Season 21, Episode 12: United As One

"United as One"

Episode 12

Air Date: September 14th, 2014

Meh.....I guess I'll start with what I enjoyed about the episode and one of them would have to be the whole damaged megazord dilemma.  I don't think we've had this type of situation before and the fact the most of the rangers had to stay behind to fix it was nice as it wasn't some magical fix by Gosei that was so easily solvable.  There was actually some hilarious lines in this episode like Orion commenting on Emma's plan being so randomly elaborate and a sick Prince Vekar mentioning he's sick and tired of being sick and tired! You can obviously tell the writing staff is perfectly capable of writing MUCH better scripts but under Txachor's inane show running, are forced to dumb down the show and make it as senseless and mind numbing as possible.  Tho one wonders where Emma got all that staff to disguise her and Orion?!?? O_O  Did she summon all of that with her Megaforce morpher???  You're telling me the rangers can just summon anything they want like that?!!! -_-  Jesus, if they are THAT powerful (and trust me, they ARE! O_O) than how have they not won yet!  Might as well take the fight to the armada and summon a meteor shower to destroy them all. -_-  Whatever.....

Also, I just hate how this show makes up its character motivations and well as not even show any concern of building up the characters they created.  Sure, Emma and Orion being forced together had its moments, but why not build on that??? Show come conflict or inner struggle between the two of them!!! Man, remember when the rangers are interesting yet flawed characters!??  Apparently, since RPM at this point, no such thing could exist on this show.  So Emma can just make anyone happy because that's her thing and she always knows when someone's down to help them out.  Which leads to a scene of her needing to summon some wind to make a kid's kit fly......WOW!!! She had to stop helping the other rangers during a fight to help a kid's kit fly.  You know, usually these kinds of moments would be warranted on this show because it made sense for the story but here.........Emma just does it BECAUSE! Oh I'm sorry, because it's soooooo in character for her to want to make other happy.  Jesus, even the original team failed and were shown to be imperfect teens on occasion but apparently, these teens can do absolutely no wrong....at least Emma apparently! O_o

So with the monster of the day trying to steal happiness from people to cure the Prince of his human cold (sigh..........), Emma manages to take the staff from Desolar and break it to free all the happiness to the people of the city while the other rangers take on the monster using Dino Thunder! It's only cool cause it reminds you of that season and miss that MUCH MUCH MUCH more well written cast of characters.  After Emma rejoins the team and defeats Desolar, Levira makes him grow as the rangers tap into some new power....BECAUSE!!! And can now combine with the Q-Rex megazord to for the Legnedary Q-Rex Megazord.  Sigh.....even new zord formations are rendered meaningless bores because of how these new powerups come about.  So lazy and insulting!  Sigh.....just your average weak, forgettable episode of Super Megaforce, even if the sight of Emma using her blaster against the monster in a wedding dress was kind of badass and hilarious, especially cause of Orion holding her. lol

Final Morph: C-