Why didn't Zordon just recharge Tommy's powers in Green Candle?
 

If the option was available, why didn't Zordon just charge his powers right away? instead of waiting for Return of An Old Friend. ,

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Zordon was testing Tommy to see how he would react to not being a Ranger. He had to make sure he was controllable. Besides, it was very dangerous for Zordon. He wouldn't risk his life unless he had too.

In Return Of An Old Friend the Rangers lost their coins. If Rita conquered the Earth, he would be finished anyway.

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It wasn't safe to do the charging. They only did it in Return because it was a last ditch option. Tommy and Zordon both almost died. Also the charge barely lasted for one battle. The full temporary recharge of Tommy's powers were a fluke after he absorbed energy from the other coins. Which left him in bad shape for a bit.

Also there may have been side effects to Rita's spell that would have just caused the power to go to her. Given the coin to Jason seemed to nulify her hold on the coin. But by that point there wasn't enough power left to do a full morph. The coin became a cruder version of a battlizer basically.

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It was all because Saban was too cheap to pay for new Green Ranger footage right away. And couldn't even order enough to keep the Green Ranger on the show for the long term.

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He seemed to be brought back pretty quickly to me. Paying for Toei to produce more footage for season 1 was far from cheap. Saban Entertainment didn't have to do that. Then they went on to spend more money in season 2. And even after they ran out of Green Ranger footage, they still brought Tommy in as White. Even with Dairanger Footage, they still had to shoot a lot of original footage. Especially since the MMPR Rangers weren't wearing the Dairanger costumes. I wouldn't have brought Tommy back as White Ranger, but thats another argument.

I will say I actually enjoyed the full Green Ranger storyline and feel like they did everything right. Tommy was at his best. The power loss storyline made his character interesting. And was much better then the overpowered mess his character became as White Ranger.

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It all worked out in the end. Since Power Rangers needed Tommy. Zordon probably didn't want to risk Tommy getting hurt. It was a smart decision. Tommy needed some time off anyway.

The episode was my favorite. Since thats when Kim and Tommy finally got together.

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This just shows how awesome MMPR was. And why the current Power Rangers Series just can't hold a candle. Only Ninja Steel came close and that took more then a decade. I really wish MMPR would make a come back. And not like it did in that movie.

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Sentai handled the Green Ranger much better. As Burai's story was so tragic and heroic. American Sentai always fails to adapt these type of storylines properly.

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Which is why I am glad they finally gave us dubbed Zyuranger... Even if it took way too long. They should just show this instead of any MMAS reruns they might want to show on Nick.

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Good to hear from you again. We really need to get the band back together.

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I know we will get these placed turned into a proper Super Sentai board this time.

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I don't see any need for that. They allow us to talk about anything we want here.

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Because it wouldn’t have been safe since the Coin would have still been attached to the spell so no matter what they did then, the powers would have been lost to Rita.
Zordon specifically mentioned that he had to give up the coin to another Ranger which would’ve stopped the transfer

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I have to admit I was confused in Return of An Old Friend. Because I figured they would have to do something to get the powers back. Since I assumed any powers in the coin would have went back to Rita. But there was no mention of that. The green coin was just drained and Zordon had to recharge it.

It felt like they changed the story. But I suppose the idea Rita's spell wouldn't be a factor anymore is the right idea. It was just too dangerous to try recharging the powers without a lot of risk. As was pointed out, the powers barely lasted a whole battle without absorbing the energy from the other coins.

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I always thought it was funny they were able to bring back Zordon so easily with the coins. Why didn't they try this in Green With Evil?

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Different circumstances. In Green With Evil Zordon was lost interdemensionally. They were complete cut off from communications. In Return of An Old Friend, Zordon was completely drained from powering Tommy. He didn't just recharge the coin. He basically let Tommy borrow all the energy he had. The Power Coins were able to restore him. This wouldn't have worked in the latter episode, since the problem wasn't powerloss. Its probably why Rita instructed Tommy to send Zordon to another dimension.

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I do wonder what the Zyuranger storyline would have been with the return of Burai?I thought I heard the scene of Tommy jumped back into action at the end of Part 2 was supposed to be Burai returning from Heaven. Of course they never show any additional civilian scenes and they were never meant for full episodes.

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I know it was never intended. But i would have loved to see how Zyuranger would have done a sequel based on that extra footage.

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I always thought it was odd that Zordon could even attempt to recharge the coin without Rita gaining control of the powers. The original narrative were that Rita was draining the powers and Jason taking the coin stopped the transfer. But then in Return its just like the powers were badly drained.

I guess they just retconned things to give them an easy way of Tommy getting his powers back for as long as they could use more Green Ranger footage.

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Tommy and Zordon almost died when he tried. I think that tells is that it was just too dangerous. They only tried it because Rita had the other coins. So if they didn't try they would all be dead.

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If they would have tried to restore Tommy's powers right away Tommy and probably Zordon would be dead.

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Even if it was safe, the powers would have went to Rita. By the time of Return of An Old Friend Jason held the coin long enough to block the spell.