Season 1, Episode 19: Green With Evil, Part 3

"Green With Evil, Part 3"
Episode 19
Air Date: October 7, 1993

Meh! Of the 5 episodes, this is clearly the weakest of the mini-series. Which doesn't mean it's bad, it's just we don't have much Green Ranger action as the previous two episodes. As the rangers continue to look for Jason, we get introduced to yet another villain: Scorpina!! God, I love her! Her design is awesome but painfully forced when juxtaposed to the Sentai footage of her in action. But I just love how creepy and disturbing her summoning scene is: a large bolder rolling around covered in scorpions. Even as an adult, that gross and horrifying! Glad the censors at the time didn't cut that out. So with Zordon still gone and Alpha busy trying to get him back, the other 4 rangers decide to look for Jason.  At the Youth Center, Bulk and Skull suck for a moment as usual until Kimberly bumps into Tommy who gives her the cold shoulder again. I'm sorry but watching him insult Kimberly is both frightening and hilarious. I like the subtle way Jason David Frank is playing Tommy's evilness. Zack then bumps into Tommy as well and both of them decide to follow because he's all suspicious.

Meanwhile, Jason is getting his ass handed to him by Goldar and he actually decides to hide under the heavy smoke...giving Goldar the opportunity to start stabbing the floor. Wow! Back at the Angel Grove Park, Kimberly and Zack have almost caught up to Tommy until Rita sends some Putties to stop them from asking him too many questions. This unmorphed fight is alright; but did we have to add in some hip hop music/sped up affect to his portion of the fight. Enough with the stereotypes! After the Putties disappear, they noticed Tommy did too and Kimberly even points out on why the Putties didn't even attack him. Gotta love Tommy looking all menacing as this all plays out.

Anyway, Jason is about to get stabbed by Goldar but he moves out of reach. Finally Jason says F this and attacks Goldar. But Goldar kicks his butt and is about to strike again.  Back at the base of ops, the rangers and Alpha almost get in contact with Zordon again but fail...then Billy mentions he got the communicators back up and is locking on to Jason's location. Meanwhile, back in "Jason in peril" subplot, the Green Ranger relieves Goldar of killing Jason (I just want to say kill, alright!?) and tells him Rita wants him to do it. Goldar leaves and Tommy fights Jason. This is the first ranger vs ranger fight; made even better with one out of suit and one in suit. I just wish the Green Ranger shield didn't look so lame in American footage.  So Jason is once again in deep shit before he unleashes his Sword of Darkness on him and is about to kill him. Billy finally gets a lock on Jason and teleports him back to the Command Center.  Jason literally looks like his life flashed before his eyes as he is back with the rangers and tells them the whole story. Meanwhile, Green Ranger is stuck in the other dimension by Rita cause he failed and Goldar can't help but gloat about it to Tommy.

Back at the Command Center, Jason tells the others what happened and they release Tommy lied about Jason not showing up....hmmmm.  The alarms go off and the rangers realize they must fight Scorpina who Alpha tells them about quickly and to be careful for her sting. They morph into action and it's cheesy goodness, especially when Scorpina is talking; clearly her lips not in sync with her forced American ADR.  Though I wish she fought the rangers more as soon after she's summoned back to the Moon Palace by Rita! Rita plans to send Goldar down, make him grow and some how caught off the megazord's solar power from the sun with an eclipse. Since when is the megazord solar powered??? O_o Anyway, the episode ends with the rangers seeing Goldar giant sized and about to attack Downtown Angel Grove. Not my favorite cliffhanger so far as the last two seemed more legit and worried for the rangers' predicament.

Overall, it's a decent episode in this mini-series but they could have done more with Green Ranger and especially Scorpina's first appearance.  Just seems like the 5 parter could have been shortened to raise the stakes a little bit more as this episode just seems not as intense and cool as the last two.  But it's promising middle episode that ultimately does it's job of continuing the story arc pretty well.

Final Morph: B-