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| PRBM "The Greater Good" |
The latest episode of Power Rangers Beast Morphers acts as something of a part 2 to last week's episode. While bringing closure to Captain Chaku and Ryjack's stories, the episode doesn't really rise above a functional level with anything special to it.
The order of the day is humanizing Chaku, ironically by revealing his work-mandated cyborg enhancements. At first, Chaku is hesitant to remove his helmet while on duty, so I initially thought this was a Sam on SPD situation, where the production can be a little thrifty by only using a non-speaking suit actor and a voice actor. But as it turned out, the show does reveal Chaku's face, and his desire to reunite with his daughter in his home galaxy.
Meanwhile, Ryjack and his cadre of Putties and Viviks are still trying to access the Ranger vault. Until Ryjack has a bit of a bad day. He loses his reanimator gun (recovered by Scrozzle for future episode use) and in short order loses his life after a tag-team of the Beast-X Ultrazord and Chaku's Reptilobeast get through with him.
Speaking of those mechs, the Beast-X Ultrazord is seen already assembled in the Grid Battleforce hangar for I believe the first time. And Chaku's Reptilobeast, with its primary color scheme, presents as "good Serpentera".
Ultimately, Commander Shaw pretty much officially offers Chaku a Sixth Ranger position, which is a nice novelty for this show. At first he dutifully agrees, but ultimately returns to his home galaxy. Commander Shaw's words to Chaku are, "You've been a warrior long enough. If you'd like, you can go back to being a dad." Replace the word "dad" with "mom", and I wonder if this could indicate projection on her part, or even foreshadow her eventually resigning from her post. I hope not, as command suits her well.
Taking or leaving Chaku's purple venus flytrap, there aren't too many distinct decisions that elevate the episode to anything above average. 5/10.
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