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I've gathered yet another Very Important Collection

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Speaking of Prime Green, I listened to "Comics Unmasked" Podcast where Melissa Flores gave an interview and she confirmed that Rita was intended to be the Rita from 2016 comics, and this is a strange one... Rita/Janessa were going to be a thing if the comic continued a bit more.

if you laugh you go to hell if you laugh you go to hell

I guess this isn't too much of a surprise because as much as I went "welllll there's no confirmation that this is 2016 Rita!" there really were too many references to 2016's lore for it to not be the case. But at the same time it's very frustrating to get that confirmation because why was this extremely important foundation of her character reduced to vague references? Did Melissa not get permission to make it canon? Was it going to be revealed as a twist later on? (After over TWELVE ISSUES?) How did she get to this new universe; was it the result of the Grid shattering? How did we go from Rita being depressed and traumatized and giving up on everything to being let out and immediately going hehe haha time to attack and conquer!!!!

(And don't give me that "well it's been a long time, she changed!" nonsense, she says in Prime she was sealed away for a millennia, which is literally nothing in Power Rangers Alien Time)

Just kind of a waste of an actual arc tbh - to be let out with no purpose or goal but then shaken out of her ennui by getting caught up in the Rangers' adventures, rather than what we got, which was "I need Rangers for my plans that I'll never elaborate on but trust me I'm very complex in my morals"

I will mourn the loss of toxic yuri though, even if that's further confirmation to me that the endgame goal wouldn't be to oust the Eltarians if we're going to set up romances between two of them lmao