Power Rangers Dino Fury: Superstition Strikes Review

PRDF "Superstition Strikes"

"You're even bad at spelling." - Amelia Jones

Amelia gets a focus episode with "Superstition Strikes", which certainly has shaky elements, but comes together as a fun installment that she comes out the other side stronger for.

It all starts after we get a version of the classic mainstay of focus episodes: introducing the family member. In this case, it's Amelia grandfather, whose ladder Amelia accidentally walks under - which means bad luck. Her morpher breaks during a solo sporix fight, so even that button that makes such an ungodly racket on the official morpher toy doesn't work.

However, I have to take issue with one highlighted incident of "bad luck". The monster of the week fires an energy blast at an unmorphed Amelia, who defends herself with the lid of a trash can. The deflected blast happens to hit in front of Izzy and Javi, who are morphed. So instead of Amelia coming out like a rose and looking great for quick thinking saving herself from certain death, the episode considers this some down-the-middle example of her bad luck and clumsiness. Oh please! She cannily saved herself and the people she mildly inconvenienced were morphed. That's not bad luck! It's good reflexes and actually pretty great luck!

In any case, Amelia hangs back in the base while Solon works on a replacement morpher. It turns out to be lucky that Amelia is there to defend the base from Boomtower, who teleports in with Amelia's original morpher. This sequence gives Amelia some triumphant moments, a trend that continues when she combines her Ankylozord to the Megazord for the first time, creating a "Hammer Formation". Uniquely, Amelia uses a semi-accidental Rube Goldberg attack from the Megazord cockpit which helps to win the day.

Elsewhere, Izzy secures the raw sporix blob from Boomtower's clutches and says, "Okay, boomer". I'm... going to allow that because it's not a bad play on words. 

My rant above stands, but otherwise, "Superstition Strikes" gets credit for giving Amelia great moments in her focus episode. If it wasn't for Trashcangate, I would rate the episode higher. 6/10.