THE PRIME INFO ROUND-UP:
Honestly there was not a ton. Got there maybe 15 minutes late, so if there was anything up front I missed it. Notes I took are as follows-
Described it as "the toys are out of the box" - ie. they don't have to worry about continuity, don't have to worry about canon, not limited to mighty morphin, or even existing characters.
- Lauren's background has changed a little bit - it sounds like this is going to be an all-new word based on the existing properties, even more so than the previous round of comics. (Hopefully the end of "see episode here!" things)
- You will see characters from the entire zeitgeist of power rangers, but also characters built to live in this all new word
- Characters from Aquitar, other places in the universe - was a little hard to hear but it sounded like they said "unexpected" places?
Overall there was a lot of talk about Massiveverse, some about the comic run in general. A fun fact that idk of was public knowledge before, Drakkon started off as the idea of an evil White Ranger. Kyle worked from that concept and where he started with Tommy and it eventually became the stinky man we know today.
Ryan mentioned M/tt at one point and I almost blacked out from rage. </3
OKAY LET'S CHECK THIS OUT
So the vibe of what I'm getting is this will ultimately be its own thing, not really continuing off the 2016 MMPR series? Like at best maybe they'll be like "this is a new universe made from Billy's actions" but who knows how much they'll actually like. tie the storylines together. At this point I feel they would just say it's building off Darkest Hour's events if it was; the series has been over for nearly a month so it's not like Billy fucking up the Grid and it making a new universe would be spoilers (in fact, it would actually HELP the finale a bit if we finally got more context at what just fucking happened).
While I know everyone's excited about the possibilities of using elements and Rangers across the franchise, I can't help but compare it to Beyond the Grid's premise and fandom reaction. It was the same situation, where people were excited about working with characters and plots outside of MMPR, but fast-forward to now and it's overall one of the least liked arcs of the 2016 series. (Disregard my own personal opinion of it.) I think if they're not careful, this whole "we can do whatever we want!!! fuck canon!!!!" idea could easily devolve into canon characters ending up more like OCs with canon characters' names and faces rather than an exploration of the canon character (see: the discourse over whether or not BtG Cam was Cam or Cyber-Cam.) But we'll just have to see.
(PLEASE be mindful of who you start shipping, Melissa)
