Thursday, February 9, 2017

For the Lionsgate movie: Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Season 1 Episode 2 "High Five"

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Season 1 Episode 2, "High Five" is a great episode on multiple levels. This episode gets more and more addictive the more I rewatch. The original idea of a dark 90s kids show where a protagonist has to deal with his/her fear opposed to say farting slime in someone's face or talking with a suitcase is always a great plus.

The setup with the rope in the beginning works really well. 
Kimberly yells, C'mon, Jason. You can do it. Keep going."
Jason climbs a rope, foreshadowing Trini's later struggle. 
In addition to Jason, temporarily losing grip of the Bulk falls possibly what Trini may do later.

Also, the audience sees it from Jason's POV instead of Trini's, making them start to fear heights as if they were doing it from Trini's POV emotionally rather than visually.

Yo man. Back off. You never be nervous.

Ooze you can come from.

Sort of a Bulk fat joke.

They do encounters enemies as well on top.

This is also an allusion to the debut episode.

I also might've considered using the King Sphinx episode for this. Although a Jason episode, Jason climbs the rope, and it actually has to do with flying. Kimberly flying a plane is another good example of what could've been a factor, albeit in real times it would've been really difficult to make a person afraid of climbing mountains fly a plane. Then again, flying is relatively safe especially on a small plane like that.

The communicator is introduced. 
And the effects to make them look like they transform is very good. An edit done since the Christopher Reeve Superman days.
Alpha hijinx.

The Rangers finally defeat Putties by themselves.

They recycle a frame where a Putty or Kimberly ducks.

Also being afraid of the mountain is sorta unreasonable since there's a lot of room on the mountain to prevent you from falling off.

The putty dies.
The power morpher falls.

Bones could've been a reallly cool villain, but he sorta has nothing to do with the episode.

There's sort of a plothole with Rita sending the Giant down, when the Rangers already showed improvement defeating putties without morphing. Perhaps she could've said they were tired?

Ernie talks about the Power Rangers this episode. They're famous. Teleport and communicate.

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