[Kurona]

That was... pretty embarrassing to watch. It's consistent with Ninja Steel's generally bad writing but it still made me groan every two seconds. The themes are all over the place and the degree to which they knocked off from Shattered Grid is blatantly unsubtle. Weird continuity notes are dropped with no regard for how it works with the story or the characters we've followed and the script never manages to match up with the visuals. 'Lord Drayven' has apparently got enough footsoldiers to invade every universe, but a team of 16 Ranges is able to take care of it no problem. They make a robot Tommy and then go nowhere with it other than a very odd Dino Thunder Black vs. Tommy fight which had a lot of confused messages and conflicting themes to the point you can't decipher even any basic meaning from it. As always it's extraordinarily empty and hollow.

I will admit that it was pretty nice to see they apparently have the budget now to do their own CGI Zords and giant fights, and I'm pretty sure I noticed no Ninninger footage in the episode. That alone is an impressive feat, but it's not used for anything worthwhile. Power Rangers has used stock footage before to tell much better stories; if this sort of episode is all new footage amounts to, then it's ultimately pointless.

I really hope Hasbro gets in some decent writers because this is getting really, really unbearable. RPM was almost 10 years ago and we've had nothing good since.