Saturday, February 11, 2017

Power Rangers Ninja Steel - Preston Change-O - Episode Review

 


Summary:
Preston does another magic show in the school common area, the Rangers applaud it. Victor takes out a rabbit out of his hat. Some people boo him. Preston is sad. Back on Galvanax's ship, Galvanax judges cards of monsters. Ripcon shows Galvanax's championship belt, saying he is a heavyweight. He wants to take on the Red Ranger. Brody tells Preston to not give up. Preston shows a bracelet his dad gave him. The rabbit appears again. More rabbits come out, he doesn't know where they come from. Brody says the Ninja Steel has to do with this and talk to Mick. Preston comes into the wreck yard when they see they fixed Brody's dad's truck. Hayley's shake falls on Calvin and Preston freezes the drink. Calvin doubts and Preston drops it on him.

Mick asks Preston if this started recently. Mick says it is him because he has a great love of magic, the ninja steel can magnify his truest desires. He has to be careful with it. Brody leaves the bunnies when he sees the buzz cams and calls the others. Brody faces Galvanax and his henchmen. Brody clarifies Galavanax that he made him lose his dad and kept him prisoner. The others arrive and the guys are kind of fearful of Galvanaz. Pink and White egg him on. Pink calls her a chump. Everyone on the ship watches. Galvanaz sends Slogre. The Rangers morph and fight the baddies. Slogre releases fog that makes the Rangers feel strange. Blue uses magic on the baddie and he retreats. Slogre says his mist will slow them down.

Preston does another show. Hayley, Calvin and Sarah are all down and leave. Preston performs magic with Victor, revealing a panther instead of a cat. Victor sits down. Preston asks for another volunteer. Monty comes. Calvin and the others are slow and talking slow. Slogre arrives. Preston split Monty apart with a magic box. Monty's legs run away. Brody gets a call and gets Preston. The three try morphing and Slogre takes their stars. Galvanax is happy. Brody and Preston arrive. Brody tells Preston to use his magic. Preston is hesitant but performs magic on Slogre and Brody gives the stars back. Preston asks why it doesn't always work. Brody says it could be he doesn't use them for personal gain. Only works when he is helping others. The two morph. They fight Slogre elsewhere as he gets away. They do a dual attack.

The trio comes back to normal. Cosmo Royale asks if Slogre should get another chance and they say yes and he becomes big. The Rangers calls the zords. They put their Master Mode armor and fight the monster. Slogre flies. Robo red comes loose and fights. Preston goes in the Dragon Zord and flies and captures Robo Red. Red says the Megazord should have wings. Preston tries Dragon formation and the cockpit changes. Ninja Steel Megazord Dragon Formation is made and fights the flying monster. They destroy the monster. Back at school, Preston puts Monty back together. He gets out and he is squared like Minecraft, he says he likes it. Preston apologizes, he is forgiven. They blindfold Brody and surprise him with the truck. He loves it of course.

Review:
It was a good episode but very similar to the last one. A character has good intentions but does a misstep and learns a lesson. We see Calvin and Hayley still holding hands but nothing more. We see more interesting American footage mixed in with Japanese footage, pretty much the same ratio as Dino Charge, but not as much as Samurai and Megaforce.
 
 


Saturday, February 4, 2017

Power Rangers Ninja Steel - Live and Learn - Episode Review


Episode Summary:
Spinferno is introduced in Galaxy Warriors, who is runs fast on wheels. Redbot and Mick work on a Ninja Strar and put it in a prism and give it to Brody. They present the Element Stars to the Rangers in new ninja uniforms. Calvin is given the water star, he puts it in his sword and it doesn't work. He is then blsted across the junk yard and crashes. Brody asks who wants to try fire and the others disappear. Later, the gang leave the hideout and go to class. Preston gives Brody a bookbag. Brody gets info on Spinferno on his datacom, he goes without the others. 

Red Ranger fights Spinferno at the plaza. He asks Datacom what to do, she tells him to hold him with chains, which he does but it doesn't work. He does a water attack to make him retreat. Brody runs off to class while some kids video taped him. Preston is mad that Brody didn't tell them. Victor wants more views, he wants to compete with the Rangers. Sarah berates him, he tells them with smiles they had to study. The teacher arrive and introduces Brody quickly and goes on to the quiz. Brody wants to use his datacom, Sarah tells him no. He uses it anyway. Victor figures out he is cheating. The teacher asks what it is, Brody tells her and she tells him she doesn't want to see it again. The datacom falls out of his bookbag and Victor gets it. 

Victor asks how he can become more popular and is told he needs to defeat a monster. Later at the cafeteria, Hayley tells rody how he shouldn't use the Datacom. The monster is attacking again, Brody finds he can't find his datacom. The others leave without him. Victor and Monty arrive in ridiculous suits in front of the monster. A fire extinguisher backfires on Victor. The monster blasts the Datacom and spins the other two away. He recognizes the Datacom and the other Rangers arrive. Mick scares Brody as he was looking for Datacom. Mick tells him the Datacom didn't give him the courage to lead. Brody figures it out and runs out. 

The Rangers are losing. Brody arrives and morphs, they introduce themselves and fight the Kudabots with their Ninja Star Blades. Brody and Preston fight Spinferno. Spinferno throws fire at them. Teh two go down. The others arrive and Spinferno retreats. Bordy tells Calvin to go and they will trap him. Brody says they will use the elements. Yellow kicks Spinferno and tells him to race. He offers his star. Clavin races with the water attack. Spinferno is ahead when the others corner him and do forest attack and wrap him in vines. They use fire attack and final strike him away. They decide not to make him big but they release a Skullgator. The rangers call the zords. 

Yellow spins around and hits the nose with his blade. The Rangers go down and make Megazord. They enter the cockpit. They get another Ninja Stars and activate Ninja Master Mode. They gain Ninja Master Mode. They destroy the monster. Galavanax is mad. Cosmo says the crowd likes the megazord. Back at the Snack Stop, Brody gives them new Ninjacoms for apologizing for relying on his datacom. The datacom broke connection to the ship. Victor and Monty watch their epic fail on video remix. Victor is happy because he has more views than the Rangers. 

Episode Review:
It was a great episode as it dealt with character development and tied in Victor and Monty. While they gave a reason to the Elemental Stars but again, we are treated to a zippity-do-dah explanation to the Megazord cockpit, And we are treated to yet another Red Ranger episode when it was clearly a Yellow Ranger episode from Ninninger. It would have been great to have a Calvin episode to get to know him and maybe a clear indication if he and Hayley are in a relationship or not. Many fans complained how Troy was just a blank character and robotic but I don't like how Tyler and Brody are too smile-y. Even when they do something childish, they just justify it with a shrug and a smile. I can go on how Tyler baby-cried to Shelby when she said he might not find his dad. And Shelby didn't even do it in a big sister is punishing you manner but in a rational manner. 


Friday, February 3, 2017

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Sunday, January 29, 2017

Power Rangers Ninja Steel - Forged in Steel - Episode Review

Summary:
Calvin and Hauley are in  their yellow truck with their dog Kody. Calvin and Hayley find fallen equipment from the ship and Mick, finding out about aliens and Galaxy Warriors. They fight Bashers. Galvanax is upset that teenagers have gotten the Ninja Stars. He decides to get a contestant to destroy the Rangers. Calvin, Hayley and Mick arrive to the school's shop class. Principal Hastings mistakes Mick for the new shop teacher. Victor and Monty arrive with his car all newly painted but gets painted on. 

Back at the house, Brody freaks out that Aiden isn't home. Sarah reassures him. He looks in his dad's workshop and digs up to look for it. Sarah sees trophies. Brody tells them the dad melt the ninja steels and made them into throwing stars. He disappeared when he destroyed the prism. Redbot finds an empty box. They see a pic of the dad's trophy so they figure it is at the school as he went there. Brody thinks AIden put the ninja steel inside the trophy. Ripperrat is sent down to get the trophy. Brody destroys one of the spy bots. Brody tells Mick to look for the trophy.

Mick, Calvin and Haykey find the Ninja Steel. Ripperat arrives and attacks Mick. Calvin and Hayley fight him with sporting equipment. Ripperrat breaks Mick's datacom. The prism knocks Ripperrat out and Calvin and Hayley pull out the Ninja Stars. (Gold is missing) The Prism flies off. The Rangers arrive and introduce each other. Ripperrat arrives again and the five morph. They fight Ripperrat. They try the different attack modes of the morphers like bow mode, claw, and blade mode. Red does a final attack and blows it up. They 'gigantafy' Ripperrat. His chain arms are jammed. The prism shows them their zords. Mick takes out the throwing stars and throws them into the prism, making them stars to call their zords. 

They summon the zords and give them names like Robo Red Zord, Dragon Zord, Zoom Zord, Nitro Zord and Codiac Zord. They fight Ripperrat. They blast him and destroy him. Back at the school, they hide the prism in the paint booth as it is broken and since Mick is the shop teacher, no one will question a thing. Brody is happy he gets to go to school and apologizes for getting them involved. Mick says it wasn't an accident, he says he heard legends. Back at the ship, the host says ratings are high. They realize the Gold Ranger star is missing. Unfortunately Madame whats-her-name (Odium?) has it. 

Review:
It is a shame that Redbot doesn't become the Robo Red Zord, missed opportunity. I didn't like the thing of the Rangers naming the zords as it just relied on things they liked and nothing to do withe personality nor character development. All was missing was Preston to call his "Magic Dragon Zord." Good episode, it ties everything up in a nice bow but they use Power Rangers logic like why the Principal didn't check the name of the teacher and just assumed it was Mick. Also, did Aiden return home after he left (when Brody was kidnapped) in order to leave clues? Also why he left the house unlocked? 

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