So the beginning has Snide captured by King Emperor Argamon, Argamenon or whatever his name is with Heckyl trying to fight his way out with his tentacle big penis.
But forget all that, because Davi Santos is playing his own cousin/great grandson, etc.. after Tyler Navarro has a very mature fart joke while hiding from the graffiti artist.
NAWT!
Are they cutting episodes on their unnecessary guests of the week that they have the Rangers play their own cousins?
For whatever reason, Riley decides to intervene, when the Zandarian Knight Ivan complains about the graffiti artist.
Apparently, graffiti being art is a meme now.
HAHAHAHAHA!
HAHAHAHAHAH!
HJAHAHAHAHA!
At this moment, I'm wondering if they're going to go the lame hair pulling moment of Jack and Jill, where Adam Sandler dresses up as his own female twin cousin. But they don't even do that right.
So Riley intervenes and gives Ivan's "cousin" a smoothie.
Why? Does that have anything to do with his character? Is Riley the heart of the team now? Human resources? Da fuq does dis have to do with ANYTHING?! He just met the cousin too.
Oh, Riley, empathizes with him cuz of his graffiti.
Cuz of cleaning it up?!
Art's ok if it's done on other people's people propety.
Throwing paint on yourself makes you an artist.
HAHAHAHAHA!
HJAHAHAHAHA!
HAHAHAHA!
No throwing paint on yourself makes yourself a Power Ranger if you want to count facts.
Why'd they put a T-Rex in the graffiti if the episode was about Riley?
When you finally get to the Japanese footage you realize it's an adaptation thing. That's all this episode was an adaption. Very little storytelling involved. Just adapting. This was pretty much equally as bad as Samurai and especially Megaforce, except that they did worse by writing their own story.
So Ivan atttempt to teach his cousin about art.
His cousin draws a pose of his cousin after seeing Renaissance-ish art, cuz y'know that was like thousands of years right Ivan? I mean it's fantasy, but I have no idea where this goes within Power Rangers canonicity.
Oh wait. Ivan's disgusted.
Why?
Cuz he replaced the horse in the previous photo with that of a motorcycle.
Ivan's appalled.
Cuz he's a knight. And motorcycles hunt knights?
Cuz his parents were murdered by a motorcycle?
Why would a chivalrous knight throw his cousin, his family's art out, if he's supposed to be a gentleman?
What is amazing though is that Davi Santos plays two different characters and reacts accordingly although the script is shit.
So later, it's revealed in the episode that Sweet Tooth, and two other dudes' plan from Agamemnon is that they want to switch the Rangers' bodies.
Why?!
What kind of logic does that follow?
Ok, so they're not used to the weapons, but then they even fix that later.
Riley has problems dubbing himself in ADR.
Then when everyone gets back to the base, they complain about the painting and the random dumpster it's in.
Ivan why do you give a shit? It's the exact same photo as the last one except it has a motorcycle in it, you motorcyclist!
And then they for whatever reason in addition to paying Riley and Ivan to dub themselves and other people, pay the suit actors and voice actors of Xenowing and Keeper to show up for like one sentence.
Also, I'm not sure of the depth of Keeper's powers, but you figure he would be like a pagan Space God or something and just like turn the Rangers back into their own bodies.
So then Ivan in Riley's body goes over to his cousin to the obvious in any kids show that, he just wanted to be like his friend/cousin/Uncle Grandpa or whatever.
Why didn't they just have Riley and Ivan switch bodies earlier to save on the budget?
And then the Rangers fight the monsters again. I don't recall why or how that got triggered, since my brain is fried like an egg at this point at how poorly presented this episode was.
The Rangers pose with different suit and explosion flames, which is pretty cool, although mainly Japanese footage.
The Rangers switch weapons, which is sorta obvious to do in the first place, against a bunch of monsters that aren't that powerful to begin with.
And then the monsters switch the Ranger bodies again to throw the Rangers off.
Ok cool.
Xenowing shows up in an attempt to defeat the monsters.
And then they switch his body with one of the monsters in an attempt to defeat the monsters. To give them a really big upper hand.
Ok cool.
That was clever.
Although, I even had problems with that. I may be nitpicking, but like it's like they tried hard this episode anyway, so why not?
And then Tyler does what I think was really improperly edited by destroying the body switching device while not confirming if that'd work or if they'd just stay in their new bodies forever.
Like, seriously, he's the main character, the serious dark one and that's the move he does?
So they all kill off the bad guy with stock footage.
And then Ivan has a brain freeze cuz he drank a smoothie. Cuz tough knights do that.
Cuz they're rough.
End of episode.
Like I don't get why they don't just do an episode on Heckyl. There's no reason to adapt this episode. You paid for a set where the villains can show up in US footage. So use it. It'll probably be dismantled and a whole bunch of shit later, so who cares?
I guess it's slightly about him because it's about mistaken, but no- fuck you. You guys don't know what the hell you're doing.
Like I mentioned how they could've spent less time and money on the Riley and Ivan switch, but switching bodies still would've made the episode bad, just cheaper and production a bit more logical.
Xenowing's body switch could've worked like the imposter in Lightspeed Rescue etc..
They could've had a monster switch bodies the whole season and not let the Rangers find out.
And why have Davi Santos play two characters? Did they cheapen out on unnecessary guests of the week budget that they had to do that? Cuz then they still have to pay post to have two Davi Santoses in the episode.
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