So we start out with our Ranger Trio (Billy, Kim, and Tommy) getting ready to start the World Peace Summit. For teenagers. That is being held in Angel Grove. That place that is plagued by violence and monster attacks. Yeah. GREAT place to hold a PEACE summit.
Our Trio is joined by our New Trio. Rocky and Adam apologize for the workout that went a little longer than planned and Aisha just looks cute and claps for Billy up on stage. Billy first makes mention of the sculpture created by the art students at Angel Grove High and then introduces the teens from the summit. I cringed through the whole thing. They couldn't have gotten more stereotypical if they'd TRIED. First we have Themba (Tamba) from South Africa. Followed by Charlie from Australia (and I could have wept for the wrongness of it all... he was wearing a leather vest and a cowboy hat! I'm so sorry Australia). Pablo from Mexico (and I'd like to apologize to you, as well, Mexico). Boris from Russia (at least he wasn't blond? But that's not saying much...) Chun Mei from China (sigh, I give up, show). And the chairperson. Blonde haired fair skinned Tamara from Israel (and yes, I know Israel is very diverse, but they went all uber-stereotype with everybody else and they give us a blonde fair middle eastern female with a Russian name? Tamar I would believe. Noa would have been even more stereotypical).
Chairperson Tamara says she looks forward to spending time in their fine country and we both choose to view this as her confirming TSB's theory that Angel Grove is, in fact, it's own country.
Bulk decides the six teens from Other Places must surely be the Power Rangers. Despite the fact that they've just arrived in Angel Grove and the Power Rangers have been around for a year now. Logic clearly has no place in this how.
Meanwhile, Zedd is stalking Tommy and decides he wants super SMART evil rangers, so he's going to kidnap the six foreign teens from the World Peace Summit. Good plan, Zedd!
Later, in the park, Tommy, Rocky, and Adam are showing the
Then they're all attacked by putties! Billy sends Tamara off to the Youth Center while he goes to fight off the putties with the Tommy, Kim, and the Stone Canyon Trio. They send the WPS kids running for safety. Clearly these kids need to read
Our Ranger Trio must go to the Command Center, so the SCT are sent to look after the WPS teens. Lord Zedd has them, however, and demands the power coins. They contact Jason, Trini, and Zack (in the five seconds of old footage with Zack's season 1 hair) and everybody morphs. Goldar is waiting for them and they hand over a box of power coins. Goldar is apparently too stupid to realize that they can't be real coins because the rangers are STILL MORPHED. Apparently he didn't learn from the last time they handed over their coins. They demand he release the teens and he, of course, says no. JUST LIKE LAST TIME. Seriously.
Anyway, Billy laughs maniacally because of course they didn't hand over the real power coins. Meanwhile, Bulk and Skull end up walking along a cliff above this little confrontation, and we both cackle for reasons that cannot be stated at this point in time. Goldar eventually teleports away and the teens are rescued. They all know the Power Rangers of course and are delighted to have been saved by them. *eyeroll*
Bulk and Skull then fall off the cliff and pick up the discarded box of coins. Bulk is sure they know who the rangers are now and hands the box to Skull, who promptly begins to eat one of the coins. Because it's gelt. And gelt is tasty (and now I wish we hadn't eaten all the Chanukah chocolate).
There is a VERY RANDOM fight scene where Zedd makes a monster out of the sculpture from the beginning and they all have to get their zords and fight. It's incredibly out of place and I'd hate it except that we get introduced to Tor! I love Tor. He's awesome in his own right and shouldn't be carrying around the other Zords... he can beat monsters all on his own! Hell, to beat this monster, he SQUISHES IT. Seriously he lands on top of it and squishes it flat. Awesome, Tor!
Back at the Youth Center, we're at the end of the World Peace Summit. Damn but that was short. There wasn't time to learn anything! Though Chairperson Tamara would have us believe otherwise apparently. Anyway, the SCT talk about the Ranger Trio being, y'know, POWER RANGERS in the middle of the audience. I'm not sure they fully understood the meaning of secret in that secret identity promise. Billy totally macks on Tamara one last time and then wishes the world could live in peace.
List time!
4.5 fish. It would have made more sense if they'd said it was Torchwood recruiting, even before RTD had created Torchwood.
Billy speak: none, but hot damn did he look really good AND smooth talk the ladies. I miss my awkward geek. :(
Covered in food: nobody, but there was some tasty gelt!
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