Season 23, Episode 9: Besties 4Eva!

"Besties 4Eva!"

Episode 9

Air Date: August 30th, 2016

 I'm sorry but in what world would ANYONE be friends with someone like Erin, let alone Shelby of all people!??? -_-  What is going on with these characters this season!?? O_O Nope, I will NOT allow this especially after what we've seen of Shelby last season.  She was someone who was ready to speak up and always stand up for what she believed in, especially when it came to her love for dinosaurs!!! Ms. Morgan, the famed paleontologist from New Zealand, etc. Shelby was always someone ready to prove herself when it mattered and needed to put people in their place about how unfair they're being.  Now you're telling me Shelby is STILL friends with someone like Erin who ONLY cares about herself and NOT about her.  I'm sorry, that is some definite bullying she was doing to Shelby by taking credit for everyone and not to mention, goes on to take credit for something even Chase did!  So now she's treating Shelby's friends like crap because of her enabling of her friend's toxic, selfish behavior.  I mean if her friend takes credit for everything, how have people even gotten to know Shelby??? Why has Erin never noticed how much she's hurting Shelby??? Oh wait, in the end, she says she took all the credit because Shelby was so nice and let her! -_- *HEADDESK BEGINS*

Then of course, Erin decides to take credit for being the Pink Ranger and on one hand, it's a even greater indication of how terrible of a person she it and on the other, why would anyone jump to believing she's a Power Ranger without even....I don't know...morphing??!?? O_O  So she's the Pink Ranger without any real proof and the media just eat it up like it's the best new ever when she could in fact be a fraud! -_-  Also, Erin doesn't care even after Shelby explains and just takes her phone because hers is dead! The other rangers don't even express how she is now in danger and a target until after she gets kidnapped by Half Baked.  Yes, Half Baked, honestly the only decent thing in this episode.  Also, Keeper once again comes out of nowhere with some random advice for Shelby about her problem but it's very useless and stupid because Shelby shouldn't have been friends with Erin anymore as soon as she noticed her tendency to take other people's ideas, tasks, creation, etc by taking all the credit for it. So no! Epic Fail there on the lesson front guys! O_o

At least Half Baked was a likable character with his truly hilarious underdog story of wanting to defeat the rangers despite Heckyl and Wrench thinking he's just a cook.  Honestly, where the hell is Poisandra and Curio all this time??? I'm honestly missing the dynamic that was established last season as well as Heckyl being in charge as made the villains almost seem entirely secondary or superfluous that some have to be written out or for a while at least.  It's so weird and bizarre!  Would have been nice to see how Poisandra dealt with Heckyl and Snide taking over while her trying to overthrow him due to her Sledgem's death! :P  Ewwwwwwww!!!! :( Also, why aren't the rangers actively looking for the last energem aka the Silver one! -_-  Suddenly looking for energems isn't a main priority anymore and these filler episodes aren't helping at all in the meantime.  I'm already missing last season's more focused and heavily consistent story arc throughout. Seems more like buying time this season! O_O  Oh and we're introduce to the Dino X Charger that can now be combined with the Dino Victory Charger to become the Victory Maximum attack that's even more powerful! YAY!??? Oh whatever. Tricera Rocks would have been better if it was a cute conclusion to an awful storyline where Shelby is still friends with the narcissistic old friend but it's Power Rangers, let's just be happy and friends BECAUSE! Ewwwwwww. The worst! :(

Final Morph: F