why did Rita work for Zedd?
 

Her father was more powerful than Zedd, yet Rita wound up working for Zedd.

Re: why did Rita work for Zedd?
 

Most likely to try to strike it on her own and prove to her father she could do things her own way. She needed someone powerful who she could use to work her way up the UAE.

Re: why did Rita work for Zedd?
 

Daddy kicked her out and she had to work for Zedd since she failed spectacularly on her own.

Re: why did Rita work for Zedd?
 

She probably made a deal with Zedd to take command of his castle while he took care of busines in darker parts of the Galaxy .

Re: why did Rita work for Zedd?
 

The whole thing didn't make sense. It seemed like they were making things up as they went along.

Re: why did Rita work for Zedd?
 

Thats what they have been doing for most of PR's history.

Re: why did Rita work for Zedd?
 

Zedd just outranked her in the UAE pecking order at the time. Rita didn't use her father's infulence..

Re: why did Rita work for Zedd?
 

Vile was most likely gone for over 10, 000 years. He wasn't around to guide Rita, so she relied on working for Zedd.

Re: why did Rita work for Zedd?
 

Rita went for where the power was. Vile was retired and only came back for the Zeo Crystal. Once he saw how hard it was to defeat the Power Rangers, he went back into retirement.

Re: why did Rita work for Zedd?
 

Vile wasn't going to give up his power anytime so. So Rita joined up with Zedd, thinking she could grow more power in the evil society by defeating Zordon. Zedd let her do whatever she wanted until "Mutiny".

Re: why did Rita work for Zedd?
 

Rita agreed to work for Zedd so she could use Goldar, Squatt, and Baboo. I think Scorpina and Finister were recruited by herself after she took command.

Re: why did Rita work for Zedd?
 

I don't know? Scorpina seemed to want to work for Zedd like the rest of Rita's henchmen. So I think Scorpina was from Zedd too. I don't know why she took off when Zedd got there.

Re: why did Rita work for Zedd?
 

They should have had the Rangers trap Rita at the end of season 1 and then started over with the Dairanger adaption for season 2.

Re: why did Rita work for Zedd?
 

It did always seem weird given where they went with Rita's backstory later on. But I think its a symptom of planning stuff as they went along instead of ahead.

Re: why did Rita work for Zedd?
 

Rito wasn't very high on the depth chart on the UAE. So just being Master Vile's offspring didn't necessarily make you a big time threat. Vile probably expected his kids do go off and make a name for themselves. Rita took the easy way out and worked for Zedd since it gave her instant power. She basically was able to do whatever she wanted in her sector of Space. Zedd wasn't very hands on. It took him 10,000 years to check on her. And that was with her trapped for all but a fraction of that time.

Re: why did Rita work for Zedd?
 

Vile and Rita had a big falling out. Rita had to start from scratch and agreed to serve Zedd. Once Zedd left her in charge of her own part of the Galaxy she abused the privileges and acted like she was the true Empress. Zedd was too busy to care until he lost the Dark Galaxy to Vile. Once he saw Rita's failures it was easy to take out his anger at his own by punishing his enemies daughter. This all changed when Rita gave him the magic potion. By the time Vile returns all was forgiven in that feud. Since enough time had passed. And Rita felt she could use Vile's help.