I mean, they made the Asian girl the yellow ranger, the "Native American" (not sure if the actor actually is but the character was) the Red Ranger, the black guy the Black Ranger, with Basic White People as gender-defaults Pink and Blue.
The White Power Ranger might be innocent but the producers knew what they were doing. He's even more powerful than the others put together.
I mean, they made the Asian girl the yellow ranger, the "Native American" (not sure if the actor actually is but the character was) the Red Ranger, the black guy the Black Ranger, with Basic White People as gender-defaults Pink and Blue.
The White Power Ranger might be innocent but the producers knew what they were doing. He's even more powerful than the others put together...
She's probably real in the novel as well, but I don't think you can definitively say it's an impossible interpretation in either.
It's a bit more clear in the novel for a few reasons but you can still wave away a lot of the points against it simply by pointing to how extremely unreliable the Narrator is.
Among other things, when interpreting a work even what the author says their intention was isn't particularly relevant because they could, among many other things, be lying.
Oh wow you know so much about this topic and everything else!