Season 22, Episode 16: No Matter How You Slice It

"No Matter How You Slice It"

Episode 16

Air Date: November 7th, 2015

Feeling like a classic Power Rangers plot, the team quickly find themselves at odds when Sledge sends his latest monster, ShearFear, to use his magical scissors to literally cut the bonds of friendship between them.  It's always fun seeing the rangers at odds due to some wacky spell, usually because watching them insult and hate each other can be entertaining.  Ever since "Best Man For the Job", these kind of episodes can be some of the most hilarious episodes and while "No Matter How You Slice It" isn't laugh out loud throughout, there are some noticeable moments where the cast is just awesome at being mean to each other.  I love how no matter how much a team of rangers hate each other because of some kind of spell, they ALWAYS end up around each other ironically! lol  Meanwhile, the only two unaffected by the spell, Riley and Koda try to find a way to break the spell on their friends; leading to a priceless sequence of them trying to teach their unfriendly friends how to friends again.  Gotta especially love Chase letting Ivan fall just to check out a girl running in the park! HA!  But honestly, it's a spell that works and proves strong as it begins to detached the rangers from their energems, meaning they will extremely vulnerable and leaving the over half the team powerless. So yeah, things aren't looking good!

I do love tho how Riley and Koda are incorporated into the story to save their friends like Koda's bond to the other rangers not being able to be cut by ShearFear because he sees his friends as more than friends but his new family.  It's so sentimental but completely in character with Koda as his connections to the team is his only link between him and the modern world.  He's not only very depended on them to navigate this world but given Koda's amazing heart and sense of loyalty, I can't imagine him seeing the rangers as his family and so adoring of them.  Awwwwww! :_(  With Riley, even tho the team has forgotten his birthday (OMG! -_- NOT AGAIN! with this storyline), he remains seriously disappointed but manages to outsmart ShearFear by coming up with a clever of breaking ShearFear's magical scissors so Ms. Morgan can come up with an antidote right away to reverse the spell.  It works just in time to stop the other rangers from leaving Amber Beach.....where exactly were some of them going.....especially Ivan! lol O_o

Anyway, with the all 6 back to normal, the rangers morph and fight off ShearFear but of course, the battle escalates to a megazord battle as we get our first look at the Ptera Charge Megazord Stego-Raptor formation.  Yes, the Ptera zord can combine with those two megazords as a means of an upgrade like most zords before and helps in defeating the monster once and for all.  Unfortunately, Sledge is unhappy and is about to make Wrench pay for his failure but Fury soon arrives to tell Sledge he found the purple energem....leaving Wrench unharmed....for the moment at least! :P  And of course, the rangers didn't forget Riley's birthday and planned him a surprise party in the base as well as his parents left him a video birthday wish.  Tho where did they send it to, one of the rangers???  Was it like a facetime thing??? O_o  Also, Keeper looks ridiculous and you decide to make it worse with the birthday hat on top of it??? LOL  All and all, a very solid episode that explores Riley and Koda's characters while also pushing the story forward in the end with the purple energem so.....nice! 

Final Morph: C+