Saturday, May 2, 2009

Power Rangers RPM - Episode 10 - "Ranger Blue"

Episode Summary:

Dr. K lets the five Rangers ask her questions about the suits, vehicles and gear, they are timid at first but when she says 'say something or forever hold your peace'... probably inspired from last week's wedding, they all raise their hands and ask questions all American fans have probably been asking... The eyes of the zords, the explosions after they morph and screaming out the morphing call. Dr. K mentions comic books and it sparks Flynn off in a flashback to when he was a kid in school and he tried to save a little girl and got himself beaten up. He then got scolded by his dad that there are no such things as real superheroes. All Flynn wanted to do was help!


Back to reality, there is yet another attack and this time all three generals are with the attackbot. The Rangers arrive and fight the Grinders. Flynn gets a usual Disney-explosion-and-fall and is checked on by Scott. They then morph and Ziggy mentions the run-off explosion behind him. The Attackbot then becomes big and Tenaya says they are 'too late.' Tenaya swings Ziggy away and he is at the mercy of General Crunch. Tenaya and Blue fight. She says who everyone is (bad boy, leader, clown, girl, etc.), so who is he? He says in a roar that he is SCOTTISH! and fights her with a techno-bagpipe inspired riff. Scott then fights Shifter, the gold British colonel. Green then tries out the teleporting with Crunch and then he is out of power. Yellow then fights Crunch.


Black uses his shield to protect Blue and then fights Tenaya. Blue tries to use his time-freeze power but there is a malfunction--- a reversal and he is frozen. He flashbacks to when he graduated high school and is asked by his dad what he will do. He becomes a police officer and tries arresting someone but he is the mayor's son and told not to arrest him, he does so and is dismissed. He becomes a fire fighter and is told he is doing water damage and he wants to save lives instead. He is dismissed once again. He is then a peace-corp or something, the gang is escaping because of a raid and he wants to stay but they don't care. Then cross-dissolve to Flynn doing a Braveheart impersonation with tennis rackets with the local people. He was yet again dismissed and returned to his father, thinking he was right and then Venjix attacked.


The baddies leave and the glitch releases Flynn. Dr. K tells Flynn about the glitch, as he says he is still a mechanic. Series Blue was plagued and now is off-line, which Flynn can't handle. Back to the day he and his father entered Corinth, the mother from the first episode gets no help to get her daughter who is on the outside. Back in real time, Scott and Summer come with what Venjix wanted. The monster sucked up power from one fault line and basically the same plot as the Go-Onger episode. Black and Green are in front of the giant bot at his next spot. After the commercial break, Dr. K sends Croc Carrier and they make ValveMax Megazord. Flynn brings up that they can't make the megazord without him. K says she built the suit, she knows.


Back to the flashback, Flynn runs into the bus to save the little girl. His dad tells him no but he says it is just who he is. People go into the bus and Flynn fights the Grinders through the fog to get the girl. The girl Penny asks if they are going to die. Then he brings them to safety and he drops a Grinder. It looks like it was re-dubbed, instead of 'crap,' he says 'trash' when he tosses the Grinder. His dad seems to scold him but it turns out that he is proud and he had a superhero right in front of him. Back in reality, Yellow and Red fight the Grinders. K is then shocked to find out Flynn is gone. Flynn arrives, not morphed, and fights the Grinders and explains his not-layman term plan to K. He morphs and sets off a huge explosion to bust out the baddies. K is shocked. Blue fights the Grinders. They then form the High Octane. Blue destroys the monster. K asks Flynn who taught him to a mechanic. Later, Flynn brings groceries to his dad, who is sleeping with a scrapbook of all of Flynn's heroics.


Review:
Yes, I do believe they dubbed over for him to say 'trash.' Maybe he did say 'scrap' the last time, but now he said trash. The plot to have Blue's series not working is a good way to explain why they don't have the High Octane Megazord for the majority of the episode. The reason in the original footage was that the last monster rusted the 'zords' and they were rusted for the episode until the end. Interesting episode, I didn't think there was gonna be an explanation to the little girl on the bus on the first ep but we got a cute reason within a huge plot turn for Flynn. Who knew he was a comic book geek with all of his cockiness and bravado? No wonder he has the cockiness and bravado! And Flynn outdoing K was priceless! Good funny and touching episode without getting sappy and pretty realistic even though it is a satire. By the by, K's techno-babble does make sense... in its own way.

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