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 eighty eighth episode of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers as
well as the twenty eighth episode of Season 2, titled "The Power Transfer Part 2".
We begin this episode back with Rocky, Adam, and Aisha who are all tied up in the park.
The wind has changed, and the sleep gas is coming their way.
Luckily, there's a random soccer ball there that Adam gets.
He then tells Rocky to go behind the tree before yelling "Go, Rocky!
Run away!", faking out the putties until he kicks the soccer ball into one of their
Z chests, dropping the keys and releasing them again.
The three then fight the putties like they're pretty much already the new Rangers.
Then, they use the soccer ball to hit the sleep machine, knocking it out of the air,
and it dissolves.
Meanwhile, Serpentera is still decimating an entire planet while the Rangers are focusing
on getting a sword loose.
Billy takes out the ring that they got from Zordon, puts it on the statue's finger,
and it releases the sword, grabbing it.
Zedd presses down a button dramatically to kill the Power Rangers, completely destroying
the entire planet again, and Jason yells "Alpha, teleport us now!" before we see the statue's
head in fire.
Alpha is in the Command Center, pressing random buttons, and the Rangers are coming in pairs
before Billy comes in, taking off his helmet, and he presses buttons too, getting Tommy.
Zordon says "glad you guys didn't die", and he says it's time to prepare because
Zedd is going to destroy Earth with Serpentera.
Then, Trini says they can't leave yet, but Zordon says "eh, it's fine", and he
beholds the new Rangers: Adam, Rocky, and Aisha.
Tommy holds the Sword of Light above his head, and he transfers the power from Jason to Rocky,
from Zack to Adam, and from Trini to Aisha.
Zordon thanks the departing Rangers for their courage, and it's weird because there's
just two sets of these Rangers.
They then leave as Zordon tells the newbies about their Zords and stuff before they take
off their helmets.
They they all do this weird secret handshake?
Serpentera is coming toward Earth, and Goldar says they're not going too fast because
Serpentera lost a lot of its energy on the Deserted Planet.
Zedd says "screw it", and he creates a giant tick monster called Silverhorns.
The alarms go off in the Command Center, and the six Rangers move out.
They fight Silverhorns, and I have to say, it's nice to hear the actual actors doing
ADR for the suits again.
Been a hot minute since we had that!
Silverhorns calls out the putties, and they attack the Rangers to the tune of Ron Wasserman's
Combat.
Zedd sees that they're at full strength, pissed that they have new Rangers, and he's
mad at Goldar for them being successful, so he tosses down a growing bomb, making Silverhorns
giant.
Zordon tells Tommy to call out Tor, and Rocky says he's going to take on the monster on
his own because clearly, he has the tiniest dick and the most to prove.
He calls out the Red Dragon Thunderzord in Warrior Mode, and he fights Silverhorns.
Then, the sky randomly goes dark, which is confusing and has no affect on anything besides
the Zord just now fighting the monster with a filter over the footage.
The five other Rangers see Serpentera getting ready to land from the ground, and the giant
dragon looms from above, landing and standing giant.
Tommy calls out the White Tiger Thunderzord, converting it into Warrior Mode immediately
to help Rocky.
Zedd yells at Goldar to destroy Angel Grove, but then, Serpentera goes dark, and Goldar
says they're out of power completely, so now they're just… standing there.
The White Tigerzord in Warrior Mode shows up, and it and the Red Dragon Thunderzord
fight Silverhorns, getting their asses kicked pretty easily.
Then, Tommy finally calls out Tor despite Zordon saying to do that forever ago.
Whatever, the others call out all of their own Thunderzords, forming the chariot and
combining with Tor while the White Tigerzord goes inside of him.
They go up in the air and drop down, squashing Silverhorns.
Take that, Lyme Disease.
Then, Zedd says "do we have power yet, Thomas Edison?!" to Goldar which is one of the
best lines ever.
They then get a little bit of power and bail, and Zedd promises to kill everyone some other
time or whatever before Serpentera takes off from the ground, disappearing over the city
toward the moon.
In the Command Center, on the viewing globe, everyone is watching Jason, Zack, and Trini
get to the airport in a taxi, and Kim waves.
Aisha is also stoked to save the world from Zedd, and Zordon says "congrats on being
a new team".
They put their hands in the center a la Day of the Dumpster and freeze frame into a new
era.
This episode isn't the worst thing to ever happen, but man, is it weird or what?
Jason, Zack, and Trini are just… gone now.
People who have been there since the very first episode are gone, some to never be seen
again in Power Rangers history to date.
It was extremely traumatic for me as a child to watch this episode and see this happen,
because I didn't like Adam, Aisha, and Rocky at all.
Now, as an adult, throughout Mighty Morphin, they're pretty much cardboard cutouts until
those who stick around until Season 4 of the franchise get some sort of characterization.
So, why did Jason, Zack, and Trini even leave in the first place?
Well, I wish I could say that it was a mutual decision between the actors and the production
team, but nope.
Turns out, the principal actors of the show felt like they were being taken advantage
of financially, which to be honest, they were.
The show made billions of dollars in its first year, and the actors were paid the same as
someone who worked at McDonald's while being exempt from overtime, working 6 days a week
for 12 hours a day with the sixth day usual being in a studio to record their voices over
the suited footage.
In addition to this, none of them were "union", which means they didn't have the ability
to get any sort of health insurance for themselves nor did they have a minimum wage or even true
worker's compensation laws because if they got hurt, they would be stuck with the bill.
The three actors, Austin St. John, Walter Jones, and Thuy Trang, decided that after
the massive hit, they wanted to negotiate something a little bit more fair for themselves,
basically just wanting basic job requirements and a liveable wage.
Oh, and did I mention to this day, they still don't get royalties for their work or their
likeness being used for toy molds?
Man.
So, the three attempted to converse about it with someone in the production, and they
were immediately fired, told to not return to set.
Evidently, in hindsight, the actress who plays Kimberly, Amy Jo Johnson, has said that she
didn't really understand what they were fighting for at the time because she didn't
know how bad it was, but if she had, she would've joined them in their demand for fair pay and
whatnot.
It does make you wonder how the show would've played out had all six stood together and
decided to have a conversation with production at the time, but sadly, we'll never know.
Sorry, did I hurt your childhood there a bit?
It's a crappy part of the show's history, and honestly, it's far from the worst part
of it, but we'll get there when we do.
Ads were then placed for three new ranger actors, and Steve Cardenas, Johnny Young Bosch,
and Karan Ashley were cast in the new roles, and they were then integrated into the show
as slowly as possible despite the other three being gone.
In fact, they've been gone since Episode 20 of Season 2.
For reference, that was 8 episodes ago.
They were terrified that this change would lose a ton of viewers, especially while Power
Rangers was in the absolute peak of its glory days, having already inked a deal for a full
length feature film to be filmed in Australia later that year.
All I can say is that all of this knowledge makes me welcome the three new actors a little
more because I can't imagine the feeling on set the first day when you find out that
the person you're replacing got fired.
Must've been… awkward to say the least.
So, how will the next episode be?
Will we see the three fill in the vacant roles?
Find out next time, but until then, may the power protect you!
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