Sunday, November 17, 2013
Power Rangers Megaforce - The Human Condition - Episode Review
Pictures thanks to Megaforcecast.com
Episode Summary:
Malkor is released from his cacoon but doesn't look different. Vrak arrives from his space ship, Malkor observes the Power Rangers still exist. His wings glow. Robo Knight reaches a park on his daily rountine. He sees a girl fall, trip and cry. Her mother carries her. Troy is in a karate outfit and RK asks what tears are and why humans cry. Troy tells him to ask Emma. Emma is taking pictures of flowers. RK aks why a mother hugs a child. She explains love and RK leaves.
Gia does pull ups. RK asks her what love is. She tells him to ask Jake. Jake is playing soccer with other boys. Robo Knight says there is nothing he can learn from him. He walks inside the high school and passes Mr. Burley and shocks him. He enters the computer lab and Noah sees him and he freaks out. Noah closes the door and tells him to be careful. He tells him that love has been written for years and it would take a lifetime to read. Robo Knight leaves to a library. Burley unboxes a telescope in his office.
RK leaves his morpher at the info desk because they say no cell phones. People try to figure out what coverage maps are, oops, that is a Verizon commercial. Robo Knight keeps freaking people out as he grabs books and sits to read them. I mean, its just a guy in a shiny suit. RK quickly reads through the books. Malkor attacks the city. The Rangers arrive and Malkor says they are finally meeting. Jake says how does he even spell his name. The fight ensues, he tosses them all aside.
They wonder where RK is. Back at the library, RK doesn't see the morpher calling him. he approaches a boy who is shocked to see him. RK asks what he is doing. The boy says he is listening to music. The Rangers cards weren't working because Malkor blocked it. Malkor leaves them. Gosei unblocks the block. RK and the boy listen to music together. Malkor faces all the people by appearing in the sky. Malkor is destroying the city. The Rangers face him at a rooftop.
He takes down Jake and Gia. Noah tries a water attack but Malkor throws it back at them. Pink and Red rise from it and fight him but go down. They try their Mega Blasters to no avail. Malkor does a Planet Strike attack, they all fall down from the building. Malkor keeps on saying it is the end. Up on the ship, Vrak beams him and the Rangers to another location. Troy says some speech about human spirit. They continue fighting but not leaving a scratch on Malkor. He does the Planet Strike again, they wriggle in pain on the floor. Troy stands up with another speech.
They best Malkor. Malkor says he doesn't know what is coming. Burley fixes his telescope and sees the Warship ship heading towards him. Vrak says he will crush the Earth with the ship. The Rangers try the Dynamic Victory Charge but it is a no go and they continue trying. Malkor calls the Zombats and eats one to become big. Vrak moves in with the ship. Burley worries. The Rangers form Gosei Great Megazord. They do a multi zord attack as Malkor launches his attack. The Zords are 'vaporized.' The cockpit short circuits. Vrak closes in with the ship.
The Rangers combine all the zords into one big card and make Malkor loose his wings. They use their Victory CHarge that moves him up into the ship and attacks both him and Vrak. Vrak says it is not how it was supposed to end. At the library, the Rangers spot RK and the boy who have become friends. RK wants to share what he learned, which was rap. He asks if something happened, they explained they saved the world.
Episode Review:
Just like "Who's Cryin' Now" and "Ultra Power" that eliminated Creepox and the mutants, there is no emotional attachment to the villains and no emotional stakes for the Rangers that it is seems empty and just footage galore. In this episode, it uses footage that Robo Knight was not in yet and Vrak didn't have Metal Alice yet so this ep has no Metal Alice. What the producers could had done was use footage of MA and RK fighting from another ep (it happened a lot in Goseiger) to fill in that time. The stuff with him and the kid was fine but there was no story there. Maybe if the boy showed more bewilderment to RK and asked his origins. A nice inclusion of Metal Alice would have been to have a short scene with Vrak and Metal Alice.Friday, November 15, 2013
Power Rangers Megaforce - Staying On Track - Episode Review
UPDATED 11/17/13 11 PM EST
Pics thanks to Megaforcecast.com
Pics thanks to Megaforcecast.com
Summary:
The Rangers have the day off, they mud slide while Noah and Robo Knight play chess. RK is beating Noah but not really paying attention and doesn't get what having fun is. Jake wants a high five and teaches it to RK. RK does so and knocks Jake down and potato salad falls on his face. Back at the sea lab, Vrak says they should take the heroes down with their own technology. Metal Alice studies a train and has a plan. A father and son are wait for a woman in the train. Metal Alice enter the train operation office and breaks the controller. The conductor tells the mother on the train that they have to make an emergency stop.
Metal Alice's plan is to cause chaos and conflict within humanity because of the faulty trains. The Rnagers morph. People get frustrated that the train will be delayed. The dad tells the kid to be patient. Metal Alice is stopped by the Rangers outside a power station. She fights them and Robo Knight questions her. She explains about glitching disrupting humans. Noah says it is her provocation. MA takes Noah down, saying humans should be slaves. She asks RK why he continues to be with them, he says she lacks compassion like them. The building explodes. MA exits.
The Rangers track down MA. The boy goes to get a drink and bumps into RK and says how he misses his mom and explains hugs and missing people to RK. The boy leaves. MA is found by Troy and fight. They have 7 minutes until a bomb explodes. Troy goes down. Loogies fight Troy. Troy informs the others. RK sees the family and leaves. Tensou says it is a passenger train. MA stops RK and tells him that he is just a machine and that if he breaks, he will be thrown away.
MA teleports away, RK doesn't say anything. Meanwhile the Rangers go Ultra Mode. Ultra Rangers fight Loogies, RK faces MA and fights her. MA says human feelings have no value and kicks RK butt. The Ultra Rangers defend him and say that they can't things with chaos, humans rise up to defend. The clock is ticking and Metal Alice knocks the five down. RK says that humans may be hard to understand but they appreciate their fellow friend, talking about a child missing his mother. He takes Metal Alice down after she says it is all nonsense.
Metal Alice has a trick under her sleeve, the bridge is destroyed, and the trains are about to crash. The Rangers get up. Gosei gives them new cards as they get the Gosei Jet. RK becomes Lion Zord, they call forth Gosei Jet, which as you may already knows resembles the Gosei Great Megazord. They save the train. Metal Alice uses the Zombats on herself and make herself big. Gosei Grand and Gosei Jet are formed. Metal Alice is mad her body is scarred (can't it be repaired like her leg?). They use the individual zords attacks like the crocodile and elephant. They use their Victory Charge.
The Jet Strike is the bird head flying out at them and she is 'destroyed.' She returns to the base, she says she failed. Vrak says there is more battles and tells her to repair herself. The train arrives safety and mother and son are reunited. Robo Knight waves at the boy and is surprised at this. The teens like this. RK has questions. Jake says to shoot and RK points his gun at Jake. Troy stops him and says he has a lot to learn.
Episode Review:
I love the lighting the New Zealand crew does for villain lairs, they did a good job at recreating the robot lab. They most likely did this to add the alien Vrak as in the footage he is cyborg. As for the ep, it is complex but explained in a simple manner and brings old topics back in a bold and vivid manner. Metal Alice does her old speech (well, its her third ep so it's not that old) on how Robo Knight is a robot and not human and humanity doesn't matter but brings a new twist to Robo Knight's future or possible dismantlement. The boy had an accent, which was just fine. The boy seemed to be in a little old to be missing his mommy but plenty kids, even teens can miss their mothers. People are belly-aching we only see Gosei Jet Megazord once but I think it had some good scenes. My nephew liked that it looked like Gosei Great and was surprised by the choices in animals.
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