Power Rangers Dino Fury - Superstition Strikes - Episode Review

 Episode Summary:

In  Area 62, Mucus wants to know what is behind Void Knight's door and is electrocuted for it. Meanwhile, the Rangers are called by civilians afraid of a man with suds and equipment on top of him. Amelia washes it off and it is her grandfather who is a window washer. He is superstitious and Ollie is skeptical. Amelia walks under a ladder and her grandpa convinces her she has bad luck now. She goes to change her shirt that got ripped but bumps into a Sporix Beast that busts her morpher. She tries to communicate with Solon but her signal isn't strong. 

The Rangers arrive. Amelia uses a trash can lid to reflect the bad guy laser and hurts Izzy and Javi. Mucus takes AMelia's morpher. Red puts in his T-Rex Key and does T-Rex Fury Strike and seemingly defeats the Sporix. He blasts them back. Mucus takes the beast to Area 62. The Rangers de-morph. Amelia is down on herself about her bad luck. The others try to cheer her up. Zayto talks to Solon to make a new morpher. Amelia is teleported to base. Zayto leaves. Amelia gives Solon a circuit that can not be destroyed. Amelia tells her about her bad luck. Meanwhile, Void Knight is happy with Mucus.

Void Knight will fix the morpher and have Boom Tower enter the base while Smashstone will distract them. The other Rangers help Pop-Pop (Amelia's grandfather). Solon tells Zayto about the hotline. Solon fixed the new morpher but Amelia doesn't want to use it. Solon says luck is in her mind, don't focus on the bad things, the only way to focus on good things is to go out. Amelia still wants to stay far away. Smashstone attacks. The Rangers morph. The Rangers need help. Boomtower enters the base. Amelia grabs her morpher. Solon says he has to go through her to get the Sporix. AMelia morphs and breaks his morpher. Solon says it was lucky. Amelia is energized and fights Boom Tower. They teleport to where the Rangers are with Smashstone. Ollie helps Amelia fight Boomtower. Smashstone grows big and T-Rex is called. 

Zayto and the siblings enter the Megazord and fight Smashstone. He throws back their attack. Doomtower is made fun of by Amelia and he teleports away. Amelia and Ollie call their zords. Hammer Formation is formed. The helmet and chest changes. They enter the cockpit. What they try doesn't work, they then try the hammer. They accidentally hit a pipe, that causes junk to get on Smashstone's arm. Zayto calls the Mega Fury Saber and does the Mega Hammer Slam to destroy the monster. Boomtower goes for the Sporix but Izzy gets it with the Elasto Key. Later, they help Pop-Pop. Javi says it was good luck is what happened. Amelia quotes Solon. Ollie can't believe she agreed with him. He breaks a mirror and a water bucket falls on him. They say he has 7 years of bad luck now and a series of misfortunes happen to him. 

Episode Review:

I'm not sure but I think this is the first time we have two girl episodes back to back. Last week was Izzy and this week is Amelia. It is interesting how Pop-Pop's accent keeps slipping between New Zealand and Brooklyn (?) and the monster Smashstone has a Russian accent. Russian is always used for villains in the U.S. because of the Cold War. This trope was recently criticized by Honest Trailers because of a antagonist in Lilo & Stitch. 

Hasbro Pulse Fan Fest April 9

 

April 9th is the next Hasbro Pulse Fan Fest.

More info: 

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Power Rangers Lightning Collection: Wave 9

 I've been busy and this is a little behind. Better late than never. 

Tenga, Blue Lost Galaxy, Green SPD and Black In Space Ranger.

Related: https://henshingrid.blogspot.com/2020/12/power-rangers-lightning-collection-wave.html

Power Rangers Dino Fury - Winning Attitude - Episode Review

 Episode Summary: 

Izzy is running, Javi and her are with their cousin Lily, her trainer. Lily shows them her 1500m track at Special Olympics, people with intellectual disabilities. Lily has an intellectual disability. The other Rangers arrive and make introductions.  She leaves them because she has to meet a friend. Zayto says Solon to see them. All five go to the base with Solon, who has found Izzy's zord. She wants to create a device to find a zord. Jane and J-Borg make a play for kids to call the Rangers' hotline with the Sporix. A real Sporix climbs on Jane and a little girl calls the hotline. J-Borg takes the Sporix off. The Sporix becomes a beast Brineblast and Doomtower and Mucus arrive. The kids and Jane leave. The Rangers arrive. The Rangers morph. 

Izzy falls after hitting the monster. She uses the Elasto Key. Zayto uses Hyper Boost. They go after the monster. He gets on his knees. Doomtower knocks them into a fountain. Javi fights Doomtower. He uses SHield Block and blocks the attack. Doomtower and Brineblast leave. The Rangers continue fighting Hengemen. Izzy leaves to meet Lily. The other Rangers teleport to find supplies for the Zord detecting device. Izzy arrives at the track. Izzy gets on Lily's case for shopping and being late. She says there is nothing more important than winning the race. Lily gives her smoothie and says there are more important things than winning like helping people. Izzy leaves. 

At Area 62, Void Knight has a map where the scientists of Area 62 found a UFO and he believes it is a zord. The rangers meet up for the race. Javi spots Lilly but she doesn't go up to Lily. Izzy says nothing.  girl Mona in a wheelchair comes to say she was shopping yesterday with Lily. She broke her leg. Lily has been helping her. Izzy realizes her mistake. Javi and their dad Carlos think Izzy has IBS or gas. Izzy says it's not the case.  

Izyz runs the race. Brineblast grows giant next to Jane and J-Borg, they scream.  It splashes water. J-Borg and Jane hide in a trash bin that races down the street. A police officer gives them a ticket. Izzy is told about the attack but continues her race. The other Rangers go to the attack. A girl trips and falls. She hurts her ankle. Izzy decides to help her instead of winning. The monster roars. Solon deploys the zords. The Rangers enter the cockpit. They fight the monster. A man arrives and helps the girl. Izzy is last. She is about to continue but hears Boomtower. She sees Mucus digging for the zord with a bomb. Izzy confronts them. She morphs and her key glows. The villains leave. Izzy tells the others she found the zords but tells them the bad news. 

Brineblast continues beating up the Megazord. Izzy tells them to guide Brineblast to the mountain. They run and he runs after them. They arrive to the mountain and the blasts free the zord. The Tiger Claw Zord escapes and slashes at the monster. Zayto calls him an old friend. The Zords combine. Izzy enters and they create Claw Formation for the Dino Fury Megazord. Het boosts activated and Brineblast is out of power. They do the final attack Tiger Mega Slash and destroy Brineblast. Boomtower takes the Sporix energy and leaves. The Rangers feel bad but at least they have the zord. Izzy is bummed she didn't finish the race. She goes to the race and finishes it. Lily and Mona wait for her. They cheer her even though she is last. She apologizes to Lily. Lily gives her medal. They hug. Carlos, her dad, is proud of her. 

Episode Review:

I commend the producers to have a character with an intellectual disability. In the 28 years of Power Rangers, there have only been a few characters of the day with a disability and coincidentally, they all are women. The first was Melissa in "A Different Drum" who was deaf, the second was Penny who was blind in the Power Rangers Zeo episode "Trust in Me," and now Lily who has an intellectual disability and played by real-life Special Olympics athlete Sarah Dalton. She did a great job. The only scene that is cringy is where Izzy tells Lily how she is disappointed in her. I don't know if 'realistic' is the word I'll go for but it is definitely different for a protagonist to berate a character with an intellectual disability. But it is positive to show a person with intellectual disability as a human with flaws, or a person without a disability to treat them as a regular person and not have their disability be a part of the storyline. Also, for an episode that introduces a zord (which could have been paint by numbers) be a bit deeper and have something unspoken in Power Rangers which is having characters with disaibility being treated like everyone else.

Power Rangers Dino Fury - New Recruits - Episode Review

 Episode Summary:

Drakarok and Mucus enter Area 62 and find Void Knight making Boomtower, it needs the Nephrite Orb. Ollie and Amelia take Zayto to Amelia's job for a reporter job. They meet Javi, who wants the job to get a Keytar. Javi is sent to research the Nephrite Orb at a museum. Zayto is sent to interview athlete Izzy Garcia. Zayto reveals to Izzy that he is a knight and a reporter. Izzy says no interviews. Zayto gives Izzy a tip in javelin throw which she does and it succeeds. She calls him "Mr. Knight" and agrees to the interview. Izzy says her stepdad is a park warden--Amelia identifies as the guy who restricts them from going into Dinohenge. Javi interviews a professor in the museum when Boomtower, Fungus, and Drakarok arrive. People run and Javi hides. 

Javi calls the Power Rangers hotline. Ollie gets a call from Zolon while Zyato and Amelia interview Izzy. They leave Izzy and Ollie tells them about the museum. Doomtower has the orb. The park warden arrives, saying to put the orb down. He is knocked out by Doomtower. The three Rangers arrive and morph. Javi watches from a safe area and spots the warden. The Rangers use the Gravi, Sprint, and Sheild Dino Keys. Ollie blocks Boomtower and AMelia goes fast. They're knockdown. Zayto ties Doomtower and Draknok with his gravi ball and chain. Javi takes the warden's truck with the Nephrite. Mucus follows the truck. J-Borg arrives at the museum. The Ranger teleports away with the warden. J-Borg reads the teleprompter and juice is drop on the keyboard and J-Borg reads the wrong words. 

Izzy greats her father. She tells the Rangers she is a fan. Warden says his son is Javi and took the truck. Izzy says Javi goes to a secret spot to practice music. Javi stops at the park and Mucus teleports away. Doomtower and Drakarok advance on Javi. Izzy and the Rangers arrive at where Javi and the baddies are. Javi throws the Nephrite Orb and Izzy and he finds the Dino Keys. They become Green and Black Rangers and help fight with the Rangers. Boomtower leaves. Drakarok grows. The zords are deployed. All five in the cockpit and the Megazord is formed. They fight Drakarok. Zayto uses his saber and they destroy the monster. The zords go back to normal and the Rangers pose. Zayto gets the Sporix. Teh give unmorphed in the base. They are meet. Zayto says humans like Zords. They meet Solon who offers a snack. Izzy confirms Zayto is actually a night. Javi laments the orb is destoryed. Izzy says there are plenty of jobs. Meanwhile Jane and J0Borg do a report about cattle ranchers. J-Borg is electrecuted. The Rnagers enter Buzzblast. Jane meets with them, they apologize. Jane says Javi protecting the orb takes guts and she hires Javi. She says Zayto didn't get it. Zayto and Javi shake hands. Jane wants him to find the first hamburger. 

Episode Review:

Loving Izzy, she has great one liners and attitude. With Javi, there is plenty room to grow. There is more to know about him. I thought he would be more cynical but that seems to be Izzy. I just realized Ravi and Javi rhyme. 

Power Rangers Dino Fury - Lost Signal - Episode Review

 Episode Summary:

Zayto looks at his pendant and thinks about his mom who gave it to him. Amelia comes and asks what he is thinking about. In the base, Zayto receives a message from his home planet Rafkon but the system overloads and they need a part from Rafkon. Amelia comes up with going to a psychic but while Ollie wants to go to the observatory for the message. Ollie doesn't believe in psychics. They go to the Psychic at a carnival and see Jane get a reading. Jane is told she has powers and wears a blindfold and goes through the city bumping into things to find Sporix for the Rangers. J-Borg finds a Sporix but she gets her foot stuck on a cement bucket. Jane is stuck on a bus. As for Ollie and Jane, Ollie pretends to be in love with Jane to prove the psychic was a fraud. Zayto had given the psychic a necklace from Rafkon and the psychic tells him only good news. But now he is disappointed that she was a fraud. 

Vapeera appears and J-Borg calls up the hotline about it. Mucus appears but hides when the Rangers teleport in. Vapeera freezes Zayto with the eyes on her chest and slashes at him. Ollie and Amelia hide their vision and morph. The Rangers hide their vision and fight Vampira. Ollie and Amelia go down. Mucus gets a camera and teleports away with Vapeera. The duo un-morph and speak to Zayto. They teleport to the observatory. The scientist says it was an energy surge but believes it was nothing. Zayto leaves them. Amelia gets a message, Buzzblast is down. Ollie and Amelia find that Vapeera took over their broadcast and freezes all of Pine ridge with the eyes on her chest. The video plays on a loop. Zayto is frozen. Solon doesn't freeze because of her cyborg eyes. Zayto can't get in contact with the others.

Solon sees the stone from Zayto's pendant. She says it's the same crystal of the modulator. The pendant was from his mom when he became a knight. She told her not to give up. Zayto decides to use the Sonic key. He goes to Vapeera with a blindfold and uses the Sonic Dino Key. It allows him to listen better. He avoids her slash and slashes her. Mucus leaves. Zayto stops the video and everyone is free. Solon contacts the duo. The duo teleport already morphed and with armors from the sonic key. Vapeera grows giant. 

Zayto morphs and they call the T-Rex Champion Zord. Zayto makes Battle Mode and teleports in. The other zords Tricera Blade Zord and Anklo Hammer Zord arrive. They attack the monster. Blue tells Tricera Blade to cut the concrete and Ankylo smashes it. Pink uses the Hover Dino Key and throws the street on her Blue uses a Boost key to fix it as a street. The street covers up her eyes with a key. The Rangers then put keys in for the zords and the zords combine with T-rex. The rangers enter the Dino Fury Megazord. They defeat Vapeera. Void Knight is to get the remains but the Rangers get it. Then Zayto gets the message but it is an alien language he doesn't know. They say it could be an evolved form of the language. He has a renewed sense of 'never give up' from what he remembered from his mom. He then sends his message to space.

Episode Review:

Solid episode. Lots happened but it tied all together. Now Jane's adventures have vibes of Ben and Betty. Zayto learned about the blindfold and the necklace tied to his mom. Great writing. I was hoping Jane and Amelia's relationship would have shades of The Devil Wears Prada or even Mia and the agent/reporter Michelle Walsh on Kamen Rider Dragon Knight. Anyways, am I detecting shipping vibes between Ollie and Amelia?