One of my biggest pet peeves with Power Rangers is that although it was based on Super Sentai, it followed the episodes of Super Sentai in the wrong order.
Case in point: episode 101, "Day of the Dumpster", vs. episode 104, "A Pressing Engagement".
In episode 104 of Power Rangers, King Sphinx blows Jason's friends away, and so Jason has to retrieve the Power Crystals to bring his friends back. However, the Rangers already had their Power Crystals when they formed the original Megazord back in episode 101.
In Zyuranger, the plot makes much more sense. In episode 1606 of Super Sentai (Zyuranger was the 16th installment in Super Sentai), "Taté! Daijûjin", Geki has to retrieve the Dino Crystals to free his friends from Dora Sphinx, who imprisons people inside trees. It is not until Geki finds the Dino Crystals that he and the other Zyurangers can combine their Shugojû into Daijûjin and defeat Dora Sphinx.
If Saban had gone through the episodes of Super Sentai in the right order, they could have avoided plot holes like the one I just mentioned.
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