In this
episode, Billy and Kimberly both drink a drinky drink that was spiked and it
made them turn bad. Not like take over
the world bad, but like Skull and Bulk bad.
This attitude change comes with a makeover, which is quite humorous, and
Kimberly even asks Skull out on a date.
Now,
right off the bat I have three problems with this. Rita Repulsa didn’t spike the drinks
herself, she had someone do it, for all intents and purposes let’s just say she
did it herself.
1)
Why turn only two out of the five Power Rangers “bad”? Wouldn’t it have been better to turn the
whole gang? Also, of the two, why Billy
and Kimberly? It seems like Jason would
have been a given, seeing as how he’s the Red Ranger, but I digress. You can’t really control who drinks the
drank, so you’ll just have to take what you can get.
2)
Given the fact that the Power Rangers turned bad
were random, why didn’t she at least send someone down there to recruit
them? This could have played out where
Jason, Zack and Trini had to face off against an evil Billy and Kimberly, but
apparently that’s thinking too far ahead for Rita Repulsa. I mean, isn’t she tired of sending all these
baddies out there only to have them fail?
Making the Power Rangers fight amongst themselves seems like a logical
step in this plan, but alas, I am probably just over-thinking this.
3)
If all of that failed (and it did) then why didn’t
they somehow get “poisoned” worse than what they did? I’m not saying Rita Repulsa should kill
them, but turning them into thugs who like to give wedgies and knock books out
of other kids hands seems like a bit weak of a move, right? She could have done to them what she did to
Zordon at least.
So,
yes, Rita Repulsa has a plan, which is usually flawed, and thus she usually
loses. However, I’m not letting Zordon
get off that easy in this episode either. When it is realized that something is amiss,
what does Zordon do? Why, he teleports
Billy and Kimberly to a little jail cell up in space there with him.
What? Can he just do that to anyone at any time? Why hasn’t he done that to Rita Repulsa or at
least the number of villains she has thus far sent to destroy the earth for
some reason (or at least part of California).
This makes it seem like the Power Rangers team is somewhat unnecessary,
but hey, I’m sure that’s not the case, right?
Right??
The
Power Rangers ultimately have to put all their weapons together to kill another
bad guy and put things back to the way that they were before. However, Skull still shows up for his date with
Kimberly who completely blows him off and all.
That bitch!
The
best parts of this episode were clearly the fashion choices. Zack is wearing red/yellow/green/black pants
at one point with the Africa necklace and it just makes me really miss the ‘90s. Also, at the end sequence, Kimberly is
wearing a spandex thong (over tights, you pervs) and it’s kind of funny for me
to think that she was wearing that while supposedly good instead of evil.
The
heightened sense of overacting by both Billy and Kimberly make this episode one
of my favorites so far, despite the lack of logic in the plot. It’s almost as if they threw the rules out
the window because they wanted to see Billy play a badass, and on some level I
am okay with that.
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