Previously on WHAT THE SHIT IS THIS - Bulk and Skull got turned into monkeys, and the Rangers are the worst friends ever. Also, it's time for them to graduate high school in their gender segregated robes.
This is going to be one of those multi-parters where they stretch it out way longer than they need to, isn't it? *checks* YEP.
I'm somehow the one who ends up commenting on theme song & costume changes. So. Theme song - I like it, QR doesn't. It's not quite as great as the original, but it's still catchy. I do miss the go go power rangers, though. :( As for the costumes, even with all of my reservations about this season, it's actually one of my favorite Ranger suit designs. It's a lot better than Zeo, anyway.
Okay, the episode. So, Adam and his awful hair are all concerned about Justin, who has not shown up to graduation. Adam, you've known Justin for 30 seconds, and he has a communicator. Stop it. So instead Adam WALKS OUT OF GRADUATION and then calls Zordon, who tells him that Justin was supposed to call if there's any trouble. Adam still has a bad feeling, so he pulls Kat and Tanya out of the ceremony right before Kat is about to give her valedictorian speech. Principal Caplan is all "... what are you three doing?" but since he totally knows they're Rangers, he lets them go and stalls until Kat can go and give her speech. I totally feel bad for the person who was talking before Kat, since they're totally ignoring her.
The Rangers barely make it into the parking lot, before Divatox shows up herself with some Pirahnatrons and there's an unmorphed fight, and it's GLORIOUS. You know JYB was thinking "THANK GOD. LAST SEASON WAS SO DULL FOR ME" because there's a ton of him showing off, and I am totally NOT complaining, although seriously, his HAIR. Adam volunteers to fight the Pirahnatrons himself, while the girls go and help Justin, and then I was randomly reminded that back in 97 I read a ton of Divatox/Adam, which I personally don't get, but it makes me sad that there is more Divatox/Adam bad and wrong fic than there is Scorpina/Adam bad and wrong fic. *pout*
Zordon calls Tommy for backup so that he can help Adam, and then all five Rangers end up at the power plant. The fight scene ends with the Rangers winning, but the detonator is still ticking. Just as I'm discussing with QR about how stupid it is that they're all looking together and they should split up, Tommy says they should split up, and man, I hate it when he agrees with me. So Adam and Tanya go off together, and so do Tommy and Kat, and Justin is sent to the Power Chamber to retrieve the Turbo Navigator so that they can find stuff.
Up in the Power Chamber, Alpha is all distracted by wormhole opening and is totally confused when Justin shows up. Yes, the wormhole is very important for them, but HI, THERE IS A FIGHT GOING ON. Stop failing so hard, Alpha and Zordon. Justin goes back with the navigator and Zordon summons Lerigot.
The Turbo Navigator finds the detonator, and Tommy plugs it into some car, which lets it explode safely or something.
Back at graduation, Kat delivers her speech and then Caplan pronounces them all graduated. They didn't walk at all! At the Youth Center, we find out Tanya has a summer internship working at a radio station, and Adam is going to be a stuntman at the amusement park.
Lt. Stone has taken charge of monkey!Bulk and Skull, and this ends with him being covered in both banana split and monkey.
Oh, and Divatox knows about the wormhole, and she's determined to prevent Zordon from going back to Eltar. To be continued...
Fish: 4.5. Honestly, if we gave this a 5, we'd have to increase the fish scale to 10!
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Saturday, March 26, 2011
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Episode 204- Good As Gold
Today on Power Rangers- Rita and Zedd have a good plan, Bulk and Skull make their Fake!Daddy sad, and Rocky can't win life.
Subplot first because it doesn't really fit in with the rest. Bulk and Skull are cleaning because, for some reason, Detective Stone doesn't trust them with their own case. GEE I WONDER WHY. They get a note inside a balloon to meet somebody in the park at 4pm. They go in drag and Bulk's old lady voice is PURE GOLD. There is a random bad-French inspector who offers them a job. They take it, and go to Detective Stone to quit. Skull is very sad. Detective Stone is even more sad. HIS SADFACE, I CANNOT EVEN TELL YOU. It broke my heart. Fake!Daddy will miss them.
We start off the main plot with Tommy teaching some teenagers in the Youth Center. I was unaware he was still teaching. Adam is too, apparently, and Jason must have started because everybody keeps wondering where he is. Even Emily shows up looking for him! He was supposed to meet her to show her some martial arts move but never showed. This kind of bothers me, actually. Why must ALL the girlfriends "learn some martial arts"? Can't one of them, at some point in time, just say "Hey, I really love watching your moves. But martial arts just isn't for me, sorry." and then go play soccer or read a book or something? GIRLS HAVE THEIR OWN INTERESTS OUTSIDE OF THEIR SIGNIFICANT OTHERS INTERESTS SHOW. Seriously. Does everything have to revolve around martial arts in Angel Grove?
Ahem. Anyway. So Jason is apparently fighting a bunch of cogs in the forest. Mondo is there. Then Rita and Zedd are there. Then there are Tengas there, too. I'm beginning to wonder if this is a dream. Jason never uses his communicator. Zordon never notices something is amiss and calls for backup. JASON IS LEFT TO FIGHT ALL OF THAT ON HIS OWN. FAIL ZORDON. Major fail. Luckily, there is fighting between the Tengas and the Cogs which gives Jason a chance to run away. He makes it to the Youth Center, barely, where he promptly passes out on the floor. Everyone crowds around him. Ernie says he'll call an ambulance. YES. THIS IS WHAT YOU DO WHEN AN OTHERWISE HEALTHY YOUNG MAN COLLAPSES IN YOUR BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENT. Tommy tells him not to bother and they take Jason away. NO TOMMY. YOU CALL THE AMBULANCE AND DEAL WITH THE FALLOUT LATER.
Zordon and Alpha analyze Jason, showing off his very, very pretty arms, and discover the powers are leaving him and draining him of his life force in the process. They must contact Triforia and get the Treys there to fix things. Except Trey hasn't been able to form back into one. He cannot take the powers. Zordon knows of a way he can bounce a communication beam off a specific spot on Triforia, Aquitar, and Earth and it can restore Trey to one. Luckily that spot happens to be in Angel Grove. Except that makes no sense and really wouldn't work. Not in any way, shape, or form.
Jason is determined to try, however, so Tommy and Adam support him while Kat and Rocky lead with the map Alpha gave them. The Treys just kind of follow along. They are attacked by cogs, however, and everybody runs as fast as they can towards the right spot. Jason calls on the Gold Ranger staff and uses it to beat cogs about the head. He is too weak to fight, though, and Rocky has to teleport in right in front of him to take the blows meant for him. OH ROCKY. I COULDN'T LOVE YOU MORE THAN I DO RIGHT NOW. (the whole jumping in front to take the beating meant for somebody else? Yeah, it's a thing I love) Jason makes it to the correct spot and, surrounded by the Treys, manages to catch the beam bouncing back from the planets. Y'know, the planets that are millions of light years away. SCIENCE DOES NOT WORK LIKE THIS. NOT EVEN CLOSE TO LIKE THIS.
The powers transfer to a newly unified Trey and Jason sits out the rest of the fight. The fight where Mondo is HUGE and then the rangers grow HUGE as well. They win the fight and Mondo runs away. Whereupon he finds Rita and Zedd waiting to deliver a present to them after stoking their ego a lot. Sprocket takes it, Zedd says he'll "catch them on the flipside" (awwwwKim), and they run far far away. The present explodes. The rulers of the Machine Empire are in pieces. Literally.
Back on Earth, Jason is semi-emo on a hill. Tommy comes to talk to him and is very bad at the "Losing your powers sucks, but we'll always be friends" speech. At least he tries, though. Jason says it's okay. Things aren't that bad. He has Emily. They walk off into the sunset together, so ten years down the line they can have their only son and name him Schuyler, but everybody will call him Sky.
Poor Rocky. Once again, left behind by his boyfriend for a girl.
4.5 fish. The science fail was overwhelming in this episode.
Fic we want: A GOOD Tommy and Jason powers/it's okay talk.
Subplot first because it doesn't really fit in with the rest. Bulk and Skull are cleaning because, for some reason, Detective Stone doesn't trust them with their own case. GEE I WONDER WHY. They get a note inside a balloon to meet somebody in the park at 4pm. They go in drag and Bulk's old lady voice is PURE GOLD. There is a random bad-French inspector who offers them a job. They take it, and go to Detective Stone to quit. Skull is very sad. Detective Stone is even more sad. HIS SADFACE, I CANNOT EVEN TELL YOU. It broke my heart. Fake!Daddy will miss them.
We start off the main plot with Tommy teaching some teenagers in the Youth Center. I was unaware he was still teaching. Adam is too, apparently, and Jason must have started because everybody keeps wondering where he is. Even Emily shows up looking for him! He was supposed to meet her to show her some martial arts move but never showed. This kind of bothers me, actually. Why must ALL the girlfriends "learn some martial arts"? Can't one of them, at some point in time, just say "Hey, I really love watching your moves. But martial arts just isn't for me, sorry." and then go play soccer or read a book or something? GIRLS HAVE THEIR OWN INTERESTS OUTSIDE OF THEIR SIGNIFICANT OTHERS INTERESTS SHOW. Seriously. Does everything have to revolve around martial arts in Angel Grove?
Ahem. Anyway. So Jason is apparently fighting a bunch of cogs in the forest. Mondo is there. Then Rita and Zedd are there. Then there are Tengas there, too. I'm beginning to wonder if this is a dream. Jason never uses his communicator. Zordon never notices something is amiss and calls for backup. JASON IS LEFT TO FIGHT ALL OF THAT ON HIS OWN. FAIL ZORDON. Major fail. Luckily, there is fighting between the Tengas and the Cogs which gives Jason a chance to run away. He makes it to the Youth Center, barely, where he promptly passes out on the floor. Everyone crowds around him. Ernie says he'll call an ambulance. YES. THIS IS WHAT YOU DO WHEN AN OTHERWISE HEALTHY YOUNG MAN COLLAPSES IN YOUR BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENT. Tommy tells him not to bother and they take Jason away. NO TOMMY. YOU CALL THE AMBULANCE AND DEAL WITH THE FALLOUT LATER.
Zordon and Alpha analyze Jason, showing off his very, very pretty arms, and discover the powers are leaving him and draining him of his life force in the process. They must contact Triforia and get the Treys there to fix things. Except Trey hasn't been able to form back into one. He cannot take the powers. Zordon knows of a way he can bounce a communication beam off a specific spot on Triforia, Aquitar, and Earth and it can restore Trey to one. Luckily that spot happens to be in Angel Grove. Except that makes no sense and really wouldn't work. Not in any way, shape, or form.
Jason is determined to try, however, so Tommy and Adam support him while Kat and Rocky lead with the map Alpha gave them. The Treys just kind of follow along. They are attacked by cogs, however, and everybody runs as fast as they can towards the right spot. Jason calls on the Gold Ranger staff and uses it to beat cogs about the head. He is too weak to fight, though, and Rocky has to teleport in right in front of him to take the blows meant for him. OH ROCKY. I COULDN'T LOVE YOU MORE THAN I DO RIGHT NOW. (the whole jumping in front to take the beating meant for somebody else? Yeah, it's a thing I love) Jason makes it to the correct spot and, surrounded by the Treys, manages to catch the beam bouncing back from the planets. Y'know, the planets that are millions of light years away. SCIENCE DOES NOT WORK LIKE THIS. NOT EVEN CLOSE TO LIKE THIS.
The powers transfer to a newly unified Trey and Jason sits out the rest of the fight. The fight where Mondo is HUGE and then the rangers grow HUGE as well. They win the fight and Mondo runs away. Whereupon he finds Rita and Zedd waiting to deliver a present to them after stoking their ego a lot. Sprocket takes it, Zedd says he'll "catch them on the flipside" (awwwwKim), and they run far far away. The present explodes. The rulers of the Machine Empire are in pieces. Literally.
Back on Earth, Jason is semi-emo on a hill. Tommy comes to talk to him and is very bad at the "Losing your powers sucks, but we'll always be friends" speech. At least he tries, though. Jason says it's okay. Things aren't that bad. He has Emily. They walk off into the sunset together, so ten years down the line they can have their only son and name him Schuyler, but everybody will call him Sky.
Poor Rocky. Once again, left behind by his boyfriend for a girl.
4.5 fish. The science fail was overwhelming in this episode.
Fic we want: A GOOD Tommy and Jason powers/it's okay talk.
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Episode 199- A Mystery To Me
It's a murder mystery party! Those are so much fun. Except this one doesn't quite work like a murder mystery party. Is this the best murder mystery? Not even close. But it's fun at least!
So the rangers and Bulk and Skull are sitting around a table. Everybody is in costume. It is AWESOME. Tanya is a flapper, Jason is some kind of mafia guy in the worst hat EVER (and if I can tell it's a bad hat, it's a REALLY REALLY bad hat), Tommy is a cowboy, ROCKY IS DISTRESSED OVER BEING THE BUTLER (butlers in murder mysteries are awesome!). You get the idea.
Detective Stone is about to reveal who the culprit is (culprit of what? The mystery hasn't even started yet!) when he vanishes! And so it begins. Kat jumps in immediately as the Super Sleuth and starts questioning everybody. Tanya immediately jumps to Rocky as the culprit. They all pull some pretty bad accents and then Adam tells everybody to split up and search the house. EVERYBODY ACCUSES ROCKY AGAIN. Poor Rocky.
Unfortunately, Archerina and Gasket are watching. Archerina doesn't like Kat much. Gasket thinks she's spunky and this makes Archerina jealous. She wants to go toe to toe with Kat and see who comes out on top. I approve of this!
Adam finds a glowing door and manages to get trapped in a dungeon. Tanya follows shortly thereafter. They just assume that is the room where victims get held, but they don't think to ask or explore or anything. After awhile, Tommy gets eaten by the glowing door and interrupts them. This makes them all very grumpy. Rocky ends up in there a few minutes later, the third wheel as usual. Then, and only then, does Tommy suggest that something isn't quite right about that and tries to contact Zordon.
Meanwhile, Bulk and Skull stop Jason from going through the glowing door and they all end up in the ACTUAL victim room. Bored. Playing cards. Twiddling their thumbs. But at least it's obvious it's the victim room and not some cold, damp, weird, dark DUNGEON like the others are trapped in and just assume is the victim room. This leaves Kat on her own. Archerina materializes in the room and Kat STANDS HER GROUND. IN THE FACE OF EVIL ROYALTY. Because she's awesome like that. Archerina challenges her to a duel, which she accepts, and then vanishes.
Kat, clearly the brains of this whole team, CONTACTS ZORDON. LIKE SHE'S SUPPOSED TO. He agrees something is up and tries to find the others, but can't. Kat goes to fight Archerina. Alone.
Except then Auric has to come and defend her and she's not allowed to do this on her own. But she should have been! She could have handled it! Auric gets hurt, but that's okay because Zordon is finally able to contact the others. Well, minus Jason. Apparently it's easier to contact rangers in an EVIL DUNGEON than it is in the plain drawing room of an old house that is hosting a murder mystery. Whatever.
So they go help Kat. Because Archerina tricked her and brought a monster, too. As if that was a surprise. It takes all the rangers and Auric, but they beat the monster and make it back to the murder mystery just in time to find out who dunnit. Turns out it was Detective Stone the whole time. That... is not how a murder mystery works. But whatever.
2.5 fish. It wasn't bad! It's just not how things actually work.
So the rangers and Bulk and Skull are sitting around a table. Everybody is in costume. It is AWESOME. Tanya is a flapper, Jason is some kind of mafia guy in the worst hat EVER (and if I can tell it's a bad hat, it's a REALLY REALLY bad hat), Tommy is a cowboy, ROCKY IS DISTRESSED OVER BEING THE BUTLER (butlers in murder mysteries are awesome!). You get the idea.
Detective Stone is about to reveal who the culprit is (culprit of what? The mystery hasn't even started yet!) when he vanishes! And so it begins. Kat jumps in immediately as the Super Sleuth and starts questioning everybody. Tanya immediately jumps to Rocky as the culprit. They all pull some pretty bad accents and then Adam tells everybody to split up and search the house. EVERYBODY ACCUSES ROCKY AGAIN. Poor Rocky.
Unfortunately, Archerina and Gasket are watching. Archerina doesn't like Kat much. Gasket thinks she's spunky and this makes Archerina jealous. She wants to go toe to toe with Kat and see who comes out on top. I approve of this!
Adam finds a glowing door and manages to get trapped in a dungeon. Tanya follows shortly thereafter. They just assume that is the room where victims get held, but they don't think to ask or explore or anything. After awhile, Tommy gets eaten by the glowing door and interrupts them. This makes them all very grumpy. Rocky ends up in there a few minutes later, the third wheel as usual. Then, and only then, does Tommy suggest that something isn't quite right about that and tries to contact Zordon.
Meanwhile, Bulk and Skull stop Jason from going through the glowing door and they all end up in the ACTUAL victim room. Bored. Playing cards. Twiddling their thumbs. But at least it's obvious it's the victim room and not some cold, damp, weird, dark DUNGEON like the others are trapped in and just assume is the victim room. This leaves Kat on her own. Archerina materializes in the room and Kat STANDS HER GROUND. IN THE FACE OF EVIL ROYALTY. Because she's awesome like that. Archerina challenges her to a duel, which she accepts, and then vanishes.
Kat, clearly the brains of this whole team, CONTACTS ZORDON. LIKE SHE'S SUPPOSED TO. He agrees something is up and tries to find the others, but can't. Kat goes to fight Archerina. Alone.
Except then Auric has to come and defend her and she's not allowed to do this on her own. But she should have been! She could have handled it! Auric gets hurt, but that's okay because Zordon is finally able to contact the others. Well, minus Jason. Apparently it's easier to contact rangers in an EVIL DUNGEON than it is in the plain drawing room of an old house that is hosting a murder mystery. Whatever.
So they go help Kat. Because Archerina tricked her and brought a monster, too. As if that was a surprise. It takes all the rangers and Auric, but they beat the monster and make it back to the murder mystery just in time to find out who dunnit. Turns out it was Detective Stone the whole time. That... is not how a murder mystery works. But whatever.
2.5 fish. It wasn't bad! It's just not how things actually work.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Episode 189- Mondo's Last Stand
I freaking love this episode, guys. It spawned the only other Rocky pairing I can legitimately ship (that is not Rocky/Adam, that is)!
So we start off with Jason and Adam sparring. It's Very Pretty. Rocky comes up and asks Tommy if he'll train with him, but Tommy is too busy because he trades places with Adam. Bulk and Skull tease him about being replaced and he doesn't really buy it at first. Until he goes to talk to Billy and he runs away to learn a new kata from Jason. Poor Rocky! He really feels like he's being replaced. Bulk and Skull being bullies about it doesn't exactly help, but still. He's getting brushed off a lot here.
Meanwhile, some lady hires the detectives to find the original model for the Burble Baby Food jars. They estimate he would be a teenager and a recent transfer to Angel Grove. They suspect Jason. They are WRONG.
In harassing Jason, Bulk and Skull dislodge his communicator. The others are called to a fight and Jason is left behind. He never checks in, never joins them, never tries to get to the Power Chamber. We don't know what he does. The others, once the fight is over, are left to split up and go find him. Rocky pouts about this, especially because as he's trying to leave the door closes on his face and WILL NOT OPEN FOR HIM. Oh Rocky.
Mondo is searching for the Sword of Damocles right where Rocky is searching for Jason. He comes across Mondo and decides to show the others that he's important too and takes on Mondo all on his own. Oh Rocky, honey, this is not one of your more brilliant plans. He does actually hold his own for awhile at least!
But he's forced to retreat and then Mondo goes to attack the city. Rocky blames himself, as he is wont to do, and we just have to wonder... where the heck were the others during all this? They all show up at the same time with Jason, but really? They couldn't have helped him earlier? Reassured him or something? Meh. And how did Zordon NOT NOTICE his ranger fighting Mondo ALONE?!?!?!?!
Anyway, they have to go fight while Jason goes to the junkyard to find a part that Billy accidentally beamed over with old Zord wreckage. Really? Dumping your Ranger junk at the junkyard is probably not the best idea, guys. Anyway, Jason finds it just as he's attacked by cogs, so Billy beams it out and begins working on it.
There is a very boring fight where the rangers call Zords and fight a giant Mondo with the sword and yada yada yada. They win. Mondo explodes. Machina reassures Sprocket that it's happened to Mondo before and he'll be fine. Elsewhere on the moon, Rita and Zedd show up in an RV to get Rito and Goldar.
Back at the Youth Center, the lady tells Bulk and Skull the calculations were off. The Burble Baby is actually middle aged and has lived in Angel Grove for years. It's Ernie! He is now the proud owner of a lifetime supply of baby food. He decides he should make baby food smoothies. EW.
Rocky apologizes to everybody for being headstrong and Jason reassures him they are friends. How Jason knew Rocky's freak out was over him, we're not sure. There had to have been an off screen "talk". Rocky needs to stop apologizing because it's not his fault and he clearly doesn't believe what he's saying anyway, but everybody takes him at face value and moves on. Way to be bad friends, guys!
2 fish. It could have used more Rocky/Jason, though!
Fic we want: More Rocky/Jason. It needs to exist, yo.
Also, Rocky calling Aisha and being all "AISHA, FIX MY LIFE"
So we start off with Jason and Adam sparring. It's Very Pretty. Rocky comes up and asks Tommy if he'll train with him, but Tommy is too busy because he trades places with Adam. Bulk and Skull tease him about being replaced and he doesn't really buy it at first. Until he goes to talk to Billy and he runs away to learn a new kata from Jason. Poor Rocky! He really feels like he's being replaced. Bulk and Skull being bullies about it doesn't exactly help, but still. He's getting brushed off a lot here.
Meanwhile, some lady hires the detectives to find the original model for the Burble Baby Food jars. They estimate he would be a teenager and a recent transfer to Angel Grove. They suspect Jason. They are WRONG.
In harassing Jason, Bulk and Skull dislodge his communicator. The others are called to a fight and Jason is left behind. He never checks in, never joins them, never tries to get to the Power Chamber. We don't know what he does. The others, once the fight is over, are left to split up and go find him. Rocky pouts about this, especially because as he's trying to leave the door closes on his face and WILL NOT OPEN FOR HIM. Oh Rocky.
Mondo is searching for the Sword of Damocles right where Rocky is searching for Jason. He comes across Mondo and decides to show the others that he's important too and takes on Mondo all on his own. Oh Rocky, honey, this is not one of your more brilliant plans. He does actually hold his own for awhile at least!
But he's forced to retreat and then Mondo goes to attack the city. Rocky blames himself, as he is wont to do, and we just have to wonder... where the heck were the others during all this? They all show up at the same time with Jason, but really? They couldn't have helped him earlier? Reassured him or something? Meh. And how did Zordon NOT NOTICE his ranger fighting Mondo ALONE?!?!?!?!
Anyway, they have to go fight while Jason goes to the junkyard to find a part that Billy accidentally beamed over with old Zord wreckage. Really? Dumping your Ranger junk at the junkyard is probably not the best idea, guys. Anyway, Jason finds it just as he's attacked by cogs, so Billy beams it out and begins working on it.
There is a very boring fight where the rangers call Zords and fight a giant Mondo with the sword and yada yada yada. They win. Mondo explodes. Machina reassures Sprocket that it's happened to Mondo before and he'll be fine. Elsewhere on the moon, Rita and Zedd show up in an RV to get Rito and Goldar.
Back at the Youth Center, the lady tells Bulk and Skull the calculations were off. The Burble Baby is actually middle aged and has lived in Angel Grove for years. It's Ernie! He is now the proud owner of a lifetime supply of baby food. He decides he should make baby food smoothies. EW.
Rocky apologizes to everybody for being headstrong and Jason reassures him they are friends. How Jason knew Rocky's freak out was over him, we're not sure. There had to have been an off screen "talk". Rocky needs to stop apologizing because it's not his fault and he clearly doesn't believe what he's saying anyway, but everybody takes him at face value and moves on. Way to be bad friends, guys!
2 fish. It could have used more Rocky/Jason, though!
Fic we want: More Rocky/Jason. It needs to exist, yo.
Also, Rocky calling Aisha and being all "AISHA, FIX MY LIFE"
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Episode 184- Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise
This was almost as boring as the last episode I recaped. No, really. It was bad.
So Kat is apparently in a surfing competition against some champion high schooler from Stone Canyon. I... don't buy that she's a surfer. Sorry, I just don't. She is definitely not of the "surfer mindset".
But I can't complain too much because it means we get Lifeguard Rocky! Continuity FOR THE WIN! Even though he's not running around shirtless. I'll take it! Plus David shows up (yay David!). He's still hot. He's sporting a partially grown in goatee. This somehow makes him even MORE attractive. *swoon*
Mondo brings back Leaky Faucet to contaminate the water supply. He succeeds! The water is gross and when Adam and Tanya try to have a quick drink after sparring, they immediately recognize it as being contaminated with cog oil. Tanya loudly announces this. LOUDLY. Secret identity, Tanya, means you're not supposed to know what cog oil is or smells like, mkay?
They get Billy to test the water and sure enough, it's cog oil. They discover cogs trying to get the oil into the oceans and go to try and stop it. Except they're beaten, badly, and Tanya screams for Adam (really show? REALLY? SHE DOES NOT NEED RESCUING, MKAY?). They fail and the oil makes it to the water.
Back at the surfing competition, everyone on the beach notices the rapidly growing spill of NEON GLOWING GREEN TOXIC WASTE. Everybody, that is, except Kat who is still in the water. Zordon contacts Tommy and tells them to get everyone out of the water. David suggests the Power Rangers make an appearance and, despite standing in front of a large outcropping of easy-to-hide-behind rocks, Tommy says there are too many people around. He sends Rocky to take care of the people on the beach while he and David swim out to get Kat.
A toxic wave knocks them over, however, and Kat fails to resurface. They eventually find her and she's disoriented and needs rescuing. What is WITH this episode? The girls are not incapable of taking care of themselves!
So they get to shore and everybody morphs and goes to fight Leaky Faucet and it's really really boring. Like, REALLY really boring. They win, with Trey's help of course.
Somehow Billy got rid of all the cog oil in something like 2.5 seconds with nobody else noticing and nobody wondering how he did so. Because he's Billy.
In a shocking turn of events, Kat loses the surfing competition. Meanwhile, David is very hot and includes Rocky in his "congratulations" antics. David/Rocky? Yes, please.
Fish: a toxic 4. They were everywhere!
I have no clue what the title of this episode has to do with the episode itself.
So Kat is apparently in a surfing competition against some champion high schooler from Stone Canyon. I... don't buy that she's a surfer. Sorry, I just don't. She is definitely not of the "surfer mindset".
But I can't complain too much because it means we get Lifeguard Rocky! Continuity FOR THE WIN! Even though he's not running around shirtless. I'll take it! Plus David shows up (yay David!). He's still hot. He's sporting a partially grown in goatee. This somehow makes him even MORE attractive. *swoon*
Mondo brings back Leaky Faucet to contaminate the water supply. He succeeds! The water is gross and when Adam and Tanya try to have a quick drink after sparring, they immediately recognize it as being contaminated with cog oil. Tanya loudly announces this. LOUDLY. Secret identity, Tanya, means you're not supposed to know what cog oil is or smells like, mkay?
They get Billy to test the water and sure enough, it's cog oil. They discover cogs trying to get the oil into the oceans and go to try and stop it. Except they're beaten, badly, and Tanya screams for Adam (really show? REALLY? SHE DOES NOT NEED RESCUING, MKAY?). They fail and the oil makes it to the water.
Back at the surfing competition, everyone on the beach notices the rapidly growing spill of NEON GLOWING GREEN TOXIC WASTE. Everybody, that is, except Kat who is still in the water. Zordon contacts Tommy and tells them to get everyone out of the water. David suggests the Power Rangers make an appearance and, despite standing in front of a large outcropping of easy-to-hide-behind rocks, Tommy says there are too many people around. He sends Rocky to take care of the people on the beach while he and David swim out to get Kat.
A toxic wave knocks them over, however, and Kat fails to resurface. They eventually find her and she's disoriented and needs rescuing. What is WITH this episode? The girls are not incapable of taking care of themselves!
So they get to shore and everybody morphs and goes to fight Leaky Faucet and it's really really boring. Like, REALLY really boring. They win, with Trey's help of course.
Somehow Billy got rid of all the cog oil in something like 2.5 seconds with nobody else noticing and nobody wondering how he did so. Because he's Billy.
In a shocking turn of events, Kat loses the surfing competition. Meanwhile, David is very hot and includes Rocky in his "congratulations" antics. David/Rocky? Yes, please.
Fish: a toxic 4. They were everywhere!
I have no clue what the title of this episode has to do with the episode itself.
Episode 183 - A Small Problem
There were possibly some margaritas before recapping, so I apologize in advance for any incoherency.
Tommy, Kat, Raymond the Token Jew, and Tanya are working together on some terrarium project. Tanya is going to stay behind and work on the terrarium while the others go capture some lizards and spiders and stuff. Eww, spiders. DNW. Kat is all "What could go wrong in the desert" and we are all "KAT, you are a RANGER. DO NOT SAY SUCH THINGS."
Meanwhile, Sprocket has accidentally figured out how to shrink stuff. Mondo is very proud of him, even though it was an accident. They will totally shrink the Rangers.
Bulk and Skull have apparently been hired to find Old Man Murphy's goldmine. They seek the motherlode, which as far as I'm concerned is just a cheat code for The Sims. Also, they have so clearly graduated by this point.
In the desert, Raymond gives Kat and Tommy orders on what to do. He is all "I AM GETTING AN A, DO YOUR JOBS. WHY AM I STUCK WITH GROUP PROJECTS????" but that might be my own hatred of group projects coming through.
Of course, considering Tommy and Kat and Tommy's jeep promptly get shrunk by Sprocket, he was right to be concerned. (I was going to make a "Honey, I Shrunk the Rangers" joke, but apparently I need to save that for Turbo. Damn.) Sprocket decides to keep them as his pets throws them in the terrarium that Tanya is supposed to be painting, and then they have to fight a GIANT TARANTULA. Which is creepy. I hate spiders.
Raymond shows up at the youth center, all pissed off that he was abandoned in the desert, which is a justifiable anger, and Tanya tries Tommy and Kat on the communicators. But apparently because they were shrunk, their communicators don't have enough power to contact Zordon. Whatever, he was probably busy anyway.
The Gold Ranger shows up, and then the rest of the Rangers get there, and there's a fight, and everything is really boring, and eventually Billy figures out how to unshrink them, and then there are Zords and they form the Ultrazord, and dude, be more boring.
It's briefly hinted that Skull might be the Gold Ranger, which would have been awesome. Oh, and Bulk and Skull didn't find gold, they found fool's gold. Whatever.
Fish: 4. There was a lot of ridiculous science in this one.
Tommy, Kat, Raymond the Token Jew, and Tanya are working together on some terrarium project. Tanya is going to stay behind and work on the terrarium while the others go capture some lizards and spiders and stuff. Eww, spiders. DNW. Kat is all "What could go wrong in the desert" and we are all "KAT, you are a RANGER. DO NOT SAY SUCH THINGS."
Meanwhile, Sprocket has accidentally figured out how to shrink stuff. Mondo is very proud of him, even though it was an accident. They will totally shrink the Rangers.
Bulk and Skull have apparently been hired to find Old Man Murphy's goldmine. They seek the motherlode, which as far as I'm concerned is just a cheat code for The Sims. Also, they have so clearly graduated by this point.
In the desert, Raymond gives Kat and Tommy orders on what to do. He is all "I AM GETTING AN A, DO YOUR JOBS. WHY AM I STUCK WITH GROUP PROJECTS????" but that might be my own hatred of group projects coming through.
Of course, considering Tommy and Kat and Tommy's jeep promptly get shrunk by Sprocket, he was right to be concerned. (I was going to make a "Honey, I Shrunk the Rangers" joke, but apparently I need to save that for Turbo. Damn.) Sprocket decides to keep them as his pets throws them in the terrarium that Tanya is supposed to be painting, and then they have to fight a GIANT TARANTULA. Which is creepy. I hate spiders.
Raymond shows up at the youth center, all pissed off that he was abandoned in the desert, which is a justifiable anger, and Tanya tries Tommy and Kat on the communicators. But apparently because they were shrunk, their communicators don't have enough power to contact Zordon. Whatever, he was probably busy anyway.
The Gold Ranger shows up, and then the rest of the Rangers get there, and there's a fight, and everything is really boring, and eventually Billy figures out how to unshrink them, and then there are Zords and they form the Ultrazord, and dude, be more boring.
It's briefly hinted that Skull might be the Gold Ranger, which would have been awesome. Oh, and Bulk and Skull didn't find gold, they found fool's gold. Whatever.
Fish: 4. There was a lot of ridiculous science in this one.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Episode 180 - Song Sung Yellow
It's the Adam/Tanya show, live from Angel Grove!
I love this episode so freaking much. We begin with a music video for a song (sung by Tanya) that I actually kinda like. QR was mocking my taste, but when you've seen this episode as many times as I have, the song seriously starts to grow on you. It turns out that the video was directed by Adam, but frankly, even though they talk about how great it is and how he'll be a great director one day, he shouldn't quit his day job. (Speaking of how adorable Adam/Tanya is, Tanya says he's already a great director! Clearly, she is blinded by her love for him.)
Seriously, that video looks like one of the awful videos that plays at the karaoke place I visit when I'm home in New York. Or the most cheestastic bad 90s video. (If you look at it that way, it's pretty amazing.)
And Nakia has a great voice, so at least there's that!
Anyway, it turns out that they're screening the video at the Youth Center, and Tommy has been staring intently at it. They ask what's up, and Tommy says he thought he saw something, so they pause the video, and there's a Cog in the background.
.... Are they seriously suggesting that the Rangers filmed this video and didn't notice anything, and then spent hours editing it and still didn't notice? But TOMMY notices while watching the video for the first time? That is ridiculous. Everyone wonders how often the Cogs have been watching them.
Anyway, Ernie gives them some more free food, and it turns out that before this, the Youth Center was closed on the weekends, but now they're going to be open. Billy suggests that Tanya should get to sing Saturday nights, and Tanya is excited to be performing in front of a live audience for the first time. This leads to my personal fanon that when Tanya wins her first grammy, she thanks Ernie for letting her make a fool of herself on that stage. ♥ ♥ ♥
While the Rangers are setting up, the Cogs steal everything, and they completely fail to notice. They are so oblivious, it's ridiculous. What the hell was Zordon doing during all this? The Rangers chase after the cogs (after Rocky is done accusing Tommy of losing all of it) and there's a ridiculous fight that ends with a Cog getting pied. It's pretty awesome.
Of course, it turns out that it's Sprocket's Bar Mitzvah! He's going to become a man! Mazel Tov, Sprocket! Of course, to become a man he has to destroy the Rangers, so.... ahahahaha.
On a side note, how much do I love that the early villains mostly just exist to screw with the Rangers? It's so ridiculous, I love it.
Meanwhile, at Lt Stone's detective agency, Bulk and Skull are playing ping pong for the rights to be champion of the milky way and to rule as he sees fit. Sadly, before we find out who gets to rule the galaxy, Lt. Stone shows up, setting off the alarm system that they'd set off. I love them so much. It turns out that they have their first case, and it's to investigate a phony record producer. How much do I love this? Also, Skull uses the word scoundrels. Amazing.
At the Youth Center, Tanya is performing the same song, and when she finishes, she and Adam hug! Yay! Producer Vincent Nova shows up to tell Tanya she was awesome, and gives her a card and basically says he'll offer her a deal. She gives him a copy of the music video. She's all excited, and then people ask for her autograph. How adorable!!!!!
Bulk and Skull spy on the producer, which involves Bulk getting covered in garbage.
At school, Tanya is all excited about getting the contract, and her friends are all excited about it, but they do remind her that she'll have to quit school and stop Rangering if she goes. This would have been a great time to bring up Kimberly and point out that it isn't the first time someone has left the Rangers to follow a dream, but they don't bring it up.
The next Saturday, Tanya is singing again (a different song this time!) and the producers are watching her! The Rangers all get called away when a monster attacks, but Tommy gestures for Tanya to stay and finish her song. That's actually really sweet of him. You go, Tommy! Anyway, there's a fight scene and the Rangers win even without Tanya, and the only important thing is that Kat's individual weapon is totally a kamehameha! Epic. Sprocket gets to become a man anyway.
Later, the producers are talking to Tanya about limos and things, when Bulk and Skull burst in to try and save Tanya from a fake producer. She tells them that she's turned them down, and they tell her that a) she would have been an awesome diva and b) they'll wait for a talent like hers. She totally signs the contract the day she stops being a Ranger. Also, she lets Bulk and Skull know that they're real producers, and the two chase after the producers in the hopes of getting a deal.
Tanya tells her friends that she figured out what was really important - them. And school. And being a Ranger. But of course, she can sing any time. Kim was doing something that was way more dependent on age.
In conclusion - Tanya is awesome, and she and Adam are adorable. Also, Tanya grows up to win a bunch of Grammys and probably an Oscar for best song. I am also totally writing fic about this.
Fish - 2! Just for the nonsense with the cogs at the beginning.
Fic we want - All the schmoopy Adam/Tanya in the world. And you know, Tanya and her recording contract. :D
I love this episode so freaking much. We begin with a music video for a song (sung by Tanya) that I actually kinda like. QR was mocking my taste, but when you've seen this episode as many times as I have, the song seriously starts to grow on you. It turns out that the video was directed by Adam, but frankly, even though they talk about how great it is and how he'll be a great director one day, he shouldn't quit his day job. (Speaking of how adorable Adam/Tanya is, Tanya says he's already a great director! Clearly, she is blinded by her love for him.)
Seriously, that video looks like one of the awful videos that plays at the karaoke place I visit when I'm home in New York. Or the most cheestastic bad 90s video. (If you look at it that way, it's pretty amazing.)
And Nakia has a great voice, so at least there's that!
Anyway, it turns out that they're screening the video at the Youth Center, and Tommy has been staring intently at it. They ask what's up, and Tommy says he thought he saw something, so they pause the video, and there's a Cog in the background.
.... Are they seriously suggesting that the Rangers filmed this video and didn't notice anything, and then spent hours editing it and still didn't notice? But TOMMY notices while watching the video for the first time? That is ridiculous. Everyone wonders how often the Cogs have been watching them.
Anyway, Ernie gives them some more free food, and it turns out that before this, the Youth Center was closed on the weekends, but now they're going to be open. Billy suggests that Tanya should get to sing Saturday nights, and Tanya is excited to be performing in front of a live audience for the first time. This leads to my personal fanon that when Tanya wins her first grammy, she thanks Ernie for letting her make a fool of herself on that stage. ♥ ♥ ♥
While the Rangers are setting up, the Cogs steal everything, and they completely fail to notice. They are so oblivious, it's ridiculous. What the hell was Zordon doing during all this? The Rangers chase after the cogs (after Rocky is done accusing Tommy of losing all of it) and there's a ridiculous fight that ends with a Cog getting pied. It's pretty awesome.
Of course, it turns out that it's Sprocket's Bar Mitzvah! He's going to become a man! Mazel Tov, Sprocket! Of course, to become a man he has to destroy the Rangers, so.... ahahahaha.
On a side note, how much do I love that the early villains mostly just exist to screw with the Rangers? It's so ridiculous, I love it.
Meanwhile, at Lt Stone's detective agency, Bulk and Skull are playing ping pong for the rights to be champion of the milky way and to rule as he sees fit. Sadly, before we find out who gets to rule the galaxy, Lt. Stone shows up, setting off the alarm system that they'd set off. I love them so much. It turns out that they have their first case, and it's to investigate a phony record producer. How much do I love this? Also, Skull uses the word scoundrels. Amazing.
At the Youth Center, Tanya is performing the same song, and when she finishes, she and Adam hug! Yay! Producer Vincent Nova shows up to tell Tanya she was awesome, and gives her a card and basically says he'll offer her a deal. She gives him a copy of the music video. She's all excited, and then people ask for her autograph. How adorable!!!!!
Bulk and Skull spy on the producer, which involves Bulk getting covered in garbage.
At school, Tanya is all excited about getting the contract, and her friends are all excited about it, but they do remind her that she'll have to quit school and stop Rangering if she goes. This would have been a great time to bring up Kimberly and point out that it isn't the first time someone has left the Rangers to follow a dream, but they don't bring it up.
The next Saturday, Tanya is singing again (a different song this time!) and the producers are watching her! The Rangers all get called away when a monster attacks, but Tommy gestures for Tanya to stay and finish her song. That's actually really sweet of him. You go, Tommy! Anyway, there's a fight scene and the Rangers win even without Tanya, and the only important thing is that Kat's individual weapon is totally a kamehameha! Epic. Sprocket gets to become a man anyway.
Later, the producers are talking to Tanya about limos and things, when Bulk and Skull burst in to try and save Tanya from a fake producer. She tells them that she's turned them down, and they tell her that a) she would have been an awesome diva and b) they'll wait for a talent like hers. She totally signs the contract the day she stops being a Ranger. Also, she lets Bulk and Skull know that they're real producers, and the two chase after the producers in the hopes of getting a deal.
Tanya tells her friends that she figured out what was really important - them. And school. And being a Ranger. But of course, she can sing any time. Kim was doing something that was way more dependent on age.
In conclusion - Tanya is awesome, and she and Adam are adorable. Also, Tanya grows up to win a bunch of Grammys and probably an Oscar for best song. I am also totally writing fic about this.
Fish - 2! Just for the nonsense with the cogs at the beginning.
Fic we want - All the schmoopy Adam/Tanya in the world. And you know, Tanya and her recording contract. :D
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Episode 170- There's No Business Like Snow Business Part 1
Okay, I don't like these episodes on the whole, but I forgot just how amazingly hilarious the first part of this three parter is!
We start off learning a professional snowboarder will be at a nearby (but not local) snow lodge signing autographs. Billy apparently likes snowboarding, while Ernie wouldn't be caught dead there. Tommy is lifting weights and he's halfway through his last set when he receives an OMINOUS letter from Kim. Why she mailed it to the Youth Center I have NO clue. But whatever. He doesn't want to stop so he asks Adam to read it to him. AND HE DOES.
Kim has found somebody new. She's breaking up with him. She no longer has feelings for him, but sees him as a brother... which makes up hope she's doing this because she's discovered she's a lesbian (or at the very least bisexual). She does it in a nice way, I suppose, though a phone call would have gone over better since she couldn't do it face to face. Tommy is all heartbroken. Tommy is heartbroken and goes to mope.
And we get the best BAD MONTAGE. Seriously, it's like the worst fanvid ever, complete with disturbingly cheesy BAD music. I LOVE IT SO.
Kat tries to cheer Tommy up, but it's of no use. So Billy has an idea. He's going to take them to the snow lodge so Tommy can go snowboarding. That should cheer him up! Maybe. I mean, his long time first serious girlfriend JUST dumped him... that HURTS. A LOT. Snowboarding can't really fix that. I never thought I'd say this, but I actually feel bad for Tommy! Will wonders never cease?
So at the snow lodge, Billy and Tommy are ready to get out in THE GLORIOUS SNOW, but Kat is still adjusting to the cold, so she hangs out with some hot chocolate for awhile. She sees some cogs, whom nobody else seems to realize aren't actual people, and so instead of using her communicator, she just follows them.
Meanwhile, Tommy's heartbreak has given Mondo an idea. He pulls out RoboCupid and sends her down to Angel Grove to put a spell on all the humans to make them fall in love with machines. She accidentally puts the spell on herself first and falls in love with Clank. It's WONDERFUL! I love that scene. She hugs him and snuggles him and I just love Monsters in Love.
She has to get to work, though, and she is efficient! Bulk and Skull both fall in love with the motorcycle! Ernie falls in love with his blender! Lt. Stone brings FLOWERS to an arcade game! People are in love with TOASTERS! FRAKIN TOASTERS!
Rocky, Tanya, and Adam know something is wrong. They're training for something (and boys sparring is PRETTY) but they don't know quite what's wrong. They aim to find out, but that's not really focused on much.
Back at the snow lodge, Professional Snowboarder Heather has convinced Tommy and Billy to go down the super-expert Widowmaker with her. They cave. Peer pressure is BAD, you guys. Kat, meanwhile, has chased the cogs down the same route. They have removed the CLIFF WARNING signs. Kat morphs and fights them, but they run off with the signs. She is able to warn Tommy and Billy, but Heather can't stop in time and goes over the cliff. Oh noes!
To Be Continued...
4 fish. It wasn't too bad, and while I'm ecstatic to have Billy back, I really wish he'd left the fish on Aquitar. The only thing that saved this episode was Lt. Stone bringing flowers to an arcade game and PEOPLE WERE IN LOVE WITH TOASTERS YOU GUYS! *snuggles it so*
We start off learning a professional snowboarder will be at a nearby (but not local) snow lodge signing autographs. Billy apparently likes snowboarding, while Ernie wouldn't be caught dead there. Tommy is lifting weights and he's halfway through his last set when he receives an OMINOUS letter from Kim. Why she mailed it to the Youth Center I have NO clue. But whatever. He doesn't want to stop so he asks Adam to read it to him. AND HE DOES.
Kim has found somebody new. She's breaking up with him. She no longer has feelings for him, but sees him as a brother... which makes up hope she's doing this because she's discovered she's a lesbian (or at the very least bisexual). She does it in a nice way, I suppose, though a phone call would have gone over better since she couldn't do it face to face. Tommy is all heartbroken. Tommy is heartbroken and goes to mope.
And we get the best BAD MONTAGE. Seriously, it's like the worst fanvid ever, complete with disturbingly cheesy BAD music. I LOVE IT SO.
Kat tries to cheer Tommy up, but it's of no use. So Billy has an idea. He's going to take them to the snow lodge so Tommy can go snowboarding. That should cheer him up! Maybe. I mean, his long time first serious girlfriend JUST dumped him... that HURTS. A LOT. Snowboarding can't really fix that. I never thought I'd say this, but I actually feel bad for Tommy! Will wonders never cease?
So at the snow lodge, Billy and Tommy are ready to get out in THE GLORIOUS SNOW, but Kat is still adjusting to the cold, so she hangs out with some hot chocolate for awhile. She sees some cogs, whom nobody else seems to realize aren't actual people, and so instead of using her communicator, she just follows them.
Meanwhile, Tommy's heartbreak has given Mondo an idea. He pulls out RoboCupid and sends her down to Angel Grove to put a spell on all the humans to make them fall in love with machines. She accidentally puts the spell on herself first and falls in love with Clank. It's WONDERFUL! I love that scene. She hugs him and snuggles him and I just love Monsters in Love.
She has to get to work, though, and she is efficient! Bulk and Skull both fall in love with the motorcycle! Ernie falls in love with his blender! Lt. Stone brings FLOWERS to an arcade game! People are in love with TOASTERS! FRAKIN TOASTERS!
Rocky, Tanya, and Adam know something is wrong. They're training for something (and boys sparring is PRETTY) but they don't know quite what's wrong. They aim to find out, but that's not really focused on much.
Back at the snow lodge, Professional Snowboarder Heather has convinced Tommy and Billy to go down the super-expert Widowmaker with her. They cave. Peer pressure is BAD, you guys. Kat, meanwhile, has chased the cogs down the same route. They have removed the CLIFF WARNING signs. Kat morphs and fights them, but they run off with the signs. She is able to warn Tommy and Billy, but Heather can't stop in time and goes over the cliff. Oh noes!
To Be Continued...
4 fish. It wasn't too bad, and while I'm ecstatic to have Billy back, I really wish he'd left the fish on Aquitar. The only thing that saved this episode was Lt. Stone bringing flowers to an arcade game and PEOPLE WERE IN LOVE WITH TOASTERS YOU GUYS! *snuggles it so*
Episode 168- Mean Screen
Before we start, I wanted to link everybody to some of the best fics in the fandom! Alpha's Magical Fic Exchange recently came to a close and all the fics were posted yesterday. And they are AWESOME. (can also be found on the prfication community on dreamwidth)
Now, to the episode. I don't like this episode. I didn't like this episode when it aired the first time and I haven't watched it since. Why? Because the WHOLE EPISODE is a science fail. Or rather, a computer fail of epic proportions.
Basically, the Rangers discover the internet! Which is always referred to as The Internet, making it sound as if it's capitalized and stuff. So Token Jewish Friend, aka Raymond, is showing Adam the ropes. He knows All About Computers and so he gets to tell everybody else what to do. I really like Raymond. I wish he had been a ranger.
Anyway, Tanya clicks a "Read Me" link with a cute smiley (facepalm) and a virus pops up saying they have 45 seconds to stop it before it infects everything. Uh... that's... not how it works (I'm going to be saying that a lot). Raymond tries to fix it from Tanya's computer, but can't, so he goes to use his laptop and fix it. Adam and Tanya are flipping out and giving the countdown and Raymond saves the day. Which is not how viruses work. But anyway. Adam finds a chatroom. He's very excited.
Mondo creates a computer monster to go to the Computer Center and hack into the the computers of Angel Grove. He absorbs the information through a cord he wrapped around the monitor, not the tower, and COMPUTERS REALLY REALLY REALLY DON'T WORK LIKE THAT. He gets all the ranger information because apparently Zordon wasn't smart enough to put up a firewall or leave those plans on computers with no attachment to the internet or a network. This monster inserts a virus that affects everything from desktops to ATM machines to store automatic doors to the blockade on a street. It's apparently highly contagious. AND COMPUTER VIRUSES DON'T WORK LIKE THAT.
The rangers try to fight Mean Screen, but his virus has gotten into their weapons, despite science NOT WORKING like that. In order to save the day, Adam teleports to the school and asks Raymond for the anti-virus he created. Raymond has an obvious crush on the green ranger. He hands over his untested virus (on a floppy, oh dear g-d we are so OLD) and then mutters that nobody on the internet is going to believe this. OH RAYMOND HOW I LOVE YOU. You are the best part of this episode.
So they use MAJOR COMPUTERS DON'T WORK LIKE THAT fail and beat the monster. And things start working again. Because Raymond created an awesome anti-virus software.
Meanwhile, Billy contacts them. He's coming home! Everybody missed him. Rocky is VERY excited to see Billy! Daw.
Mondo plans to foil Billy's attempts at coming home. But that's for next time.
This episode? This was 5 fish. This was 5 fish before we were even 8 minutes into the show. Record? Maybe not, but it sure is close. And stinky.
And did I mention that SCIENCE DOESN'T WORK LIKE THAT????
Now, to the episode. I don't like this episode. I didn't like this episode when it aired the first time and I haven't watched it since. Why? Because the WHOLE EPISODE is a science fail. Or rather, a computer fail of epic proportions.
Basically, the Rangers discover the internet! Which is always referred to as The Internet, making it sound as if it's capitalized and stuff. So Token Jewish Friend, aka Raymond, is showing Adam the ropes. He knows All About Computers and so he gets to tell everybody else what to do. I really like Raymond. I wish he had been a ranger.
Anyway, Tanya clicks a "Read Me" link with a cute smiley (facepalm) and a virus pops up saying they have 45 seconds to stop it before it infects everything. Uh... that's... not how it works (I'm going to be saying that a lot). Raymond tries to fix it from Tanya's computer, but can't, so he goes to use his laptop and fix it. Adam and Tanya are flipping out and giving the countdown and Raymond saves the day. Which is not how viruses work. But anyway. Adam finds a chatroom. He's very excited.
Mondo creates a computer monster to go to the Computer Center and hack into the the computers of Angel Grove. He absorbs the information through a cord he wrapped around the monitor, not the tower, and COMPUTERS REALLY REALLY REALLY DON'T WORK LIKE THAT. He gets all the ranger information because apparently Zordon wasn't smart enough to put up a firewall or leave those plans on computers with no attachment to the internet or a network. This monster inserts a virus that affects everything from desktops to ATM machines to store automatic doors to the blockade on a street. It's apparently highly contagious. AND COMPUTER VIRUSES DON'T WORK LIKE THAT.
The rangers try to fight Mean Screen, but his virus has gotten into their weapons, despite science NOT WORKING like that. In order to save the day, Adam teleports to the school and asks Raymond for the anti-virus he created. Raymond has an obvious crush on the green ranger. He hands over his untested virus (on a floppy, oh dear g-d we are so OLD) and then mutters that nobody on the internet is going to believe this. OH RAYMOND HOW I LOVE YOU. You are the best part of this episode.
So they use MAJOR COMPUTERS DON'T WORK LIKE THAT fail and beat the monster. And things start working again. Because Raymond created an awesome anti-virus software.
Meanwhile, Billy contacts them. He's coming home! Everybody missed him. Rocky is VERY excited to see Billy! Daw.
Mondo plans to foil Billy's attempts at coming home. But that's for next time.
This episode? This was 5 fish. This was 5 fish before we were even 8 minutes into the show. Record? Maybe not, but it sure is close. And stinky.
And did I mention that SCIENCE DOESN'T WORK LIKE THAT????
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Episode 130- Changing of the Zords Part 1
Sorry it's been so long, guys. Vacations, illness, and family got in the way. But we are back! And we're back with... new zords? Already? Um... well... okay then! Let's spend the whole opening admiring the awesome PRETTY of the cast, shall we? Because that's pretty much what we do at the beginning of every episode.
So this episode starts with Kat, Kim, and Aisha in the Youth Center. Kat comments on their remarkable skill at shopping and we wonder if the mall in Angel Grove has any merchandise left. Kat heads home and gets all mooney over Tommy on the way. She's jealous (under a spell) and wants Kim out of the way so she can have Tommy for herself (did I mention under a spell?). I hate these infidelity subplots (but at least she's under a spell?)
Later, Kim invites Kat to the lake to hang out. Kat doesn't want to go, but then Tommy asks if she's going and suddenly she wants to. Kim is a bit suspicious (understandably so) but they head out anyway. Kat says she'll meet them there.
Finster, meanwhile, has found himself some old forgotten Zords. Or more to the point, he has found where he can find some zords. So he takes Squatt and Baboo and they go in search through dense jungle, making some awesomely hilarious quips on the way, until they sit down to rest and stumble upon the zords.
At the lake, Bulk and Skull have been put in charge of keeping the area clean and safe. Skull sees some kids who appear to be drowning and they rush to the rescue, shedding clothes as they run. I LOVE this sequence. The music, the running, the slow mo, the rush to rescue poor children in desperate need of help. Of course, then I want to smack the little shits for laughing at Bulk and Skull when they jump into the lake because the kids were faking it the whole time. Where are there parents? They ought to be punished for that.
Rita stops Kat in the park. She asks Kat to steal a power coin for her, which Kat gladly agrees to. At the lake, Rita sends down some Tenga warriors to create a diversion. Frankly, the diversion wasn't really necessary. The power coins were all in the bags which were all left carelessly lying about on a table for anybody to pillage. But the Tengas are there and they're wreaking havoc and Kat manages to steal Kim's coin. She also steals a picture of Kim and Tommy.
Kim, in fighting the Tengas, suddenly feels very weak. Her vision goes all blurry. She screams for Tommy (sigh) and he races to protect her by... putting his arm across her chest? Really? I can see the merit in doing so to prevent an airbag from exploding in her face, but I'm not quite sure how that will save her from the Tengas. Anyway, the Tengas run away since Kat has the coin, and the rangers go to morph. Kim can't find her coin and only NOW do they feel the need to contact Zordon. Who, of course, has no idea what's going on.
Zordon explains that Ninjor, when recharging the power coins, tied it into their life forces, so with Kim's coin gone, she's growing weaker and weaker. If they don't get it back, it could kill her. But that happens later, and I spend most of the episode wondering why in the world she's having all these side effects when that never happened in any of the multiple other episodes they lost their coins.
Goldar goes down to Earth and Tommy vows to fight him alone. Kat is told to steal the falcon zord and she's all too happy to comply. She's a very effective evil, I must say, far more so than any of the other rangers when put under an evil spell. She manages to zap Tommy and take the falcon zord (which then looks like an owl, but ends up being a real falcon on Zedd's arm? Okay...). Ninjor, in trying to help, gets trounced by Goldar and then captured. This is pretty bleak and Tommy is sure it's the end. He is upset that Zedd has beaten the power rangers, but really... uh... Zedd hasn't. Not yet. There are still FIVE OTHER RANGERS. FIVE. The Power Rangers is not a solo Tommy-only show here. Even if he wishes it were.
Anyway, Zordon then explains Kim could die as she faints because she's so weak and this would be a totally awesome ending!
Except it's not over yet. Instead we get Kat in a tree (and I really want to call a handsome fireman to come get her out of the tree, and then we want a follow up with Kat on a hot tin roof). She rips the picture of Kim and Tommy in half, throwing away the Kim part and proclaiming that Tommy will be hers. I hate infidelity subplots. *sigh*
2 fish. It wasn't that fishy, it was just bad in general.
So this episode starts with Kat, Kim, and Aisha in the Youth Center. Kat comments on their remarkable skill at shopping and we wonder if the mall in Angel Grove has any merchandise left. Kat heads home and gets all mooney over Tommy on the way. She's jealous (under a spell) and wants Kim out of the way so she can have Tommy for herself (did I mention under a spell?). I hate these infidelity subplots (but at least she's under a spell?)
Later, Kim invites Kat to the lake to hang out. Kat doesn't want to go, but then Tommy asks if she's going and suddenly she wants to. Kim is a bit suspicious (understandably so) but they head out anyway. Kat says she'll meet them there.
Finster, meanwhile, has found himself some old forgotten Zords. Or more to the point, he has found where he can find some zords. So he takes Squatt and Baboo and they go in search through dense jungle, making some awesomely hilarious quips on the way, until they sit down to rest and stumble upon the zords.
At the lake, Bulk and Skull have been put in charge of keeping the area clean and safe. Skull sees some kids who appear to be drowning and they rush to the rescue, shedding clothes as they run. I LOVE this sequence. The music, the running, the slow mo, the rush to rescue poor children in desperate need of help. Of course, then I want to smack the little shits for laughing at Bulk and Skull when they jump into the lake because the kids were faking it the whole time. Where are there parents? They ought to be punished for that.
Rita stops Kat in the park. She asks Kat to steal a power coin for her, which Kat gladly agrees to. At the lake, Rita sends down some Tenga warriors to create a diversion. Frankly, the diversion wasn't really necessary. The power coins were all in the bags which were all left carelessly lying about on a table for anybody to pillage. But the Tengas are there and they're wreaking havoc and Kat manages to steal Kim's coin. She also steals a picture of Kim and Tommy.
Kim, in fighting the Tengas, suddenly feels very weak. Her vision goes all blurry. She screams for Tommy (sigh) and he races to protect her by... putting his arm across her chest? Really? I can see the merit in doing so to prevent an airbag from exploding in her face, but I'm not quite sure how that will save her from the Tengas. Anyway, the Tengas run away since Kat has the coin, and the rangers go to morph. Kim can't find her coin and only NOW do they feel the need to contact Zordon. Who, of course, has no idea what's going on.
Zordon explains that Ninjor, when recharging the power coins, tied it into their life forces, so with Kim's coin gone, she's growing weaker and weaker. If they don't get it back, it could kill her. But that happens later, and I spend most of the episode wondering why in the world she's having all these side effects when that never happened in any of the multiple other episodes they lost their coins.
Goldar goes down to Earth and Tommy vows to fight him alone. Kat is told to steal the falcon zord and she's all too happy to comply. She's a very effective evil, I must say, far more so than any of the other rangers when put under an evil spell. She manages to zap Tommy and take the falcon zord (which then looks like an owl, but ends up being a real falcon on Zedd's arm? Okay...). Ninjor, in trying to help, gets trounced by Goldar and then captured. This is pretty bleak and Tommy is sure it's the end. He is upset that Zedd has beaten the power rangers, but really... uh... Zedd hasn't. Not yet. There are still FIVE OTHER RANGERS. FIVE. The Power Rangers is not a solo Tommy-only show here. Even if he wishes it were.
Anyway, Zordon then explains Kim could die as she faints because she's so weak and this would be a totally awesome ending!
Except it's not over yet. Instead we get Kat in a tree (and I really want to call a handsome fireman to come get her out of the tree, and then we want a follow up with Kat on a hot tin roof). She rips the picture of Kim and Tommy in half, throwing away the Kim part and proclaiming that Tommy will be hers. I hate infidelity subplots. *sigh*
2 fish. It wasn't that fishy, it was just bad in general.
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Episode 124- Stop the Hate Master Part 1
Oh god it's another rapping monster. *headdesk*
So at the start of the episode, Kim and Aisha are pushing through a crowd of girls to see a list of new members for the Angel Grove Girls Club. It's basically a sorority... for high school. Kim made the list, but Aisha did not. They apparently didn't want her. Kim tries to comfort her, telling her she'll figure out what's going on, but Aisha says it's okay, it's not a big deal, and walks off all sad. Poor Aisha!
Kim pulls Veronica, leader of the club, aside and asks why Aisha didn't make the cut. It takes some prompting for Veronica to even remember who Aisha is, and then she says Aisha was lacking the "proper qualifications". Which basically means Aisha isn't rich enough.
In the Youth Center, Aisha is working out on some weight training equipment. Kim tries to talk to her some more, and then demands she scoot over so they can share the narrow bench and talk out their problems. Kim swears she'll talk to Veronica again and really figure out what's going on, and get Aisha in the club if she can. She kisses her on the cheek and skips away and I flail from the absolute ADORABLENESS of the two of them together.
So somebody has been graffiting the Youth Center and the Ranger boys are outside cleaning it off. Bulk is hiding in the shadows trying to discover the culprit, but he has no luck, so he tries to contact Skull on their headsets. Ernie thanks the Rangers for their help. Meanwhile, inside, the first meeting of thesorority Snobby McSnobersons Club comes to a close. Kim once again asks Veronica exactly why Aisha didn't make it. Veronica flat out tells her Aisha's parents don't make enough money. Kim questions why she was let in when her family is in the same economic bracket, but apparently her mother came from money and was involved, so Kim gets an automatic "in". What a disgusting club. Kim refuses to be a part of something so vile and quits. Because she's awesome.
But the whole time they were stepping on poor Skull. He was hiding under the table to listen to conversations, pulled out the most awesome shoe phone when he couldn't get ahold of Bulk, and then ended up getting each and every one of his fingers stomped on by the girls. Poor Skull! Alas, neither he nor Bulk have anything of importance to report.
Aisha is still kind of bummed, but not because she's in the club, just because it hurts to be rejected. She feels a little better when Kim tells her she quit, though. She can't stay long, however, because her Grandma of Sheer Awesomeness is in town.
Meanwhile, Rita and Zedd decide this Snobby McSnobersons Club has the right idea. They love the hate and ask Finster to make a monster. So Finster takes all the hate from all the monsters he ever made, and combines it all to make one nasty Hate Master monster. Who makes me feel plenty of hate every time he opens his mouth. Because he raps. Horribly.
So Kim finds the boys and tells them about what happened with Aisha. Adam agrees that it's a nasty club, but he understands why Aisha is upset, because "no one likes to feel rejected". We feel you, Adam. We really really do.
They are walking through... the park I guess? It looks more like a deserted dirt road. But anyway, they get attacked by Tengas and Squatt follows them around with a little vacuum doing... something? The Tengas grab Kim and she immediately screams for Tommy while we imprint out foreheads with our keyboards. He rescues her, of course, and the Tengas quickly fly away. The Hate Master shows up and raps horribly while Squatt hands him all the Hate Dust he collected. That's right. Hate Dust. Apparently the rangers shed hate dust when they fight. It... I don't even have words for how little sense that actually makes.
So the Hate Master puts them under a spell and they all suddenly hate each other! Oh noes! Billy questions why he's hanging out with people of sub-par intellect. Kim wonders why she's hanging out with a nerd. Tommy is just generally grumpy. Rocky and Adam have an homoerotic face off over... absolutely nothing at all, but I swear, they were seriously about to kiss there.
At Aisha's house, we meet her Grandma of Sheer Awesomeness. She knows immediately something is up with Aisha and gets her talking with what is essentially a snap of her fingers. Because she's just THAT awesome. She reassures Aisha, makes her feel better, and then gives her a necklace that has been in the family for generations.
Zordon FINALLY notices something is amiss when Alpha detects an unusually large amount of hate in Angel Grove. It's like he has his own Care-o-Meter! Anyway, the Rangers are being overcome with Hate Particles (really show? I mean... really?), and they decide to contact Aisha as she's the only one unaffected thus far. She tells her Grandma of Sheer Awesomeness that the beeping of her communicator is an alarm to remind her of a meeting she has. Best excuse EVER used on this show, seriously. She talks to Zordon and decides she is going to talk the others out of the Hate Master's spell.
And she DOES! She goes to them in the park, tells them they are under a spell, and just like that the spell wears off and they're all fine. Well okay then, show.
Y'know, this whole episode is eerily similar to the entire first Care Bears Movie, right down to a monster wanting to spread hate throughout the city, only the monster in the Care Bears movie was an awesomely evil book and not an aggravating rapping monster.
Anyway, they go to fight the Hate Master, which has grown, and end up all under it's spell again. They give up mid-fight and make snarky comments, including Billy's "I'm outta here" (link opens best in IE) which he says repeatedly and yet.. never actually leaves. So they all teleport to the Command Center, where they all throw down their communicators and tell Zordon they're done with his old, wrinkly self, by YELLING at him. It's AWESOME.
Aisha doesn't know what to do, but she's determined to stop it. Zordon is going to scan her to figure out why she's not affected by the Hate Master's spell.
To be continued!
Fish: 4
Billy speak: "Why am I hanging out with the intellectually challenged?" Oh evil, hate-filled Billy. You're so damn sexy.
Fic we want: a crossover where THE CAREBEARS SHOW UP TO FIND OUT WHY THE RANGERS HAVE STOPPED CARING because it would be OMGSOAWESOME! No, seriously, I can see it all in my head now! It should exist!
And also, we want hate!sex while under the monster's spell fic. Because it would also be awesome.
So at the start of the episode, Kim and Aisha are pushing through a crowd of girls to see a list of new members for the Angel Grove Girls Club. It's basically a sorority... for high school. Kim made the list, but Aisha did not. They apparently didn't want her. Kim tries to comfort her, telling her she'll figure out what's going on, but Aisha says it's okay, it's not a big deal, and walks off all sad. Poor Aisha!
Kim pulls Veronica, leader of the club, aside and asks why Aisha didn't make the cut. It takes some prompting for Veronica to even remember who Aisha is, and then she says Aisha was lacking the "proper qualifications". Which basically means Aisha isn't rich enough.
In the Youth Center, Aisha is working out on some weight training equipment. Kim tries to talk to her some more, and then demands she scoot over so they can share the narrow bench and talk out their problems. Kim swears she'll talk to Veronica again and really figure out what's going on, and get Aisha in the club if she can. She kisses her on the cheek and skips away and I flail from the absolute ADORABLENESS of the two of them together.
So somebody has been graffiting the Youth Center and the Ranger boys are outside cleaning it off. Bulk is hiding in the shadows trying to discover the culprit, but he has no luck, so he tries to contact Skull on their headsets. Ernie thanks the Rangers for their help. Meanwhile, inside, the first meeting of the
But the whole time they were stepping on poor Skull. He was hiding under the table to listen to conversations, pulled out the most awesome shoe phone when he couldn't get ahold of Bulk, and then ended up getting each and every one of his fingers stomped on by the girls. Poor Skull! Alas, neither he nor Bulk have anything of importance to report.
Aisha is still kind of bummed, but not because she's in the club, just because it hurts to be rejected. She feels a little better when Kim tells her she quit, though. She can't stay long, however, because her Grandma of Sheer Awesomeness is in town.
Meanwhile, Rita and Zedd decide this Snobby McSnobersons Club has the right idea. They love the hate and ask Finster to make a monster. So Finster takes all the hate from all the monsters he ever made, and combines it all to make one nasty Hate Master monster. Who makes me feel plenty of hate every time he opens his mouth. Because he raps. Horribly.
So Kim finds the boys and tells them about what happened with Aisha. Adam agrees that it's a nasty club, but he understands why Aisha is upset, because "no one likes to feel rejected". We feel you, Adam. We really really do.
They are walking through... the park I guess? It looks more like a deserted dirt road. But anyway, they get attacked by Tengas and Squatt follows them around with a little vacuum doing... something? The Tengas grab Kim and she immediately screams for Tommy while we imprint out foreheads with our keyboards. He rescues her, of course, and the Tengas quickly fly away. The Hate Master shows up and raps horribly while Squatt hands him all the Hate Dust he collected. That's right. Hate Dust. Apparently the rangers shed hate dust when they fight. It... I don't even have words for how little sense that actually makes.
So the Hate Master puts them under a spell and they all suddenly hate each other! Oh noes! Billy questions why he's hanging out with people of sub-par intellect. Kim wonders why she's hanging out with a nerd. Tommy is just generally grumpy. Rocky and Adam have an homoerotic face off over... absolutely nothing at all, but I swear, they were seriously about to kiss there.
At Aisha's house, we meet her Grandma of Sheer Awesomeness. She knows immediately something is up with Aisha and gets her talking with what is essentially a snap of her fingers. Because she's just THAT awesome. She reassures Aisha, makes her feel better, and then gives her a necklace that has been in the family for generations.
Zordon FINALLY notices something is amiss when Alpha detects an unusually large amount of hate in Angel Grove. It's like he has his own Care-o-Meter! Anyway, the Rangers are being overcome with Hate Particles (really show? I mean... really?), and they decide to contact Aisha as she's the only one unaffected thus far. She tells her Grandma of Sheer Awesomeness that the beeping of her communicator is an alarm to remind her of a meeting she has. Best excuse EVER used on this show, seriously. She talks to Zordon and decides she is going to talk the others out of the Hate Master's spell.
And she DOES! She goes to them in the park, tells them they are under a spell, and just like that the spell wears off and they're all fine. Well okay then, show.
Y'know, this whole episode is eerily similar to the entire first Care Bears Movie, right down to a monster wanting to spread hate throughout the city, only the monster in the Care Bears movie was an awesomely evil book and not an aggravating rapping monster.
Anyway, they go to fight the Hate Master, which has grown, and end up all under it's spell again. They give up mid-fight and make snarky comments, including Billy's "I'm outta here" (link opens best in IE) which he says repeatedly and yet.. never actually leaves. So they all teleport to the Command Center, where they all throw down their communicators and tell Zordon they're done with his old, wrinkly self, by YELLING at him. It's AWESOME.
Aisha doesn't know what to do, but she's determined to stop it. Zordon is going to scan her to figure out why she's not affected by the Hate Master's spell.
To be continued!
Fish: 4
Billy speak: "Why am I hanging out with the intellectually challenged?" Oh evil, hate-filled Billy. You're so damn sexy.
Fic we want: a crossover where THE CAREBEARS SHOW UP TO FIND OUT WHY THE RANGERS HAVE STOPPED CARING because it would be OMGSOAWESOME! No, seriously, I can see it all in my head now! It should exist!
And also, we want hate!sex while under the monster's spell fic. Because it would also be awesome.
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Episode 123 - Fourth Down and Long
Today on Power Rangers, it's a Very Special Episode about dyslexia! And football. And about how whenever there's a Rocky centric episode the other Rangers get turned into things.
Honestly, before this episode I would have sworn that I'd seen every episode of MMPR, but I didn't remember this one at all!
We are back in Mr. Wilton's class, where Billy begins the necessary exposition. We find out that apparently Rocky's uncle is a really famous quarterback and he's coming to speak to the football team or something. For some reason, they are just chatting in the middle of class, and the teacher waits until they're done with the conversation before reminding them it's time to put on their safety goggles and start mixing chemicals.
Rocky asks his partner, Alan, (he's partnered with a non-Ranger! Gasp!) to read the formula. His partner reads the formula, Rocky combines the chemicals, and the stuff emits a gas, forcing class to be evacuated, and Mr. Wilton to threaten to kick the partner off the football team. Oh noes!
On the moon, Rita makes fun of their chemistry skills, and Zedd proves he has no athletic talents at all. Finster's centipede monster mold accidentally gets combined with a football, and we get our monster of the week.
Back in Angel Grove, we find out that Bulk and Skull don't appear to go to class anymore, because they're always busy with police things. This time they're guarding Rocky's uncle. Billy reads over the notes, and says that the Alan must have reversed the formula. Rocky offers to tutor Alan, and they have a conversation about how smart Alan is, but how he has trouble reading. After the tutoring session, they realize they missed Uncle Joe, so they go to find him, only to discover that the monster has shown up, and already turned Bulk and Skull into footballs. Alan and Joe soon follow, and Rocky has the best shocked expression on his face. His acting skills have improved a lot, he really sells that anger.
Rocky calls Zordon, who calls the other Rangers, but the other Rangers manage to get themselves turned into footballs. Rocky teleports back to the Command Center and successfully figures out a way to reverse the spell, proving for once and for all, that he is smart. End of discussion. He's also the only one who figures out that maybe you should DODGE THE FOOTBALL that will turn you into a football. FAIL HARDER, RANGERS.
The football fight would have been way more entertaining if there had been football putties instead of tengas. Just for the record.
Anyway, Ninjor shows up to help, and Zordon warns them that there's going to be a snowstorm even though there is NO SNOW in Angel Grove and they go down and reverse the spell and rescue everyone. The monster grows, they punch it, everyone goes home happy. For the record, the snow looks completely ridiculous, like the screen was just all static-y. It gets better once they have the actual Zord fight, but argh.
Later, all the Rangers are having a bad hair day (side effect of being turned into footballs) and Uncle Joe tells them that Alan isn't kicked off the team anymore, because he's fixed everything! It turns out that Uncle Joe also has dyslexia, and he recognized it in Alan, so he got him tested, and sometimes teachers don't recognize it but Mr. Wilton totally has strategies to help him now, and the important thing is that he isn't kicked off the team! Cue very special episode cheering.
Bulk and Skull get in trouble for being afraid of footballs (Which is understandable, since they got TURNED INTO THEM) and then Bulk gets covered in fruit salad. Everyone laughs at them. Oh, SHOW. How about a very special episode about why mocking others is wrong, instead?
Fish: 4. How do you NOT DODGE the football? Also, there is no snow in Angel Grove.
Billy speak: "Judging from the explosion that occurred, and the formula you have written here, I'd say you reversed the elements."
"Yeah, you read them backwards. That's what caused such an adverse reaction."
Covered in: Bulk is covered in fruit salad
Honestly, before this episode I would have sworn that I'd seen every episode of MMPR, but I didn't remember this one at all!
We are back in Mr. Wilton's class, where Billy begins the necessary exposition. We find out that apparently Rocky's uncle is a really famous quarterback and he's coming to speak to the football team or something. For some reason, they are just chatting in the middle of class, and the teacher waits until they're done with the conversation before reminding them it's time to put on their safety goggles and start mixing chemicals.
Rocky asks his partner, Alan, (he's partnered with a non-Ranger! Gasp!) to read the formula. His partner reads the formula, Rocky combines the chemicals, and the stuff emits a gas, forcing class to be evacuated, and Mr. Wilton to threaten to kick the partner off the football team. Oh noes!
On the moon, Rita makes fun of their chemistry skills, and Zedd proves he has no athletic talents at all. Finster's centipede monster mold accidentally gets combined with a football, and we get our monster of the week.
Back in Angel Grove, we find out that Bulk and Skull don't appear to go to class anymore, because they're always busy with police things. This time they're guarding Rocky's uncle. Billy reads over the notes, and says that the Alan must have reversed the formula. Rocky offers to tutor Alan, and they have a conversation about how smart Alan is, but how he has trouble reading. After the tutoring session, they realize they missed Uncle Joe, so they go to find him, only to discover that the monster has shown up, and already turned Bulk and Skull into footballs. Alan and Joe soon follow, and Rocky has the best shocked expression on his face. His acting skills have improved a lot, he really sells that anger.
Rocky calls Zordon, who calls the other Rangers, but the other Rangers manage to get themselves turned into footballs. Rocky teleports back to the Command Center and successfully figures out a way to reverse the spell, proving for once and for all, that he is smart. End of discussion. He's also the only one who figures out that maybe you should DODGE THE FOOTBALL that will turn you into a football. FAIL HARDER, RANGERS.
The football fight would have been way more entertaining if there had been football putties instead of tengas. Just for the record.
Anyway, Ninjor shows up to help, and Zordon warns them that there's going to be a snowstorm even though there is NO SNOW in Angel Grove and they go down and reverse the spell and rescue everyone. The monster grows, they punch it, everyone goes home happy. For the record, the snow looks completely ridiculous, like the screen was just all static-y. It gets better once they have the actual Zord fight, but argh.
Later, all the Rangers are having a bad hair day (side effect of being turned into footballs) and Uncle Joe tells them that Alan isn't kicked off the team anymore, because he's fixed everything! It turns out that Uncle Joe also has dyslexia, and he recognized it in Alan, so he got him tested, and sometimes teachers don't recognize it but Mr. Wilton totally has strategies to help him now, and the important thing is that he isn't kicked off the team! Cue very special episode cheering.
Bulk and Skull get in trouble for being afraid of footballs (Which is understandable, since they got TURNED INTO THEM) and then Bulk gets covered in fruit salad. Everyone laughs at them. Oh, SHOW. How about a very special episode about why mocking others is wrong, instead?
Fish: 4. How do you NOT DODGE the football? Also, there is no snow in Angel Grove.
Billy speak: "Judging from the explosion that occurred, and the formula you have written here, I'd say you reversed the elements."
"Yeah, you read them backwards. That's what caused such an adverse reaction."
Covered in: Bulk is covered in fruit salad
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Episode 121 - Passing the Lantern
Somehow we managed to arrange it (purely by accident, I swear) so that I get to recap one of our rare Adam-centric episodes, and Queenriley gets to recap the even rarer Rocky-centric one right after it! This is exciting!
Amazingly, this episode is actually about Adam, and not one of those secretly about Tommy ones that pop up more often later on!
The episode opens in the Youth Center, with Aisha and Billy discussing their boyfriend. Adam is off at a family reunion, and they hope it goes well, because they know how important family is to Adam, and how much he wants to make them proud.
Adam returns, with a gorgeous lantern (referred to in the show as an Oriental lantern - it is later mentioned that Adam is Korean-American, but that isn't for another seasson, and the garden has a sign on it saying that it's a Japanese garden, and anyway, I'm getting ahead of myself. For the purpose of the recap I am going to use the show's terminology. Which was my point) and we're told that he's been chosen as his generation's guardian of the lantern, which is supposed to have some sort of powers. This of course means that Rita and Zedd want to steal it.
There's an inscription on the lantern, but Adam can't read the language. Bulk and Skull overhear Adam say it's a mystery, and try to read it themselves, but all they can come up with is 'don't try to read something not in English.'
Billy takes Adam to Ko's Japanese garden, and explains that Ko is an old friend of his family. The garden really is gorgeous. Ko has a ton of lanterns, and Adam admires the collection. Ko shows Adam one and reads the inscription, which translates to "the dragon you fear is only as potent as your imagination" which Adam figures out means that fear is only as powerful as you make it. Aww, Adam is smart. *adores* Ko then translates Adam's lantern (and we never do find out what language it's in - which is a) problematic as they're just lumping all of Asia together under "The Orient" and b) annoying for my personal headcanon.) The inscription on Adam's lantern states "The lamp may light the path, but the soul must light the way." Adam finds this one harder to figure out.
The other Rangers (except Kimberly) wander through the paths of the garden and mention that Kim is starting up a garden at Aisha's house, but she's really busy preparing for a gymnastics competition. However, their lovelythreesome walk in the park is ruined as Rito and some tengas show up, while Squatt and Babboo try to steal Adam's lantern. The five Rangers all morph into the ninja costumes, and there's a pretty good fight. Squatt and Babboo end up taking all the lanterns, and Adam is very sad. Adam does very sad really well.
Adam is concerned about how he let down his family! (There is a reason this boy is my favorite, for real) and Bulk and Skull say that they are on the case. This is... not comforting. But they do manage to see Rito going through the lanterns, and Rito throws Adam's lantern towards them before teleporting away, leading to them screaming, wondering why they're screaming, and then realizing that it's because a bunch of aliens just used their powers in front of them leading to them continuing screaming. Oh, BOYS. We also find out that the Junior Police Patrol has a handbook. You would think that "what do you do in a monster attack" would be on page one.
Rita and Zedd choose one of the lanterns to be their lantern monster, and then return the other ones so that it won't clutter up the moon. That's really considerate of them!
The Lanterra monster attacks Bulk and Skull (And we like this monster, it is hilarious) and the two soon run into Adam and Aisha, who are still searching for Adam's lantern. (By searching I mean that Aisha is clearly indulging Adam's crazy need to search himself, even thought he Command Center is also scanning for it. However, considering that the Command Center hasn't noticed the monster yet, I can totally get why Adam wants to search himself.) Adam asks the Command Center if they see anything unusual on the viewing globe, and look! A monster! Way to notice ANYTHING, Zordon.
Adam doesn't want to attack the lantern monster because he's afraid of damaging it. Which is adorable but... don't Rita and Zedd's monsters usually revert to whatever they're made out of after? But then Adam figures out that the inscription on the lantern meant that the power is inside of him, not the lantern, so he beats up the lantern monster. Because he is awesome. Then Rita and Zedd make it grow, and there are Zords summoned, and Ninjor shows up, because he actually pays attention to these things.
Back at the Youth Center, Adam is still trying to pretend that he's okay with destroying the lantern. Kim and Rocky try to comfort him, but then Bulk and Skull show up with Adam's lantern! Yay! They tell some ridiculous story about how they fought off the monster, and then they end up slipping where Ernie mopped. I didn't see any sign saying there was a wet floor, Ernie! You fail!
During the credits, Skull finds a fish in his shoe. THAT EXPLAINS EVERYTHING.
Fish: 2
Amazingly, this episode is actually about Adam, and not one of those secretly about Tommy ones that pop up more often later on!
The episode opens in the Youth Center, with Aisha and Billy discussing their boyfriend. Adam is off at a family reunion, and they hope it goes well, because they know how important family is to Adam, and how much he wants to make them proud.
Adam returns, with a gorgeous lantern (referred to in the show as an Oriental lantern - it is later mentioned that Adam is Korean-American, but that isn't for another seasson, and the garden has a sign on it saying that it's a Japanese garden, and anyway, I'm getting ahead of myself. For the purpose of the recap I am going to use the show's terminology. Which was my point) and we're told that he's been chosen as his generation's guardian of the lantern, which is supposed to have some sort of powers. This of course means that Rita and Zedd want to steal it.
There's an inscription on the lantern, but Adam can't read the language. Bulk and Skull overhear Adam say it's a mystery, and try to read it themselves, but all they can come up with is 'don't try to read something not in English.'
Billy takes Adam to Ko's Japanese garden, and explains that Ko is an old friend of his family. The garden really is gorgeous. Ko has a ton of lanterns, and Adam admires the collection. Ko shows Adam one and reads the inscription, which translates to "the dragon you fear is only as potent as your imagination" which Adam figures out means that fear is only as powerful as you make it. Aww, Adam is smart. *adores* Ko then translates Adam's lantern (and we never do find out what language it's in - which is a) problematic as they're just lumping all of Asia together under "The Orient" and b) annoying for my personal headcanon.) The inscription on Adam's lantern states "The lamp may light the path, but the soul must light the way." Adam finds this one harder to figure out.
The other Rangers (except Kimberly) wander through the paths of the garden and mention that Kim is starting up a garden at Aisha's house, but she's really busy preparing for a gymnastics competition. However, their lovely
Adam is concerned about how he let down his family! (There is a reason this boy is my favorite, for real) and Bulk and Skull say that they are on the case. This is... not comforting. But they do manage to see Rito going through the lanterns, and Rito throws Adam's lantern towards them before teleporting away, leading to them screaming, wondering why they're screaming, and then realizing that it's because a bunch of aliens just used their powers in front of them leading to them continuing screaming. Oh, BOYS. We also find out that the Junior Police Patrol has a handbook. You would think that "what do you do in a monster attack" would be on page one.
Rita and Zedd choose one of the lanterns to be their lantern monster, and then return the other ones so that it won't clutter up the moon. That's really considerate of them!
The Lanterra monster attacks Bulk and Skull (And we like this monster, it is hilarious) and the two soon run into Adam and Aisha, who are still searching for Adam's lantern. (By searching I mean that Aisha is clearly indulging Adam's crazy need to search himself, even thought he Command Center is also scanning for it. However, considering that the Command Center hasn't noticed the monster yet, I can totally get why Adam wants to search himself.) Adam asks the Command Center if they see anything unusual on the viewing globe, and look! A monster! Way to notice ANYTHING, Zordon.
Adam doesn't want to attack the lantern monster because he's afraid of damaging it. Which is adorable but... don't Rita and Zedd's monsters usually revert to whatever they're made out of after? But then Adam figures out that the inscription on the lantern meant that the power is inside of him, not the lantern, so he beats up the lantern monster. Because he is awesome. Then Rita and Zedd make it grow, and there are Zords summoned, and Ninjor shows up, because he actually pays attention to these things.
Back at the Youth Center, Adam is still trying to pretend that he's okay with destroying the lantern. Kim and Rocky try to comfort him, but then Bulk and Skull show up with Adam's lantern! Yay! They tell some ridiculous story about how they fought off the monster, and then they end up slipping where Ernie mopped. I didn't see any sign saying there was a wet floor, Ernie! You fail!
During the credits, Skull finds a fish in his shoe. THAT EXPLAINS EVERYTHING.
Fish: 2
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Episode 112- Blue Ranger Gone Bad
This episode is fishy and weird and really poorly written and just all around bad but I DON'T CARE! I love it so very very much. It's horrible, yet it's one of my favourites. And did you know it will be airing on Nick? When all the other 700 episodes air? Because Haim Saban bought back Power Rangers? Because it totally will be. And I'll love it on network tv again. :D
So we start out with the rangers in art class, all except Rocky and Aisha whom we are assuming are sequestered somewhere else making out. Art class is being taught by somebody who is not Principal Caplan OR Ms. Applebee! Angel Grove High must have had room in the budget to hire a third teacher. Billy has made a hologram, though we're not sure how that's art. Tommy has made what looks like the sawed off head of a mannequin. Another girl in the class has made a statue of Billy. She watches him the entire class. She flirts badly with him. She makes googly eyes and giggles a lot. She molds him out of clay. She's... creepy, which is about the nicest thing I can say about Violet.
Anywho, Kim talks Billy into asking her out on a date, in what we can only assume is her desire to bond with somebody over creepy significant others, and they all head off to the Juice Bar. They are attacked along the way by AWESOME POSING PUTTIES! Seriously, the putties don't get more awesome than this. *will miss the Z putties* In the fight, everybody is very very pretty (though I don't think so with Tommy, but TSB does, so he gets included here too). Goldar uses tentacle-like vines to ensnare Billy and teleport him to the Alternate Dimension Room of Fog Machines, where Goldar is disappointed Billy is not Jason, but figures he'll have to do. They have stolen Violet's statue and made and Evil!Billy out of it. Billy pulls the first male 'scream for Tommy' and I'm saddened momentarily. Evil!Billy glares at Good!Billy and is very hot, which cheers me right back up again. Good!Billy refuses to believe his friends won't notice that he's suddenly turned evil and is very hot while being deliberately obtuse. Oh Billy, honey, you have bad friends. They don't notice spells, you can bet they won't notice an evil clone.
Evil!Billy is very attractive while being sent to the park to rejoin his friends. He's bad at pretending to be Good!Billy, but he's still awesome. He's also apparently smarter than Good!Billy because he refuses to ask Violet out on a date, right to the point of ignoring her when she's talking to him at the Juice Bar. He lifts weights a lot and refuses to study math, but does manage to use the hottest Billy!speak to talk the others out of their communicators and then steals their morphers. He's also very pretty while being evil.
Tommy somehow was the smart one here and kept his communicator, sneaking away to contact Zordon about the "upgrades" Billy will be doing. They decide something isn't right and check into Billy.
The gang get attacked by West Side Story putties and I squee with delight! Zordon has managed to teleport Good!Billy to the park and he's now face to face with Evil!Billy. The others, having discovered their morphers were taken, are now trying to both get them back AND figure out which Billy is their Billy. It's made even harder when Billy morphs and... Evil!Billy morphs with him? What? That... makes no sense. But I don't care because Two Billys! Kim uses her brain and asks about the hologram. Only Good!Billy knows what it is, and they morph and quickly do away with Evil!Billy. We know there is some fic where they rescue the wrong Billy, but we feel there should be MORE. Or at least linked to older fic. Ahem.
Anyway, Zedd and Rita fight over Zedd's staff (gigglesnort) and then make a monster out of Tommy's "art" project. The rangers call zords, they form the megazord, they fight for a minute, Tommy has dialogue, and then they pull out the thundersabre and the fight is over.
Back in art class, Billy apologizes to Violet, who says "It's okay! I'm sure there was a good reason." instead of "You really hurt my feelings, but thanks for apologizing." which would have been far more healthy. Anyway. He asks her out to the movies and she nearly falls over from the excitement.
The art teacher asks them to show their projects. Kim has made a painting of her friends. It's kind of cute. Bulk and Skull (who has drool-worthy arms and he should really show them off more often) have gotten Violet to do their project for them and she's turned Billy into the Gold Ranger. Foreshadowing maybe? ;) Billy is a little creeped out by this, rightly so, but not enough to cancel the date he's already uncomfortable about.
List time!
2.5 fish. I love it too much to give it more.
Billy speak- Evil!Billy speak today "By redefining the geographical servofrequency range, we'll have less high end interference."
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So we start out with the rangers in art class, all except Rocky and Aisha whom we are assuming are sequestered somewhere else making out. Art class is being taught by somebody who is not Principal Caplan OR Ms. Applebee! Angel Grove High must have had room in the budget to hire a third teacher. Billy has made a hologram, though we're not sure how that's art. Tommy has made what looks like the sawed off head of a mannequin. Another girl in the class has made a statue of Billy. She watches him the entire class. She flirts badly with him. She makes googly eyes and giggles a lot. She molds him out of clay. She's... creepy, which is about the nicest thing I can say about Violet.
Anywho, Kim talks Billy into asking her out on a date, in what we can only assume is her desire to bond with somebody over creepy significant others, and they all head off to the Juice Bar. They are attacked along the way by AWESOME POSING PUTTIES! Seriously, the putties don't get more awesome than this. *will miss the Z putties* In the fight, everybody is very very pretty (though I don't think so with Tommy, but TSB does, so he gets included here too). Goldar uses tentacle-like vines to ensnare Billy and teleport him to the Alternate Dimension Room of Fog Machines, where Goldar is disappointed Billy is not Jason, but figures he'll have to do. They have stolen Violet's statue and made and Evil!Billy out of it. Billy pulls the first male 'scream for Tommy' and I'm saddened momentarily. Evil!Billy glares at Good!Billy and is very hot, which cheers me right back up again. Good!Billy refuses to believe his friends won't notice that he's suddenly turned evil and is very hot while being deliberately obtuse. Oh Billy, honey, you have bad friends. They don't notice spells, you can bet they won't notice an evil clone.
Evil!Billy is very attractive while being sent to the park to rejoin his friends. He's bad at pretending to be Good!Billy, but he's still awesome. He's also apparently smarter than Good!Billy because he refuses to ask Violet out on a date, right to the point of ignoring her when she's talking to him at the Juice Bar. He lifts weights a lot and refuses to study math, but does manage to use the hottest Billy!speak to talk the others out of their communicators and then steals their morphers. He's also very pretty while being evil.
Tommy somehow was the smart one here and kept his communicator, sneaking away to contact Zordon about the "upgrades" Billy will be doing. They decide something isn't right and check into Billy.
The gang get attacked by West Side Story putties and I squee with delight! Zordon has managed to teleport Good!Billy to the park and he's now face to face with Evil!Billy. The others, having discovered their morphers were taken, are now trying to both get them back AND figure out which Billy is their Billy. It's made even harder when Billy morphs and... Evil!Billy morphs with him? What? That... makes no sense. But I don't care because Two Billys! Kim uses her brain and asks about the hologram. Only Good!Billy knows what it is, and they morph and quickly do away with Evil!Billy. We know there is some fic where they rescue the wrong Billy, but we feel there should be MORE. Or at least linked to older fic. Ahem.
Anyway, Zedd and Rita fight over Zedd's staff (gigglesnort) and then make a monster out of Tommy's "art" project. The rangers call zords, they form the megazord, they fight for a minute, Tommy has dialogue, and then they pull out the thundersabre and the fight is over.
Back in art class, Billy apologizes to Violet, who says "It's okay! I'm sure there was a good reason." instead of "You really hurt my feelings, but thanks for apologizing." which would have been far more healthy. Anyway. He asks her out to the movies and she nearly falls over from the excitement.
The art teacher asks them to show their projects. Kim has made a painting of her friends. It's kind of cute. Bulk and Skull (who has drool-worthy arms and he should really show them off more often) have gotten Violet to do their project for them and she's turned Billy into the Gold Ranger. Foreshadowing maybe? ;) Billy is a little creeped out by this, rightly so, but not enough to cancel the date he's already uncomfortable about.
List time!
2.5 fish. I love it too much to give it more.
Billy speak- Evil!Billy speak today "By redefining the geographical servofrequency range, we'll have less high end interference."
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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.)
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Episode 108- Storybook Rangers Part 1
Today we squee over our mutual adoration of books. That's really the best part of this episode arch, I think.
So we start out in a book fair at the high school. Stone Canyon apparently never had book fairs because Aisha, Adam, and Rocky are all marveling at the mere idea. Adam is lost in a book when Billy runs over, all excited at having found Quantum Physics Can Be Fun, which he's apparently been trying to find for a number of months. Rocky has found a book on meditation, which he tells Tommy would be great for their martial arts, and Tommy just takes it right out of his hand while asking if he can read it. Poor Rocky is just left there with his hand in the air where the book once was going "uh..." and looking like a lost puppy.
Kim says she loves fairy tales while looking through the books on the fairy tale table, because she always wanted to be a princess and get rescued by her white knight in shining armour or something like that. Kim, honey, you could be SO much more than a damsel in distress, though I do admit to loving fairy tales myself. Tommy throws out a line about a white tiger instead of knight and I have to roll my eyes. But I can't hate Tommy too much in this episode, much as I want to. Kim has found a book she adored as a little girl, a book her father used to read to her every night at bedtime, called Grumble the Magic Elf (my father read me Jeremy Mouse... so I totally get where Kim is coming from here). She gets very nostalgic and Tommy immediately buys the book for her. That earns him about a billion points in my sight, but alas, he'll probably lose all those awesome points within the next few episodes.
So Tommy, Kim, and Rocky agree to go meet Aisha, Adam, and Billy at the Youth Center. On the way, Kim is looking through her new book when Rita, while Zedd is napping, decides to beat the rangers by sending three of them into Kim's storybook. So she zaps the book with her awesome wand and then zaps Tommy, Kim, and Rocky into the book. Kim recognizes where they are and they begin the trek to the end of the story.
Meanwhile, Billy is wandering around the Youth Center while reading his new quantum physics book and Adam is sitting behind a pile of books at a table. Oh boys! We completely understand. We're the same way. Aisha joins them and asks about what books they're reading while they wait for the other three.
Meanwhile meanwhile, Bulk and Skull have found a book for Skull's mother about how to cook a Thanksgiving feast, and a book for themselves about how to make monsters. So they hightail it back to Skull's garage/workroom/whatever it is from previous episodes so they can make their own monster to attract the Power Rangers. They forgot batteries, though, so Bulk puts Skull in charge of finishing the monster while he goes to the store. Skull gets ready but then has misplaced the book, so he runs all over the place, up and down some stairs, into drawers and cabinets, and good holy hell this garage is ENOURMOUS. It's bigger than the houses I grew up in, based just on this scene. We theorize that it's not actually a garage but rather a TARDIS, seeing as it's much bigger on the inside. Seeing as Skull has a TARDIS, we can only assume he's a Time Lord. I'm now completely in love with this idea and we both spent a good bit of the next scene yelling at the screen for Skull to just open his pocketwatch! Open your watch, Skull! You could do AMAZING things!
Anyway, he eventually finds the book, but accidentally grabs his mother's Thanksgiving feast book and uses it to finish building the monster. Bulk comes back, all gleeful and ecstatic at the opportunity to animate his monster. Clearly, Bulk is a direct descendant of Dr. Frankenstein.
Back in the storybook, the Transported Trio run across Grumble the Magic Elf who is really just Ticklesneezer in a Santa suit. He's a very grumpy elf and I ADORE him and his grumblings. He has to get toys to kids and he's NOT happy about it.
The Non-Transported Trio are beginning to wonder what's keeping the others. Aisha calls it perfectly when she says Tommy is always late but Rocky and Kim really ought to be there by now. They can't find them back at the book fair, nor can they raise them on the communicators, so Billy says they should go tell Zordon. I know I should be surprised Zordon hasn't noticed anything amiss yet, but frankly I'm so used to Zordon!Fail that I knew he wouldn't know what's going on.
Zedd, having woken from his nap, decides he needs to keep the story from ending so the rangers can't ever escape it. He sends some putties into the book to steal the toys. They're rather ineffective putties and not at all Punctual Putties, but they eventually get the job done and leave Grumble without any toys, which he proceeds to, well, grumble about. The Transported Trio push forward through the story anyway, where they end up in a frozen snowy wasteland with a big monster that looks suspiciously like the Primator. They discover the morphers won't work and Rocky surmises it's because of the cold. I didn't know morphers could freeze. *sigh*
Back at the Command Center, Billy takes charge of the situation and says he's going to locate their communicator signals. Zordon tells him it's a good idea and that's about all the use he is. Billy finds the signals, figures out they're in a book, but nobody can figure out where the book is. Billy also manages to pull them up on the viewing globe and frankly, Zordon and Alpha are just useless here. Billy figures out the morphers are frozen and they all watch as the Transported Trio get attacked by the Snow Monster that isn't Primator (but really he is).
Fade to black and To Be Continued!
Fish: 3.5 It wasn't too bad, but there is an awfully big school of fish just swimming right out of Zedd's lack-of-logic here.
Billy speak: "Their morphers are experiencing hypothermal malfunctioning." OMG WE GOT BILLY SPEAK!
Nothing else that we keep track of, really. Though now I'm totally enamoured with the idea of Skull being a Time Lord, and I so want fic where he opens his Chameleon device!
So we start out in a book fair at the high school. Stone Canyon apparently never had book fairs because Aisha, Adam, and Rocky are all marveling at the mere idea. Adam is lost in a book when Billy runs over, all excited at having found Quantum Physics Can Be Fun, which he's apparently been trying to find for a number of months. Rocky has found a book on meditation, which he tells Tommy would be great for their martial arts, and Tommy just takes it right out of his hand while asking if he can read it. Poor Rocky is just left there with his hand in the air where the book once was going "uh..." and looking like a lost puppy.
Kim says she loves fairy tales while looking through the books on the fairy tale table, because she always wanted to be a princess and get rescued by her white knight in shining armour or something like that. Kim, honey, you could be SO much more than a damsel in distress, though I do admit to loving fairy tales myself. Tommy throws out a line about a white tiger instead of knight and I have to roll my eyes. But I can't hate Tommy too much in this episode, much as I want to. Kim has found a book she adored as a little girl, a book her father used to read to her every night at bedtime, called Grumble the Magic Elf (my father read me Jeremy Mouse... so I totally get where Kim is coming from here). She gets very nostalgic and Tommy immediately buys the book for her. That earns him about a billion points in my sight, but alas, he'll probably lose all those awesome points within the next few episodes.
So Tommy, Kim, and Rocky agree to go meet Aisha, Adam, and Billy at the Youth Center. On the way, Kim is looking through her new book when Rita, while Zedd is napping, decides to beat the rangers by sending three of them into Kim's storybook. So she zaps the book with her awesome wand and then zaps Tommy, Kim, and Rocky into the book. Kim recognizes where they are and they begin the trek to the end of the story.
Meanwhile, Billy is wandering around the Youth Center while reading his new quantum physics book and Adam is sitting behind a pile of books at a table. Oh boys! We completely understand. We're the same way. Aisha joins them and asks about what books they're reading while they wait for the other three.
Meanwhile meanwhile, Bulk and Skull have found a book for Skull's mother about how to cook a Thanksgiving feast, and a book for themselves about how to make monsters. So they hightail it back to Skull's garage/workroom/whatever it is from previous episodes so they can make their own monster to attract the Power Rangers. They forgot batteries, though, so Bulk puts Skull in charge of finishing the monster while he goes to the store. Skull gets ready but then has misplaced the book, so he runs all over the place, up and down some stairs, into drawers and cabinets, and good holy hell this garage is ENOURMOUS. It's bigger than the houses I grew up in, based just on this scene. We theorize that it's not actually a garage but rather a TARDIS, seeing as it's much bigger on the inside. Seeing as Skull has a TARDIS, we can only assume he's a Time Lord. I'm now completely in love with this idea and we both spent a good bit of the next scene yelling at the screen for Skull to just open his pocketwatch! Open your watch, Skull! You could do AMAZING things!
Anyway, he eventually finds the book, but accidentally grabs his mother's Thanksgiving feast book and uses it to finish building the monster. Bulk comes back, all gleeful and ecstatic at the opportunity to animate his monster. Clearly, Bulk is a direct descendant of Dr. Frankenstein.
Back in the storybook, the Transported Trio run across Grumble the Magic Elf who is really just Ticklesneezer in a Santa suit. He's a very grumpy elf and I ADORE him and his grumblings. He has to get toys to kids and he's NOT happy about it.
The Non-Transported Trio are beginning to wonder what's keeping the others. Aisha calls it perfectly when she says Tommy is always late but Rocky and Kim really ought to be there by now. They can't find them back at the book fair, nor can they raise them on the communicators, so Billy says they should go tell Zordon. I know I should be surprised Zordon hasn't noticed anything amiss yet, but frankly I'm so used to Zordon!Fail that I knew he wouldn't know what's going on.
Zedd, having woken from his nap, decides he needs to keep the story from ending so the rangers can't ever escape it. He sends some putties into the book to steal the toys. They're rather ineffective putties and not at all Punctual Putties, but they eventually get the job done and leave Grumble without any toys, which he proceeds to, well, grumble about. The Transported Trio push forward through the story anyway, where they end up in a frozen snowy wasteland with a big monster that looks suspiciously like the Primator. They discover the morphers won't work and Rocky surmises it's because of the cold. I didn't know morphers could freeze. *sigh*
Back at the Command Center, Billy takes charge of the situation and says he's going to locate their communicator signals. Zordon tells him it's a good idea and that's about all the use he is. Billy finds the signals, figures out they're in a book, but nobody can figure out where the book is. Billy also manages to pull them up on the viewing globe and frankly, Zordon and Alpha are just useless here. Billy figures out the morphers are frozen and they all watch as the Transported Trio get attacked by the Snow Monster that isn't Primator (but really he is).
Fade to black and To Be Continued!
Fish: 3.5 It wasn't too bad, but there is an awfully big school of fish just swimming right out of Zedd's lack-of-logic here.
Billy speak: "Their morphers are experiencing hypothermal malfunctioning." OMG WE GOT BILLY SPEAK!
Nothing else that we keep track of, really. Though now I'm totally enamoured with the idea of Skull being a Time Lord, and I so want fic where he opens his Chameleon device!
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Episode 105- Return of the Green Ranger - Part 2
Today, on the Tommy show, we continue to butcher history!
We open in 1760ish Angel Grove, where a very Australian girl (named Marissa) is hiding the Rangers in a wheelhouse. She is undisturbed by their clothes, their speech, and the fact that they claim to be from 200+ years in the future. (They keep claiming it is only 200 years in the past, but that doesn't work, unless Angel Grove was another British protectorate and not part of America. And, you know, at that point in time California was Spanish. Of course, the entire timeline is completely screwed up, so I don't know why it's bothering me as much as it is. But really, history doesn't work like that.)
The Rangers attempt to explain things to Marissa (including Kimberly and Aisha trying to explain the mall to her) and Billy gives her an actual explanation. We don't really get to see her reaction, because we cut back to the present, where good!Tommy is standing around glaring at evil!Tommy. We are rooting for evil!Tommy. (I'm sure you're surprised by this.) Tommy claims that his dark side vanished, and we just have to laugh. (Also, I'm a big supporter of Ellen Brand's Tommy has MPD theory, so I love this episode more than is probably healthy.)
In the cutest scene of the episode, Bulk and Skull are sleeping on the grass, cuddling together. When they wake up, Bulk immediately remembers the wizard and starts asking Skull about it. Skull is confused, and asks Bulk if he ate beans for lunch, because he always has weird dreams after eating beans. Oh, BOYS. *pets them*
Zordon has finally noticed that something is going on. We nearly fall off the couch in surprise.
And now for the highlight of the episode - TOMMY VS TOMMY. They morph (good!Tommy calls it out, and evil!Tommy is all "I was hoping you'd say that") and then they fight. For some reason there are sparks between them (literally) whenever they touch. (We assume it's the contact of so many fish, they cause sparks) You guys, we missed the shield of cheap bling. It is so nice to see it again. The wizard guy is all "mwahaha, Tommy, I'm surprised you're still fighting" and good!Tommy says something about the human spirit, but it's been like 30 seconds, we don't know why he's so pleased with himself. Still, Tommy ends up falling to his knees (that happens to him a lot) and he gets his powers drained (... that also happens to him a lot) and the wizard sends evil!Tommy off to annoy Zordon, while he goes back in time to annoy the other Rangers.
Back in 17whatever, Kimberly is claiming that Tommy will save them, and I'm saved from my disgust by the appearance of the chief redcoat - someone who appears to be Skull's ancestor! Aww, Skull! Kimberly is all confused. They try to explain things to ancestor!Skull, but he isn't listening and tries to arrest them. Oh, and for some reason, they can't call Zordon on their communicators. The fish must be jamming them. (Why they aren't just trying to walk to the Command Center we.... really don't know.)
At the Command Center, evil!Tommy is there to taunt Zordon in some very familiar footage. Except this time he doesn't short circuit Zordon. Clearly, a pale imitation of the original. But he does tell Zordon that wherever the Rangers are, history is repeating itself. Somehow, Zordon deduces that this means they've been sent back through time and now they have to work backwards and scan for their genetic markers, and look, I'm not making this up, I only report it.
On the moon, Rita and Zedd are dancing to celebrate! They are so adorable, I love them so much. Zedd's big plan for once they've officially destroyed the Rangers? He and Rita should have a baby! There is much squealing from us, but Rita is disgusted, and runs away to make Finster make a new potion to make Zedd get over that idea. Finster is all "ooh, a baby!" but he starts trying to do what Rita tells him. Zedd wants the baby to have Rita's looks and his brains, but sadly the eventual spawn will be the other way around.
In 17whatever, Adam grabs Marissa and drags her with them, as they run away. She clearly only believed them because the power of Adam's hotness compelled her to. To be fair, we can understand why. They start running through town, and Rocky jumps over a sheep. AMAZING. Marissa ends up leading them to her uncle's carriage that will carry them to safety (good thing Adam is so pretty, although how she summoned her uncle we.... really don't know.) and it turns out her uncle is Bulk's ancestor! Aww, Bulk! On Bulk's farm, Adam is making googly eyes at Marissa, while Rocky and Aisha are by the barn wall. Aisha tells Rocky his foot is tickling her, and it turns out that it isn't his foot (although, Rocky and Aisha playing footsie? yesplease.) but some rats. Aisha screams. (Wouldn't you?)
Then the wizard guy shows up, and turns the rats into rat monsters. The Rangers try to morph, but they can't, because they're 200 years before they met Zordon. WHAT. Look, they shouldn't have LOST their morphers just because they went into the past. It's also 200 years before they got those clothes - should they be wearing them? Also, the morphers tap into a morphin grid that is STILL THERE, so they should have been able to tap in anyway.
Back in the present, evil!Tommy has out his dragon dagger, and he is summoning the dragonzord. We are pleased. On the moon, Zedd has an evil laugh.
To be continued.
Fish: 4.5 (We needed a break from the 5 fish.)
Other things we usually keep track of: None!
Fic people should write us: I really would read the wacky adventures of time traveling Rangers. But I did just get fic where Kimberly tries to save Abraham Lincoln for my birthday, so you should all go read that.
We open in 1760ish Angel Grove, where a very Australian girl (named Marissa) is hiding the Rangers in a wheelhouse. She is undisturbed by their clothes, their speech, and the fact that they claim to be from 200+ years in the future. (They keep claiming it is only 200 years in the past, but that doesn't work, unless Angel Grove was another British protectorate and not part of America. And, you know, at that point in time California was Spanish. Of course, the entire timeline is completely screwed up, so I don't know why it's bothering me as much as it is. But really, history doesn't work like that.)
The Rangers attempt to explain things to Marissa (including Kimberly and Aisha trying to explain the mall to her) and Billy gives her an actual explanation. We don't really get to see her reaction, because we cut back to the present, where good!Tommy is standing around glaring at evil!Tommy. We are rooting for evil!Tommy. (I'm sure you're surprised by this.) Tommy claims that his dark side vanished, and we just have to laugh. (Also, I'm a big supporter of Ellen Brand's Tommy has MPD theory, so I love this episode more than is probably healthy.)
In the cutest scene of the episode, Bulk and Skull are sleeping on the grass, cuddling together. When they wake up, Bulk immediately remembers the wizard and starts asking Skull about it. Skull is confused, and asks Bulk if he ate beans for lunch, because he always has weird dreams after eating beans. Oh, BOYS. *pets them*
Zordon has finally noticed that something is going on. We nearly fall off the couch in surprise.
And now for the highlight of the episode - TOMMY VS TOMMY. They morph (good!Tommy calls it out, and evil!Tommy is all "I was hoping you'd say that") and then they fight. For some reason there are sparks between them (literally) whenever they touch. (We assume it's the contact of so many fish, they cause sparks) You guys, we missed the shield of cheap bling. It is so nice to see it again. The wizard guy is all "mwahaha, Tommy, I'm surprised you're still fighting" and good!Tommy says something about the human spirit, but it's been like 30 seconds, we don't know why he's so pleased with himself. Still, Tommy ends up falling to his knees (that happens to him a lot) and he gets his powers drained (... that also happens to him a lot) and the wizard sends evil!Tommy off to annoy Zordon, while he goes back in time to annoy the other Rangers.
Back in 17whatever, Kimberly is claiming that Tommy will save them, and I'm saved from my disgust by the appearance of the chief redcoat - someone who appears to be Skull's ancestor! Aww, Skull! Kimberly is all confused. They try to explain things to ancestor!Skull, but he isn't listening and tries to arrest them. Oh, and for some reason, they can't call Zordon on their communicators. The fish must be jamming them. (Why they aren't just trying to walk to the Command Center we.... really don't know.)
At the Command Center, evil!Tommy is there to taunt Zordon in some very familiar footage. Except this time he doesn't short circuit Zordon. Clearly, a pale imitation of the original. But he does tell Zordon that wherever the Rangers are, history is repeating itself. Somehow, Zordon deduces that this means they've been sent back through time and now they have to work backwards and scan for their genetic markers, and look, I'm not making this up, I only report it.
On the moon, Rita and Zedd are dancing to celebrate! They are so adorable, I love them so much. Zedd's big plan for once they've officially destroyed the Rangers? He and Rita should have a baby! There is much squealing from us, but Rita is disgusted, and runs away to make Finster make a new potion to make Zedd get over that idea. Finster is all "ooh, a baby!" but he starts trying to do what Rita tells him. Zedd wants the baby to have Rita's looks and his brains, but sadly the eventual spawn will be the other way around.
In 17whatever, Adam grabs Marissa and drags her with them, as they run away. She clearly only believed them because the power of Adam's hotness compelled her to. To be fair, we can understand why. They start running through town, and Rocky jumps over a sheep. AMAZING. Marissa ends up leading them to her uncle's carriage that will carry them to safety (good thing Adam is so pretty, although how she summoned her uncle we.... really don't know.) and it turns out her uncle is Bulk's ancestor! Aww, Bulk! On Bulk's farm, Adam is making googly eyes at Marissa, while Rocky and Aisha are by the barn wall. Aisha tells Rocky his foot is tickling her, and it turns out that it isn't his foot (although, Rocky and Aisha playing footsie? yesplease.) but some rats. Aisha screams. (Wouldn't you?)
Then the wizard guy shows up, and turns the rats into rat monsters. The Rangers try to morph, but they can't, because they're 200 years before they met Zordon. WHAT. Look, they shouldn't have LOST their morphers just because they went into the past. It's also 200 years before they got those clothes - should they be wearing them? Also, the morphers tap into a morphin grid that is STILL THERE, so they should have been able to tap in anyway.
Back in the present, evil!Tommy has out his dragon dagger, and he is summoning the dragonzord. We are pleased. On the moon, Zedd has an evil laugh.
To be continued.
Fish: 4.5 (We needed a break from the 5 fish.)
Other things we usually keep track of: None!
Fic people should write us: I really would read the wacky adventures of time traveling Rangers. But I did just get fic where Kimberly tries to save Abraham Lincoln for my birthday, so you should all go read that.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Episode 104- Return of the Green Ranger Part 1
As if we didn't know already, today we learn that this show is secretly The Tommy Show.
So we start out in class where the only teacher in Angel Grove is giving an assignment. Over the three day weekend, they are supposed to write a paper on what time period in history they'd like to have lived in. Later, around what looks to be a patio table with a large umbrella, they talk about the assignment. Kim would like to live last year when she missed an awesome sale because she was sick. I'm not so happy with this new direction for Kim's character (or rather, taking her previous personality quirk to this extreme). Rocky would like to be a Viking. Too bad they'd probably try to kill him instead. Tommy would like to live in the time of King Arthur, probably because he doesn't know anything about it and can't tell fact from fiction. Adam is ADORABLE and wants to live in the Renaissance because it seems very ROMANTIC. Oh Adam. Be more adorable. I dare you. Aisha is conspicuously left out on our viewing of this discussion, because the last we ever hear of it Billy wants to be Albert Einstein's assistant. Oh Billy, you and Adam are about tied for adorableness here.
Adam mentions that he can come up with much better things to do with his three day weekend and Rocky agrees very enthusiastically (and with quite a lecherous glance). We're sure they've spent many a three day weekend doing... ahem... OTHER things. Like each other.
Zedd comes up with a plan, but he's going to have to butter up his wife to do it. Wifey Management Skills (TM my Spousal Person)? Zedd has them! At least until he says no wife will ever fail him. That's less with the Wifey Management and more with the Fail the Wifey. Zedd's plan is to get Rita to talk to her old creation that can manipulate time. He wants to send the rangers back in time so they'll be nothing but a memory. Except if he sends them back in time and they can't find a way to get back, they won't have existed in the current time to even be a memory. Then they wouldn't exist for Zedd to send them to the past. So... uh... wibbly wobbly timey wimey... stuff. Just go with it, I suppose, because that's the only way time travel doesn't give me a headache.
So Rita goes and talks to the evil lords and complains about her husband making her do all the work on his evil plans, and the evil lords totally feel her pain and agree to let her call on her time manipulator dude. But she has to get rid of Tommy or the time travel thing won't ever work, because apparently Tommy is a quick thinker and good at leading or something. Time Dude is a FREAKY looking beast consisting of pretty much just black robes, a very bad black wig, and a face mask from HELL. I'm a full grown adult with Small Children of my own and this thing could easily give ME nightmares. Anyway, Time Dude finds Bulk and Skull and immediately puts them under a spell. He asks that they bring him a lock of Tommy's hair. Frankly, I don't know why he needs it. He has all of Tommy's hair in that atrocious black wig on his big scary head.
Bulk and Skull freak Tommy out and fail at getting the lock of hair. Meanwhile, Tommy and Kim don't notice Bulk and Skull are under a spell. As the past season and a half of under a spell has shown us, nobody EVER notices when somebody else is under a spell. It's like they are unintentionally blind to it.
Tommy and Kim part ways, and Tommy is met by the Time Dude. He actually remembers he has a communicator though and calls Zordon, who conveniently didn't notice the monster until Tommy alerted him to it's presence, despite it having been on Earth for quite some time. Fail!Zordon... or maybe just part of his evil plan to get rid of Tommy. We're not quite sure. The other rangers go to Tommy's aide and jump right into a putty fight. Billy is super pretty and Rocky looks like a cheesy 90's gay porn star with his half-undone shirt and floppy hair. Not that I've watched cheesy 90's gay porn and would know what to look for or anything. Ahem.
So the putties manage to get Tommy mostly captured and the Time Dude knocks him out so they can take a lock of hair. LJ user doctoraicha makes the best quote of the night. "HE JUST CUT OFF SAMSON'S HAIR!" Tommy wakes up with a wicked headache while Time Dude, off to the side, creates and Evil Green Tommy. Full of Light And Goodness White Tommy goes to lay down because of his headache. Evil Green Tommy calls the other rangers to the city limits sign on the outskirts of town... and then chews a toothpick. The rangers show up and we see Angel Grove has a population of 376,000. Evil Green Tommy meets them there and nobody notices anything amiss. Nobody stops to say "Hey, what's with the suddenly going all Green again, Bro?" and they agree to not call Zordon to figure out what the heck they're doing there. Instead, they get sucked into a swirling wind vortex by the Time Dude, while Evil Green Tommy cackles evilly and they all lament his return to evilness.
They end of in PRE-REVOLUTIONARY WAR Angel Grove. Y'know, Angel Grove CALIFORNIA. Which CAN NOT have existed in pre-revolutionary times. Those redcoats? Shouldn't be there. That population 124 sign? Shouldn't be there. The town? Shouldn't exist. HISTORY DOESN'T WORK LIKE THAT. Nevermind the fact there is not a Latino face amongst the whole crowd! Really show? Really? Not a single Spaniard? No Mexicans? Nobody with an ounce of Spanish in their dialogue at all? CALIFORNIA with pasty white people with bad British accents? You REALLY went there show?
Uh, so, um, we figure this is just more evidence for Angel Grove being it's own country and it was under British rule during a much different time than the United States and so it's cool for them to be there in the late 1700's. And stuff. Ahem.
So people run and call them witches and then some random girl with an accent helps them hide from soldiers. Meanwhile, Full of Light And Goodness White Tommy is looking for Kim. He can't find her. He does find Evil Green Tommy who is still chewing on a toothpick, which I suppose is supposed to represent evil. Or something. Which isn't cool, show, but whatever.
List time!
5 fish. History... it makes no sense... and the time travel... and the... the... the... just, 5 fish.
No Billy speak, though he was gleefully excited at the mere thought of being Einstein's assistant.
So we start out in class where the only teacher in Angel Grove is giving an assignment. Over the three day weekend, they are supposed to write a paper on what time period in history they'd like to have lived in. Later, around what looks to be a patio table with a large umbrella, they talk about the assignment. Kim would like to live last year when she missed an awesome sale because she was sick. I'm not so happy with this new direction for Kim's character (or rather, taking her previous personality quirk to this extreme). Rocky would like to be a Viking. Too bad they'd probably try to kill him instead. Tommy would like to live in the time of King Arthur, probably because he doesn't know anything about it and can't tell fact from fiction. Adam is ADORABLE and wants to live in the Renaissance because it seems very ROMANTIC. Oh Adam. Be more adorable. I dare you. Aisha is conspicuously left out on our viewing of this discussion, because the last we ever hear of it Billy wants to be Albert Einstein's assistant. Oh Billy, you and Adam are about tied for adorableness here.
Adam mentions that he can come up with much better things to do with his three day weekend and Rocky agrees very enthusiastically (and with quite a lecherous glance). We're sure they've spent many a three day weekend doing... ahem... OTHER things. Like each other.
Zedd comes up with a plan, but he's going to have to butter up his wife to do it. Wifey Management Skills (TM my Spousal Person)? Zedd has them! At least until he says no wife will ever fail him. That's less with the Wifey Management and more with the Fail the Wifey. Zedd's plan is to get Rita to talk to her old creation that can manipulate time. He wants to send the rangers back in time so they'll be nothing but a memory. Except if he sends them back in time and they can't find a way to get back, they won't have existed in the current time to even be a memory. Then they wouldn't exist for Zedd to send them to the past. So... uh... wibbly wobbly timey wimey... stuff. Just go with it, I suppose, because that's the only way time travel doesn't give me a headache.
So Rita goes and talks to the evil lords and complains about her husband making her do all the work on his evil plans, and the evil lords totally feel her pain and agree to let her call on her time manipulator dude. But she has to get rid of Tommy or the time travel thing won't ever work, because apparently Tommy is a quick thinker and good at leading or something. Time Dude is a FREAKY looking beast consisting of pretty much just black robes, a very bad black wig, and a face mask from HELL. I'm a full grown adult with Small Children of my own and this thing could easily give ME nightmares. Anyway, Time Dude finds Bulk and Skull and immediately puts them under a spell. He asks that they bring him a lock of Tommy's hair. Frankly, I don't know why he needs it. He has all of Tommy's hair in that atrocious black wig on his big scary head.
Bulk and Skull freak Tommy out and fail at getting the lock of hair. Meanwhile, Tommy and Kim don't notice Bulk and Skull are under a spell. As the past season and a half of under a spell has shown us, nobody EVER notices when somebody else is under a spell. It's like they are unintentionally blind to it.
Tommy and Kim part ways, and Tommy is met by the Time Dude. He actually remembers he has a communicator though and calls Zordon, who conveniently didn't notice the monster until Tommy alerted him to it's presence, despite it having been on Earth for quite some time. Fail!Zordon... or maybe just part of his evil plan to get rid of Tommy. We're not quite sure. The other rangers go to Tommy's aide and jump right into a putty fight. Billy is super pretty and Rocky looks like a cheesy 90's gay porn star with his half-undone shirt and floppy hair. Not that I've watched cheesy 90's gay porn and would know what to look for or anything. Ahem.
So the putties manage to get Tommy mostly captured and the Time Dude knocks him out so they can take a lock of hair. LJ user doctoraicha makes the best quote of the night. "HE JUST CUT OFF SAMSON'S HAIR!" Tommy wakes up with a wicked headache while Time Dude, off to the side, creates and Evil Green Tommy. Full of Light And Goodness White Tommy goes to lay down because of his headache. Evil Green Tommy calls the other rangers to the city limits sign on the outskirts of town... and then chews a toothpick. The rangers show up and we see Angel Grove has a population of 376,000. Evil Green Tommy meets them there and nobody notices anything amiss. Nobody stops to say "Hey, what's with the suddenly going all Green again, Bro?" and they agree to not call Zordon to figure out what the heck they're doing there. Instead, they get sucked into a swirling wind vortex by the Time Dude, while Evil Green Tommy cackles evilly and they all lament his return to evilness.
They end of in PRE-REVOLUTIONARY WAR Angel Grove. Y'know, Angel Grove CALIFORNIA. Which CAN NOT have existed in pre-revolutionary times. Those redcoats? Shouldn't be there. That population 124 sign? Shouldn't be there. The town? Shouldn't exist. HISTORY DOESN'T WORK LIKE THAT. Nevermind the fact there is not a Latino face amongst the whole crowd! Really show? Really? Not a single Spaniard? No Mexicans? Nobody with an ounce of Spanish in their dialogue at all? CALIFORNIA with pasty white people with bad British accents? You REALLY went there show?
Uh, so, um, we figure this is just more evidence for Angel Grove being it's own country and it was under British rule during a much different time than the United States and so it's cool for them to be there in the late 1700's. And stuff. Ahem.
So people run and call them witches and then some random girl with an accent helps them hide from soldiers. Meanwhile, Full of Light And Goodness White Tommy is looking for Kim. He can't find her. He does find Evil Green Tommy who is still chewing on a toothpick, which I suppose is supposed to represent evil. Or something. Which isn't cool, show, but whatever.
List time!
5 fish. History... it makes no sense... and the time travel... and the... the... the... just, 5 fish.
No Billy speak, though he was gleefully excited at the mere thought of being Einstein's assistant.
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Episode 96- The Great Bookala Escape
Today we learn Billy has an alien fetish! And that sets up for his send-off in even more disturbing ways.
I hated this episode when it first aired. I haven't watched it since then, and yet I remembered it. I wish I hadn't had to watch it today. I will never watch it again. And maybe, just maybe, one day I will be able to scrub it from my brain altogether.
So Billy, Aisha, and Adam are in the park. Doing... whatever supposedly-wholesome teenagers do in parks on sunny afternoons. A small spaceship crash lands and they go investigate. Aisha thinks there's a doll inside, but Billy sees some monitor somewhere that shows a heartbeat, so it's a living hibernating little... thing.
They remember they have communicators and contact Zordon. He says it explains why Zedd is heading towards Angel Grove in Serpenterra. So Zordon actually noticed evil-doing, but didn't bother to contact anybody? I'm beginning to think the only time Zordon actually WINS at anything is when he's in plastic packaging sitting on a shelf [photo courtesy of Bevo, who is awesomely dorky like we are].
They wrap the overly hot spaceship in a blanket and teleport to the Command Center, where they are joined by the others. Zordon tells them it's a Bookala, from the planet Bookala, and is just a space traveler. Billy has to take a large plastic diamond full of sparkly glitter and put it next to the little doll-looking-thing. It suddenly grows and comes to life while Billy comforts it and it learns English. It's almost like they tried to make him sound like Yoda but failed miserably and instead it's just really really offensive.
Zedd wants the diamond, so they break into Skull's dad's garage/basement/workroom place (or rather, they used the same set for this scene) and make a doll!Bookala while Billy fixes the spaceship. That's right, ladies and gentlemen, he FIXES THE SPACESHIP. Because apparently being a genius means you know absolutely everything ever EXCEPT how to properly insert a battery. Some random monster thing goes to get the diamond and attacks the rangers in very badly spliced footage, seeing as he's in a warehouse of entirely different lighting and proportion to the garage the rangers are in. He fails and they escape. So Zedd sends Goldar and they set up the plan with the fake ship.
Goldar actually succeeds for a change! Even Zedd is taken completely by surprise. He puts the fake diamond into Serpenterra and they go about their merry way, while the rangers send Bookala off in his repaired spaceship. As a present, because he's going to miss his BFF Billy, he makes it snow in Angel Grove for a few minutes (and TSB and I had a rousing discussion on the merits of snow... but she grew up with enough snow to be hassle and I, who have always loved having a good foot on the ground, spent 13 years in a climate where even the slightest hint of a snowflake was a sign of the impending apocalypse... you live somewhere hot enough to never snow, and you're going to want to see it. I'm just saying.) Anyway, it's cheesy and stupid and they say tearful goodbyes and then Bookala is thankfully on his way.
We rejoice, for this means the end of the episode! Right?
Or not. That's right, this atrociousness continues. Zedd is mad he got a fake diamond so he makes yet another monster out of the little doll!Bookala the rangers made to distract him. It grows, zords are called, the thundersabre is pulled, and the fight is over. At least it was a short fight.
Back at the Youth Center, Kim has received a postcard from Trini all the way fromTorchwood Switzerland. Well, at least one of them still writes! Then Bulk and Skull, who have been trying to take pictures of the alien thinking it's a power ranger, come in and declare they have the identity of the power rangers. Only they ended up taking pictures of themselves and not anything else.
Frankly, I'm just glad the episode is finally over.
5 fish. Just... I'd like to forget this even exists.
Billy speak: borderline... "It appears to be an extra-terrestrial transport."
I hated this episode when it first aired. I haven't watched it since then, and yet I remembered it. I wish I hadn't had to watch it today. I will never watch it again. And maybe, just maybe, one day I will be able to scrub it from my brain altogether.
So Billy, Aisha, and Adam are in the park. Doing... whatever supposedly-wholesome teenagers do in parks on sunny afternoons. A small spaceship crash lands and they go investigate. Aisha thinks there's a doll inside, but Billy sees some monitor somewhere that shows a heartbeat, so it's a living hibernating little... thing.
They remember they have communicators and contact Zordon. He says it explains why Zedd is heading towards Angel Grove in Serpenterra. So Zordon actually noticed evil-doing, but didn't bother to contact anybody? I'm beginning to think the only time Zordon actually WINS at anything is when he's in plastic packaging sitting on a shelf [photo courtesy of Bevo, who is awesomely dorky like we are].
They wrap the overly hot spaceship in a blanket and teleport to the Command Center, where they are joined by the others. Zordon tells them it's a Bookala, from the planet Bookala, and is just a space traveler. Billy has to take a large plastic diamond full of sparkly glitter and put it next to the little doll-looking-thing. It suddenly grows and comes to life while Billy comforts it and it learns English. It's almost like they tried to make him sound like Yoda but failed miserably and instead it's just really really offensive.
Zedd wants the diamond, so they break into Skull's dad's garage/basement/workroom place (or rather, they used the same set for this scene) and make a doll!Bookala while Billy fixes the spaceship. That's right, ladies and gentlemen, he FIXES THE SPACESHIP. Because apparently being a genius means you know absolutely everything ever EXCEPT how to properly insert a battery. Some random monster thing goes to get the diamond and attacks the rangers in very badly spliced footage, seeing as he's in a warehouse of entirely different lighting and proportion to the garage the rangers are in. He fails and they escape. So Zedd sends Goldar and they set up the plan with the fake ship.
Goldar actually succeeds for a change! Even Zedd is taken completely by surprise. He puts the fake diamond into Serpenterra and they go about their merry way, while the rangers send Bookala off in his repaired spaceship. As a present, because he's going to miss his BFF Billy, he makes it snow in Angel Grove for a few minutes (and TSB and I had a rousing discussion on the merits of snow... but she grew up with enough snow to be hassle and I, who have always loved having a good foot on the ground, spent 13 years in a climate where even the slightest hint of a snowflake was a sign of the impending apocalypse... you live somewhere hot enough to never snow, and you're going to want to see it. I'm just saying.) Anyway, it's cheesy and stupid and they say tearful goodbyes and then Bookala is thankfully on his way.
We rejoice, for this means the end of the episode! Right?
Or not. That's right, this atrociousness continues. Zedd is mad he got a fake diamond so he makes yet another monster out of the little doll!Bookala the rangers made to distract him. It grows, zords are called, the thundersabre is pulled, and the fight is over. At least it was a short fight.
Back at the Youth Center, Kim has received a postcard from Trini all the way from
Frankly, I'm just glad the episode is finally over.
5 fish. Just... I'd like to forget this even exists.
Billy speak: borderline... "It appears to be an extra-terrestrial transport."
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Episode 95 - Scavenger Hunt
Today on Power Rangers - the team goes on a scavenger hunt, and there is some pretty major fail.
Okay, let me get the fail out of the way first, so I can go back to pretending it didn't happen. Bulk and Skull are, as usual, trying to figure out the identities of the Power Rangers. This time, they hire Gypsy Aballonia. She's supposed to be a psychic, and all three of them dress in the most stereotypical costumes you can think of, and speak in odd accents. Apparently the show thinks that gypsies are acceptable targets or something, but we don't, and honestly we found the entire thing really offensive, and we shall never speak of it again.
So, the actual plot is this - the Rangers are competing in a scavenger hunt. They've split up into two teams (Adam, Kim and Tommy on one, Billy, Aisha and Rocky on the other.) At first I thought they were competing against each other, but it turns out they just split the list in two. Kimberly is really into this, and she's absolutely delightful. And Adam makes the most amazing goofy face when they have to take a picture with their first item, which turns out to be a red car.
Zedd watches them, and is all "so, they like to play games" and it is entirely possible my immediate thought was "Adam and Rocky certainly do" because that is exactly how I roll. Zedd then decides that he will send the Rangers on a never ending scavenger hunt in the Lost Universe. Exactly how does one lose a universe? *blinks* And if Zedd knows where the universe is, how exactly is it lost?
Billy's team is hanging out in Billy's lab, trying to figure out what the next clue is, and somehow they come to the realization that it was a cannon. (Personally, I think the answer was a trebuchet, but I guess that would be even harder to find, and is probably just a nitpick anyway.) Billy realizes that his "little cousin" left behind a toy cannon (really?) and that solves this problem, so they go to the park to find the next clue, where they are promptly attacked by putties and lose the bag of stuff.
Then a miracle occurs - they remember they have communicators, and they call the other Rangers. Kim, Tommy and Adam are all fine, but they agree to keep a lookout. Nobody bothers to call Zordon, and Zordon doesn't notice. But then Zedd sends down the monster, which is made out of Billy's toy cannon.
Zordon immediately knows the name of the monster, its powers, and the fact that it can send them to the Lost Universe. How does he know this? Do the fish fly up and tell him? And how does he know where this universe is? If all of these people know about it, it is NOT LOST.
The Rangers all head to the park to fight the cannon monster. The cannon monster, we must note, is standing in fairly tall grass. The grass the Rangers are standing on is freshly mowed. Great job splicing together the footage! So then the Rangers summon the Power Weapons, but that isn't enough, and so they need to summon the Zords.
Rocky's Zord rides Tommy's. I feel that is important to point out.
Zordon is all concerned, because if the Rangers get sent to the Lost Universe, they will never be retrieved. He tells Alpha they just need to have faith in Tommy. Queenriley and I both start cracking up. But no, they summon Tor (and the other four Rangers finally have something to do during this fight) and all is well. I wonder what the point of even mentioning this Lost Universe was. Adding dramatic tension? Because it really didn't work.
Back at the Youth Center, the Rangers are all excited because they only need one more clue, and Ernie tells them the judges are on the way back. The last clue is "they're the colors of the rainbow, and they fight monsters too." Ernie figures out that it must be the Power Rangers, and he has an 8x10 photo of them. Really, do the Rangers do photoshoots now? How did Ernie get one? And how come the Rangers couldn't figure this out? (Maybe because um, no, they are not the colors of the rainbow. When did black become a color of the rainbow? Did they get an indigo ranger when I wasn't looking?)
The Rangers win the scavenger hunt against Central High. We're left wondering exactly when the Rangers managed to get the toy cannon back.
Fish: 4. It would be a 3.5, but I added half a fish for the rage it caused.
Okay, let me get the fail out of the way first, so I can go back to pretending it didn't happen. Bulk and Skull are, as usual, trying to figure out the identities of the Power Rangers. This time, they hire Gypsy Aballonia. She's supposed to be a psychic, and all three of them dress in the most stereotypical costumes you can think of, and speak in odd accents. Apparently the show thinks that gypsies are acceptable targets or something, but we don't, and honestly we found the entire thing really offensive, and we shall never speak of it again.
So, the actual plot is this - the Rangers are competing in a scavenger hunt. They've split up into two teams (Adam, Kim and Tommy on one, Billy, Aisha and Rocky on the other.) At first I thought they were competing against each other, but it turns out they just split the list in two. Kimberly is really into this, and she's absolutely delightful. And Adam makes the most amazing goofy face when they have to take a picture with their first item, which turns out to be a red car.
Zedd watches them, and is all "so, they like to play games" and it is entirely possible my immediate thought was "Adam and Rocky certainly do" because that is exactly how I roll. Zedd then decides that he will send the Rangers on a never ending scavenger hunt in the Lost Universe. Exactly how does one lose a universe? *blinks* And if Zedd knows where the universe is, how exactly is it lost?
Billy's team is hanging out in Billy's lab, trying to figure out what the next clue is, and somehow they come to the realization that it was a cannon. (Personally, I think the answer was a trebuchet, but I guess that would be even harder to find, and is probably just a nitpick anyway.) Billy realizes that his "little cousin" left behind a toy cannon (really?) and that solves this problem, so they go to the park to find the next clue, where they are promptly attacked by putties and lose the bag of stuff.
Then a miracle occurs - they remember they have communicators, and they call the other Rangers. Kim, Tommy and Adam are all fine, but they agree to keep a lookout. Nobody bothers to call Zordon, and Zordon doesn't notice. But then Zedd sends down the monster, which is made out of Billy's toy cannon.
Zordon immediately knows the name of the monster, its powers, and the fact that it can send them to the Lost Universe. How does he know this? Do the fish fly up and tell him? And how does he know where this universe is? If all of these people know about it, it is NOT LOST.
The Rangers all head to the park to fight the cannon monster. The cannon monster, we must note, is standing in fairly tall grass. The grass the Rangers are standing on is freshly mowed. Great job splicing together the footage! So then the Rangers summon the Power Weapons, but that isn't enough, and so they need to summon the Zords.
Rocky's Zord rides Tommy's. I feel that is important to point out.
Zordon is all concerned, because if the Rangers get sent to the Lost Universe, they will never be retrieved. He tells Alpha they just need to have faith in Tommy. Queenriley and I both start cracking up. But no, they summon Tor (and the other four Rangers finally have something to do during this fight) and all is well. I wonder what the point of even mentioning this Lost Universe was. Adding dramatic tension? Because it really didn't work.
Back at the Youth Center, the Rangers are all excited because they only need one more clue, and Ernie tells them the judges are on the way back. The last clue is "they're the colors of the rainbow, and they fight monsters too." Ernie figures out that it must be the Power Rangers, and he has an 8x10 photo of them. Really, do the Rangers do photoshoots now? How did Ernie get one? And how come the Rangers couldn't figure this out? (Maybe because um, no, they are not the colors of the rainbow. When did black become a color of the rainbow? Did they get an indigo ranger when I wasn't looking?)
The Rangers win the scavenger hunt against Central High. We're left wondering exactly when the Rangers managed to get the toy cannon back.
Fish: 4. It would be a 3.5, but I added half a fish for the rage it caused.
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