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Hello! Okay now to start with, despite what the site is called, my name is Hallie Summers. I am 16 years old and I've been a Power Rangers fan for nearly eight years now. The MMPR first aired on UK TV in 1994 when I was eight years old. I never saw the pilot episode but I did rent it on video a while later. Basically I was never really an early riser, especially in the Summer Holidays and one morning when I got up my Grandad was watching the MMPR. For the next two days I continued to get up late and I saw the last five minutes of the episodes. I liked what I saw and even though I'd never seen a full episode, the next day I got up early and recorded my first episode, 'Different Drum'. Immediately I took a liking to Jason, the Red Ranger, I saw something in him that I'd never seen before and it wasn't long before I made my grandparents buy me a red pair of jeans like his (Which I never wore in the end) and I started telling people that he was my brother. All kids tell little white lies sometime or other. Anyway I continued recording the program and over the next few years I'd seen a few episodes that were further in time than the ones I was watching, through people I knew with Sky. This is how I first saw Tommy. He hadn't come into it yet but my aunt recorded 'Island Of Illusion' for me off of Sky and that's how I first saw Tommy. It wasn't until I saw the Movie that I developed my crush on him though. I used to sleep with my Movie sticker book on my pillow next to me, open at a page with him on it. Summer 1996 when I was ten years old my mum took me to see the Movie one Wednesday. I was a scared of my own shadow back then and although I was never scared of the TV series, when we got into the cinema I started crying because I was scared of Goldar. I was only scared because the Movie had made him look different and more scary but once the film began I was fine. I still remeber exactly what I said when the film began, that morning I'd been watching 'The Ninja Encounter' on TV, the first episodes with Rocky, Adam and Aisha in them. I had no idea, even with their color coded clothes, that they were going to become Power Rangers so my first words were 'Mum, it's them from this morning'. I saw the Movie twice, the second time I went on a Sunday with my aunt and cousin, I was very ill and my Nan told me not to go, but nothing was going to stop me from seeing the film again. Over the next few months I found myself moaning because I was waiting for the Rangers to get their Ninja powers, I never really did like the Thunder powers much. During this time I also developed a crush on Rocky and Adam after seeing 'Wild West Rangers'.Another few months passed, the Rangers got their Ninja powers and their Shogun powers, then they go turned into kids in 'Rangers In Reverse'. I didn't know what was going to happen next but when the Alien Ranger came I was furious, my words were 'What are they going to do with the other Rangers, put them in a box and send them into space'. I thought they weren't going to be in it for a while, and I liked the kid Rangers. After about two weeks I watched the Alien Rangers 'Attack Of The 60' Bulk' and when I saw that the kid Rangers were in it I rushed to put a record it, missing the beginning of it. It was also at this time when I watched 'Water You Thinking' in my Nans bedroom every night, that I made up my Purple Ranger while jumping on her bed while she was at work. What motivated me at the time was that I was wearing a purple dress and a cap and from that moment I began to picture my Ranger, Ashley Linskey. She wasn't called Ashley Linskey to begin with, she's always been called Ashley but she's had many different surnames which are too horrid to say. You can learn more about her in the fan fiction. This caused my two friends Ben and Teri (who are brother and sister) to make uo their own Rangers aswell. Of course I wouldn't let them use the color purple. I used to argue with Ben over who was the bigger PR fan, he always used to say it was him, only now that he doesn't like them anymore does he finally admit that it is me. He had more toys than me sure but (not sounding nasty cos he helped get get this site up) he only had one episode recorded and rarely watched the show at all, whereas I was up bright and early every Saturday morning with my video set. I also remember at this time glitter braclets were a craze amongst kids, I had three, a red and black one on one wrist and a green one on the other. When I stopped liking Tommy I swapped my green one for a purple one (I wonder why?). I mention the braclets specifically because one Saturday when we went out shopping, I remember playing with them in the the car and then later seeing a poster for Fox Kids with the new Zeo rangers on them. Having never seen the Zeo Rangers before, I didn't know that their colors had changed so I still assumed that Rocky was the Red Ranger, it seems quite funny now. You'd think I would have learnt my lesson about not giving things a chance, but I'm stubbon. My mom recorded me a few episode of the Zeo episodes from Fox Kids when they had a 'Power Thon' showing back to back episodes of it. She told me there were quite a few on the tape but being stupid I only found one, 'For Cryin' Out Loud' and I didn't like it. After being extreamly stubbon and recording over it only then did I find the other episodes and once the Zeo Rangers came on UK TV I began to like them and to this day I haven't been able to re-record 'For Cryin' Out Loud', which I now hold as one of my fave Zeo episodes. My own stupid fault really. I still didn't learn my lesson, I totally lost my temper when I found out that Rocky was going to be replaced by a Justin. I didn't even want to see the Turbo Movie but when I found out that Rocky was actually in it, I rented it. I cried for hours when he hurt his back, so much that my cat bit me. I decided I hated it and took it back but then I realized that I still liked Adam, who I hadn't been sure about for a while so I bought it. I'm disappointed because for some reason which can't remember, I never saw the last episodes of the Zeo season and like the movie I refused to watch the Turbo episodes. Eventually I decided that I would watch the Turbo episodes up until the Rangers that I grown to know and love left. I was so upset that they all left, it was okay having a couple at a time leave because there were still people that I knew in it but when they all left I had no interst in getting to know new characters who I didn't want to be in it anyway. Justin didn't count because I hadn't had time to get to know him. For months, maybe even over a year, I haven't watched the Power Rangers, there's never been any chemesrty or interesting anything in it, until recently. A couple of months ago I saw an episode of Power Rangers Time Force, it was right near the end of the season and I wasn't paying much attention to it, there was nothing else on the TV. Then I saw 'Ransik Lives' about 6 weeks ago, and I was hooked. Since then I've recorded it and I now have the entire season except 'Full Exposure', and I don't know how I missed it in the first place. These Rangers are different to all the others after Turbo, they have real chemestry and their costumes are simple, stylish and don't give you a headache when you look at them. The characters are really good too, with strong storylines and backgrounds to them. They have a lot of personality, just like the original sets of Rangers that I liked. They are the best thing since the Zeo/Turbo Rangers left and I have no intention of ever watching Wild Force. Like the other seasons, it just deosn't interest me.
I know that in the past I have criticised the show and the characters because as I've got older I've had different views on it and the peer preasure to grow out of the program but no matter what I keep coming back to it. Especially when I'm upset or down. Now that I am older I realize that the Power Rangers have been a very important part of my childhood and my life, I can never forget them or stop loving them, no matter what anyone says or how old get. This is my latest come back to them in which I decided it was about time I did so something to show how much I love them and my appreciation for how they've shaped and changed my life and the person I am. I dedicate this site to the Power Rangers and the actors who make the show come to life. Especially Thuy Trang (Trini) who sadly died in a tragic car accident on September 3rd 2001. She will be greatly missed by PR fans around the world. Also I feel I should dedicate this site to Jason David Frank's brother Eric (who played Tommy's brother David), who I also heard died last year, although I haven't found out the facts yet.
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