Season 18, Episode 7: A Fish Out of Water

 

"A Fish of the Water"

Episode 7

Air Episode: March 6th, 2011

So...sigh.....ummmmm, let's just get straight to the point!!! Since the writers aren't gonna tell a story of any kind even for an episode than I might as well not really review much of this one as usual.  Seriously, this is the first half of Turbo level of storytelling but without the familiarity of the previous characters, Turbo having better action at least and god, it's even making me not mind Dimitra's constant questioning. O_O  Back then, as least when the show was bad it was telling a moral lesson, no matter how contrived and idiotic the plot was but Samurai feels....so empty of anything remotely resembling a coherent theme or lesson besides..."A Samurai does this" and "Being a Samurai means that"!!! There's no story here what so ever that even Season 1 is starting to feel more serialized and better written than this crap that was forced onto the children of 2011!!! The whole swordfish dilemma....I mean...what is the conflict here??? What is the lesson here??? And no what Jayden and Kevin so casually talk about at the end of the episode does not count as a moral lesson when relatively nothing was done to earn such a heartwarming moment of suppose character development and realization.

So Jayden sends Kevin on a solo mission to the beach to catch a powerful Swordfish zord that Mentor Ji just happened to figure out is present and that the rangers must catch as soon as possible. Coincidentally, the other four rangers must deal with a Nighlok monster who's breath smells so bad that he can incapacitate any human; causing them to catch a serious fever.  How is that convenient??? Well, apparently according to Ji, the Swordfish has a healing property that will cure the rangers of their fevers when Yamiror's toxic breath causes them to fall ill.  Ok...ummmm.....Jayden wants to go out and keep fighting while Kevin is seriously getting hurt by trying to catch this damn zord.  Ji barely stops him from leaving to face the Nighlok, once again, neglecting Jayden's well being and letting him go off to kill himself (destroy himself, whatever!)  Jayden just tells Kevin to keep going after the zord and that he trusted him cause he knew he was only won who has the symbol power to do this since his element is water, not to mention, Kevin being the most disciplined and focused, blah, blah, blah.  Ok 1) Ji SUCKS as a mentor, even letting the rest of the rangers go off to help him. 2) What exactly is Jayden's deal??? His personality is about as cardboard as milk carton with no resemblance of a true leader, just Alex Heartman afraid to emote during his line delivery. I just....it hurts thinking about Jayden and what drives his character let alone why he acts this way besides very little we know about him compared to the others so.....O_o. 3) Kevin nearly kills himself trying to catch this zord and if it wasn't for some random fisherman taking care of him after he passes out, not to mention continuing to push him, he would have never caught the zord in the first place.  So what exactly the lesson here for Kevin and those watching this??? Nothing was brave or sensible about what he did, not to mention actually being pretty stupid as clearly Kevin wasn't able to do this on his own and why not have another ranger present to help him??? Thanks fearless Jayden! -_-

Anyway, Kevin manages to get the Swordfish zord as it goes into a disc he can now use in battle.  He returns in time to morph and help the other rangers fight off Yamiror as well as cure them with the Swordfish's power.  Yay......  After Jayden destroys the monster with the Beetle Cannon, we get our routine zord fight after he grows but this time, with the new zord, we get a new formation for the Samurai Megazord that gives the megazord a double edged sword as well as able to use the saber...on its head??? The f%^& Sentai....oh why am I even surprised??? Nothing else really going on here....oh and the villains get a mysterious addition all of sudden with some freaky looking skull face monster watching them since the Samurai Rangers are back...well so is he!!! Dun, DUN, DUN!!! Sounds familiar tho...where have I heard that voice before??? O_o ;)  As usual, Samurai offers us just some Sentai footage attached to an American story and characters so hollow and unnecessary that how is there even a theme to begin with.  New villain provides something to look forward too tho. :)

Final Morph: D-