Tuesday, November 4, 2008

"TO EARN YOUR STRIPES" (PR-1630): Dai Shi vs Jarrod

This episode is a fine example of what I've loved about this season: The Rangers felt like a B-plot to the villains.

Nice to see Pai Zhua again. Pretty good martial arts fight for a Disney season.

Casey has to go and spoil the episode. -_- I don't like the bikelizer to begin with, but the way he just left it was even worse. Only time this year I would've preferred a longer sequence.

Although I wish Jarrod's struggle with Dai Shi had been touched on a bit sooner, I enjoyed how it was done here. The mirror scene was pretty cool. Jarrod never meant to hurt anyone? Yeah, right. I'd look at it as either the writers trying to make him look like a good guy now, or he was just lying to Dai Shi. And nice work making sure to remove the voice alteration.

Well, that was a quick way to finish off the Phantom Beast Warriors. I wasn't real surprised they had to skip over giving an episode to a Beast and that it was Osiris. If it was a matter of picking a Geki battle to use, fat chance they were gonna touch episode 44.

4/5, just barely 5, but gotta take off points because (at least as of this episode), Casey has learned NOTHING.

**Check back later when I'll be doing something different for the final 2 episodes.**

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