Ranger Green
So yeah, gonna go ahead and finish these. And likely in order.
Uh-oh, it’s a Ziggy solo episode. This oughta be something to see.
The Zig-ster’s playing around with a gun that looks Beetleborgs-esque, though it’s not an item I distinctly remember. Of course, it could just have parts from an existing prop.
And yes. Ziggy. Playing with Ranger-class guns. If anyone wants me, I’ll be in the nearest bomb shelter.
The vertically challenged Doc pops out from behind a computer and tells him not to play with her sonic cannon. She’s still no fonder of Ziggy than before. Ziggy can only respond “I thought you’d be a dude.”
Maybe Ziggy and the Doc will be even more of a fun duo than Ziggy and Dillon.
See, I’m not a heavy ‘shipper.’ There are some pairings that do appeal to me, but “they should totally shag” is far from my first thought when two characters happen to wind up in the same room twice.
In fact, often, when two characters have a certain chemistry, the last thing anyone needs is for them to cease behaving the way they did to make us interested in them in favor of acting couply. The fans of “Who’s The Boss” found that out the hard way when Tony and Angela got together and started being significantly less interesting.
So, no, by ‘fun duo,’ I don’t mean Ziggy and Doctor K would be fun to see acting all sappy. I mean they’re awesome being exactly the way they are right here, right now, and it’ll be great to see more.
Turns out the suit’s got a teleportation gadget. No word on whether or not it’s mentally directed like the shield. If this guy has to focus to make it work, he’s in trouble.
Maybe that’s why when Ziggy activates it, only his boots reappear. Ziggy’s still standing where he was... wearing only his helmet and his boxers.
Ziggy starts to go into a flashback sequence, his helmet going somewhere between shots. Failing tests is a habit of his.
In the style of the show’s title appearing in the first episode, we get the CHOOM! sound with the words “Ranger Green.” Unfortunately, this won’t stick. Wouldn’t it be an awesome way for all titles to be introduced this year?
Dude. The mob won’t take you if you can’t drive properly?
Anyway, we get to see when Ziggy first signs on with Fresno Bob. Turns out it’s also Judgment Day.
Ziggy tells that what he lacks in size and strength (K adds a ton of other qualities, of course, including leadership and good sense), he’ll make up for with heart.
Ziggy totally thinks he’s a Red Ranger.
There’s this cute scene where Flynn’s looking up at the screen as he talks to her, then apologizes to K, saying he’s used to her being up there. I totally missed that the first time.
Monster of the week: Magnet monster number ten million and three.
The monster’s at the central computer banks, which would be a devastating place to send a magnet monster. Unfortunately for the bad guys, Magnet Bot would rather make stuff move around for just for the lulz.
Seriously. He can laugh with that weird warbling sound he makes.
Ziggy accidentally beams himself right out of the fight!
These Rangers think on their feet more in combat than some. Once their guns get magnetized, they think to change them guns to staff mode (okay, sword if you must, but swords, last I checked, were sharp.) and ram him once they’re pulled toward him.
What, the monster’s walking away already?
They really ought to give the bad guys teleportation ability and just say shield blocks getting in most of the time. Every two episodes, a bad guy is just allowed to walk away. Surely there’s no way the walking magnet plans to go and fry the whole city’s computer network the second he’s out of sight. You’d think that once they got the upper hand, they’d blow him to smithereens, then blow those smithereens to even smaller smithereens to make real sure there’ll be no “psych! Not dead, me get big now!” moment. Yes, even to Tenaya , as cute as she is. (Not that she should be removed from the series... I’m just saying the Rangers could try to stop her from leaving.)
Ooh. Wouldn’t it be cool if Tenaya got to do a Zord fight? 30 stories of killer robot vs 30 stories of snark.
Poor Zords. It’d be no contest.
Ziggy beamed into a bank vault! And so now he’s right back where he spent half of episode two: jail. And Colonel Truman is probably not impressed by shadow puppets. They wanna give him the boot because they’ve learned of his checkered history. Truman and company, not the shadow puppets.
Flashback ahoy. Whoa, that’s a Jungle Karma Pizza! However, the front of it looks nothing like the one from Jungle Fury, so no, RJ isn’t being muscled by non-powered thugs. Kalish era, it’d definitely be the same pizza parlor.
Ziggy has to collect from an orphanage whose kids are all sick. Illness going around town, or is it beacuse of what Venjix did to the air quality outside?
Wha? Summer and Dillon can just walk in to talk to Fresno Bob? I guess Colonel Truman doesn’t have anything to do with the police force, if they have much of one.
He tells the story of how Ziggy was supposed to take a truck filled with valuable goods, but kept it for himself. That’s the reason every criminal in town wants him dead.
Oh, we add a new death euphemism to the vast lexicon: they actually want him “ghosted.” It’ll have to be in use for a while before we can determine how final having been ghosted is. Less dead than “disappeared,” or even deader than “lost?”
“All that power, all that responsibility...”
Hah! Tell me a mob boss did not just quote Spider-Man. Then again, if anyone laughs at him about it, he’ll probably have them... ghosted.
Dillon sticks up for the Zig-ster, of course.
Scott and Flynn have caught up with the Magnet Bot, and are having metal stuff chucked at them.
Aw, c’mon, throw the Grinders at them!
At one point, the ‘bot magnetizes the guns to pull Scott and Flynn to him, and then whacks them. Now, whenever someone gets hit in the head in sentai, it’s typically replaced with a body blow (pre-Kalish era) or a blow that misses by a couple light years in extreme slow-mo, with optional distant explosion (last few years.) But I swear, the Magnet Bot hits Scott right in the face, and none of thise looks like sentai footage. (Of course, in a few series, it’s reeeeally hard to tell. I’ve been pretty good about telling it apart for RPM, though, from the ones I’ve watched.)
Hmm. His hands may have been in the way. And maybe they didn’t mean to do it and just left it in.
Oh, there’s an exslowsion. However, it results from a hit hard enough to demorph them, something not seen often in RPM.
And the demorph appears to be just shiny-then-not-morphed instead of something more elaborate. Works for RPM.
Let’s see the actors show off their mad wire-fu skillz! They’re able to remorph all too soon.
Dr. K. is going to be my favorite character, perhaps, even above Ziggy. “I’m a little busy saving the human race now.” “It’s important! Can you come outside and talk?” “I don’t go outside.” “When?” “Ever.”
Just what are they using to make the monster’s voice, anyway?
While K talks to one of Ziggy’s mob buddies, we do the usual “Dillon plays with grunts while starting three use Zords.” I keep starting to say “main three,” but it’s clear who the main two really are. And the Megazord’s weapon gets magnetized right out of its hands. Bwah! No sword for you!
“Benny” reveals the real reason Ziggy took the truck: it had medical supplies that he gave to the orphanage from before. And that Fresno Bob and company are going to make an example of him.
HOW did Fresno Bob get Ziggy out of the jail?
No, seriously, how?
I still like Fresno Bob. He’s all fatherly, still. Even as he’s ordering Ziggy’s untimely demi... uh, ghosting.
Then Dr. K comes in like the angel of death.
No, seriously. The white robe that doesn’t show her face, that ‘sliding’ effect as she comes in... that is awesome. She’s brandishing the untested new cannon. One shot leaves the thugs... in their underwear. The second sends them flying.
And she can only sigh as she finds him behind the counter eating a muffin or something.
Dillon using the magnet from the junkyard was a nice bit of irony.
And now we get the green Zord’s big moment and what really should have been its introduction. It gets in a few licks before combining. New spinning slash finish! Dillon’s zord is in there, too, but just for a second.
They could use a post-finishing phrase. Something about this scene just calls for a “Checkmate!”
At the end, Ziggy’s trying to convince the Doc that they’re friends, on the grounds that she actually went outside, for his sake. The next teleport burst leaves him in the rafters, as K says “We’re in a dome. It doesn’t count.”
Well, at least he managed to keep his clothes on this time. Whether that’s good or bad news is up to you.
In other (fandom) news...
Turtles Forever was a lot of fun, though I don’t recall the old-school TMNT being quite that goofy, or Leonardo's voice being anywhere near that deep. According to Wikipedia, Nickelodeon now has the TMNT franchise, which means whatever’s next for it will likely be on Nicktoons, which means I probably won’t be seeing it. Don’t have the kind of money to go to the next package up. Bad enough having to watch the new X-Men series one three-episode disk at a time.
Kamen Rider... dude. I can’t imagine what’s going to happen from here, and that’s a good sign. And what are the likes of Drew and JTC gonna do if they get sprung? And who’s going to be Onyx? (Where does the second Advent Deck come from, anyway? Though a better question is, where the *smeg* does the second *dragon* come from? An even better question... where did any of the Advent Beasts come from, come to think of it?)
And WHEN WILL WE SEE SIREN'S FINAL VENT?
And Heroes... the new season is genuinely good. Not quite as amazing as the first, not yet, but... after the mangled mess that was last year, with no writers’ strike to excuse it like season two, I’d started to wonder if season one was a one-off fluke. I didn’t think they’d ever again rise above the “well, it’s my habit to watch TV with dinner, so I’ll have this on and look up whenever there’s a Hiro and Ando scene” level. But they’re doing much, much better.
Oh, and speaking of Hiro (only barely - “Scotty, beam me up” as a post-brain-fry non-sequitur”) why does everyone remember “Scotty, beam me up?” It’s not like Scotty does a lot of beaming! He’s the chief engineer - the guy who keeps the ship from blowing up. He’s got more important things to do than routine transporter operation, and is seldom seen in the transporter room unless something is going wrong (like, you’ve gotta beam through one of those fuzzy send-you-to-another-dimension clouds.)
Seriously. When I first watched the original Trek series, I waited and waited and WAITED for the famed Scotty-beam-me-up catchphrase. I thought they said it every *day.*
The actual transporter operator was a guy named Kyle. Just Kyle. So thankless is the role of pushing those three levers that he doesn’t even merit a first name. He’s called John Kyle in some books and Winston Kyle in others because John Winston is his *actor.* He never got a first name!
He does this every single week, and yet nobody says “Kyle, beam me up.” (Or better yet, the *actual* oft-used transporter command, which is “[Number] to beam up. Energize.”)
Come on, people, Mr. Kyle deserves some credit! His job in life is to just *stand there* until someone needs the transporter, and then pull three levers! On special occasions, he gets to set it for a time delay by pressing one additional button! Seriously, somebody give this guy a hug. Whatever your job is... you don’t just stand there hour after hour, day after day, waiting for someone to need the transporter. (It's a long time between stops on a starship!) And you likely have a minimum of two names. He deserves to be remembered.
Scotty saves the ship almost every single week, and is known as a miracle worker! Routine transporter operation is the one thing he doesn’t do! Don’t take the one thing poor, poor Kyle does away from him!
Sad that Stargate Universe has little to nothing in common with SG-1 and SGA. Seldom leaving the ship and leaping right into the wangst before we’re given a reason to care about any of these people (except Dr. Rush.)... and they know it, or they wouldn’t have felt the need to throw in the pointless sex scene in the premiere. Of the five episodes I’ve seen - counting the premiere as one - only one (the one with the recordings from the future, and the disease) made me feel like I was watching Stargate. (I have a five-episode rule, though I can’t remember if it’s supposed to be five or three.) Anyway, I don’t think I’m going to be watching any more... at least, not for a while. They can’t sit around having essentially the same conversations over and over forever and stay on the air, so... let’s try this again in mid-season two or thereabouts. If I feel like it.
Chuck is coming back! Woo-hoo!
Uh-oh, it’s a Ziggy solo episode. This oughta be something to see.
The Zig-ster’s playing around with a gun that looks Beetleborgs-esque, though it’s not an item I distinctly remember. Of course, it could just have parts from an existing prop.
And yes. Ziggy. Playing with Ranger-class guns. If anyone wants me, I’ll be in the nearest bomb shelter.
The vertically challenged Doc pops out from behind a computer and tells him not to play with her sonic cannon. She’s still no fonder of Ziggy than before. Ziggy can only respond “I thought you’d be a dude.”
Maybe Ziggy and the Doc will be even more of a fun duo than Ziggy and Dillon.
See, I’m not a heavy ‘shipper.’ There are some pairings that do appeal to me, but “they should totally shag” is far from my first thought when two characters happen to wind up in the same room twice.
In fact, often, when two characters have a certain chemistry, the last thing anyone needs is for them to cease behaving the way they did to make us interested in them in favor of acting couply. The fans of “Who’s The Boss” found that out the hard way when Tony and Angela got together and started being significantly less interesting.
So, no, by ‘fun duo,’ I don’t mean Ziggy and Doctor K would be fun to see acting all sappy. I mean they’re awesome being exactly the way they are right here, right now, and it’ll be great to see more.
Turns out the suit’s got a teleportation gadget. No word on whether or not it’s mentally directed like the shield. If this guy has to focus to make it work, he’s in trouble.
Maybe that’s why when Ziggy activates it, only his boots reappear. Ziggy’s still standing where he was... wearing only his helmet and his boxers.
Ziggy starts to go into a flashback sequence, his helmet going somewhere between shots. Failing tests is a habit of his.
In the style of the show’s title appearing in the first episode, we get the CHOOM! sound with the words “Ranger Green.” Unfortunately, this won’t stick. Wouldn’t it be an awesome way for all titles to be introduced this year?
Dude. The mob won’t take you if you can’t drive properly?
Anyway, we get to see when Ziggy first signs on with Fresno Bob. Turns out it’s also Judgment Day.
Ziggy tells that what he lacks in size and strength (K adds a ton of other qualities, of course, including leadership and good sense), he’ll make up for with heart.
Ziggy totally thinks he’s a Red Ranger.
There’s this cute scene where Flynn’s looking up at the screen as he talks to her, then apologizes to K, saying he’s used to her being up there. I totally missed that the first time.
Monster of the week: Magnet monster number ten million and three.
The monster’s at the central computer banks, which would be a devastating place to send a magnet monster. Unfortunately for the bad guys, Magnet Bot would rather make stuff move around for just for the lulz.
Seriously. He can laugh with that weird warbling sound he makes.
Ziggy accidentally beams himself right out of the fight!
These Rangers think on their feet more in combat than some. Once their guns get magnetized, they think to change them guns to staff mode (okay, sword if you must, but swords, last I checked, were sharp.) and ram him once they’re pulled toward him.
What, the monster’s walking away already?
They really ought to give the bad guys teleportation ability and just say shield blocks getting in most of the time. Every two episodes, a bad guy is just allowed to walk away. Surely there’s no way the walking magnet plans to go and fry the whole city’s computer network the second he’s out of sight. You’d think that once they got the upper hand, they’d blow him to smithereens, then blow those smithereens to even smaller smithereens to make real sure there’ll be no “psych! Not dead, me get big now!” moment. Yes, even to Tenaya , as cute as she is. (Not that she should be removed from the series... I’m just saying the Rangers could try to stop her from leaving.)
Ooh. Wouldn’t it be cool if Tenaya got to do a Zord fight? 30 stories of killer robot vs 30 stories of snark.
Poor Zords. It’d be no contest.
Ziggy beamed into a bank vault! And so now he’s right back where he spent half of episode two: jail. And Colonel Truman is probably not impressed by shadow puppets. They wanna give him the boot because they’ve learned of his checkered history. Truman and company, not the shadow puppets.
Flashback ahoy. Whoa, that’s a Jungle Karma Pizza! However, the front of it looks nothing like the one from Jungle Fury, so no, RJ isn’t being muscled by non-powered thugs. Kalish era, it’d definitely be the same pizza parlor.
Ziggy has to collect from an orphanage whose kids are all sick. Illness going around town, or is it beacuse of what Venjix did to the air quality outside?
Wha? Summer and Dillon can just walk in to talk to Fresno Bob? I guess Colonel Truman doesn’t have anything to do with the police force, if they have much of one.
He tells the story of how Ziggy was supposed to take a truck filled with valuable goods, but kept it for himself. That’s the reason every criminal in town wants him dead.
Oh, we add a new death euphemism to the vast lexicon: they actually want him “ghosted.” It’ll have to be in use for a while before we can determine how final having been ghosted is. Less dead than “disappeared,” or even deader than “lost?”
“All that power, all that responsibility...”
Hah! Tell me a mob boss did not just quote Spider-Man. Then again, if anyone laughs at him about it, he’ll probably have them... ghosted.
Dillon sticks up for the Zig-ster, of course.
Scott and Flynn have caught up with the Magnet Bot, and are having metal stuff chucked at them.
Aw, c’mon, throw the Grinders at them!
At one point, the ‘bot magnetizes the guns to pull Scott and Flynn to him, and then whacks them. Now, whenever someone gets hit in the head in sentai, it’s typically replaced with a body blow (pre-Kalish era) or a blow that misses by a couple light years in extreme slow-mo, with optional distant explosion (last few years.) But I swear, the Magnet Bot hits Scott right in the face, and none of thise looks like sentai footage. (Of course, in a few series, it’s reeeeally hard to tell. I’ve been pretty good about telling it apart for RPM, though, from the ones I’ve watched.)
Hmm. His hands may have been in the way. And maybe they didn’t mean to do it and just left it in.
Oh, there’s an exslowsion. However, it results from a hit hard enough to demorph them, something not seen often in RPM.
And the demorph appears to be just shiny-then-not-morphed instead of something more elaborate. Works for RPM.
Let’s see the actors show off their mad wire-fu skillz! They’re able to remorph all too soon.
Dr. K. is going to be my favorite character, perhaps, even above Ziggy. “I’m a little busy saving the human race now.” “It’s important! Can you come outside and talk?” “I don’t go outside.” “When?” “Ever.”
Just what are they using to make the monster’s voice, anyway?
While K talks to one of Ziggy’s mob buddies, we do the usual “Dillon plays with grunts while starting three use Zords.” I keep starting to say “main three,” but it’s clear who the main two really are. And the Megazord’s weapon gets magnetized right out of its hands. Bwah! No sword for you!
“Benny” reveals the real reason Ziggy took the truck: it had medical supplies that he gave to the orphanage from before. And that Fresno Bob and company are going to make an example of him.
HOW did Fresno Bob get Ziggy out of the jail?
No, seriously, how?
I still like Fresno Bob. He’s all fatherly, still. Even as he’s ordering Ziggy’s untimely demi... uh, ghosting.
Then Dr. K comes in like the angel of death.
No, seriously. The white robe that doesn’t show her face, that ‘sliding’ effect as she comes in... that is awesome. She’s brandishing the untested new cannon. One shot leaves the thugs... in their underwear. The second sends them flying.
And she can only sigh as she finds him behind the counter eating a muffin or something.
Dillon using the magnet from the junkyard was a nice bit of irony.
And now we get the green Zord’s big moment and what really should have been its introduction. It gets in a few licks before combining. New spinning slash finish! Dillon’s zord is in there, too, but just for a second.
They could use a post-finishing phrase. Something about this scene just calls for a “Checkmate!”
At the end, Ziggy’s trying to convince the Doc that they’re friends, on the grounds that she actually went outside, for his sake. The next teleport burst leaves him in the rafters, as K says “We’re in a dome. It doesn’t count.”
Well, at least he managed to keep his clothes on this time. Whether that’s good or bad news is up to you.
In other (fandom) news...
Turtles Forever was a lot of fun, though I don’t recall the old-school TMNT being quite that goofy, or Leonardo's voice being anywhere near that deep. According to Wikipedia, Nickelodeon now has the TMNT franchise, which means whatever’s next for it will likely be on Nicktoons, which means I probably won’t be seeing it. Don’t have the kind of money to go to the next package up. Bad enough having to watch the new X-Men series one three-episode disk at a time.
Kamen Rider... dude. I can’t imagine what’s going to happen from here, and that’s a good sign. And what are the likes of Drew and JTC gonna do if they get sprung? And who’s going to be Onyx? (Where does the second Advent Deck come from, anyway? Though a better question is, where the *smeg* does the second *dragon* come from? An even better question... where did any of the Advent Beasts come from, come to think of it?)
And WHEN WILL WE SEE SIREN'S FINAL VENT?
And Heroes... the new season is genuinely good. Not quite as amazing as the first, not yet, but... after the mangled mess that was last year, with no writers’ strike to excuse it like season two, I’d started to wonder if season one was a one-off fluke. I didn’t think they’d ever again rise above the “well, it’s my habit to watch TV with dinner, so I’ll have this on and look up whenever there’s a Hiro and Ando scene” level. But they’re doing much, much better.
Oh, and speaking of Hiro (only barely - “Scotty, beam me up” as a post-brain-fry non-sequitur”) why does everyone remember “Scotty, beam me up?” It’s not like Scotty does a lot of beaming! He’s the chief engineer - the guy who keeps the ship from blowing up. He’s got more important things to do than routine transporter operation, and is seldom seen in the transporter room unless something is going wrong (like, you’ve gotta beam through one of those fuzzy send-you-to-another-dimension clouds.)
Seriously. When I first watched the original Trek series, I waited and waited and WAITED for the famed Scotty-beam-me-up catchphrase. I thought they said it every *day.*
The actual transporter operator was a guy named Kyle. Just Kyle. So thankless is the role of pushing those three levers that he doesn’t even merit a first name. He’s called John Kyle in some books and Winston Kyle in others because John Winston is his *actor.* He never got a first name!
He does this every single week, and yet nobody says “Kyle, beam me up.” (Or better yet, the *actual* oft-used transporter command, which is “[Number] to beam up. Energize.”)
Come on, people, Mr. Kyle deserves some credit! His job in life is to just *stand there* until someone needs the transporter, and then pull three levers! On special occasions, he gets to set it for a time delay by pressing one additional button! Seriously, somebody give this guy a hug. Whatever your job is... you don’t just stand there hour after hour, day after day, waiting for someone to need the transporter. (It's a long time between stops on a starship!) And you likely have a minimum of two names. He deserves to be remembered.
Scotty saves the ship almost every single week, and is known as a miracle worker! Routine transporter operation is the one thing he doesn’t do! Don’t take the one thing poor, poor Kyle does away from him!
Sad that Stargate Universe has little to nothing in common with SG-1 and SGA. Seldom leaving the ship and leaping right into the wangst before we’re given a reason to care about any of these people (except Dr. Rush.)... and they know it, or they wouldn’t have felt the need to throw in the pointless sex scene in the premiere. Of the five episodes I’ve seen - counting the premiere as one - only one (the one with the recordings from the future, and the disease) made me feel like I was watching Stargate. (I have a five-episode rule, though I can’t remember if it’s supposed to be five or three.) Anyway, I don’t think I’m going to be watching any more... at least, not for a while. They can’t sit around having essentially the same conversations over and over forever and stay on the air, so... let’s try this again in mid-season two or thereabouts. If I feel like it.
Chuck is coming back! Woo-hoo!