Season 17, Episode 29: If Venjix Won

  

"If Venjix Won"

Episode 29

Air Episode: December 19th, 2009

Here comes our perquisite clip show of the season and it's nice that despite being the most filler we've gotten this season yet, it does produce a heartwarming plot development between two unlikely characters. So the episode starts off like any other, with Ziggy being Ziggy and wanting to hang out with one of his team members but everyone turning him down....except for Dr. K....who is unusually eager to go outside with Ziggy....to his reasonable shock and disbelief.  Of course, their strange outing together is cut short by a random attack by Kilobyte and some Grinders that forces them in a random cave when Ziggy teleports them there by mistake.  Now stuck there because Ziggy prematurely demorphed and Dr. K not able to recharge his suit, they trapped there....until the rangers back at the garage see an alter on the Doctor's computer with no way to get into the system since they don't know her password and all her data will be erased if they don't access quickly.

Basically, it's a collection of a run down of the rangers' backstories, Dillon's virus arc, his sister revelation in Tenaya, each of the rangers' individual powers/weapons as well as their various zords, megazords and megazord configurations.  Of course it has some genuine emotional bits between or while the clips are playing as the rangers realize how much Dr. K truly does care and love them....not to mention, keeping a record of all this information as well as their personal journeys just shows how much she regards them as true heroes. :)  Meanwhile, the scenes between Dr. K and Ziggy are very comical and touching, finally showing a major breakthrough in their relationship beyond her just insulting him or Ziggy being dumbfound by her nonchalant chastising him.  Turns out it was Dr. K's birthday and that's why she wanted to go outside....once again, reminding us how morbid yet masterful her focused episode was.  But definitely the best moment is when Ziggy manages to make her smile with a quick shadow puppet show...but unfortunately, the heartwarming moment is brought short by the fact that the two have been running out of air in the cave.

Back at the garage, with only one password attempt left, Summer actually looks back at Dr. K's specific behavior over the course of the season with Ziggy and manages to realize what the real password is by saving them both as Ziggy's morpher re-energizes.  After finally teleporting back to the garage, we get a cute moment of Summer covering for Dr. K about her real password with her smiling knowing how special her day was despite the intensity and danger of the situation...since she was with Ziggy. Awww! Wow, I think I actually enjoyed the episode more than I thought.  It's just another cost saving measure for the show like every season but still, Ziggy and Dr. K's relationship really held this one together despite it just being filler.  But what the hell was Kilobyte's random attack about?? O_O He just disappears after Ziggy and Dr. K get trapped and never heard from for the rest of the episode.  I mean I know we needed a set up for them to get trapped and the plot rolling but kind of noticeable weak writing there. O_O

Final Morph: C+