Tommy is white... White ranger. Tommy discovers he is like 1/32 Native American... suddenly becomes Red ranger.

Honestly, that is pretty par for the course. Go get that ethnic minority scholarship you slightly-less-than-totally-white guy.

I found Rich Evans' Lemmy account

Let's be honest here: if the Carradines knew power rangers was a thing they would have insisted on putting on some yellow face and taking Thuy's job.

No? Pink is a "girl" color. And even in the original sentai source material, Pink was a girl (hence the skirt). Yellow was a dude which is why you can really tell what scenes were filmed with the US stunt team/actors and what were from the original (hint: Is the bulge in the crotch or the chest?).

The costumes came before the US casting, and it already had a skirt.

So either they turned extremely progressive for a children show on the 90s or they cast a Scottish

Yur gay

It could be either. I was thinking red scare communists, since the show was just after the fall of the soviet union.

But your way works too.

Damn....I didn't even think about the fact that the red one was the leader. It's been 30 years since I saw that show, and I was always a green ranger fan. Dark, brooding, mysterious, but does the right thing in the end.

My mom HATED making the gold shield on the chest for my halloween costume. She made a soft one, that looking at pictures now looks AWESOME!

But I remember at the time thinking "BUT MOOOOOM!!! IT HAS TO BE HARD!!! HOW IS A SOFT SHEILD GOING TO PROTECT ME AGAINST KUNG FU ATTACKS, AND SWORDS??? Plus all the lazor beams and lightning strikes! This thing is soft and wimpy!"

And then my mom said "HEY! I spent a LOT of time making that costume! I think it looks really cool! Now you appologize for being ungrateful or next year I won't even make you a costume! You'll have to settle for store bought!"

"Yes mom, sorry mom."

Looking at it as an adult, I still think an actual hard motorcycle helmet would have really pulled the whole thing together, but I can't complain. We were a poor family, and she was making a custom sewn costume from scratch, that would only be used once.......and then I actually ended up using it to lay claim to always getting to pick green ranger when I'd play power rangers with the neighborhood kids. Never got the dagger though. Always had to use a tree branch. Which my sister then widdled down with a knife, and painted to look like the dagger.

I hadn't thought about this in years. It makes me realize how lucky I am, when I see TONS of families being toxic to each other. I don't have the mental capacity to understand how family could hurt their family. Yeah shit sucked growing up. Shit ALWAYS sucks when you're poor. But I remember my mom splitting 2 sandwiches between her 3 kids, and not eating herself, just so we wouldn't go hungry.

I should call her and appologize for being a brat sometimes as a kid. I think back to some of the shit I said/did, and now wonder how she didn't just haul off and smack me sometimes...

In Captain Planet, it always bothered me that the South American dude got a ridiculous power like "heart" while everyone else got something useful.

I remember that we found it funny as kids. I have no idea how this is somehow problematic.

I didn't read the article linked with the photo, it was just at the bottom of this page, and I thought the contrast was interesting. The article OP linked says she left of her own accord, while the clickbait headline at the bottom of the page says she was fired and regretted it.

Thank You, Captain Obvious.