Episode 177- Trust In Me

So due to a very inconsiderate Spousal Person who feels the need to rile up the Small People right before bedtime, and right in the room I'm attempting to recap in, I missed about half this episode. Luckily I've watched it a lot... mostly because it involves Rocky being awkward, inept, and PRETTY.

The title of this episode always makes me feel icky- skin crawling icky- and that kind of sets the tone for the rest of the episode.

So there is a lot of fail in this episode. Rocky spends a good chunk of it trying to help the Poor Blind Girl when really all he needed to do was try to be her friend.

We start off with Tanya, Rocky, and Billy (OMGSOMUCHPRETTY on my screen) heading towards a Martial Arts Expo at the Youth Center. They've heard talk of an amazing young woman who can take down three attackers at once. And sure enough, she does. In under a minute. Everybody claps because that was really impressive. Then they discover she's blind and everybody claps harder. Because... she's blind and did something awesome? Is that really a surprise, show? *sigh*

So Rocky introduces himself, Tanya, and Billy. Because he really likes this young woman. Billy compliments her style and asks where she learned how to fight like that. She automatically assumes he's asking because she's blind (and I guess I can't blame her, I'm sure she gets that A LOT), but honestly... knowing Billy... it really just sounded like an honest inquiry into her martial arts school. But then they all fall over themselves to help her pick up her bag and I can't excuse THAT. She can pick up her own bag, guys. She's blind, not in a vegetative state.

Meanwhile, Bulk and Skull are trying to pass the undercover test and are hiding in plain sight from Lt. Stone. He manages to miss them each and every time.

Rocky first tries the worst apology ever ("Sorry you were offended by what we did" is not an apology, dude) and she once again blows him off. He's totally smitten, though, because he gives her googly anime eyes while she reads a story to Tiny Children (in the high school?). Then he catches her in the park, gives a somewhat better apology, and she decides to give the poor guy a break. He's being REALLY awkward. It's... kind of cute, actually, and apparently she appreciates the effort.

As they're walking, she hears a strange noise. As she's asking him what it was, his communicator goes off. He tells her he's going to go find out what the noises were, and I give him credit for at least not outright lying... he DID go find out what the noises meant. I guess Rocky figured out how to answer without really answering, since he's probably the second worst liar of the lot (there is a reason we have a 'Tommy is a lousy liar' tag).

He ends up morphing and going to fight a monster. The others quickly join him. The thing is, the monster doesn't really want to fight. He wants to be friends. The rangers end up near Penny and she immediately places Rocky's voice. He has to demorph and go hang with her for a bit before he gets away again to observe the monster.

The monster ends up being attacked by cogs and Rocky jumps in to help. Because he's Rocky and he's sweet and, just like his far-into-the-future fellow blue ranger Flynn, he just wants to HELP people. Except Mondo is controlling the monster and manages to up his aggression, so he attacks the rangers. Rocky gets to fight this one solo! Tommy even lets him use his Defender Wheel (Flynn did it better!) to blow up the monster.

Back at the Youth Center, Lt. Stone is hitting on two women. In actuality, it's Bulk and Skull in drag. *bangs head against keyboard* Meanwhile, Penny can pick Rocky's voice out of the all the Rangers, but she apparently can't place that any of the others had been there. I'm guessing she got some fish in her ears.

3 fish. It wasn't too bad, but it really could have been better.