Victor and Monty are the only thing keeping Ninja Steel afloat in another lackluster episode.
ThisPower Rangers Ninja Steelreview contains spoilers.
They have a real chemistry (perhaps romantic?)
that is leagues and bounds ahead of any of the Rangers.
Yes, even the two Rangers that are actually a couple.
Its more than I can say for how the Rangers treat them.
Yeah, lets talk about how theNinja Steelteam officially just became bigger assholes than theMighty Morphinteam.
(The now deleted tweet.
Thanks toNo Pink Spandexfor that.)
The Rangers dont do anything to help them.
Montys a diva and Victor is a little full of himself.
Is that enough of a justification for the Rangers to laugh and watch them fly to their deaths?
I guess the series main lesson about teamwork and friendship only applies if youre a Ranger.
As much as I love Victor and Monty, the antics theyre getting into are too cartoonish.
Whats the point of having Victor and Monty if theyre solely there to laugh at?
Look atDino Thunder, which perfected the civilian side characters.
They werent just given wacky cartoon plots, Cassidy wanted to be a reporter and Devin got an internship.
Even if they were there for laughs, we still were given reason to care about them.
Theyre the real MVPs of this episode.
Oh yeah, I guess some Ranger stuff happened to.
I do enjoy the show committing to Calvin and Hayleys relationship.
Hayley supporting Calvin by driving him around was actually really sweet and something I wish they had explored more.
Couldnt we instead have had Calvin slowly learning to drive throughout the next few episodes?
Ninja Steelneeds to get rid of that giant magical mcguffin ninja power star.
When you have an object that can give you literally anything, it completely kills any sense of danger.
At least inLightspeedorDino Chargethey had characters that would invent new powers.
Sure they could seemingly invent anything that was needed, but at least that took effort.
Here its just, WE HAD A VISION OKAY TIME FOR YOUR NEW STAR.
Also, how did the Rumble Tusk Zord burst out of the Earth?
How does that work when its an ancient Zord the legends told of?
Kind of awkward whenWild Forcewas able to pull of a better elephant Zord intro episode, just saying.
Or they could just focus on Victor and Monty more.
Did anyone else notice how needlessly slow that first team morph was?
Cut to another shot or something.
So instead of freeing the Rangers, Calvin instead frees the motorcycle.
Rating:
2 out of 5
