[TokuKnight89]

As fans get older, they tend to look back on the old material differently and come to different conclusions! One such idea as come to mind, but bare in mind that it is just a theory!

As everyone knows, Austin and Thuy and Walter left in Season 2 and their characters were written-out and replaced with the characters of Rocky, Adam, and Aisha.

The direct-to-video, not-available-on-Netflix, Halloween Special "Lord Zedd's Monster Heads" is an over-dubbed episode (of questionable continuity) in which Zedd decides to hold his Halloween Party and spends the majority of the time reminiscing about past Monsters and past battles.

The flashback's are as follows: Halloween Tommy trapped in the Dark Dimension with Dead Monsters, Knasty Knight, Eye Guy, Revived Monsters in the Theater, Terror Toad, Silverhorns, Serpentera destroys the Deserted Planet. Then they use the Wedding Reception footage for the Halloween Party. Throughout much of the flashbacks, Zedd and Squat provide disembodied commentary (due to the availability of their voice actors)!

Here is where I believe things are symptomatic of what was happening behind the scenes!

When they hit the Terror Toad recap, they go pretty much in a straight-line and don't speed through the whole confrontation. The Toad initially fought Yellow, Black, and Red, and anyone who knows the episode knows what happens to Trini and Zack, which is included in the recap before moving on. Of note, there is no Zedd or Squat commentary at all during the Toad recap (though I believe that Squat and the Terror Toad share the same voice actor)! Afterwards, they include Silverhorns, which is the first battle for the Yellow, Black, and Red replacements, and do include commentary from Zedd and Squat for that one!

Would I be remiss in assuming that the use of footage, and how one battle of significance regarding those who left precedes the first battle of significance regarding those who replaced them, is meant to essentially spite the actors who departed!?! The more I think about it, the more I feel like they used a non-traditional special to essentially "middle finger" Austin, Thuy, and Walter!

I'm not saying I'm right, but the timing and placement, in addition with the knowledge of how the battles originally occurred, makes the whole thing feel...suspicious!

The "Monster Heads" Episode is likely only available, in recent years, on the MMPR Box Set Bonus Discs! It was included on the bonus discs for the first box!