Spring 2010
Editorial
Page 9
By Aaron Hefelfinger
Richard Steven Horvitz, the voice actor
for Alpha, ended up getting a ton of work
after Power Rangers. This makes sense be-
cause he was one of the best characters on
the show, other than Tommy. He was the
voice of Dag on "Angry Beavers" and the
voice of all the enemy soldiers in Metal
Gear Solid 4, plus doing work on almost
every animated anything in the past 20
years.
He was on an episode of "Static Shock", in
the movie "Mulan", and later, in the movie
"Shrek". Good for him.
I think this is why I liked Zordon growing
up; not only was he a total boss, but he
looked like my grandpa. Zordon didn't get
much work other than Power Rangers, only
doing voices for the video games Sanitar-
ium, Anvil of Dawn, and Zeus: Master of
Olympus.
Because these guys were actually best
friends in real life, I'll do their paragraph
together. Paul Schrier, aka "Bulk", mostly
did "Power Rangers" stuff his entire career,
"Wicked Game". "Skull," aka Jason
Narvy, was in a TV show called, "Masked
Rider", and also starred in a made for TV
movie with Bulk called "The Good, The
Bad, & The Stupid: The Misadventures of
Bulk & Skull". I imagine the TV movie was
something like this.
Barbara Goodson, aka "Rita Repulsa",
has done a lot of stuff outside of the "Power
Rangers" series. She has done voices for
everything from "Digimon" to "Naruto",
plus countless other video games and Japa-
nese animation shows with names I can't
pronounce.
cently starred in the show "Flashpoint",
which according to IMDB is about "a spe-
cial tactical team that rescues hostages,
busts gangs, defuses bombs, and takes on
other tough cases." You can watch Flash-
point online here.
Ignorance Is (Sometimes) Bliss
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7
I hate when people make generalizations.
Example A: People who say all rap music
sounds the same. What does this even .
mean?
If I had to break down their argument, I
guess I would say that ever rap song has two
things: a beat and lyrics. But can't the same
argument be made about rock or any other
type of music? The relationship these peo-
ple have with rap is probably similar to the
relationship I have with your mother: we
just hit each other up when we go to the
club. Club BS like Soulja Boy and Flo-Rida
is great when you're dancing, but it certainly
isn't a good representation of what makes
rap great.
Rap is way more than just money, cash,
hoes, etc, though. Some examples:
There's many more examples of great rap if
you look hard enough. Since most people
pick on Soulja Boy and Flo-Rida when they
say all rap sounds the same, I went to the
equivalent in rock: Nickelback. Listening to
this with headphones on will make your
head explode: All Nickelback Songs Sound
The Same. The broader point is this: that all
bad music sounds similar, regardless of
genre. If I want to make a derivative rap
song, it's not that hard: I can talk about how
I made it rain last night when I saw your
mom onstage, etc. The same argument is
usually brought out when people want to
complain about any genre, like how country
music is about losing your dog, wife, truck,
and all that crap. To that I say, there's good
country musie too. If you don't like rap,
that's cool, but don't keep blaming it on the
fact that it all sounds the same.