Have not reviewed episode 466 A Golden Shower.
Previously the Gold Ranger was introduced and it has been a big mystery who he is. So far the red herrings have been Billy, Tommy's brother David Trueheart and even Skull. If only the producers had the guts to do something that awesome.
Now we are at the start of the first of two parts. Gold Ranger is being hounded by this race of bounty hunters who are trying to kill him. We get a big chase scene with bounty hunter ships going after Gold Ranger's big flying pyramid called Pyramidas. The show attempting cgi effects for the first time. All things considered.it looks better than the movie CGI Megazord.
Gold Ranger ends up landing on Aquitar home of the despised fish rangers. Gold Ranger finally unmorphs and splits into three people. The guy from VR Troopers. Only so many triplets who are models and not terrible actors I guess. Like that Charles In Charge episode when Buddy and Charles appear to be dating the same girl but its triplets. Its obvious it has to be triplets because Buddy and Charles could get way hotter girls.
Anyway Gold Ranger is injured and if he does not give somebody the gold powers soon, they are gone forever. Zordan wants to teleport him to earth but King Mondo will have none of that and sets up some inteference field.
King Mondo is the big bad this season who drove off Zedd and Rita in the first episode. Mondo looks like somebody made a Jackie Gleason robot and dressed him like a king.
Speaking of Zedd and Rita they finally return here giving Goldar and Rito their memories back. Which is cool for them but makes he Bulk and Skull part of the show harder to watch.
They end up teleporting Gold Ranger to the Command Center but Billy can't cant tke the power because he ansorbed negative energy hen Goldar blew up the Command Center in the season 3 finale. But Tommy has just the guy.
In a Golden Homecoming its revealed to be Jason The original red ranger ho was wroe out of the show two years before (along with the Black and Yellow rangers) because they wanted more money.
One thing I like on tv shows is watching old characters return after a long absense. Its like in real life where you come home afte a year and things are not quie the same. Lots of little changes and one or two big ones. Favorite one on a tv show was Florida coming back for the last season of Good Times. In that time she was gone the other characters had changed. With Willona becoming the mother while each of the kid shifted their role. The last season was interesting watching Willona refusing to go back to the character of the sidekick.
Oh where was I? Oh yeah so Jason is back. Before he left he was the leader and the top dog. Watching those episodes, you can see a power struggle between Tommy and Jason. Tommy mania is running wild and Jason is the only character with equal popularity. Its mostly even except for Tommy gaining some poochie like qualities. The struggle ended when Austin St John (Jason) an the other two were fired.
So now Jason is back and the roles have been reversed with Tommy. He is the guy with the cool new suit and powers and Tommy is the Red Ranger and defacto top guy. Its weird seeing him interact with Rocky and Adam (the two remaining replacements) in scenes. But now its clearly on path to being the Jason and Tommy with four multi colored suits show again.
This episode Goldar and Rito get their memories back fully.With Goldar dreaming of his season 1 glory tearing shit up. They wake up with heir swords and Goldar's wings back. Later they take Bulk and Skulls motorcycle and Goldar tries to kill them ih a fire ball.
Meanwhile King Mondo has created his robots with some super metal. Mondo has grown on me since the first episode. Him his wife and Junior along with underling Clank are different enough.
Also new zords this episode with the super zeo zords. Each one looking like a different shape. If Zeo had taken place the last decade it would of been Power Rangers Shape Thunder.
Show closes with Tommy and Jason having a heart to heart with the peace conferences being mentioned. Jason telling him he does not want to go back to how things were though he probably does.
In cornclusion. The last run of episodes have been good. Close to the level they were at before the firings. That is if you like this stuff.
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