Episode 21 - Green With Evil Part 5 - Breaking the Spell
Seriously, internets, we've been doing this for over five hours now, and we are exhausted. There are only so many fish you can take in one day. Really.
This episode opens with a recap of yes, Tommy is the Green Ranger. Everyone is horrified. We are confused by this, because it isn't like Tommy is actually their friend! They've only known him for two days, and he's been a jackass to them for most of it. But apparently it is nearly enough to make them give up. Somehow Alpha talks them out of it, and they are reminded they are heroes, and that they need to stop Rita from blowing up the Command Center again or taking over the world, not necessarily in that order.
Meanwhile, Rita is having a party on the moon. Rita is amazing. Somehow, footage of this party is shown on tv at the Youth Center, which is in perfect shape and has a crowd, so I guess the people of Angel Grove decided not to abandon the city after all. Ernie tells Kimberly that he's glad the Power Rangers are there, while Bulk and Skull say that people should be thanking them because they helped distract the monsters. We're pretty sure this is going to lead to the first shift in Bulk and Skull's personalities - instead of just being bullies, they are now going to try to be famous. It's a start, and we're glad they're getting some character development.
Kimberly goes and confronts Tommy in the middle of the Youth Center, because that is totally what you should do with an evil Ranger. We're not sure that Kimberly actually understands the concept of under a spell, because telling Tommy that Rita is evil is really not going to help. He knows that, it's part of the spell. SERIOUSLY. Also, major secret identity fail, because they're having this conversation in public, and you would think that someone would react badly in the middle of a crisis situation to hearing someone say that Rita was their empress.
Back at the Command Center, Alpha enters four random digits, which apparently solves all of their problems. Why it took so long to figure that out, we don't know. Kimberly complains to Billy, Zack and Jason about how Tommy really is under a spell, and they all sound really confused, and we are rapidly losing patience with them. Trini runs over to tell them that a monster is attacking, and apparently the show has forgotten that the communicators were fixed.
As we cue a long montage of the sheer awesome that is the Dragon Zord, Zordon comes back and says that the Zords are totally fine, and by the way all you have to do is break Tommy's sword. Seriously? They go, there's a battle, Jason finally gets his hands on Tommy, or rather on the dragonzord as they toss the zord through a mountain. Jason yells at Tommy to watch out, that he's going down, and our minds went firmly to the gutter. Look, we're both adults, but we never said we were particularly mature. Really, this entire miniseries should be subtitled the Jason/Tommy epic. We'd watch that.
Jason jumps out of the megazord and he and Tommy fight, and then Jason shoots the sword of darkness and Tommy demorphs and now everyone really is BFF. Jason tells Tommy it's okay and he's not evil anymore, and he's welcome to the team and all is forgiven. They morph again, and we're suddenly stuck in an episode of Sailor Moon, with everyone yelling about how they're going to defeat the powers of evil. For some reason they form the DragonZord in fighting mode which looks awesome, but we're not really sure WHY they're doing it.
They go back to the Command Center, where we find out there's a prophecy about the six rangers, and look, show, you are DOING IT WRONG. What prophecy? You cannot just dump a prophecy on us with no explanation! We are FRUSTRATED. Anyway, Zordon reiterates the three rules of being a Ranger, Billy gives Tommy a communicator, and they do the cheeziest jump into the air thing ever. All is well.
This episode gets four fish, because everything is fixed up really easily and basically deus ex machina solves everything.
Fic people should write us: How does Tommy get introduced to the citizens of Angel Grove as a good guy now? Do people just accept the new Green Ranger or what?
This episode opens with a recap of yes, Tommy is the Green Ranger. Everyone is horrified. We are confused by this, because it isn't like Tommy is actually their friend! They've only known him for two days, and he's been a jackass to them for most of it. But apparently it is nearly enough to make them give up. Somehow Alpha talks them out of it, and they are reminded they are heroes, and that they need to stop Rita from blowing up the Command Center again or taking over the world, not necessarily in that order.
Meanwhile, Rita is having a party on the moon. Rita is amazing. Somehow, footage of this party is shown on tv at the Youth Center, which is in perfect shape and has a crowd, so I guess the people of Angel Grove decided not to abandon the city after all. Ernie tells Kimberly that he's glad the Power Rangers are there, while Bulk and Skull say that people should be thanking them because they helped distract the monsters. We're pretty sure this is going to lead to the first shift in Bulk and Skull's personalities - instead of just being bullies, they are now going to try to be famous. It's a start, and we're glad they're getting some character development.
Kimberly goes and confronts Tommy in the middle of the Youth Center, because that is totally what you should do with an evil Ranger. We're not sure that Kimberly actually understands the concept of under a spell, because telling Tommy that Rita is evil is really not going to help. He knows that, it's part of the spell. SERIOUSLY. Also, major secret identity fail, because they're having this conversation in public, and you would think that someone would react badly in the middle of a crisis situation to hearing someone say that Rita was their empress.
Back at the Command Center, Alpha enters four random digits, which apparently solves all of their problems. Why it took so long to figure that out, we don't know. Kimberly complains to Billy, Zack and Jason about how Tommy really is under a spell, and they all sound really confused, and we are rapidly losing patience with them. Trini runs over to tell them that a monster is attacking, and apparently the show has forgotten that the communicators were fixed.
As we cue a long montage of the sheer awesome that is the Dragon Zord, Zordon comes back and says that the Zords are totally fine, and by the way all you have to do is break Tommy's sword. Seriously? They go, there's a battle, Jason finally gets his hands on Tommy, or rather on the dragonzord as they toss the zord through a mountain. Jason yells at Tommy to watch out, that he's going down, and our minds went firmly to the gutter. Look, we're both adults, but we never said we were particularly mature. Really, this entire miniseries should be subtitled the Jason/Tommy epic. We'd watch that.
Jason jumps out of the megazord and he and Tommy fight, and then Jason shoots the sword of darkness and Tommy demorphs and now everyone really is BFF. Jason tells Tommy it's okay and he's not evil anymore, and he's welcome to the team and all is forgiven. They morph again, and we're suddenly stuck in an episode of Sailor Moon, with everyone yelling about how they're going to defeat the powers of evil. For some reason they form the DragonZord in fighting mode which looks awesome, but we're not really sure WHY they're doing it.
They go back to the Command Center, where we find out there's a prophecy about the six rangers, and look, show, you are DOING IT WRONG. What prophecy? You cannot just dump a prophecy on us with no explanation! We are FRUSTRATED. Anyway, Zordon reiterates the three rules of being a Ranger, Billy gives Tommy a communicator, and they do the cheeziest jump into the air thing ever. All is well.
This episode gets four fish, because everything is fixed up really easily and basically deus ex machina solves everything.
Fic people should write us: How does Tommy get introduced to the citizens of Angel Grove as a good guy now? Do people just accept the new Green Ranger or what?