Ninja Steel Reaction Posts #7 & 8
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akinoameSo, the plot begins because Sarah wants to impress colleges by adding a bunch of clubs, so she creates holographic clones she can perfectly control in order to do so? I'm sorry, but why isn't THIS on her college application? "Teenage girl creates holographic clones"--I'm sure that MIT would offer her a full scholarship at that point. Hell, the Department of Defense would want something to say!
And really, when you get down to it, this is a massively underexplored element, similar to the Cyborg Rangers (actually androids) in Lightspeed Rescue. See, Power Rangers keeps trying to prove that the human element is more important than power, even when they have very human robots on their team. But...what they've introduced could easily be the end of the Power Rangers. Why would anyone put humans--particularly teenagers--in harm's way when they can have holograms that cannot get hurt and can re-form if destroyed? And back to what I said about the Department of Defense--think of the military applications! Instead of recruiting soldiers, all they'd need is to have enough well-qualified people to remain in control of them while safe at base, then fill out the ranks with holograms. Put in enough safeguards to prevent the holograms from being used by the enemy, and no one from your side would have to die again.
Furthermore, you stop the monster with a virus? Have we learned nothing from Venjix? Really, I'm starting to wish that RPM was a future where all of the Rangers' computer viruses came back to haunt them, including the one they used to defeat him themselves.
But the whole lesson in this, that Sarah should focus on doing one thing well instead of four things inadequately, is so obvious that...it's kind of insulting to the Rangers, really. I keep saying Mick should be the real Red Ranger, and this isn't really a commentary on him as being super-competent, but more on them being particularly dense for teenagers. The lessons he gives them are obvious, things they should be saying themselves--Brody shouldn't rely on himself and technology all the time and let the others help him, Preston needs to learn that with the great power of magic comes great responsibility, Sarah needs to keep her focus...why don't they point that out to each other? I don't know if this is just Ninninger's problems coming back to haunt it, but I really want to see them step up.
Sixth Ranger at episode 8? Doesn't this feel really early? Especially when we've barely gotten a feel for the other five?
I kind of miss the burger phone morpher, but the whole point of Kinji was that he was so stereotypically American that he honestly should have been insulting; instead, he played it so well it was adorable. Especially when you consider he was basically a very strange, long-lost Winchester brother. But it makes sense that Levi is a country music singer, to better explain why his sword/gun is a guitar. And he trails stardust in his wake, though his outfit kind of comes off like Jin from Go-Busters.
I'm totally okay with him and Brody starting up what I hope is a romance (but I know they'll never let it happen, not yet). It honestly gives Brody some meat to his character, just the fact that he refuses to treat Levi as anything other than a normal person, plus it'd give something for what I'm sure is going to be a betrayal arc. But...he really could have let ANYONE use the chainsaw sword? ANYONE? Like Sarah, in the previous episode, during the UFO-maru episode where AGAIN Pink gets shafted?!
I also do not know why not-Kyuemon suggests Gaby is the traitor, but only in front of two mooks...why? Why not bring this up in front of the boss, get him in trouble? It's not like the mooks can really spread rumors.
And the crazy lion castle whose name I cannot remember (running theme of Ninninger) is a ship from the Lion Galaxy--is this how they'll handle Kyuuranger?
Overall, it's actually a better episode, but still nothing fantastic. But I appreciate that little girl getting sassy and humiliating not-Gaston when he calls her a fake fan.
And really, when you get down to it, this is a massively underexplored element, similar to the Cyborg Rangers (actually androids) in Lightspeed Rescue. See, Power Rangers keeps trying to prove that the human element is more important than power, even when they have very human robots on their team. But...what they've introduced could easily be the end of the Power Rangers. Why would anyone put humans--particularly teenagers--in harm's way when they can have holograms that cannot get hurt and can re-form if destroyed? And back to what I said about the Department of Defense--think of the military applications! Instead of recruiting soldiers, all they'd need is to have enough well-qualified people to remain in control of them while safe at base, then fill out the ranks with holograms. Put in enough safeguards to prevent the holograms from being used by the enemy, and no one from your side would have to die again.
Furthermore, you stop the monster with a virus? Have we learned nothing from Venjix? Really, I'm starting to wish that RPM was a future where all of the Rangers' computer viruses came back to haunt them, including the one they used to defeat him themselves.
But the whole lesson in this, that Sarah should focus on doing one thing well instead of four things inadequately, is so obvious that...it's kind of insulting to the Rangers, really. I keep saying Mick should be the real Red Ranger, and this isn't really a commentary on him as being super-competent, but more on them being particularly dense for teenagers. The lessons he gives them are obvious, things they should be saying themselves--Brody shouldn't rely on himself and technology all the time and let the others help him, Preston needs to learn that with the great power of magic comes great responsibility, Sarah needs to keep her focus...why don't they point that out to each other? I don't know if this is just Ninninger's problems coming back to haunt it, but I really want to see them step up.
Sixth Ranger at episode 8? Doesn't this feel really early? Especially when we've barely gotten a feel for the other five?
I kind of miss the burger phone morpher, but the whole point of Kinji was that he was so stereotypically American that he honestly should have been insulting; instead, he played it so well it was adorable. Especially when you consider he was basically a very strange, long-lost Winchester brother. But it makes sense that Levi is a country music singer, to better explain why his sword/gun is a guitar. And he trails stardust in his wake, though his outfit kind of comes off like Jin from Go-Busters.
I'm totally okay with him and Brody starting up what I hope is a romance (but I know they'll never let it happen, not yet). It honestly gives Brody some meat to his character, just the fact that he refuses to treat Levi as anything other than a normal person, plus it'd give something for what I'm sure is going to be a betrayal arc. But...he really could have let ANYONE use the chainsaw sword? ANYONE? Like Sarah, in the previous episode, during the UFO-maru episode where AGAIN Pink gets shafted?!
I also do not know why not-Kyuemon suggests Gaby is the traitor, but only in front of two mooks...why? Why not bring this up in front of the boss, get him in trouble? It's not like the mooks can really spread rumors.
And the crazy lion castle whose name I cannot remember (running theme of Ninninger) is a ship from the Lion Galaxy--is this how they'll handle Kyuuranger?
Overall, it's actually a better episode, but still nothing fantastic. But I appreciate that little girl getting sassy and humiliating not-Gaston when he calls her a fake fan.