Power Rangers: Time Force, Episode 20
Original Airdate: 6-16-2001
Last Time: Eric learned a lesson about not judging others by their appearances. For example, Jen looks hot, but she's basically a homicidal psychopath.
At Silver Guardians HQ, some scientists are trying to measure the data from Eric's Quantum Morpher, and everyone's confused because it appears that the technology is too advanced for the present. Wait, they don't know that it came from the future? What exactly do they think "Time Force" means?
Anyway, Nadira robs a clothing store and the Silver Guardians and Eric show up to stop her. The Cyclobots get killed and Nadria flees. The other Rangers show up and Eric baits Katie for fun. He then informs the Rangers that he intends to unlock the Quantum powers for all of the Silver Guardians, and thus help Mr. Collins achieve his dreams of world conquest. Credits!
At the clock tower, Lucas suggests explaining to Eric that they're from the future. Wes takes the contrary position, because he assumes that his father will try and exploit the Quantum Ranger technology if he learns it's from the future, as opposed to the current exploiting of the Quantum Ranger powers that he's currently doing.
At Ransik's House of Payne, Ransik unleashes a new monster that can mimic the voices of others and thus take control of the Q-Rex. Well, at least it's a slightly more focused plan than the last few episodes.
Elsewhere, Eric is taking care of some birds and a little girl shows up to ask questions about his birds and make leading statements about friendship. Bad show! You're trying to pussify Eric! And for what? Anyway, some goons show up and abduct Eric. He gets taken to a bridge, and the goons reveal themselves to be the monster and some Cyclobots. The monster forces Eric to summon the Q-Rex by threatening the little girl.
The Q-Rex shows up and the monster mimics Eric and orders the zord to attack Silver Hills. The monster also helpfully reveals to Eric that the Rangers and the technology are from the year 3000. The other Rangers show up and Eric escapes by jumping off the bridge....a poor choice. The Rangers call out the Time Shadow which starts to fight the Q-Rex.
Meanwhile, Jen goes after Eric and treats his injuries. Eric wakes up and is less-than-pleased to see Jen, who responds with her traditional bitchiness. In response, Eric reveals that he knows that they're from the future, not that he particularly cares. He also refuses to promise not to reveal that information to Mr. Collins.
Back at the fight, the Rangers suck and are about to get killed when Eric runs in and steals his morpher back. The monster, knowing that his goose is cooked, immediately goes giant-sized. Eric decides that he must face the monster alone, because he's just awesome like that. He receives a transmission from Alex in the future telling him about his battlizer and Eric activates it. Now, in the past, the Battilizers have ranged from terrible to faith-in-America-destroyingly-terrible, so this season's design is a step up. Oh, it's not very good, as it still has stupid looking boots and an extra helmet that goes on top of Eric's normal helmet, but it's at least not as clunky as previous Battlizers, and that counts for something.
And then his boots turn into rollerblades....never mind, I was wrong, it's as bad as ever. The monster decides to go after the little girl from earlier, and Eric responds by butchering him. The other Rangers ask Eric to work with him, and, well, would you want to hang with those assholes?
Later, Eric decides against revealing the future origin of the Rangers, and plays with his birds some more. He also hangs out with the little girl a bit. Wes, being the douche that he is, watches Eric from a distance on his motorcycle. Show Over!
Next Time: The second half of this season!
Monday, August 2, 2010
Trip Takes a Stand
Power Rangers: Time Force, Episode 19
Original Airdate: 6-9-2001
Last Time: I don't know, I've kind of come down with the flu, so I can't really be bothered to remember.
In Ransik's office, he, showing camaraderie with me, is also feeling sick and has to take some more medicine. Elsewhere, Frax unleashes a monster who has no interest in fighting the Rangers. Ransik does not take this news well, and pulls a sword out of his leg in order to end the mutant. Frax stops him and slaps on some compliance module, but the monster escapes. Credits!
In town, monster runs through town and manges to cause mayhem by virtue of his monstrous appearance alone. The Silver Guardians get called in to sort it out. Meanwhile, Trip fixes some fans as an odd job, and he runs into the monster. Frax corners him with some Cyclobots, and Trips tries to save the monster but....well, it's Trip, so it doesn't work. Eric shows up and drives the villains off.
Trip and the monster run off and the monster asks Trip to freeze him so he doesn't get blown to bits. Apparently the monster's only crime was stealing some food so he didn't starve, which is a capital offense in the future. Man, the future kind of sucks.
The other Rangers ride to help Trip, and Eric cuts them off in an SUV and declares his intention to murder the monster as soon as possible. So it's Trip v. Eric, is it? I'll put everything on Eric. Back at the villain's lair, Frax reformulates the compliance chip to make the monster evil. The other Rangers try to track Trip and, Eric being smarter than them, is content to let them lead him to his quarry.
Everyone eventually converges near an abandoned warehouse and the Rangers fight some perfunctory Cyclobots. Eric uses this opporunity to arrive and prepare to execute the monster. Wes, being a wimp, won't let Eric destroy the monster. The other Rangers fall in behind him, and Eric is unimpressed, as well he should be, and responds by sucker-punching Wes in the gut and running past the other Rangers.
He once more corners the monster, and the episode somehow turns into a lesson about not judging people by their appearances. Spoiler: Throughout the rest of the season, every other grotesque creature will be evil, and, for that matter, this particular mutant, whose only crime was stealing some food so that he could live, is about to be put into indefinite cryogenic detention. So, sure, whatever. Anyway, this leads to Trip revealing to Eric that he's actually an alien, and that somehow convinces Eric not to kill the monster.
Frax, however, is angered and confused by this resolution and turns the monster evil with the compliance chip, and makes him giant-size for good measure. Trip comes up with a plan to avoid hurting the monster which involves shooting the compliance chip with a blaster while the other Rangers keep him busy with the megazord. Wait, seeing as their goal is to put him back in the freezer, it isn't clear to me why they'd need to treat this monster any differently than usual.
Anyway, the plan works and the Rangers are able to capture the monster without hurting him. Of course, their method of capture is to slash him with their sword...so....I don't know, I kind of hate this episode.
Eric shows up to say that he will absolutely destroy the Rangers if they cross him again. Oh, Eric, you make this season worthwhile. Trip claims that Eric only acts that way because he's lonely, because Trip secretly wants Eric to murder him. Wes ponders the idea of Eric being lonely because he's desparate to inspire loads and loads of fanfics. Great. Show Over!
Next Time: An Eric episode!
Original Airdate: 6-9-2001
Last Time: I don't know, I've kind of come down with the flu, so I can't really be bothered to remember.
In Ransik's office, he, showing camaraderie with me, is also feeling sick and has to take some more medicine. Elsewhere, Frax unleashes a monster who has no interest in fighting the Rangers. Ransik does not take this news well, and pulls a sword out of his leg in order to end the mutant. Frax stops him and slaps on some compliance module, but the monster escapes. Credits!
In town, monster runs through town and manges to cause mayhem by virtue of his monstrous appearance alone. The Silver Guardians get called in to sort it out. Meanwhile, Trip fixes some fans as an odd job, and he runs into the monster. Frax corners him with some Cyclobots, and Trips tries to save the monster but....well, it's Trip, so it doesn't work. Eric shows up and drives the villains off.
Trip and the monster run off and the monster asks Trip to freeze him so he doesn't get blown to bits. Apparently the monster's only crime was stealing some food so he didn't starve, which is a capital offense in the future. Man, the future kind of sucks.
The other Rangers ride to help Trip, and Eric cuts them off in an SUV and declares his intention to murder the monster as soon as possible. So it's Trip v. Eric, is it? I'll put everything on Eric. Back at the villain's lair, Frax reformulates the compliance chip to make the monster evil. The other Rangers try to track Trip and, Eric being smarter than them, is content to let them lead him to his quarry.
Everyone eventually converges near an abandoned warehouse and the Rangers fight some perfunctory Cyclobots. Eric uses this opporunity to arrive and prepare to execute the monster. Wes, being a wimp, won't let Eric destroy the monster. The other Rangers fall in behind him, and Eric is unimpressed, as well he should be, and responds by sucker-punching Wes in the gut and running past the other Rangers.
He once more corners the monster, and the episode somehow turns into a lesson about not judging people by their appearances. Spoiler: Throughout the rest of the season, every other grotesque creature will be evil, and, for that matter, this particular mutant, whose only crime was stealing some food so that he could live, is about to be put into indefinite cryogenic detention. So, sure, whatever. Anyway, this leads to Trip revealing to Eric that he's actually an alien, and that somehow convinces Eric not to kill the monster.
Frax, however, is angered and confused by this resolution and turns the monster evil with the compliance chip, and makes him giant-size for good measure. Trip comes up with a plan to avoid hurting the monster which involves shooting the compliance chip with a blaster while the other Rangers keep him busy with the megazord. Wait, seeing as their goal is to put him back in the freezer, it isn't clear to me why they'd need to treat this monster any differently than usual.
Anyway, the plan works and the Rangers are able to capture the monster without hurting him. Of course, their method of capture is to slash him with their sword...so....I don't know, I kind of hate this episode.
Eric shows up to say that he will absolutely destroy the Rangers if they cross him again. Oh, Eric, you make this season worthwhile. Trip claims that Eric only acts that way because he's lonely, because Trip secretly wants Eric to murder him. Wes ponders the idea of Eric being lonely because he's desparate to inspire loads and loads of fanfics. Great. Show Over!
Next Time: An Eric episode!
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Trust and Triumph
Power Rangers: Time Force, Episode 18
Original Airdate: 6-2-2001
Last Time: Katie had a dream/trip to the past which taught us all a lesson about....I don't know, the importance of violence in solving one's problems.
Nadira is robbing another bank and Jen comes up with a plan to arrest Nadira that involves luring her close to Wes. The Silver Guardians show up, including Eric and his red beret of leadership. This leads to Wes being out of position and Nadira getting away. Jen starts yelling at Wes because that's her style of leadership, and Eric piles on because....well, the man just doesn't care for the Red Ranger. I can't say I blame him. Credits!
Later, Jen is still yelling at Wes and telling him that she can't trust him. Wes tries to turn it around and says that the team can't trust Jen because she's an ice queen. Now, that's true, but fuck knows that the other Rangers aren't going to back Wes up.
At Ransik's Pad, a new monster has managed to cobble together a holodeck for the villains. It's all part of some new plan. The Rangers head off to fight another monster attack and Jen makes sure to wreck whatever self-confidence Wes has left by browbeating him right before they attack the monster. It does no good, and the Rangers are sent to another dimension where they're confronting with evil dopplegangers who believe in equality for mutants. Ranger-on-Ranger violence ensues.
The Rangers are handily defeated, but they manage to accidentally blow a hole in the dimension. Unfortunately, only Jen and Wes make it out. Circuit explains that they have to go back into the alternate dimension to rescue the Rangers. Circuit explains that trust is essential for this plan to work for some undefined reason.
Jen and Wes prepare for the assault on the alternate dimension, and Jen explains that she used to be likable until she met Alex, who turned her into the cold, unpleasant person she is today. Fuck, Ales deserved to die. Okay, time for the battle. Trip, Katie and Lucas get sent to some warehouse and have to fight the evil Rangers. Elsewhere, Jen gets intentionally set to the alternate dimension, and Wes waits so that they can fire on the barrier for either side. At least, I think that's what's happening.
Jen, however, first has to make it through her evil counterpart, which she does and the alternate dimension gets destroyed. The monster elects to skip straight to the megazord battle, and I salute him for his efficiency. The monster creates an evil copy of the Time Force Megazord, but it's rather disappointing and isn't able to do much. The monster gets killed and we're just about done with the episode.
Back at the clock tower, Wes has created a cheap looking target range, and Jen misses with a dart gun. Wes teaches her how to shoot, and Jen is reminded of Alex, what with him looking exactly like Wes and all. That....doesn't seem emotionally healthy for anyone. Show Over!
Next Time: Trip takes a stand against....actually, it's not really clear against what he's against, but Eric's on the other side of the issue, so Trip's almost certainly wrong.
Original Airdate: 6-2-2001
Last Time: Katie had a dream/trip to the past which taught us all a lesson about....I don't know, the importance of violence in solving one's problems.
Nadira is robbing another bank and Jen comes up with a plan to arrest Nadira that involves luring her close to Wes. The Silver Guardians show up, including Eric and his red beret of leadership. This leads to Wes being out of position and Nadira getting away. Jen starts yelling at Wes because that's her style of leadership, and Eric piles on because....well, the man just doesn't care for the Red Ranger. I can't say I blame him. Credits!
Later, Jen is still yelling at Wes and telling him that she can't trust him. Wes tries to turn it around and says that the team can't trust Jen because she's an ice queen. Now, that's true, but fuck knows that the other Rangers aren't going to back Wes up.
At Ransik's Pad, a new monster has managed to cobble together a holodeck for the villains. It's all part of some new plan. The Rangers head off to fight another monster attack and Jen makes sure to wreck whatever self-confidence Wes has left by browbeating him right before they attack the monster. It does no good, and the Rangers are sent to another dimension where they're confronting with evil dopplegangers who believe in equality for mutants. Ranger-on-Ranger violence ensues.
The Rangers are handily defeated, but they manage to accidentally blow a hole in the dimension. Unfortunately, only Jen and Wes make it out. Circuit explains that they have to go back into the alternate dimension to rescue the Rangers. Circuit explains that trust is essential for this plan to work for some undefined reason.
Jen and Wes prepare for the assault on the alternate dimension, and Jen explains that she used to be likable until she met Alex, who turned her into the cold, unpleasant person she is today. Fuck, Ales deserved to die. Okay, time for the battle. Trip, Katie and Lucas get sent to some warehouse and have to fight the evil Rangers. Elsewhere, Jen gets intentionally set to the alternate dimension, and Wes waits so that they can fire on the barrier for either side. At least, I think that's what's happening.
Jen, however, first has to make it through her evil counterpart, which she does and the alternate dimension gets destroyed. The monster elects to skip straight to the megazord battle, and I salute him for his efficiency. The monster creates an evil copy of the Time Force Megazord, but it's rather disappointing and isn't able to do much. The monster gets killed and we're just about done with the episode.
Back at the clock tower, Wes has created a cheap looking target range, and Jen misses with a dart gun. Wes teaches her how to shoot, and Jen is reminded of Alex, what with him looking exactly like Wes and all. That....doesn't seem emotionally healthy for anyone. Show Over!
Next Time: Trip takes a stand against....actually, it's not really clear against what he's against, but Eric's on the other side of the issue, so Trip's almost certainly wrong.
The Legend of the Clock Tower
Power Rangers: Time Force, Episode 17
Original Airdate: 5-19-2001
Last Time: Nothing Important!
Katie and Trip get the gears of the clock tower working, but notice that the pendulum rod is stuck. Katie goes to check it out, but Wes warns her not to go up there. Why? Credits! That's why!
Wes tells Katies a story about a guy named Walter who may or may not be haunting the place. Apparently he was too cowardly to ask a girl out, so he haunts the clock tower waiting to find his true love. Man, that may be the shittiest haunting in history. The other Rangers scoff as such superstitions, but Katie takes it seriously for some reason.
Later that night, Katie hears a sound and goes to check it out, and sure enough, she meets Walter's ghost. The shock of the ghost makes her fall backwards into a time portal, and ends up in the past. She meets alive Walter...and no Ransik? Really? Anyway, Katie wanders through the 19th Century version of Silver Hills and sees Walter be too cowardly to ask out a girl. Walter gets accosted by olde tyme jocks, and this finally makes Katie realize what's going on.
Katie, suddenly feeling rather cavalier about fucking around with the future, decides to help out Walter with her mighty super-strength that never seems to be available when it would be really helpful. Later, she and Walter have a talk about the origin of the clock tower, Walter's dad built it, and Walter's hobby of poetry writing. Fuck, it's history's first emo teen! If Katie kills him she could save us all from so many crappy rock bands! The olde tyme jocks show up and mock Walter, but Katie stands up to the jocks. This somehow leads to an arm-wrestling contest, which Katie wins by virtue of her super-strength, and that somehow gets Walter fired. Ransik, why have you forsaken me?
Later, the olde tyme jocks have decided to beat the shit out of Walter for...well, this whole episode really. Gwen, the girl Walter wants to fuck, overhears and warns Walter, who decides to get the fuck out of Dodge. Hey, did they run out of Sentai footage or something? What the fuck is going on this week? Anyway, Katie tells Walter to stand up against the numerous thugs about to fuck him up. Walter, not having super-strength, runs away. Katie thus decides to commit assault by fighting the bullies, but somehow manages to get captured despite her supposed strength. Walter shows up to defend Gwen or something, and manages to accidentally hit the head jock in the solar plexus and win the fight. So, remember kids, might makes right, now and forever.
Katie wakes up back in the future as Jen informs her that Ransik is attacking. The Rangers go on and kill some monster in a fight that is 80% stock footage.
Later, Katie relates he truly boring tale, but it turns out that her actions somehow affected the past and now Walter married Gwen and died happy. And then the bell goes off on its own, which I suppose leaves open the question of whether or not Walter is a ghost or whatever, but honestly, after watching this episode, I hope he's burning in hell. Show Over!
Next Time: Jen and Wes drama? Oh, damn it all to hell!
Original Airdate: 5-19-2001
Last Time: Nothing Important!
Katie and Trip get the gears of the clock tower working, but notice that the pendulum rod is stuck. Katie goes to check it out, but Wes warns her not to go up there. Why? Credits! That's why!
Wes tells Katies a story about a guy named Walter who may or may not be haunting the place. Apparently he was too cowardly to ask a girl out, so he haunts the clock tower waiting to find his true love. Man, that may be the shittiest haunting in history. The other Rangers scoff as such superstitions, but Katie takes it seriously for some reason.
Later that night, Katie hears a sound and goes to check it out, and sure enough, she meets Walter's ghost. The shock of the ghost makes her fall backwards into a time portal, and ends up in the past. She meets alive Walter...and no Ransik? Really? Anyway, Katie wanders through the 19th Century version of Silver Hills and sees Walter be too cowardly to ask out a girl. Walter gets accosted by olde tyme jocks, and this finally makes Katie realize what's going on.
Katie, suddenly feeling rather cavalier about fucking around with the future, decides to help out Walter with her mighty super-strength that never seems to be available when it would be really helpful. Later, she and Walter have a talk about the origin of the clock tower, Walter's dad built it, and Walter's hobby of poetry writing. Fuck, it's history's first emo teen! If Katie kills him she could save us all from so many crappy rock bands! The olde tyme jocks show up and mock Walter, but Katie stands up to the jocks. This somehow leads to an arm-wrestling contest, which Katie wins by virtue of her super-strength, and that somehow gets Walter fired. Ransik, why have you forsaken me?
Later, the olde tyme jocks have decided to beat the shit out of Walter for...well, this whole episode really. Gwen, the girl Walter wants to fuck, overhears and warns Walter, who decides to get the fuck out of Dodge. Hey, did they run out of Sentai footage or something? What the fuck is going on this week? Anyway, Katie tells Walter to stand up against the numerous thugs about to fuck him up. Walter, not having super-strength, runs away. Katie thus decides to commit assault by fighting the bullies, but somehow manages to get captured despite her supposed strength. Walter shows up to defend Gwen or something, and manages to accidentally hit the head jock in the solar plexus and win the fight. So, remember kids, might makes right, now and forever.
Katie wakes up back in the future as Jen informs her that Ransik is attacking. The Rangers go on and kill some monster in a fight that is 80% stock footage.
Later, Katie relates he truly boring tale, but it turns out that her actions somehow affected the past and now Walter married Gwen and died happy. And then the bell goes off on its own, which I suppose leaves open the question of whether or not Walter is a ghost or whatever, but honestly, after watching this episode, I hope he's burning in hell. Show Over!
Next Time: Jen and Wes drama? Oh, damn it all to hell!
Bodyguard in Blue
Power Rangers: Time Force, Episode 16
Original Airdate: 5-19-2001
Last Time: Eric got control of the Q-Rex and the Rangers took a principled stand against corporate greed...or something, I don't know.
Mr. Collins holds a press conference to announce that not only does the Quantum Ranger now work for him, but that he also has a top scientist working to replicate the future technology. He also announces his company's new slogan, "Fuck Causality!" Wes is upset that his father is trying to protect the present with new technology rather than preserving the awful future that Wes' friends come from.
Mr. Collins then has a private meeting with Eric and the scientist, a Dr. Zaskin, where he announces his plans to learn all of the secrets of the Power Rangers. I think I'm supposed to think this is a bad thing, but I kind of like Mr. Collins and Eric better than this season's Rangers, so I'm kind of pulling for the old man. Credits!
The next day, Dr. Zaskin is about to go to work when his daughter shows up and bugs him for a goodbye kiss. He gets captured by Nadira and a monster but at least his little girl escapes. She runs away and finds Lucas unnecessarily involving himself in some other people's car accident, mainly so he can hit on a chick. Lucas is a terrible person. The little girl, being basically a moron asks Lucas to be her bodyguard, and manages to outwit him into agreeing.
Back at Evil Corp, Eric informs Mr. Collins that Dr. Zaskin has been kidnapped. He orders Eric to get Zaskin back. Elsewhere, Dr. Zaskin is being tortured for information, but is defiant. Nadira, having one of her "smart" days, realizes that if they can capture his daughter, it would probably be enough.
Lucas decides to drive the little girl home, but she tries to explain that she's being hunted by robots. This leads to Lucas yelling at the girl for a bit before he calls Trip to confirm that the girl is telling the truth. The Rangers figure out that Dr. Zaskin has been kidnapped, and some Cyclobots surround Lucas' car, which still has the little girl inside. Lucas isn't so good at this, but he is able to dispatch the robots and drives off. The little girl points out that Lucas sucks. The monster shows up, but is so ineffective that he litterally throws himself at Lucas' speeding car.
Meanwhile, the reasons that the mutants lost the war become all too clear when the other Rangers are able to sneak up on Zaskin's location undetected. Lucas gets down to the business of actually fighting the monster. Lucas morphs in front of the girl, but seeing as the biggest corporation in town and the villains already know the Rangers' identities, I don't know that it really matters. Lucas gets his ass kicked, and the little girl has to step in to stall the monster so Lucas can recover. Wait, wasn't the monster tasked with kidnapping the little girl?
Anyway, the other Rangers manage to fuck up their resuce of Zaskin who's about to be taken away by Nadira when Eric shows up and shoots Nadira in the shoulder. Nadira retreats and Zaskin thanks the Rangers for....I don't know, giving a good effort, I suppose. Lucas kills the monster by himself, and that means it's time for the giant robot fight. Holy fuck does this season's megazod introduction take a long time. Anyway, the Rangers screw it up again and Eric shows up to once again save the day.
Later, Mr. Collins and Eric discuss the situation briefly. Lucas drives the little girl home, and swears her to secrecy about his secret identity. The other Rangers show up and make fun of him for being nice to the little girl. Show Over!
Next Time: Time Travel....with Katie....and a ghost. Damn it, show, we must you give me such gifts only to snatch them away?
Original Airdate: 5-19-2001
Last Time: Eric got control of the Q-Rex and the Rangers took a principled stand against corporate greed...or something, I don't know.
Mr. Collins holds a press conference to announce that not only does the Quantum Ranger now work for him, but that he also has a top scientist working to replicate the future technology. He also announces his company's new slogan, "Fuck Causality!" Wes is upset that his father is trying to protect the present with new technology rather than preserving the awful future that Wes' friends come from.
Mr. Collins then has a private meeting with Eric and the scientist, a Dr. Zaskin, where he announces his plans to learn all of the secrets of the Power Rangers. I think I'm supposed to think this is a bad thing, but I kind of like Mr. Collins and Eric better than this season's Rangers, so I'm kind of pulling for the old man. Credits!
The next day, Dr. Zaskin is about to go to work when his daughter shows up and bugs him for a goodbye kiss. He gets captured by Nadira and a monster but at least his little girl escapes. She runs away and finds Lucas unnecessarily involving himself in some other people's car accident, mainly so he can hit on a chick. Lucas is a terrible person. The little girl, being basically a moron asks Lucas to be her bodyguard, and manages to outwit him into agreeing.
Back at Evil Corp, Eric informs Mr. Collins that Dr. Zaskin has been kidnapped. He orders Eric to get Zaskin back. Elsewhere, Dr. Zaskin is being tortured for information, but is defiant. Nadira, having one of her "smart" days, realizes that if they can capture his daughter, it would probably be enough.
Lucas decides to drive the little girl home, but she tries to explain that she's being hunted by robots. This leads to Lucas yelling at the girl for a bit before he calls Trip to confirm that the girl is telling the truth. The Rangers figure out that Dr. Zaskin has been kidnapped, and some Cyclobots surround Lucas' car, which still has the little girl inside. Lucas isn't so good at this, but he is able to dispatch the robots and drives off. The little girl points out that Lucas sucks. The monster shows up, but is so ineffective that he litterally throws himself at Lucas' speeding car.
Meanwhile, the reasons that the mutants lost the war become all too clear when the other Rangers are able to sneak up on Zaskin's location undetected. Lucas gets down to the business of actually fighting the monster. Lucas morphs in front of the girl, but seeing as the biggest corporation in town and the villains already know the Rangers' identities, I don't know that it really matters. Lucas gets his ass kicked, and the little girl has to step in to stall the monster so Lucas can recover. Wait, wasn't the monster tasked with kidnapping the little girl?
Anyway, the other Rangers manage to fuck up their resuce of Zaskin who's about to be taken away by Nadira when Eric shows up and shoots Nadira in the shoulder. Nadira retreats and Zaskin thanks the Rangers for....I don't know, giving a good effort, I suppose. Lucas kills the monster by himself, and that means it's time for the giant robot fight. Holy fuck does this season's megazod introduction take a long time. Anyway, the Rangers screw it up again and Eric shows up to once again save the day.
Later, Mr. Collins and Eric discuss the situation briefly. Lucas drives the little girl home, and swears her to secrecy about his secret identity. The other Rangers show up and make fun of him for being nice to the little girl. Show Over!
Next Time: Time Travel....with Katie....and a ghost. Damn it, show, we must you give me such gifts only to snatch them away?
Clash For Control, Part II
Power Rangers: Time Force, Episode 15
Original Airdate: 5-12-2001
Last Time: Eric and Wes trudged through a jungle for twenty minutes, accomplishing absolutely nothing in the process.
The Q-Rex continues to rampage throughout the city, and the Rangers call on the Time Force Megazord. The Q-Rex starts chewing up the megazord and Eric blames himself. Well, no, actually this isn't his fault when you think about it. Credits!
In the future, Alex sends the Time Shadow to help out, and since Alex is ten times more competent than anyone else, it actually manages to hurt the Q-Rex....but not enough to avoid the Time Force Megazord getting broken and the Rangers being ejected. The Q-Rex, still damaged, retreats to a cave.
Meanwhile, Eric has decided to take this opportunity to once again ask for the captaincy of the Silver Guardians, what with him being the Quantum Ranger and all. Mr. Collins makes it clear that only a Ranger with his own megazord is fit to lead the team, and Eric heads out to get the damned Q-Rex so he can get a promotion. It's an odd little scene.
Back at the clock tower, Circuit explains that the Q-Rex is going to heal itself and attack again. This leads Wes to go and try to reason with Eric. Wes immediately asks for the Quantum Morpher back, and that pretty much kills the conversation dead. Eric also intimates that he's about to take control of the entire Ranger team, which confuses Wes and the audience.
It becomes a bit more clear almost immediately when Mr. Collins shows up at the clock tower and offers to buy out the Rangers. Eric explains that if the Rangers get bought out, he'll be the leader, and even fantasizes what that would look like. Wes doesn't believe that they'll sell out, and Eric points out that it would be a hell of a lot easier to capture Ransik with the backing of a large company and a private army of goons. Yeah, but that would involve the Rangers working with the genetically impure, which is kind of against their code. Wes decides to take the morpher from Eric by force, and a fight breaks out.
Elsewhere, Commandocon reactivates the Q-Rex and sets him loose on the city. This breaks up Eric and Wes' fight as they run towards the Q-Rex. They meet up with the other Rangers and Eric learns that they rejected Mr Collins' offer. They then call on the Time Force Megazord. This leads Commandocon to grow to giant size in order to help out the Q-Rex.
Eric's magical armband tells him to destroy the device Commandocon put on the Q-Rex in order to gain control. He does, and now Eric finally will have access to the executive bathroom. He orders it to turn into a megazord and kill Commandocon with its shoulder-mounted laser cannons. The other Rangers debate the merits of Eric.
Eric once again asks Mr. Collins for that promotion, and well, Mr. Collins is out of crazy demands to give Eric and so gives him control of the Silver Guardians. Back at the clock tower, Wes points out that they probably would capture Ransik faster if they teamed up with Mr. Collins, and Jen deploys her usually bitchy sense of humor to dismiss that idea and insult Wes at the same time. Katie claims that Jen's "never told a joke in her life," yeah, and I can see why. Show Over!
Next Time: Back to filler!
Original Airdate: 5-12-2001
Last Time: Eric and Wes trudged through a jungle for twenty minutes, accomplishing absolutely nothing in the process.
The Q-Rex continues to rampage throughout the city, and the Rangers call on the Time Force Megazord. The Q-Rex starts chewing up the megazord and Eric blames himself. Well, no, actually this isn't his fault when you think about it. Credits!
In the future, Alex sends the Time Shadow to help out, and since Alex is ten times more competent than anyone else, it actually manages to hurt the Q-Rex....but not enough to avoid the Time Force Megazord getting broken and the Rangers being ejected. The Q-Rex, still damaged, retreats to a cave.
Meanwhile, Eric has decided to take this opportunity to once again ask for the captaincy of the Silver Guardians, what with him being the Quantum Ranger and all. Mr. Collins makes it clear that only a Ranger with his own megazord is fit to lead the team, and Eric heads out to get the damned Q-Rex so he can get a promotion. It's an odd little scene.
Back at the clock tower, Circuit explains that the Q-Rex is going to heal itself and attack again. This leads Wes to go and try to reason with Eric. Wes immediately asks for the Quantum Morpher back, and that pretty much kills the conversation dead. Eric also intimates that he's about to take control of the entire Ranger team, which confuses Wes and the audience.
It becomes a bit more clear almost immediately when Mr. Collins shows up at the clock tower and offers to buy out the Rangers. Eric explains that if the Rangers get bought out, he'll be the leader, and even fantasizes what that would look like. Wes doesn't believe that they'll sell out, and Eric points out that it would be a hell of a lot easier to capture Ransik with the backing of a large company and a private army of goons. Yeah, but that would involve the Rangers working with the genetically impure, which is kind of against their code. Wes decides to take the morpher from Eric by force, and a fight breaks out.
Elsewhere, Commandocon reactivates the Q-Rex and sets him loose on the city. This breaks up Eric and Wes' fight as they run towards the Q-Rex. They meet up with the other Rangers and Eric learns that they rejected Mr Collins' offer. They then call on the Time Force Megazord. This leads Commandocon to grow to giant size in order to help out the Q-Rex.
Eric's magical armband tells him to destroy the device Commandocon put on the Q-Rex in order to gain control. He does, and now Eric finally will have access to the executive bathroom. He orders it to turn into a megazord and kill Commandocon with its shoulder-mounted laser cannons. The other Rangers debate the merits of Eric.
Eric once again asks Mr. Collins for that promotion, and well, Mr. Collins is out of crazy demands to give Eric and so gives him control of the Silver Guardians. Back at the clock tower, Wes points out that they probably would capture Ransik faster if they teamed up with Mr. Collins, and Jen deploys her usually bitchy sense of humor to dismiss that idea and insult Wes at the same time. Katie claims that Jen's "never told a joke in her life," yeah, and I can see why. Show Over!
Next Time: Back to filler!
Clash For Control, Part I
Power Rangers: Time Force, Episode 14
Original Airdate: 5-5-2001
Last Time: Eric swiped the Quantum Ranger powers!
At Ransik's International House of Villain, Ransik indulges in the hammiest exposition ever committed to videotape and explains that he's going to send a monster back in time to steal the Q-Rex, a mighty zord that Time Force sent into the Jurassic for reasons that will never be adequately explained. Maybe they hated dinosaurs.
Elsewhere, Eric is doing some training with the Silver Guardians that involves one of those padded sticks for American Gladiators. The Rangers show up and ask for the Quantum Morpher, but Eric is unmoved, and, in fact, has designs on the Q-Rex as well. Suddenly, a portal opens in the sky. Credits!
The monster of the week has opened a hole in time in order to get the Q-Rex, and Eric uses his new flying jet-motorcycle thing to fly through. Wes decides to jump on it because he can't even spare me one episode without his presence.
Wes wakes up later to find himself in a primeval jungle. Eric shows up to inform them that they're 150 million years in the past. Oh, fuck, Bradbury warned us about this sort of thing. Wes is upset with Eric for some reason, even though if not for Eric the monster would have a free shot at the Q-Rex. Anyway, they eventually run into a T-Rex, which, at the least, means that Eric was several dozen million years off in his calculations. The special effect would have been acceptable in a pre-Jurassic Park world, but that movie had been out for eight years before this episode came out....Anyway, the two Rangers run until Wes accidentally gets knocked off a cliff. Eric, being the Gallant to Wes' Goofus, manages to find a cave to hide in. Eric scopes out the cave and finds some cave paintings of the Q-Rex and a volcano, and figures out where the Q-Rex is at. Hey, who made those paintings, anyway?
Meanwhile, Wes has somehow survived falling several hundred feet and quickly finds the volcano. Back in the present, the other Rangers decide to look for Wes and Eric, but accomplish nothing. In the past, Wes falls into a giant clawprint, and then finds the Q-Rex, which looms over him. It hides in a cave as the monster of the week finally shows up to try and capture it. Wes fights him and gets his ass kicked. The monster then plants some sort of device on the Q-Rex to put it under his control.
Outside the cave, Eric arrives and holds Wes at gunpoint and they start fighting for control over the Q-Rex. This turns out to be a moot point as the monster of the week, named Commandocon, takes control of the giant zord and goes back into the future. Elsewhere, Eric is about to shoot Wes in the head with his blaster when he notices the time portal opening again, which somehow makes the volcano start to erupt. Eric uses his jet to save Wes and pursue the monster.
The Q-Rex lands in the present and starts blowing the shit out of Silver Hills. Wes and Eric arrive back in the present as well, and Eric knocks Wes off of his jet while they're a couple hundred feet in the air. If you're keeping score at home, this would be about the fourth or fifth time this episode that Wes has plummeted to the ground with no ill effects. Anyway, Eric tries to assert control over the Q-Rex, but it's a two part episode so it fails. To Be Continued!
Next Time: Twenty Minutes of Mind-Boggling Zord Action!
Original Airdate: 5-5-2001
Last Time: Eric swiped the Quantum Ranger powers!
At Ransik's International House of Villain, Ransik indulges in the hammiest exposition ever committed to videotape and explains that he's going to send a monster back in time to steal the Q-Rex, a mighty zord that Time Force sent into the Jurassic for reasons that will never be adequately explained. Maybe they hated dinosaurs.
Elsewhere, Eric is doing some training with the Silver Guardians that involves one of those padded sticks for American Gladiators. The Rangers show up and ask for the Quantum Morpher, but Eric is unmoved, and, in fact, has designs on the Q-Rex as well. Suddenly, a portal opens in the sky. Credits!
The monster of the week has opened a hole in time in order to get the Q-Rex, and Eric uses his new flying jet-motorcycle thing to fly through. Wes decides to jump on it because he can't even spare me one episode without his presence.
Wes wakes up later to find himself in a primeval jungle. Eric shows up to inform them that they're 150 million years in the past. Oh, fuck, Bradbury warned us about this sort of thing. Wes is upset with Eric for some reason, even though if not for Eric the monster would have a free shot at the Q-Rex. Anyway, they eventually run into a T-Rex, which, at the least, means that Eric was several dozen million years off in his calculations. The special effect would have been acceptable in a pre-Jurassic Park world, but that movie had been out for eight years before this episode came out....Anyway, the two Rangers run until Wes accidentally gets knocked off a cliff. Eric, being the Gallant to Wes' Goofus, manages to find a cave to hide in. Eric scopes out the cave and finds some cave paintings of the Q-Rex and a volcano, and figures out where the Q-Rex is at. Hey, who made those paintings, anyway?
Meanwhile, Wes has somehow survived falling several hundred feet and quickly finds the volcano. Back in the present, the other Rangers decide to look for Wes and Eric, but accomplish nothing. In the past, Wes falls into a giant clawprint, and then finds the Q-Rex, which looms over him. It hides in a cave as the monster of the week finally shows up to try and capture it. Wes fights him and gets his ass kicked. The monster then plants some sort of device on the Q-Rex to put it under his control.
Outside the cave, Eric arrives and holds Wes at gunpoint and they start fighting for control over the Q-Rex. This turns out to be a moot point as the monster of the week, named Commandocon, takes control of the giant zord and goes back into the future. Elsewhere, Eric is about to shoot Wes in the head with his blaster when he notices the time portal opening again, which somehow makes the volcano start to erupt. Eric uses his jet to save Wes and pursue the monster.
The Q-Rex lands in the present and starts blowing the shit out of Silver Hills. Wes and Eric arrive back in the present as well, and Eric knocks Wes off of his jet while they're a couple hundred feet in the air. If you're keeping score at home, this would be about the fourth or fifth time this episode that Wes has plummeted to the ground with no ill effects. Anyway, Eric tries to assert control over the Q-Rex, but it's a two part episode so it fails. To Be Continued!
Next Time: Twenty Minutes of Mind-Boggling Zord Action!
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