Power Rangers as a whole

Frankenstein gives the Megazord the Ultimate Warrior Gorilla Press Slam.

That is awesome.

Load up da spaceship with the rocket fuel!

RIP Ultimate Warrior.

So anyway, I was watching Ninja Storm again (don't ask why) and I found out the Green Samurai Ranger was 31 back then, but somehow looked younger than everyone!

And Chase Into Space!

Seven robot dinosaurs at this point. @.@ And one, as mentioned, is made entirely out of guns. Jesus, I have no idea how anything Rita pulls is supposed to be a credible threat to Titanus Megazord Wearing Dragonzord As Hat firing a million guns per second.

Point. This was way better built up than "Jason needs to learn to be less dismissive of the contributions of others not constantly and not try to be the Lone Gunman which isn't really an issue he has anyway so I don't know why we're having this episode."

I don't remember if they were, but you're right that it is rare. I was genuinely surprised when Zach went topless for his pharaoh costume.

edited 21st Oct '16 8:12:19 AM by TobiasDrake

It's happened a few time. Heck, one version of the Lost Galaxy intro features Leo ripping his shirt off in a manner that'd make Hulk Hogan proud.

Then again this is after In Space where I am pretty sure Astronema and her catsuit is responsible for a lot of young boys learning that they are indeed heterosexual.

edited 21st Oct '16 10:30:38 AM by Ghilz

Cole as went shirtless a few times in Wild Force. Interestingly, like Leo, he was also a Red Ranger with a lion zord.

No Rangers tonight 'cause I'm exhausted from a terribly long day and plan to collapse into bed and pass out mid-drop.

Sleep tight.

I woke up at 4 A.M. buzzing with energy so, plot twist, there's Rangers tonight after all.

01x28 - Island of Illusion, Part I

• Jason: [Zach] is going to blow them away at the dance contest.
• Bulk: I think he's going to BLOW IT at the dance contest!
  • That lame comment is not your best attempt at bullying, Bulk. On the one hand, maybe you want to workshop a more active approach. On the other, you're not sexually assaulting Trini and Kimberly right now, so maybe ignore me.
• Bulk: I've got what it takes to make you lose, chump!
  • Did...did Bulk just challenge Zach to a dance-off? Because I desperately want to see that now.
• Rita's plan, once again, is just to chuck a monster at the Rangers and hope it works. I miss actual plans. Have I mentioned I miss her plans? I miss her plans. At least Mutitus and Lokar have a neat gimmick with whatever the Island of Illusion is.
• Oh my god, we really are having a Zach v. Bulk dance-off. This is glorious.
• Zach's third dance move involved dancing backwards and then doing a jump with multiple flips. I was totally expecting Bulk to fall on his face trying to do the flips, but he exceeded my expectations via not even being able to walk backwards without disaster.
• Baboo and Squatt don't want Rita to summon Lokar because the last time she called on him, he nearly wiped Team Rita out. That, uh...we'll put that down as half a check in the "planetary invasion veteran" department.
• So sometimes I have to look up monster names on the wiki to make sure I'm using them right. Mutitus is a big one. I never would have thought it was spelled that way, because every time Rita says it, it sounds like "New Titus". Which is itself an awkward name because I like the old Titus just fine and worry that a reboot might try to tone him down to be more kid-friendly.
• An earthquake shakes the Youth Center! Even Zordon has no idea what's going on! And Tommy once again finds his excuse not to participate off the bat in the action: his students didn't evacuate with everyone else because reasons and Tommy needs to stay behind to take care of them. #GreenRangerProblems
• Rather than take the kids to wherever everyone else evacuated to, Tommy just sits down under the table with them like a doofus. Does Angel Grove Youth Center not have, like, earthquake evacuation measures posted? God knows it happens enough. #GreenRangerSolutions
• Scorpina and Goldar take the Putties and attack the Rangers! Sure, R Ita, that will work.
• Scorpina and Goldar fight the Rangers for three seconds before Mutitus is summoned. He's already gigantic, though, so no low-scale fight with him. I'm guess this is because he's the Frankenstein monster's One-Winged Angel form from the sentai you guys mentioned, and no footage of him in low-scale at this form exists.
• Tommy: Hey, Ernie. Could you watch those kids for me?
  • You couldn't have done that from the beginning, Tommy? I like that he only remembers his Ranger responsibilities when Zordon contacts him and is like, "Uh, Tommy? Power Ranger stuff's happening. Remember Power Ranger stuff? You have a potential babysitter five feet away. Do the math."
• Lokar's magic breath mutates Mutitus into a penis monster!
• The upgraded Mutitus makes short work of both the Megazord and the newly arrived Dragonzord! All while we keep cutting away to Lokar laughing in the sky. Okay, level with me. Is Lokar Satan?
• Jason: Oh no! It's toxic foam!
  • What. Mutitus finishes off the Zords by vomiting cleaning supplies on them. Megazord is like, "MY ONE WEAKNESS: WINDEX!!!"
• The Rangers fall out of their Zords and somehow land on the titular Island of Illusion in another dimension. I like to think Goldar and Scorpina were running around beneath them holding a portal like cartoon firefighters with a safety trampoline, trying to make sure they lined up the trajectories of the falling Rangers just right.
• The team lands on a palm tree, piled on top of each other like a Ranger Totem. And their Power Coins are gone! And their communicators! But not their clothes, because Rita doesn't want to see that.
• Tommy: Great! We can't even contact Zordon.
  • Okay, Tommy, we need to talk about your voice. You keep doing this thing with your voice where you sound like you're talking to a two-year-old about his latest crayon scribbles. You've got babytalk voice every time you interact with the team. It's actually more offputting than when you were evil. Please stop.
• As the team explores the Island, everyone huddles behind Jason. I was going to make a joke about Kimberly and Trini clinging to him and his Naughty Gnome finding opportunities in the jungle, but Zach, Billy, and Tommy are doing it too. The just aren't touching him while they huddle behind his washboard abs.
• Zach: Man, I could have swore I just saw this...this...forget it.
  • No, Zach. The team is lost in the jungle. Do you know how many ways the jungle can kill? Because it's all of them. If you think you saw something, do not keep it to yourself. Do you WANT to turn around and there's a cougar munching on Billy's intestines? Because honestly, that's best-case scenario given that this is a magic evil jungle.
• I was also going to make a joke about the small hooded wilderness people being Robin Hood's Merry Men, but then one of them started rhyming and I realized he's a Little Person. So, Lost Boys, then.
• Goldar: A place where nothing is real except the danger! Welcome to the Island of Illusion!
  • Dammit, Goldar! Spoilers! You just gave away the plot to the team. Now they'll be coming up with ideas for how to handle your magic illusion island because they know it isn't real.
• Zach: Oh man, this is too weird. I don't think I can handle this!
  • Like that one! Ragequitting! ...no, wait, that's just Zach's spontaneously-developed lack of self-confidence acting up. 27 episodes of dance-fighting and now suddenly he thinks he's terrible at everything. Zach, buddy, the only thing you're terrible at is properly setting up character flaws. And hitting on Angela, but that's neither here nor there.
• Zach tries to storm out, spots a huge trunk, and promptly pisses himself in screaming terror. The snake, for its part, makes no attempt to attack him or engage him in any way. It's just chilling on a stick. Zach could easily escape this situation by just walking away. Hilariously, the episode cuts away for where the commercial should be. Zach crying about the existence of a snake in his general vicinity is meant to be a suspenseful cliffhanger moment!
• Billy: I believe Rita's trying to make us doubt ourselves and use our own fears against us.
  • Really? What gave it away? Could it be the massive spoiler Goldar dumped on you?
• Zach: We can't fight something like that!
  • It was chilling on a stick. It never even made a move to go after you. Goddammit, Zach.
• Zach's lack of confidence causes him to begin dematerializing. Just so everyone's clear on what's going on, the Lost Boy appears in a puff of smoke to explain what's happening and then vanishes again. So he's like the island's Clippy, then.
• The episode closes on Goldar mocking the Rangers that they're all going to fade out of existence like Zach is doing. Awkward cliffhanger but better than the f*cking snake. "Oh no! Snakes exist!"

01x29 - Island of Illusion, Part II

• So, I'm going to take back what I said last episode about this not being a plan. In retrospect, giving the Rangers a pointless monster to fight and then double-teaming them with Lokar for the purpose of herding them onto the Island of Illusion was an actual plan. For the first time since the Green Ranger Saga, there's actually more to this than "Monster, go." Good on Rita. She's finally starting to recover.
• Quagmire: Fight Rita if you can. Only Quagmire knows her plan!
  • That might have been more effective if you'd said that to them, Lost Boy. You had your back to the Rangers and were directly addressing me. I'm not fighting Rita. If I was, I could look up her plan on Wikipedia because this show is two decades old. You leave me out of this.
• The Rangers overheard the Lost Boy and summon him by his name! Upon finding out that they aren't servants of Rita, he's thrilled to help. What, you couldn't tell by Zach slowly disappearing the last times you were taunting them?
• The Lost Boy explains that Zach needs to think a happy thought to avoid fading. Zach reflects on the Knasty Knight battle and recorporealizes. To my dismay, he does not begin levitating.
• Zordon and Alpha try to reboot the, uh...the existence of communicator watches on the Rangers' wrists?...by messing with the command console. This is pointless because the reason they can't contact the Rangers is because they don't have their watches, but it provides an opportunity to see Alpha get shot in the ass with tasers over and over. Which feels more like somebody's weird porn accidentally got spliced into the show than a reasonable chain of events. <.<
• The Rangers try to figure out where they need to go to find the Power Coins. Here's a question: why would they be on the island? Rather than, say, lying on Rita's dresser while she has Finster prepare a clay display case to commemorate this achievement?
• Billy: My calculations would suggest a 90% probability that our Coins are in...this direction.
  • Oh, you made that up. 64% of all statistics are made up on the spot, y'know.
• Goldar: Yes, let's get started! With an illusion for Kimberly's confusion!
  • Just ignore it, Kim. Goldar literally just said it's an illusion.
• And like an idiot, Kim indulges in the illusion until she begins to fade out of existence because Bulk and Skull being angelic saints broke her mind. Only flashing back on the Terror Toad saves her! Is this just a thinly-veiled excuse for a clip show?
• This one's actually pretty good. Tommy sees the rest of the team as Putties. This tricks him into attacking them - playing on both Tommy's traumatic history with Rita's forces AND potentially playing into any lingering fears the Rangers may have about him turning on them.
• At the Lost Boy's urging, Tommy flashes back on a time he fought Putties by himself. Fairly lame achievement, but okay. It gives him the confidence he needs and that's what matters.
• Trini wanders off, afraid that Rita will give her an illusion, so she gives herself one in order to beat her to the punch. She starts fading out of abject terror before anything even happens to her, then hallucinates that we're back in the early episodes where Billy dropped his morpher off a cliff. Which reminds me that she's gotten remarkably little development since then.
• Trini resolves her fear easily enough, then Billy decides it's his turn and just promptly starts fading. This time, it's the Madame Woe battle that brings him back.
• Goldar: If you were a real leader, Jason, you would have saved your friends already!
  • Jason forgot to bite at the bait, so Goldar decided to take a moment to remind him about his fear in the episode. Jason was trying really hard to skip this part.
• Jason's illusion is that everyone else fades away abruptly. He failed and all his friends are dead now. Good one.
• Quagmire: Dear oh dear, nasty magic happening here.
  • Good advice, Quagmire. Rock solid. I'm sure that will help. ...I'm mentally adding a "Giggity" to that.
• Jason uses King Sphinx as a flashback to help bring him back to reality, remembering that he didn't give up when ambushed alone. Somehow, this dissuades his fear that his friends just all died so that's nice.
• After Jason beats his illusion, the Communicators and Power Coins just appear on the team. They were within them all along, I guess.
• Rita, pissed off, tries to blow up the Island but they morph away from it. Why she didn't do that before, I don't know.
• The Rangers teleport to safety, arriving at their Zords. Their arrival finishes the cleaning job, allowing the Zords to stand up looking shiny as new. I think I might try and pick up some of that toxic foam for cleaning day.
• The Megazord wears the Dragonzord as a hat for the first time, not counting the Ultrazord scene. Tommy's stuffed in the back behind Jason's chair. It's hilarious. I don't know if he even has access to the control panel or if he's just there.
• The Mega Dragonzord blows away Mutitus easily enough, and then they call in the Ultrazord to deal with Lokar. Again, I'm not clear on why they didn't do that from the beginning? Could have avoided this whole Island of Illusion fiasco.
• The Ultrazord shoves a million missiles up Lokar's face and he teleports away. No, but seriously, is he Satan?
• With his confidence restored, Zach easily wins the dance contest. Also, the DJ is the Lost Boy and I have so many questions about that but none of them will be answered because the show doesn't care about the impossible logistics. Guys, I think this campy superhero show about kaiju monsters fighting robots might be unrealistic!

01x30 - The Rockstar

• Zach, Trini, Kimberly, and Billy are preparing for a vacation. Jason's not coming because his cousin is in town and he wants to spend time with him. Tommy is also not coming because it spares him from making up an excuse to be missing from the initial action. I'm not actually sure if he was even invited or if the team just forgot he exists again.
• Trini brings everyone snacks, but it's escargot. Cue the one and only escargot joke that appeared in every show in the 90's.
• Bulk and Skull had to pick someone's events to shit on, and they decided on Jason's. They appear like magic on Jason's fishing trip. Once again, Bulk mistakes his relationship with Jason for some kind of bully/nerd scenario despite Jason being a karate instructor with muscles the size of Bulk's head. Predictably, it ends with Bulk getting the shit kicked out of him, and Jason doesn't even have to lift a finger to do it.
• Rita's pissed off because she wanted to locate this mirror of ultimate destruction but Jason's still in town, so rather than try to be incognito, she sends Putties to f*ck with him and let him know she has an evil scheme in motion.
• Let's talk about Rita's plan. She wants to find this mirror without the Rangers intervening so she waited for them to leave town. But the Rangers aren't the ones who track her comings and goings. Zordon does. He can contact them anywhere, and they can teleport. Jason still being here means jack shit; the hole in Rita's plan is Zordon still being here.
• So Jason makes short work of the Putties because of course he does. I honestly don't know what Rita was expecting to happen here. Rather than pick up on the obvious correlation that something is going down and contacting Zordon, however, Jason just resumes fishing with his cousin Jeremy.
• Jeremy fishes up a map in a bottle but when he opens it, earthquakes happen! Jeremy falls down and Jason takes this as an opportunity to totally f*cking ditch him and call Zordon like he should have done earlier.
• Scorpina summons the Rockstar! Jason's secret ID sense is tingling, so he tells Jeremy to flee before any of the villains show themselves. That way, when Scorpina addresses him by name, the kid won't hear it.
• The Rockstar defeats Jason by putting heavy rocks on his chest so he can't move. That's hilarious.
• Proving my point, Zordon contacts the other Rangers and they teleport straight to the beach to help Jason by lifting the rocks off him.
• As the Rangers begin searching for Jeremy, Zordon contacts them and tells them Scorpina's attacking the beach club! They must go and fight her there. I don't know why Scorpina's attacking the beach club, but okay.
• The Rockstar brushes off the Rangers' attacks! Because he's a rock. He glues rocks to Zach's and Trini's stomachs and then dumps them in the pool, which is fairly clever if the rock is stuck to their torso or something. Somehow, they manage to stay afloat while glued to F*CKING ROCKS, however, so I guess the laws of physics didn't like Rockstar very much.
• Jeremy finds the Mirror of Destruction and immediately disintegrates himself conveniently manages to learn what it does by accidentally turning its gaze on a Puttie! Turns out it shoots laser beams! It petrifies people and crumbles them too, but it does that with the laser beam which also makes a nearby cliff explode. Either that, or the cliff gazed into the mirror.
• Rockstar tries to crush Jeremy's face and take the mirror, but Jeremy slightly nudges to the right and the Mirror annihilates Rockstar too! Rita's forces need to maybe learn what instant-death mirror does.
• "This is too hot to handle!" Jeremy exclaims as he lobs the mirror into the ocean to be picked up by a random fisherman and/or small child.
• Jeremy's shit at throwing, however, as the Mirror of Destruction lands on the beach and Kimberly grabs it. Scorpina reclaims it from her, but before she can open the mirror and exterminate the Rangers, Rita gets antsy. Her fear of success acts up and she grows Scorpina, presumably to give the Rangers the appropriate justification for having their artillery robot launch a million missiles up her arse.
• As the Rangers call their Dinozords, it occurs to me: the Zords being gods in the Sentai, is that why the Rangers always look like they're Heiling Hitler when they call them? Is that supposed to be some kind of prayar for divine intervention?
• The Rangers activate the Megazord! Tommy, somewhere in the world, takes another bite of his sandwich and wonders what the guys are up to. Zordon's going to need to bake him a cake or something to make up for forgetting he exists all the time.
• Scorpina tries to use the Mirror on the Rangers but they just don't look so it's cool. Then Goldar arrives to sucker-punch the Megazord! They lob him into the mirror and Scorpina panics and tosses it 'cause I think she's actually his wife or something? You guys mentioned him having a wife, and she's really touchy with Goldar.
• The Megazord destroys the Mirror of Destruction using the Power Sword - recharging its solar batteries in the process, I assume - causing Scorpina and Goldar to promptly lose their nerve and peace out.
• Pink Ranger: We're real proud of you. The way you kept outsmarting those Putties!
  • Oh f*ck off with that noise. You didn't see any of it. You don't know any of that happened.
• Jeremy tells the story of what happened at the Youth Center. "And then the monster kicked the black one into the pool!" ...how does he know the parts he wasn't there for?
• Jeremy: Hey, Jase, I meant to ask you. Where were you all that time?
  • Jason blows off the question with, "I have a class to teach," and the show ends at the team laughing at him, but that's kind of an important question. Where WERE you while your cousin was being hunted by murderous aliens? Might want to think of an answer before it's Jeremy's parents asking the question.

So the Island of Illusion Sentai footage comes from the same episode as the Frankenstein one.

Yarp.

As you guessed, Mutitus is Dora Franke's 2nd and 3rd form, Zombie Franke and Satan Franke. Lokar is in fact the Bigger Bad of the Sentai, Great Satan. Yeah, he's Satan himself, the one who Bandora pledged herself to when she turned evil and Daizyujin's archenemy. The entire bit with the island is original to Power Rangers.

You'll remember when Frankenstein was killed by the Dragonzord battle mode, he was covered in cracks before exploding, unlike other monsters? Well in the original, Dora Franke's skin bursts off, and Zombie Franke is revealed. Bandora taunts the ranger that killing Franke made him stronger. It's then that Great Satan shows up to wreck their shit by further empowering into Satan Franke, involving a transformation that's amazingly graphic and gory for a Sentai where Zombie Franke's head splits open. Great Satan's arrival (And Hell Franke basically melting the zords with puke) prompts the rangers to perform a ritual so Daizyujin will be able to merge with Great Beast God Knight King Brachion and have access to his full power to face his foe. Like in the Power Rangers, Great Satan survives Ultimate Daizyujin's Grand Banisher to show up for the finale.

It's also why they didn't do it from the beginning - in the Sentai, they've never called Ultimate Daizyujin before.

In the Sentai, Bandora summoning Great Satan is metal as hell, with her crying tears of blood through the Ceremony. Great Satan being who he is is also why things are a bit Apocalypse-y when the team is at the Youth Center. Also in the Sentai, Great Satan unleashes a plague upon Tokyo after Hell Franke beats the rangers and Daizyujin teleports them to Burai's cave so they can go figure out how to do the ritual to create Ultimate Daizyujin. The ritual basically involves each ranger naming what virtue they represent (Red = Justice, Green = Power, Pink = Love, Yellow = Hope, Black = Knowledge, Blue = Courage) at an altar, which has the side effect of resurrecting the zords, hence why they no longer have foam on them.

The Rockstar is a straight adaptation of the episode from the Sentai. Only change is the kid guest star of the week finds the mirror before shit goes down.

More like they are invoking a divine spirit totem. But yeah, that's why. You'll notice other seasons (That don't use the Zyuranger costumes) don't tend to have the rangers act so reverent to their Mecha.

They are in the Sentai (And only there).

edited 22nd Oct '16 11:14:41 AM by Ghilz

01x31 - Calamity Kimberly

• This episode begins with Kimberly discovering why you shouldn't keep anything between bed and alarm clock. She knocks her lamp off the dresser and breaks it while reaching for the Snooze. This can't be the first time that's happened, Kim. Plan your room better.
• She then proceeds to knock herself off the bed trying to reach the clock. I have no criticism for that. That's probably deliberate. It's just far enough away that Morning Amnesia Kimberly can't accidentally shut it off and screw over Late to School Kimberly. I used to do that in school a lot, putting my alarm on the other side of the room so I physically had to drag my ass out of bed to reach it.
• I really like Kimberly's nightgown. A lot of shows would have sexed her up here, but Power Rangers doesn't want you objectifying its leading ladies. Because despite its missteps here and there, it's a show that really does care about diversity.
• Sudden earthquake causes Kimberly to break a mirror! Seven years bad luck, Kimberly. Have fun with that!
• As Kimberly pouts over her shitty morning, Squatt cackles to himself and reports back to Rita that now would be a good time to attack. He knows this because he was spying on her through her window as she slept, woke up, and went through her morning ritual Which he was doing because...he's a f*cking pervert, I guess.
• Seriously, listen to him giggling on the other side of her window and try to tell me he wasn't exercising the Naughty Gnome. So much inadvertant sex crime in this show.
• Rita's plan for today: because Kimberly's having a shit day, now would be the perfect time to attack her. She's off her game. Now this is the classic Rita I've been missing. "A Ranger is vulnerable. You know what would cheer him or her up? Assassination!"
• The wiki assures me that the monster's name is Samurai Fan Man and not Samurai Batman, like I thought Finster said.
• Kimberly arrives at school sopping wet and with squeaky shoes, because f*ck this day. Tommy approaches just to make Kim's day worse. She doesn't say much beyond "Oh, no. Tommy," and I could make a mean-spirited joke about how she's upset by his presence because the Rangers keep snubbing him, but her reaction is just too earnest. She's downtrodden because he's seeing her looking a mess when she's trying to attract him. She still adorably bats her eyelashes at him.
• Her homework is wrecked, her day is wrecked, her clothes are wrecked, and now here comes Bulk and Skull to shit on everything. You guys can go home. We don't need your services today. Kimberly's day is already well shat upon even before you take into account the pending alien assassination.
• Skull: I guess you weren't lying when you said you cancelled our date because you had to stay home and wash your hair.
• Kimberly: I never made a date with you, you goon!
  • ...not to be a stickler, but you actually did. In "Power Ranger Punks", when you were under the influence of the Punk Potion, you got really sexually aggressive with Skull and demanded he meet up with you. Then it wore off and you snubbed him without ever explaining what happened. I might be more inclined to feel bad for him if he wasn't constantly sexually assaulting you, mind, just saying that you did actually blow off a date with him once.
• Bulk decides to step up to Tommy and inevitably gets shitstomped. One of these days, Bulk and Skull are going to have to learn to stop trying to bully the martial arts kids. As bullies go, they have the worst choice in prey. Flash Thompson picked on Peter Parker because he was a shy nerd; he would have gone elsewhere if Parker was, like, captain of the boxing team.
• Tommy: You know, Bulk and Skull should get their own TV show.
  • No, they should not. I reject your proposed spinoff idea, even if I do appreciate the audacity of just coming out and saying it in the episode.
• Kimberly: It all started last night when I had this awful dream that Rita was my wicked stepmother.
  • Baboo and Squatt as your wicked stepsisters? Zordon as your Faerie Godmother, fluttering around as just the head with little faerie wings? Trying to earn the love of Prince Tommy, and suddenly Goldar attacks the ball but then he peaces out as soon as you punch him in the nose? Yeah, I'd watch that episode.
• Kimberly trips over a rock and into Tommy's arms right after saying she has no idea what could happen to her next. She did that on purpose. There is no way she missed a rock that big, and falling into Tommy's arms the way she did was just too perfect.
• Suddenly, Samurai Batman appears and opens his gourd, spraying piss all over everything. Piss that floats around in the air like cat hair. That's really gross, Samurai Batman. The magic urine energy knocks Tommy out from disgust and imprisons Kimberly.
• Ew, there's fluid under Kim's feet inside the gourd. And it's chunky. I might not have been joking about the crappy yellow MS Paint effects being magic piss energy. That's really disgusting.
• Kimberly screams for Tommy to save her. This might actually happen because Rita's minions were so excited about capturing Kim that they stupidly left Tommy lying unconscious in the woods. Both Rita and her forces have a severe ADD problem. If I had a nickle for every time the Rangers survived because their enemies just f*cking forgot about them....
• Zordon: Tommy was injured while attempting to rescue her.
  • He was roofied unconscious by Samurai Batman's magic piss. That's certainly disgusting, but I would hardly call that "injured". This is just our way of excusing him from the combat footage, isn't it?
• Zordon explains that Kimberly is in a pocket dimension inside Samurai Batman's gourd. He calls it a jar, but it's a gourd. It is OBVIOUSLY a gourd.
• Also, the other characters are more clearly saying "Fan Man" than when Finster said it but I'm enjoying calling him "Samurai Batman".
• The Rangers morph and attack Samurai Batman, but Goldar jumps into the fray first! That Goldar. When there's a battle to be one, his are the first boots on the ground and...the first boots off it.
• Trini shouts, "Let my friends go, you creep!" and battle charges, but the other Rangers were not briefed on her Leeroy Jenkins plan and don't realize they're supposed to back her up, so Samurai Batman f*cking cold-cocks her and lays her ass out while they stand there confused.
• Samurai Batman finally busts out the titular fan and uses it to blow the Rangers into the air! I was wondering when that would come out. Up until this part, he's mainly just been Samurai Gourdon.
• Alpha reverses their trajectory and teleports the Rangers to the safe zone known as "on top of Tommy's face". That should help him recover from the roofie piss. Thanks, Alpha.
• Jason: We need Tommy's power!
  • Actually, yeah. If Rita enlarges Samurai Batman right now, you're basically up Shit Creek without a paddle. The team can't form the Megazord without Kimberly. Dragonzord's Battle Mode doesn't require the Pterodactyl Dinozord, but until Tommy recovers, that's off the table too.
• Squatt and Baboo take turns teasing Kimberly in the gourd, and it occurs to me that they're missing the obvious solution. Fill up the gourd, plug it, and let her drown. I'm sure that must be faster than waiting for the pocket dimension to fade away.
• Oh, and there we go. Samurai Batman distracts the Rangers with a Bat-bomb long enough for Rita to grow him! They're so screwed. Tommy needs to wake up, like, now.
• Wait, I just got that. When Rita grows her monsters, she throws her staff into the ground and it splits open via stock footage, showing the ground collapsing and lava shooting up and steam pouring out. Is that Hell? Is Bandora empowering her monsters by opening Hell?
• Samurai Batman and Goldar make short work of the Dinozords because of course they do. Goldar can even go toe to toe with the Megazord when he doesn't lose his nerve and peace out. His confidence is his greatest nemesis, but in this case, four Dinozords never stood a chance.
• Tommy conveniently wakes up with a terrible headache. That's the hangover, Tommy. Magic roofie piss is a hell of a drug.
• Tommy calls in the Dragonzord and for once in his f*cking career, Jason actually calls out "Dragonzord Fighting Mode" correctly. He used to call it the Mega Dragonzord, but then the Megazord wore the Dragonzord as a hat and the writers found out that Mega Dragonzord is already a thing.
• Although I don't know why Jason's calling it, seeing as his Dinozord is the only one on the field that will not be participating in this transformation. It should really be Tommy that calls it. It's his Dragonzord.
• Tyrannosaurus Dinozord keeps Goldar at bay - his confidence must be starting to shake, because he had no problem handling the Tyrannosaurus its ass five minutes ago - while Dragonzord dukes it out with Samurai Batman! He breaks the ties around the gourd and drops it to the ground, releasing Kimberly!
• With Kimberly returned, the Dragonzord exits Fighting Mode and moves to Megazord w/ Dragonhat!
• Jason: Prepare for Ultrazord mode!
  • Or we could go all the way and just overkill the f*ck out of Samurai Batman. After making me type "magic roofie piss" as many times as I have this episode, he deserves it.
• Despite what Jason just said, we get neither Ultrazord nor Dragonhat. Megazord and Dragonzord battle Goldar and Samurai Batman as a team. Jason, learn your f*cking Zord names and stop shouting them at random. Does Zordon need to get you flash cards or something?
• Megazord cuts Samurai Batman's spear in half! And he summons his fan, which for a second I thought was a guitar because of its shape.
• Samurai Batman blows both Zords away and now Jason's had enough and calls in Ultrazord. About time. Overkill the f*ck out of this asshole so we can go home.
• Goldar returns home to the Samurai Batcave while the Rangers watch a news report about how awesome they are. Kimberly, however, is still having a shit day, so the TV explodes. ...uh, wow. She's a f*cking fire hazard on her bad days.

01x32 - A Star is Born

• Tommy has a karate commercial he's auditioning for, but Bulk's planning on competing with him some f*cking how. Tommy intimidates him with yet another display of why he really needs to find different kids to pick on.
• Rita's having a bad day and needs a day off, so she offhandedly tells Goldar to go take over the Earth himself and he gets way too into what was clearly meant as a pitiful whine.
• Bulk shows up to the Rangers' beach day to taunt them about how he's totally going to steal the commercial out from under Tommy. This is despite the fact that Tommy's already said he couldn't come to beach day because he's doing the audition. Tommy can teleport, Bulk can't, so the logistics of his presence here boggles the mind. Has Bulk learned to shit on two separate places at once?
• Skull using mayonnaise on Bulk's skin in place of tanning oil is gross for so many reasons. ~.~ The less said, the better.
• With his sunburn prepared, Bulk travels through time and space with the power of being a super-shitty person in order to arrive at the school before the audition. His attempts at martial arts are hilarious.
• Goldar's plan is to attack the Rangers while they're having their beach vacation! Nothing else, really. Just hit them hard and fail just as fast.
• Scorpina has a silkworm that imprisons the Rangers in a silk cylinder that is oriented the wrong direction: pointed vertically from the outside but horizontally from within. Consistency, thy name is not Power Rangers.
• The silk cocoon blocks transmissions, so they can't communicate with Zordon or teleport out! And then, at Goldar's urgings, the cocoon is pushed into the ocean. This is a way better plan than Goldar let on.
• Tommy wows the casting directors with an amazing display of martial arts, even slipping in his three consecutive jumping spinkicks that he likes so much. Unfortunately, his communicator's in his bag, so he doesn't notice Alpha desperately trying to call him.
• The Rangers break out of the cocoon by shooting it a bunch - that's really underwhelming, actually - and go straight to their Zords on Zordon's comand! Goldar has sent down Babe Ruthless and the Rangers need to stop him! And Zordon knows Goldar's in charge up at Chez Repulsa because...I guess he really is scrying on Rita's plans.
• Not just Babe Ruthless, either! Goldar and Scorpina are grown as well! I don't know how Goldar did this. I guess he stole Rita's staff and used it himself? With his...extensive witchcraft knowledge. ...seriously, how did Goldar pull this off?
• Tommy finally notices his communicator and Zordon briefs him on the sitrep. He shows up with his Dragonzord and goes straight into Battle Mode. Babe Ruthless sprays a red corrosive gas at them, but the Dragonzord's spear spins to disperse it? I guess that's a thing? Billy calls it "the shield" because Billy is full of shit.
• Dragonzord spins up his spear and angles it straight forward at Babe Ruthless. Like a complete f*cking moron, Ruthless charges the Dragonzord and exactly what you think is going to happen, happens. And it's kinda gory, completely with a flesh squish sound and a "through the hole" camera angle when the spear's removed. That was surprisingly vivid.
• Goldar and Scorpina politely excuse themselves back to the moon castle while everyone's focused on Babe Ruthless's death. Because that's how they roll.
• Wait, I'm wrong. Only Goldar fled. Scorpina's back in Angel Grove. This episode is still happening? (checks timer) Five minutes left?!
• Tommy also conspicuously f*cked off for no reason, because he's not with the Rangers when they arrive to fight Scorpina. She enlarges her silkworm and the Rangers call the Dinozords back in. Dragonzord disassembles from Fighting Mode so they can form the Megazord.
• Silkworm cocoons up the Megazord, and Jason calls Tommy to come bail them out. Seriously, where did he go? The bathroom?
• Tommy calls back in the Dragonzord and I do not know why this couldn't have just been part of the same battle as Babe Ruthless.
• Dragonzord drills open the cocoon to release the Megazord and faithfully becomes its hat so the Rangers can draw enough power to vaporize the f/cking Silkworm.
• Rita rips her minions a new one while the Rangers watch a news report about how that city battle throughout the episodes totes didn't result in anyone killed. Yeah, I don't buy that for a second. Meanwhile, Bulk is humiliated by the airing of the commercial, which uses him as the amateur self-taught example and Tommy as the kung fu master example.

01x33 - The Yolk's on You!

• Jason and Tommy report into the talent show, but Tommy forgot his and Jason's belts so he leaves. That's not going to be the rationale for his absence from the fighting this episode, is it?
• Finster makes a monster for Rita's birthday and teleports it to Earth!
• Bulk and Skull show up to shit on the talent show. Meanwhile, Finster's shark monster is raving around the woods screaming, "DESTROY, DESTROY!!!" and cackling at the top of its lungs, providing Bulk with some stiff competition in the one-dimensional evil bastard department.
• Rita sends Goldar to support Fang and attack the park, but Tommy's there! Rita doesn't want him to find out about the impending attack lest the Rangers show up and ruin everything, so to gently persuade him to leave without revealing that she's got some machination in mind...she ambushes him with Putties. That'll do it. Thanks, Rita.
• Tommy makes short work of the Putties but then one steals his communicator and runs away. Tommy chases him, and walks right into a net trap. That was hilarious. Okay, more nuance to this ambush than I anticipated.
• Then, like an asshole, Tommy drops his Power Coin! The Puttie takes that too. This just went from an unexpected defeat to a humiliating curbstomp. Putties really are Tommy's bane, aren't they?
• Squatt and Baboo take a break to eat some delicious eggs from some manner of giant bird that certainly doesn't exist in California and I'm not sure if it exists in Japan either? Those are, like, ostrich eggs.
• Fang: How could you?! You ate my gooniebird eggs! You know how hard it is to find these?!
  • Oh, okay. That explains the giant eggs. Fang brought them. ...wait, how did Fang bring them? He was teleported to Earth immediately after being made!
• Jason: Zordon! Tommy doesn't answer his communicate!
  • That's not, "Tommy ISN'T answering." That's "Tommy DOESN'T answer." Jason is making a general observation about Tommy's behavior since becoming a Power Ranger. That's harsh, Jason. True, but harsh.
• Before the audience can be treated to the sight of Fang attacking Goldar, Baboo, and Squatt for stealing his lunch, the Rangers arrive and f*ck things up. Goldar tricks Fang into thinking they're hoarding delicious eggs and the latter attacks them.
• Fang throws rocks at the Rangers and Goldar shoots lightning until they fall off a cliff somehow.
• While the Rangers recoup from their humiliating defeat, Rita shows up to f*ck her own plan sideways by growing Fang. She really does need to stop doing this. The Rangers have Ultrazord now. It can overkill whatever she throws at them.
• Perfectly on cue, the Rangers form the Megazord. Fang hits it with everything he's got, though, and manages to knock out the giant robot. On Rita's behest, he stomps to the dam, but the Rangers get a second wind!
• Tommy frees himself from the net and spinkicks the Putties into submission because they're so stupid that none of them were watching him. He calls the Dragonzord in, and Jason calls the switch to Dragonzord Battle Mode.
• This lasts for about twenty seconds and then Jason gets bored and switches to Ultrazord. That's becoming a bit of a crutch for him, really. He has more artillery than God, so why use anything else? I think he's just making token efforts with the Megazord and Dinozord so Zordon won't get on his case when he uses Ultrazord for everything.
• The Rangers show up to the talent show just in time for their showing. Jason and Tommy impress the crowd with their awesome martial arts skills while Bulk and Skull just humiliate themselves by going crazy in the middle of playing with their band - which consists of Bulk, Skull, and some drummer who is one of those nameless members of Bulk and Skull's gang that only exist when they need another.

RPM's Dr. K and Ziggy are now divorced IRL

pretty sure the non sexualisation has more to it being a kid's show.

Actually there were plans for a Bulk and Skull spin off at one point.

Flash still targeted Peter even when he could defend himself. that's sad to hear

edited 23rd Oct '16 5:19:24 AM by windleopard

I'd love for the Bulk and Skull spin-off pilot to be released someday...assuming they ever finished it, that was the reason for the chimps in Turbo I believe.

Flash didn't know Peter could defend himself, is the point. Peter was a shy nerd, and Flash was unaware of the radioactive spider-bite that changed all that.

Bulk has no similar claim to ignorance. He doesn't know that Jason and Tommy are Power Rangers, but he does know they're both karate masters. Jason even teaches his own martial arts class! It is no secret that these kids are highly competent in the field of self-defense, making them terrible targets for bullying.

Bulk is knowingly Bullying a Dragon every time he picks on them. He keeps getting his comeuppance not because of unexpected spider-powers, but because the karate masters predictably beat his ass again.

edited 23rd Oct '16 7:23:12 AM by TobiasDrake

I think I recall Flash continuing to antagonise Peter after he started fighting back.

He did. They even have a boxing match in one issue where it's a plot point that Peter needs to pull his punches or he may inadvertently kill Flash (since it's a jock against a guy who can lift up to 10 tons).

So after that you would think Flash would learn, but no.

01x34 - The Green Candle, Part I

• This episode begins with Tommy and Zach sparring. These moments are nice because they remind you that Zach is also a martial artist. It's not JUST Jason and Tommy. Zach's a martial artist, Kimberly's a gymnast, Billy's a super-scientist, and Trini...exists, I guess.
• For today's plan, Rita has obtained the Green Candle. When it burns down, it will steal Tommy's morphing powers. Rita treats this as though it will be an ultimate solution that defeats the Rangers, even though losing Tommy would just bring them back down to five and they never had any trouble beating her ass with five before Tommy signed on.
• Zach tries to teach Tommy how to flirt by dancing around a woman who I hope isn't Angela again before attempting to physically move on her. He gets rightfully blown off. Tommy, don't listen to him. He struggles with the concept of consent.
• Bulk: Roses are red, violets are blue, no girl in the world's gonna go out with you.
  • Much as I hate to side with Bulk, he's not wrong. Until Zach realizes that aggressively violating consent is the opposite of attractive, he's going to keep striking out.
• Rita begins the Green Candle ritual, which is clearly the same footage from when she was resurrecting empowering Tommy in the first place.
• According to Goldar, this plan depends on the Putties finding Tommy and taking his Power Coin from him. It's a good thing they're his Achilles' Heel, or this plan might be stupid!
• Tommy: Kim, I was wondering if maybe you'd like to go to the - look out!
  • Ooo, taking her to the lookout, Tommy? That might be rushing things just a bit.
• Tommy and Kimberly are ambushed by Putties. Kimberly somehow loses her morpher amidst all the action, and by the time she reaches it, the Putties have gained the upper hand and restrained her and Tommy. Then Goldar appears pointlessly to boast before he and his Putties teleport away. I think he just wanted the credit.
• Tommy is deposited into Rita's dungeon dimension. He tries to call Alpha, but Goldar informs him that his communicator won't work in this dimension. I call bullshit. The signal had no problem reaching across dimensions when they were using it to teleport Jason out.
• When the Green Candle burns out, Tommy will lose his powers forever.
• Finster creates the Cyclops, who is able to change into any shape at whim and has a penis for a head.
• Goldar No Selling Tommy's attacks is actually really badass. Points for not even budging from his jump kick.
• The Dragonzord is attacking the city! Fortunately, Zordon immediately reveals that it's the Cyclops posing as the Dragonzord before any drama has a chance to unfold. F*cking shocktease.
• To prevent Tommy from reaching the candle while he's away, Goldar puts poorly animated lightning handcuffs on him! Tommy, however, is madly in love with a certain jumping spin kick that seems like it could solve the bound hands problem easily enough. That candle should be toast five seconds after Goldar leaves.
• But it's important that he left because now he can lead a Puttie charge against the Rangers who aren't in their Dinozords battling the fake Dragonzord because f*ck you, that's why.
• Jason waits way too long before finally calling in the Dinozords.
• As the fake Dragonzord stomps the Megazord, Tommy continues flailing uselessly at Goldar, now returned to his dungeon dimension, who continues effortlessly No Selling Tommy's attacks until Tommy takes his sword and uses it to teleport them back to Earth!
• Actual Dragonzord arrives and tail whips the Cyclops into losing his form. He can't seem to decide whether he wants to be the Megazord or the Dinozord, so he just teleports away to work out his identity crisis.
• Back at the Command Center, Zordon confirms that the Green Candle will depower Tommy. It's made from a special wax from the F*ck You Nebula that retains a person's imprint and when it runs out, that person loses Green Ranger powers or something. You guys mentioned that the candle is supposed to kill the Green Ranger when it runs out in the Sentai, and that makes a lot more sense.

01x35 - The Green Candle, Part II:

• A Ranger needs to go in and get the Green Candle, and it can't be Tommy because his presence will accelerate the process of losing his powers.
• Jason volunteers to go. Tommy throws a fit at first because he doesn't want anyone endangered in his place but a bonding moment where everyone group hugs him with words results in him being okay with it.
• Bily's invented molecular decoders that will let them open a portal to Rita's dimension. Kid's too smart for his own good.
• The Rangers head to the park to set up the decoders but suddenly Bulk and Skull arrive to shit on everything.
• Bulk tries to grab Zach but winds up humiliating himself in the same fashion as always. Gotta pick easier targets, Bulk.
• In an effort to distract the Rangers from penetrating Rita's dungeon dimension, Cyclops returns to the field as the Dragonzord in Battle Mode! Tommy falls for it at first because he wasn't involved in the briefing on the first attack, but Zordon sees through it immediately because it's basically the same f*cking deception as last episode.
• Dragonzord punches the form out of Cyclops, so he tries Megazord. This form manages to fight longer and better, but Tommy ultimately prevails.
• Jason enters the dungeon dimension to retrieve the candle. Goldar pushes back, but Jason fares much better this time than he did the last time he was here. Experience: it's a hell of a drug.
• At Zordon's behest, Zach enters the portal and brings Jason back. This, despite the fact that it might not take long to double team Goldar, especially if they transform first. Don't know why Jason didn't transform. Ego?
• Sick of the Cyclops's shit, the Rangers teleport to the scene with Zords already rising, rush through the stock footage as fast as possible, and go straight to Ultrazord. Jason's in a bit of a hurry. He wants to get back to trying to recover from some beans.
• The Candle finishes burning while the Rangers are busy, and now there's only one choice. Tommy must surrender his Power Coin to another Ranger so that Rita won't gain its power. Tommy gives it to Jason, transferring the shield but confusingly still leaving him suited up as the Green Ranger.
• Rita: That's another of my perfect plans ruined!
  • Be fair, Rita. This was pathetically easy to ruin. Literally all Tommy had to do was hand his Power Coin to anyone.
• Tommy glows a few times with stomachaches before transforming back for the "last" time. It takes longer than I'd expect for the residual Rangerness to run out. Ontological inertia, sorta!
• The team affirms that even without his Green Ranger powers, Tommy will always be a beloved friend and ally. Zordon mentally breathes a sigh of relief because now he doesn't have to ever own up to totally forgetting Tommy existed all those times.
• Some time later, Kimberly finds Tommy practicing martial arts and they have their first kiss, and it is worth all the D'awws. Tommy asks Kimberly to the dance, she says yes, and we end the episode on a fluffy note.
• See ya 'round, Tommy. And, uh...RIP Burai, I assume.

01x36 - Birds of a Feather

• This episode opens on Zach teaching his hip hapkido class. Bulk and Skull appear to shit on everything, and they appear to have abducted a child this time 'round. His name is Biff, he's Bulk's "protege", and his attempt at intimidating Zach and his kids with martial arts is...decent, but I don't think Zach has anything to worry about.
• Today's plan: Rita has sent the Hatchasaurus to shut down the Dragonzord somehow, rendering the Rangers helpless? I don't get the whole chain of causality here, but I'm still so glad she's making plans again.
• Zach tells his pupil, Cameron, not to be psyched out by Biff just because he's bigger. Cameron's response, "But what if he cheats?" tells you exactly how unintimidated by Biff he really is. That's what he got out of that display. "He's probably going to cheat."
• Due to Rita's cruel timing, the Rangers have to leave in order to go deal with her latest monster. That means Zach bailing on Cameron's martial arts tournament. All the feels, Zach and Cameron.
• Hatchasaurus is controlled by an internal computer called Cardiatron? That...uh...that makes sense, sure.
• The Rangers waste no time calling in the Dinozords as they arrive to fight Hatchasaurus. Isn't it supposed to be sabotaging the Dragonzord in some way?
• Jason calls in the Dragonzord which immobilzies Hatchasaurus while the rest of the team wrecks its shit until it explodes. This feels too easy. What was all that about disconnecting Cardiatron?
• Goldar: He isn't finished yet, right, my queen?!
  • Thought so.
• Zordon calls the Rangers back into the Command Center to read them the third degree over their belligerent failure to listen when he explained the plot five minutes ago.
• Rita casts a spell to drain the Dragonzord of all enegy, once again raising the question of why she couldn't just do that in any episode prior to this one.
• The Rangers morph back onto the field with the Megazord, but it's not enough. The Hatchasaurus stomps the Megazord and Dragonzord can't answer when Jason blows the Dagger. Instead, Jason's forced to rely on an old deus ex machina: the Power Sword. Recharging the Megatron's solar panels and knocking the Hatchasaurus off in one fell swoop!
• The Rangers destroy the Hatchasaurus with the Power Sword! But then he reforms around Cardiatron again. The dick.
• As round III wages, Jason realizes a different solution is in order and f*cking feeds himself to Hatchasaurus.
• Cardiatron inside wraps Jason up in tentacles to bind him and—oh shit, I think I know where this is going! Unsee! Unsee!
• Jason somehow reempowers the Dragonzord, gaining Tommy's shield in the process. Megazord and Dragonzord team up on Hatchasaurus and destroy its body for the third time, leaving Jason alone in the park with Cardiatron. He quickly destroys it with his sword and Dragon Dagger, leaving one to wonder how it even kept surviving the Hatchasaurus massacres without drawing attention to itself on Earth.
• With Cardiatron destroyed, Jason realizes that Hatchasaurus has ontological inertia and must be destroyed a fourth time. He calls in the Ultrazord because he's no longer f*cking around with this.
• After overkilling Hatchasaurus into oblivion, the Rangers return to the Youth Center. Cameron's made it into the finals! Zach apologizes for bailing on him, while Bulk and Skull arrive to show off Biff's mildly decent martial arts moves.
• Camerona faces Biff in the tournament and although he fares poorly early on, Biff runs out of steam and Cameron wins the match! Biff and Cameron shake hands as friends, Biff shits on Bulk and quits him, and everyone lives happily ever after. Except Tommy, who's not the Green Ranger anymore.

Not that Bulk is a saint in that regard either. Hell, he probably thinks Zack got blown off because he's not attractive not because of the consent thing.

There was a proposed episode that David Yost once revealed some info on last year I believe. Zedd would use a monster to impersonate Billy's dead mom in an attempt to kill him. The monster would be exposed and destroyed but Billy would be pissed and using his technology and smarts break into Zedd's base to get his revenge. I don't recall if Billy would have won the fight but it would have been cool to see him use his smarts that way.

Billy really was an invaluable member of the team and it's telling that from MMPR to Zeo he was the only Ranger not to pick a successor. It's really hard to imagine someone else in his shoes.

edited 24th Oct '16 1:11:30 AM by windleopard

I often wondered how Billy would have looked in yellow if he hadn't said to Tanya he was handing "his" crystal to her. In fact, I was calling B.S on him claiming that it was "his" since it was Aisha and Tanya who'd earned the bloody thing

edited 24th Oct '16 4:57:24 AM by Zarius

So in the Sentai, Burai's death goes differently (In that he dies, unlike Tommy).

As mentioned, the Candle is created by the Goddess Clotho that revived Burai. By this point in the series, Burai's dreaming of the reaper coming to pick him up in a chariot, he's on his last hours, and Clotho has warned him that next time he leaves the cave of no-time, he won't be able to return.

I don't exactly recall HOW Bandora figures out Burai's secret. But she has her monster Dora Fake take the appearance of the Dragon Caesar, she enlarges him and sends him to rampage across Tokyo. You'll recall Burai had Dragon Caesar do this during his "being a dick" phase. In the Sentai the rangers are public figure (It's hard to pass for a common Japanese guy when you're 150 million years old and dress like Renaissance Fair Han Solo) so that obviously sours the public. Burai, who is also having visions of a child taken along with him by the reaper, finally leaves his cave to "confront" Dragon Caesar. Follows a fight against Dora Fake (including a Dragon Caesar V Dragon Caesar fight). Dora Fake retreats While Burai is away, Bandora herself goes in his cave and begins wrecking shit. Burai returns and it's there that we get the one thing Power Rangers never gave us: Bandora gets in a Fight with Burai. And she wrecks his shit. Force Lighting all over the place. Burai's can't even touch her and he's forced out of the cave and Bandora collapses it then pimps back to her moon palace.

The rangers pray to Daizyujin for help and he takes their morphers away (Coz he's a dick) and sends the black and blue rangers to another world, on a quest for a mystic water that might save Burai, while he wanders around (with 3 hours left) and finds the kid from his vision, who is a green ranger fanboy-. Meanwhile, Dora Fake returns posing as Daizyujin, and begins wrecking shit which is a problem when you don't have morphers. Exasperated by his brother's imminent death and the whole "People dying around him". The powerless rangers are swarmed by an angry mob who thinks they keep attacking the city. Geki calls out Daizyujin for being a dick. Daizyujin returns the morphers, the rangers kick Dora Fake's ass. Blue and Black find the water but the goddess who revived Burai tells them it won't work on someone who has already been raised from the dead.

Burai, who has decided to spend his remaining hours giving his fanboy the best day of his life, saves the kid when he's buried under rubble from Dora Fake's attack. Satisfied he saved a kid's life, Burai passes on the Dragonshield and the dragon dagger to his brother Geki, give him his approval and farewell, and peacefully passes on with a smile.

On a side note, Dora Fake's costume (sans the penis head), is a repainted costume (Sans cloak) of one of the main villains of Choujin Sentai Jetman, Emperor Tranza.

edited 24th Oct '16 7:20:57 AM by Ghilz

Still makes more sense than magic power-sucking wax that only works on Tommy.

Also, I like that Burai had visions of Death taking a random child as a gift with purchase because it wouldn't be this season of Sentai without children being unnecessarily threatened.

edited 24th Oct '16 7:25:36 AM by TobiasDrake

Yeah, seriously. The amount of child actors is too much.

You can just picture the writers too "We got a perfectly good death episode for Burai. But you know what it needs? A child actor!"

edited 24th Oct '16 7:23:52 AM by Ghilz

Yeah. I could at least respect that it was Bandora's Single-Issue Wonk, but this one sounds completely gratuitous.

True. Bulk and Skull are much worse. Zach has a bad habit of come-ons that are way too invasive at worst and overly reliant on mating displays over actually getting to know a person, but he at least respects the word "No," and doesn't keep pushing once rejected.

And he has never attempted to violently assault a woman for rejecting him. He's not winning himself anything but rejections with his attempts - which might be considered physically threatening in and of themselves, mind - but he does take his rejections well. The same cannot be said of Bulk and Skull.

edited 24th Oct '16 7:26:57 AM by TobiasDrake

I'm just gonna say, wait til season 2.