So hey! DragonCon. That was a thing that happened. Did I see any of you at the Power Rangers panel on Saturday? But as I now owe TWO con reports, I guess I should talk about the recap instead.
Well. That last episode was super boring, right? I guess we know why all the fish abandoned that one, they were needed for this episode.
We start off with villain guy kidnapping people from Terra Venture to make them slaves. Because apparently what Lost Galaxy really needs is a slave AU. (I'm totally serious about this.) We'd also like to point out that villain guy has an amazing horned helmet, and somewhere Loki is super jealous.
Mike is very upset about the slave situation. Kai is playing... is that 3D chess? YES. Oh right, while we got distracted over that, Mike comes up with a plan for him to get kidnapped and taken and the others can go after him. He refuses to let Leo go with him. This plan seems to be working just fine, and Mutiny welcomes them to his slave camp, and we get Mike in chains. *____* (And at some point after he's chained, he removes some of his clothing to show off his nice arms.)
The slaves are all digging for jewels (which are all shiny immediately out of the ground), and some old man is being threatened for not working fast enough. Mike helps a woman who collapses, even though she tells him not to help her. Turns out if you help someone else out, you'll both get destroyed or something.
Mike gets beaten by the villain, but slave woman manages to help him since Mike had given his collected jewels to her grandfather.
Kai starts studying the book, and Leo suggests reading the spell backwards. MAYBE YOU SHOULD WAIT TO DO THIS UNTIL AFTER YOU HAVE MIKE BACK, YOU IDIOTS. Anyway, we get a lights show, and the two hide behind a couch, until they realize they did it. Everyone is very excited that the portal is open, and now they're about to leave. HEY, MIKE IS STILL A SLAVE, MORONS.
All the slaves are being led back to their cells, when Mike grabs random girl and tackles her. She tries to refuse to leave without her grandfather, which nearly gets them caught, so then her grandfather causes a distraction and gets put in a "special" cell.
Mike calls the others and tells them 30 minutes (how do they know they won't be through the portal by then?) and starts the escape. I don't know why he wanted the thirty minute delay, since getting all the Rangers there would HELP EARLIER. But planning is clearly not their strong suit. All the slaves start to board the Megaship, but the girl refuses to leave without her grandfather, who is still locked up. Shouldn't they have grabbed him earlier? Fish. So many fish.
Girl and Mike release the grandfather from the stockade, and then Mike morphs, sending the other two back to the ship. Girl and grandfather make it back to the ship, but Mike is still fighting. The rangers hand out blankets to everyone, and the girl figures out that Mike is still missing. Mutiny fires at the Rangers, but Mike distracts him long enough for the Rangers and former slaves to escape.
Instead, Mike gets hit and knocked out, and the villains decide to go to stop Terra Venture from reaching the portal. Mike is visiting by the spirit of the Magna Defender, who tells him that he has his most important mission ever. The portal is rapidly closing, and Mike in the Torozord shows up and holds the wormhole portal open, which somehow a) restores the wormhole (how has Terra Venture NOT gone through yet?) and b) blows Mike up? The amount of science doesn't work that way can't be stressed enough.
Both ships make it through the portal, and Mutiny follows them, but Trakeena is having NONE of it, and she blows them up, because she is GREAT and doesn't want the competition.
Leo goes searching for Mike, and he finds his UNMORPHED BODY floating in space. Leo's main concern is that his MORPHER has been destroyed, not that Mike should be DEAD. Of course, turns out that Mike is still alive, but he's lost his powers, and that's it. The Magna Defender's spirit shows up and thanks him for everything, but SPACE DOES NOT WORK LIKE THAT.
If he'd stayed MORPHED until Leo had got him, I would have bought that and it would have been super dramatic, etc. BUT SPACE DOES NOT WORK LIKE THAT. I will BUY THAT THEY CAN BREATHE ON THE MOON, BECAUSE REASONS. But I can't buy this. I'm sorry, that is RIDICULOUS.
Fish: FIVE. And this episode is lucky we can't redo the fish scale so I could give it TEN.
Fic we want: I wasn't kidding about the slave AU.
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Sunday, September 9, 2012
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Episode 311- The Rescue Mission
I am steadfastly refusing to acknowledge the last episode even existed (because otherwise I feel dirty and wrong). It didn't happen. It wasn't there. Instead, I downed an entire glass of wine in 15 minutes. Probably not the best life choice, but it got me through that-which-shall-not-be-named.
So I get the not-really-power-rangers episode of power rangers.
There is a distress call! It's all static-y! Somebody somewhere is under attack! Commander Stanton is trying to figure out where they are because he is so going to help. Hey, it's like the start of all my favourite sci-fi movies!
(in the opening, Leo rips his shirt so beautifully... I really want to see that again, kthanks show)
So Kai tracks down the origination of the signal and the Commander and Mike take it to the upper decision making people. They have to decide if they should divert course to go help or continue on to the colony and ignore them. Mike is all about helping, because helping is second nature and they may be in trouble some day too and they wouldn't want to be ignored. I like Mike. He is a wise man.
He also gets to lead the mission! Because he is awesome, although not nearly dramatically swishy enough. He wants Leo to go with and finds him playing with a group of Tiny Children, which is utterly adorable. They board the ship which appears to be dead in space. Poor ship (is it wrong that the rescue mission ship looks like a fish and the first thing I thought was "OMG OUR SCALE IS CANON IN THIS SHOW TOO!"?).
There is video monitoring and tracking and things are covered in webs and OMG IT IS THE BEST SCI-FI HORROR MOVIE EVER! WHO WILL DIE FIRST? THIS IS THE GREATEST! I know, I know, the first guy to go will be the guy who steps in weird green goo. Or maybe not die, because this is Power Rangers. But they do find a dead crew member. And doors being eaten by the green goo.
This leads them to the bridge, where the distress call is broadcasting on repeat. The captain is long since dead, unfortunately. He was clinging tenaciously to a book of some sort so they take it back with them. Meanwhile, Kai spots movement that isn't their crew. It's rapidly approaching and all they can do is watch in horror while this otherworldly thing goes after their rescue crew. And the radio signal breaks up! THIS IS DELIGHTFUL! The THING got Jasper. The rest of the crew starts to freak out, as you do when you watch some unknown thing run away with your buddy.
Mike makes the executive decision to continue with the rescue mission, despite all the crew being long since dead (I guess he's going to find Jasper?). They trawl through the bowels of the ship, you guys! THE BOWELS OF THE SHIP!!!! It is here they find the unknown creature. It's clearly alien (duh) and it's attacking them with claws and things are chaotic and wires are torn and people go missing and IT CLIMBS ON THE CEILING GUYS! It wants to eat Leo. I can't blame it. I do, too.
They find the missing crew wrapped in cocoons and apparently being host to something or being stored for later food? It's AWESOME.
Kai is distraught because he can't get a signal on his boyfriend. Luckily Kendrix is brilliant and has an idea. She, Kai, and Maya morph and go start getting people off the ship. Leo and Mike have to buy some time to get the injured off the ship so they go after the unknown creature. They distract it and there is running and more ceiling running. But then they fire their guns and shoot it, poor thing, and somehow blow up a bunch of stuff. The creature kind of looks like a slightly overweight Terrian from Earth 2...
Leo and Mike continue to run away and find an airlock, that is jammed, so they blast it open with guns and step aside and somehow manage to avoid being sucked out into open space. Luckily the rescue ship shows up and they jump across... y'know, through open space without holding their breath or freezing or IMPLODING. Science does not work this way. Battlestar Galactica did this bit better (and they failed at a lot of things on that show).
Mike almost makes it but alien guy grabs his foot while Leo holds his hand and refuses to let go. Mike tries to make him let go, but Leo won't, not this time. It is touching brotherly love. He pulls Mike in and the ship blows up but everybody is safe and they go home all in one piece. Good job guys.
3 fish (because space really really really does NOT work even close to that). This episode is like the best of the wraith from Stargate Atlantis meets Alien meets Firefly meets Event Horizon meets Star Trek meets (yes, I had to include it) Starship Troopers and and and! THIS WAS THE BEST EPISODE OF POWER RANGERS I HAVE EVER SEEN.
So I get the not-really-power-rangers episode of power rangers.
There is a distress call! It's all static-y! Somebody somewhere is under attack! Commander Stanton is trying to figure out where they are because he is so going to help. Hey, it's like the start of all my favourite sci-fi movies!
(in the opening, Leo rips his shirt so beautifully... I really want to see that again, kthanks show)
So Kai tracks down the origination of the signal and the Commander and Mike take it to the upper decision making people. They have to decide if they should divert course to go help or continue on to the colony and ignore them. Mike is all about helping, because helping is second nature and they may be in trouble some day too and they wouldn't want to be ignored. I like Mike. He is a wise man.
He also gets to lead the mission! Because he is awesome, although not nearly dramatically swishy enough. He wants Leo to go with and finds him playing with a group of Tiny Children, which is utterly adorable. They board the ship which appears to be dead in space. Poor ship (is it wrong that the rescue mission ship looks like a fish and the first thing I thought was "OMG OUR SCALE IS CANON IN THIS SHOW TOO!"?).
There is video monitoring and tracking and things are covered in webs and OMG IT IS THE BEST SCI-FI HORROR MOVIE EVER! WHO WILL DIE FIRST? THIS IS THE GREATEST! I know, I know, the first guy to go will be the guy who steps in weird green goo. Or maybe not die, because this is Power Rangers. But they do find a dead crew member. And doors being eaten by the green goo.
This leads them to the bridge, where the distress call is broadcasting on repeat. The captain is long since dead, unfortunately. He was clinging tenaciously to a book of some sort so they take it back with them. Meanwhile, Kai spots movement that isn't their crew. It's rapidly approaching and all they can do is watch in horror while this otherworldly thing goes after their rescue crew. And the radio signal breaks up! THIS IS DELIGHTFUL! The THING got Jasper. The rest of the crew starts to freak out, as you do when you watch some unknown thing run away with your buddy.
Mike makes the executive decision to continue with the rescue mission, despite all the crew being long since dead (I guess he's going to find Jasper?). They trawl through the bowels of the ship, you guys! THE BOWELS OF THE SHIP!!!! It is here they find the unknown creature. It's clearly alien (duh) and it's attacking them with claws and things are chaotic and wires are torn and people go missing and IT CLIMBS ON THE CEILING GUYS! It wants to eat Leo. I can't blame it. I do, too.
They find the missing crew wrapped in cocoons and apparently being host to something or being stored for later food? It's AWESOME.
Kai is distraught because he can't get a signal on his boyfriend. Luckily Kendrix is brilliant and has an idea. She, Kai, and Maya morph and go start getting people off the ship. Leo and Mike have to buy some time to get the injured off the ship so they go after the unknown creature. They distract it and there is running and more ceiling running. But then they fire their guns and shoot it, poor thing, and somehow blow up a bunch of stuff. The creature kind of looks like a slightly overweight Terrian from Earth 2...
Leo and Mike continue to run away and find an airlock, that is jammed, so they blast it open with guns and step aside and somehow manage to avoid being sucked out into open space. Luckily the rescue ship shows up and they jump across... y'know, through open space without holding their breath or freezing or IMPLODING. Science does not work this way. Battlestar Galactica did this bit better (and they failed at a lot of things on that show).
Mike almost makes it but alien guy grabs his foot while Leo holds his hand and refuses to let go. Mike tries to make him let go, but Leo won't, not this time. It is touching brotherly love. He pulls Mike in and the ship blows up but everybody is safe and they go home all in one piece. Good job guys.
3 fish (because space really really really does NOT work even close to that). This episode is like the best of the wraith from Stargate Atlantis meets Alien meets Firefly meets Event Horizon meets Star Trek meets (yes, I had to include it) Starship Troopers and and and! THIS WAS THE BEST EPISODE OF POWER RANGERS I HAVE EVER SEEN.
Episode 310 - Stolen Beauty
I have been incredibly cranky for almost a week now, so I actually requested this episode. Why? Because if I'm going to be annoyed with something, I might as well be annoyed with something that deserves it. In case you can't tell, I do not like this episode. I could do a whole feminism 101 post and talk about the representation of women in media, but I really don't feel like it and you can google it anyway. The point is, I have a lot of feelings about this episode and everything is symbolizes, and I really fucking hate stealing beauty plots as if that is the only thing important about (cis) women. I am also not going to rant about beauty standards and what it is that beauty actually means, and especially whether we're talking about western ideals of beauty and seriously, everything about this is bullshit.
Disclaimer: I am going to try and talk about these things to the best of my ability, but if I screw up and say something ridiculous or offensive, please let me know and I will do my best to fix it.
So. Episode.
We open with Trakeena pulling an evil Queen from Snow White, and the mirror tells her that she's the most beautiful, except for a lot of other girls from Terra Venture, so she immediately orders the monster to steal all the beauty from the women (almost all white, thin and "conventionally attractive") which... makes their skin yellow and purple and turns the beauty into sand? There is really only so many times that I can loudly scream BULLSHIT, right?
The monster goes after some more women, and the Rangers show up to fight him, and I'm honestly spending most of this time ranting angrily because FEELINGS and RAGE. Also, I'm explaining to QR that this isn't a stealing inner beauty thing, this is basically all about physical appearances.
Trakeena is all happy that all the beauty has been stolen, but decides she will go see for herself. She turns herself into another thin white woman, and apparently she's so hot that all the men (because everyone on the station is straight apparently) can't control themselves and lose track of everything but how hot she is and just follow her around and this is SUPER DISTURBING AND WRONG, AND SHOW, WHAT SORT OF MESSAGE DO YOU THINK YOU ARE GIVING HERE.
Trakeena sees Mike and goes after him, and we see him in a bar which is apparently run by Bulk and the Professor. (Hey, they exist.) The two of them apparently got fired and now they're running a bar. Trakeena comes in and everyone immediately hits on her, and Mike appears to be the only one unaffected. Bulk gives Trakeena Mike's food, and she promptly puts a potion on it and returns it to him.
She flirts with him really badly, but he's also really bad at it. (Seriously, you live around here? On a space station? Worst ever.) He doesn't eat the burger because he's late to meet the others, but he invites her along. Back on Scorpius's ship, Scorpius is all excited about a cocoon that is being built for Trakeena.
Mike introduces Trakeena to the other rangers, and the boys are all immediately in love with her, but the girls are fine, because apparently there are no LGB people on Terra Venture. The boys are openly discussing how hot Trakeena is and the girls are clearly annoyed.
The monster shows back up, and starts to steal the beauty from the girls, but Trakeena is like "it's me, you idiot" so it only attacks Kendrix and Maya. Mike escorts Trakeena away, while the boys fight. Apparently losing their beauty has also made them unconscious.
Mike says he's escorting Trakeena home, but instead they go buy some drinks, and she spikes his.He drinks it and appears to pass out. The monster shows up and hands Trakeena the sand, but it turns out that Mike had switched the glasses when her back was turned, and the sand magically makes everyone white again.
FUCK THIS EPISODE. There are some serious unfortunate implications here, show. YOU ARE USUALLY BETTER ABOUT SUCH THINGS.
The Rangers all morph and fight. QR and I discuss how drunk we need to get to finish this episode. I'm seriously considering breaking out the vodka. And judging by the sentai footage, this was supposed to be an episode about Kendrix, so I can be cranky about how Kendrix should have had more to do as well. (So, in an episode about female beauty standards, all Kendrix and Maya have had to do are be annoyed with Trakeena and get knocked out. Whaaaaaaaaaaaat.) The fugly zords get summoned and they destroy the monster.
Later, Mike does a magic trick, and Damon is really impressed. Because it's all an illusion, like Trakeena's beauty, apparently. WAIT, IS THAT THE MORAL OF THIS STORY? And then the boys are horrified by the girls' beauty regimens.
Show. WE ARE GOING TO HAVE WORDS.
Trakeena doesn't want to get put into the cocoon because she doesn't want to be ugly. Instead, she runs away.
Fish: FIVE. I AM SO PISSED OFF. This is wrong on so many levels, and frankly, incredibly fucking disturbing, and I am going to have some vodka and strike this episode from my personal canon.
Disclaimer: I am going to try and talk about these things to the best of my ability, but if I screw up and say something ridiculous or offensive, please let me know and I will do my best to fix it.
So. Episode.
We open with Trakeena pulling an evil Queen from Snow White, and the mirror tells her that she's the most beautiful, except for a lot of other girls from Terra Venture, so she immediately orders the monster to steal all the beauty from the women (almost all white, thin and "conventionally attractive") which... makes their skin yellow and purple and turns the beauty into sand? There is really only so many times that I can loudly scream BULLSHIT, right?
The monster goes after some more women, and the Rangers show up to fight him, and I'm honestly spending most of this time ranting angrily because FEELINGS and RAGE. Also, I'm explaining to QR that this isn't a stealing inner beauty thing, this is basically all about physical appearances.
Trakeena is all happy that all the beauty has been stolen, but decides she will go see for herself. She turns herself into another thin white woman, and apparently she's so hot that all the men (because everyone on the station is straight apparently) can't control themselves and lose track of everything but how hot she is and just follow her around and this is SUPER DISTURBING AND WRONG, AND SHOW, WHAT SORT OF MESSAGE DO YOU THINK YOU ARE GIVING HERE.
Trakeena sees Mike and goes after him, and we see him in a bar which is apparently run by Bulk and the Professor. (Hey, they exist.) The two of them apparently got fired and now they're running a bar. Trakeena comes in and everyone immediately hits on her, and Mike appears to be the only one unaffected. Bulk gives Trakeena Mike's food, and she promptly puts a potion on it and returns it to him.
She flirts with him really badly, but he's also really bad at it. (Seriously, you live around here? On a space station? Worst ever.) He doesn't eat the burger because he's late to meet the others, but he invites her along. Back on Scorpius's ship, Scorpius is all excited about a cocoon that is being built for Trakeena.
Mike introduces Trakeena to the other rangers, and the boys are all immediately in love with her, but the girls are fine, because apparently there are no LGB people on Terra Venture. The boys are openly discussing how hot Trakeena is and the girls are clearly annoyed.
The monster shows back up, and starts to steal the beauty from the girls, but Trakeena is like "it's me, you idiot" so it only attacks Kendrix and Maya. Mike escorts Trakeena away, while the boys fight. Apparently losing their beauty has also made them unconscious.
Mike says he's escorting Trakeena home, but instead they go buy some drinks, and she spikes his.He drinks it and appears to pass out. The monster shows up and hands Trakeena the sand, but it turns out that Mike had switched the glasses when her back was turned, and the sand magically makes everyone white again.
FUCK THIS EPISODE. There are some serious unfortunate implications here, show. YOU ARE USUALLY BETTER ABOUT SUCH THINGS.
The Rangers all morph and fight. QR and I discuss how drunk we need to get to finish this episode. I'm seriously considering breaking out the vodka. And judging by the sentai footage, this was supposed to be an episode about Kendrix, so I can be cranky about how Kendrix should have had more to do as well. (So, in an episode about female beauty standards, all Kendrix and Maya have had to do are be annoyed with Trakeena and get knocked out. Whaaaaaaaaaaaat.) The fugly zords get summoned and they destroy the monster.
Later, Mike does a magic trick, and Damon is really impressed. Because it's all an illusion, like Trakeena's beauty, apparently. WAIT, IS THAT THE MORAL OF THIS STORY? And then the boys are horrified by the girls' beauty regimens.
Show. WE ARE GOING TO HAVE WORDS.
Trakeena doesn't want to get put into the cocoon because she doesn't want to be ugly. Instead, she runs away.
Fish: FIVE. I AM SO PISSED OFF. This is wrong on so many levels, and frankly, incredibly fucking disturbing, and I am going to have some vodka and strike this episode from my personal canon.
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Episode 309 - Destined For Greatness
So Mike and his beautifully floppy hair are back!
Everyone is toasting Mike (oooh, champagne, want some) and Leo tells Mike that he knew he had survived. Mike has SUCH A SAD about it and recaps the whole Magna Defender arch again, because... it isn't like we just watched it? Okay, admittedly there was like four months between episodes or something. But now EVERYONE has a sad about the Magna Defender. Mike wonders how he is going to explain where he was, and everyone laughs, except for Leo, who has a sad.
Trakeena is sulking about how she can't battle the Rangers, and how her dad never lets her do anything. But he has a new plan, that is going to involve kidnapping, so you know I am all over this.
Leo is staring at the Quasar saber and having a sad, and Kendrix drives over in the cute little car. Leo is apparently waiting for Mike, and Kendrix isn't sure why Leo has a sad, when he has his brother back. Luckily, she is smart, and figures out that he's having the sad about which one of them is destined to use the saber, since Mike DID pull it from the stone and all.
Mike is all "life is short, smell the flowers, life needs to mean something" etc, and Leo is about to tell him about all the feelings, when there's an attack. We get some unmorphed fighting, which makes me really happy, and then the other four Rangers get kidnapped and caught in some mirrors or something. Leo gets injured (but one that sadly does not result in shirtlessness) and Mike forces them to retreat. He is totally protecting his little brother. ♥
Leo yells at Mike for making them retreat, but Mike is all "don't worry, my dog tags are magic tracking devices and I put one on a stingwinger" because apparently they're made out of a special metal and are the only ones on the station. Mike and Leo track down the monsters while the Rangers' energy is being used to make finger puppets that grow. We get some more unmorphed fighting!
During the fight, the saber gets knocked out of Leo's hands, and Mike picks it up, and hands it to him. Leo tells Mike that Mike deserves it, but Mike is all "no, you are the red ranger now." They argue about destiny and who is the one that deserves the sword, and it's pretty sweet and touching, and awww, boys!
Leo uses the saber to destroy one of the skeleton things, and Mike is all "there is no other red ranger" and while I'm sure there are 17 others who would argue with that, it is a very sweet moment.
Mike and Leo continue the unmorphed fighting for a while, and then the monster yells "you don't know who you're dealing with" and Leo replies "neither do you" and then shoots fireballs at him. It is so DELIGHTFULLY CHEESY and I love it. The other Rangers are able to escape, and it looks like Kendrix and Leo are about to make out. The five Rangers morphs and Mike is all "my brother and his friends are awesome" and he keeps fighting anyway, because his floppy hair is all the protection he needs.
The Rangers summon the fish of orion, and then the monster grows. The fugly megazord is having some trouble against the monster, and it gets trapped, and suddenly the Magna Defender shows up, and presents his sword to Mike. Now Mike can be a Ranger too! (Yes, I am on team Magna Defender is a Ranger, just so you know.) He transforms and gets the dramatic flowy cape and summons Torozord and saves the day!
Everyone is like "cool" and then Damon insults his zord choice, because Damon is great. Torozord does not agree. (Damon, I'm sorry, but it looks way less ridiculous then your zord does.)
There's a meeting of the Terra Venture higher up council of something, and we find out that they have traveled 5.6 lightyears and apparently that's almost to the next galaxy or something, because they fail to understand how space works. Mike shows up and interrupts the meeting to try to explain where he was (and fails miserably) and all of the ruling council people are just "I'm sure he has an explanation" because they are NOT STUPID and understand how sixth rangers work.
Fish: 2! Good job, Lost Galaxy! Please keep up the ridiculous cheesy brothers being awesome and what... wait... what episode is next? NOOOOOOOOOOOO.
Everyone is toasting Mike (oooh, champagne, want some) and Leo tells Mike that he knew he had survived. Mike has SUCH A SAD about it and recaps the whole Magna Defender arch again, because... it isn't like we just watched it? Okay, admittedly there was like four months between episodes or something. But now EVERYONE has a sad about the Magna Defender. Mike wonders how he is going to explain where he was, and everyone laughs, except for Leo, who has a sad.
Trakeena is sulking about how she can't battle the Rangers, and how her dad never lets her do anything. But he has a new plan, that is going to involve kidnapping, so you know I am all over this.
Leo is staring at the Quasar saber and having a sad, and Kendrix drives over in the cute little car. Leo is apparently waiting for Mike, and Kendrix isn't sure why Leo has a sad, when he has his brother back. Luckily, she is smart, and figures out that he's having the sad about which one of them is destined to use the saber, since Mike DID pull it from the stone and all.
Mike is all "life is short, smell the flowers, life needs to mean something" etc, and Leo is about to tell him about all the feelings, when there's an attack. We get some unmorphed fighting, which makes me really happy, and then the other four Rangers get kidnapped and caught in some mirrors or something. Leo gets injured (but one that sadly does not result in shirtlessness) and Mike forces them to retreat. He is totally protecting his little brother. ♥
Leo yells at Mike for making them retreat, but Mike is all "don't worry, my dog tags are magic tracking devices and I put one on a stingwinger" because apparently they're made out of a special metal and are the only ones on the station. Mike and Leo track down the monsters while the Rangers' energy is being used to make finger puppets that grow. We get some more unmorphed fighting!
During the fight, the saber gets knocked out of Leo's hands, and Mike picks it up, and hands it to him. Leo tells Mike that Mike deserves it, but Mike is all "no, you are the red ranger now." They argue about destiny and who is the one that deserves the sword, and it's pretty sweet and touching, and awww, boys!
Leo uses the saber to destroy one of the skeleton things, and Mike is all "there is no other red ranger" and while I'm sure there are 17 others who would argue with that, it is a very sweet moment.
Mike and Leo continue the unmorphed fighting for a while, and then the monster yells "you don't know who you're dealing with" and Leo replies "neither do you" and then shoots fireballs at him. It is so DELIGHTFULLY CHEESY and I love it. The other Rangers are able to escape, and it looks like Kendrix and Leo are about to make out. The five Rangers morphs and Mike is all "my brother and his friends are awesome" and he keeps fighting anyway, because his floppy hair is all the protection he needs.
The Rangers summon the fish of orion, and then the monster grows. The fugly megazord is having some trouble against the monster, and it gets trapped, and suddenly the Magna Defender shows up, and presents his sword to Mike. Now Mike can be a Ranger too! (Yes, I am on team Magna Defender is a Ranger, just so you know.) He transforms and gets the dramatic flowy cape and summons Torozord and saves the day!
Everyone is like "cool" and then Damon insults his zord choice, because Damon is great. Torozord does not agree. (Damon, I'm sorry, but it looks way less ridiculous then your zord does.)
There's a meeting of the Terra Venture higher up council of something, and we find out that they have traveled 5.6 lightyears and apparently that's almost to the next galaxy or something, because they fail to understand how space works. Mike shows up and interrupts the meeting to try to explain where he was (and fails miserably) and all of the ruling council people are just "I'm sure he has an explanation" because they are NOT STUPID and understand how sixth rangers work.
Fish: 2! Good job, Lost Galaxy! Please keep up the ridiculous cheesy brothers being awesome and what... wait... what episode is next? NOOOOOOOOOOOO.
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