Madeus Prime wrote:I don't know, it just felt really weird to me. The zords/mechas were WAY too cartoonish for the realistic-ish tone of the series. Also, gold and silver were so damn annoying, by far the most annoying sixth ranger(s) I've seen.
Okay, that I can understand.
The goofiness of the zords came from the fact that the source material, Go-Onger, was an incredibly campy series with all kinds of lighthearted silliness. But the series' first director, Eddie Guzelian, wanted to make a dark and serious season that both young and old fans could enjoy, since PRM was supposed to be the final season of the show and he wanted it to end on a high note. So, it became a challenge adapting the silly Go-Onger footage to fit the darker nature of RPM, resulting in almost no Go-Onger footage even getting used save for Megazord fights (which were very brief and trimmed down significantly from the Go-Onger mecha fights) and a handful of ground-based monster fights.
However, the show was not without self-awareness of itself and did acknowledge some of the goofier stuff that Power Rangers is known for, such as the cartoonish-looking zords, the giant explosions that appear behind the rangers upon morphing, the need to scream their Morphin Calls, etc.
As far as the cartoony-looking zords are concerned, there is a possible explanation that, while the show doesn't make it explicit, is somewhat implied. Since Doctor K spent her entire childhood as a secluded genius forced to work for Alphabet Soup, she never got to experience a fun childhood like normal kids. Thus, one could think of the sillier stuff from Go-Onger in RPM being a result of Doctor K implanting her lost childhood into the Ranger technology. Like, the one sincere birthday gift she can remember getting was the pencil from Gem and Gemma, and it happened to contain the five colors that would later be used for the main five Ranger Operators.
As for Gem and Gemma themselves being annoying, I can agree with that to an extent. When I first watched the show, I couldn't stand them at first. But as the series progressed and we got to see more sides of them, they got better and they grew on me. Especially in the episodes that had them working separately from each other and instead with one of the other rangers, like in the episode where Gem works with Scott and the episode where Gemma works with Flynn.
'Course, it also helps that in the next series, Samurai, had a Sixth Ranger, Antonio the Gold Samurai Ranger, who was
even worse. 
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