Misplaced Batteries Result in Near Death Experience
Imprisoned Galactic Empress Finds Comfort in Alcoholism
Imprisoned Galactic Empress Finds Comfort in Alcoholism
Last
week, the Power Rangers were put on the defensive by the new villain Lord
Zedd. His monster Pirantishead managed to take control of the Tyrannosaurus
Dinozord and Dragonzord and used them to demolish the city. Zordon told the teens their only chance in defeating Zedd was to upgrade their Dinozords into the
mighty Thunderzords; however they would need to regain control of the Dinozords
from Pirantishead in order to power the Thunderzords. While Billy and Trini
worked on a device to take back the Dinozords, the rest of the Rangers were
being savagely beaten by their own Zords wondering if the end had finally come.
Well forget all that tension with the Zords attacking
because this episode opens with the Black, Green, Red and Pink Rangers wandering around in a field asking
themselves why the Zords aren't attacking them anymore. So our heroes nearly
dying last week? That stopped happening off camera.
This trilogy of episodes
has a lot going for it, but both this episode and last weeks have some
of the most abrupt resolutions to cliffhangers this show has ever seen. I tuned
into prime time for this shit, and this is how you repay me? Well jokes on you
suckers, I already wasted my parent's money on your toys.
While the Rangers spit meaningless insults at a monster who
could murder them with their own weapons in a heartbeat, Pirantishead gets
tired of wasting time and reactivates the Dinozords and sics them on the rally
participants you forgot about again. These eagle eyed racers evidently haven't noticed the big dick-off
dinosaurs that are within walking distance of them. Just more evidence that the
people of Angel Grove have the deductive skills of Inspector Clouseau.
Zordon asks Billy if he's been able to fix up that crummy looking box he calls a Signal Blocker yet, but Billy's been too busy begging
Trini to give him the most pitiful pity fuck in U.S. history. Zordon then
politely asks Billy if he at some point could consider finishing up this
invention in the near future to maybe possibly prevent his teammates imminent
and violent mutilation by out of control dinosaur death machines. Then Billy
pouts and crosses his fingers that Alpha will be DTF tonight.
What follows is a scene of Zedd talking about how great he is and the Power Rangers don't stand a snowball's chance in hell of
beating him. I mention this only because Zedd isn't spitting all this game with no idea what Billy and Trini are plotting. He specifically uses
his crazy red eye vision to look inside Billy's garage to watch he and Trini
tinkering away. Lord Zedd isn't sending Putties to mess with them, he isn't
telling Pirantishead to attack Billy and Trini, all he's doing is letting them try
to set up a counterattack while watching and gloating.
You remember how Rita was oblivious to everything going on
around her? Well Zedd is actively observing people trying to stop him, but he
finds them so beneath him he doesn't even bother. He even watches them try
to stop him while he relishes in the futility of it all. What a glorious son of a bitch.
Lord Zedd always cheated when we played Outburst.
The Rangers go back to insulting Pirantishead despite the
previous scene establishing that they planned on trying to stop the Zords at
the rally. So what are they doing now? Who knows. They're just trash talking
the monster because the episode feels the need to pad for more time. The only
saving grace in this scene is when Jason finally brings up the elephant in the
room: They can't beat the Dinozords, but they can still fillet his fishy ass
and serve it with soy sauce.
I cannot tell you how annoying it's been watching three
weeks of this miniseries without a single character even suggesting they try to
fight the monster. Even if they don't end up fighting him, because that
would cost more to film than people standing around threatening each other, I
appreciate the show mentioning that beating Pirantishead should be like
shooting a fish in a barrel.
Pirantishead deflects this reasonable tactic by telling his opponents they can't beat him because their Zords are protecting him. Which makes
sense until the very next scene is the Tyrannosaurus and Dragonzord firing
attacks at the four wheelers in the rally. They're either protecting
Pirantishead or engaging in nihilistic violence. You can't have your cake and
eat it too Power Rangers.
Oh I'm sorry did I say the Dinozords attacked the four
wheelers? What I meant was that the Dragonzord fires missiles that make a stock
footage explosion occur, and the Tyrannosaurus uses its ground breath attack to
spew a bunch of dust all over the rally. All while the drivers say to each
other "What's going on?!" Well this time of year I'd say it's either
iron plated Paleozoic devils blasting laser beams from 300 feet in the sky or
it's aurora borealis.
Thankfully while innocent civilians are getting dust kicked
in their face by dinosaurs, Billy's found the time to get his overalls in gear
and finish that piece of shit Signal Blocker. Billy says he had to rush completing it, but it should still be in working order. Yeah Billy I'm sure
Einstein said the same thing about the A-Bomb.
Billy and Trini morph and immediately teleport to the scene
with the Signal Blocker in tow. Billy tries to use his device to stop the Zords
when…nothing happens. The Dinozords continue lumbering forward ready to attack.
The T-Rex Dinozord stomps down and the Rangers narrowly avoid it, all while
Billy frantically hammers the Signal Blocker's button wondering why this piece
of junk he scraped together in 20 minutes isn't working right. Truly a question
for the ages. Ah well. See you in Hell.
Jason tells his comrades the only way to salvage Billy's
masterful botchjob is to buy some time and assemble the Power Blaster. It's at
this exact moment that the show goes completely off the rails with what it's
trying to make us believe.
Jason arms the Power Blaster and says it's going to be a
diversionary tactic. We cut to Alpha and Zordon where Alpha specifically says
that "if the Rangers destroy the old Zords they can't take control of the
new Zords." Wait just a second here. The show is trying to convince me the Power Rangers are going to destroy the Zords? With the fucking Power Blaster? That
thing could only turn Gnarly
Gnome into a pile of fucking rocks. If the show wants me to believe they're
going to try and destroy the Zords with the Power Blaster, why did they have Jason
explicitly say he was only using it as a way to stall for time? Not that I
would ever believe something that goddamned ridiculous in the first place, but
at least try to synchronize the message you're sending to me.
Just as Alpha feared, the Rangers turn their weapons on the
Tyrannosaurus and Dragonzord and aim the Power Blaster at them. Suddenly Jason
commands his team to engage in their fake out routine. Which almost makes
all that earlier bullshit worth it.
Why didn't we do this two weeks ago?
Man I adore that moment. Pirantishead just getting
completely blindsided by a Power Blaster shot while he's busy playing his
flute. It's great. Unfortunately because of all the filler, we had to get that
scene of Jason telling Pirantishead they can beat him if they can't beat
the Zords. While I initially enjoyed that, it takes away from the fun of the
moment they actually surprise him here. It seems like the footage wanted us to think they were going to blast the Zords but nobody writing this episode cared enough to adjust the dialogue. C+ effort everyone.
Regardless, Jason commands Billy to fix the Signal Blocker
now that Pirantishead is out of commission. Yes Billy please "fix"
the Signal Blocker. Whatever is wrong with it surely can be solved in a matter
of seconds before the Dinozords trash us. Billy takes one last emergency
look at his gadget in the hopes that he can solve the problem when he finds out
exactly what was wrong.
The batteries were in upside down.
Billy was in such a rush to finish the Signal Blocker that
he put the batteries in the wrong way.
Okay Power Rangers
you got me. That's kinda funny.
Billy matches up the plus and minus signs and stops the
rampaging Dinozords from crushing he and his friends at the very last second.
Naturally. So what happened to the Dinozords that Pirantishead froze? Doesn't
matter. We don't have footage for that.
While the Ranger team cheers their narrow escape from death,
someone on the moon isn't particularly happy about this. Lord Zedd is more
pissed off than we've ever seen him before and is glowing as red as my face
when I tell someone in real life about this blog. Without his monster
controlling the Zords anymore, Lord Zedd fires energy from his staff to send
the Dinozords back into the Earth and strip them of all of their power. His
spell will also send toys based on them to the clearance shelves where the
poor kids will finally be able to afford them.
A massive hole opens up in the bottom of the earth and the
Rangers narrowly roll out of the way. Our heroes then watch helplessly as all
five Dinozords are swallowed up into a fiery crevice deep within the earth. Each Ranger calls out desperately but it's too late, all five Dinozords are
swallowed up and an enormous explosion triggers. Letting us all know that our
old friends are gone forever.
Maybe Lord Zedd should have done that in the first place.
Zordon tells Alpha to get his ass in gear and start working
to preserve as much of the energy from the Dinozords as possible if they want
to get the Thunderzords in working condition. That's awfully optimistic of you
Zordon, but you may have a hard time getting energy from Zords that Zedd just
sent to the burning depths of Hell.
Though the other five Dinozords have been demolished, the
Dragonzord has yet to be conquered by Zedd. Tommy takes the initiative to
command his Zord to go back into hiding in the water before he gets charbroiled
like the others. While things look less dire than before, Lord Zedd decides he
has one more way to up the stakes as he throws a silver orb down to Earth.
Pirantishead catches it and shows the Power Rangers how devoted he is to Zedd.
Allahu Ackbar
Just funnin' ya, that's one of Lord Zedd's growth bombs. As you might expect, it causes Pirantishead to grow sky high and threaten to eat his prey. Since they no longer have the Zords, our brave heroes wisely retreat to run and hide inside the Command Center. Hopefully Pirantishead finds more innocent civilians to kill instead of trying to follow us!
Jason says how terrible he feels for letting the Zords be
demolished by Zedd, and now everything they've worked for is meaningless.
Zordon tells them to shut the fuck up, what show do they think they're on?
Everything always works out great for the Power Rangers and then the fat guy
and the scrawny guy get covered in cake. Alpha found a way to recalibrate the
burning chunks of Zord from the bottom of the Earth into the new and improved
Thunderzords.
The only downside is that Tommy's powers are still far too
weak to power a new Zord and he will be unable to join them in the Zord battle.
Tommy's still able to morph but when the toys come out, he needs to sit his ass
down and let the new toys take the spotlight. Sorry chump, nobody wants a
Dragonzord anymore.
With the Thunderzords activated, the five core Rangers teleport into
the mountains where they each summon their new Thunderzord. First by calling on
the name of their Dinozord, then the name of the Thunderzord. I.E. "Mastodon
Lion Thunderzord Power!" Which I only mention because hearing Trini's actress
try desperately to say the sentence "Sabertooth Tiger Griffin Thunderzord
Power" in a two second timeframe is one of the highpoints of my
trash life.
All five Rangers call for the Thunderzords and we get an interesting scene of their individual Dinozords turning into their respective Thunderzord. Hope you didn't miss it this time though, we're only going to see it another nine hundred thousand times.
The Thunderzords then strut their stuff during a nice juicy
transformation sequence. The Red Dragon Thunderzord flies through thundering
clouds and roars while fire burns all around him. The other four Thunderzords
roll through a mountainous valley while roaring and showing surprising
articulation for what are ostensibly giant prop toys.
Then the Red Dragon Thunderzord converts to its previously
unmentioned Warrior Mode. Before we can get a good look at it (and I can get a
good screengrab of it), the Red Dragon Warrior Mode lets the other four
Thunderzords equip to his body and create the Thunder Megazord. Or Mega
Thunderzord as Zordon calls it. Stay on brand old man, you can't sell toys if
you don't know what they're called.
Here it is. Thunder Megazord VS. Pirantishead. Lord Zedd's
newest evil beast fighting against Zordon's brand new fleet of Zords. The
battle that you've all been waiting to encounter for the past three weeks.
Or at least it would be if it weren't a hacked together awful mess.
As I've already mentioned, Pirantishead comes from Zyu2
footage. Zyu2 monsters who would grow and battle the Dino Megazord. The Thunder
Megazord comes from Dairanger footage. The bottom line is that neither the Thunder Megazord nor Pirantishead can be on screen with one another at the same time.
Now take some time to imagine how impressive a fight would look if the most you
could see is one person throw a punch then immediately cut to their opponent reeling
from that punch. It's impossible for there to be any contact between the monster and the Zords in these fights.
Leading to really messy and uninteresting battles.
Sound shitty? Welcome to Season 2!
The newly formed Thunder Megazord poses a little bit before
unsheathing its Thunder Saber; then powering it up with surges of electricity
while Pirantishead charges at the Megazord. Nothing happens because these Zord
fights are held together by staples and a prayer, then Pirantishead suddenly
backs away and starts playing on his fish nunchucks. It does nothing because
they don't have the footage to portray it doing something, so it just makes
Pirantishead look like a drunken buffoon poorly trying to play an instrument
he's no good at.
Pirantishead slowly realizes just how fucking boring this
whole fight is and tries desperately to spice it up by hurling one section of
his nunchucks at the Thunder Megazord. It appears to tie up the Thunder
Megazord. At least you'd think that if you weren't looking close enough to see
the Dino Megazord is clearly standing in the explosion.
After Pirantishead sorely throttles the Megazord, Jason
demands that the other Rangers reroute the servos. Thankfully the crows and
gypsies are still online or else they'd be finished.
Back in the Command Center, Tommy mopes about how cool his
friends new toys are and how nobody gives a shit about him anymore. Alpha tries
to make him feel better while patting him on the back and promising they'll try
to find a way to get his powers recharged. Then Tommy holds Alpha in a tender
lover's embrace and the two kiss. Zordon is unable to divert his gaze and
watches as the two make passionate love on the Command Center floor.
While the Thunder Megazord is caught up in Pirantishead's
flute, Jason powers up the Thunder Saber and electrocutes a monster that is
definitely Pirantishead.
Pirantishead staggers from the attack as he tosses away his cut
in half fish nunchucks. He threatens to wallop the Thunder Megazord with his
bare fins. Sure you will ya lush, why not pick up that flute and play some more
bullshit tunes and wait for the sweet embrace of death.
Speaking of death's bountiful warmth, the Thunder Megazord
charges up its Thunder Saber with energy and kicks off the season right by
slaughtering Zedd's monster like so.
With his monster defeated and his plans completely
shithoused, Lord Zedd is furious. Not in the way that Rita got mad by bitching
and moaning about a headache, but by glowing red and screaming at his
underlings about how angry this makes him. Goldar bows and says he's sorry
Zedd's plan failed, but Zedd has none of it and screams "I DIDN'T FAIL!
YOU FAILED! JUST LIKE YOU FAILED BEFORE!" Obviously the great Zedd is
projecting here, but that doesn't take away from it being a gloriously unjustified freak-out.
However the best moment of this scene comes when we cut to
Finster inside of his lab looking through a small book. He's completely alone
and away from Zedd's rage while he silently quips to himself "Well if he'd
used one of MY monsters none of this would have ever happened." What a
totally perfect fucking ice burn. God I love Finster. That line is just
purified perfection. If you plan on watching this episode, please listen to
that line one extra time just for me.
Back at the Command Center, Zordon congratulates the Rangers
on an uninteresting hackjob Zord fight that still managed to convince kids to
go buy some toys. Zordon promises that in time the Thunderzords will reveal
even greater powers than ever before. Such as being on screen with the enemy at
the same time, and having punches that physically connect with the opponent.
Kimberly asks if Tommy's Dragonzord will be able to fight
alongside them anymore or if it's just as much of a limp dick loser as its
owner. Zordon laughs and says the Dragonzord might have once been a grade-A
pussy vanquisher, but now it's going to have to use its power sparingly before
it shits out during a fight and dies like his name was Apollo Creed.
Tommy frowns about how everyone around him thinks he's
useless but says its been fun while it lasted. Jason calms his friends nerves
by telling Tommy he'll always be part of the Power Rangers. A sentence that
would haunt Jason David Frank's nightmares for years to come. Billy says they
might be able to reenergize Tommy's powers and looks at Trini while saying,
"anything's possible right?" Trini responds by turning away from
Billy while we watch his soul die from the outside. That sound like something
I'm making up? Go and watch this one for yourself, I think you'll be pleasantly
surprised.
Tommy tries to distract himself from his waning powers by
inquiring whatever happened to that musty old space hag Rita? Alpha 5 brings up
her image on the Viewing Globe and sees her sitting all by her lonesome inside
Zedd's space dumpster while singing "99 Bottles of Slime." Whatever
you want to call it Rita, I'm sure you needed a lot of "slime" to
take the edge off every week the Power Rangers beat the piss out of one of your
dumbass monsters.
This moment is goofy enough, but we then cut to Zordon
singing the song himself. Yeah that's right. Zordon. Singing. It's so fucking
silly. I can't help but love it though. This stoic giant head in a jar singing
an old bar song and giggling about it. What more do you need in life?
Alpha 5 suddenly realizes Pirantishead's magic spell hasn't
completely worn off and is still in effect on Bulk and Skull's four wheelers. The
Ranger Teens laugh at their supposed friends because they're sociopaths, as
Trini suggests Billy help them out. She'd go do it herself but she's already
used her allotted screen time this week saying three words. Billy and the rest
of the Ranger Teens teleport to the valley where Bulk and Skull's bikes are
going out of control, and Billy tunes his Signal Blocker. Oh I almost forgot to
mention what the Signal Blocker looks like!
Now that Billy has perfected the art of putting in batteries
the right way, he uses the Signal Blocker to stop Bulk and Skull's ATV's. Kimberly
and Tommy do the polite thing and ask the boys why they were acting like such
idiots and riding their bikes in reverse, and mercilessly laugh at the bullies
while they tell their terrifying story of being hunted by a group of evil pasty
faced golems and a fish musician.
Bulk proudly tells the closest thing he has to real friends
that he plans on finding out who the Power Rangers really are, which Kimberly
responds to with a touch of indifference and a tiny helping of caution. Bulk
and Skull may be stupid, but the Ranger Teens teleport out of hallways all the time.
Wouldn't be hard to slip up here or there.
The rest of the Ranger Teens bring up their four wheelers
and say they've got a marathon to finish. Bulk and Skull hop on a spare ATV
before all of our main characters and Trini ride through to the finish line.
This episode gets a gold star for not inexplicably having the named characters
come in first, but happily cross the finish line a little bit after everyone
else. I also have to give credit to all the audience members for sticking this race
out though. They managed to think so little of those enormous dinosaurs
blasting racers that they stuck out the rest of the race. Kudos Angel Grove,
you are breeding some brass balled champions.
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Personal Thoughts
This episode is a real whirlwind. We get the destruction of
the Dinozords, the first official appearance of the Thunderzords and Thunder Megazord, and the
first defeat of Lord Zedd's forces. For all the whining I did earlier I enjoy
the majority of what this episode presents. It's a mostly satisfying conclusion
to "The Mutiny" miniseries only weighed down by some filler early on and a spliced to shit Thunder Megazord battle against Pirantishead.
Before I get too far into the Megazord battle, I wanted to
mention that Season 2 has now updated its credits sequence to include scenes of
Lord Zedd, the Thunderzords, and the Z-Putties harassing Bulk and Skull. What I find most intriguing about the new credits
is a quick shot of the teens morphing. Well, some of them anyway.
What an oddly random selection of who to spotlight in your
opening credits. Ah well, probably doesn't mean anything.
I didn't want to forget showing off the new Thunder Megazord cockpit. It doesn't look amazing by any means, but it's completely American made so you can tell the show was trying their best to at least make something palatable. Let me know what you folks think.
The Rangers give it a thumbs up!
The sequence of the Dinozords getting destroyed doesn't come
from Zyu2, but instead is repurposed footage from Green
With Evil Part 4. More specifically the scene where the Megazord separates
into its Dinozord components and sink into the lava. Interesting to note is
that the script of this episode doesn't have a scene of Zedd sending the Zords
to the depths, but follows the Zyu2 Zord fight with Megazord and Pirantishead
pretty closely. The Dino Megazord would get one last brawl in before upgrading
to the Thunder Megazord to finish off Pirantishead when the fight turned
against the Power Rangers.
So what all were we missing from the Zyu2 footage? Well just
like Two Headed Parrot and Lizzinator before him, Pirantishead ducks prior to
growing. Only this time it comes from official unedited footage of Zyu2, and
proves my fascinating theory that some 20 year old rubber suits would occasionally
squat down.
What footage did we lose after Pirantishead grows? Pretty simple. An
entire fucking Zord fight.
Power Rangers still had 10 Zyu2 monsters left over after Season 1 wrapped up, so they decided not to lose money on that investment and use these monsters to transition into Season 2. Instead of introducing the Thunderzords later in Season 2 after exhausting the Zyu2 footage, Saban Brands wanted to premiere the Thunderzords as early as possible because this show is made to sell toys and don't you ever forget it. This meant splicing together the remaining Zyu2 monster Zord fights with the new Thunderzords and providing some lackluster and altogether unimpressive battles.
Power Rangers still had 10 Zyu2 monsters left over after Season 1 wrapped up, so they decided not to lose money on that investment and use these monsters to transition into Season 2. Instead of introducing the Thunderzords later in Season 2 after exhausting the Zyu2 footage, Saban Brands wanted to premiere the Thunderzords as early as possible because this show is made to sell toys and don't you ever forget it. This meant splicing together the remaining Zyu2 monster Zord fights with the new Thunderzords and providing some lackluster and altogether unimpressive battles.
Not to mock the people involved in the show, because they
made the best out of a bad situation. You're mandated to hack together some
battles where two opponents can never be on screen together at the same time
AND you have to show off some new toys we're releasing. Also you're going to
edit this together using 1994 technology and we're going to air it on prime
time so better not fuck up. That's not an enviable position to be in and I
actually feel sympathetic for the editors of Power Rangers.
So enough babbling, what happened in the original Zyu2
Pirantishead Zord fight? For those who want to see for themselves I'll link the
video right here, but I'll
still summarize it for those who don't enjoy watching 20 year old action shows.
Pirantishead tried fighting Megazord by himself, but got his
big fishy face punched in. When he realized how bad he was losing, Pirantishead
used his fish flute to summon the Dragonzord to double team the Megazord. That
explains the nonsensical scene of Pirantishead blowing on his flute against the
Thunder Megazord for absolutely no reason.
Pirantishead ties up the Megazord with his flute and causes
it to spark burst with energy. Explaining the image posted above where you can
still make out the original Megazord. Then Pirantishead and Dragonzord try to
go in for the kill together, but are stopped by Titanus blasting the monster
with fireballs. Or at least a black screen representing stock footage of
Titanus charging, same thing. This attack releases Dragonzord from the
monster's control, and Ultrazord is formed to finish Pirantishead off once and
for all.
In the script I mentioned above, the Dragonzord controlling
was all present and accounted for, but it was the "Thunder Megazord's
light" that freed him from Pirantishead. So you decide for yourselves
which approach sounds better. The script with the original Megazord being
upgraded into the Thunder Megazord, or Zedd eradicating the Dinozords and the
Thunderzords fighting Pirantishead on their own.
Before we conclude I need to atone for one of the dumbest
theories I've ever concocted. The shot of Pirantishead swinging his flute from
side to side in the Zord fight seemed really weird to me as I observed Zyu2
footage long long ago, so I made the really bizarre and arbitrary assumption that
this monster was supposed to be portrayed as a drunk in the Zyu2 footage.
I presumed his swaying around while goofily playing his flute
and staggering around was supposed to be seen as comical and tipsy. What I
didn't realize was this show was trying to make me sincerely believe in a fish
monster holding a nunchuck to its mouth while twirling the other half around. In retrospect
I think I should have known what the truth was.
In the meantime I've seen maybe one or two people mention "Pirantishead is
a drunk???" as an actual idea behind Zyu2. I would like to apologize to
anyone who actually heard this half baked theory that came freshly from the
mind of some kid with too much time on his hands. Thankfully this wasn't the
stupidest theory I came up with regarding Zyu2.
That comes next week.
Major props for the MST3K reference, and for everything you've given us so far, but mostly the MST3K reference
ReplyDeleteIt's a shame that original Zord fight wasn't used because it was a damn good one. And in the fan edit I really liked how Pirantishead mimicked the Dragon Dagger's tone to control it.
ReplyDeleteMy biggest issue with season two is if they needed more powerful zords to fight Zedd monsters when grown how come they could hold there own at regular size. I always wanted some sort of update to them, no suits or power up even new weapons. (Would of helped with toy sales too)
ReplyDeleteI thought it was just that Zedd/Pirantishead couldn't take control of the Thunderzords.
DeleteMaybe that was the intent of the random shots of the Thunder Megazord in between shots of the monster playing his flute. Maybe he was supposed to be controlling the Megazord until the Rangers powered up the sabre for the millionth time
DeleteBilly wearing those gloves while working on the signal blocker, because David Yost isn't trying to get electrocuted by faulty props again...
ReplyDeleteYou know what's more ridiculous than the amount of times they kill the monster with the Thunder Sabre is the Japanese name for the finishing move. In Dairanger, Dairenoh's finshing attack was called the Sturm und Drang which is German for storm and stress. Can someone tell me what the fuck that has to do with a energy slash? Know what's even funnier? That shot where it sprays monsters with a cloud of smoke such as Flame Head who it blinded? I gathered that it was called the Chi Kung Shot. Ladies and gentlemen, the weirdest names for fatal attacks of all time.
ReplyDelete"Sturm und Drang" as a figure of speech kinda means something like "A big dramatic display"
DeleteIt's really too bad we didn't get that last battle with the Megazord that the script called for. I always interpreted the Pirhantishead blowing his flute scene as an attempt to get the Thunder Megazord under his control since he blew on the flute a lot longer than usual when it only took one blast to freeze the others and bring Tyrannosaurus and Dragonzord under his control.
ReplyDeleteThat said, I do watch the original Zord fight all the time because it's just that good. Shame on you, writers!!
I wonder if the intent of Red Ranger suddenly looking to his left with his arm raised was meant to be used for summoning Thor before Austin left and JDF was made leader. Because it sure looks like summoning footage
ReplyDeleteI was looking for a GIF of "Macho Man" Randy Savage and Hulk Hogan and somehow I ended up here. Yay Google? Anyway, OMG this blog entry was hilarious! Cynical, but hilarious! I definitely remember thinking everything you said about the power blaster when it aired. I still insist this was one of Zedd's very best monsters and we never got the payoff in the zord fight. A pity.
ReplyDeleteI also hated how they could splice together footage of Thunder Megazord "fighting" monsters but couldn't do the same thing for DragonZord??? If we can't get actual zord encounters, at least give us the best zord of all time!
Anyway, I laughed hard many times reading this entry. I'm definitely going to read more of em!