Today on Power Rangers, it's a much less amusing with no lesson learnt version of Groundhog Day!
We start with Carter failing to fly. He jumps out of his ship and lands... on the clouds? It's totally a simulation. At least they test stuff? Although they don't give a lot of training or time, seeing as they're testing Carter's ability to fly this thing and expect him to fly it for realsies THE NEXT DAY. Joel attempts to be nice, but it just comes across as condescending (or his jerkiness has tainted my view, whatever).
In the mess hall, everyone is confident in Carter. He is Pouty McPouterson and doubts himself while Dana tells really terrible jokes out of the newspaper. I LOVE HER SO MUCH YOU GUYS. Kelsey learns the valuable lesson of NOT rollerblading in the house, because she knocks over a big bowl of breakfast and she, the cook, and the floor are covered in oatmeal. Oh show. We're never going to get rid of that covered in food footnote, are we? At least Chad and Dana help her clean up. I'm sure Joel and Carter would have, but they had more important flying things to do.
Carter still fails. I'm wondering if the problem isn't with the jet instead of Carter. He seemed to be doing just fine when the jet engine started sparking. While he's attempting to NOT BLOW UP, a monster attacks and the rest of the team have to go out and stop it. While he tries to fix the jet. Since when is Carter a mechanic or an engineer? I thought he was a firefighter. He's certainly no Damon!
He morphs, jumps back in the jet, and rushes off to go help his friends, leaving his jacket behind to dramatically flutter in the wind. It's all slow motion and ominous and SUPER DRAMATIC and I love it. He's too late though, showing up just in time to watch his friends get blown to smithereens.
And then he jumps out of the simulation to find Joel standing there telling him he's okay and he'll be ready to fly for real tomorrow. Except he's very concerned because he thought Joel was dead. And nobody seems to think that's strange? What is this magic? It's as if science took a holiday and now Carter is living the day ALL OVER AGAIN. He answers Dana's really bad joke. He dramatically turns as Kelsey dramatically blades towards the chef and then dramatically stops her from spilling oatmeal everywhere. He tells Ms. Fairweather he's concerned he's reliving the same day over again and all she can say is "Simulations can be disorienting." I THINK THAT'S A LITTLE MORE SERIOUS THAN DISORIENTING, MKAY???? And he is CLEARLY not fit to fly, but they're sending him out anyway.
While fixing the power circuits, again, he spies his Dramatic Jacket from his previous day. He determines he traveled through time and that's why he relived the day over again. This... makes no sense. Science is taking a MAJOR holiday here. This is not how even the most unaccepted views on potential time travel work. He rushes off to his friends again and shows up in just enough time to stop them from being blown to smithereens. This time.
Carter uses missiles to attack the monster and manages to do loops and tight corners and amazing tricks in the jet that JUST MOMENTS AGO HE COULDN'T FLY SO BADLY THAT HE BROKE THE ENGINE. That's right. He's now an expert. And apparently the monster can fly because he's chasing Carter in the jet. Carter makes a daring high speed escape. Monster grows. Zords come out. Big fight. Whatever. I'm so done with this episode.
In order to fix the jet, Ms. Fairweather had to replace basically everything. All the circuits. All the fuses. All the everything. But it won't give him any problems now, apparently! Joel gives him the hat. He pulls it off way better. End credits. FINALLY.
5 fish. Just... no.
Covered in food: Kelsey, a chef, and the floor absolutely pasted over with oatmeal.
This is getting the dramatic cape tag because seriously... that dramatic fluttering jacket was the only good thing about that episode.
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Saturday, April 16, 2011
Episode 218 - The Millenium Message
After the last group of recaps we did where neither of us wanted to write either of them, this time we get the I argued to get two of them. Look, I have theories about the Millenium Message.
Which means that this recap will be heavy on theories, and also on spoilers for RPM, SPD, the next half of Turbo and the PRiS finale. (Yes, we know, we try not to say too much about later series, but I wanted to talk about this stuff.)
So, we start off at the Juice Bar where Tanya and Tommy are working out, and Adam comes in wearing a magician's costume complete with cape and top hat, grumbling about this week's stunt show. I approve so hard. Then suddenly there's an earthquake. This being Angel Grove, it turns out the earthquake is actually being caused by an approaching ship. The Rangers assume that it's because the ship is there to talk to them, and... this being Angel Grove, sure. But how do they know the guy just isn't lost???? Anyway, his ship explodes, and he's found by Divatox.
Turns out this guy is the Blue Senturian, some sort of Intergalactic Robot Police Officer. Divatox manages to convince him that she's Dimitria (and we know that in universe they're twins, but REALLY?) and he plays a message, showing how the United Alliance of Evil is about to conquer Earth in the year 2000 and only one force stands in their way. We don't see who it is, but TIME FOR THEORIES.
SPOILERS
1-The team of Rangers they're actually seeing is the Turbo 2 team. That's what suddenly makes the Rangers all leave once TJ and Cassie get there - and why Divatox seems to seriously want to destroy them.
2-Obviously, PRiS happened in 1998 while the Millenium Message says the future he's from has the final battle in 2000. Well, this is because when it came down to it, none of the 5 current Rangers would have been able to kill Zordon, so the battle stretched on, which is why Earth is going to be overrun. By handing over their powers, they saved the universe.
3-The Blue Senturian works for SPD.
4-The future Blue Senturian came from? Also eventually becomes RPM. I mean, that would explain why there's no other Ranger teams around - everyone was lost fighting against the United Alliance of Evil.
So, to sum up. Had the Turbo 1 team NOT handed over their powers, the events of the Turbo finale STILL would have happened, Tommy would have been unable to kill Zordon, and then the world would have basically been conquered. Of course, since the Rangers are always victorious even if it takes a while, the Turbo 2 team would have eventually persevered. But the destruction of basically the world is what makes Alphabet Soup realize that they need their own Ranger teams, and why Dr K had a piece of the venjix robot from the Machine Empire that she accidentally turned into the venjix VIRUS.
Back to the recap. Blue Senturian gets reprogrammed after showing the message, and there's a detonator in him. He goes and fights Tommy, but then runs away after the other Rangers show up. Adam knows what the Blue Senturians are because Zordon told him, but he also suggests that GEE, MAYBE HE WAS REPROGRAMMED. Not like Divatox hasn't done THAT before.
Divatox also sends down a monter, and the fight is really stupid, and Kat manages to twist her ankle again and scream for Tommy. *SIGH*
Then the Rangers reprogram the Senturian (getting a glimpse of the message in the process), but don't remove the detonator and it runs off to go try and arrest Divatox, and there's an explosion and the Rangers think that it's been destroyed. Divatox shows up to taunt them, because she's awesome like that.
Except then the Blue Senturian shows back up with a Zord and it destroys the monster, and Alpha teleports down to try and cut the wire belonging to the detonator. He cuts the wrong one. Then Justin cuts the wrong one. Then they figure out they have to cut the purple one.
Back at the Power Chamber, they can see more of the message, but the important part has been damaged in the fight. Personally, I choose to believe that Alpha or Justin just cut the wrong wire.
Fish: 5! Although it's pretty good for thinking ridiculous thoughts
Covered in: Lt. Stone gets covered in bananas during the earthquake
Which means that this recap will be heavy on theories, and also on spoilers for RPM, SPD, the next half of Turbo and the PRiS finale. (Yes, we know, we try not to say too much about later series, but I wanted to talk about this stuff.)
So, we start off at the Juice Bar where Tanya and Tommy are working out, and Adam comes in wearing a magician's costume complete with cape and top hat, grumbling about this week's stunt show. I approve so hard. Then suddenly there's an earthquake. This being Angel Grove, it turns out the earthquake is actually being caused by an approaching ship. The Rangers assume that it's because the ship is there to talk to them, and... this being Angel Grove, sure. But how do they know the guy just isn't lost???? Anyway, his ship explodes, and he's found by Divatox.
Turns out this guy is the Blue Senturian, some sort of Intergalactic Robot Police Officer. Divatox manages to convince him that she's Dimitria (and we know that in universe they're twins, but REALLY?) and he plays a message, showing how the United Alliance of Evil is about to conquer Earth in the year 2000 and only one force stands in their way. We don't see who it is, but TIME FOR THEORIES.
SPOILERS
1-The team of Rangers they're actually seeing is the Turbo 2 team. That's what suddenly makes the Rangers all leave once TJ and Cassie get there - and why Divatox seems to seriously want to destroy them.
2-Obviously, PRiS happened in 1998 while the Millenium Message says the future he's from has the final battle in 2000. Well, this is because when it came down to it, none of the 5 current Rangers would have been able to kill Zordon, so the battle stretched on, which is why Earth is going to be overrun. By handing over their powers, they saved the universe.
3-The Blue Senturian works for SPD.
4-The future Blue Senturian came from? Also eventually becomes RPM. I mean, that would explain why there's no other Ranger teams around - everyone was lost fighting against the United Alliance of Evil.
So, to sum up. Had the Turbo 1 team NOT handed over their powers, the events of the Turbo finale STILL would have happened, Tommy would have been unable to kill Zordon, and then the world would have basically been conquered. Of course, since the Rangers are always victorious even if it takes a while, the Turbo 2 team would have eventually persevered. But the destruction of basically the world is what makes Alphabet Soup realize that they need their own Ranger teams, and why Dr K had a piece of the venjix robot from the Machine Empire that she accidentally turned into the venjix VIRUS.
Back to the recap. Blue Senturian gets reprogrammed after showing the message, and there's a detonator in him. He goes and fights Tommy, but then runs away after the other Rangers show up. Adam knows what the Blue Senturians are because Zordon told him, but he also suggests that GEE, MAYBE HE WAS REPROGRAMMED. Not like Divatox hasn't done THAT before.
Divatox also sends down a monter, and the fight is really stupid, and Kat manages to twist her ankle again and scream for Tommy. *SIGH*
Then the Rangers reprogram the Senturian (getting a glimpse of the message in the process), but don't remove the detonator and it runs off to go try and arrest Divatox, and there's an explosion and the Rangers think that it's been destroyed. Divatox shows up to taunt them, because she's awesome like that.
Except then the Blue Senturian shows back up with a Zord and it destroys the monster, and Alpha teleports down to try and cut the wire belonging to the detonator. He cuts the wrong one. Then Justin cuts the wrong one. Then they figure out they have to cut the purple one.
Back at the Power Chamber, they can see more of the message, but the important part has been damaged in the fight. Personally, I choose to believe that Alpha or Justin just cut the wrong wire.
Fish: 5! Although it's pretty good for thinking ridiculous thoughts
Covered in: Lt. Stone gets covered in bananas during the earthquake
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Episode 198 - A Brief Mystery of Time
Oh hey, there are actually consequences to the whole Brain Drain thing. Unfortunately, the consequences do not involve Tommy getting telepathy and making out with Adam but I'll take what I can get.
What we actually get is the Groundhog Day episode. Personally, I think that Xena did it best.
Day 1
The first day opens with some kid named Steven rollerblading down the hallway, while the Worst Guidance Counselor Ever chases after him. He knocks into Tommy and Kat, who joke about the school needing a stop sign. Then they stop by Kat's locker, where Jason asks them if they're worried about the test, and then tells them they should stop by the Juice Bar after school to meet Adam and Tanya and try Emily's new shaved ice. Then some poor kid's locker breaks and his books fall onto the floor.
Tommy, Jason, Kat and Rocky go and take some final exam. Rocky has forgotten his pencil, and Ms. Appleby is there, which is pretty great. We're gearing up for graduation, apparently!
After the test is over, Adam and Tanya are being really cute in the youth center when the other Rangers show up. Bulk and Skull order some drinks and talk loudly about being undercover, and then Bulk ends up covered in soda.
Meanwhile, both Gasket and Sprocket have plans to prove that they are the best. DUN DUN DUN.
Day 2
Steven is skating through the halls again, and Tommy is starting to get a feeling of deja vu. Then he starts responding to Jason before Jason actually says anything. Yet nobody thinks to call Zordon. Nobody even wonders if this is a side effect from the brain drain.
In the park, they get attacked by Cogs, which is new and when they finally get to the Youth Center Adam clearly thinks Tommy is crazy. Tommy tries to explain that All of this has happened before and shall happen again but nobody listens to him. Nobody even suggests talking to Zordon.
Day 3
We get the same ridiculous scene at the school again, and this time at the park Tommy stops everyone and shows that there are Cogs waiting for them around the next hill. Since they have clearly discovered that Tommy is psychic, everyone teleports to the Power Chamber, where they have Alpha scan Tommy's brainwaves for irregularities, which QR says is like scanning for alien activity in the vicinity of London on Christmas Day.
Now that they've scanned Tommy, everyone is able to figure out that they're stuck in a time loop created by the Machine Empire so that they could move in an invasion fleet. Maybe the time loop will also explain Tommy's eventual doctorate. They locate the crystal thing that is looping time, and everyone goes down to destroy it. Tommy manages to smash it, and there's a fight, and zords are called, and we spend half of the fight talking about Jason/Rocky instead.
The next day, there's still a feeling of deja vu as Adam and Tanya are still being ridiculously cute, but Bulk and Skull both get covered with soda. Oh, show. I don't even know what to say about you.
Fish: 3. One for each day.
Covered in: Bulk and Skull, are you really making us bring back this category? Booo.
What we actually get is the Groundhog Day episode. Personally, I think that Xena did it best.
Day 1
The first day opens with some kid named Steven rollerblading down the hallway, while the Worst Guidance Counselor Ever chases after him. He knocks into Tommy and Kat, who joke about the school needing a stop sign. Then they stop by Kat's locker, where Jason asks them if they're worried about the test, and then tells them they should stop by the Juice Bar after school to meet Adam and Tanya and try Emily's new shaved ice. Then some poor kid's locker breaks and his books fall onto the floor.
Tommy, Jason, Kat and Rocky go and take some final exam. Rocky has forgotten his pencil, and Ms. Appleby is there, which is pretty great. We're gearing up for graduation, apparently!
After the test is over, Adam and Tanya are being really cute in the youth center when the other Rangers show up. Bulk and Skull order some drinks and talk loudly about being undercover, and then Bulk ends up covered in soda.
Meanwhile, both Gasket and Sprocket have plans to prove that they are the best. DUN DUN DUN.
Day 2
Steven is skating through the halls again, and Tommy is starting to get a feeling of deja vu. Then he starts responding to Jason before Jason actually says anything. Yet nobody thinks to call Zordon. Nobody even wonders if this is a side effect from the brain drain.
In the park, they get attacked by Cogs, which is new and when they finally get to the Youth Center Adam clearly thinks Tommy is crazy. Tommy tries to explain that All of this has happened before and shall happen again but nobody listens to him. Nobody even suggests talking to Zordon.
Day 3
We get the same ridiculous scene at the school again, and this time at the park Tommy stops everyone and shows that there are Cogs waiting for them around the next hill. Since they have clearly discovered that Tommy is psychic, everyone teleports to the Power Chamber, where they have Alpha scan Tommy's brainwaves for irregularities, which QR says is like scanning for alien activity in the vicinity of London on Christmas Day.
Now that they've scanned Tommy, everyone is able to figure out that they're stuck in a time loop created by the Machine Empire so that they could move in an invasion fleet. Maybe the time loop will also explain Tommy's eventual doctorate. They locate the crystal thing that is looping time, and everyone goes down to destroy it. Tommy manages to smash it, and there's a fight, and zords are called, and we spend half of the fight talking about Jason/Rocky instead.
The next day, there's still a feeling of deja vu as Adam and Tanya are still being ridiculously cute, but Bulk and Skull both get covered with soda. Oh, show. I don't even know what to say about you.
Fish: 3. One for each day.
Covered in: Bulk and Skull, are you really making us bring back this category? Booo.
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Episode 155 - Hogday Afternoon - Part 2
We've reached the end of the Zeo Quest! FINALLY.
So, we open in Stereotype!Africa, where Aisha and Tanya (Tanya! ♥) meet Ashalla. Aisha remembers that she had a great aunt Ashalla, and wonders if it's the same person. Oh, Aisha. Aisha tells Ashalla about her quest, and Ashalla gives a big speech about how there's a legend that some girl will save them and how Aisha is that girl, and then she gives Aisha the crystal in the hope that Aisha will stay. It's decided that because Aisha volunteered in an animal shelter, she'll stay in Africa and Tanya will go back in her place. (Tanya has been with the tribe for three years, ever since her explorer parents vanished.)
Somehow, I get stuck with attempting to explain the time travel. Here's how I'm going to do it.
FISH.
I don't know if Aisha went back in time, or what, or how Aisha's family ends up with her in Africa. So I'm just going to state what I believe.
1-Everyone remembers that Aisha used to live in Angel Grove, and then she moved to Africa.
2-So no, Tanya has not always been there. People remember Aisha.
3-Tanya is awesome.
4-The fish are strong with this one.
5-Time travel makes no sense.
Meanwhile, in Angel Grove - all the water is gone in the world. Except for some bottles from the earthquake readiness kit in the Command Center. I guess they were concerned about Tommy following his heart or something. For some reason, the Rangers are only concerned about the Aquitians, even though all the water being gone is a really big freaking deal. The clouds are eating all the water. I can't even imagine how much damage this caused.
Billy aims a device at the viewing globe and somehow that makes it rain. The Aquitians fight Hydro Hog, and he stopped the Shogunzord's sword, which is pretty awesome. So then Billy takes the toy Falconzord and uses it to combine with the Shogunzord and they beat the Hydro Hog, which makes all the water come back.
Zordon talks to Aisha, who tells him her plan of staying behind. Zordon tells Aisha that he knew one of them would. Maybe there should have been some foreshadowing? Also, worst sendoff ever. Well, it's up there, anyway. After the awesomeness of how they got rid of Kim, you would think they could have done better for Aisha.
Tanya gives the crystal to Billy, and everyone turns back to their normal ages. Finally! The Rangers (minus Tanya) go say goodbye to the Aquitians while Alpha and Tanya talk.
Underneath the Command Center, Rito and Goldar are trying to figure out how to destroy the detonator. Rito suggests that it's hammer time. But just then, Rita shows up and tells them to steal the Zeo Crystal, so they just teleport into the Command Center. How do they do that? Did Zordon turn off the protections so that other people could get in?
The other Rangers get back, and then the Command Center starts to blow up. This was traumatizing to baby!TSB. Adam is concerned for Zordon! Rocky is concerned for Alpha! Billy throws himself on a console and gets hit with some sort of white light! Then they teleport out and the COMMAND CENTER BLOWS UP. OMGWTFBBQ. Everyone is traumatized, and Tommy (once again) wonders if this is the end of the Power Rangers.
And then we got a stupid preview for Zeo, and I spent the next two months wondering what the hell a triangle had to do with new powers.
Fish: FIVE. Was there even any doubt?
Fic we want: Aisha told Tanya enough so that she could identify Billy. What else did she tell Tanya?
Questions: If someone wants to take a stab at explaining time travel, or how they explain Tanya (I assume Billy will be doing some hacking) or why the Aquitians weren't affected by the time travel thing, or if anyone in Angel Grove even remembers the Aquitians, feel free to go ahead.
So, we open in Stereotype!Africa, where Aisha and Tanya (Tanya! ♥) meet Ashalla. Aisha remembers that she had a great aunt Ashalla, and wonders if it's the same person. Oh, Aisha. Aisha tells Ashalla about her quest, and Ashalla gives a big speech about how there's a legend that some girl will save them and how Aisha is that girl, and then she gives Aisha the crystal in the hope that Aisha will stay. It's decided that because Aisha volunteered in an animal shelter, she'll stay in Africa and Tanya will go back in her place. (Tanya has been with the tribe for three years, ever since her explorer parents vanished.)
Somehow, I get stuck with attempting to explain the time travel. Here's how I'm going to do it.
FISH.
I don't know if Aisha went back in time, or what, or how Aisha's family ends up with her in Africa. So I'm just going to state what I believe.
1-Everyone remembers that Aisha used to live in Angel Grove, and then she moved to Africa.
2-So no, Tanya has not always been there. People remember Aisha.
3-Tanya is awesome.
4-The fish are strong with this one.
5-Time travel makes no sense.
Meanwhile, in Angel Grove - all the water is gone in the world. Except for some bottles from the earthquake readiness kit in the Command Center. I guess they were concerned about Tommy following his heart or something. For some reason, the Rangers are only concerned about the Aquitians, even though all the water being gone is a really big freaking deal. The clouds are eating all the water. I can't even imagine how much damage this caused.
Billy aims a device at the viewing globe and somehow that makes it rain. The Aquitians fight Hydro Hog, and he stopped the Shogunzord's sword, which is pretty awesome. So then Billy takes the toy Falconzord and uses it to combine with the Shogunzord and they beat the Hydro Hog, which makes all the water come back.
Zordon talks to Aisha, who tells him her plan of staying behind. Zordon tells Aisha that he knew one of them would. Maybe there should have been some foreshadowing? Also, worst sendoff ever. Well, it's up there, anyway. After the awesomeness of how they got rid of Kim, you would think they could have done better for Aisha.
Tanya gives the crystal to Billy, and everyone turns back to their normal ages. Finally! The Rangers (minus Tanya) go say goodbye to the Aquitians while Alpha and Tanya talk.
Underneath the Command Center, Rito and Goldar are trying to figure out how to destroy the detonator. Rito suggests that it's hammer time. But just then, Rita shows up and tells them to steal the Zeo Crystal, so they just teleport into the Command Center. How do they do that? Did Zordon turn off the protections so that other people could get in?
The other Rangers get back, and then the Command Center starts to blow up. This was traumatizing to baby!TSB. Adam is concerned for Zordon! Rocky is concerned for Alpha! Billy throws himself on a console and gets hit with some sort of white light! Then they teleport out and the COMMAND CENTER BLOWS UP. OMGWTFBBQ. Everyone is traumatized, and Tommy (once again) wonders if this is the end of the Power Rangers.
And then we got a stupid preview for Zeo, and I spent the next two months wondering what the hell a triangle had to do with new powers.
Fish: FIVE. Was there even any doubt?
Fic we want: Aisha told Tanya enough so that she could identify Billy. What else did she tell Tanya?
Questions: If someone wants to take a stab at explaining time travel, or how they explain Tanya (I assume Billy will be doing some hacking) or why the Aquitians weren't affected by the time travel thing, or if anyone in Angel Grove even remembers the Aquitians, feel free to go ahead.
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Episode 153 - Sowing the Seeds of Evil
How did I get the Tommy episode? Whatever, we're still in stereotype land.
The plot.
IN ANGEL GROVE: Billy builds Cestro a shower. Tengas show up and destroy the shower. Billy fights unmorphed and is really pretty. Cestro tells Billy about the Hydro Hog, the Emperor of the Dark Water. Zedd and Rita decide to bring the Hydro Hog to Earth. Billy creates a shield to block them from doing so, stealing Rita and Zedd's plan from 2 episodes ago. Nothing else happens.
QUESTIONS: Why did they build the shower in the middle of Angel Grove instead of somewhere in safety? Wouldn't the Hydro Hog get weakened by Earth as well? Why wasn't there a Zord fight this episode? Is Hydro Hog responsible for there never being an ending to Pirates of Dark Water?
IN STEREOTYPE AUSTRALIA: Baby!Kat is all excited to be home. She meets teenage!Kat who pretends to be confused to see her. She tells Baby!Kat that she knows where the crystal is, and that she will take her to it. They run into Old!Kat who asks Baby!Kat for help getting home. Teen!Kat tells Baby!Kat that if she leaves, she will never get the crystal. Baby!Kat goes and helps Old!Kat anyway. Teen!Kat and her car vanish in a lot of pink. Old!Kat gives Baby!Kat the crystal and tells her that all those who sacrifice their needs to help others will be rewarded. This is a lie.
QUESTIONS: Everyone else is meeting their ancestors. How is Baby!Kat meeting two versions of herself? Why is Old!Kat lying like that? Why is Baby!Kat's quest so much easier than Rocky's?
IN STEREOTYPE NATIVE AMERICANS: There are teepees. Tommy asks a woman to find a big rock, and she points to a hawk. Tommy follows the hawk and meets True of Heart, who tells him he needs to get in touch with his roots and the true Tommy inside. Tommy starts seeing things as nature speaks to him and points him in the right direction. There's apparently a legend about him. (OF COURSE THERE IS.) Tommy tries to commune with nature which causes an earthquake and the two fake crystals to explode. Oh, and True of Heart gives him half an arrowhead. It's foreshadowing time!
QUESTIONS: WHAT THE FUCK. JUST. WHAT THE FUCK. (Also, so Tommy is responsible for all the earthquakes in Angel Grove? HAHAHAA.)
BACK IN ANGEL GROVE: Everyone worries about Aisha because somehow time is running out. Baby!Kat accent fails.
QUESTIONS: TIME TRAVEL DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY.
Fish: 4.5. RAAAAAAAAAAAAGE.
The plot.
IN ANGEL GROVE: Billy builds Cestro a shower. Tengas show up and destroy the shower. Billy fights unmorphed and is really pretty. Cestro tells Billy about the Hydro Hog, the Emperor of the Dark Water. Zedd and Rita decide to bring the Hydro Hog to Earth. Billy creates a shield to block them from doing so, stealing Rita and Zedd's plan from 2 episodes ago. Nothing else happens.
QUESTIONS: Why did they build the shower in the middle of Angel Grove instead of somewhere in safety? Wouldn't the Hydro Hog get weakened by Earth as well? Why wasn't there a Zord fight this episode? Is Hydro Hog responsible for there never being an ending to Pirates of Dark Water?
IN STEREOTYPE AUSTRALIA: Baby!Kat is all excited to be home. She meets teenage!Kat who pretends to be confused to see her. She tells Baby!Kat that she knows where the crystal is, and that she will take her to it. They run into Old!Kat who asks Baby!Kat for help getting home. Teen!Kat tells Baby!Kat that if she leaves, she will never get the crystal. Baby!Kat goes and helps Old!Kat anyway. Teen!Kat and her car vanish in a lot of pink. Old!Kat gives Baby!Kat the crystal and tells her that all those who sacrifice their needs to help others will be rewarded. This is a lie.
QUESTIONS: Everyone else is meeting their ancestors. How is Baby!Kat meeting two versions of herself? Why is Old!Kat lying like that? Why is Baby!Kat's quest so much easier than Rocky's?
IN STEREOTYPE NATIVE AMERICANS: There are teepees. Tommy asks a woman to find a big rock, and she points to a hawk. Tommy follows the hawk and meets True of Heart, who tells him he needs to get in touch with his roots and the true Tommy inside. Tommy starts seeing things as nature speaks to him and points him in the right direction. There's apparently a legend about him. (OF COURSE THERE IS.) Tommy tries to commune with nature which causes an earthquake and the two fake crystals to explode. Oh, and True of Heart gives him half an arrowhead. It's foreshadowing time!
QUESTIONS: WHAT THE FUCK. JUST. WHAT THE FUCK. (Also, so Tommy is responsible for all the earthquakes in Angel Grove? HAHAHAA.)
BACK IN ANGEL GROVE: Everyone worries about Aisha because somehow time is running out. Baby!Kat accent fails.
QUESTIONS: TIME TRAVEL DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY.
Fish: 4.5. RAAAAAAAAAAAAGE.
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Episode 152- Along Came a Spider
I hate the Zeo Quest. No, I really really HATE the Zeo Quest. Epic fail, show!
So Billy is hanging out in his garage lab at his house with Cestro and Tideus. Unfortunately, the device he's working on... isn't working. He can't figure out how to get the sub-crystals to come together. Tideus suggests they find a more powerful device and Billy explains that Earth just isn't that far along. NASA and MIT might have one, but there's no use trying them. He suggests asking around Angel Grove University since it has one of the best science programs in the country (and here I burst out laughing because really? Angel Grove's education? MUST be it's own country... only explanation). Billy heads off, but first he gets snarky and winks at them. Oh Billy and your alien fetish.
Baby!Adam has made it to what it supposed to be Korea but... well it's about as much Korea as the last episode was Mexico. Everyone he encounters speaks English. He knows he's in the past and he's where his grandmother was born. He also is seeking some wise man. How he knows this, we don't know. We're assuming the fish are strong with him this episode. Baby!Adam is met with the WORST ASIAN STEREOTYPES EVER and the rest of our encounters with him this episode leave us both in CAPS mode... rather much like the last episode did with the Mexico Fail, and rather like the next three episodes will do.
Under the Command Center, Rito and Goldar are still lost. They try to draw a map on the wall with chalk and end up playing Tic Tac Toe instead. Clearly they learned Global Thermonuclear War was a bad choice. Perhaps they'll try a nice game of chess next? Rito totally outwits Goldar and wins.
Back in CAPSLOCK, Baby!Adam is a horrible little troglodyte to an old man that is trying to help him, even if he speaks in riddles. Baby!Adam is an idiot and cannot figure out that this crazy, yet wise, old man is the man he is seeking, and so he goes around asking other people and telling crazy old guy to go away. Because Baby!Adam is a douche.
Only good thing about it is the crazy old guy keeps calling him Little Frog. Awwwwww.
Billy ends up at Angel Grove University, where he talks to a very attractive young science professor. She is pleased he's taking such an interest in science and is sorry to hear that his high school lab is ill-equipped to help him with his experiment. So she lends him THE UNIVERSITY'S PHASE MODULATOR. Dude, it REALLY doesn't work that way, okay?
So Tideus is whiny and can't wait for water, so he drags Cestro out of Billy's lab and they track water. They find it at a car wash. Somehow they miss all the water in all the pipes in the entire city, and resort to walking through a car wash. *headdesk*
Rita and Zedd send down a monster. Billy comes back to his lab to discover the power out and he's attacked by the monster, except he's in his lab and the footage of the monster is clearly it in a LARGE abandoned warehouse. Splicing FAIL! Billy is encased in spider silk and I suddenly declare him Frodo (Trini is his Samwise, Rocky is totally Pippin, which makes Adam Merry... and maybe we spent a little too much time talking about a PR/LotR AU). The Aquitian Rangers all come back and fight the spider thing. It's very boring.
Meanwhile, Baby!Adam finally figures out that Crazy Old Guy is the wise old man he's seeking. Crazy Old Guy directs him up a very small waterfall, where Baby!Adam reaches into the water and pulls out the green crystal. Really? That's it? That's all he had to do? He talked to a few people, was a butthead, and then reached into a gently flowing small waterfall. Baby!Rocky had to climb into a freaking active VOLCANO and pull his from lava... some quest this is.
So the Aquitian Rangers are fighting, and the monster grows, and they call the zords, and they win. Surprised? I didn't think so.
All the spider silk magically disappears and Billy is free. He ends up at the Command Center, where he hangs out with Baby!Rocky until Baby!Adam shows up. Rocky is excited to see him and proclaims "He shoots, he scores!" and yes, he will score, one day, when you're both grown up. Ahem.
Billy informs them the Aquitian Rangers are at the car wash again. Really? There is such a thing as a FAUCET in Angel Grove, I'm sure. It's this magical thing that drains water from pipes. It's the same water as the car wash, so they really could have just shoved the Aquitians under the showers in Billy's house and it would have the SAME EXACT effect. *bangs head against wall*
Did I mention how much I HATE the Zeo Quest?
Five fish. Just... enough with the stereotypes, okay show? Two down, three to go.
Billy speak: "I can't align the Zeo sub-crystals into a cohesive matrix, so even if we do get all five crystals, we'll never be able to combine their energies."
"Well I've always been interested in crystal energy coherence, but unfortunately the phase modulator at my high school lab wasn't advanced enough for my experiment."
Best line of the episode: Goldar: "I'm thinking!" Rito: "You must find that painful."
Fic we want: LotR/PR AU y/y/mfy?
So Billy is hanging out in his garage lab at his house with Cestro and Tideus. Unfortunately, the device he's working on... isn't working. He can't figure out how to get the sub-crystals to come together. Tideus suggests they find a more powerful device and Billy explains that Earth just isn't that far along. NASA and MIT might have one, but there's no use trying them. He suggests asking around Angel Grove University since it has one of the best science programs in the country (and here I burst out laughing because really? Angel Grove's education? MUST be it's own country... only explanation). Billy heads off, but first he gets snarky and winks at them. Oh Billy and your alien fetish.
Baby!Adam has made it to what it supposed to be Korea but... well it's about as much Korea as the last episode was Mexico. Everyone he encounters speaks English. He knows he's in the past and he's where his grandmother was born. He also is seeking some wise man. How he knows this, we don't know. We're assuming the fish are strong with him this episode. Baby!Adam is met with the WORST ASIAN STEREOTYPES EVER and the rest of our encounters with him this episode leave us both in CAPS mode... rather much like the last episode did with the Mexico Fail, and rather like the next three episodes will do.
Under the Command Center, Rito and Goldar are still lost. They try to draw a map on the wall with chalk and end up playing Tic Tac Toe instead. Clearly they learned Global Thermonuclear War was a bad choice. Perhaps they'll try a nice game of chess next? Rito totally outwits Goldar and wins.
Back in CAPSLOCK, Baby!Adam is a horrible little troglodyte to an old man that is trying to help him, even if he speaks in riddles. Baby!Adam is an idiot and cannot figure out that this crazy, yet wise, old man is the man he is seeking, and so he goes around asking other people and telling crazy old guy to go away. Because Baby!Adam is a douche.
Only good thing about it is the crazy old guy keeps calling him Little Frog. Awwwwww.
Billy ends up at Angel Grove University, where he talks to a very attractive young science professor. She is pleased he's taking such an interest in science and is sorry to hear that his high school lab is ill-equipped to help him with his experiment. So she lends him THE UNIVERSITY'S PHASE MODULATOR. Dude, it REALLY doesn't work that way, okay?
So Tideus is whiny and can't wait for water, so he drags Cestro out of Billy's lab and they track water. They find it at a car wash. Somehow they miss all the water in all the pipes in the entire city, and resort to walking through a car wash. *headdesk*
Rita and Zedd send down a monster. Billy comes back to his lab to discover the power out and he's attacked by the monster, except he's in his lab and the footage of the monster is clearly it in a LARGE abandoned warehouse. Splicing FAIL! Billy is encased in spider silk and I suddenly declare him Frodo (Trini is his Samwise, Rocky is totally Pippin, which makes Adam Merry... and maybe we spent a little too much time talking about a PR/LotR AU). The Aquitian Rangers all come back and fight the spider thing. It's very boring.
Meanwhile, Baby!Adam finally figures out that Crazy Old Guy is the wise old man he's seeking. Crazy Old Guy directs him up a very small waterfall, where Baby!Adam reaches into the water and pulls out the green crystal. Really? That's it? That's all he had to do? He talked to a few people, was a butthead, and then reached into a gently flowing small waterfall. Baby!Rocky had to climb into a freaking active VOLCANO and pull his from lava... some quest this is.
So the Aquitian Rangers are fighting, and the monster grows, and they call the zords, and they win. Surprised? I didn't think so.
All the spider silk magically disappears and Billy is free. He ends up at the Command Center, where he hangs out with Baby!Rocky until Baby!Adam shows up. Rocky is excited to see him and proclaims "He shoots, he scores!" and yes, he will score, one day, when you're both grown up. Ahem.
Billy informs them the Aquitian Rangers are at the car wash again. Really? There is such a thing as a FAUCET in Angel Grove, I'm sure. It's this magical thing that drains water from pipes. It's the same water as the car wash, so they really could have just shoved the Aquitians under the showers in Billy's house and it would have the SAME EXACT effect. *bangs head against wall*
Did I mention how much I HATE the Zeo Quest?
Five fish. Just... enough with the stereotypes, okay show? Two down, three to go.
Billy speak: "I can't align the Zeo sub-crystals into a cohesive matrix, so even if we do get all five crystals, we'll never be able to combine their energies."
"Well I've always been interested in crystal energy coherence, but unfortunately the phase modulator at my high school lab wasn't advanced enough for my experiment."
Best line of the episode: Goldar: "I'm thinking!" Rito: "You must find that painful."
Fic we want: LotR/PR AU y/y/mfy?
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Episode 151 - Water You Thinking?
Hey - there's still time to sign up for the holiday fic exchange!
Anyway. This episode. It is RAGE INDUCING. Look, I love the Alien Rangers, but I freaking HATE the Zeo Quest. Why? Because it is all "Let us hit EVERY SINGLE STEREOTYPE we can think of!"
Also, the fish showed up in this episode as an actual plot point. You know this is going to be bad.
So, the episode begins with the baby!Rangers preparing to go on their quests. Aisha is snarky, Adam is worried, and Rocky is confused and has bad hair. It is like, everything I love in the world. The Aquitian Rangers give the baby!Rangers advice on their quests, and they're told to look to their heritage, and there's some nonsense about time travel and ending up in different eras, etc. As soon as they all jump through the hole, Cestro nearly passes out again from lack of hydration. Apparently, finding a pure water source is really hard. Whatever. So they decide to go to the Aquarium and ask the fish. NO, REALLY.
Zedd isn't going to try to use a weak monster, he's going to call in an old friend. Also, he's going to put up a forcefield around the Earth to prevent the Aquitian Rangers from calling their battle borgs. Except, you know, don't they also have the Shogun Zords?
Rocky lands in stereotype!Mexico. I proceed to have a rage blackout over his entire "plot" so I'm going to put it here. Rocky speaks no Spanish, but it's okay, because the random kid he runs into speaks perfect English (his English is way better than his Spanish was) but he also speaks Gratuitous Spanish! Because, you know, he can carry on a (relatively) complex conversation about a crystal in a volcano and a legend, but he doesn't know the word YES. So the kid takes Rocky to the volcano, and Rocky climbs into the (pink) volcano, and pulls out the crystal, and the whole village was waiting for him when he gets out! Because it turns out that the crystal was destabilizing the volcano, and Rocky pulling it out saved the village. But everyone else was too scared to do anything. Oh, and the random kid is Rocky's grandfather. And then Rocky teleports out in a blue triangle. LET US NEVER SPEAK OF THIS AGAIN.
Back in Angel Grove, Bulk and Skull are in detention. They have on Alien Rangers buttons, and Skull wants to know who would win in a fight - Darth Vader or the Alien Rangers. Bulk tells him he's stupid, because the Alien Rangers are real, and Darth Vader is not. (He should have asked about Batman instead. Batman exists in their universe!) Then Skull asks about Klingons. And then Dracula. I demand to know the answers to all of these questions. (I bet his next question was about Daleks.) Also, baby!Skull is such a geek, I love him. The boys then claim that they're going to do their science project on fish in honor of the Aquitian Rangers, and I start laughing.
At the Aquarium, Cestro communicates telepathically with a fish, which tells him to go to a quarry to find water. I think the fish are working for Zedd. The rest of the Aquitians stand around and are confused as Bulk and Skull ask to be beamed up to their space ship. So, Cestro gets ambushed and the others show up to help, and as predicted, they can't summon their Battle Borgs, so instead there's the Shogun Zord. The end.
Under the Command Center, Goldar and Rito are still trying to locate the Command Center. They separate, and Goldar leaves a trail of popcorn. Rito eats it. There are hijinks.
Fish: FIVE. ALL THE FISH IN THE WORLD.
Fic we want: AQUITIAN RANGERS VS EVERYONE.
Questions that need to be answered:
1-How are they explaining the disappearance of the baby!Rangers?
2-Where the hell is Billy living?
3-If there's time travel involved, why don't the Rangers reappear at the exact time they left?
4-How are they explaining Billy's friendship with the Aquitians? Is he their bodyguard or something?
5-How do the Aquitians speak Earth!Fish as well as Aquitian!Fish?
6-The only reason Doctor Who wasn't listed in the geeky things is because Skull is secretly The Doctor, Right?
Fic we want: AQUITIAN RANGERS VS DRACULA
Anyway. This episode. It is RAGE INDUCING. Look, I love the Alien Rangers, but I freaking HATE the Zeo Quest. Why? Because it is all "Let us hit EVERY SINGLE STEREOTYPE we can think of!"
Also, the fish showed up in this episode as an actual plot point. You know this is going to be bad.
So, the episode begins with the baby!Rangers preparing to go on their quests. Aisha is snarky, Adam is worried, and Rocky is confused and has bad hair. It is like, everything I love in the world. The Aquitian Rangers give the baby!Rangers advice on their quests, and they're told to look to their heritage, and there's some nonsense about time travel and ending up in different eras, etc. As soon as they all jump through the hole, Cestro nearly passes out again from lack of hydration. Apparently, finding a pure water source is really hard. Whatever. So they decide to go to the Aquarium and ask the fish. NO, REALLY.
Zedd isn't going to try to use a weak monster, he's going to call in an old friend. Also, he's going to put up a forcefield around the Earth to prevent the Aquitian Rangers from calling their battle borgs. Except, you know, don't they also have the Shogun Zords?
Rocky lands in stereotype!Mexico. I proceed to have a rage blackout over his entire "plot" so I'm going to put it here. Rocky speaks no Spanish, but it's okay, because the random kid he runs into speaks perfect English (his English is way better than his Spanish was) but he also speaks Gratuitous Spanish! Because, you know, he can carry on a (relatively) complex conversation about a crystal in a volcano and a legend, but he doesn't know the word YES. So the kid takes Rocky to the volcano, and Rocky climbs into the (pink) volcano, and pulls out the crystal, and the whole village was waiting for him when he gets out! Because it turns out that the crystal was destabilizing the volcano, and Rocky pulling it out saved the village. But everyone else was too scared to do anything. Oh, and the random kid is Rocky's grandfather. And then Rocky teleports out in a blue triangle. LET US NEVER SPEAK OF THIS AGAIN.
Back in Angel Grove, Bulk and Skull are in detention. They have on Alien Rangers buttons, and Skull wants to know who would win in a fight - Darth Vader or the Alien Rangers. Bulk tells him he's stupid, because the Alien Rangers are real, and Darth Vader is not. (He should have asked about Batman instead. Batman exists in their universe!) Then Skull asks about Klingons. And then Dracula. I demand to know the answers to all of these questions. (I bet his next question was about Daleks.) Also, baby!Skull is such a geek, I love him. The boys then claim that they're going to do their science project on fish in honor of the Aquitian Rangers, and I start laughing.
At the Aquarium, Cestro communicates telepathically with a fish, which tells him to go to a quarry to find water. I think the fish are working for Zedd. The rest of the Aquitians stand around and are confused as Bulk and Skull ask to be beamed up to their space ship. So, Cestro gets ambushed and the others show up to help, and as predicted, they can't summon their Battle Borgs, so instead there's the Shogun Zord. The end.
Under the Command Center, Goldar and Rito are still trying to locate the Command Center. They separate, and Goldar leaves a trail of popcorn. Rito eats it. There are hijinks.
Fish: FIVE. ALL THE FISH IN THE WORLD.
Fic we want: AQUITIAN RANGERS VS EVERYONE.
Questions that need to be answered:
1-How are they explaining the disappearance of the baby!Rangers?
2-Where the hell is Billy living?
3-If there's time travel involved, why don't the Rangers reappear at the exact time they left?
4-How are they explaining Billy's friendship with the Aquitians? Is he their bodyguard or something?
5-How do the Aquitians speak Earth!Fish as well as Aquitian!Fish?
6-The only reason Doctor Who wasn't listed in the geeky things is because Skull is secretly The Doctor, Right?
Fic we want: AQUITIAN RANGERS VS DRACULA
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Episode 111 - Wild West Rangers Part 2
Okay, let me get this out of the way first. This episode is filled with history fail and time travel fail and science fail, but I don't care. I love it so much. *draws millions of little hearts*
Previously, on Power Rangers - Kimberly is sent back in time in a ridiculously skimpy outfit, and I appreciate it a lot.
The episode opens with Kimberly and the Wild West Rangers confronting Goldar. Goldar welcomes them to Zedd & Ritaville, and I spend the rest of the episode singing Wasting away again in Zedd&Ritaville. (Some people claim that there's a Ranger to blame, but I know that it's Goldar's fault.)
For some reason the director chose to focus the shot on Kimberly's legs. I don't know what chose that particular artistic direction, but more power to the director. *shallow*
There's a particularly awesome fight, but sadly the Putties have all lost their horses. We guess the horses... ran away? Were scared by the fish? But they still have their hats and boots and vests, so it is a particularly great fight. And Kimberly morphs! We're not really sure how she managed to morph, because last time they got sent to the past, they couldn't morph. I'm guessing that maybe Zordon updated their morphers in the present after they got back from 17whatever? It doesn't really matter, because this episode is so filled with fish that it's way more fun to just smile, nod, and plot ridiculous AUs. (Ask me how the White Stranger is secretly the father of Jack from Newsies. Go on, I dare you.)
While Kimberly is fighting the Putties, One-Eye Bulk and Doc Skullivitch are escaping from jail. Well, they're trying, anyway. Bulk is stuck between the bars, because the show hasn't had a fat joke for a while. But then they see Kim, and decide that they will become famous by figuring out the identity of the Pink Stranger! (Um, really? New person in weird clothes comes to town? It isn't that hard.)
Kimberly teleports off to 1880s!Zordon, who has no idea that Angel Grove was being invaded. He... is not very good at this watching thing. But, it doesn't matter, because Kimberly has a plan! She tells Zordon she knows that Rita has the Green Coin, but she isn't sure what's with the other coins. Alpha tells her that they have them. According to Zordon, too much pink energy is dangerous (because Kim is just that awesome) but the other four coins can be used. That is...an awesome plan! You go, Kimberly!
Back in the future, there's some technobabble about chronitons or something, that will allow the Rangers to search the past to see Kim. They find Bulk and Skull first, and are amused at how similar past!them are to present!Bulk and Skull. (Bulk and Skull's grand plan involves pulling a diving rod out of Skull's ass.) And then they find Kim, who is giving the Power Coins to Rocko, William, Abraham and Miss Alicia. Zordon tells them that those teenagers are the first Earthlings to hold the Power Coins.
I am saying it right now, Kimberly created an alternate reality. All that's missing is Tommy randomly being evil with a beard. (Although if someone would like to write that AU, I would read it.)
The present!Rangers are suitably impressed, and Billy says "Prodigious" and both of us geek out. We missed Billy's dorkiness!
Back in 1880whatever, Kimberly and the Wild West Rangers are going through town. The awesome!Putties show up, and Rocky calls them VARMINTS. And I think it's about at this point that I'm just dead of laughter, which will continue to the end of the episode. The Wild West Rangers do pretty well for themselves - Rocky fights with a wash basin, Adam and Aisha dance, and Billy dodges, while Kimberly just kicks ass. (Billy doesn't believe in fisticuffs! ♥)
I... kinda ship past!Abraham/Miss Alicia. Except I ship Adam/Aisha, so that is just not working for me. But it would be SO CUTE and totally acceptable if this is completely AU, and someone should be writing this immediately.
Things are not going as well as it could, and then suddenly... It's the White Stranger! He shows up and is pretty ridiculous, and I am actually incredibly charmed by him in this episode. (Although that might be the champagne talking, IDEK.)
Kimberly grins at Goldar and tells him its time. William asks for what, and she yells that it's morphin time!
There are not enough words to express how awesome the 1880s costumes are. It is just so.... delightfully bad western movie. I'm completely and utterly charmed by it. And Adam and Aisha dance again. They are so adorable, I love them so much.
The Wild West Rangers fight, and for some reason we don't think that Johnny Yong Bosch or Karan Ashley were doing the voiceovers? It really doesn't sound like them. Anyway, the Wild West Rangers manage to push Goldar, the Putties and the Monster back through the time hole, so the past is safe!
However, now they need to deal with it in the future. Billy has come up with some not!science plan that involves their communicators to bring Kimberly back, but someone needs to go fight the monster. Tommy and Rocky morph and go fight, so that Billy can continue working and... Adam and Aisha can make out? Help Billy? Something. Sadly, Rocky and Tommy need help, so Billy needs to abandon his work so that they can go help form the megazord and defeat Needlenose.
After defeating the monster, everyone is very sad, because they think they might have lost Kim. They've only got one shot with Billy's device. Which works perfectly, of course, but why does the AU where Kimberly got stuck in the past not exist? (I firmly believe that the White Stranger in this time is a descendent of the version of Tommy that stayed behind in 1770something, making Tommy his own grandfather.)
Back in the 19th Century, the Wild West Rangers talk about how exciting this all was, and William totally had a crush on Kimberly (not that I blame him.) As the White Stranger rides off, we see 19th century!Kimberly in a carriage, staring at the White Stranger with a look on her face that says "Damn, that boy is fine." Oh, show. That... is really weird. I hope that they don't hook up! Unless it's an alternate reality where this doesn't lead to the Tommy and Kimberly we know. The episode ends with the White Stranger on his horse, cheering for the Pink Ranger. Because Kimberly is awesome.
Fish: 4. AHAHAHA It is ridiculous, but I love it SO MUCH.
Billy speak: "I've adapted these communicators to advance and adapt the teleporting mechanism to create a time hole."
Fic people should write us: More of this universe, please! (Also, the one where someone is researching in the library and they come across the legend of Calamity Kim and the Wild West Rangers.)
Previously, on Power Rangers - Kimberly is sent back in time in a ridiculously skimpy outfit, and I appreciate it a lot.
The episode opens with Kimberly and the Wild West Rangers confronting Goldar. Goldar welcomes them to Zedd & Ritaville, and I spend the rest of the episode singing Wasting away again in Zedd&Ritaville. (Some people claim that there's a Ranger to blame, but I know that it's Goldar's fault.)
For some reason the director chose to focus the shot on Kimberly's legs. I don't know what chose that particular artistic direction, but more power to the director. *shallow*
There's a particularly awesome fight, but sadly the Putties have all lost their horses. We guess the horses... ran away? Were scared by the fish? But they still have their hats and boots and vests, so it is a particularly great fight. And Kimberly morphs! We're not really sure how she managed to morph, because last time they got sent to the past, they couldn't morph. I'm guessing that maybe Zordon updated their morphers in the present after they got back from 17whatever? It doesn't really matter, because this episode is so filled with fish that it's way more fun to just smile, nod, and plot ridiculous AUs. (Ask me how the White Stranger is secretly the father of Jack from Newsies. Go on, I dare you.)
While Kimberly is fighting the Putties, One-Eye Bulk and Doc Skullivitch are escaping from jail. Well, they're trying, anyway. Bulk is stuck between the bars, because the show hasn't had a fat joke for a while. But then they see Kim, and decide that they will become famous by figuring out the identity of the Pink Stranger! (Um, really? New person in weird clothes comes to town? It isn't that hard.)
Kimberly teleports off to 1880s!Zordon, who has no idea that Angel Grove was being invaded. He... is not very good at this watching thing. But, it doesn't matter, because Kimberly has a plan! She tells Zordon she knows that Rita has the Green Coin, but she isn't sure what's with the other coins. Alpha tells her that they have them. According to Zordon, too much pink energy is dangerous (because Kim is just that awesome) but the other four coins can be used. That is...an awesome plan! You go, Kimberly!
Back in the future, there's some technobabble about chronitons or something, that will allow the Rangers to search the past to see Kim. They find Bulk and Skull first, and are amused at how similar past!them are to present!Bulk and Skull. (Bulk and Skull's grand plan involves pulling a diving rod out of Skull's ass.) And then they find Kim, who is giving the Power Coins to Rocko, William, Abraham and Miss Alicia. Zordon tells them that those teenagers are the first Earthlings to hold the Power Coins.
I am saying it right now, Kimberly created an alternate reality. All that's missing is Tommy randomly being evil with a beard. (Although if someone would like to write that AU, I would read it.)
The present!Rangers are suitably impressed, and Billy says "Prodigious" and both of us geek out. We missed Billy's dorkiness!
Back in 1880whatever, Kimberly and the Wild West Rangers are going through town. The awesome!Putties show up, and Rocky calls them VARMINTS. And I think it's about at this point that I'm just dead of laughter, which will continue to the end of the episode. The Wild West Rangers do pretty well for themselves - Rocky fights with a wash basin, Adam and Aisha dance, and Billy dodges, while Kimberly just kicks ass. (Billy doesn't believe in fisticuffs! ♥)
I... kinda ship past!Abraham/Miss Alicia. Except I ship Adam/Aisha, so that is just not working for me. But it would be SO CUTE and totally acceptable if this is completely AU, and someone should be writing this immediately.
Things are not going as well as it could, and then suddenly... It's the White Stranger! He shows up and is pretty ridiculous, and I am actually incredibly charmed by him in this episode. (Although that might be the champagne talking, IDEK.)
Kimberly grins at Goldar and tells him its time. William asks for what, and she yells that it's morphin time!
There are not enough words to express how awesome the 1880s costumes are. It is just so.... delightfully bad western movie. I'm completely and utterly charmed by it. And Adam and Aisha dance again. They are so adorable, I love them so much.
The Wild West Rangers fight, and for some reason we don't think that Johnny Yong Bosch or Karan Ashley were doing the voiceovers? It really doesn't sound like them. Anyway, the Wild West Rangers manage to push Goldar, the Putties and the Monster back through the time hole, so the past is safe!
However, now they need to deal with it in the future. Billy has come up with some not!science plan that involves their communicators to bring Kimberly back, but someone needs to go fight the monster. Tommy and Rocky morph and go fight, so that Billy can continue working and... Adam and Aisha can make out? Help Billy? Something. Sadly, Rocky and Tommy need help, so Billy needs to abandon his work so that they can go help form the megazord and defeat Needlenose.
After defeating the monster, everyone is very sad, because they think they might have lost Kim. They've only got one shot with Billy's device. Which works perfectly, of course, but why does the AU where Kimberly got stuck in the past not exist? (I firmly believe that the White Stranger in this time is a descendent of the version of Tommy that stayed behind in 1770something, making Tommy his own grandfather.)
Back in the 19th Century, the Wild West Rangers talk about how exciting this all was, and William totally had a crush on Kimberly (not that I blame him.) As the White Stranger rides off, we see 19th century!Kimberly in a carriage, staring at the White Stranger with a look on her face that says "Damn, that boy is fine." Oh, show. That... is really weird. I hope that they don't hook up! Unless it's an alternate reality where this doesn't lead to the Tommy and Kimberly we know. The episode ends with the White Stranger on his horse, cheering for the Pink Ranger. Because Kimberly is awesome.
Fish: 4. AHAHAHA It is ridiculous, but I love it SO MUCH.
Billy speak: "I've adapted these communicators to advance and adapt the teleporting mechanism to create a time hole."
Fic people should write us: More of this universe, please! (Also, the one where someone is researching in the library and they come across the legend of Calamity Kim and the Wild West Rangers.)
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Episode 110- Wild West Rangers Part 1
Today on Power Rangers, putties are awesome! And people from Texas are very bad at southern accents. *is confused*
So we start out with Tommy giving Kim a cactus as a present. She seems to like it, though I'm not sure why anybody would give a cactus as a present? But I'm not a plant person, and Kim is, so that probably has something to do with it. Anyway, Zedd zaps the cactus away while everybody is looking at it, and yet nobody notices it was magicked away. Kim instead accuses her friends of playing a joke and hiding it from her. They didn't, of course, and then they notice a strange greenish goo on the table where the cactus was sitting. Billy touches it and rubs it between his fingers before deciding they should take it to the Command Center to analyze it. Really, Billy? Discussing this in the middle of the Youth Center? Probably not the best way to maintain those secret identities.
They all go the hallway to teleport away, but Kim, wearing the skimpiest outfit I've seen on anybody outside of pron, manages to get left behind. Her teleporter won't work. She is sucked into some glowy rainbow vortex and deposited into the desert. The others, curious what's happened, discover she's been sucked through a time hole, which is a rip in the fabric of time, and is randomly occurring right in front of the lockers in the hallway of the Youth Center.
Kim gets up and tries to contact Zordon, but can't. One-Eyed Bulk and Doc Skullovitch are nearby, so she hides behind a giant boulder while they try to rob a stagecoach driven by Adam and Rocky. The stagecoach and our dapper drivers are saved by The White Stranger. He chases off One-Eyed Bulk and Doc Skullovitch, who happened to bring the wrong guns to the fight. Kim is spotted and comes out from behind the rock, only to faint at the sight of Tommy as The White Stranger. She freaking FAINTS, people. I raged for awhile.
Can I take a moment to marvel that the Native American is not trying to kill the white people, and the Asian and Latino are not being forced into hard deadly labour? I'm not sure Kim is really in 1880 here.
Anyway, moving on. Nobody comments on Kim's total lack of clothing, even though she'd surely be accused of being a woman of ill repute. They have dragged her back to Ernest's Juice Saloon, where she wakes up and is confronted by Abraham (Adam), Alicia (Aisha), William (Billy), and Rocko (Rocky). She kind of freaks out a little and goes outside to discover it is 1880 Angel Grove. At least with THIS time travel episode, Angel Grove could actually exist in the time period she's been transported to.
Okay, I have to take a minute here. The accents, while I'm sure fun to do (as I believe Karan Ashley is quoted), were really really BAD. I mean, seriously? I expected more from at least Karan, Johnny, and Steve! They're all from TEXAS! For crying out loud, even if you don't have the accent yourself, you're surrounded by southerners with thick southern accents that are relatively easy to imitate! I should know, I lived there for 13 years. :P
Back in the ranger time, Billy has managed to track down Kim. They decide to morph and go through the time hole to rescue her, though if it's unstable and unpredictable, how do they know they'll end up at the same time and place as Kim? Do they have a time machine? Did they realize Skull's garage is a TARDIS? I'm guessing it's more a case of a huge school of fish.
They can't get to the time hole, though, because Zedd has turned Kim's cactus into a monster. It, Goldar, and a bunch of putties are heading to the time hole to go back in time and they have to try and stop them. The rangers intercept them and we wonder why they weren't teleported right to the time hole. We figure Zedd's targeting has some fish in it. The putties strike some hilariously awesome poses and then the cactus shoots the rangers with it's paralyzing spore spikes. Or something.
Oh noes, the rangers are down! Who will save them? THE MIGHTY MORPHIN DALEK RANGERS, of course!
Or not, but it would have been totally awesome, right? The rangers don't intercept and Goldar and the cactus monster DO make it to the Youth Center... where nobody flips out or runs around screaming. They just waltz right in and straight through the time hole. Aisha is sure Kim has already beat the monster otherwise their time would be different, but Billy says it's a paradox and their time won't change until Kim fights the monster. Which is SOOOOO not how time travel works, even in their own continuity. That's not even how it worked the LAST time travel episode!
So back in 1880, Kim, who has identified herself as Calamity Kim, is being held up by One-Eyed Bulk and Doc Skullovitch. Skull gets shocked by her communicator and then Bulk falls in a water trough while Adam and Rocky, I'm sorry, Abraham and Rocko, arrest them. I didn't know they were fine gentlemen of the law, but okay, I'll go with it. Kim decides to tell them what's going on with her. They mostly believe her, though Billy does question if she's having a laugh with them. They are called outside to see some commotion and discover a bunch of putties wreaking havoc on HORSES. That's right, putties on HORSES. Who steal clothes. Because they are AWESOME. OMG you guys, seriously, it's the BEST THING EVER.
Then the cactus guy and Goldar show up and Kim is all concerned. To Be Continued!
List time:
4.5 for time travel not working like that, history not working like that, and absolute utter FAILURE at remaining even the slightest bit consistent with previous episodes.
Billy speak:
"It's a cactal vaciferous(?)" (which I think he totally just made up, but whatever)
"I'm having trouble moving my signal through the time barrier."
"I may have to check the power transformer. We may have to increase the surge to carry the ongoing signal."
"It's a paradox. Our world won't change until Kimberly battles the monster in her time."
Covered in food: Bulk fell in the water trough. Poor Bulk.
So we start out with Tommy giving Kim a cactus as a present. She seems to like it, though I'm not sure why anybody would give a cactus as a present? But I'm not a plant person, and Kim is, so that probably has something to do with it. Anyway, Zedd zaps the cactus away while everybody is looking at it, and yet nobody notices it was magicked away. Kim instead accuses her friends of playing a joke and hiding it from her. They didn't, of course, and then they notice a strange greenish goo on the table where the cactus was sitting. Billy touches it and rubs it between his fingers before deciding they should take it to the Command Center to analyze it. Really, Billy? Discussing this in the middle of the Youth Center? Probably not the best way to maintain those secret identities.
They all go the hallway to teleport away, but Kim, wearing the skimpiest outfit I've seen on anybody outside of pron, manages to get left behind. Her teleporter won't work. She is sucked into some glowy rainbow vortex and deposited into the desert. The others, curious what's happened, discover she's been sucked through a time hole, which is a rip in the fabric of time, and is randomly occurring right in front of the lockers in the hallway of the Youth Center.
Kim gets up and tries to contact Zordon, but can't. One-Eyed Bulk and Doc Skullovitch are nearby, so she hides behind a giant boulder while they try to rob a stagecoach driven by Adam and Rocky. The stagecoach and our dapper drivers are saved by The White Stranger. He chases off One-Eyed Bulk and Doc Skullovitch, who happened to bring the wrong guns to the fight. Kim is spotted and comes out from behind the rock, only to faint at the sight of Tommy as The White Stranger. She freaking FAINTS, people. I raged for awhile.
Can I take a moment to marvel that the Native American is not trying to kill the white people, and the Asian and Latino are not being forced into hard deadly labour? I'm not sure Kim is really in 1880 here.
Anyway, moving on. Nobody comments on Kim's total lack of clothing, even though she'd surely be accused of being a woman of ill repute. They have dragged her back to Ernest's Juice Saloon, where she wakes up and is confronted by Abraham (Adam), Alicia (Aisha), William (Billy), and Rocko (Rocky). She kind of freaks out a little and goes outside to discover it is 1880 Angel Grove. At least with THIS time travel episode, Angel Grove could actually exist in the time period she's been transported to.
Okay, I have to take a minute here. The accents, while I'm sure fun to do (as I believe Karan Ashley is quoted), were really really BAD. I mean, seriously? I expected more from at least Karan, Johnny, and Steve! They're all from TEXAS! For crying out loud, even if you don't have the accent yourself, you're surrounded by southerners with thick southern accents that are relatively easy to imitate! I should know, I lived there for 13 years. :P
Back in the ranger time, Billy has managed to track down Kim. They decide to morph and go through the time hole to rescue her, though if it's unstable and unpredictable, how do they know they'll end up at the same time and place as Kim? Do they have a time machine? Did they realize Skull's garage is a TARDIS? I'm guessing it's more a case of a huge school of fish.
They can't get to the time hole, though, because Zedd has turned Kim's cactus into a monster. It, Goldar, and a bunch of putties are heading to the time hole to go back in time and they have to try and stop them. The rangers intercept them and we wonder why they weren't teleported right to the time hole. We figure Zedd's targeting has some fish in it. The putties strike some hilariously awesome poses and then the cactus shoots the rangers with it's paralyzing spore spikes. Or something.
Oh noes, the rangers are down! Who will save them? THE MIGHTY MORPHIN DALEK RANGERS, of course!
Or not, but it would have been totally awesome, right? The rangers don't intercept and Goldar and the cactus monster DO make it to the Youth Center... where nobody flips out or runs around screaming. They just waltz right in and straight through the time hole. Aisha is sure Kim has already beat the monster otherwise their time would be different, but Billy says it's a paradox and their time won't change until Kim fights the monster. Which is SOOOOO not how time travel works, even in their own continuity. That's not even how it worked the LAST time travel episode!
So back in 1880, Kim, who has identified herself as Calamity Kim, is being held up by One-Eyed Bulk and Doc Skullovitch. Skull gets shocked by her communicator and then Bulk falls in a water trough while Adam and Rocky, I'm sorry, Abraham and Rocko, arrest them. I didn't know they were fine gentlemen of the law, but okay, I'll go with it. Kim decides to tell them what's going on with her. They mostly believe her, though Billy does question if she's having a laugh with them. They are called outside to see some commotion and discover a bunch of putties wreaking havoc on HORSES. That's right, putties on HORSES. Who steal clothes. Because they are AWESOME. OMG you guys, seriously, it's the BEST THING EVER.
Then the cactus guy and Goldar show up and Kim is all concerned. To Be Continued!
List time:
4.5 for time travel not working like that, history not working like that, and absolute utter FAILURE at remaining even the slightest bit consistent with previous episodes.
Billy speak:
"It's a cactal vaciferous(?)" (which I think he totally just made up, but whatever)
"I'm having trouble moving my signal through the time barrier."
"I may have to check the power transformer. We may have to increase the surge to carry the ongoing signal."
"It's a paradox. Our world won't change until Kimberly battles the monster in her time."
Covered in food: Bulk fell in the water trough. Poor Bulk.
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