Time-travelling mixed with Power Rangers...hellz yea!

Let's start off with me saying thank you all again for viewing my blog a total 545 times! Last I checked it was almost 500,and now its 545! Thanks! Like I said in my last post,I apologize for the delays and decided to make up for it by putting out 4 reviews of my favourite 4 Power Rangers season consecutively(You can check out my In Space review). So let's travel back to the year 2001 for POWER RANGERS TIME FORCE:  In the year 3000,the world is more or less at peace. No crimes,no wars,nothing. Also,humans are living with mutants now.Yeah they're pretty harmless and the more destructive ones are captured by an elite police force called Time Force,who have captured every and all mutants except for the most dangerous one,Ransik.No fear though,because Alex,the Red Time Force Ranger,has managed to capture him.We also find out that Alex is about to be engaged to a woman called Jen.Jen and her team,Lucas,Trip and Katie are tasked with convoying Ransik to the prison.By the way,their version of prisoning a criminal is by cryo-freezing them.Their trip doesn't go smoothly though as Ransik's daughter,Nadira,with the help of a robot named Frax,bust him out.Ransik and his team go to the prison,kill the police officers,and used Frax time-travelling machine to travel back to the year 2001 to take over the planet since in the past,Time Force hasn't existed yet.Before they go thorough time though,Alex tries to stop them.The result? Nothing major,just that  Alex dies.Jen swears that she will get revenge on Ransik,and so she and her team(with the help of a robot bird called Circuit) use a time-ship to travel back to 2001,while taking(stealing) the Time Force morphers with them.When they reached 2001,they bump into Wes,Alex's really rich ancestor.Due to the fact that the morphers are DNA locked to their first owner,Jen and the others reluctantly give the Red Ranger morpher to the rich,care-free Wes.Other than Trip,the others seem unenthusiastic having Wes as Red Ranger,Jen even more so.So our team for this season is: Wes:Red Ranger,rich and spoilt,Jen:Pink Ranger,tough and no-nonsense leader(or second-in-command),Lucas:Blue Ranger,cool looking and digs cars,Katie:Yellow Ranger,genetically strengthened and Trip:Green Ranger and alien with psychic powers(which sadly isn't used much).We soon see that Wes,though rich, doesn't really want to follow his father's footsteps,which is to become the corporate leader of Bio-Labs. The Rangers Megazord is formed by 'flyers' sent from the future created by Time Force. Wes accidentally gets captured and during his capture,Ransik spills his story: Ransik is a mutant that was shunned by humans for his ugliness,but Jen says it was a lie. We'll get to that later on,in 'my thoughts on it' Anyway,after a few episodes,Circuit tells the team that their actions in the past have had impacts on the future,one of it is the Silver Guardians.They are a special elite police force formed by Wes's father,Mr Collins,to protect the city,which were never meant to exist.One of the Guardians is Eric,Wes old friend,who is the opposite of Wes,poor and arrogant,always looking for a way to prove himself. One mission the SG had was to protect a archaeological dig. The archaeological dig digged up the Quantum Morpher,which appeared there because Time Force botched up their first time-travel gig,and accidentally sent the Quantum Morpher and Q-Rex to the past.Eric becomes the Quantum Ranger.Ransik,angered by his failure to retrieve the morpher,sends a time travel mutant to the age of dinosaurs to retrieve the Q-Rex.Eric manages to gain control though so all's well.Eric also,surprisingly gets a battlizer,or at least something resembling that,called the Megabattle.He gets it when he was severely injured in a battle. A man in a dark room has been watching his losing battle and decided to press a button to help Eric activate his Megabattle. We also soon learn that the man in the dark room has been always keeping an eye on the Time Force Rangers, occasionally giving them new weapons when they were most in need of them. We get to learn more about Ransik and Frax. Ransik,thanks to a mutant called Venomark,has an incurable disease,and it'll strike him every few days or so,where his skin will get all blotchy and his body aches all over.He has some blue liquid which temporarily makes it go away,though he can't permanently heal it.Turns out,Frax was a human before,and it was HIS blue liquid which cures Ransik's sickness every once in a while.Before Frax the robot,Dr Louis Fericks was a human who spent his time building robots.One day,he saw Ransik in pain thanks to Venomark,brought him to his home and offered his a curing serum,though thanks to Ransik's DNA,that sickness can't be permanently cured.After healing him,Ransik being the bastard he is,kills the good doctor by blowing up his house.Dr Louis Fericks survives by turning himself into a robot,Frax.This is all spilled to Ransik and to us the viewers when Frax feels he had enough of Ransik lording over him and robots and decides to betray Ransik and build his own super robot called Dragontron.Dragontron is very powerful,so powerful that Alex goes back in time. Confused? Let's break it down: The man in the dark room who has been keeping an eye on the rangers is actually Alex. Alex died so how is he alive now? They never explain,but Circuit did say that their actions here has been making things go haywire in the future,Alex himself also quoting that.So my guess is that the rangers actions in the past revived him or something.Alex assumes Red Ranger role and they all fight Dragontron,excluding Wes who Alex said wasn't his destiny(we'll get to that on 'my thoughts').Also,Mr Collins was injured badly so Wes was forced to be the leader of his company for a while. In the end,Alex fails,Wes comes to save the day,Alex stops being a dick by saving Wes father(and his ancestor)by giving some healing orb or something and all's well.Two other important points before the finale is when Wes gets his battlizer and the annual team-up. For those uninformed,after In Space every season of Power Rangers started with a new team,the only continuity is the previous team coming to aid them.So yea,Wes battlizer which he got from an anciet knight(Ironic huh? Guy who uses future tech has a boost of power from a source in the past) and the team-up with Power Ranger LightSpeed Rescue. In the finale,Ransik reprogrammes Frax,Nadira finds her humanity,Frax dies,Rangers win.Nadira finding her humanity is actually important because,unlike other seasons,the villain ISN'T blown half to hell,rather Ransik defects to the good side after accidentally hurting his daughter(Nadira),who was trying to protect a baby.I really hope my short plot makes sense because time-travelling is hard to cover.

My Thoughts On It: Time Force is a really enjoyable season,though with more plotholes than usual. Let's get something straight: Ransik is a different villain from the previous seasons. He's a mutant,so that means he is a defected human .All mutants are defected humans,not monsters,which would make killing them kinda wrong. You don't kill a human,even when he's committed a crime like rape,murder etc. You give him a trial first.And they did,in the first episode,Ransik gets a trial. And I also like that Time Force freezes them instead of killing them,kinda like the future's way of prison.It's the first season where killing is wrong.I heard that people are calling Ransik sorta like Magneto,a mutant against racism and prejudice,and he should be sympathised with since he said he was shunned by humans. It could be legit,but Jen said he was lying and remember that Dr.Louis Fericks(Frax) helped Ransik when Ransik was suffering from a MUTANT'S bite,Venomark's.And it's not like the humans treat mutants with disrespect,prejudice etc. Ransik got his trial,but not only that,there were two episodes where Lucas's friend and fellow carracer is a mutant,and Jen's old partner is also a mutant.Sure they both were charged and found guilty,but it was by their own fault they were imprisoned,not just because they were mutants.So I don't agree that Ransik is a Magneto or a sympathetic character.He's just an asshole who wants to conquer the world. Frax on the other hand is more interesting. If you're a human,you'd definitely say he was evil. But Frax is a robot with a soul,and who's to say other robots aren't either? Think about it,all his life,Frax(and the human) were stepped on. All he wanted was for the world to recognize robots.When that failed,yea he tried to take over the planet too,but its only because he is frustrated that robots are always playing second-fiddle. If I was a robot,I'd wanna teach the humans/mutants a lesson too.So yea Frax in my opinion is the sympathetic character.Now for the good guys: I like them,I really do.But I feel that the story is mainly focused on Wes and Jen and Eric.Wes and Jen were sorta in love(kinda creepy considering he's about a 1000 years older) and Wes and Eric were friends/rivals.So in a way,it actually is about Wes. Mostly Wes and his father's relationship,Wes choice of being a ranger and his destiny(according to Alex) to take over his father's empire. Jen and her personal agenda to avenge her lover's murder,confusion on who she really likes and Eric who wants to surpass Wes in the working world but never really getting there. Lucas is there for I guess just his pretty face,Katie I don't know and Trip..I also don't really know. OK guys that's my review on Time Force,what do you think of Time Force? Are you a fan of Power Rangers in general(coz if you are,follow me on Twitter please for discussion)? Comment on that and where I can improve on my Facebook Twitter or Google+ Next time,we journey to the Disney seasons.