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Power Rangers Ninja Steel Episode 12: Family Fusion

The original review is HERE.

Androzani and I can be heard rewatching the episode HERE.

I've noticed that when it comes to acting, especially in Power Rangers, facial expressions are often underrated or taken for granted.

Believe it or not, mastering those is actually pretty hard. Especially for someone like me, who tends not to show his emotions on his face very much. A facial expression can convey so many words very quickly and with ease.

It does alot for this episode too; Allowing alot of different moods that the characters go through to be portrayed very swiftly, as well as indicating the mind state that they're in despite all of the action-y monster stuff going on. Brody especially shines here because of it.

That's not to say that's all the episode has going for it or anything, I did do a pretty detailed review of it already, afterall. But it's an aspect that I feel is often overlooked, and is yet another thing I can point to when people try to claim that Ninja Steel was a zero-effort, nothing season. I think it says something that the acting stood out to me in some way, you know?

But to give the short version of why this is my favorite episode in this particular season of Power Rangers: It basically just has everything I love about the show in it. Good comedy, slick action, and heart warming character development. The last quarter of this episode still hits me right in the feels even to this day, showing just how invested I was in these characters and the story they were creating. I have so much fun with Ninja Steel!

It's an episode that's all about giving the cast, especially Brody, a big win in the fight against Galvanax, and I couldn't think of a better way to do it.