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 hundred and twentieth episode of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers as
well as the eighth episode of Season 3, titled "A Brush with Destiny".
We begin this episode at the Youth Center where Tommy and Aisha are hanging out, checking
out a junior police event.
Kim is there too, zoned out.
She has good and bad news.
Good news is that her mom is engaged to marry a French painter, which we see is pretty much
Pepe Le Pew as a human being… and Aisha calls him cute even though he's the farthest
thing from it.
Bad news is he lives in Paris, and Kim says they're moving there.
Later, we see Kim on the phone in bed, talking to Aisha, and Aisha says that they'll meet
up the next day and think of something.
Can we just take a moment to appreciate that they have color coded phones?
Kim falls asleep immediately, and she has a dream that the French painter is a monster,
and the Pink Ranger says goodbye to her from behind bars.
On the moon, Finster has a gift for Rita, a device which conveniently lets them watch
the dreams of humans.
They decide to make the monster from her nightmare real.
At the park the next day, Tommy says "hey, you look like you didn't sleep too well"
to Kim.
Well, damn, Tommy.
Kim explains her nightmares to them, and Adam says "we should tell Zordon", and Billy
says, "I'm sure he already knows".
Okay, that's creepy as hell.
Why would Zordon just be watching Kim sleep?
Kim doesn't want to talk it over with her mom because she's so happy right now.
Meanwhile, Finster has tinkered the machine to make a dream into a reality, so Rito and
some Tengas show up in the park.
Ninja Power Now!
All six of the Ninja Rangers fight off the big birds, and Kim is so tired, things are
going blurry.
God damn, Kim, get it together.
You've not even under a spell.
Then, they grab Kim and start running with her.
Tommy tries to help, but he's useless.
Rito and Finster show up in the park, and Rito slaps Kim's hand away from him, knocking
off her communicator.
Finster then zaps her, getting the monster out of her nightmares.
This is a weird ass episode.
The Tengas fly away, and the Rangers help Kim.
Meanwhile, Bulk and Skull are sleeping in the Youth Center, waking up to find that all
the works of art have been stolen.
Kim's almost stepdad's painting is gone!
At school, Billy and Adam talk to Bulk and Skull, hearing that the painting is missing.
They think this has to do with Rita and Zedd.
This weird because we know it has nothing to do with them at all.
Everyone sans Kim meets up, hearing from Zordon.
They teleport away just as Kim comes up, confused as to where everyone is.
She tries to get in touch with Zordon, and that's when she realizes that she dropped
her communicator.
The others arrive in the Command Center, and they see the monster, aka the Artistmole.
Zordon will search for Kim while the others go deal with it.
It's morphin' time!
Artistmole uses his color palette to fire at them before we see that the Rangers can't
even touch him, flying through him in a terrible, VideoToaster effect.
Tommy calls out Ninjor who just rides in on a damn cloud.
Artistmole says he wants that new shade of blue, and Ninjor tries to slice him to no
avail.
Then, Artistmole zaps out the colors from the Rangers, but let's be real, the White
and Black Rangers look the exact same.
At the Command Center, Alpha is flipping his lid about everything, and he tries to make
the communicator louder or something.
Luckily, this is the same time that Kim finds her Communicator, and she answers, looking
like she's terrified she's about to be screamed at.
She shows up in the Command Center, and she explains that's the monster from her dreams,
and Alpha points out that the other Rangers thought that it was from a painting.
Yeah, seriously, why are we trying to misdirect the plot to somewhere we know we can't go
to?
Kim says she's not afraid to take on that monster, but Zordon says that she needs to
face her anxieties about moving, and Kim says "I guess I am afraid of leaving the Power
Rangers and Angel Grove".
Zordon says that her mom wouldn't let anything bad happen to her.
I'm confused as to what the moral is here.
Oh well, Zordon says that she's ready now, and she needs to destroy the palette.
It's morphin' time!
Kim flips in, getting zapped at by Artistmole before she gets taken down.
Then, he tries to shove his paintbrush on her, but she stops him.
She then uses her Blade Blaster on him, calling him Moleman.
(insert "no one's gay for Moleman" clip).
Artistmole just….
Explodes?
That was underwhelming.
Rita and Zedd make their monster grow giant, so it's time for some Ninja Zord Power!
The five core Zords come flying out, combining into the Ninja Megazord while Ninjor grows
giant.
Then, Ninjor just gets angry for no reason, turning into his Battle Mode, firing at the
monster.
Then, finally, Tommy shows up in the Falconzord, combining into the Ninja Falcon Megazord,
and in another seizurific attack, Artistmole is dead.
At the Youth Center, the painting is back, and Bulk and Skull accuse Kim's mom and
soon-to-be stepfather of stealing the painting, but turns out, they're just… returning
it?
What was the point of that?
Kim comes up, saying that she needs to talk to her mom about everything, and she basically
has a nervous breakdown in front of her.
Then, Aisha and her parents come up, inviting Kim to come stay with Aisha for the rest of
the school year, so she'll be moving to France after she graduates.
Aisha and Kim hug.
The end.
Over the credits, we see a cut scene with Lieutenant Stone is giving the assignment
to be alert to Bulk and Skull.
That's it!
This episode, man.
It's kind of all over the place, huh?
For the life of me, I cannot tell you the point of the Rangers thinking that the monster
was from the painting at all.
Also, Kim's mom is just going to move to another country without her daughter while
she lives with her friend just so she can get her bone zone on with some French guy?
Who's a PAINTER, which means he can pretty much work from literally anywhere??
This plot is pretty thin, guys.
Overall, this episode is only saved by Amy Jo Johnson being the best performer.
That's pretty much it.
So, will the next episode fair any better?
Until then, may the power protect you!
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