For me, it’s easily Power Rangers: Dino Thunder. Dino Thunder is my favorite season of Power Rangers and they added my two favorites from that season, so this being the only other Power Rangers representation outside of Mighty Morphin made this collab feel like it was made for me.
I decided to watch past season 3 recently because that’s where I dropped the show when it was airing, and the relationship between Barry and Iris is getting really irritating because it doesn’t feel earned or sincere at all. It’s all just big emotional speeches about how much they love each other and how they make each other better but what’s really lacking is small moment-to-moment interactions. Barry just has better chemistry with Patty and Caitlin and even Felicity, and we saw that through small interactions that just had the two characters playing off each other.
I just got to the episode in season 7 where Barry’s love for Iris is part of him getting his speed back, and it’s like, really? The Iris that straight-up said that she didn’t care about Nora taking orders from the man who murdered Barry’s mother and framed his father for her murder, and was working with ACTUAL NAZIS in the prior season, all because Iris felt bad about how she ends up being a shitty mother? And don’t even get me started on how she completely misremembers the ending of season 3.
If this show wants to make Barry and Iris work so bad, it needs more slice-of-life stuff with those two. Show them doing domestic stuff and have small interactions that feel natural and endearing, as opposed to every episode having a speech about how much they love each other.
You know, show and don’t tell.
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At the beginning of Forspoken, we're introduced to Frey Holland: a street-smart, down-on-her-luck young woman squatting in an abandoned building in Hell's Kitchen and who's fallen in with a bad crowd, pushing her to commit crimes for which she gets caught by the law frequently. We even see her look at the cover of Alice in Wonderland as she muses about how she wishes she could find her own rabbit hole.
So when, when she gets to the magical otherworld and gains magic powers, her motivation almost immediately shifts from escaping her shitty life to "going back home".
WHAT HOME?
The building she was squatting in got burned down by the gang she crossed earlier, and she lost all the money she had been saving for an escape. She doesn't even have any friends or family back "home", she had to leave her cat with the judge that sentenced her to community service. Frey should've been OVERJOYED at being given a second chance at life in a completely new world, with magic superpowers to boot.
People like to make fun of the "I just moved shit with my freaking mind" scene, but I honestly wanted to see more of that from her! I wanted to see Frey having fun with being given magic powers, because yeah, magic powers are awesome. Maybe Frey's character arc could have been about accepting responsibility and doing the right thing because it's the right thing to do. She could've started out as reckless and just looking out for herself with her magic powers, possibly still hurting from the wounds of having to fend for herself all her life, but over the course of the story she learns to open up to others and that she has a moral obligation to fight for the people who can't fight for themselves and ultimately rises to the occasion to save the land.
You know, with great power comes great responsibility?
You could even throw in some character stuff about how she's insecure about how she's only special and important because of her magic powers, and is deathly afraid of losing them.
This story practically writes itself and I am amazed the writers completely ignored all of that.