Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Season 3, Episode 32: The Sound of Dischordia

Previously in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Master Vile showed up to cause some trouble. He wanted to do what his children, Rita Repulsa and Rito Revolto, were never able to do. He wanted to defeat the Power Rangers. He almost did it, too. The Blue Globbor was sent out to drain the powers of Ninjor, the Zords, and the Power Rangers. When it was done, the Power Rangers only had a small amount of power left. It was enough to rally, however, and they came back to kick some butt.

That wouldn’t be the last of Master Vile. He vowed to do better next time and defeat the Power Rangers once and for all. Well, we’re at that next time. We’re at the next episode. This one, based on the name, seems like it might involve some music. You never know, though. I’m usually wrong at the guessing game. Anyway, let’s see if Master Vile can make his promise ring true in…

Season 3, Episode 32: The Sound of Dischordia

There was a competition at Angel Grove High to find a new song for the school. Aisha and Kat paired up to come up with something, which ended up winning the competition. Their opponents were a punk rock band and Bulk and Skull. It wasn’t too difficult for them to win out.

The music competition inspired Master Vile to summon Dischordia, a monster with the ability to sing as an attack. The monster confronted Aisha and Kat, putting them under a spell that made them uncontrollably dance. When the rest of the Power Rangers showed up to help, they were also put under the dancing spell. The only way to break the spell was to power up to their metallic armor.

Everything else was a large monster and Zord fight that made very little sense. Lord Zedd grew Dischordia, so the Power Rangers got their Shogun Zords together and built the Shogun Megazord. Then, without them summoning it, the Ninja Megazord showed up with the White Falconzord attached to it. Ninjor also came to fight, saying that they forgot to call him. It was the two Megazords and Ninjor going up against a giant Dischordia. They got their butts kicked at first. A storm happened. The lightning kept recharging Dischordia’s energy. Every time they attacked the monster, it was brought back to full strength by the lightning. It took down the good guys pretty easily. Tommy got into the White Falconzord and cleared the sky. Ninjor powered up and attacked, then the White Falconzord attached to the Shogun Megazord, which then jumped into Titanus for some reason. Together, all that robot blew Dischordia up. And the world was saved again.

The Sound of Dischordia was not a good episode of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. After the strong Master Vile and the Metallic Armor three-parter, the show came back with one of the messiest episodes they’ve had. The dancing was reminiscent of some of the dumbest threats that the Power Rangers have faced, like when they got pumpkins stuck on their heads. The big fight didn’t make much sense. Tommy was at Aisha and Kat’s band practice for absolutely no reason. It was bad choice after bad choice. The show should be going out on a high note as it transitions into Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers. This is not that high note. Not by a longshot.

One of the major issues in The Sound of Dischordia was the dancing spell. The show went out of its way with goofy spells before. It never had the metallic armor to cut the spell off, though. The Power Rangers needed only to power up from their normal powers to the metallic armor to prevent the dancing spell from having an effect. It wasn’t that the armor prevented Dischordia from casting the spell on them. The spell had already been cast on everyone at that point. Somehow, the armor countered the spell, healing them of the effects. It made no sense. The armor wasn’t deflecting the spell. The armor wasn’t stopping the spell from hitting them in any way. It took the spell away. I have no idea how that worked.

The other major issue was bringing every Zord in to fight in the final battle. Had an extra ten seconds been used to explain things, that would have been fine. As it was, the Power Rangers called upon their Shogun Zords. They got into them and formed the Shogun Megazord. All of a sudden, the Ninja Megazord was there. They never called upon it. Nobody was flying it. They didn’t have the remote from the previous episodes. It was just there. Then Ninjor showed up, saying he was forgotten. They didn’t call on him. The earlier parts of the episode didn’t involve him at all. They went into the giant monster fight and he simply showed up. Finally, they brought Titanus into it. I forgot Titanus was even still around. It hasn’t been a part of the show since the early portion of the third season. When there was actual fighting, it was fun. But the introductions ruined the flow of the fight by not being explained.

This was not a good episode of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. It was one of the most disappointing. There where hints of good in it, from the music to the dancing to the fighting, but the written elements that bridged all of that were weak beyond imagination. Some more time needed to be spent cooking the script to make everything make sense within the Angel Grove world. Perhaps the next episode will, which it should, since it will be the final Mighty Morphin Power Rangers episode before the show starts changing every season with the mini-series Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers. I’ll see you soon for Rangers in Reverse.