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12 Dec

Power Rangers Beast Morphers Season 2 Episode 22 Review: Evox Unleashed

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This POWER RANGERS BEAST MORPHERS review contains spoilers. In the end this is how it was always going to be. For as excited as I was after last weeks triumphant Power Rangers Beast Morphers episode, there was no way this episode could live up to it. ‘Evox Unleashed’ is good but it’s not great and much of that can be put down to the mandate that has held back Beast Morphers from living up to its true potential. As I’ve mentioned many times before but bares repeating now, when Senior Vice President of Power Rangers Franchise Development and Production Brian Casentini left…

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05 Dec

Power Rangers Beast Morphers Season 2 Episode 21 Review: Source Code

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This POWER RANGERS BEAST MORPHERS review contains spoilers. This episode was a huge gamble for Power Rangers Beast Morphers. As I wrote about last week, invoking a plotline from Power Rangers RPM could have blown up in their faces. The cliffhanger with Venjix in the morpher has gone unresolved for over a decade and fan expecations for it being paid off were sky high. If even one detail was wrong or out of place, the whole episode would have collapsed. But Beast Morphers did the impossible. They followed up on Venjix cliffhanger perfectly and delivered the best team-up episode in well over…

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28 Nov

Power Rangers Beast Morphers Season 2 Episode 20 Review: Crunch Time

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This POWER RANGERS BEAST MORPHERS review contains spoilers. It’s crunch time for Power Rangers Beast Morphers and, as I wrote about last week, when the major plot beats go down? Beast Morphers shows up with the energy it needed! From the start the episode is filled with tension. We know something is up with Blaze and from that first sneer it’s easy to guess it’s the evil Blaze. That doesn’t ruin the tension though because even though we know it’s not the real one the Rangers don’t. It makes watching his actions all the more sinister. The way he manipulated Devon, stroking…

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21 Nov

Power Rangers Beast Morphers Season 2 Episode 19 Review: Fossil Frenzy

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This POWER RANGERS BEAST MORPHERS review contains spoilers. While last week’s Power Rangers Beast Morphers didn’t have a noteworthy plot it did have a ton of life thanks to a musical sequence we still can’t get over. It was big, fun, and showed off a ton of energy that much of the show has been lacking. Unfortunately that energy didn’t carry over to this week where we get a very run of the mill story that isn’t bad but has a very bare bones plot. Zoey’s brother finds the fossil of an unknown dinosaur, she accidentally disintegrates it, and puts her life…

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14 Nov

Power Rangers Beast Morphers Season 2 Episode 18 Review: The Silva Switch

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This POWER RANGERS BEAST MORPHERS review contains spoilers. I have never been more surprised at an episode of Power Rangers than I was for ‘The Silva Switch.’ In the middle of the story, out of the blue, with no warning, we got an elaborately choreographed song and dance number featuring Steel in Nate’s body as the entire cast, augmented with backup dancers, sing about great it is to be human. I…. I am beyond stunned and delighted. I never imagined this could happen in Power Rangers. There’s never been anything like this! The most “musical” the show has been was Zeo’s ‘Another…

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07 Nov

Power Rangers Beast Morphers Season 2 Episode 17 Review: Goin’ Ape

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This POWER RANGERS BEAST MORPHERS review contains spoilers. I’ve never been more conflicted about an episode of Power Rangers Beast Morphers. This show has never had more energy and a sense of purpose than this episode. The fights have weight, the choreography is ten steps above normal, the emotions are dialed to eleven, and the Rangers are even allowed to have conflict! Every scene builds on one another and the pacing is tight while still allowing the proper emotional beats to land. The problem is that the inciting incident that drives the plot is deeply flawed and contrived. Misunderstanding conflicts take a…

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31 Oct

Power Rangers Beast Morphers Season 2 Episode 16 Review: Golden Opportunities

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This POWER RANGERS BEAST MORPHERS review contains spoilers. Power Rangers for the last six years has featured many plot lines revolving around the Rangers’ parents. It makes sense for the show to tackle the ways teenagers relate to their parents. Not only is it a great source of conflict for stories but also it’s especially relatable to the kid audience. For many children relationships with their parents are the most important things in their lives. Seeing superheroes they look up to having similar relationships can mean a lot. Unfortunately Beast Morphers really missed the mark with its depiction of Nate and his…

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24 Oct

Power Rangers Beast Morphers Season 2 Episode 15 Review: Grid Connection

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This POWER RANGERS BEAST MORPHERS review contains spoilers. During the middle of this much-hyped Power Rangers team-up episode Jason and the Dino Charge Rangers are walking in a quarry, trying to get to Evox so they can box him in as the Beast Morphers team goes around the other way. Jason says, “We’re gonna need to scale that cliff.” What a great scene that would have been; seeing Jason work with the Dino Charge Rangers to overcome a problem. They could have tried different tactics to get up the cliff, maybe fight off some foot soldiers that tried to block their ascent.…

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17 Oct

Power Rangers Beast Morphers Season 2 Episode 14 Review: Making Bad

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This POWER RANGERS BEAST MORPHERS review contains spoilers. For an episode filled with clips from the past the most Power Rangers thing to happen is actually the B plot with the Rangers tracking down a diamond thief. Mostly because there are five diamond stores in Coral Harbor and they have names that all go in alphabetical order for A to E.  Albert’s Gems. Bright Stones. Coral Harbor Jewelers. Diamonds of Distinction. Elite Diamonds. That is so cheesy and perfectly Power Rangers. Of course the city would have diamond stores in alphabetical order! Obviously! I love that it’s a huge part of this…

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10 Oct

Power Rangers Beast Morphers Season 2 Episode 13 Review: Finders Keepers

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This POWER RANGERS BEAST MORPHERS review contains spoilers. In watching ‘Finders Keepers’ I was struck by how normal everything seemed. I don’t mean this is a normal episode because it clearly isn’t, but how all the Rangers acted around each other. Sure there was a little surprise from the Power Rangers Beast Morphers team meeting the Dino Charge Rangers but it was mostly matter a fact. There’s a problem and they need to team-up to solve it! I wish more teams were able to interact this way. There doesn’t need to be a giant world ending battle. Sometimes the two teams crossing…

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03 Oct

Power Rangers Beast Morphers Season 2 Episode 12 Review: The Greater Good

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This POWER RANGERS BEAST MORPHERS review contains spoilers. I’ve often talked about wanting Power Rangers Beast Morphers to tackle some slightly weightier ideas. Not because I’m an adult watching this show and wanting it to reach my level but because that’s what some of the best kids TV is doing now. They present stories with complex themes that have the characters make unique and interesting choices that propel them forward. Critically though those themes can relate to kids. In a series like DuckTales for instance, they’ve talked about abuse but it’s done through the lens of magic and shadow possession. It’s fantastical…

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26 Sep

Power Rangers Beast Morphers Season 2 Episode 11 Review: Intruder Alert

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This POWER RANGERS BEAST MORPHERS review contains spoilers. It’s a shame this Power Rangers Beast Morphers episode is genuinely really solid except for one glaring issue. The guest character is a cop. The main plot follows the Rangers mistaking Chaku, a cop, for a bad guy. First off, I don’t see the difference in those two descriptions. Second, it continues a long history in media of cops being portrayed as the good guys, which as we’ve seen recently (but has been true forever), isn’t the case. Thankfully this wasn’t as bad as Super Ninja Steel’s infamously awful ‘Sheriff Skyfire’, which taught the…

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19 Sep

Power Rangers Beast Morphers Season 2 Episode 10 Review: The Evox Snare

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This POWER RANGERS BEAST MORPHERS review contains spoilers. Beast Morphers has been in real danger of being one of several Power Rangers seasons that might only be remembered for having a team-up. It’s happened before with Wild Force, Operation Overdrive, Super Megaforce, and Super Ninja Steel. These were all seasons that were heavily critcized by fans so the team-ups, whatever their quality, easily took all the spotlight. To this day those seasons usually only come up in discussion because of their team-ups. With all the news of returning cast members for Beast Morphers, especially the original Red Ranger, it could be very easy…

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