[DreamSword]

Alright, so... I know I'm probably not gonna be making any friends over what I'm about to say, so I'mma just say it. To me, the third weakest season of Power Rangers is:

Lost Galaxy

Pre-Show Preamble

Now before you all lynch me, lemme just make this clear: I am by no means trying to claim that Lost Galaxy is a bad season. Personally, I'd put it in the category of "okay." As for why that is, well, it's for a reason that again, I imagine many would be likely to disagree with me on.

For lack of a better term, it's because outside of a few specific aspects, I find it to be on the bland side of things. inb4 this is fish's' favorite season

See, here's the thing. To me it was clear that with Lost Galaxy, Saban was trying to go for a more "down to Earth" sort of approach with its characters. Ironic given its space theme, but hey, that's something the series hadn't really done before, so I'm all for trying something new. The unfortunate result of that though is that I can never remember almost anyone or anything about this season, and I've seen it three times now. Like, yes, Overdrive and SMF ARE worse off, but you know, in their defense, atleast I can actually remember their cast and a majority of what happened in those seasons. Atleast with those I had laughs. Atleast with those, I had stuff to be able to talk about with others. Here? Outside of Kendrix, Karone, and one other character? I struggle hard in remembering everything Lost Galaxy had to offer outside of it killing off Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog(a great show by the way). One thing that will always stick around in my mind about the season though is the character we'll be mainly focusing on with today's' episode...

Episode 10: The Sunflower Search

Yeah it's the Magna Defender, did you really expect anyone else?

Magna Defender is easily the best and most memorable character in the entirety of Lost Galaxy, and is also one of the few times the Sixth Ranger has been my favorite.

The previous episode was his introduction, which already garnered alot of intrigue, but this episode here cemented it, and immediately too, with an opening scene that stands out as one of the best in the entire franchise.

Magna Defender wants revenge on the big bad, Scorpius, because Scorpius looted and laid waste to the Defender's' home planet. During what would've been a final standoff, Scorpius and his minion, Fish Face, take MD's' son, Zika, captive, and use the opportunity to end the planet's' last defense.

Zika, in a moment of bravery, draws a dagger and rushes Scorpius in an attempt to save his father. And the result is a scene that to this day I am still surprised the show managed to get away with: Scorpius effortlessly kills Zika. A child dies. On screen. The aftermath, with Magna crawling towards his son's' corpse is incredibly heart breaking, and the immensely powerful musical score only makes it hit even harder.

The second plot going alongside this episode stems from a conversation that the villains overhear between Kendrix and Maya, where Maya explains that sunflowers hold a special significance to her people. Trakeena takes this as a hint to the whereabouts of the Lights of Orion, as Terra Venture has many a sunflower statue all across it.

Fish Face is thus sent to destroy every sunflower statue on Terra Venture, which gives Magna Defender more than enough motivation to jump in. And in another scene that will always stand out in my mind, Magna Defender's' rage and thirst for vengeance makes him uncaring in who gets caught in the crossfire; Shooting even when civilians are in direct danger of his lazers. The Rangers of course intervene, but still, the entire sequence is totally intense, and we get that awesome music yet again, which makes me think it's MD's' theme song.

After a brief scene of the Rangers all stating the obvious to eachother, we get right back into the action, with the usual scene of the team fighting off the Mooks of the season, but things quickly kick into the high gear when Magna Defender shows up, and proceeds to lay an absolutely brutal beatdown on Fish Face. Unfortunately though, history repeats, as Fish Face takes a nearby little girl looking for her teddy bear hostage.

Except this time Magna Defender doesn't care.

Thankfully, the Power Rangers make it so the little girl doesn't end up splattered across the pavement, but it comes at the cost of the last statue being destroyed, Fish Face getting the chance to grow giant, and him right afterward defeating the Galaxy Megazord without much effort.

So hey, want another reason the Magna Defender is really cool? He is the only Ranger to not just grow giant size himself, but then proceed to wear his own Zord as a suit of armor.

And that's REALLY frikken cool! The Giant battle itself is great too, of course, but just... MAN that's such a great idea!

The episode ends with Leo trying to deliver the overall lesson of the episode; That anger, hatred, revenge, these are all things that blind you and can make just as bad as those you want to get back at. A major theme in a future PR season that everyone loves. Magna Defender though, doesn't want to hear it, and walks off, saying he won't be stopped until either Scorpius dies, or he does.

Magna Defender's' entire arc is really well done honestly. But of the episodes that focus on him, I feel like this one is the overall best. Not that any of those other episodes are by any means bad! I love them just as much! But yeah, this one is great. Genuinely shocking moments, a great musical score, brutal action, and a standout character to bring it all together.

After-Show Bonus

The Ranger Wiki claims that the Netflix version of LG calls the Torozord the "Bullzord." This is false. Magna Defender can clearly be heard calling it the Torozord multiple times.