5 replies on “Nerding Day: Tenko and the Guardians of The Magic”
God damn this was a good one, chapeau to Merritt.
wait what power rangers game is that mentioned at the end that sounds rad???
Pretty sure thats Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid. Been looking at reviews, seems fun but just a bit lacking in content.
I’m still reeling from the whole “Ninja-Samurai heritage” thing😂
I lived through the ’90s, so I am very well acquainted with the ignorance of the era: “Oriental” and “Retarded” were still acceptable descriptors for Asians and the mentally challenged, First Nations people could still be portrayed as offensive caricatures in order to serve as sports mascots…fun times😜
All that being said, would five seconds of research have killed them?
Let’s ignore the fact that neither ninja nor samurai are races or ethnicities–they’re JOBS. It would be like if you put “Janitor” down as your nationality on a census.
No, the more interesting thing, of course, is the well-known fact that ninjas and samurai were blood enemies.
Ninjas first appeared in feudal Japan to protect commoners from greedy and unethical samurai who abused their authority and martial prowess.
That’s why they specialized in sneak attacks, stealth, and deception: samurai considered such tactics dishonorable, so they did not use them, and were really bad at defending against them.
Enough with the history lesson 😜
Merritt is on point: the story of how Tenko’s ninja and samurai grandparents hooked up is more interesting than anything in the actual show.
If you told me that your grandparents were an SS officer and an Orthodox rabbi–I would not leave you alone until you told that story…in detail.
What channel was this on? I grew up during the time this air and used to watch power rangers every, oh who am I kidding I own the complete series on dvd and blue ray of nearly every power ranger series and super sentai series that been officially translated, any way my point is I never heard of this show before today. I watch nearly everything that Saban did back then
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5 replies on “Nerding Day: Tenko and the Guardians of The Magic”
God damn this was a good one, chapeau to Merritt.
wait what power rangers game is that mentioned at the end that sounds rad???
Pretty sure thats Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid. Been looking at reviews, seems fun but just a bit lacking in content.
I’m still reeling from the whole “Ninja-Samurai heritage” thing😂
I lived through the ’90s, so I am very well acquainted with the ignorance of the era: “Oriental” and “Retarded” were still acceptable descriptors for Asians and the mentally challenged, First Nations people could still be portrayed as offensive caricatures in order to serve as sports mascots…fun times😜
All that being said, would five seconds of research have killed them?
Let’s ignore the fact that neither ninja nor samurai are races or ethnicities–they’re JOBS. It would be like if you put “Janitor” down as your nationality on a census.
No, the more interesting thing, of course, is the well-known fact that ninjas and samurai were blood enemies.
Ninjas first appeared in feudal Japan to protect commoners from greedy and unethical samurai who abused their authority and martial prowess.
That’s why they specialized in sneak attacks, stealth, and deception: samurai considered such tactics dishonorable, so they did not use them, and were really bad at defending against them.
Enough with the history lesson 😜
Merritt is on point: the story of how Tenko’s ninja and samurai grandparents hooked up is more interesting than anything in the actual show.
If you told me that your grandparents were an SS officer and an Orthodox rabbi–I would not leave you alone until you told that story…in detail.
What channel was this on? I grew up during the time this air and used to watch power rangers every, oh who am I kidding I own the complete series on dvd and blue ray of nearly every power ranger series and super sentai series that been officially translated, any way my point is I never heard of this show before today. I watch nearly everything that Saban did back then