Saturday, July 4, 2009

Power Rangers RPM - Episode 16 - "In Or Out"

UPDATED JULY 10, 2009

For some reason, the transmission had no closed caption, I tried all my TVs but none had it. Closed Caption helps me when Dr. K says her long winded speeches.

Episode Summary:

Dr. K has a meeting with all the Rangers and explains that her 'dear friends' Gem and Gema escaped through their 'Gold and Silver Series Morphers.' They have been fighting the Venjix in the wastelands. They say they like to shoot first and ask questions later, making the main five a bit uneasy. Meanwhile, Tenaya and the two generals enter the city. They plan to take away the city's oxygen. Back in the base, Dr. K says the twins have confronted her that she has treated the five coldly in order to prevent emotional trauma (like when she thought she lost Gem and Gema). Everyone denies her on being 'bordering on coldness.'


She says that 'as your mentor'--- Ziggy interrupts and says that they are older than her. So as their mentor, she proceeds to say something she likes about each of them and then say their real name. And then she uncomfortably hugs them, starting with Scott. Gem and Gema encourage her. Dr. K admires his honor, integrity, and hair... As for Summer, she says that as the only other female in the group, her feelings for her override her instincts to sabotage her in effort to get the attention of the males. Summer says the feeling is mutual... she thinks. Then for Flynn, she likes his passion, optimism and delightfully musical but sometimes incomprehensible accent. When she gets to Dillon, he tries to duck out (leave) but Flynn stops him and she says that he is psychologically unstable but considers him a true hero. Ziggy waits for his hug and she says 'You too Series Green.' She wants them to know she loves them.


Flynn wants everyone to agree that never happened. Ziggy is upset she hasn't said anything nice about him and the alarm goes off and he just can't let it go. They go off. Ziggy spells his name. Dillon grabs him. Meanwhile, the generals play with the air exhaust and make damage. The five Rangers morphed arrive and fight the Grinders. Blue helps Green, Yellow fights the Generals, Black fights Tenaya... Tenaya gets to the controls and a big fan sucks everything in. The Rangers hold on to dear life. All the Grinders are sucked in and sliced and destroyed. The Generals for some reason seem invulnerable to the sucking. Yellow gets loose and Black saves her. Green gets loose and heads for the fans.

Commercial Break.

Gold and Silver arrive and smash the controls and the fan stops and Ziggy falls, saying he was not worried. The enemies leave, silver and gold go after them, Scott's dad wants them to fall back, Red stands in front of the twins and tries to stop them from going outside. Red says they have to defend the city, Silver and Gold say, "But who says?" The seven and K are in Truman's base and he wants them to stay inside. Gem and Gema want to go outside, Truman wants to seal in the enemy but diverting the energy of the shields. Meaning, they will not be able to open the shield again for a long amount of hours. The twins have another plan... the bad guys have an outpost outside and they want to blow it up.


Truman is amused ("you make it sound so easy"), Hicks tell them that they will be living on air for only 30 days until fixed and they can't let it be hit again. Gem and Gema head out, Truman says once he overcharges the shield, he can't let them back in, Gem scoffs like he doesn't care. Scott thinks they might have a point. Truman ask, "What are you two trying to do?" "We are trying to win. Why? What are you trying to do, colonel?" The twins answer. Back at the evil lair, Venjix brings out his new Vacuum Bot (Vacuum Banki from Ep 18). Back at Dr. K's lab, Ziggy keeps bugging Dr. K to see if she wanted to make another announcement. Scott and Summer show Dr. K a line. She says it is prehistoric underground river bend. Scott realizes they might be trying to get something out.


At the gate, Hicks and Scott's dad are about to overcharge the shields. Scott arrives in his car and warns him, that Venjix wants them to overcharge the shields, which they do do. Scott rolls under the gate as it lowers. Truman wants to raise it to save his son, saying he is trapped out there, Hicks makes him realizes that they are trapped in there. After the commercial break, Gem and Gema arrive to the outpost and see the air tunnel. Scott arrives and informs them with the new information, that the are sucking the oxygen from the city. He wants to them to split up, they say they don't ever spit up. Scott says there is a first time for everything and grabs them. Silver and Red enter the cave-like place full of Grinders. Gold fights the Grinders and Generals outside.


In the city, Dr. K says that Scott and the twins were right, oxygen is leaving. There is no way out. Station 19... they can escape through there. Dillon says it only lets go flames at dawn, so Flynn says they re-program it. Dr. K says the problem is that now that the shields are overcharged, the fire is bigger. The four run off. Red spots the Vacuum bot sucking up air. Silver runs in, Red pulls her back and tells her a plan but she runs off anyway. He tells her the pressure is too high. At the gate, Ziggy still complains about Dr. K. They morph and use their individual powers to get through the gate (the stop time, the shield and teleporting, etc.). Back at the outpost, Gema fires and Vacuum Bot explodes out of the cave. Silver and Red fight the bot. Meanwhile, Green wants Dr. K to say kind words from the self-proclaimed Mentor or he won't move, Blue pulls him to safety as fire ges ner him. Tenaya coughs as she gets out of the cave. She gets in the fight with Gold.


Gold tells Tenaya and the generals to wait where they are in order to join in with Red and Silver. Tenaya leaves, saying they will be destroyed. The three destroy and blow away the bot. He is made bigger and ValveMax arrives and fights it. Red calls for his zord and they make High Octane. The bot sucks in their sword and sucks in the finisher from ValveMax. Dr. K sends the two zords of Gold and Silver and they combine with High Octane Megazord and they say "you are toasted" as they destroy the monster with a new finisher. Back at the garage, Dr. K reprts that the oxygen levels are back to normal. Dr. K gives each Ranger a compliment on the battle in order to improve her role as their mentor. Ziggy complains again that they are older. Dr. K tells Summer she has nice shoes. She compliments Gem and Gema and goes to Ziggy with a bright smile (big scary) and calls him "You." The alarm goes off and everyone runs off. Ziggy says it could be the last time she ever sees him.


Review:
If you can't see the ep today, you didn't miss much. We don't see the twins morph and we don't get the names o their zords. If fans complained about Gem and Gema finishing their sentences and being too goofy, then they will be complaining now. The only difference in their personality is that they like to blow things up. Anyway, it was really really funny, I have never laughed so loud for a Power Ranger episode in a long time. As for why Red split up with Silver, that is from the Go-Onger footage but they didn't use any except for the megazord! Anyhoo, the most funny and emotional parts came from Dr. K and Ziggy, making the possible romance between them that fans are hoping for more apparent.

Friday, July 3, 2009

I cannot supply RPM episode today

My computer is still on the fritz and still being fixed and it may still take yet another week. So I am sure someone else will release the new episode tomorrow. I will not be apply to. I have access to a computer but I can't edit or upload anything since it is not my computer. So sorry. I might post a summary about it but not at the same time I usually do it (6am est) but maybe like at 9am est. Again, I am sure someone else can post the episode.
UPDATED 7/3/09 9pm EST
Thank You for the support! I am going through a trying time, almost loosing my information and it is being backed up rather slowly and I will share the whole thing about what happened when its over.

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Clarification on Power Rangers Credits

In the PR wiki, it claims that RPM is the first Power Rangers series to have the ending credits during the episode. I think there is confusion. Having the end credits run during the end of the episode is common for ABC Kids. It has been happening since Mystic Force. But since most international fans see the version of the episode on their Jetix channel or from our Jetix, they get regular credits. And now that RPM is only exclusively airing on ABC, we only see those end credits. But running end credits during the last scene has been common practice for the past four years.

UPDATED JULY 7, 2009


Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Bandai America has added Kamen Rider Dragon Knight webpage

Bandai America has added KRDK to their website with pictures of their toys, only a couple upcoming but they look great.

Sunday, June 21, 2009

No Auxiliary Trio of Rangers for RPM

UPDATED JUNE 24, 2009 10PM EST

Okay, a year ago when the extra three Rangers appeared in the Jungle Fury toy line, many fans wondered if they were just going to be toys or would they appear on the show since they are not from the original Japanese Super Sentai series. The Spirit Rangers did indeed appear on the show, Bandai America allotted the budget for them instead of the Red Ranger gaining a Battlizer. Now, these new Rangers are coming out soon... Triceratops, T-Rex, and Mammoth Rangers for RPM, they are based on the last three zords coming soon. Just like the last three, these Rangers have no Japanese counterpart.



But I don't think we are getting these Rangers because in the latest Japanese magazine that usually reveals new spoilers (last year they revealed the three Spirit Rangers), this time we got nothing new. I don't think it is happening because of the budget. I recently found that Bandai America chips in for the Battlizers and other props from money they get from sales, also according to the rate of 'hero shots' (how many times the item appears on the show). Yes, some fans say it could happen and the Japanese photographer was not there for when they shot the new Rangers and they could be keeping it ultra secret now, but I highly doubt it. In the pictures, we have Kireizky (a villain who appears in ep 42 of 50 episodes of Go-Onger) so meaning this is near-finale of RPM.

Also, there were thoughts that the Triceratops Ranger could have been female because there is no scheduled bike or armored figures for that Ranger and only male Rangers get that, but I think it is just the luck of the draw. They only can make so many toys.

Related Topic: Power Rangers Jungle Fury Auxiliary Rangers

No new Shinkenger and Decade this week and RPM rerun next week

This week (June 21) there has been no Samurai Sentai Shinkenger and Kamen Rider Decade until next week because of a Golf tournament, there is always a golf game every year in Japan and sometimes two and they interrupt the Super Sentai and Kamen Rider episodes, which I consider a break for them, since they have no reruns or break, it's just episode after episode.

Next week (June 27) there will be re-run of Power Rangers RPM (I do not know what episode they will be re-running) and there will be no new episode until July 4th.

La proxima semana (Junio 27) va a ser un episodio viejo de Power Rangers RPM y no habrĆ” nuevo episodio hasta el 4 de julio.

Na próxima semana (27 jun.) haverÔ re-run do Power Rangers RPM e não haverÔ um novo episódio até julho 4.

La semaine prochaine (Juin 27), il y aura un vieil épisode de Power Rangers RPM et il n'y aura pas de nouvel épisode Juillet jusqu'au 4ème.