ThisPower Rangers Cosmic Furyarticle contains spoilers through episode 9.
But as each subsequent season got closer to 2025 and aliens never showed up to Earth en masse?
Fans began to worry that the show would never address it.
This would shatter the (admittedly already battered)Power Rangerstimeline.
You could try and fudge the dates butS.P.D.was clear.
Episode 32, Wormhole conclusively gave an onscreen date of 2025.
The chances ofPower Rangersaddressing this impending massive gap in its continuity looked impossible.
In episode 9 of the season, the Rangers backs are against the wall.
Our forces are having to take them to New Tech City back on Earth.
With two years to spare,Power Rangersfinally managed to do it.
The aliens in New Tech City are refugees from the battle with Zedd.
Power Rangers finally addressed the looming continuity disaster…
But did it really?
In that flashback several aliens bully her.
Z was an adult in 2025, so that doesnt make sense with whatCosmic Furyjust established, right?
In truth, this was an impossible task from the start.
aired didnt want to bother with slowly introducing aliens into the population of Earth.
The more you make their world different to ours the less it may appeal to a general audience.
Plus, alien makeup costs money andPower Rangersis notoriously a very cheap show to produce.
So it chose to sidestep it as much as it could.
Then why didCosmic Furyeven bother with giving an explanation for aliens on Earth at all?
TheS.P.D.timeline issue is something that writers were aware of and took the opportunity to address.
Theres a Netflix reboot in development and its extremely unlikely itll even address the TV shows continuity.
Theres a solid chance thatCosmic Furycould be the end of 30 years of continuity.
This was the only chance and they took it.
So yes, the smaller details dont match up, but it mostly works.
Yet later seasons made it so there was only a gap of about a year betweenIn SpaceandLost Galaxy.
Still, it can work and thats what really matters in a franchise that lasts as long asPower Rangers.
Power Rangers Cosmic Furyis now streaming on Netflix.
