It's truly a rare occurrence to feel
like you've been attacked by the monster of the week but that is
exactly the kind of week I had. Let me explain. The critter for this
episode stamps people on the head so that they lose all their energy
and willpower, simply becoming mopey sacks. For whatever reason the
very slow shift into spring had a similar effect on me. Of course
mine had the added bonus of worrying while being too lethargic to do
anything about it. I even went through a job interview that way. It
was flat out awful. Any consistent readers may have noticed those
very blahs pop up at the end of my last recap. So after more than a
week feeling off my game I've got a more positive outlook going.
Let's see if we can keep it up.
OK, so this one was focused on Kagura
and Hikari so we had the cross section of our most childish and most
adult team members working together. I'm still not completely sold on
Kagura since I mostly find her antics to either be weird or creepy
but here she helped to bring out a little more meat from the so far
underdeveloped green ranger. The trial these two have to face starts
when she spends a night watching ninja flicks in order to practice
her pretending. While hopping about during her ninja routine she
breaks Hikari's kendama. That's a little wooden toy thing....kinda
like advanced ball in a cup (don't be mad at me kendama fans). Anyway
he gets all pissy, I'm talking judgmental kind of pissy, and storms
off. Before they can hug it out the team has to rush off for monster
fighting time.
We get a good fight with some
choreography that surprised me in a few spots. Of course this is
still early in the ep so there's no way the monster's going down.
Nope. He stamps the other three rangers causing them to all become
something not unlike my recent self. They have no energy and just
don't give a fuck bout nothin'.
All that stuff is pretty solid but one
thing that is bugging me in the series so far are the repetitive
villain scenes. Each week is essentially a remix of the same exact
elements. Two of them argue over who's the better evildoer and
whether the shadows should be fed to the emperor or his budding bride
Gritta who just keeps lusting after the General. One of these
characters needs to either step up or get ganked cause they can't
even match up with most of the episode specific enemies so far.
Back to the team. Hikari finally
admits to being a total douche the previous night while Kagura whines
for forgiveness. There is a great bit here though when she remarks
that he probably thinks her pretending is stupid. His response is
pure gold.
I love it! This is such a great thing
to see from a family show. I mean it. Consider when we have a team
show for kids over here. Either all the characters lightly mock
each-other for their differences or they all get creepy over
supportive about them. I think it's great if people can just say like
yeah I don't get it, but it's your thing so have fun. This is such a
realistic answer to the problem, and I hope kids watching remember it
as they grow up.
Of course since this is a two person
story we get to see them solve the problem using both of their
talents. Hikari has Kagura serve as the ball for a giant kendama in
order to beat the monster. To get into character she has to repeat
“I'm hard” to herself a few times which is...just..upsetting.
They smack him around enough that the others snap to attention, join
the fight, and yeah you can fill in the rest yourself by now.
In the end, everything is as it should
be and the gang is off to find another support car for the train. A
pretty good episode even if I wasn't in the right frame of mind for
it. As yall know by now, I can't guarantee when or what the next
article will be but fairly soon I should be back with either more
sentai or somethings about peeps. In the meantime, thanks to anyone
out there who gave this a read. Seriously! Thanks you!
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