Season 10, Episode 33: The Soul of Humanity

"The Soul of Humanity"
Episode 33
Air Date: October 5th, 2002

Welp!!! Let's just end this crappy and honestly idiotic arc as it concludes with the rangers truly realizing that Animus and the Wild Zords have all left them.  Cole even runs to Princess Shayla in complete shock and despair at her new condition.  The worst part is...the rangers actually believe all of Animus' bullsh!t about "failing protecting the Earth, not trying hard enough, letting him down, etc."  Oh I'm sorry guys, what happened to "NEVER GIVE UP!" Oh God....spoke too soon! O_O But before I get into that I am just complete baffled by the utter stupidity of this whole plot these past few episodes.  Seriously, how could the writers adapt this from Gaoranger when it makes no sense???  The rangers for the past...what 30+ episodes have been devoting their lives to protecting the Earth as Power Rangers, sacrificing relationships and potentially successful career opportunities for this crap but Animus comes out of no where and just says "Nope, not good enough!" and takes away their most powerful weapons against their fight against the Orgs??? -_-  I'm sorry, nope, nope!!!  This is drama for the sake of drama when there is no need for it!

But let's take a break from that as Alyssa looks after an unconscious Princess Shayla and pretty much thanks her for being such a wonderful mentor, which I uncontrollably chuckled at rewatching! So....I get teaching you about Animarium and the Wild Zords, but teaching them about themselves???! HA!!! When the hell did she do that Alyssa???  Before or after she's been kidnapped like 3 times already??? O_o  Not to mention, why is it that Alyssa has to pull the group together when a new Org acts??? O_O It would have WAY more convincing if it was Taylor considering she's the second in command of the team and the most rational, especially standing up to CU...I mean Kite (sorry again!) when he started bad mouthing humans for being responsible for pollution but whatever, this episode had MUCH more grating issues than that so forget the semantics!  Let's talk about the Org of the week in this episode because...boy, those Sentai monster designers must have had an off week?! O_o  Toy Org....ummmm....horrible looking in almost every way and possibly the worst monster of the week ever!  You know a monster looks dumb on this show when the initial reaction from the people it's about to attack are literally borderline making fun of the thing.

But whatever, the rangers decide to finally get off their self-loathing @sses and do their jobs despite their lack of zords....yet Merrick still has his Wild Zords???!!! Wait...what??! O_o Oh yeah, Kite/Animus even comes to Merrick to try to take him away with him and the Wild Zords! Wow, what an absolute d!ck!!!  So, I guess Shayla isn't apart of the club since..you know....she was there 3,000 years ago too!! I mean she maybe useless, but you put the defenseless waste into a coma and just left her like that but you want to offer only Merrick this chance to leave humanity behind.  Obviously, Merrick stands up to him and runs off to help the others but what kind of messed up sh!t is that!!? O_o  Also, the whole "soul of humanity" theme is so forced into this episode that I just don't buy it.  Suddenly, we see people helping one another when the rangers can't but aren't they suppose to be running away to get out of danger???  I mean in "Countdown to Destruction" were saw the true soul of humanity when Bulk and Skull led the citizens of Angel Grove to stand up against Astronema but here? It's only done to forced some dumb plot point that Animus was testing the rangers the whole time! Yes, this was all a test in the end by the stupid kid when they have proven they are more the dedicated to their duties as rangers.  I mean, God, in "The Wings of Animaria" didn't the rangers nearly die to try to save Merrick and Cole, especially when you offered them a chance not too??? O_o  You're telling me that wasn't proof enough???  You need to potential put the city of Turtle Cove as well as the Earth's safety in jeopardy to test these kids who have already proven your point??? I just....AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

Oh and Cole gets a new weapon in the Wild Force Rider as Animus thanks them for proving him wrong and returns the Wild Zords to him.  I just...awful....just one of the most infuriating aspects of this season that will never get better but only MUCH worse over time! -_- What a complete and utter waste! -_-  Animus...please, GO. F^&*. YOURSELF!

Final Morph: F