Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Season 2, Episode 25: A Monster of Global Proportions

The past few episodes of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers have been big.  They introduced three new characters named Aisha, Rocky, and Adam who will soon be joining the Power Rangers team.  Lord Zedd tried to turn them to the dark side but they wouldn’t do his bidding.  Bulk and Skull showed off their caring side as they watched over a child whose father had been kidnapped by Goldar.  It was an entertaining three part story and a hint at what’s to come.

Now we have one of the two episodes before the biggest change of the series.  Hopefully the new characters return in this one.  It would feel odd to have another episode with only three of the Power Rangers actors present.  It probably won’t be a game changer, but it should help to solidify the new trio as good additions.  That’s what I hope for.  What I get will probably be a little different.

Season 2, Episode 25: A Monster of Global Proportions

Billy hosted a Teen World Conference at the Angel Grove Youth Centre.  He brought six teenagers from around the world to participate.  Kimberly, Tommy, Adam, Aisha, and Rocky came to watch.  For some reason, Jason, Zack and Trini weren’t there.  After the conference, all twelve of the teens went to the park to hang out.

Bulk and Skull were determined to reveal that the six visiting teenagers were the Power Rangers.  They stalked them from the conference to the park to the cave that they ended up in later.  The two bumbling bullies thought they had stumbled upon the real Power Rangers, but they had only stumbled upon a handful of chocolate.

Lord Zedd’s plan was the same that it was in The Ninja Encounter, only with different captives.  He wanted to take the six teens from the conference and turn them into his own evil team of fighters.  For some reason, he always feels the need to take teenagers and turn them into fighters instead of just making better putties.  When the kidnapping didn’t work, he turned a conference figure into a four-headed monster.

The Power Rangers leapt into action to defeat the monster, but not before two putty fights.  The first was in the park when everyone was hanging out.  Except for Zack, Jason, and Trini, that is.  Putties came to kidnap the conference teenagers, so the remaining Power Rangers and their new trio of friends teamed up to fight.  The next putty battle came when Lord Zedd brought his monster to life.  The six Power Rangers, since the other three had been called upon to help, fought putties outside a cave before freeing the conference teens.  Then they went up against the four-headed monster.  The Power Blaster didn’t defeat it so they had to Zord up and fight.  Even then, the monster was too strong.  Zordon called upon a new Zord, Tor the Carrierzord.  With the help of Tor, the Power Rangers fought back against the monster and defeated it.  The end.

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers has been chugging along, moving the story forward in big ways over the past few episodes.  This time they introduced Tor, the carrier Zord for the second season.  It surprisingly took 25 episodes to get to the introduction.  The first appearance of Tor was odd.  When it came into the fight, it was flipped over almost immediately.  Since Tor was made to be a turtle, it did that turtle thing.  It ended up on its shell and flailed around, unable to flip back over.  It took the help of the Red Dragon Thunderzord to get Tor back on its feet.  Then they easily defeated the monster.  It was an addition to the team that will help when they end up in tight situations in the future.

There was also a Teen World Conference that took place.  This may be alluding to how Jason, Zack, and Trini will be written out of the show.  I’ll get more into that during The Power Transfer, but for now, I’ll just say that there seem to be some similarities.

A couple of weird things happened during the episode that may not deserve noting, but will be noted anyway.  There was the whole Tor being flipped over thing.  That felt oddly comedic for a big battle between Zords and the enlarged monster.  There were smaller moments too.  Why weren’t Jason, Zack, and Trini at the Teen World Conference?  The actors weren’t there, sure, but the show hasn’t been afraid to use body doubles in the past.  They could have done that to show them in the crowd.  Oh well.  Then when the teens were in the park and the putties appeared, Adam did a weird little shuffle from one end of the fighting line to the other.  It was something that didn’t affect the episode at all.  I just noticed it and can’t not see it.  Finally, when Bulk and Skull discovered the chocolate at the end of the episode, Bulk was really sad.  He wanted to find out who the Power Rangers were.  To cheer him up, Skull took a piece of chocolate and did that thing you do with children where you make airplane noises and fly the food into the kid’s mouth.  He did that to Bulk.  Bulk liked it.  It was odd.

This ended up being a lot of writing about an episode that isn’t part of a multi-part story.  It must be the placement that it has within the series.  The introduction of a new Zord, the movement from introducing characters toward using them to replace others, and the odd things made it fairly easy to write about.  Next up we have another episode that seems separate from the story arcs, but with the way this episode went… Who knows?  I’m looking forward to seeing what the show does for the next few episodes and I hope you are too.  I’ll see you soon for another Mighty Morphin Power Rangers recap.