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Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Green Candle Part 2 Review

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From the Command Center Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Green Candle Part 2 Review
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About this Episode

The team breaks down the pivotal episode where Tommy Oliver faces the loss of his Green Ranger powers. They discuss the impact of Rita Repulsa's rare victory, the show's narrative stakes, and the classic 90s fashion choices. The discussion also touches on the upcoming 20th anniversary dragon dagger replica and their critical opinions on the Power Rangers Megaforce series.

We're gonna lose the world's deadliest assassin

because of rush hour You could wrap this thing

up if you'd let me monster truck it you want

to drive on top of all these cars I don't think

so. When are you going to develop a backbone?

This is Jason David Frank Tommy the Green Ranger

and you are listening to the command center between

the pop culture network and the geek cast radio

network and this is from the command center of

the podcast episode 38 I am one of your host

do you have your mic and joining me from PCN

is Scotty Cash what's up what's going on and

this episode and the next episode episode 39

spray to the ball matrix the Super Sentai guy

is not going to be with us he was stuck at work

So Scotty is back for now and Some interesting

things came up since the last time we recorded

or at least for me They did because finally I

don't have too much longer to wait for episodes

to be on Netflix for mega farce Yes, that's right.

Megaforce was added to Netflix since the last

time we recorded Yeah, it's actually on there

I was gonna say I was gonna tell you about that.

Yeah. Oh no, I Once I refresh my homepage one

time, I'm like, ooh, Megaforce is on there. Cool.

Now I don't have to hunt all the episodes down

that I haven't been watching. I just want to

go on a record to say that Megaforce is actually

god -stinking -effing awful. Just for the record.

All the way around. I can't even get into it.

I mean, ah, it's, oh my god, it's terrible. I

don't like anything about Megaforce. The only

thing I like is the morphers and the cards they

put in the morphers just because it's kind of

different. Kind of different. Did you never watch

Yu -Gi -Oh? Yeah, but it's not a Power Rangers.

It's still a card game. Well, it's different

in the Power Ranger canon. Yeah. So yeah, we

are here today. We're going to be continuing

the green candle part two commentary Yeah, I

oh my god when spade and I did the part one commentary

when we were watching that episode I completely

forgot about the monster and both of us when

we saw really Wait, she got control of dragons

already get at the end. The real dragons aren't

shows up like who's the other? It's the most

oh Like it totally like it totally shocked the

two of us. I've seen it for a long time So I

have no idea what you're talking about the I'm

sure it'll it'll it'll refresh us. Yeah, it'll

it'll refresh us Anything else you want to bring

up before we get to it? I just released a review

of the seasons 8 through 12 DVD set. So make

sure they check that out Cool, cool. You'll have

to send me a link to that and I'll put it in

the post. Okay. All right, as usual after the

morpher sound effect, that's when you start your

DVD player, PC, whatever you're watching this

on Netflix, to sync yourself up with the commentary.

We'll be back in a moment. Another Ranger must

go in. I'll go. Forget it. No way. Look, it makes

sense. I'm the only other Ranger who's ever been

there. While we're watching this intro... Seasons

8 through 12 gotta be the best five seasons as

a whole. You know what I mean? Like it's a y

-speed rescue, time force, wild force, ninja

storm, and dino thunder. They're not gonna make

a better box set than this box set here. Well,

December 3rd, the entire 20 seasons comes out.

Yeah, for one trillion dollars. 650 to be exact.

Yeah, which is close to 1 trillion. No, not even

I Guess we're not gonna catch us back up Like

at this point like you're just Well, I guess

I guess this is the first time he's gonna lose

his powers, right? Right. Yeah because in part

one he Learned that by touching the green candle

it started sucking us It's kind of like that

whole thing with Kimberly later where her life

force is attached to Her power coin right and

yeah, I Guess I should just say like later on

when he's trying to lose his powers. It's like

he should just be used to it It's like look dude.

Hey this happens. Yeah Seeing the two of them

together. It's like hey, it's Christmas time

everybody. Yeah Zach never wears his color Yeah,

never ever his pants are always black usually

in that scene they were blue were they but yeah

Blue with a Orange and yellow and kind of a black

striped shirt See look they're blue, yep And

the 90s the big the big thing was for for The

younger black crowd I guess you would say is

was called like cross colors and that's a lot

of their stuff that That were like this. I was

I would imagine that they're just trying to Make

him look like he's wearing cross colors of sorts,

you know without the logos and stuff Yeah You

stay here we'll be right back that guy he changes

the shut up gold are we don't want here this

guy he changes into various versions of the Zords

and in the first part just to catch you up since

you hadn't seen in a while in the first part

he was dragon Zord for the longest time and basically

how it was revealed was that Zordon said Rita

got control of the actual dragon Zord again And

that's not what happened. The actual Dragonzord

showed up and there was two of them. Oh. Who's

the Dragonzord? Tommy? Yeah, yeah. But when Spada

and I first saw it, I'm like, how are there,

like, how are there two? Why are there two? And

then the monster revealed himself. I'm like,

oh, I so totally didn't see that coming. Doesn't

later on, like, he gets hit and he starts, like,

flashing through all the zords, or did that already

happen? That's that's what happened in part one.

That's it. And he starts flashing through all

of them. What are these two nuts doing? I don't

know. Poor bulky needs a hand. Yeah, Zach does

look like someone that would be on a living colored

dance floor. And that's exactly what he was probably

going for. Like what did the preppy white kid

wear jean shorts white socks and cut -offs. Well

look there goes Jason The sad thing is Jason

in this episode reminds me so much of Emilio

Estevez in the Breakfast Club Why Because the

way he's dressed And then Belkin skull are What's

his name? The guy that spits and catches it in

his mouth? Bender. Oh, yeah. Oh No, at least

I'm throwing in his face. I knew that was gonna

happen Doesn't skull trip - oh no, I thought

skull tripped over him. You don't look so good.

No, of course a red alert means it's a red alert.

Duh Stupid Bell wouldn't oh man. I did not notice

that I had never noticed that before there's

more than one of those alarm things The oh just

a red alert things yeah, yeah, there's They're

not gonna pan down below Zordon but When they're

standing at the main course of the console, I

just noticed that there's more than one of them.

It usually only focuses on one, but I saw two

in the background. Awesome. Yeah. Oh, it's Ultra

Megazord. Yeah, the monster is the ultra mega

zord or the ultra dragons are apart. Yeah I just

hope they get that 20th anniversary dragon dagger

toy thing right Did you see how much it's gonna

be? No, I did last time spade and I talked about

it. There wasn't a price Yeah, one of the kids

of Toys R Us uh... found the shooter whatever

and it's going to be seventy nine ninety nine

well it better be damn good benefit for that

price mostly diecast to make all the uh... original

sounds and everything so and it's nice and it's

going to be a little bit bigger than the original

one so it's going to basically going to be a

replica right now well if it's going to be diecast

and it's going to have the original sounds I'd

be, you know, 80 bucks is worth it, but if it

was just gonna be a cheap plastic knockoff replica

type thing, no. $80 is too expensive. This is

the first time he's ever been inside the actual

Probably I don't know I don't have to go back

and really think about it, but he's not in it

very much Right. That's what I'm saying. It's

like it's very rare to see Tommy inside the actual

dragons art. We've seen him on top of it We've

seen him on a rooftop next to it. I bet it's

an American thing probably Nah, maybe not, because

then they would show that little guy on top.

Yeah. He looks like a muscle wrestler. He looks

like something out of Mucha Lucha. Something.

Here, just hold this for a second, would you?

Good I'm back great Why didn't he more before

he went in was there a reason oh they don't have

there does it you can't morph in the dark dimension

What about a sword or something then There you

go just hide back in the mist again, yeah He's

been in there too long he's been there for 24

seconds Kimberly shut up Yeah, what's the reason

they didn't send like two or three people in

there and just whoop Kolar's butt and take the

candle? See like right now I can't really just

stand around why wouldn't they send Kim in too?

I feel like we've seen this before If that third

section of the little poles there was a little

higher, I'd be asking why are they using King

Triton's trident. Sped up Megazord sequence.

We're running out of time, bro. It's morphin'

time. We need Megazord Power. Uh -oh. The tiny

dragon. The tiny dragon. That's Nessie, dog.

Isn't Nessie the, uh... The like this monster

yeah, that's basically what he is That's awesome,

I don't give a damn no it is I Never really liked

the carrier zords just because all it does is

roll You know, it's like I don't know you can

get on just walk next to it. What's the point?

But I mean it still looks cool for sure With

the explosion behind it. Yes, absolutely in the

fire and all that stuff There goes our boy. No

more powers. Badass. It looks better on green

than it does on red. It's only because it started

on green. Super don't remember him being the

powered -up by Red Ranger for very long. Does

he does he only use it when he when he wants

to or what? Yeah, it's very rare. I don't remember

him doing it like full -time No, it's very rare

between here and white light Now you get the

super cool flimsy vest. Let the power protect

you now. Suppose I'm like try to take his memory

or something Make him forget about it. You know

what I mean? Well, that happens much later. He

knows their secret. Oh You mean about the well

he is a Power Ranger now, so I mean that's But

as far as the villains trying to take his memory

away that happens much later No, I'm saying like

just erase his memory men in black style What

were we doing? Oh, you was lifting weights at

the gym? Thankfully men in black the films at

least weren't around at this time This is probably

like the first episode where like the good guy

kind of loses, you know, and I mean like You

think people will really fight and lose his powers?

I think this is probably the only first and only

time they ever kiss or hold hands. He's like,

look, I just lost everything. Can I have a peck

or something? Cheers! Well, there goes that one,

ladies and gentlemen. We will be back with some

final thoughts and close the show out after this.

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we are back a green candle. Oh man this episode

Both of these episodes part one and part two

are are like part one when spaded like I said

before when spade and I did that commentary we

did not see that twist with the monster coming

in and Part two wrapped it up really nicely and

as you said in the commentary, it's probably

You know the good guy loses it's probably one

of the first times we've really seen that in

Power Rangers because it's not often that that

Rita ever won Right and it won't be often past

the first past the first time that Zed shows

up It will not be often that he wins either Yeah,

this is this is where they were trying to actually

get Where they were actually trying to? let Jason

Devin Frank go but Fandoman is what brought him

back. Oh Yeah, he was he was actually gonna be

done Yeah, that's thankfully that didn't happen

right All right, so that's any any other thoughts

or do we just want to close this one out? No,

I don't really have anything We're gonna go ahead

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Scotty Cash. Thank you for listening. May the

power protect you all. I'm afraid it's too late,

Rangers. The green candle has been extinguished.

What? Didn't Rita's won? There is only one way

to stop the transference of power now. Green

Ranger must give up his power coin. No way. He

can't just give up. There's no other choice,

Kim. By giving his coin to another Ranger, Tommy

can prevent Rita from gaining its power. It is

the only way. I guess this is it, huh? Well,

it's been great. Tommy don't worry. I'll be all

right in that fucking tin can, dude!

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