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Okay, so we all have figured out by now that Power Rangers RPM is my happy place, my favourite show, that thing I watch repeatedly because I love it so and it has eaten my brain like so many zombies, right?
I am now going to RAGE about RPM.
Completely overlooking all the other bad bad things about today's two new episodes, I'm going to focus on the one thing I can't seem to shake. And oddly enough, it's the one thing very very few people are talking about.
My darling Ziggy. The man who, while working for the mafia, stole a truck full of medical supplies worth $5 MILLION. Instead of delivering those supplies to the mafia like he was supposed to, he gave them to an orphanage full of sick kids who needed it. He then got the hell out of dodge (Corinth) before the mafia KILLED HIM.
Ziggy is the heart of the Rangers. He's like a less ethnic Ma-Ti (and yes, I'm pulling the Captain Planet thing here, deal with it).
And what did they have him do today? They had him beg, plead, and harrass the other rangers, trying to get them to agree to use the newly found MIND CONTROL DEVICE on the WOMEN of Corinth, so he could get a DATE. He wanted to use mind control... to get a date... and I... what? Seriously? This... this isn't a drama, folks. This isn't a crime show. This is POWER RANGERS. And this behaviour was presented as being OKAY and FUNNY. Yes, this was supposed to be the humour for the episode! WHAT THE FUCK, POWER RANGERS? WHAT THE FUCK.
You have driven me to foul language, show, and I just... ARG! I'm so angry right now.
Mind control to get a date isn't funny. It's sleazy. It's skeevy. It's dirty and disgusting and WRONG on every level imaginable. It's date rape, pretty much, and I can't believe they put it in the show at all.
Yes, we've had jokes about Ziggy being desperate for a date before. Okay, fine. So the boy needs to get laid. Fine. But nowhere should it be acceptable to resort to MIND CONTROL to get shagged.
And now I'd like to scrub my brain of this episode and pretend it never happened.
I am now going to RAGE about RPM.
Completely overlooking all the other bad bad things about today's two new episodes, I'm going to focus on the one thing I can't seem to shake. And oddly enough, it's the one thing very very few people are talking about.
My darling Ziggy. The man who, while working for the mafia, stole a truck full of medical supplies worth $5 MILLION. Instead of delivering those supplies to the mafia like he was supposed to, he gave them to an orphanage full of sick kids who needed it. He then got the hell out of dodge (Corinth) before the mafia KILLED HIM.
Ziggy is the heart of the Rangers. He's like a less ethnic Ma-Ti (and yes, I'm pulling the Captain Planet thing here, deal with it).
And what did they have him do today? They had him beg, plead, and harrass the other rangers, trying to get them to agree to use the newly found MIND CONTROL DEVICE on the WOMEN of Corinth, so he could get a DATE. He wanted to use mind control... to get a date... and I... what? Seriously? This... this isn't a drama, folks. This isn't a crime show. This is POWER RANGERS. And this behaviour was presented as being OKAY and FUNNY. Yes, this was supposed to be the humour for the episode! WHAT THE FUCK, POWER RANGERS? WHAT THE FUCK.
You have driven me to foul language, show, and I just... ARG! I'm so angry right now.
Mind control to get a date isn't funny. It's sleazy. It's skeevy. It's dirty and disgusting and WRONG on every level imaginable. It's date rape, pretty much, and I can't believe they put it in the show at all.
Yes, we've had jokes about Ziggy being desperate for a date before. Okay, fine. So the boy needs to get laid. Fine. But nowhere should it be acceptable to resort to MIND CONTROL to get shagged.
And now I'd like to scrub my brain of this episode and pretend it never happened.