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Episode 28: Robotpalooza

Bridge at long last gets a second focus episode!

When he starts having a premonition of the Rangers losing to a squad of robots in the near future, both him and the others start having a very tiring day.

The overall plot of this one is a zerg rush against the Rangers, and while it's not the first episode of Power Rangers to do this type of plot, it pulls it off pretty well. Mainly in how everyone's' personalities play off eachother.

It's also the debut of my favorite Megazord in SPD, the SWAT Megazord. I absolutely love the SWAT Flyers, the overall look of the Megazord itself, the way it fight while dual wielding blasters, and who could ever forget that awesome finisher where the mech turns into a giant gun!?

As simple and straight-forward as this one is though, I could see people making a stink about some things I personally consider minor this time around. The main one being that despite Bridge being our center character, he doesn't exactly get any character development. He just sort of headlines the scenario. And the other aspect being, well, Sam.

This is probably the most blatant "Sam might as well not even be here" moment in the entire show. He helps in a few of the fights, sure, but then comes a scene where Bridge asks him to tail the main criminals that B-Squad is after while they take care of a horde of Krybots and... the Omega Ranger just kinda disappears from the episode entirely. What happened to him? Did he take a wrong turn somewhere and ended up on the other side of town?

Anyway, like I said, I consider those things to be relatively minor, as the episode is very much just meant to be a fun, action filled one off that introduces a sick new Megazord, and as that, I'm all for it.