Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - S01E30

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Today, we’re exploring the thirtieth episode of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, titled “The
Rockstar”.
We start this episode outside of Billy’s garage where the teens sans Trini are piling
things into the Radbug.
Everyone except Jason, that is, because he isn’t going on this… field trip….
That everyone else is going on because he needs to spend some time with his little cousin,
Jeremy.
I don’t think the writers know what a field trip is, but okay.
We get a cute little moment where Trini comes in and offers this things that she made in
her cooking class that look like brownies.
The Rangers go to taste them, and she tells them it’s escargot, which Billy lets everyone
know that it’s snail, so they toss them over their shoulders and smile like good sports.
I like the idea that Trini thinks she’s great at cooking exotic dishes while everyone
wishes she would just stop.
Everyone without Jason gets into the Radbug and leaves, and apparently Squatt is just
waiting behind some bushes to watch them leave.
That’s… strange.
Squatt goes back to the Moon, and Rita mentions something about a mirror.
So, at the beach, Bulk and Skull apparently opted out of the field trip too, and they’re
eating pizza.
Jason and Jeremy walk along a path.
Bulk notices them, and asks who the kid is rudely, and Jeremy asks if this is the famous
bully.
What?
He’s more like the annoying kid in your class at this point.
Whatever, Bulk tries to fight Jason for some reason, and he ends up with his face in the
pizza.
Yay.
Jason and Jeremy are going fishing, but first, they practice martial arts on the beach.
Jeremy’s not great, but he clearly looks up to Jason, so that’s cool, I guess.
Jason mentions how when he was young, martial arts helped him build self confidence, which
is nice.
Rita sees them on the beach, and she almost shits a brick because she thought all the
rangers were out of town.
Does she understand the concept of teleporting?
Oh well, she sends down Putties.
Jason and Jeremy both fight the Putties, getting rid of them.
They then finally get to go fishing.
Man, this episode is dragging.
Jeremy somehow catches something within SECONDS, and it’s a bottle that Jason rips open right
away, and weird light particles fly out.
Jason hides real quick and calls Zordon, who tells him to get Jeremy and leave.
Jason tries to get Jeremy, who has a boner for the bottle and the mini earthquake that
happened.
Inside the bottle is a map to the Mirror of Destruction.
Apparently, according to Rita, this mirror will destroy whoever looks into it, and we
get a terrible flashback of some Asian guy in knight armor gets killed by the mirror.
Scorpina, Baboo, and Squatt go down to Earth, and somehow, Scorpina snaps her fingers, and
some rocks form a monster named Rockstar.
How the hell did Scorpina do that!?
Whatever, the appear in front of Jason and Jeremy, and while Jeremy runs away, Putties
attack… but then the Rockstar shows up too, and he pins Jason down with a big, foam rock.
Zordon calls the others, and Trini and Zack teleport in, helping Jason.
He lets them know that they’re after Jeremy, and we get a lot of weird cuts before we find
out that there’s also trouble at a beach club somewhere?
The rangers are going to morph, but Billy says he’ll find Jeremy and just bails.
It’s hilarious.
There’s a cool little fight with the putties with Black and Yellow while Pink fires her
Power Bow at Scorpina.
Yellow and Black gets pushed away by Rockstar, and in the background, there’s a random
Japanese dude falling over himself.
Rockstar fires rocks at Trini and Zack before they get kicked into the pool.
Meanwhile, Squatt and Baboo fromp on in to let Scorpina know that they lost Jeremy.
I honestly don’t even remember them going to go after him.
Scorpina finds Pink and Red and her mouth moves to tell Squatt and Baboo to do something,
but there’s no audio, so that’s good.
Rockstar appears and finds rocks at Red and Pink, so we’re left with Billy apparently
just running around somewhere.
We find that Jeremy has “tricked” some putties to go away, and he finds the mirror.
The putties come back and find Jeremy, who just uses the mirror and kills them.
Congrats, we’ve made a murderer.
Now, Jeremy is on his back, and Rockstar is over him with a big rock, presumably ready
to bash his head in, but Jeremy uses the mirror, and boom goes Rockstar.
Meanwhile, I can only assume Billy has taken a smoke break somewhere.
Jeremy says the mirror is too dangerous and just tosses it away???
What kind of fucking idiot?
It lands on the beach by Scorpina, who starts going for it.
Yellow, Black, and…
Blue (?) come out and fire at her with their Blade Blasters.
In a moment of completion confusion, Pink and Red appear, and Pink loses the mirror
to Scorpina.
Time to make Scorpina and Goldar grow.
They form the Megazord, and giant Scorpina points the now giant Mirror of Destruction
at the Megazord who struggles to not look at the Mirror, because ya know, the Megazord
has eyes apparently.
Goldar grabs the Megazord, who then gets switched with the Megazord, and Scorpina has to throw
the mirror.
The Megazord calls on the Power Sword, and they destroy the mirror in midair.
The Rangers regroup with Jeremy on the beach, who has a huge boner for the Power Rangers.
In the end, we’re at the juice bar where Jeremy is bragging to everyone about how he
fought putties, and he even says he saw Yellow and Black get tossed into the pool to drown,
but that’s not even physically possible.
Whatever, he asks Jason where he was during the fight, and Jason says “Had to do something”,
and we end the episode there.
Fuck.
This episode was hell to just get through, to be honest.
I don’t know if it’s the fact that the actor for Jeremy is bad, the fact that they
dubbed over his voice for some reason, the idea that the monster was just there while
they fought Putties over and over again, or the idea that this wasn’t even really a
Jason focus episode.
It was pretty much a Jeremy one.
I mean, did the rangers even know that Jeremy destroyed Rockstar until he tells them at
the Juice Bar or did they just assume he left?
Whatever, hopefully next time won’t be so rough, but until then, may the power protect
you!

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