First of all; let's have a hand for VH1's "Kept" taking the crown as most-discussed topic on this blog. How this happened, who knows. This third entry has arisen because it just struck me that there was a little throwaway line one episode about one of the Wonder Twins (Ricardo and Slavco) having been Power Ranger in the past. Thanks to the magic of the internets, I was able to investigate. As you can see from the picture above, this investigation produced results. Ricardo Medina Jr. played Cole Evans (RED RANGER) on Power Rangers Wild Force.
This effort raised a number of issues. One, HOW MANY DIFFERENT INCARNATIONS OF POWER RANGERS ARE THERE?!?! Wow. From what I can tell here, there have been 13 seasons of the show; and ELEVEN different versions of Rangers. Lightspeed? Dino Thunder? What the hell? Second; while I already knew that the original Power Rangers shows consisted of American actors combined with fighting footage from an older Japanese show, I didn't know that the fighting sequences were from 1975. I feel like my world is falling apart. On top of that, I also learned that the Japanese series only had one female in the original lineup... meaning that the Yellow Ranger that you saw doing all the sloppily choreographed martial arts WAS A GUY. Trini (who died in a car accident a few years ago) was obviously a female, but the one doing all the fighting? 100% dude.
Back to Ricardo. I cannot believe that this guy was working in children's television. This show doesn't try to seem "educational" or anything (I do seem to remember a minor environmentalism push), but if dirtbags like this can reach our children on a weekly basis -- let's just say that I fear for the future. This guy was narcissistic, rude, dumb and made some "interesting" comments in regard to race. I disliked him slightly more than the other Wonder Twin... which says a lot.
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