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I oddly love Rainbow Rangers as it is not in my demographic, because I see that it has potential to be a genuinely good show for little girls. If you don't know what it is, you have seven 9-year-old girls from a realm called Kaleidoscopia being Earth's first responders to missions such as animal uniting, sludge stopping, cleaning up an island, making a ruined place into something habitable to animals, etc. In this document, I'm going to explain what the show is missing to be a powerful show for anyone to watch. I will be breaking this into chapters so you won't have so much to read in one page since I believe this website doesn't have a lot of works that are reviews of movies or TV shows like this one. And also, this would be deleted on November 15th if I didn't get the draft done by then.
The Original Concept
I'm going to compare and contrast the first concept to the final before I give my thoughts on this section. Both versions have the girls start out at the Kaleidocove before they are called by Kalia, the leader of Kaleidoscopia, to the Ready Room to witness the task of the day that will sometimes relate to an issue or just a situation the girls have come across in the cove. 3 girls fit for the type of job are selected to save the day. Floof the prismacorn (unicorn) always comes along.
During the mission in the first concept, there is a motif of trial and error where for example, Rosie may overuse her strength and it might create a dent somewhere she didn't intend to happen. These girls are actively working on strengthening their distinct powers. After the girls have saved the day, the problem that the girls had earlier is solved in the cove. And sometimes they have sleepovers with Kalia. Speaking of Kalia, if a ranger has a problem, Kalia will give her a sweet, encouraging speech to where the ranger cries. But then, Kalia ends it with a joke that gets the ranger laughing and snorting. The main antagonist was Acrimonia, Kalia's jealous younger sister who tries to drain Kaleidoscopia with her ChromoCrush.
For example, an episode will start with leader Rosie Redd calling out Mandarin Orange for "dawdling" when she was supposed to clean her room because the rangers and Kalia were going to have a sleepover. Then, the rangers are tasked with a mission that was similar to the problem Rosie and Many had. I can't remember what kind of mission it was since I no longer have access to the pdf of the original guide that I based this knowledge from. But then after the mission, I guess Mandy gets her room cleaned, and everyone has the sleepover.
In the final, each episode ends with Rangers heading home already having solved the issue on Earth instead of their home. I believe that it takes away the fleshing-out of the plot like the OG did, and production may have decided to think that their viewers wouldn't care and/or watch longer episodes. The main antagonist is milli/billionaire Preston Praxton with his daughter who is less bad and is on better terms with the rangers. Preston loves to profit off of the environment and booby traps the rangers whenever they try to step in to stop him. Sometimes it's his sister Priscilla (debuts in season 2) who does the same.
My issue with the final product is that the characters seem shallow, and not to mention, they can act a certain way that is out of character when it's convenient to the plot. Boy do I hate this trope! Here's an example which is kinda complicated to explain, Indigo learned back in season 1 that cleaning up a polluted island takes more time than she initially thought, and ever since she's never had a big issue with being impatient it seems. But in season 3, Pepper and Lavender have to constantly remind Indy that she needs to be patient especially since they're on a mission involving sloths. And even when the mission is over, it seems that she STILL hasn't learned the lesson. I don't know wat the writers were trying to do, make their audience laugh at the cost of Indy's character? I have to be honest when I say that season 3 has kinda fallen into the trope of character derailment as well even though the show is episodic, not in serial format. In the next chapter, I will be fleshing out the characters and writing ideas for their relationships with each other in the next after.