Author: dtm666

I ramble about things.

Review #188 – Street Fighter Alpha (Game Boy Color)

https://dailymotion.com/video/x10y334?theme=eggplant&foreground=%23CFCFCF&highlight=%23834596&background=%23000000

To keep the flow of Action 52 videos uninterrupted on YouTube, I’m going to upload some stuff to Dailymotion at the moment. This may include reviews, a couple commentary videos that I completely forgot about, and a couple other things as well. And of course, the usual DM-specific stuff.

So I Finally Watched Some Samurai…

…and boy was it painful.

So this is an odd series for me? It’s the first new Power Rangers season since RPM in 2009 and the first under the current Saban ownership. And yet it feels like a complete and utter regression of sorts. We’re bringing back the Go Go Power Rangers theme with slightly altered lyrics to fit the theme (something they’d do for Megaforce as well, which means they’re lacking in originality). And then we have these paper thin main characters that have very basic traits and not much else going for it.
I don’t want to blame the actors because they’re doing the best they can, but the show tends to be unbearable due to the clunky and horrific dialogue. Apparently, this is a near-straight adaptation of the Sentai show this was based on, which isn’t a new approach for Power Rangers, since it’s been done in past seasons. However, whereas seasons like Time Force attempted to put its own spin on things to make things interesting, Samurai doesn’t really do that.
I’ve only saw a few episodes at most and promptly gave up. I thought the series had reach a low with SPD or Operation Overdrive… and well, I have a feeling we’ll be going even lower…
But that’s another story.

You Know What Would've Been Nice?

If they had made the genuine effort and cash offers to try and bring back most of the original cast so they can do an episode of Megaforce and use them in a way that would be pretty cool and noteworthy. Probably not to the little kids who care only for the colorful costumes, but as a nice nod to the older folks who have stuck around since the beginning.

Gokaiger had this cool schtick where in almost every episode, they’d bring back an old Super Sentai legend from a past series and they do some cool shit or something. Honestly, that’s something they could do with Megaforce. That Super Mega Battle thing at the end isn’t going to mean much if they only have a few random faces and everyone else is in the background.

I don’t know. Maybe I put more thought into this than Saban did.

Attempting To Have TOS Klingons Speak Klingon

The scene below is from the Star Trek episode, “The Day Of The Dove.” A bunch of Klingons are talking and using a Klingon translator gimmick online, I put together this rushed translation that probably sounds crap to somebody, but it’s an interesting experiment.
KANG: HeghDI’ Dujvam tlhap qIrq nach ghoD ‘ej DIr tlhoy’ cabin vIneH.
MARA: maHvaD pIHoH chaH ngejtaH laH vang maH.
KANG: Qo’, maHvaD yu’, HoS, nab ghoj DayaHmoH chaH. not vaj chaH.
MARA: tu’lu’ neH loSmaH maHvaD wa’vatlh loS wa’vatlh lughaj.
SOLDIER: qaStaHvIS wa’ ram loS SaD Hugh SIjlaH qetbogh loD.
KANG: yItuv. Qagh chaH. Sov veS qabna’Daj nom nob maHvaD ‘entepray’Daq jon.