And that brings us finally to...Character: Jack Landers
Actor: Brandon Jay McLaren
Ranger: Red Space Patrol Delta Ranger, B-Squad
Picture From: Ranger Central
The reason I started this long glorious look at Red. In 14 Red Rangers, there's never been one to willingly quit. I can accept him being a complete jerk in the beginning; but the amount of his redemption away from being a complete and total jackass doesn't out weigh the fact that he repeatedly refuses to listen to his teammates who are almost always right.
The other Rangers do their best to work with what they've been handed. You can actually sympathize with Sky when he complains that he's more deserving than Jack in becoming the Red Ranger. In the last few episodes he shirks his duties to go off to play with his new found girlfriend. And of course he leaves his badge/comunicator/morpher in a spot he won't hear it, leaving the Rangers hanging. The least he could do was request time off and ask the others if they understood if he left as soon as the monster was destroyed.
But my main problem with Jack is a little unfair. My main problem is that even if Ban (Japanese version of Jack's Character) were on Ritalin, he would make Jack look like he were on tranquilizers trying to stay awake.
Ban's fire fused the others into being a team, and his energy carried them through everything trial and tribulation. He was a great character, and I was so excited to see how they'd import it into Power Rangers. They managed to get the characterizations of the other characters great; Sky and Bridge being the closest characters to the Japanese version, and then there's Jack.
1 comment:
Aww, don't hold back, tell us how you really feel! :-P
But actually I agree. He could have been a good character. He and Z could have been the relatively normal if ex-street kids in the midst of all of these lunatics: an uptight leader-wannabe, a crazy telepath, and a spoiled rich girl...
Z managed it well enough, but they decided to make Jack a jerk instead. Disappointing.
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