in this laughable non-apology (and while we're at it, can we notice how ironic it is for Allison Pregler of all people to attempt damage control with the most basic, most obvious non-apology after Channel Awesome did the exact same thing after Change The Channel?) Most if not all of this is Allison trying to convince _herself_ that she's in the right as much as anyone else, the self-affirmation distracts her from having to think about her blatantly poor behavior where she talked down to and dismissed the people she's supposed to be an ally for. "I...woke up and was flooded with tweets telling me I was actually the racist one and was speaking over black people, being a white savior, performative." Translation: 'I'm not wrong, I was only _told_ these things by other people. If I don't admit that some of those people were black, I can keep thinking I'm not wrong.' The fact that she put the word 'performative' in there is the most telling part vis-a-vis her mindset, she's defending, to herself, the idea that she's the good person she thinks she is. "I deleted the tweets and defer to the black community on this one." A straight-up, obvious lie, obvious to anyone except for Allison herself, but for the sake of completeness, she's willfully ignoring that "deferring to the black community" and "putting in the effort to remove herself from exposure to black voices that disagree with her" are two completely contradictory things that can not co-exist in any way. "They were my personal thoughts, and a lot of people disagreed." Translation: 'I did nothing wrong.' "I understand I am a white person with certain privileges..." This is true, she legitimately knows this, the critical problem is that she has no self-awareness about how she flexes those privileges when she's challenged. "I just try to be an ally as best I can." Again, she legitimately believes this, and lacks the self-awareness to understand that her behavior says otherwise. "I would never claim to speak for or over their voices." An excellent example of her behavior saying otherwise, because she very obviously did this exact thing. I hate to break it to you, Allison, but anyone without pre-existing bias can see that your behavior makes you a _terrible_ ally, and an "apology" doesn't help when it's just you telling bald-faced lies about that behavior instead of having the self-awareness to even attempt some introspection about why that behavior caused the situation in the first place.
I've seen similar awful takes on Twitter. Over a year ago, someone was claiming Mighty Morphin Season 3 and Power Rangers Samurai were racist. I disagreed, then a month later, some other guy tried to cancel me and accuse ME of being racist. Thank god that dude blocked me and is gone from Twitter.
I think the take I dislike the most about ...anything.. is to look at a work created back 20-30 years ago or more and slapping on current day values to it like the program went out of its way to be problematic. Most 90s media has gay panic in it as a joke while painting any kind of homophobe as a bad person, or someone who needs to overcome their personal biases and become better about it by the end of the arc/episode. You can't just slap Woke Twitter values on everything and be mad that it doesn't conform, because that's just not what entertainment was about. Was it wrong to be like that? I dunno, maybe? But it's almost always about marketability and mass appeal, and if that was the style at the time then.. well. Good comes with the bad. I grew up being taught discrimination was wrong by these kinds of stories. Sure, by today's standards they were 'problematic' I guess but they got the point across from the climate at the time.
Ironically a lot of those shows back then HAD to have anti drug, the sex, and the gun violence episode. They spoke on issues in the general sense of basically "don't be a jackass" Sometimes to understand what's "problematic" you might NEED to *show* it instead of just *telling* it.
The show is aimed at kids. I literally grew up in a neighborhood patrolled by statistically the most corrupt Precinct in the country at the time, the 75th precinct (seriously they even made a full blown documentary about them and the movie brooklyns finest was based on them). Even though we had a natural distrust for police it was still one of those "cool" jobs every kid wanted, up there with astronaut, fireman, pro wrestler, pro athlete and musician. For me it was dope af to see a black police officer leading the team cause so many of the officers I saw in real life were Caucasian. As an adult I find it interesting that he grew up in the area they frequently patrol, it gives him a perspective on the residents that the others wouldn't and he doesn't want to change the neighborhood but just make it safer. Yeah there's a ton wrong with how policing is done in this country but occasionally showing them in a good light isn't propaganda at all. Children should see good examples so they can understand not everything is so black and white and that there are actual good cops out there. It might inspire those kids watching to become just like them and change the system from within
Can you imagine if she watched the original Japanese version on S.P.D, Dekaranger? Which is funny enough coming out on DVD soon in the US. In that show they actually destroyed the monsters of the week instead of arresting, plus the pink rangers' favorite pass time was taking a bubble bath. Oh the controversy train that would come out of that.
@@mintbari The comment was more for the LOLs. Honestly, as someone who loves S.P.D. and considers it one of the G.O.A.Ts, it baffles how someone can analyze something on such a one dimensional surface level without actually watching the whole program. We actually get to see both the S.P.D and criminal sides of this world. Jack, in my opinion, is the best Red Rangers ever cause he had to earn his leadership even though he had the qualities to be a great leader. Plus, him and Z helped change S.P.D for the better by having that the perspective from the other side of the coin. S.P.D itself isn't viewed as being perfect and that it needs to change. If anything it's more about how the criminal justice system isn't perfect.
i cant believe this topic is 6 months old. Jack is one of my all time favorite rangers in the franchise. Going from a person abusing his power to becoming a true leader of b - squad. Sky even going from not liking him to respecting him as the leader of his team and he will always fight by his side.
...Since you mention this i will ask. What did you think about the idea of no longer existing an a-squad? Wouldn't that simply mean b becomes the new a and only creates a confusing system that will lead to trouble.
@@Raximus3000 Not really, since there's no weird gap like not having a b squad between a and c, for example. Yes, b squad does essentially become the defacto a squad, but the change is mostly symbolic.
@@brandonbackup873 It creates an issue if they have to work with other organisations or for new recruits. Basicaly you are giving up efficiancy for symbolism, a notion that is extremely damaginf for an organisation like that.
Or at least be like "Is this racist, or am I reading too much into it?" A much better mindset then blocking people who are coming from the point of view you are trying to defend.
SPD is my favorite PR season. They act like real people. Being a Police-based PR, they are more serious than the other PR team. What's even cooler (other than Doggie Cruger), is that being a red ranger is treated like a officer rank. Sky, the blue ranger becomes red. And Bridge, the Green ranger becomes red too in the PR crossover.
As interesting as this was, it's a glowing reminder as to why I yeeted my Twitter. I have white friends and I kinda get why they do this "Consulting with people not of my skin" shit because some of them have genuine social anxiety. But I hate the idea of being babied like that like "oh is this okay to say in front of Filipinos?" It's great that Preggler and peeps wanna be allies but hard shifting from walking on eggshells and then stepping all over them with boots is not a favorable look
I'm going to be frank, I don't like Allison. This has been a pattern of behavior from her for years and it's a big reason as to why people stopped taking #Changethechannel seriously.
Ah, so basically growing up with S.P.D. just like how I did with Dino Thunder and Ninja Storm is illegal for me now after what Allison said? Sheesh, now I understand why the Super Sentai fanbase treated me like dirt because all I stated was that I grew up with my personal favorite seasons of Power Rangers that have the "Battlizer" scenes like Dino Thunder and Ninja Storm, I mean like what the hell?? I can't grow up with a 2000's Power Rangers season that has a cool Battlizer scene or what?? -_-
Heyo. Sentai fan and reasonable person here. Like whatever you like. The battlizers aren't hurting anyone. Do I got A problem with them? Yeah. Does it matter? Nah. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk
The vibes I’m getting from Allison Pregler are the same as the ones I got from Jessica Price when she attacked a Guild Wars 2 content creator for disagreeing with her over on a twitter thread she posted on how hard it is to write narrative content for an MMORPG. It ended up with her getting fired and she then tried to play the vagina card and make the whole situation about sexism in the work place WHICH IT WAS NEVER ABOUT!!! YongYea has a series of videos on the topic for anyone interested on what went down and I have a playlist of them on my account
If you want to watch former CA contributors that have mostly avoided toxicities with their fans, and others in public, I recommend you watch Rocked and Dominic Noble. They're more willing to listen to criticism, and the former of which actually has a background in music journalism.
@@muigokublack6487 Linkara also always someone who tries to work to continously improve on himself, changing his theme song to not invoke any hatred towards artist or writers, actually lightening up on his harsh he was towards certain creators (unless they are bigots) and always tries to encourage his audience to be better i.e. "Don't attack any creators" "don't show his or anyones reviews of someones work to said creators" trying to also ensure no one takes any lessons about Toxic fan entitlement.
I have never heard of this controversy before. I didn't realize that Allison Pregler would make these takes on what is basically a cheesy kids show. It's a shame that she resorted to blocking people who disagreed with her. That being said, some of the responses from the PR fandom were a little excessive. With Linkara being brought up, I do think back to his HOTP episode on SPD and I remember him loving the series for its emphasis on character growth. If there were racist overtones as Allison and others have claimed he probably would've brought it up, like the hilariously stereotypical depictions of Native Americans in Power Rangers Zeo. So, it is weird that he went out to defend Allison on Twitter. I mean I get that they're friends, but the line has to be drawn somewhere (and yes, I know about the Lightbringer fiasco, but I'm firmly on Linkara's side on that one once I found out he full context of that). However, given the context of the conversations, the miscommunications and other harsh reactions I can't really blame him. I would say I can't blame Allison either, given that she too had to go through some nonsense from a bunch of pretenders and such, but that non-apology at the end makes me all the more skeptical about her.
Yeah I don't think he actually saw what exactly she said or he wouldn't have defended her the way he did. I know she's his friend an all; but she clearly didn't know what she was talking about. And he calls out comics that are problematic all the time; his least favorite comic ever is Holy Terror, a book that is just Frank Miller's racist hatred towards a group of people he knows nothing about because of post 9/11 rage. I think Allison is just one of those people that doesn't reflect on why people are mad, and if she could have possibly been wrong.
To be fair, you'd have been hard pressed to find a Native American who could have told you very much about their culture in 1996 to better inform a person, anyway. At least one who was willing to speak to outsiders. They were still in damage recovery mode & gathering random bits of data from anyone among them they could find to piece it all back together, themselves.
@@NinjaRed5000 What's the alternative, just not incorporating it at all? Cause that's a great idea, promote inclusivity by excluding depictions of other races or cultures. I'll actually double down and state that stereotypes are neither good or bad, but simply a tool for the fallible human mind to begin grasping deeper and more nuanced understanding of complex topics. Put it this way, how many 90's kids do you think became interested in Native American and other more foreign cultures because of episodes like this? Because I know that's where my interest began.
Personally, the race and gender stuff kind of obfuscates the real problem: a "professional" critic lambasting a show before watching enough of the show to get a bead on what it's about. For all she knew the show could have been highly critical of police, but she decided to make value judgments before finding out. No wonder the Fandom got upset.
And remember kids: just because you're watching a show in [current year], that doesn't mean it came out in [current year], so don't apply [current year]'s ideologies to it.
Funny how some of the answers say "how toxic the fans are" but for what is shown here, isn't really bad. It may be overwhelming because everybody will answer on the internet, and may feel like a giant wave of comments, but nobody was throwing serious insults, asking to kill herself, or really toxic. But pointed out how they doubt her judgement because that hard
Wow, its almost like at the beginning all of the characters are very flawed people that grow and develop as the season goes on, what a concept, not to mention it was 2005 what was deemed ok back then was wildly different but even by current standards its not that bad
I swear to god people that spend too much time on Twitter probably get cheered in their house when they dont drown with their own saliva while breathing 💀 Common Twitter user L Common Power Rangers W 🗿
While I can't say I expected any less (have never particularly been an Allison Pregler fan during her Lupa days, much less post-ChangeTheChannel high horse), this whole debacle perfectly high lights the problem I have with her and a lot of content creators of her ilk. The idea of exploring if SPD qualifies as "Copaganda" actually isn't a bad question. Whether you're talking about framing and representation of institutions and communities through the filter of old kids media or the larger issue of societal perceptions of institutions that trickle down into kids media to perpetuate themselves, there's a lot to discuss in SPD regarding that thesis. More academically than positive or negative but it's there nevertheless. For the record, I don't think SPD is copaganda anymore than kindergartners playing cops and robbers at recess is indoctrination but there's a worthwhile discussion to be had about content and framing and I don't think the initial tweet was a poor pathway to that discussion. Unfortunately, that's not what she did or why she tweeted. She didn't aim to invite or foster healthy discourse, she tweeted a snarky remark that came at the expense of subjects and people she didn't show a sincere respect to, expecting to be lauded for being so "clever" because she's capable of such biting commentary as "the black guy is a criminal." It was snide and in bad faith at face value but rather than pivot it into a discussion on what SPD is actually about beneath the surface, it was easier on her ego to throw a tantrum, have a meltdown, and tweet 'sorry, not sorry' because her feewing's got hurt, without acknowledging the punching down she did on Tokusatsu fandom and any of its people of color (of which I am one) with a cheap racially charged punchline that literally falls apart if you watch the show for more than 20 minutes. That's more or less why I've never found Allison a particularly good critic or commentator. Not for any actual taste she has but because her work always feels like more of a vanity project to display her perceived "wit" than provoke actual thought or conversation on the subject matter she takes up. Though she's hardly alone on that front. Seeing how many former CA producers refuse to actually mature as they run their own enterprises independently is demoralizing when I remember how on top of the world they all seemed to be 10 years ago. Seeing most of their current work is like looking at a time capsule of my college age sensibilities and that is absolutely not a compliment.
i remember i stopped watching her content after she called some random inoffensive stuff misogyny in her baywatch videos. People like her live in a parallel reality where "everything is racist, everything is misogynist, everything is homophobic and you have to point it all out."
I saw thedisneybrain agreeing with her and I was like man not you too :< he made such good and smart analyses on the various seasons I thought he'd know better
Racism got brought up twice in the show and bridge was usually the only ranger thats in the right. First tritops, the mutant-looking alien is assumed to be the criminal and not the human-looking alien that actually committed the crime. The other time was when sky was openly racist against sophie for being a cyborg.
I saw that whole situation unfold, but I stayed out of it, only observed. Allison handled everything the EXACT wrong way in my eyes & her apology didn't make things all that better. Heck, SPD in and of itself was anti-racist. There's a 2-Parter I love where the Rangers needed the Delta Command Megazord to defeat a BIG monster/The Delta Command Megazord is the Megazord mode for their main base, and the only way they got the formation in the end was thanks to an android/cyborg named Sophie. Sky/Blue was practically racist at her from MINUTE 1 when her true nature was revealed during a fight & it took until Kruger telling him "Just because Sophie is a cyborg doesn't make her our enemy so, bring her back to base IMMEDIATELY." after Sky called Sophie an IT instead of a person & expelled her/Which he wouldn't REALLY have the authority to do, come to think about it. There's another 2-parter I love where Jack gains his Battlizer armor & Sky's unable to get one too since the tech is only able to work with the Red Ranger morpher & Sky feels he's getting passed over. Jack doesn't know the full story, but later in the 2-Parter, we find out Sky's dad/a Red Ranger using the Time Force Red uniform was killed by Mirloc and Sky wanted to become a Red Ranger to honor his father. Jack then gave Sky his morpher so he could become the Red Ranger & use the Battlizer to bring Mirloc in to avenge his father's death. This 2-parter was the closest since the Green Candle in MMPR to NEARLY say stuff regarding death & murder. SPD didn't pull any punches & I love it all the more for it. But yeah, great video, MintBari. This deserves a follow/sub from you.
Kind of hilarious that she's only now viewing it as "copaganda". The entire series is called power "rangers". Rangers denote members of military/paramilitary or law enforcement. So she should have been saying that from the first series. "Oh, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, copaganda?" I mean, Zordon basically deputized a bunch of teenagers, complete with metal badges and clips reminiscent of back holders used by real cops, to fight a threat based solely because he says Rita Repulsa is a threat. Total one-sided (JK). Also, if she's going in order of series, she watched Time Force. Time Force are totally power ranger cops that travel back in time to recover escaped criminals. The quantum ranger in that series was head of a private police military group. Also Blue Centurian. A LITERAL POLICE COP RANGER in Turbo. Whatever, I guess those examples completely flew over her head.
im not familiar with power rangers now but havent they been killing aliens/"monsters" since the beginning. How is it only racist because in this version they are cops. How can she reduce the main character to his skin color and call other people racist. A protagonist being a reformed former criminal is also common trope in action movies I wish Allison would leave her fake activism behind, because i like Phelous [her Canadian husband]. Funny thing is Phelous is really chill, unlike Linkara and Brad Jones who constantly simp for her like creeps. Phelous doesnt get into internet drama, she constantly does... and when the whole Channel Awesome thing happened, he just left with her without saying anything
Nice to see former Channel Awesome grifters are still full of themselves with their “I know everything” attitudes. If she wanted to discuss how their could be racist tones in SPD, that’s cool and there’s nothing wrong with that. But she and Linky did what the always did, make loaded statements, block anyone that mildly disagrees, then plays victim and gives a non apology. 10 years later and these people are still the same.
SPD is pretty progressive for 2005 for how it treats the police. Jack is initially the most resistant to join the team despite being chosen to lead because he sees them as an oppressive force, and this concept gets brought up many times. There's obvious corruption within SPD that interferes with their ability to do their job faithfully sometimes or the A team, the model that our main characters are supposed to emulate, just straight up turning evil for power.
Why does somebody get to openly post on their Twitter/CZcams that they have a terrible opinion and I can't go let them know how stupid it is? They want to tell the world how to live, we should have just as much right to show up and say "Naw, you effin crazy".
@@RandomManIncorperated He's always been a fedora tipping, m'ladying white knight. Probably to make up for all the weird stuff he used to make. Dude won't even say Gypsy in regards to a character name.
I feel like some people go too far into respecting other opinions that they forget that opinions can be formed on incorrect information. Like if someone doesn't like something that's fine but to say "I don't like something because of this thing" and that thing doesn't actually exist in the media it's not toxic to point that out
Allison Pregler posted once again about Power Rangers and deleted pretty much all of the criticisms on her posts and left only the sympathetic ones, So she's still doing it and blaming the entirety fandom.
Spd is one of my favorite seasons just because as a black kid I didn’t have many representation of a black lead. The fact she focus him being black and criminal and ignored everything else is really bad and just to not try to watch at least 3 episode before saying anything stupid was literally her fault. Plus I really wish people understood we can’t put the values of this year to a show made back when, but even when the problem was there back then it still tackle the issues and some who probably forgot or just never when back to rewatch also made some weird assumptions which didn’t help either. Unfortunately people like her she is like a big problem and do not understand what they even be saying. Like please don’t speak on issues you don’t fully understand and defending that type of behavior when you are also not a poc also is quiet weird.
Phelous is the only person from Chanel Awesome i watch regularly. Phelous is really chill which is why i doubt Alisson really serious with her "activism". I remember when Alison and Brad Jones praised Ghostbusters 2016 and attacked their viewers who didnt like the show, Phelous said the movie was bad in his review. She knows he doesnt consider GB2016 canon because she doesnt buy him toys from that movie. When Chanel Awesome had that controversy, Phelous followed her and left the company [before everyone else left] but didnt say anything online or in his channel. Linkara is a total creep. I saw videos about his weird past. He actually thinks he is a real life hero but is actually closer to a stalker
That's why I prefer Ben 10 he is openly racist and still is considered the mightiest hero of the galaxy
Im dying 😂😂😂😂
Please be sarcasm…
@@nicky2stars It’s the truth. All alien species gets the beating of a life time.
@@nicky2stars He literally calls every alien he meets the vaguely slur sounding names he gave his own transformations, and we still love him anyway, thats a very common joke in the Ben 10 community
@@CassiusStelar to be fair, many of the aliens Ben fights do wish to do him harm as well as the Earth, and his friends and family.
‘The only black character is a criminal!’
You mean the character that the show used to take a more nuanced view on crime, and why people commit them?
Oh and let’s not forget his partner in said crimes was white. Love how she just glosses over that.
Z Delgado is meant to be Latina. The actress is white
@@arkanamaster4961 That just makes it worse, because she completely ignored her character entirely.
Sir, she’s a girl.
I think the show does come off as racist when we don't see human criminals ever being taken down often,it feels like it implies that aliens commit more crimes
@@thespiritdragon9155 Then who is it being racist towards, because none of the aliens represent a single group of people?
Honestly whenever I think of S.P.D. I just think of Cruger being an alien dog samurai cop veteran and how ridiculously badass that was to me as a kid
Cruger is a prime example of why they call it "Morphing," and not "changing into spandex suits." No way a dog nose fits inside that thing *unless* they're being changed at the molecular level.
@@tonystank3091 same with the alien dinosaur sage in dino charge
@@flyingfish64 Indeed. And that robot thing in Beast Morphers. And of course, Justin.
And a wizard in the next season
A lone survivor with massive survivers guilt
Fun fact: the original London police force was mostly made up of ex criminals
Ok boomer
@@MasterAlpha1000 I thought this died a year ago
@@MasterAlpha1000someone's stuck in 2019
@@nearthecite2031 too short probably like 2 years
neat fact
She completely ignored that the yellow ranger was a criminal too
Would have given her more ammunition since she was hispanic.
She's Latin not black so didn't matter idk
That is not a point in favor of people antagonizing her; in fact, it bolsters her argument. Three white/white-passing cops arresting a Black man and a Hispanic woman, but then the Black guy is placed in a position of authority (which he goes on to abuse by being lazy and shiftless) is an...interesting needle to thread.
@@DigiCount if you completely take it out of context maybe. What does it mean when they're all being lead by a blue lizard dog man?
@@DigiCount it also doesn't mean much when she didn't even get to the only episode where he acts lazy
The moment she said I want to be and ally and "spoke to the black community" There is no black council she is still racist
1. What that one person did was racist towards her. Not even him being genuine in his tweet.
Cause if he wants to make a point. Don't be racist about it and attacking her cause she is white. The point is she tried to be a savior. Virtue signaling. That was the problem which was worse when ppl argued against her. Ppl she tried to defend and talk over for
2. What also made it bad is when ppl are being hypocritical and defending what she said and did too
@@kuggacouragegx6093 As a white person I think she is just a dumb and lazy, the fact that she put in so much to virtue signal but didn't take the time to actually watch the show says everything about her. She is the same type of white people who blatantly tell black people like Edris Elba that he isn't black enough to play a black character because he wasn't stereotyped enough. He didn't eat the cultural food of chicken and watermelon, (sarcasm btw but these woke whiteys literally said this type of stuff) He didn't have the black friend group and the way he talked wasn't black enough. These woke people need to figure out what exactly they want from the minorities because so far while say they go through oppression by white republicans the liberals are telling them that they can't even find the place to get their own I. Ds without a whitey holding their hands or how about the fact that now they want black students to be graded differently so they don't have to learn the math and do essays like other students. These woke people believe minorities to be stupid and Ignorant and need someone like her to talk for them. ALL OF THEM ARE LIKE THIS. Japan is more progressive culturally than these the woke.
@@giantmess4335 facts
Bitch is going on like there's some Jedi council type group consisting of black people who decide what is and isn't racist 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@sovietpunk5447 how the fuck am I a tool?
People who say the words "Be an ally" or "trying to be an ally" aren't ever your ally because they don't see you as people. They see you as something that needs saving. Something that needs protecting. Something that can make them look better if it looks like they are helping it. But, not people. They don't really care about what you want or need only what they THINK you want or need.
Wow. The person trying so hard to not be racist... is actually being racist? What a shock.
trans allies will out a trans person to make a point while having a conversation with someone who will probably follow said trans person into a dark alleyway with a knife.
Thats hardly always true.
@@Mugiwara2k
Projection is a VERY common occurrence.
And they have a slur cannon loaded If you call their bullshit.
Both the cop based ranger teams Time Force and S.P.D tackled racism. In fact power rangers has tackled things deeper like the cycle of hate. No matter on whatever side of the fence you are on the outragers are just jackasses with an internet connection.
Time force actually had a good episode dealing with racism with the yellow ranger dealing with someone who was racist to her when they found out she was black. It bothers her, and she gets advice from the green ranger to tells her about how even in the future that racism still exist, and that he feels she should ignore it when directed at her, cause at the end of the day, she is a power ranger, and actions speak louder than words. Something that the racist guy learns when he is saved by her for the second time in the episode, and express both that he is sorry for what he said, as well as surprise that she was willing to save him despite how he treated her in the previous encounter.
Facts
@@antonioro1229 and what they did was a great thing. And the time force monster too. But now days when ppl or shows do it. They do a terrible job at it and missed the whole point, also what sucks is how ppl who watch these shows don't follow these messages irl where they make excuses or try to cause divide
@@kuggacouragegx6093 After reading you guy's words it's just astonishing and encouraging that day after day more realize the media we grew up with had a better display/understanding of the "problems" we're having today
@@draykohunter6805 true. Cause there are times teaching about homophobia and racism was more impactful and meaningful but wasn't forced nor any bs. But alot of ppl who watched that don't learn from it then make bad decisions and give bad messages now days
All I’ve learned from this situation is that Twitter was a mistake and is so divorced from real life it’s like watching aliens in another galaxy
so basically, Elon Musk buying it can only end ina net positive since it means either the site gets better or crashes and burns.
you could say twitter is a LOST GALAXY????
I am just surprised that it took her until SPD to complain. Time Force is literally time cops.
@@mintbari you would think her being friends with linkara would inform her better.
@@thesswb4463 Linkara doesn't know that much, he only gave time between seasons so he didn't make first episode impressions. He also learned a bit from earlier attempts, being real extra with reacting to Turbo instead of a proper analysis.
Getting away from the cops as well, the first season of power rangers the black and yellow rangers were African American and Asian American.
@@TriSticle The Black/Green Ranger colors were basically the "Token Minority" color until RPM (Tommy was Native American, Bridge was Jewish).
Wild Force is Nature Cops basically
Gonna be upfront and honest. I’m a black guy, and SPD was my favorite series out of all of them. Hearing her say “The black guy started as a criminal” makes me livid. For her to say that, three things had to make that thought concur. She’s blind to the very subject of criminalization within America, she didn’t bother to understand what Jack and Z(Elizabeth) were doing for the greater good of the poor, or she simply wanted to be the “I’ll speak for the black people and defend them” like this is the fucking blindside or some shit. Honestly, it could’ve been all the above. The worst part is that instead of admitting she was wrong, she drops it immediately and blames it on the fandom rather than taking accountability for her mistake.
There was always diversity in power rangers and every part of geek culture. Only real fans know that.
Every team since the first one has a diverse cast. Did you know the most popular Ranger is of native decent. *Tommy Oliver a Native American*
@@SonicOfRanger I've known about power rangers for a long time. I know that power rangers had diversity with out the preachy sjw stuff.
@@TheUncivilizedNation It's true. In Zeo, he went on some "spiritual journey" or something like that and ended up finding his long lost brother David Trueheart, and his father Sam is a Native American played a real Native American actor, the late Frank "Grey Wolf" Salsedo.
Say what you want about PR but they've been consistently diverse since the very beginning.
Yeah Allison... She used to be a fun content reviewer of B-movies like 10-15 years ago, then went all insane and extremist who takes everything way too seriously.
The PR community is probably one of the least toxic fandoms out there. That's because it's been inclusive since day one, and diversity was one of the corner stones of the show from the start.
Yes, we all know the original Black Ranger was Black, and the original Yellow Ranger was Chinese, but as a kid you didn't notice (because we aren't inherently racist), and the show never drew any attention to it (as it should be), and the casting call wasn't intentioned that way either, it just ended up that way (perhaps some subconscious bias took place, but I do believe they didn't consciously decide on their final casting choices for that reason).
Regardless, you'll get bad actors in the PR community like you do any other community, because the world is a big place, but in the PR community, because of the foundations the show was built on, these toxic people are an incredible rarity. Comparing the PR community to, for example, the Star Wars or Marvel community, is like black and white, pun not intended.
Honestly, it sounds just like a typical case of "you disagree with me so I'm going to call you toxic and an 'ist, rather than rebute your counter arguments because I'm not smart enough for that" that we often see from these far leftist virtue-signalling, usually white, women. All snap judgments, poorly analysed 'feelings', personal prejudices, and thinly veiled racism/sexism posing as "an ally", that is common place on twitter these days.
She shouldn't have targeted Power Rangers just for some clout attempting to follow the same trends that ruin every other franchise these days. It was disingenuous to do so, and the Ranger community is naturally inclusive enough to pick-up on that. She just bit off more than she could chew.
Actually, funny thing about the casting. The Yellow Ranger was originally portrayed by Audri Dubois, who is Hispanic, as shown in the pilot version of the very first episode. But when she dropped out Thuy Trang was brought in. And according to Walter Jones, he was originally the Blue Ranger, but the producers wanted him to switch roles so the original Sentai footaged would line up wih the idea of his character being the Red Ranger's best friend. They asked if he was okay with the change, to which Walter yes, as he thought the suit was cooler. But you are right abut the implications, as Walter confirmed the staff did realize it a bit later.
But yeah, it's not as "racist" as most people thing.
1. Walter White and Thuy Trang looked awesome in their suits.
2. I miss when 'normal' and 'irreverent' were the fad and thus made it harder to know who is for real and who is a toxic fake.
@@SaiyanGamer95 Black Panther is black, nobody bats an eye.
But when Zack is the Black Power Ranger, everybody loses their minds.
PR fandom is still toxic, it's left unchecked because it's a small, niche fanbase that doesn't act out usually. Best believe the show's inclusive nature doesn't stop racists or bigots from existing, fandom just knows to call that out while remaining hush hush on their personal opinions. Being unchecked means outside viewers would make those reactions, and fans get triggered and cut down words to make that person a ignorant fool. Another example, the current showrunner mentioned production issues with setting up civilian fights, a handful of fans only saw "civilian fights.....not worth it" and got triggered by that alone.
@@alfredgomez3128 ever Fandom has toxic people in it that's not special to power rangers
I love how Z had to wipe away a tear forming as Jack gave the old turtle lady his coat
Speaking about Jack from SPD, shoutouts to the one episode Jack, knowing the monster they're fighting killed Blue Ranger Sky's father, himself a red ranger, when Sky was a kid, *gives him his own morpher to fight and finally bring the guy to justice as a Red Ranger* .
I dunno i just was reminded of it and it was pretty cool to see when I was a kid.
Part 2 of the Battlelizer introduction episode I believe.
@@espurrseyes42 Yeah, "Reflection: Part 2".
Did they just call the people who disagreed as 'refusing to talk about it', when those people were blocked by her in the first place? Logic? Mental gymnastic? What?
I loved how, people outside the fandom tells the fandom they are the problem. When they weren't even fans to begin with. My favorite Power Rangers series was Mystic Force.
@@angelphoenix7784 Dino thunder fan here. Though my first PR series was Wild Force.
That's just classic Twitter. You don't like my opinion? Then I won't listen
@@angelphoenix7784 Mine is Dino Charge and the OG
@@marcusblackwell2372 Good choices.
I love that she was like "I brought up issues and they refused to talk about it." Yet, not only did people engage to talk about it, BUT THEY BROUGHT RECEIPTS!!! They all pretty much said "Hold on! You're jumping the gun. It's not that bad." But she's caught up on "Of COURSE they make the ONE black guy on the show a criminal before he joins the team! How come it's always black people have to be criminals, thieves and thugs? And during a season about cops? REALLY?" I get it. But, it really wasn't that deep. Also, it was before everything blew up and got more severe in the public eye with Treyvon Martin 4 years later.
Whenever channel awesome alumni get into drama it's always weird knowing they're in their 30s pushing 40s and they have the minds of teenagers
Remember when MarzGurl tried to frame Vic Mignogna?
@@robbyrhodes4572 the whole Vic situation was such a confusing quagmire
Really glad the only former CA members I still follow are Suede and Bennett The Sage. They're the only ones I know so far who stay out of drama.
@@robbyrhodes4572 If I remember well Vic was an actual predator.
@@robbyrhodes4572 I'm just gonna say it. The worse thing Doug Walker did was give her a platform
That "apology" of hers made my eyes roll SO DAMNED HARD!!! And that apology was RIGHT OUT of the performative ally apology playbook! Copy-pasted! Girl, shut UP!!
People like her are why Lupinranger VS Patranger did not and never will get a Power Rangers adaptation.
I somehow was even blocked by that girl and I actually have never even heard of her till I saw this video.
Lupinranger?
There's a Sentai based On Lupin The Third?
@@RandomManIncorperated well more like cops vs robbers.
@@RandomManIncorperated ehhhhh
Its more based off Arsene Lupin (much like Lupin the Third)
If you follow any of her "enemies" like Brad Jones or Doug Walker, you're blocked. Yes, she is that petty and crazy.
@@ShinSeikiEvan Christ she needs a psychiatrist if she's reaching levels of pettiness that are that high...
This always happens when someone comes in swinging at a fandom and the fandom bites back. It's not that they made a mistake, it's the fandom that's the bad guy. Her response at the end was just "I'm sorry for what I did but if you think about it, I'm the victim here and y'all are the true villains". And then come in the white knights. "Oh sweetheart! You got bitten by the dog you kicked in the balls while he was eating? Well, guess we should put down the dog!".
Thats why fandoms want to gatekeep because it keeps happening.
@@ExeErdna Yeah,gatekeeping is actually a good thing.
Look at what happened to gaming when gamergate fell.
Now the entire gaming space is neutered and sterile,there's no culture left.
The idiots defending her is just sad
So did she never finish watching SPD? That would’ve been peak irony because the entire point of the show was to re-examine prejudices you may carry. So imagine her not watching the show at all specifically because she was prejudiced against it.
Jack being a selfless individual is WHY he became the red ranger in the first place. He has a noble soul. To call him a common criminal is just disgusting. He is far more than a criminal, he was definitely rough around the edges at the start however he always put the needs of others before his own with his initiative. Which is why it was inevitable he'd return to his community. He would never abandon these people given what we learn of him throughout the series.
His time in SPD however has prepped him for tougher challenges and gave him a lot more perspective in life, which will prepare Jack for pretty much anything that comes to his community.
Yh he was literally red ranger material from the start, leading what's essentially a charity to help others who have to struggle for being alien and/or poor and shunned by the rich... who happen to be 2/3 SPD B team at the start, whom have certain opposites, Sky being the racist and Syd being a rich posh spoiled brat. Both because of how their childhood but not excused because of it, to have their ignorance displayed as negative and not the cause of it being the negative (dad killed by an 'alien' and grew up posh and rich) because both's ignorance could have been avoided and eventually were corrected.
Jack is objectively and subjectively the most good ranger throughout the entire series. With Bridge as the nicest and kindest, as green ranges are in the Disney era.
In regards to the sexism, it's actually a point really well handled as Sky goes from "but, she's a girl" to "Sir, I will follow anyone you choose to be the red ranger"
Yep, and that's called growth, or it use to be
She deliberately poked the bear, ignored when fans corrected her and then went home because people proved she was wrong. She gets what she deserves.
Sooo, Allison's non apology was "I'm sorry you felt that way" seems oddly familiar XD
Woke Idiot: Focuses on group one's part of.
Actual Fandom: Focuses on actual character argument
Yep,this 💯
Her fanboys are hilarious, when she couldn't handle the criticism she hid. It's amazing how the fandom is only "toxic"because they pointed out her garbage
She has fanboys?
@@Shantosh9550 she used to have a gimmick where a dude you never saw his face was obsessed and stalking her
or like simps
I'm black, and I never considered SPD racist. I'm so sick and tired of people deciding what I as a black person have to be offended by and what is safe for me
I've seen a pretty 50/50 mix if POC feeling it's racist vs it being fine. It's honestly a divisive topic especially with the main point I've seen is on how the handle the red ranger overall compared to other red rangers
@@ayajade6683 I thought the west stopped calling people who weren't white "colored" fifty years ago? Kind of like there was a whole movement to stop that kind of dehumanization.
The whole newspeak idea of treating everyone that's not vaguely European-ish as a singular hegemony somehow finds a way to be more unironically racist than the Democrat's racial policies in the 18th and 19th century.
@@KopitioBozynski Very. They are basically "Othering" themselves and acting like white is the default colour.
(Sarcasm btw) but we all know cops only arrest black folks
@@KopitioBozynski I find the term "people of color" very racist. The same people who push that stupid phrase are the ones who are willingly wanting to go back to the segregation days pre-Civil Rights Act.
As a POC thank you for this video and thank you in general for just being a overall great person 👍🏿
She wouldn't last 5 seconds in the sonic community
“As for Power Rangers, which is what started this whole thing, I’m Good”
Yeah? And so are we. The community is much better off without people like her.
as if the show, the piece of media, was responsible
I think there's a trend with people who do unintentionally racist/sexist/homophobic stuff where they say they now know better but decided to step away from whatever brought their "ism" into question. Correct me if I'm wrong but if the whole point is learning, why not take the lesson and take in the media under this new perspective? I'm not gonna learn to be less sexist if I stay away from women, I'm just going back to where I feel safe in my own opinion. Now she made up her mind that she "can't like it anymore" which kinda reminds me of what people say on pipelines.
Performative activism sucks. It leads people to only look at thing at a surface level and rush into judgement so they can call it out and gain brownie points.
A lot of people use "Copaganda" as a buzzword to mean anything with cops in it that doesn't cast them in an evil light. Even when the story doesn't really glorify them, or worse the series actually talks about the systemic issues with policing. It's kinda sad.
And it is such a weird thing to even make into a buzzword. For all the talk these people talk, they'll still dial 911 if someone breaks into their house.
It's a show for kids and kids don't understand adult stuff like racism, police brutality, corruption, and whatnot. They just want to watch good guys fight bad guys and save the day.
UPDATE: but I also believe they need understand the concept of gray morality as in “good” guys aren’t always good and “bad” guys aren’t always bad, but they shouldn’t go full on SJW/Fuck the Police/Fuck Trump either.
@@haileyshannon7548 Still, how would you feel about a kids show where a bunch of nice CIA operatives have to infiltrate an “evil” South American nation. “What’s wrong with that? Kids don’t need to think about ‘politics,’ they just wanna see the good guys murder the bad guys!”
Portrayal matters. It’s why people want more minority representation.
Often times my main gripe with these incidents is not so much that they are "speaking/defending for a minority group", but that their opinions are just terrible overall. I would still think the "oh look, of course they made a black guy a criminal" a terrible take even if a black person were to say it. I just find it sad that too often people are blinded by the idea of being woke or progressive that they fail to realize the opinions they share or defend are simply not good or just plain wrong.
Nuance is lost on today's society.
It’s always funny when we throw buzz words like “racism” at a series where one of the best red rangers in PR ( the leader of the team ) was a black person
Power rangers spd was not racist I found it just like any season its the power rangers job to stop any monster that attacks any person in the show this lady has believe they are racist cause she has nothing better to do but complain about something she has no idea what is going on in the show
Jungle Fury is the season you could most call racist and that's just because they have 4 white rangers. I think it's the only time the percentage is that high.
That apology… she had me in the first half, I’m not gonna lie… 🤦
I think that this touches on a major issue with modern film criticism. She isn’t approaching SPD as a work of art to be critiqued and analyzed on it’s own merits, but as a political statement, a representation of reality, or a reality. It’s not good or bad because of overarching themes and how well the show works them in without being too subtle or elusive, it’s good or bad because of random minor issues that bug me in particular. It’s such an egotistical approach to film critique.
I hate how modern criticism and reviewing of tv, film, comics, etc... is not on the merits of it' story... but just on what cause it's promoting. And complaining about it always gets the 'X WAS ALWAYS POLITICAL' as if people have no idea that an episode of Star Trek is still not the same as a campaign ad during an election. I honestly feel most critics now fundamentally believe any and all stories need to be messages for contemporary social/political issues, and that's sad.
@@Fordo007 This is same reason why Hasbro won't adapt Lupinranger vs Patranger, because they're scared people are gonna judge it based on that, especially when they are just blabbering on about nothing.
The fandom is usually united, unless you are a megaforce fan.
I found this video in my suggestions and my response is don't call yourself an ally or claim to be woke if you don't check your own bias. We have to evolve as people and learn to do better. Also don't let others ruin your enjoyment. Watch power rangers, have fun with it.
Actualy she is the very original definition of woke
Woke was a slang in black omunities that meant being awake to the fact racism is everywhere
Its literaly being over paranoid having a world view that demonises none black people snd thinks everyone hates u its like a communist blaming the capitalist for his bread being moldy
As a mixed person I agree
I wish she tried to watch the original japanese series. The magical guility thing was INCREDIBLE WORSE on the original series. On US, it was a permission to capture the person for judgement (like a arrest permission). On Super Sentai, was a execution order. They got permission to KILL the monster of the week based on the machine. I wanted see the reaction of who much US actually fixed that thing compared to the original series.
Honestly, I don't really get how growing up enjoying S.P.D. was a big deal to any Dekaranger fan since imo the Red Ranger Battlizer was my favorite part of the show, I mean don't get me wrong I know Super Sentai came first but imo I enjoyed the late 90's and 2000's Power Rangers seasons imo because the Battlizers are my favorite part.
In Dekaranger they did explain that the order come from a planet that time move alot faster then usual.
So they use it as a place to give quicker judgment to criminal, so what we see are few seconds of waiting order could've taken months and years in that planet to list out all criminal act that monster had done to give a proper judgment on them.
@@Aibadenshi So Dekaranger is Super Sentai Judge Dredd?
@@matheusmoreira9951 Funny thing, the "Judge" option on the SP license literally triggers "Judgement time"
haha yeah, that certainly says something about the japanese justice system being more intimidating than the actual cops
Allison, we are sorry you feel this way.
Fandoms aren't toxic people on the internet are. Go outside and talk to people who disagree with you.
"it's the fandoms that ruin the series"
Someone literally making comments of how a series is racist when it isn't and how it is problematic yet they only got to episode 2
Wait did she really call for understanding when she blocked people politely informing her that she could be wrong? It's almost like her entire body is made of hypocrisy.
3:08 I think it was the T Tops episode, where it's revealed that he was framed for a crime he didn't commit, and Bridge was the only one who caught on to it, and it showed how SPD was too quick to jump to conclusions, and how it reflects the police in real life.
Bridge was able to fool the person who may be able to fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, and some of all of the people....some/all of the time (idk).
Also Wired with Sophie, and Samurai (the episode) when they were wrong about Katana, oh, and the A-Squad.
19:30 This is a great sentiment, but what's often missed in situations like these (and what causes people to ask "how did they think behaving like this was a good idea,") is that people like Allison behave like this in the first place because they don't _want_ to talk to others about the issue at hand, they do it because they want to use the topic to morally grandstand above the hoi polloi. You basically nailed it when you said they're just talking _at_ people. (Linkara has been guilty of this for his entire public existence, but in this case, he's only here because Allison is his friend; friends take priority over issues they say they care about and the marginalized people they say they care about because that's just how our brains work, so he feels compelled to bend over backwards to defend her when she wrongs those very same people.) They are not allies, they are people who think they're smarter than they actually are, and this situation is the end result; they don't think they need to care about context, they don't think they need to do a deep dive into the subject matter (Allison legitimately saw nothing wrong with raking SPD over the coals with 1.5 episodes watched and zero regard for context and nuance) and it inevitably shocks them out of their comfort zone where they are a Good Person™ when this behavior ends up blatantly marginalizing the people they claim to support. Alison blocking those people is how she handled the cognitive dissonance of the reality of "you are actively harming marginalized people" with her view of herself as "I am an excellent ally" in her head. Instead of being universally praised for her take, she was confronted to her face about her behavior being poorly thought out and leading to her being unintentionally racist; the double standards she and others defending her ran to is really nothing more than a coping mechanism.
It needs to be said in simple terms because not having this click is one of the reasons why outside observers frequently become confused at how this behavior works; Allison and people like her are not acting out a public persona while behind closed doors they pet a floofy white cat while they plan on how to secretly hate the people they say they support. They genuinely believe they're good allies. They genuinely don't see anything wrong with this behavior. This behavior happens when they can't avoid being confronted with the fact that they're terrible allies, because they've invested their self-worth into this image they've cultivated for themselves as an infallible Good Person™. They are not _evil_ and I genuinely believe that despite having used "Good Person" as a sarcastic pejorative to describe how they see themselves; they lack any of the self-awareness needed to understand what their behavior really is, because they can't afford to have that self-awareness in the first place. They can _not_ accept _ever_ being wrong because the entirety of their being is at stake, they will make whatever rationalizations necessary to believe they have done nothing wrong even as they do blatantly obvious things like blocking the very people they say they support for the high crime of disagreeing with their take. They have to do whatever is necessary to make those responses _go away,_ whatever is necessary, of course, _except_ for responding with "thank you for giving me more to think about on the topic, I'm sorry my initial response was actually dismissive of the people I'm supposed to be an ally of." This is also why they never accept context as an argument, which frequently gets worse than it does here and leads to the banger of a take "context is just an excuse/let's take the context out of the equation." Allison is never going to even consider that something like "the aliens are not illegal aliens who are also literal aliens with the cop characters busting them for being illegals, they're literal criminals who happen to be literal aliens as well" has any relevance because the context softens the problem she's moralizing about, and so context can't be allowed to 'count.' All of this is fairly plainly visible...
23:30 ...in this laughable non-apology (and while we're at it, can we notice how ironic it is for Allison Pregler of all people to attempt damage control with the most basic, most obvious non-apology after Channel Awesome did the exact same thing after Change The Channel?) Most if not all of this is Allison trying to convince _herself_ that she's in the right as much as anyone else, the self-affirmation distracts her from having to think about her blatantly poor behavior where she talked down to and dismissed the people she's supposed to be an ally for.
"I...woke up and was flooded with tweets telling me I was actually the racist one and was speaking over black people, being a white savior, performative." Translation: 'I'm not wrong, I was only _told_ these things by other people. If I don't admit that some of those people were black, I can keep thinking I'm not wrong.' The fact that she put the word 'performative' in there is the most telling part vis-a-vis her mindset, she's defending, to herself, the idea that she's the good person she thinks she is.
"I deleted the tweets and defer to the black community on this one." A straight-up, obvious lie, obvious to anyone except for Allison herself, but for the sake of completeness, she's willfully ignoring that "deferring to the black community" and "putting in the effort to remove herself from exposure to black voices that disagree with her" are two completely contradictory things that can not co-exist in any way.
"They were my personal thoughts, and a lot of people disagreed." Translation: 'I did nothing wrong.'
"I understand I am a white person with certain privileges..." This is true, she legitimately knows this, the critical problem is that she has no self-awareness about how she flexes those privileges when she's challenged.
"I just try to be an ally as best I can." Again, she legitimately believes this, and lacks the self-awareness to understand that her behavior says otherwise.
"I would never claim to speak for or over their voices." An excellent example of her behavior saying otherwise, because she very obviously did this exact thing.
I hate to break it to you, Allison, but anyone without pre-existing bias can see that your behavior makes you a _terrible_ ally, and an "apology" doesn't help when it's just you telling bald-faced lies about that behavior instead of having the self-awareness to even attempt some introspection about why that behavior caused the situation in the first place.
I keep imagining Linkara tipping the fedora and going "M'lady" every time he responds to twitter hate for her 😂
Linkara is so bad he takes the oneyplays impressions as insulting
I've seen similar awful takes on Twitter. Over a year ago, someone was claiming Mighty Morphin Season 3 and Power Rangers Samurai were racist. I disagreed, then a month later, some other guy tried to cancel me and accuse ME of being racist. Thank god that dude blocked me and is gone from Twitter.
Both are at their very worst ignorant not deliberately racist
I'm not the only one seeing some of the tweets pro-Allison users put out as really patronizing, am I? I'm absolutely with the fandom on this one.
Agreed
If that dude argued we should get a hobby loves Power Rangers, then he should know that arguing about and loving Power Rangers IS the hobby.
I think the take I dislike the most about ...anything.. is to look at a work created back 20-30 years ago or more and slapping on current day values to it like the program went out of its way to be problematic. Most 90s media has gay panic in it as a joke while painting any kind of homophobe as a bad person, or someone who needs to overcome their personal biases and become better about it by the end of the arc/episode.
You can't just slap Woke Twitter values on everything and be mad that it doesn't conform, because that's just not what entertainment was about. Was it wrong to be like that? I dunno, maybe? But it's almost always about marketability and mass appeal, and if that was the style at the time then.. well. Good comes with the bad. I grew up being taught discrimination was wrong by these kinds of stories. Sure, by today's standards they were 'problematic' I guess but they got the point across from the climate at the time.
That's why I enjoy alot of early 2000's and 1900's shows. There wasn't a message pushed. Everything was able to be joked about.
Ironically a lot of those shows back then HAD to have anti drug, the sex, and the gun violence episode. They spoke on issues in the general sense of basically "don't be a jackass"
Sometimes to understand what's "problematic" you might NEED to *show* it instead of just *telling* it.
The show is aimed at kids. I literally grew up in a neighborhood patrolled by statistically the most corrupt Precinct in the country at the time, the 75th precinct (seriously they even made a full blown documentary about them and the movie brooklyns finest was based on them). Even though we had a natural distrust for police it was still one of those "cool" jobs every kid wanted, up there with astronaut, fireman, pro wrestler, pro athlete and musician. For me it was dope af to see a black police officer leading the team cause so many of the officers I saw in real life were Caucasian. As an adult I find it interesting that he grew up in the area they frequently patrol, it gives him a perspective on the residents that the others wouldn't and he doesn't want to change the neighborhood but just make it safer. Yeah there's a ton wrong with how policing is done in this country but occasionally showing them in a good light isn't propaganda at all. Children should see good examples so they can understand not everything is so black and white and that there are actual good cops out there. It might inspire those kids watching to become just like them and change the system from within
Can you imagine if she watched the original Japanese version on S.P.D, Dekaranger? Which is funny enough coming out on DVD soon in the US. In that show they actually destroyed the monsters of the week instead of arresting, plus the pink rangers' favorite pass time was taking a bubble bath. Oh the controversy train that would come out of that.
@@mintbari The comment was more for the LOLs. Honestly, as someone who loves S.P.D. and considers it one of the G.O.A.Ts, it baffles how someone can analyze something on such a one dimensional surface level without actually watching the whole program. We actually get to see both the S.P.D and criminal sides of this world. Jack, in my opinion, is the best Red Rangers ever cause he had to earn his leadership even though he had the qualities to be a great leader. Plus, him and Z helped change S.P.D for the better by having that the perspective from the other side of the coin. S.P.D itself isn't viewed as being perfect and that it needs to change. If anything it's more about how the criminal justice system isn't perfect.
i cant believe this topic is 6 months old. Jack is one of my all time favorite rangers in the franchise. Going from a person abusing his power to becoming a true leader of b - squad. Sky even going from not liking him to respecting him as the leader of his team and he will always fight by his side.
...Since you mention this i will ask.
What did you think about the idea of no longer existing an a-squad? Wouldn't that simply mean b becomes the new a and only creates a confusing system that will lead to trouble.
@@Raximus3000 Not really, since there's no weird gap like not having a b squad between a and c, for example. Yes, b squad does essentially become the defacto a squad, but the change is mostly symbolic.
@@brandonbackup873
It creates an issue if they have to work with other organisations or for new recruits.
Basicaly you are giving up efficiancy for symbolism, a notion that is extremely damaginf for an organisation like that.
@@Raximus3000 Eh, it's really a minor issue. For context, I'm in the Navy. This would be one of the less confusing oddities I've witnessed.
@@brandonbackup873
Like?
Dang…I’m late. As a Power Ranger fan and POC, how did I miss this?
Anyway, sometimes the best way to be an ally is to keep your mouth shut.
Or at least be like "Is this racist, or am I reading too much into it?" A much better mindset then blocking people who are coming from the point of view you are trying to defend.
@@osirisatot19 Exactly!
SPD is my favorite PR season. They act like real people. Being a Police-based PR, they are more serious than the other PR team.
What's even cooler (other than Doggie Cruger), is that being a red ranger is treated like a officer rank. Sky, the blue ranger becomes red. And Bridge, the Green ranger becomes red too in the PR crossover.
As interesting as this was, it's a glowing reminder as to why I yeeted my Twitter.
I have white friends and I kinda get why they do this "Consulting with people not of my skin" shit because some of them have genuine social anxiety.
But I hate the idea of being babied like that like "oh is this okay to say in front of Filipinos?"
It's great that Preggler and peeps wanna be allies but hard shifting from walking on eggshells and then stepping all over them with boots is not a favorable look
I'm going to be frank, I don't like Allison. This has been a pattern of behavior from her for years and it's a big reason as to why people stopped taking #Changethechannel seriously.
I find her to be a vindictive hypocrite.
Ah, so basically growing up with S.P.D. just like how I did with Dino Thunder and Ninja Storm is illegal for me now after what Allison said?
Sheesh, now I understand why the Super Sentai fanbase treated me like dirt because all I stated was that I grew up with my personal favorite seasons of Power Rangers that have the "Battlizer" scenes like Dino Thunder and Ninja Storm, I mean like what the hell?? I can't grow up with a 2000's Power Rangers season that has a cool Battlizer scene or what?? -_-
Sorry that happen o you
@@Level-iy5ye It's alright.
Don’t listen to poor little Alison. Our childhoods were awesome with Ninja Storm, Dino Thunder and S.P.D.!
Out of curiosity how was that even a thing??
Heyo. Sentai fan and reasonable person here. Like whatever you like. The battlizers aren't hurting anyone. Do I got A problem with them? Yeah. Does it matter? Nah.
Thanks for coming to my Ted talk
The vibes I’m getting from Allison Pregler are the same as the ones I got from Jessica Price when she attacked a Guild Wars 2 content creator for disagreeing with her over on a twitter thread she posted on how hard it is to write narrative content for an MMORPG. It ended up with her getting fired and she then tried to play the vagina card and make the whole situation about sexism in the work place WHICH IT WAS NEVER ABOUT!!! YongYea has a series of videos on the topic for anyone interested on what went down and I have a playlist of them on my account
If you want to watch former CA contributors that have mostly avoided toxicities with their fans, and others in public, I recommend you watch Rocked and Dominic Noble. They're more willing to listen to criticism, and the former of which actually has a background in music journalism.
I still like Linkara personally. He did kinda help restart my love of Tokusatu with his History Of Voltage Vengers-I mean Power Rangers.
@@muigokublack6487 Linkara also always someone who tries to work to continously improve on himself, changing his theme song to not invoke any hatred towards artist or writers, actually lightening up on his harsh he was towards certain creators (unless they are bigots) and always tries to encourage his audience to be better i.e. "Don't attack any creators" "don't show his or anyones reviews of someones work to said creators" trying to also ensure no one takes any lessons about Toxic fan entitlement.
@@ShanaReviewsjust don’t call him the lightbinger
2:23 they're literal aliens, from outer space, and she's complaining about it.
I have never heard of this controversy before. I didn't realize that Allison Pregler would make these takes on what is basically a cheesy kids show. It's a shame that she resorted to blocking people who disagreed with her. That being said, some of the responses from the PR fandom were a little excessive.
With Linkara being brought up, I do think back to his HOTP episode on SPD and I remember him loving the series for its emphasis on character growth. If there were racist overtones as Allison and others have claimed he probably would've brought it up, like the hilariously stereotypical depictions of Native Americans in Power Rangers Zeo. So, it is weird that he went out to defend Allison on Twitter. I mean I get that they're friends, but the line has to be drawn somewhere (and yes, I know about the Lightbringer fiasco, but I'm firmly on Linkara's side on that one once I found out he full context of that). However, given the context of the conversations, the miscommunications and other harsh reactions I can't really blame him. I would say I can't blame Allison either, given that she too had to go through some nonsense from a bunch of pretenders and such, but that non-apology at the end makes me all the more skeptical about her.
Yeah I don't think he actually saw what exactly she said or he wouldn't have defended her the way he did. I know she's his friend an all; but she clearly didn't know what she was talking about. And he calls out comics that are problematic all the time; his least favorite comic ever is Holy Terror, a book that is just Frank Miller's racist hatred towards a group of people he knows nothing about because of post 9/11 rage. I think Allison is just one of those people that doesn't reflect on why people are mad, and if she could have possibly been wrong.
To be fair, you'd have been hard pressed to find a Native American who could have told you very much about their culture in 1996 to better inform a person, anyway. At least one who was willing to speak to outsiders. They were still in damage recovery mode & gathering random bits of data from anyone among them they could find to piece it all back together, themselves.
@@MrChristianDT Does that really excuse how stereotypical it was though?
@@NinjaRed5000 lol. Fair enough.
@@NinjaRed5000 What's the alternative, just not incorporating it at all? Cause that's a great idea, promote inclusivity by excluding depictions of other races or cultures.
I'll actually double down and state that stereotypes are neither good or bad, but simply a tool for the fallible human mind to begin grasping deeper and more nuanced understanding of complex topics.
Put it this way, how many 90's kids do you think became interested in Native American and other more foreign cultures because of episodes like this? Because I know that's where my interest began.
Not surprised about Allison's crappy take and all the yes people coming in to defend her sicken me.
EDIT: That non-apology. What the fuck is THAT?!
Personally, the race and gender stuff kind of obfuscates the real problem: a "professional" critic lambasting a show before watching enough of the show to get a bead on what it's about. For all she knew the show could have been highly critical of police, but she decided to make value judgments before finding out. No wonder the Fandom got upset.
And remember kids: just because you're watching a show in [current year], that doesn't mean it came out in [current year], so don't apply [current year]'s ideologies to it.
I preach to you sir for your logic! Thank you.
Funny how some of the answers say "how toxic the fans are" but for what is shown here, isn't really bad.
It may be overwhelming because everybody will answer on the internet, and may feel like a giant wave of comments, but nobody was throwing serious insults, asking to kill herself, or really toxic. But pointed out how they doubt her judgement because that hard
Allison Pregler comes across as someone who likes to pick fight and stir up controversy but doesn't like it when anyone challenges her
That is how all sjw liberals are.
Wow, its almost like at the beginning all of the characters are very flawed people that grow and develop as the season goes on, what a concept, not to mention it was 2005 what was deemed ok back then was wildly different but even by current standards its not that bad
I swear to god people that spend too much time on Twitter probably get cheered in their house when they dont drown with their own saliva while breathing 💀
Common Twitter user L
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Allison is a major lolcow.
So, yet another case of a critic committing the cardinal sin of "they can dish it but can't take it".
While I can't say I expected any less (have never particularly been an Allison Pregler fan during her Lupa days, much less post-ChangeTheChannel high horse), this whole debacle perfectly high lights the problem I have with her and a lot of content creators of her ilk.
The idea of exploring if SPD qualifies as "Copaganda" actually isn't a bad question. Whether you're talking about framing and representation of institutions and communities through the filter of old kids media or the larger issue of societal perceptions of institutions that trickle down into kids media to perpetuate themselves, there's a lot to discuss in SPD regarding that thesis. More academically than positive or negative but it's there nevertheless.
For the record, I don't think SPD is copaganda anymore than kindergartners playing cops and robbers at recess is indoctrination but there's a worthwhile discussion to be had about content and framing and I don't think the initial tweet was a poor pathway to that discussion.
Unfortunately, that's not what she did or why she tweeted. She didn't aim to invite or foster healthy discourse, she tweeted a snarky remark that came at the expense of subjects and people she didn't show a sincere respect to, expecting to be lauded for being so "clever" because she's capable of such biting commentary as "the black guy is a criminal."
It was snide and in bad faith at face value but rather than pivot it into a discussion on what SPD is actually about beneath the surface, it was easier on her ego to throw a tantrum, have a meltdown, and tweet 'sorry, not sorry' because her feewing's got hurt, without acknowledging the punching down she did on Tokusatsu fandom and any of its people of color (of which I am one) with a cheap racially charged punchline that literally falls apart if you watch the show for more than 20 minutes.
That's more or less why I've never found Allison a particularly good critic or commentator. Not for any actual taste she has but because her work always feels like more of a vanity project to display her perceived "wit" than provoke actual thought or conversation on the subject matter she takes up.
Though she's hardly alone on that front. Seeing how many former CA producers refuse to actually mature as they run their own enterprises independently is demoralizing when I remember how on top of the world they all seemed to be 10 years ago.
Seeing most of their current work is like looking at a time capsule of my college age sensibilities and that is absolutely not a compliment.
Legit one of the funniest Main Character of the Day moments on Twitter this year
I swear, former Channel Awesome contributors are more insane and toxic than any fandom
@@mintbari it’s kind of sad how a good/normal dude can have been friends who not so great people
i remember i stopped watching her content after she called some random inoffensive stuff misogyny in her baywatch videos. People like her live in a parallel reality where "everything is racist, everything is misogynist, everything is homophobic and you have to point it all out."
I saw thedisneybrain agreeing with her and I was like
man not you too :<
he made such good and smart analyses on the various seasons I thought he'd know better
@@mintbari o yea def
But it just makes me go "man you should know better"
God, Linkara really has gone downhill.
@@mintbari Fair enough, but it just seems like it's his openness about it is what's gone downhill.
Racism got brought up twice in the show and bridge was usually the only ranger thats in the right. First tritops, the mutant-looking alien is assumed to be the criminal and not the human-looking alien that actually committed the crime. The other time was when sky was openly racist against sophie for being a cyborg.
How can SPD be racist when there were episodes that tackled racism against non-humans? Also the Red Ranger is black.
It's good to know there are at least some people in this community that can have intelligent conversation and not just resort to the ALL-MIGHTY BLOCK.
Lupa has had the most consistently bad takes I've seen
I saw that whole situation unfold, but I stayed out of it, only observed.
Allison handled everything the EXACT wrong way in my eyes & her apology didn't make things all that better.
Heck, SPD in and of itself was anti-racist. There's a 2-Parter I love where the Rangers needed the Delta Command Megazord to defeat a BIG monster/The Delta Command Megazord is the Megazord mode for their main base, and the only way they got the formation in the end was thanks to an android/cyborg named Sophie. Sky/Blue was practically racist at her from MINUTE 1 when her true nature was revealed during a fight & it took until Kruger telling him "Just because Sophie is a cyborg doesn't make her our enemy so, bring her back to base IMMEDIATELY." after Sky called Sophie an IT instead of a person & expelled her/Which he wouldn't REALLY have the authority to do, come to think about it.
There's another 2-parter I love where Jack gains his Battlizer armor & Sky's unable to get one too since the tech is only able to work with the Red Ranger morpher & Sky feels he's getting passed over. Jack doesn't know the full story, but later in the 2-Parter, we find out Sky's dad/a Red Ranger using the Time Force Red uniform was killed by Mirloc and Sky wanted to become a Red Ranger to honor his father.
Jack then gave Sky his morpher so he could become the Red Ranger & use the Battlizer to bring Mirloc in to avenge his father's death. This 2-parter was the closest since the Green Candle in MMPR to NEARLY say stuff regarding death & murder. SPD didn't pull any punches & I love it all the more for it.
But yeah, great video, MintBari. This deserves a follow/sub from you.
Kind of hilarious that she's only now viewing it as "copaganda". The entire series is called power "rangers". Rangers denote members of military/paramilitary or law enforcement. So she should have been saying that from the first series. "Oh, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, copaganda?"
I mean, Zordon basically deputized a bunch of teenagers, complete with metal badges and clips reminiscent of back holders used by real cops, to fight a threat based solely because he says Rita Repulsa is a threat. Total one-sided (JK).
Also, if she's going in order of series, she watched Time Force. Time Force are totally power ranger cops that travel back in time to recover escaped criminals. The quantum ranger in that series was head of a private police military group. Also Blue Centurian. A LITERAL POLICE COP RANGER in Turbo. Whatever, I guess those examples completely flew over her head.
im not familiar with power rangers now but havent they been killing aliens/"monsters" since the beginning. How is it only racist because in this version they are cops. How can she reduce the main character to his skin color and call other people racist. A protagonist being a reformed former criminal is also common trope in action movies
I wish Allison would leave her fake activism behind, because i like Phelous [her Canadian husband]. Funny thing is Phelous is really chill, unlike Linkara and Brad Jones who constantly simp for her like creeps. Phelous doesnt get into internet drama, she constantly does... and when the whole Channel Awesome thing happened, he just left with her without saying anything
Nice to see former Channel Awesome grifters are still full of themselves with their “I know everything” attitudes.
If she wanted to discuss how their could be racist tones in SPD, that’s cool and there’s nothing wrong with that.
But she and Linky did what the always did, make loaded statements, block anyone that mildly disagrees, then plays victim and gives a non apology.
10 years later and these people are still the same.
Tbf Doug is chill
SPD is pretty progressive for 2005 for how it treats the police. Jack is initially the most resistant to join the team despite being chosen to lead because he sees them as an oppressive force, and this concept gets brought up many times. There's obvious corruption within SPD that interferes with their ability to do their job faithfully sometimes or the A team, the model that our main characters are supposed to emulate, just straight up turning evil for power.
Why does somebody get to openly post on their Twitter/CZcams that they have a terrible opinion and I can't go let them know how stupid it is? They want to tell the world how to live, we should have just as much right to show up and say "Naw, you effin crazy".
At the risk of sounding dismissive, I sort've expect this from former CA personalities. A lot of them went hard left and embody that twitter mindset.
Yeah, pretty much.
Linkara Especially
@@RandomManIncorperated He's always been a fedora tipping, m'ladying white knight. Probably to make up for all the weird stuff he used to make. Dude won't even say Gypsy in regards to a character name.
@@RandomManIncorperated Also Tony Goldmark, oh my god.
@@thecinematicmind well what do expect from Some Jerk With A Camera.
I feel like some people go too far into respecting other opinions that they forget that opinions can be formed on incorrect information. Like if someone doesn't like something that's fine but to say "I don't like something because of this thing" and that thing doesn't actually exist in the media it's not toxic to point that out
Allison Pregler posted once again about Power Rangers and deleted pretty much all of the criticisms on her posts and left only the sympathetic ones, So she's still doing it and blaming the entirety fandom.
Spd is one of my favorite seasons just because as a black kid I didn’t have many representation of a black lead. The fact she focus him being black and criminal and ignored everything else is really bad and just to not try to watch at least 3 episode before saying anything stupid was literally her fault.
Plus I really wish people understood we can’t put the values of this year to a show made back when, but even when the problem was there back then it still tackle the issues and some who probably forgot or just never when back to rewatch also made some weird assumptions which didn’t help either.
Unfortunately people like her she is like a big problem and do not understand what they even be saying. Like please don’t speak on issues you don’t fully understand and defending that type of behavior when you are also not a poc also is quiet weird.
Message to Alison pregler : yeah well you know that’s just like your opinion man .
The weird part is...Phaleous stayed out of this yet Linkara white knighted her?
Phelous is the only person from Chanel Awesome i watch regularly.
Phelous is really chill which is why i doubt Alisson really serious with her "activism". I remember when Alison and Brad Jones praised Ghostbusters 2016 and attacked their viewers who didnt like the show, Phelous said the movie was bad in his review. She knows he doesnt consider GB2016 canon because she doesnt buy him toys from that movie. When Chanel Awesome had that controversy, Phelous followed her and left the company [before everyone else left] but didnt say anything online or in his channel.
Linkara is a total creep. I saw videos about his weird past. He actually thinks he is a real life hero but is actually closer to a stalker
Okay, are we seriously just not allowed to like the police at all, Lupa? Really?
Allison Pregler is the largest representation of why we will never get Lupinranger vs Patranger here in the US.
Phelous really bagged himself a keeper with her...