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This Season, man. Where to start?, this is literally, no lie, my favorite Power Rangers' Season, everything about it, favorite Red Ranger, favorite Female Ranger, favorite Villains, damn good Episodes, and over-all a very great Season. Let get into the Plot shall we.
In the year 3000, the world is filled with a whole different race than Humans known as "Mutants", which are often discriminated by Humans and are themselves Criminals/Terrorists in a single city with a Top crime Organization which is run by the most Strongest and Dangerous of them all, Ransik (Vernon Wells). Ransik attempts to both wiped-out Humanity and take over the World with all other Mutants but continuously failed because of the advanced Police System known as "Time Force", eventually Ransik had an Idea which was to use some Technology that can have him Time Traveled, eventually him, his Daughter Nadira, and a Cyborg named Frax, broke into a Prison filled with ton of other Mutants, in which the first Ranger of Time Force, Alex, arrived to stop them but was only then brutally beaten by Ransik, and then Ransik and his small gang succeed in Time Traveling by going back to the year 2001. Alex's fiancee and fellow Time Force Officer Jen, felt vengeful over Alex's dreadful Defeat which lead to her believing he wouldn't make it through his wounds, she and her fellow comrades, Lucas, Katie, and Trip, decide to followed Ransik and his crew back in time with them. As they all made it, they brought Morphers, including Alex's as they have to someone else that matched Alex's DNA, eventually they would come upon a young man who looks just like Alex and is no surprise he his Ancestor, a well-known Wealthy but kind-hearten individual by the name "Wesley Collins", they asked him to Joined and even told him their story, but he responses to it as Non-nonsensical, but eventually after discovering its true with Ransik and his Army beginning to attack the City, he reconsidered joining them and became the Red Ranger, with Jen being pink, Lucas being Blue, Katie being Yellow, and Trip being Green. As their mission of stopping Ransik and his own gang of Mutants progress, more problems occurred. Wes' former classmate and member of his corrupt businessman of a Father's new project "the Silver Guardians" (which are an advanced Police force to help take down the Mutants), Eric, who always was jealous of Wes being the one who have everything such as Money and Friends and spend less time working, as Eric was the opposite of that, but after finding out Wes' secret as well the same goes with his father, he searches for his own Powers and soon comes upon the Quantum Morpher and became the Quantum Ranger and helps the Guardians takes down Ransik and his gang as their new leader, but at times have a mixed relationship with both Wes and the other Rangers as always preferring solo. Soon all six Rangers sorta got along, and made it their way to stop their Baddies.
This season's first strength of Success is it's Characters, mainly Wes, Jen, and Eric, as well the two Villains Ransik and Frax. Wes was such a great character, as he shows such good relationships with Jen and Eric, as well his father, who originally wanted him to be a successful Businessman, running his main Company, Bio-Labs, but then rejects it and goes what he call his own Destiny, and Destiny is exactly what this particular season centers around. Wes' relationship with his Father progresses great in this season as the reason Wes turned against what was his Father's future, not his, because what Wes learns that all he truly cares about is Money, not others' lives, which is Wes' purpose obviously as a Ranger, which when after his Father learns what he didn't told him before (Being a Ranger), he requests him to be the new Leader of the Guardians as if saving the City is what he truly wants to do, but Wes obviously refuses as the Guardians as he knows are for Profit, unlike the Rangers, and it took for a while for him to Realize that his Destiny as a Ranger is the best thing he could ever do and soon admitted that to Wes. Wes' lecturing of finding his own Destiny is something I found quite impressive about his character, as he told this to Alex, who turned-out wasn't dead after-all and came back as a Leader and told that his supposed Destiny is working at Bio-Labs, which of-course he have the rights for his own Destiny and once coming back for his friends and bagged for his return as a Leader as it turned out Alex is nothing more than a Strict jerk of a Leader, he literally taught him the whole Destiny thing and soon Alex felt like he was wrong the whole time. Jen's character is what I found unique out of them all, as she a female leader, which is quite rare, and she got a quite interesting Relationship with Wes, it began with her being quite Strict to him as well the other Rangers, just like Alex who influenced her, but after Alex's arrival and Wes' lecturing to him, she developed more of a crush on Wes who beforehand, been having a crush on her, and wasn't fully reveal she have feelings for him until the Finale in which she and her friends (Except Wes) travel back to the year 3000, and learns about Wes' solo mission of saving the World from Ransik, and learns he succeeded but have died, this made Jen feel really guilty that she leaves someone she loves dearly and soon rejects Alex's proposal to her so she could motivate him to let them traveled back and prevent Wes' supposed death. Jen was a likable character all the way, and probably one of the most prettiest female Rangers ever, lol. Eric was an excellent interesting character, such a great development, started out as pretty much a Loser compared to Wes who ain't from a wealthy family and have to work so he can earned himself some goods, but still jealous over Wes' being the opposite as he already had all the money and barely have to do anything, but when discovering the Quantum morpher, his world was finally going to turned around by becoming quite an fascinating Ranger and more of a good developing story, as Eric by this time is fueled with Power which is something he always wanted but it didn't took him too long to realize that being a Ranger is not about Power but is saving the world from Evil, plus his relationship was also interesting to watch as Wes despite being from a rich background, does have feelings and wants to befriend Eric, but Eric being from an Unsuccessful background and therefore believes they don't fit, but by the finale in which Wes give Eric his speech that like what he said to Alex previously, changes Eric's views completely and he finally decides to fight along his side entirely. The villains in this season are quite sympathetic, especially Frax whose background and his final appearances were just sad to watch, as he used to be a kind and caring Human scientist who saves Ransik from a disease of that of another Mutant known as "Venomark" but Ransik, who beforehand became quite Selfish, shuns the Scientist's offer of kindness and destroy his entire Lab and leaving him there for dead, but as the Scientist is about to died, he uses his knowledge of Robotic technology to transformed into a Cyborg who was eventually be known as "Frax", and from then on Frax was shown to be a Cold-hearten and Narcissistic monster who felt vengeful over Ransik for destroying his original career, but by the finale in which Frax was captured by Ransik, long after revealing to him who he is, Ransik's changed daughter Nadira who knows about Frax's former self asked him about the rivalry between Humans and Mutants and how to stop it but carelessly reveals it impossible but after Nadira stated his former Identity, Frax then had a change of heart and had his former kind personality back and told Nadira that she actually can stops the Hatred Mutants have on Humans but was then reprogrammed before she can even have a change to learn more, this is what makes Frax's story arc quite depressing to watch as he was going back to his old self but lost it. Ransik on the other hand have a-bit of Sympathetic part of his story, in a story he reveal to Wes about what motivate him to hate on Humanity is that he part of a Chemical Accident just like all the other Mutants and was shunned by everyone around him based on his appearance, but soon became colder and colder with his Heart that he begun his career as a notorious Crimelord from the Future. Through-out the Series, we see Ransik as selfish as always but by the finale in which he finally learns by his now-good Daughter that Humans aren't all bad like he thought they were and soon surrendered, which lead to his story to continued in "Wild Force", which I won't get into until that review, and a interesting note, Ransik was the only Villain to not to be defeated in the history of the entire show, how amazing is that. Vernon Wells, who is an actor I recognizes well from "Mad Max 2" and "Commando", plays the character Ransik perfectly, showing how cruel he can be in episodes-after-episodes until the Finale, and his relationship with Frax was good as started out as a loose alliance to a great rivalry upon Ransik learning about Frax's past. His Loyalty to his daughter Nadira was at times amusing but shows the best amount of development he have in a Relationship beside Frax, and this was important as he hurts his Daughter in the finale, all because of his evil self, and this being a main reason of why he regrets his past actions. A-lot of Episodes from the premiere up to the Finale are just great, with "Force From the Future" being a good way to kicked-off a season and "End of Time" being what I think is second to "Countdown to Destruction" as one of the best Finales that this show delivers.
Over-all, if you never seen this series and even if you are a Power Rangers fan, which by-a-way, Shamed on you, totally check this one out, it just a fun, Interesting, Enjoyable, and Epic season.
score 10/10
kylemcdavid-27399 8 June 2018
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8-3-2021 01:14:06