This was a good episode. Not a great one, but a really good one. "Stolen Beauty" was Trakeena's focus ep, which makes since, because judging from what we saw at the end of this ep, she's not gonna be Trakeena much longer.
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The episode starts out a little weakly. We get the standard "Wicked witch asking the mirror who is the most beautiful" format, Trakeena in the place of the witch, and the resident "Monster of the Day", Crumummy, serving as the mirror. She asks him who is the most beautiful, and he answers her, of course, after all of the other beautiful girls on Terra Venture. This makes her furious, and she orders him to go steal the beauty from all the other girls on Terra Venture. He steals beauty first from two beautiful girls, that need a little help in the acting department. They didn't even look like they were struggling, just tugging a bit. It was pretty sad. Anyway, turns out that when Crumummy steals the beauty from the girls, their faces turn purple and yellow(Crumummy's colors), effectively giving off the effect of them not being quite as beautiful as before.
Of course, the Rangers show up to put a stop to his evil deeds, mophed, and ready for some subpar fighting. Of course, after seeing last week's fight, I think I expected a bit much. Besides, this was just the intro fight, the fight at the end of the ep was much better.
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Well, after this, Trakeena takes the beauty dust that Crumummy gathered for her and transforms into a human version of herself. Was anybody thinking "A Date with Danger" while they were watching this ep. I was, the similarities were astounding. I would say that Judd Lynn has run out of ideas, but that was one of the eps that Jackie Marchand wrote! Although Judd may have helped, I don't remember, but I doubt it.
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Well, Trakeena turns heads in one of the funniest scenes I have ever seen on PR. Every man within a 1 mile radius was following her and staring. And we even saw our old friend, Zedd a.k.a Ed Neil take a paintcan to the head! :)
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Trakeena eventually ends up in the new Comet Cafe. Boy, that place looked cool. She sees Mike and goes over to grab a chair, even Mike stares, and so do our resident goofballs, Bulk and the professor in their returning apperances! I have this to say, they were funnier in this ep than they ever were on PRiS. Though they still feel out of place here...Well, anyway, Trakeena a.k.a. Tracy tries to poison Mikes burger, but the attempt doesn't give. She ends up following him, at his invitation, back to the Ranger Room (my terminology), where another funny situation develops. All of the guy Rangers are also smitten with Tracy! I especially liked the scenes when Damon dropped his wrench on Kai's foot, and Kai didn't even flinch and when Leo ignored Kendix and she snapped her fingers in front of his face to bring him back to reality, but it didn't work! Well, The Rangers all soon leave to go on a walk, when Crumummy shows up again! He wants Kendrix and Maya's beauty, and Tracy's before she reminds him who she is. So, he steals the beauty of Yellow and Pink Galaxy and another fight ensues. After Crumummy leaves, Mike tells Leo he'll walk Tracy home, but Leo objects, saying that his first responsibility should be to his friends. But, Mike leaves with Tracy anyway. But, little to Leo's knowing, Mike knows who Tracy is! He pulls a cleverly executed trick when he acts like her poisoning has worked, he gets the beauty back, and sets it free.
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The other Rangers show up, and they battle. A few of the scenes I especially liked about the battle were that Leo and Kai used their "power-up mode" in American footage!! It was pretty surprising. And, I really liked the Sentai battle between Magna Defender, Kendrix and Crumummy. The finisher was really good, when Kendrix blasted through Crumummy in "power-up mode" and stayed in it a bit after he exploded.
Then, the standard Zord fight ensued, and there was a magic act at the end of the ep(most likely put in to fill up time).
Something interesting happens though. Seems, during the ep Scorpious has been preparing Trakeena's cocoon for her. She will transform into a bug like him! Needless, to say, Trakeena doesn't want to, but Scorpious is kind of insistent, saying that She has no choice in the matter because it is her destiny. Here's an interesting fact: Scorpious, and the Stingwingers were all human-looking like Trakeena at one point! But, the all went in the cocoon and transformed. Well, the ep ends with Trakeena being transformed into a green orb of light and is sent off.
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A good ep, but it lagged a bit in a few areas. I am looking forward to next week's episode, though. It's rumored to be the most expensive ep of Power Rangers ever. And it's a fact that Saban got a movie director to film the ep, and put no restrictions on the budget. From the preview I saw, it looks to be an awesome ep!
Ciao!
Donte
