Power Rangers Dino Fury: Stego Search Review

PRDF "Stego Search"

Yes. That is Javi playing a keytar in the image above. Thank you and you're welcome.

Of course, the presence of said keytar is no surprise, as that was central to Javi's motivation from his introduction to the show. As he plays it in the park, J-Borg accompanies him with operatic vocals that recall the "Diva Dance" from The Fifth Element. But in a moment of parental authority gone too far, Javi's dad Carlos instantly takes it upon himself to return the instrument and get Javi's money back.

Meanwhile, the other Rangers and Solon attempt to locate Javi's dormant Stegozord. After no joy on the search, Izzy nominates Zayto to tell Javi the bad news, but then leaves Amelia and Ollie to do it. Is that leadership?

In Area 62, Boomtower takes it upon himself to power up with a sporix enhancement. Boomtower, blithely enhancing himself like he's John Walker in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier... The ensuing action sequence benefits from the nicely counterintuitive choice to have the unmorphed foot soldier fight at the end of the action sequence. But after Izzy is injured, "Stego Search" continues to be not a great episode for Carlos, who venomously blames Javi for Izzy's injury even though a) he doesn't understand the situation, and b) everything that's gone before would indicate that Izzy's the "tougher" sibling!

There's an amusing moment when Boomtower grows to kaiju size across town, and Amelia asks, "Am I imagining it, or is he looking right at us?" At this point, it becomes clear that in addition to Zayto and Carlos, Void Knight has to come in for leadership criticism too. Boomower says that Void Knight "let [him] keep" the sporix powers. This, after Void Knight interrupted the attack on an overwhelmed team of Rangers purely because he was annoyed Boomtower used his initiative? Shame, Void Knight. Shame. Inefficiency and incompetence in evil.

Anyways, Javi finds his zord, it comes with the Megazord in a spike formation, and there's a cool sunset zord battle. Aside from multiple instances of characters behaving illogically, the episode nonetheless shines as a solid focus episode for Javi. There's also a decent runner about Zayto needing a teen dictionary to understand slang. Now get back that keytar. 7/10.