[Sh Ranger]

I'm a little late due to my busy schedule, but here's my thoughts on the next two episodes.

7:
The civilians getting turned in to trees against their will (complete with Nick's "leaf him alone" joke to Xander being reused) was surprisingly graphic and I can't blame Void Knight for immediately regretting his decision to go along with Void Queen's plan. Whatever the humans did to them, taking revenge like this is no kind of justice. Of course, I can't feel too bad about those tree people, cause they're having a pool party in the same time and place that a CGI purple octopus is on the loose. Who thought that was a good idea? There's some nice interaction between the two geniuses, Amelia and Ollie, that highlights how their scientific beliefs are different. Season 1 had a story where Amelia's fear of bad luck stopped her from believing in herself. Now Ollie has the opposite problem, where his dismissal of any kind of theoretical science stops him from believing in others. I've been in Amelia's position before, with skeptics and naysayers telling me I'm wrong for believing in "impossible" things, so yeah, I was definitely waiting for the moment where Ollie's behavior blew up in his face. I'm glad he was able to become more open to unexplored possibilities and admit that he actually respected Amelia for her intuition.

8:
Oh boy, looks like I get to talk about Aiyon some more. I'm a little conflicted about his behavior here. It's true that jokes exist to make people laugh, so there's no problem with him finding them humorous. Keep in mind that he's a Rafkonian, so those cheesy Earth jokes haven't worn out their novelty for him, especially since Noah is from Earth and also laughs at those jokes. The problem with Aiyon here is that the other Rangers are totally justified in taking the hax0r's ransom seriously. Taking over a livestream for selfish reasons is the opposite of a joke. There's nothing humorous about it. However, Aiyon does kind of make up for it later, by learning the hax0r's identity and appealing to her morality. Once more, it comes back to his faith in people's goodness, remembering that behind the mask of that hax0r is a person with feelings. My main complaint is that it would have been better if Aiyon expressed both of his opinions simultaneously, instead of leading his teammates to believe that he didn't care about their problems.