Web War

Power Rangers: Lightspeed Rescue, Episode 35

Original Airdate: 11-13-2000

Last Time: Chad's quest to bone a mermaid got even more difficult when her father turned out to be Neptune.

Carter is testing out a new dirtbike armed with lasers. Ms. Fairweather informs us that this new Transarmor Cycle can also transform into clunky, poorly-designed armor. However, when Carter tries it out, he ends up getting badly injured and the bike explodes. You know, given that the last invention Carter tried out ended up shooting him backwards in time, I'm starting to doubt Ms. Fairweather's engineering abilities. Credits! Incidentally, the title sequence lasts exactly 58 seconds....it's the sort of thing you pick up when you have to go through the entire season in a short amount of time.

In the ziggurat o' goodtimes, Diabolico is looking for Jinxer, because he needs a new monster to use as cannon fodder. A spider monster, likely suicidal, comes out of nowhere and volunteers for the job. Apparently Arachnor wants to fight the Rangers in order to provide for his many, many spider-children, who are about to hatch. Oh, and Olympius and Jinxer have a talk about revenge or something.

In the city, Arachnor constructs a giant web and and starts capturing people. The Rangers show up and start fighting him, but Arachnor is able to scan their weapons, and thus be able to evade them. The Rangers decide to give up and head back to the aquabase, where Captain Mitchell promptly sends them back out to try whatever weapons they haven't used yet on the monster. Ms. Fairweather pushes for more testing on the Transarmor Cycle, and Captain Mitchell agrees.

Later, Carter once again tests the Transarmor Cycle, but can't get it to work right. Elsewhere, the Rangers fight Arachnor again. Okay, it's time for a basic Power Ranger Plot Comprehension Quiz!

1. If a new, but untested, weapon is mentioned at the beginning of the episode then:

A) The Rangers will be able to muster on without it.
B) The weapon will be rushed into service and fail catastrophically.
C) The Rangers will only be able to be saved by the new weapon, which, no matter how often it didn't work earlier in the episode, will perform flawlessly.
D) Leo sucks!

The answer, of course, is C, although D would have gotten partial credit. This being the case, the other Rangers are all captured. Carter shows up and can't find the others, but Arachnor turns into a normal spider and sneaks onto Leo's jacket in order to infiltrate the aquabase. Meanwhile, Diabolico cheerfully informs the captured Rangers that they're about to be eaten by baby spider monsters.

Anyway, Carter makes it back to the aquabase, and Ms. Fairweather wants him to test the Transarmor Cycle again. Arachnor sneaks out of Carter's jacket and starts webbing everyone and everything in the aquabase, as base security once again catastrophically fails. Carter makes the expert deduction that the aquabase should not be completely covered in webbing, and tries to warn everyone. Of course, Carter's brain works so slowly that by the time he's pieced it together, only Ms. Fairweather is still on the aquabase, and she only lasts long enough to give him the keycard to the Transarmor Plot Device.

Carter takes the keycard and activates the special motorcycles. From her lair, Vypra watches this and vows to stop Carter....oh, no....they wouldn't...Oh, yes, the Vypari is back in all of its demonic go-kart glory. Some Batlings also commandeer a couple of SUVs to prevent Carter from saving his friends, but nothing can stop him now, not even poorly shot stunt sequences.

At Arachnor's lair, the spider eggs are starting to hatch, but Carter arrives just in time to prevent the other Rangers from dying gruesome deaths. Carter fights Arachnor for a while, and eventually decides to use the armor mode. It works, but makes Carter look like a guy lugging a motorcycle on his back. Now that may seem stupid in theory, but in practice it's even dumber, as proven by Carter launching the tires of the motorcycle at the monster as an attack. Anyway, he eventually kills Arachnor.

Back at the lair, Bansheera threatens the demons some more for their failures. No wonder the demons keep failing, their boss is abusive and has created a hostile work environment. Elsewhere, the Rangers scare Carter with a plastic spider. Show Over!

Next Time: They saved the best filler episode for last...