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02 - Lightspeed Teamwork

-This episode's cold-open revolves around Diabolico and his minions. The Battlebeast one shares that the LR secret base is underwater; not so secret is it? Luckily, water apparently does "something" to the beasts. I'd also like to remind people that these monsters were trapped in the middle of the desert... it probably would have been a better idea to dunk that tomb in a pool of water eh? Lastly, what is the point of that dumb looking dragon baby?

Eh, I see your point, but then we don't have a story. So we roll with it. And the point the dragon baby is that... he's a baby. I wonder if maybe the infant son of the Queen Demon who is still lost (pretty sure Diabolico says as much in this episode) might play some role down the way?

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-The original MMPR teens used to wear color coordinated outfits. This season, the teenagers wear the exact same clothes in each episode. Did the costume designer just give up? Was there even a costume designer on set? I just hope that these guys aren't stuck with the same outfits throughout the entire run. I'm surprised that there aren't any uniforms worn on deck... at all. The entire crew seems super chill.

This had been established in Lost Galaxy, where with few exceptions the team always wore the same outfits. Part of it was explained as several members of the team wearing uniforms. It's become a trope in it's own right.

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-During this episode, we meet Ms. Fairweather... she tells the gang that Diabolico will stop at nothing to destroy Mariner City. Maybe the dude just wants his land back. He did have a palace there right? He was probably minding his own business until some human came around and trapped them in the desert. Are the people completely innocent for building a city on top of what essentially is an Indian burial ground? Shoot, maybe Diabolico is the good guy here.

This is true; but, this is also a kids show so we're probably not going to get too involved with this line of thought, yes? /DeathsHead

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...Also, this week's baddie did nothing but show up as a giant. I'm sure his human-sized footage contains way too much Japan.

Nope, he's gigantic all the time in Japan as well. It's his thing.

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-Rail Rescue's reveal sure made me nostalgic for the old stuff. I miss the days when these scenes were done with physical props instead of cg renders. Then it just shocked me that the Rangers were willing to make so much collateral damage in order to save three Japanese kids in an elevator. You'd think that the best course of action is to stop the monster before tending three insignificant ants. Instead, the Rangers spend so much time turning their Zords into a walking water cannon. It's great that the combination sequence was interrupted, but the Megazord's just throws the MotW as its finisher?

This is a GoGoV thing which is carried over. In GoGoV they are the "Rescue Soldiers," so the preservation of human life is what is most important. So getting the people out of harm's way is the most efficient way for the series to show us this. As for the toss... yeah, pretty silly, but a better finisher is coming soon, heh.

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-After watching this episode, I don't know what the point of Joel's story is. He doesn't do anything to compromise the team at all, unless you count him playing hooky on a meeting to get flowers as a problem. There wasn't anything worth putting focus on, making this a filler episode. Besides the introduction of the Megazord and Ms. Fairweather, there wasn't anything here that drove the plot.

You answered your own question, dude.

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