PR RPM 3: Rain
Got all five RPM figures, with the combining weapon thing. And I don't plan on talking about all the toys... my windowsill's only so big, and my bookshelf's too full of actual books, so I don't have a place for the Zords or anything. There are people who review every figure ever to come out, but... I guess they've got more money and space than I've got.
Anyway, this is the "Full Throttle" set. (The 'full' is important, though: there's a set that's apparently just called 'throttle,' and those are a bit smaller and less detailed. They've got weapons - oversize enough that I don't see how the figures can carry 'em and stand - but I don't know if they combine. Oh, and some shuttle-shaped daggers that you'll become well familiar with later.)
What's funny is, Yellow is so dainty. Usually, the toys for the girl Rangers are 90% like the male ones, but this... somebody stuck a Ranger suit on Barbie. The tiny, high-heeled-ish feet mean she really likes to fall over. And she's got her own, smaller, daintier Nitro Blaster. The 'gas pump' design is improved, with the trigger being a proper squeeze handle, and her finger can actually pull it like a trigger, but she can hold the regular one, and if you want her to hold one in gun mode and one in sword mode like the she did during the fight in Ranger Yellow (say what you will about what they made her backstory, wasn't that one fight awesome?) you'll wanna use one of the normal ones, or the "there's no way this can turn into that!"-ness just screams at you.
Did I mention she falls over? A lot? Could be that the two-weapon thing overbalances her... I've more or less gotten all of them to stand well in poses I like since I first wrote that.
They've also got little belt notches to hold weapons, morphers, etc.
Hey, like I said, every little bit helps. One more toy sale to convince the powers that be that it's profitable does more good than ten obscenity-filled Rangerboard posts.
Anyway... you know what the garage is called? "The Garage."
Summer shows off all the tech, and Dr. K explains about the project from three years ago, and how they discovered a 'grid' connecting all life forces in the universe, and tapping into that really made it hum. Hmmm.
The Doc's got a great sense of drama. While explaining about the bio-suits (actually, the suits have a much longer name that's shortened to 'bio-suit' a time or two.) the lights above them go on one by one, with a 'choom!' sound.
One word in the longer name is "covert," and Dillon says "yeah, nothing says covert like bright red, blue, and yellow spandex."
Dr. K: "THAT! IS! NOT! SPANDEX!"
Guess he's heard that one time too many.
Oh, and Dillon's not the Black Ranger, he's "Ranger Operator Series Black." Let's see 'em fit those designations into the roll call.
Dillon's now deciding he's not cut out of hero-ness. Flynn threatens to lock him back up, but Scott decides to appeal to his ego, saying he's never pass the tests. Works a lot better.
Ranger testing looks like fun. I wanna know how they got that giant boulder in there. The door between the Garage and Dr. K's lab isn't that big...
Meanwhile, Venjix hatches his latest plan to attack the city: The newest attack bot will get in through the waterways. According to the credits, he's called Water Hoser. I guess you can't count on robots to be too creative when it comes to monster naming.
The team shows Dillon around the city, trying to convince him that he's Ranger material, and we get another tidbit of Dillon's past: he tried to save someone once, and it didn't go so well. He's still looking for her.
How much you wanna bet if this was MMPR, the Putties would show up about now just for the heck of it? Of course, Venjix isn't the type to go "hey, the Rangers are in the park, and I'm bored! Let's send some grunts just to ruin their lunch hour!" (Mesogog, on the other hand...)
Now, nothing against random acts of grunt-ness. It was fun, never knowing (or always knowing) when the Putties were gonna show up. Don't know if I mentioned it then, but aside from having Tommy around, they also did a thing or two the way MMPR would've, just to let you know what universe you were still/back in.
Guess they felt there had to be some rain to justify the episode title, 'cause it starts raining now, and Dillon watches kids playing it in, etc. He doesn't seem to be getting wet, now or after the rain has suddenly stopped a few scenes (but no location change) later.
Seriously. There's this "some time passes"-ish cut, but they're still where they were, still having the same conversation. It rained for fifteen seconds.
Dillon agrees, and even busts Ziggy out as a condition.
Scott: "Give me one good reason why we're bringing this guy along?"
Dillon: "He can make shadow puppets."
Bwah! Really, how many seasons would bring that back like this? It's the little things. When they're done wrong, you get SPD: still watchable, it's not like you can't understand what's going on despite all the bad lines...
But when they're right, you don't get a season that's forgivable, not all bad - you get... well, you get Ziggy. And Dillon. The others shouldn't disappoint, either.
But that'll have to wait. Back at the Garage, there's the dramatic morpher bonding sequence, and we watch the suit disappear from its casing before we get a good look at the newly-minted Black Ranger... uh, Ranger Operator Series Black.
Another thing. All this time we see Rangers just summon their gear, as well as their suits, from hammerspace. Much rarer to see where it actually comes from, the armory whose items are constantly vanishing and reappearing.
And then, there's the satisfied way Dr. K announces, "Series Black, online." Anyone else get chills? Or am I that much of a dork?
The main three, on the other hand, do the whole pose thing before morphing, and get a morph scene. We watch their suits disappear from the cases, too.
I'm surprised Ziggy didn't ask if there's a Green operator, and, when the answer is no, if he can have the suit.
Oh, and the black and green morphers are completely different from that of the main three. Theirs are very SPD-ish, right down to the pose being the same (except for moving the slider being replaced with the Engine Cell insertion, and then there's the closeup of pushing a button before you thrust the morpher forward. Other than that... SPD, emergency!)
Dillon's, on the other hand, is your traditional wrist-worn thing. Well, once-traditional. Last time all the Rangers had wrist morphers was DT. Lately, they seem reserved for sixth Rangers, and are generally less tricked-out than those of the main three/five. (Just like this. The gear shift on Dillon's has a few positions, but who knows what all those buttons do on the main morphers?) Green's the same. You can still see it in the case with nobody mentioning it. It may be last year's Green who had an Elephant Zord, but there's definitely a green elephant in this room. Come on, somebody point the extra suit out! Or have Dillon look at his number and say "Five? Who's Four?"
Speaking of numeric-keypad morphers, how come they never come up with a system of codes for each gadget, the way the Lightspeed Battle Boosters - and only the Lightspeed Battle Boosters - had? Mystic Force tried, but the editors couldn't be bothered to keep the buttons pushed consistent with the words they represented. At least Space had a code for morphing, and in Overdrive, you pushed the number of the Zord you were calling. That's... about as good as it gets.
Oh, and don't look now, but the borders between the gloves/boots and the rest of the suit, the wheel-things... the main ones are black, but Dillon's is gold. Just like the belt.
Oh, and for some reason, the Engine Cell that morphs you (which isn't the same as the one used with the Zords and Nitro Blasters) is black for everyone but Flynn's. His is blue. Wonder what that's about. At least, it seems to be in this scene. Website pictures show that there are two versions: green for Green and Black, and blue for Red, Yellow, and Blue.
Love Ziggy's little photo shoot. "Your eyes were closed!" "How can you tell?"
Then he tops that with asking Dr. K, "What's with the spandex?" We next find him cleaning the garage with a toothbrush, and the Doc asking if it would be cliche to point out that he missed a spot. Touchy!
Nice jackets. Sometimes the unmorphed uniforms are cooler than the shiny suits. (These aren't quite that cool, but they're pretty sweet.)
When Scott asks Dillon if he sleeps with the pocketwatch, he says he would if he slept... but it turns out he does sleep! He could mean he is always being woken up by bad dreams like the one he winds up having, or he could be proving Summer right about working at being the dark, mysterious guy. The dream is presumably brief glimpses of the person he's trying to save and whatnot, and he decides he's going to split. In Scott's beloved car.
Y'know... they sure made it sound like unbonding a morpher's a lot tougher than bonding it. His leaving would be *sorta inconvenient.*
Meanwhile, the monster shows up. Did I mention his name is Water Hoser?
And that Hungry Hungry Hippos commercial ([shudders] I do not need to see hippo butt-thrusting...) is the same one I've been seeing since I was, like, 9 or 10. That kid saying "I win!" has got to be pushing 30 in real life by this point, unless due to rights-related reasons, just the one kid whose face we're shown is changed every few years. Just the like "Life" cereal kid has been numerous kids... but is still called Mikey. Even when it's a girl.
Seriously. Mikey is a Time Lord. It's the only explanation.
Anyway. Complete with race car noises, the trio goes to face the monster, and the Grinders he summons between shots.
No, really. We see the monster alone, and pan down to the gunk forming in the water, as he talks about Grinders flooding into the city. With that, we switch back to him... and he's got a few zillion grunts all around him now. Where'd they flood in from? If they'd been behind the Rangers, they'd have attacked from there. Behind Water Hoser, they'd have been obvious coming up long before the monster finished his speech. Water on one side, hedges on the other. And there's no sign of the Venjix army having teleportation ability, and if they had, no teleporty sounds were heard. Where did a gazillion Grinders come from in a fraction of a second?
Gotta love Summer and Flynn's back-to-back attack... do they practice that, or what?
Water Hoser is tougher, though. He stands up to the main weapons without a scratch and makes his escape. His attack, though... he shoots water from his hoses (what with being a water hoser and all) and collects it into a solid projectile.
KALISH IS GONE. WHY DOES WATER EXPLODE IN FLAME?! Even semi-solid water.
Meanwhile, Dillon is trying to time his exit. With Scott's car. Way to show your appreciation.
Water Hoser pops out of the water at giant size. Did Venjix make him grow, or did he pull the water to himself to make a giant version, like Hydro-Man sometimes does?
The shot of giant Water Hoser pretty clearly shows the Statue of Liberty in the background. Guess placing Corinth is a lot easier than some PR cities. (The shot is also clearly sentai footage, with all-Japanese spectators running, despite the whole "statue of liberty" thing. What was going on in Go-Onger?)
In town, the trio faces an SPD-class grunt army. Thing is, for a while, grunt armies were getting bigger and bigger, but not having any more luck against the Rangers. It got to the point where an army this size wouldn't seem like a big deal at all. Five Rinshi hopping in place until they get vaporized, fifty Rinshi hopping in place until they get vaporized... no difference, really. But Grinders have appeared in smaller numbers until now, and today, a million Grinders at once means something. Knee deep in the grunts, they can't get anywhere near the monster.
So they break out the Burst Attacks. And each takes out a bunch of Grinders. And it's still so not enough.
The Burst Attacks are pretty sweet. Each suit gets its own internally-powered trick, no weapons or Engine Cells or anything. I'm pretty sure these weren't in Go-Onger.
Flynn's Time Manipulation Burst has possibilties, for what it could be used for in a story. Will it be limited to slowing down time so Flynn can simulate the Thunder Ranger speedblitz, or...?
Scott's is very Red Ranger-y. Just fire up like a rocket and plow through. Boom!
Summer's... is she bowling, or what? The energy blast from her hands is mostly spherical, rolls along the ground, and blows up the grunts it hits. I'm impressed at their restraint in not adding a bowling pins noise. Not even a faint one way in the background.
Turns out the suits have a finite power supply, and they've pretty much burned through 'em.
Ziggy gets the Doc (who seems to be more bothered by being called that than by the Rangers' situation!) to broadcast the Rangers' communicators to Dillon's radio, so he gets to hear just how desperate things are. And of course, Dillon does return.
Scott's more relieved to know his car is okay. It is pretty cool.
It's too bad they showed the statue of liberty. Would have been cool to leave it as a total mystery as to just where Corinth is. You can't even go by the cars: Scott's, the driver's side is the left, Dillon's, it's the right.
Also, how come the Statue of Liberty is still standing? It's gotta get knocked over in every invasion story. It's the law!
Dillon suits up and goes to work. The powers that be still haven't realized that the slowed-down morph call just doesn't work.
Much better look at the morph sequence. There are three screens the Rangers pass through as they slide through the tunnel: first has the Engine Cell and suit, second has the Nitro Sword and Nitro Blaster, third has helmet and personal weapon. The helmet forms from an image of the Zord.
Dillon goes to fight the Grinders, freeing the main three to get out the Megazord and battle Water Hoser, whose foam is covering a good deal of real estate by now. He's actually tough against the Zords, too, which you don't see every day.
Really, you sometimes have to wonder the point of making the monster grow - half the time, the monster was doing pretty well at human size, but once the giant-size battle starts, it lasts all of ten seconds. This one's the exception to the rule, though.
It's too bad Dillon doesn't get to fight the monster. While he's going through your pretty standard grunt battle, with a few extra Ranger's-first-fight tricks, the main three are trying to hold up a bridge with the Megazord so everyone stuck there can cross, and being totally vulnerable. Once they're free, they decide to let Water Hoser see how he likes being tied to a bridge. Another Turbo Megazord Spinout without the spin, and another attack bot goes to the scrap heap.
Scott: "Ranger Black, give me a status update - now!"
Dillon: "I'll be fine."
Scott: "No, I mean give me a status update on my car!"
Dillon: "Ranger Black... out. [Signs off]"
Poor Scott. You just know - KNOW - that there is no way that Scott's car is going to survive the series. It's going to be crushed, blown up, sent off a cliff, or all three. That car's days are numbered.
But, it survives for the moment.
I'd meant to do these once a week like before but that doesn't seem to be working so well. I think I'm going to skip to more recent episodes and then fill in the blanks. Coming soon, Embodied... coming eventually, Handshake. Coming when I feel more motivated, a real entry. [Shrug]
Anyway, this is the "Full Throttle" set. (The 'full' is important, though: there's a set that's apparently just called 'throttle,' and those are a bit smaller and less detailed. They've got weapons - oversize enough that I don't see how the figures can carry 'em and stand - but I don't know if they combine. Oh, and some shuttle-shaped daggers that you'll become well familiar with later.)
What's funny is, Yellow is so dainty. Usually, the toys for the girl Rangers are 90% like the male ones, but this... somebody stuck a Ranger suit on Barbie. The tiny, high-heeled-ish feet mean she really likes to fall over. And she's got her own, smaller, daintier Nitro Blaster. The 'gas pump' design is improved, with the trigger being a proper squeeze handle, and her finger can actually pull it like a trigger, but she can hold the regular one, and if you want her to hold one in gun mode and one in sword mode like the she did during the fight in Ranger Yellow (say what you will about what they made her backstory, wasn't that one fight awesome?) you'll wanna use one of the normal ones, or the "there's no way this can turn into that!"-ness just screams at you.
Did I mention she falls over? A lot? Could be that the two-weapon thing overbalances her... I've more or less gotten all of them to stand well in poses I like since I first wrote that.
They've also got little belt notches to hold weapons, morphers, etc.
Hey, like I said, every little bit helps. One more toy sale to convince the powers that be that it's profitable does more good than ten obscenity-filled Rangerboard posts.
Anyway... you know what the garage is called? "The Garage."
Summer shows off all the tech, and Dr. K explains about the project from three years ago, and how they discovered a 'grid' connecting all life forces in the universe, and tapping into that really made it hum. Hmmm.
The Doc's got a great sense of drama. While explaining about the bio-suits (actually, the suits have a much longer name that's shortened to 'bio-suit' a time or two.) the lights above them go on one by one, with a 'choom!' sound.
One word in the longer name is "covert," and Dillon says "yeah, nothing says covert like bright red, blue, and yellow spandex."
Dr. K: "THAT! IS! NOT! SPANDEX!"
Guess he's heard that one time too many.
Oh, and Dillon's not the Black Ranger, he's "Ranger Operator Series Black." Let's see 'em fit those designations into the roll call.
Dillon's now deciding he's not cut out of hero-ness. Flynn threatens to lock him back up, but Scott decides to appeal to his ego, saying he's never pass the tests. Works a lot better.
Ranger testing looks like fun. I wanna know how they got that giant boulder in there. The door between the Garage and Dr. K's lab isn't that big...
Meanwhile, Venjix hatches his latest plan to attack the city: The newest attack bot will get in through the waterways. According to the credits, he's called Water Hoser. I guess you can't count on robots to be too creative when it comes to monster naming.
The team shows Dillon around the city, trying to convince him that he's Ranger material, and we get another tidbit of Dillon's past: he tried to save someone once, and it didn't go so well. He's still looking for her.
How much you wanna bet if this was MMPR, the Putties would show up about now just for the heck of it? Of course, Venjix isn't the type to go "hey, the Rangers are in the park, and I'm bored! Let's send some grunts just to ruin their lunch hour!" (Mesogog, on the other hand...)
Now, nothing against random acts of grunt-ness. It was fun, never knowing (or always knowing) when the Putties were gonna show up. Don't know if I mentioned it then, but aside from having Tommy around, they also did a thing or two the way MMPR would've, just to let you know what universe you were still/back in.
Guess they felt there had to be some rain to justify the episode title, 'cause it starts raining now, and Dillon watches kids playing it in, etc. He doesn't seem to be getting wet, now or after the rain has suddenly stopped a few scenes (but no location change) later.
Seriously. There's this "some time passes"-ish cut, but they're still where they were, still having the same conversation. It rained for fifteen seconds.
Dillon agrees, and even busts Ziggy out as a condition.
Scott: "Give me one good reason why we're bringing this guy along?"
Dillon: "He can make shadow puppets."
Bwah! Really, how many seasons would bring that back like this? It's the little things. When they're done wrong, you get SPD: still watchable, it's not like you can't understand what's going on despite all the bad lines...
But when they're right, you don't get a season that's forgivable, not all bad - you get... well, you get Ziggy. And Dillon. The others shouldn't disappoint, either.
But that'll have to wait. Back at the Garage, there's the dramatic morpher bonding sequence, and we watch the suit disappear from its casing before we get a good look at the newly-minted Black Ranger... uh, Ranger Operator Series Black.
Another thing. All this time we see Rangers just summon their gear, as well as their suits, from hammerspace. Much rarer to see where it actually comes from, the armory whose items are constantly vanishing and reappearing.
And then, there's the satisfied way Dr. K announces, "Series Black, online." Anyone else get chills? Or am I that much of a dork?
The main three, on the other hand, do the whole pose thing before morphing, and get a morph scene. We watch their suits disappear from the cases, too.
I'm surprised Ziggy didn't ask if there's a Green operator, and, when the answer is no, if he can have the suit.
Oh, and the black and green morphers are completely different from that of the main three. Theirs are very SPD-ish, right down to the pose being the same (except for moving the slider being replaced with the Engine Cell insertion, and then there's the closeup of pushing a button before you thrust the morpher forward. Other than that... SPD, emergency!)
Dillon's, on the other hand, is your traditional wrist-worn thing. Well, once-traditional. Last time all the Rangers had wrist morphers was DT. Lately, they seem reserved for sixth Rangers, and are generally less tricked-out than those of the main three/five. (Just like this. The gear shift on Dillon's has a few positions, but who knows what all those buttons do on the main morphers?) Green's the same. You can still see it in the case with nobody mentioning it. It may be last year's Green who had an Elephant Zord, but there's definitely a green elephant in this room. Come on, somebody point the extra suit out! Or have Dillon look at his number and say "Five? Who's Four?"
Speaking of numeric-keypad morphers, how come they never come up with a system of codes for each gadget, the way the Lightspeed Battle Boosters - and only the Lightspeed Battle Boosters - had? Mystic Force tried, but the editors couldn't be bothered to keep the buttons pushed consistent with the words they represented. At least Space had a code for morphing, and in Overdrive, you pushed the number of the Zord you were calling. That's... about as good as it gets.
Oh, and don't look now, but the borders between the gloves/boots and the rest of the suit, the wheel-things... the main ones are black, but Dillon's is gold. Just like the belt.
Oh, and for some reason, the Engine Cell that morphs you (which isn't the same as the one used with the Zords and Nitro Blasters) is black for everyone but Flynn's. His is blue. Wonder what that's about. At least, it seems to be in this scene. Website pictures show that there are two versions: green for Green and Black, and blue for Red, Yellow, and Blue.
Love Ziggy's little photo shoot. "Your eyes were closed!" "How can you tell?"
Then he tops that with asking Dr. K, "What's with the spandex?" We next find him cleaning the garage with a toothbrush, and the Doc asking if it would be cliche to point out that he missed a spot. Touchy!
Nice jackets. Sometimes the unmorphed uniforms are cooler than the shiny suits. (These aren't quite that cool, but they're pretty sweet.)
When Scott asks Dillon if he sleeps with the pocketwatch, he says he would if he slept... but it turns out he does sleep! He could mean he is always being woken up by bad dreams like the one he winds up having, or he could be proving Summer right about working at being the dark, mysterious guy. The dream is presumably brief glimpses of the person he's trying to save and whatnot, and he decides he's going to split. In Scott's beloved car.
Y'know... they sure made it sound like unbonding a morpher's a lot tougher than bonding it. His leaving would be *sorta inconvenient.*
Meanwhile, the monster shows up. Did I mention his name is Water Hoser?
And that Hungry Hungry Hippos commercial ([shudders] I do not need to see hippo butt-thrusting...) is the same one I've been seeing since I was, like, 9 or 10. That kid saying "I win!" has got to be pushing 30 in real life by this point, unless due to rights-related reasons, just the one kid whose face we're shown is changed every few years. Just the like "Life" cereal kid has been numerous kids... but is still called Mikey. Even when it's a girl.
Seriously. Mikey is a Time Lord. It's the only explanation.
Anyway. Complete with race car noises, the trio goes to face the monster, and the Grinders he summons between shots.
No, really. We see the monster alone, and pan down to the gunk forming in the water, as he talks about Grinders flooding into the city. With that, we switch back to him... and he's got a few zillion grunts all around him now. Where'd they flood in from? If they'd been behind the Rangers, they'd have attacked from there. Behind Water Hoser, they'd have been obvious coming up long before the monster finished his speech. Water on one side, hedges on the other. And there's no sign of the Venjix army having teleportation ability, and if they had, no teleporty sounds were heard. Where did a gazillion Grinders come from in a fraction of a second?
Gotta love Summer and Flynn's back-to-back attack... do they practice that, or what?
Water Hoser is tougher, though. He stands up to the main weapons without a scratch and makes his escape. His attack, though... he shoots water from his hoses (what with being a water hoser and all) and collects it into a solid projectile.
KALISH IS GONE. WHY DOES WATER EXPLODE IN FLAME?! Even semi-solid water.
Meanwhile, Dillon is trying to time his exit. With Scott's car. Way to show your appreciation.
Water Hoser pops out of the water at giant size. Did Venjix make him grow, or did he pull the water to himself to make a giant version, like Hydro-Man sometimes does?
The shot of giant Water Hoser pretty clearly shows the Statue of Liberty in the background. Guess placing Corinth is a lot easier than some PR cities. (The shot is also clearly sentai footage, with all-Japanese spectators running, despite the whole "statue of liberty" thing. What was going on in Go-Onger?)
In town, the trio faces an SPD-class grunt army. Thing is, for a while, grunt armies were getting bigger and bigger, but not having any more luck against the Rangers. It got to the point where an army this size wouldn't seem like a big deal at all. Five Rinshi hopping in place until they get vaporized, fifty Rinshi hopping in place until they get vaporized... no difference, really. But Grinders have appeared in smaller numbers until now, and today, a million Grinders at once means something. Knee deep in the grunts, they can't get anywhere near the monster.
So they break out the Burst Attacks. And each takes out a bunch of Grinders. And it's still so not enough.
The Burst Attacks are pretty sweet. Each suit gets its own internally-powered trick, no weapons or Engine Cells or anything. I'm pretty sure these weren't in Go-Onger.
Flynn's Time Manipulation Burst has possibilties, for what it could be used for in a story. Will it be limited to slowing down time so Flynn can simulate the Thunder Ranger speedblitz, or...?
Scott's is very Red Ranger-y. Just fire up like a rocket and plow through. Boom!
Summer's... is she bowling, or what? The energy blast from her hands is mostly spherical, rolls along the ground, and blows up the grunts it hits. I'm impressed at their restraint in not adding a bowling pins noise. Not even a faint one way in the background.
Turns out the suits have a finite power supply, and they've pretty much burned through 'em.
Ziggy gets the Doc (who seems to be more bothered by being called that than by the Rangers' situation!) to broadcast the Rangers' communicators to Dillon's radio, so he gets to hear just how desperate things are. And of course, Dillon does return.
Scott's more relieved to know his car is okay. It is pretty cool.
It's too bad they showed the statue of liberty. Would have been cool to leave it as a total mystery as to just where Corinth is. You can't even go by the cars: Scott's, the driver's side is the left, Dillon's, it's the right.
Also, how come the Statue of Liberty is still standing? It's gotta get knocked over in every invasion story. It's the law!
Dillon suits up and goes to work. The powers that be still haven't realized that the slowed-down morph call just doesn't work.
Much better look at the morph sequence. There are three screens the Rangers pass through as they slide through the tunnel: first has the Engine Cell and suit, second has the Nitro Sword and Nitro Blaster, third has helmet and personal weapon. The helmet forms from an image of the Zord.
Dillon goes to fight the Grinders, freeing the main three to get out the Megazord and battle Water Hoser, whose foam is covering a good deal of real estate by now. He's actually tough against the Zords, too, which you don't see every day.
Really, you sometimes have to wonder the point of making the monster grow - half the time, the monster was doing pretty well at human size, but once the giant-size battle starts, it lasts all of ten seconds. This one's the exception to the rule, though.
It's too bad Dillon doesn't get to fight the monster. While he's going through your pretty standard grunt battle, with a few extra Ranger's-first-fight tricks, the main three are trying to hold up a bridge with the Megazord so everyone stuck there can cross, and being totally vulnerable. Once they're free, they decide to let Water Hoser see how he likes being tied to a bridge. Another Turbo Megazord Spinout without the spin, and another attack bot goes to the scrap heap.
Scott: "Ranger Black, give me a status update - now!"
Dillon: "I'll be fine."
Scott: "No, I mean give me a status update on my car!"
Dillon: "Ranger Black... out. [Signs off]"
Poor Scott. You just know - KNOW - that there is no way that Scott's car is going to survive the series. It's going to be crushed, blown up, sent off a cliff, or all three. That car's days are numbered.
But, it survives for the moment.
I'd meant to do these once a week like before but that doesn't seem to be working so well. I think I'm going to skip to more recent episodes and then fill in the blanks. Coming soon, Embodied... coming eventually, Handshake. Coming when I feel more motivated, a real entry. [Shrug]