Welcome to Ranger Reviews, a webseries where we look at episodes of the tv show, Power
Rangers and then discuss it!
Today, we're exploring the sixty seventh episode of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers as
well as the seventh episode of Season 2, titled "The Green Dream".
We start this episode at Angel Grove High School where Ms. Appleby is telling everyone
that their 500-word essays are due this Friday.
Wait, 500 words?!
That's like 10 minutes of work.
She warns Bulk and Skull that she expects their essays to be panty droppers, and Skull
freaks out momentarily when Bulk mentions that this essay has to be about a subject
that interests them, which again, 10 minutes of work.
They're going to write about the secret identities of the Power Rangers for some weird
ass reason.
In the hallway, Tommy is at his locker, and he gets startled by Kimberly because he says
that he's had a dream for three nights in a row about losing his powers, and apparently,
it's bad enough to make him glaze over.
Let's all take a moment to appreciate the fact that this is the only moment that we'll
hear about this dream in an episode called The Green Dream.
Lord Zedd watches this for some reason, and he says he's going to get the Sword of Power
to make the dream a reality.
Really?
There's two Power Swords already in this show, one that's Jason's and the other
that belongs to the Megazord.
There wasn't another, better name for this MacGuffin?
Oh, also, apparently, it can only be summoned when all the Power Rangers are together.
Zedd knows more about this than the audience, evidently, or even the Power Rangers for that
matter.
Zedd wants to take Tommy to the Dark Dimension and "persuade" him to get him to bring
them the Sword of Power.
At the Youth Center, Billy shows off some new device to scrambles frequencies to Trini,
and for some reason, he thinks if he can build a bigger one, they can use it defeat Lord
Zedd.
Tommy and Kim show up, and Tommy laments how he has to write a 500 word essay about whatever
he likes.
Apparently, he's writing about mythology.
Bulk and Skull always walk in with a device that's supposed to read energies around
them to show them who the Power Rangers really are.
It starts going nuts, and Billy turns on his own device, and it leads Bulk and Skull to
Ernie who does a racist karate pose.
Tommy heads out for the library.
Zedd finds Tommy walking alone through the park, and he sends down putties to capture
him, and Tommy goes "what?!
Putties?!"
Never change, JDF.
You're doing great, sweetie.
Tommy shows off with some wire work, but he just gets kidnapped anyways, and they bring
him to the one cave in Angel Grove, where Goldar shows up and spills out the entire
plan.
They're going to turn Tommy evil, get the Sword of Power, and make Tommy bring it back
to them.
Tommy says, "I'll never do that!", and then he gets zapped with mind control because
of course he does.
Goldar finds the mythology book, and he says he "submits this image for your approval,
Lord Zedd".
What is happening?!
Lord Zedd zaps the thing, creating the Robogoat, a monster that's almost definitely a Ram
instead of a goat who has armor on and is not robotic in the slightest.
This feels like a Season 1 episode.
At the Command Center, the alarms go off, and Alpha finds out that the monster is coming
out, so Alpha calls on the Rangers, who meet up with Tommy while they hear about how there's
a new monster.
The six teleport to the Command Center and watch on the viewing globe to meet Robogoat.
Tommy suggests that he joins them, saying that they should summon the Sword of Power
to give him an extra boost of power to get him through the fight.
The Rangers just….
call on this random ass Sword of Power, and it appears in Tommy's hand who starts cackling
and waving it around at them.
He then peaces out.
Tommy gives the Sword of Power to Robogoat in the cave, and this ends the spell.
Robogoat disappears, and Tommy morphs, searching for Robogoat.
Then, he sees it stuck in the ground, and explosions erupt as he runs toward it.
Robogoat comes out with a staff in tow, and there's a run of the mill fight before Tommy
gets the Sword of Power, and then it just turns into a stick?
Now, Robogoat actually does have the Sword of Power?
He hits Tommy off of a cliff, who rolls down a hill and grabs his titties.
The others morph to go save Tommy, but they're stopped by Robogoat, who uses the sword to
fire lasers at them.
He then makes the Earth split, and everyone except Jason falls in.
Did they just die?
I guess it doesn't matter because Jason duels with Robogoat with the Power Sword against
the Sword of Power.
That's where we're at now.
Jason hits the Sword of Power out of his hands, and it turns into a stick, too?
According to Jason, Zordon teleported the real Sword back to the Command Center, but
we've seen nothing.
Also, the other four Rangers come out of Robogoat's chest.
What the fuck is happening!?
Trini says that they've been freed from the energy bubbles??
Lord Zedd says "this doesn't make any sense, so screw it, he's going to be big
now," and throws a bomb down to Robogoat.
The Rangers call out their Thunderzords, forming the Thunder Megazord.
They fight Robogoat by being off screen from each other the whole time, and Robogoat says
that the Thunder Saber is no match for the Rod of Destruction?
Oh, and Tommy gets beeped by Zordon.
We see nothing of that conversation, and Tommy just stands up, trying to call out the Dragonzord,
and he says that his dream is coming true after all?
What else happened in this dream?!
Now, Tommy is yelling at Zordon says that they're counting on him, asking to be put
back in the fight.
Who took you out?!
Whatever, the Rangers stabilize for no reason and use the Thunder Saber, destroying Robogoat.
Lord Zedd screams at Goldar, Baboo, and Squatt, two of which were even around for this episode.
He relishes in the fact that Tommy's powers are going to be gone sooner than later anyways.
At the school, Tommy says that his essay came out decently, but he's burnt out on short
stories.
Then, all of a sudden, he just says "I'm at the end, guys" like he's dying of cancer.
Kim and Jason try to cheer him up, and Tommy says that Zedd has had it in for him since
the start, and now he's closing in.
The end?!!?!
Okay, this episode is confusing as hell.
Tommy apparently is terminally ill as a Power Ranger there, and we end this episode on the
lowest note I think we've ever had.
Where the hell did the Sword of Power even come from?
Why was he called Robogoat is he had nothing robotic going on with him?
How did Zordon get that sword back if no one really teleported it to begin with?
Also, why did we waste time by showing Tommy groveling on the ground, struggling to call
out the Dragonzord but failing, only to have him yell at Zordon for absolutely no reason?
And lastly, how are you going to call an episode "The Green Dream" and never show the aforementioned
dream at all?!
Well, that's it then, kids.
Guess Green Ranger is going to be leaving the show for good.
Might as well sell all your old toys now.
How will next time fair for Tommy?
Find out then, but until then, may the power protect you!
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