Welcome to Ranger Reviews, a webseries where we look at episodes of the tv show, Power
Rangers and then discuss it!
Today, we're exploring the sixty fourth episode of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers as
well as the fourth episode of Season 2, titled "The Wanna-Be Ranger".
We start this episode at a basketball court outside of what appears to be the Youth Center
where everyone except for Zack is dribbling up a storm.
Don't worry though, we're getting some dumb ass slam dunks.
I also like the fact that someone passes to Trini, and just before you get excited thinking
that they actually let Thuy Trang jump off a trampoline and do something cool in the
air, she passes it over to Billy.
Kim gets the ball, and she's scared because someone in a big, white monkey suit taps her
on the shoulder lightly.
It's Zack.
Dear Power Ranger executives: why in God's name would you ever think it was okay to put
your one African American character in a monkey costume?
Turns out, Zack was wearing the suit to perform at his little cousin's birthday party.
I can only guess that kid told their mom that they wanted to see a monkey do dance karate,
and she was like "I'VE GOT JUST THE THING."
Zack gets out of the monkey suit to reveal he's wearing a damn hoodie under the suit.
Then, they're beeped to come to the Command Center, and Jason just tosses the basketball
away for no reason whatsoever.
They show up, prepared to take on Zedd, but Alpha says, "no, this is actually about
Zordon".
Turns out, due to a galactic imbalance caused by the linear alignment of the planets in
the solar system, he is about to temporarily deionize… which means, his voice actor request
this day off.
Zordon says that Alpha will be running things at the Command Center, and the teens go back
to Angel Grove while Alpha says that he'll be fine all alone in the Command Center in
the saddest diction ever.
On the moon, Zedd plans to create the Primator now that Zordon is gone, and he uses his staff
to bring Zack's monkey suit to life, creating the latest monster.
Meanwhile, Alpha is bored, so he looks on the viewing globe to see some dumbass kid
running around in the park screaming for his mommy.
Alpha goes to call the teens to help, but then he decides to do it himself?
Why?
It's okay, he lands in front of Bulk and Skull, who panic and run away.
Alpha says that that he'll help this kid find their mom, and he introduces himself
as a Command Center prototype.
I don't think the writers of this show know what a "prototype" is, but it's okay,
because Alpha tells this child, named Dylan, that he should stay put so that his mom can
find him.
Stranger danger, Dylan, run!
Just kidding, he tries to teach Alpha soccer.
Primator shows up behind a bush, and he turns into Billy.
Turns out that's a thing he can do.
Not Billy catches the soccerball from midair, and he's a dick to Alpha, and he seems himself
in Alpha's head, and it causes him to turn back into Primator.
Then, the monster tries to attempt Dylan, who gets away, and Alpha reacts by enabling
self destruct.
What the hell?!
Jesus, Alpha, you could've just… not turned into a suicide bomber.
Jesus Christ.
Whatever, Primator goes to the Youth Center, and he turns into Zack.
There, he runs up to Kim and Trini, and he tells them that Tommy is fighting putties
in the park, and he's losing his powers.
He says he'll find Billy and Jason while they go there, and of course, as they leave,
he drinks a banana shake.
At the park, Trini and Kimberly find nothing, so they attempt to contact Jason, and he's
with the other three guys in Billy's lab.
And they're all wearing headphones so that they can't hear their communicators go off.
Seriously?!
Zordon leaves for 10 minutes, and everyone just starts doing whatever the hell they want.
The putties show up, ambushing Trini and Kimberly, and Kim gives the audience a reminder that
they have to go for the Z now.
They have zero issues destroying these putties, by the way.
Guess that was just a season opener thing.
They go back to the Youth Center, where Tommy is being a show off by doing karate in front
of Jason, Billy, and Zack.
Trini and Kim come in, and they're pissed at Zack for lying about Tommy losing his powers.
The six realize that something weird is going on, and they attempt to contact Alpha, but
no go because he's about to die in the park.
Yeah, ten minutes until self destruct.
At the Command Center, Zordon is already back not even 10 minutes since he left, and Zordon
lets them know that Alpha is "in the arms of a little boy named Dylan", which sounds
a lot more pedophilic than I think they intended.
Oh, also, the Primator is around.
He's at Angel Grove Harbor, and Kim and Trini apologize for assuming Zack lied.
WHICH THEY SHOULD BECAUSE IT'S A DAMN POWER RANGER!
It's morphin time!
The six Rangers show up, and they pose in front of him, and then suddenly, there's
two yellow Rangers.
Jason suggests they both fight him, and he'll be able to tell by their fighting styles.
The real Trini is a wuss and says that she can't fight Jason, and the fake goes "well,
I can!
Watch this!" and she flies through the air before getting shot down by the other rangers
with their Blade Blasters.
Part of me wishes they had just shot the real Trini who was so happy to finally do something.
The fake yellow turns into Primator who takes out a staff, and there's a really cool fight
between the six before Jason targets him, and he runs through them and slaps his own
ass.
Zack goes after him on his own before getting thrown off the side of a wall, and they find
Zack again, and of course, it's the fake.
He turns from Blue to Pink to Red, and Jason decides to go after him one on one again,
and then the fake Red blasts them after pretending to be real.
This is really annoyingly difficult to describe.
The six teleport away to regroup.
At the Command Center, Zordon shows them when Primator turned back to normal back again,
he saw his own reflection.
And of course, Kimberly has a mirror on her that's blue with a triceratops insignia
on the back.
This is the dumbest.
Whatever, they go back to the harbor.
Apparently, they somehow got split up with Blue, Red and Yellow isolated, walking down
a road to find Tommy screaming about how he's losing his powers.
They hurry to his aid when he says that they just give up, and Jason just straight up kicks
him in the face.
What if Tommy was just like "I'm too weak, I have to give in on this one guys, bye"?
Whatever, Billy shows Tommy his own reflection to reveal that he's the Primator, who then
just shatters the mirror.
Sorry, Kim.
The other three Rangers show up, and somehow, this monkey has lightning powers now?
Whatever, Zedd makes him grow, and the Rangers call out the Thunderzords and the Dragonzord.
There's a decently well edited together zord fight until the Thunder Megazord just
kills Primator right away.
Good thing though, because 15 seconds until self destruct for Alpha.
Trini tells Billy to disarm the self destruct mode like right in front of that child.
By calling him Billy.
Whatever.
The kid's mom is there, and the rangers piss off.
At the Command Center, Alpha gets yelled at by Zordon for ditching the Command Center,
and Alpha laments the fact that he'll never be able to learn how to play soccer.
Whomp whomp.
This episode is pretty solid, to be honest.
The Alpha plot and the Rangers plot is completely disjointed, and it's weird, but I don't
mind it too much.
Seeing Alpha outside of the Command Center is kind of refreshing, and I like that he
genuinely wants to do something besides just stand there and hit random buttons on a console.
The monster was decent, and the fights were all pretty good too.
Honestly, if the rest of Season 2 is like this episode, we're in a for a treat!
Spoiler alert: no treats are to be had ahead.
Will next episode start to dip in quality or do we have some time to procrastinate the
inevitable?
Find out next time, but until then, may the power protect you!
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