Power Rangers Megaforce Episode Review - Mega Mission

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   [Some of the summary will be out of order]

We see all the Power Rangers from the past fighting in a large war. It turns out a dream the new kid Troy is having. He wakes up on the bus and goes to class. In a class, the teacher Mr. Burley asks his students (including Emma, Gia, Noah and Jake) which species will survive. Emma says Insects and Noah says robots. Troy enters and says humans. Admiral Malkor asks Creepox about Earth. The Warstar aliens have inspected Earth and say they can invade. Gia goes to the hangout Ernie's Brain Freeze and Emma request something as she goes to see a Orange Monarch Butterfly.


 So Jake has a crush on Gia so he convinces Noah to go with him to Ernie's. Vrax hopes that the humans aren't a problem, he tells Malkor. Malkor is sure they will take care of them. In a secret underground Command Center on an ocean shore, Tensou and Gosei wake up. Gosei tells Tensou to select five teenagers. Tensou has three eyes and reminds me of Wall-E and the robot from Short Circuit.

Emma spots a monster. Jake is about to give an ice cream to Gia but Gia gets teleported away. Noah then gets teleported away. Jake gets teleported last. Troy is practicing martial arts on a building roof and gets teleported. The four enter the mysterious base and meet Tensou. The place lights up, with hundreds of statues known to fans as the Ranger Keys. Gosei surprises them and explains that Zordon left him to guard the Earth and only wake up when there is an extraordinary menace. Jake comments that Gosei looks like a Tiki from his dad's Hawaiian shirts. He explains they will be Power Rangers. Emma teleports in and shows them the monster she saw. Gosei shows them on their consoles video of the Power Ranger they shall be and the powers they will have. 

Noah asks who are the Ranger Keys. Gosei tells them that they are the Rangers before them. Troy commented eariler that he saw them before in his dream as he looked at the Red Time Force Ranger Key, which we flashback to but with more footage. Gosei gives them their Gosei Morphers and teleport them to the city. They land on the ground and Loogies are attacking. They fight the Loogies and are outnumbered so they morph and fight the Loogies. They call their weapons the Phoenix Shot, Snake Axe, Dragon Sword (even though called Dragonzord in the closed caption), Shark Bowgun and Tiger Claw.

Scaraba is summoned to fight the Rangers by the Warstar aliens.  They destroy him, return to the headquarters where Gosei congrats them. "We were lucky this time," was said by Zack and now Noah. Emma repeating Kim's "Helmet messes up my hair." At least she said "Just Kidding" and not "Not."

Review:

The Nick Bumpers are cute.  Jake is definitely the funny one and has the best lines. Noah's actor John Loudermilk does a good job at little mannerisms and such for his intellectual character. Emma and Gia come off a bit stuck-up and cold in this episode. Jake and Noah are endearing. Troy seems bland, like Red Rangers before him, hopefully he peps up. Some lines made me laugh as intended, some made me shudder like Emma's "Pink is my favorite color. I am not sure about this Ranger thing." I did like that Noah's line of "Megazords. Power Cards." mimicked Zack's line in the first episode of "Power Morphers. Megazords." Blue admiring the robot also mirrors the first episode and also the Rangers landing and Troy saying "Gosei said this will give us more power."

One criticism would be the use of the Goseiger cards in the show when they could have reshot it with new cards. The new Power Rangers cards appeared at PMC and they started shooting this season after PMC but I guess they had their reasons. I liked the Zordon references and other references. I am glad there is no Bulk or Skull, but Ernie's name use is confusing. Emma mentioning Insects and Noah mentioning Robots foreshadows the villains this for this year. Also, the open credits include many future Megazords, the big Legend War, and Ernie (new) and Mr. Burley.