"Forest for the Trees"
They now have three discs and they form a bird-type BattleWing Megazord and mentor gives the Tiger to Jayden, the swordfish to Kevin and the Beetle to Mia, which makes Mike mad and makes him train more. In battle with the monster (who makes people sad and angry with his water), Mike takes the beetle disc from Mia and uses it, risking the safety of the team, leading the Mentor to take away his Samuraizer. Mike and Jii stew, thinking they are both right. But it takes Jayden to make the mentor realize he must take the first step.
So Jii picks up Mike in his motorbike at the arcade, where Bulk and Spike are training to do teamwork on a Dance video game. Mike is trained on the forest and masters to defeat the monster. Mia gives Mike the beetle zord. They pilot the Aux. zords and form the BattleWing Megazord to defeat the flying monster. This episode did deviate just a teeny bit from the Japanese episode. In that, Mike gave Jii a plant and made a fist bump instead of what Chiaki did... draw on Jii's face!!! Also the whole thing about Mia giving a beetle disk to Mike, I was upset about it in Shinkenger, a woman giving a man her power, I had rather Mako have the disc, but Mia seemed blaze about it, she said that Jii could had picked anyone that wasn't Mike, maybe she has issues and maybe they can explore those issues later on.
Review:
Mike episodes rock! I wish all the characters were as fascinating as Mike. Rumor is now that the actors were told to act like they were talking to kids, which explains the acting, but I think the writers were more interesting to developing Mike than the others. Mike gets an awesome line: "They are as miserable as Kevin." And some other great lines that made me laugh at loud. I am glad there was some development to the mentor, but its just a little chip off the block. They did show a clip of Jayden calling forth a horse, which I assume is from the first episode we have yet to see, because Jii is wearing the same costume the Japanese Jii was in the first ep of Shinkenger.
Next week there is no new episode, not even a rerun, so see them in April!
Ah, bet she has the same issues as Mako....But that otherwise useless Mega Armore atleast prevented what happened in the original, the scene where people claimed to see a nipple through the fabric of the suit...which in reality WAS the fabric of the suit...
ReplyDeleteThat Wing Megazord Illustration looks a lot less mystical than that of the DaiTenkuu...
So havent not seen any shikenger since I dont want spoilers, I have a quick question.
ReplyDeleteSince Medina is credited as "Decker" does that mean 100% not the return of cole?
Or is Decker the name of the monster form and Cole can be the name of his human form....
Sorry if this is confusing.
I remember reading Joz had two names.
Juuzo had a human name before he became a halfling, a Gedou. He sold his soul basically.
ReplyDeleteAs for Deker, I think you got to forget about Cole. They seem to be following Shinkenger to a tee, meaning most likely this character most likely has no relation to Cole at all.
But to think of it, yeah it is possible they will stick the 'Gedou' premise. But it is unlikely he is Cole because Deker already said he fought the old Samurai Rangers and he did know about Red sealing Xandred.
ReplyDeleteMugen, I remember that. Yeah, it was clearly the suit.
ReplyDeleteYes, yet people freaked out about it. It was kinda hilarious.
ReplyDeleteBut it was really easy to see that it was the suit.
Ah another issue I had, aside from the fact that Mako gave up the Kabuto: Takeru trained really hard to be able to use the Kabuto, but when Chiaki got to use it, he just could use it like that...
ReplyDeleteWith Mike, it looked like if you mastered your element, like Jayden had to do with fire, it depended on your element to master the Beetle disc.
ReplyDeleteHmm, thinking about it, maybe Wood is more compatible with Kabutos then fire. Insects are grouped together with plants in some media.
ReplyDeleteGrr - I wish I could somehow get my hands on this episode. I was a cameo guest role as the girl at the bus-stop, but I live in NZ and they don't show PR here...
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