Season 13, Episode 28: Robotpalooza

"Robotpalooza"
Episode 28
Air Date: August 29th, 2005

I guess, the one good thing I can say about the episode is that we get an awesome new megazord introduction out of no where at the tail end of it.  While I would LOVE to gush about how cool the S.W.A.T. Megazord is....I really don't care for the rest of the episode....at all! O_o  I think it's because the whole plot is based on Bridge suddenly able to have dream premonitions when he sees the rangers getting defeat by three robots.  Ummmm, question....HOW??? Even Kat mentions that Bridge must have read the energy of the three wanted robots that just brutally attacked another planet.....uhhh...WHAT?! o_O It would have been nice if we got some build on bridge's sudden new ability but it just feels just necessary for THIS episode's story and has no relevance in the rest of the season.  Seriously, the whole vision thing is played mostly for laughs just to make fun of Bridge's stupidity and dim witted nature.  I just couldn't get behind it and while Bridge once again shows alot of initiative as a ranger, the plot STILL doesn't make sense from a narrative point of view.  No explanation on HOW Bridge can do this??? Have his abilities grown to now have visions during his dreams? Nothing!!! Ehhhhhh!!! -_-

Also, this episode doesn't exactly make our main villains look that bridge as both Grumm and Morgana send out three, yes, THREE monsters out to defeat the rangers yet the rangers defeat them everytime with only the fact that these back to back robot battles are making them extremely tired.  I mean, it's Broodwing, who has the pretty good plan of waiting until the rangers are too tired to fight at full strength to send out three monsters, Gineka, Chiaggo and Delapoo (Uhhh huh.....:P), in those wanted giant robots to finish off the rangers in their weakened state.  Even by episode's end, Grumm has no idea that Broodwing would potentially be the other force trying to take over the Earth when Broodwing would have absolutely every reason to oppose Grumm and use his own robots against him.  Ehhh!!! -_-


But anyway, the S.W.A.T. Megazord is the only real highlight of the episode!  The S.W.A.T. Flyers are well designed enough, if not a bit of a retread with the Omega zords from Lightspeed Rescue.  Tho, the fact that it can transform itself into a giant gun is random as hell and something you'd ONLY expect from this show, LOL!  But besides that, there's nothing really good here in terms of plot movement.  It's nice to see Broodwing beginning to become his own villain/mastermind, but I'm feeling it's at the expense of Grumm and Morgana looking so incompetent this episode.  Yeah, that first monster she drew...WTF!??? O_O "Robotpalooza" is kind of a dud for me as a whole.

Final Morph: D+