[TokuChris]

I couldn't get over how unbelievably childish this episode was written. For starters you have a cartoon gag in someone flying off screen and crashing with debris flying everywhere and the cliche "where did everyone go?" gag when Brody turns to look for the others to try out their Elemental Stars.

Then, the "pop quiz" in math class (sorry, "Lightning Quiz", must be a New Zealand term) is nothing but basic addition and subtraction. Yet it's a high school class. To me, that says the writers are gearing everything towards the kids.

And before everyone jumps in and says "BUT POWER RANGERS IS FOR KIDS", a show can be targeted at kids without literally writing it at a kids' level. Spongebob Squarepants is a kids show - a LITTLE kids show at that - and still managers to pull off superb writing and enough adult humor that mom and dad can laugh.

People often refer to MMPR as the catalyst of all this "dry humor". But MMPR also had episodes that dealt with overcoming fears (Billy's fear of heights, Kim's uncle passing out and her having to overcome her fears and land the plane) as well as real-life situations (Kim lamenting that her parents are divorced, having to cancel on a friend to save the world and trying to make it up to said-friend, etc.). MMPR was definitely aimed at kids but not to the point that the Power Rangers at around and colored in their off-time. Yet, I wouldn't be surprised if I saw Brody bust out a coloring book with Redbot in their downtime.

This episode got 2/5 from me. The fact that they got "Ninja Master Mode", yet didn't do anything to get it, is another example of not knowing how to write in toys to the story. Maybe someone should reach out to Super Sentai and Kamen Rider's writing teams to figure out a proper way to utilize a new toy in an episode as opposed to "Hey guys, look - the Ninja Prism Star gave us these new Power Stars, let's use them!".