I'm still not entirely sure what was going on in this episode. I'll do my best for you loyal readers but if it doesn't make much sense, don't blame me. Blame the writers of the episode. I... don't even know.
Okay, so the Rangers are wondering if Goldar attacking is a trap. Well duh. They try to morph but can't. Lots of sparks and small explosions and the Command Center powers down. Apparently they overloaded the system and broke the Morphin Grid. Yeah...
But no worries! Billy can fix it. Somehow. Something about connecting two positive electrodes and we're rather forcibly reminding of the whole "negative proton molecules" reason for Billy not taking the Gold Ranger powers in Zeo (which I know is in the future, but it all kind of molds together in my head in some sort of wibbly-wobbly-timey-wimey thing). So Billy fixes the morphin grid. It makes no sense whatsoever but I'm totally stoked that BILLY fixed the fracking MORPHIN GRID. He's awesome.
Scorpina then kicks major tail in an awesome battle where she just rules. She is seriously powerful. The Rangers, now morphed thanks to the awesomeness of Billy fixing the Morphin Grid, are scattered like little flies at Scorpina's force. Goldar, giant sized, tries to step on them, but fails. For some reason, with all the ground shaking and monster fighting going on, Bulk and Skull steal a bus from the Youth Center parking lot and drive straight towards the battle. Apparently they were trying to get away but, um, yeah.
Tommy ends up in the Command Center again while Alpha is distracted trying to get Zordon back. Tommy breaks him again by... pulling a tab on his back? Really? Okay.
Rita joins the fight with the Rangers by taunting them while flying on her awesome bicycle. Even better, she calls Jason by name. Aw. Meanwhile, Goldar picks up the bus and tells the Rangers their little friends Bulk and Skull are in there. He's having fun with them. Bulk and Skull, not so much. Goldar puts them down on the edge of a cliff and, though the wheels aren't even over, Kim becomes frightened and worried they'll "go over any second".
Back at the Command Center, Alpha recovers with the aide of his backup system and encases the Green Ranger in a force field. He gets Zordon back and I'm still scratching my head. Backup system? What happened to it last time? Deus ex machina shows up in this episode as if it multiplies like bunnies.
Back at the fight, the Rangers get in the MegaZord and manage to catch the bus before it falls off the cliff. Y'know, the cliff it wasn't even really hanging over in the first place. Instead of placing it safely on the ground or on the road home, they put it back on the cliff. Good thinking there, guys.
Rita sets her plan in motion and a solar eclipse starts. The MegaZord quickly loses power. Because it's powered by the sun apparently. Or so this episode says. The MegaZord is then attacked by both Giant Goldar and Giant Scorpina and continues to lose power as the moon continues to eclipse the sun. But wait! There is hope! The Deus Ex Machina offspring, I mean, The Power Sword can restore power to the power cells! Okay then.
Back at the Command Center, Tommy is snarking hard core at Zordon and Alpha. I mean, seriously, wow is he ever snarky and sarcastic and just an all around pain in the rear. He's awesome when he's evil though. Zordon tells Alpha to demorph him so they can find out who is behind the Green Ranger but he magically teleports himself out of the force field and away from the Command Center. I have no idea how. It is not explained, it just happens.
He grows super big and attacks the Rangers too! So now they are being electrocuted by Giant Scorpina's tail, beaten up by Giant Goldar, and battered around by Giant Green Ranger. All while losing power. And trying to fight back with the Power Sword. And restore their own power with the Power Sword. It's not working, though, and they use the last of the juice only to be smacked down, force demorphed, and watch their Zords get eaten by a volcano. Shouldn't Kim's pteradactyl be immune to that though? I mean, when she summons it, the darn thing flies right out of an erupting volcano. You'd think it would handle the lava just fine.
They make it back to the Command Center and talk about giving up. Jason gives a pretty good motivational speech for a leader of few words and Zack tells him to give it up anyway. Then Zordon reveals they have the identity of the Green Ranger. Apparently Alpha scanned his interspacial bio vibrations while he was in the force field. I... I don't even know. I have no explanation for that. I had to move on before I injured my brain trying to puzzle it out.
Everyone is shocked to learn that Tommy is the Green Ranger and then we get the dreaded To Be Continued screen of blackness.
And I still don't know what happened in that episode.
List? Yes, let's, shall we?
5 fish. I just... there is no way it's any less. Billy fixes the morphin grid (which is awesome, but really?). Teleporting out of force fields? Interspacial bio vibrations? Zords being eaten by a volcano? I just... no. There is no way this is anything but 5 fish.
Nobody is covered in food and there is no Billy speak to mention.
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