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Power rangers dino charge12/14/2023 ![]() This season has been heavily focused on defining what makes a Ranger a Ranger, and it’s interesting to see the Rangers trying to be ahead of the game and test everyone they come across. These sorts of “search for a new hero” plots can infuse ample mystery and unique challenges for characters, whether it’s played straight and long-term like Digimon Adventure’s cream-of-the-crop “Eighth Child” arc, or even played for laughs like RPM’s search for its Ranger Green. ![]() After taking kind of a detour last week to focus on a new Zord, the show finally gets mileage out of a fun concept. The main crux of the episode, of course, is the continuing search for the new Purple Ranger. What’s strange is that, while the episode is rather stuffed and cobbles together numerous types of stories, it still works in that it touches on every dangling plot thread in the season. ![]() What we have here is a combination of a gimmicky monster-of-the-week, massive set-up for next season, and a hasty rush up to a finale cliffhanger. Then again, Power Rangers has seldom followed typical storytelling or seasonal structures, and the fact that Dino Charge’s two seasons are more like one big season split in half doesn’t help. “Wishing For A Hero” is a bizarre penultimate episode for the first season of Dino Charge – not a bad episode, but certainly not what was expected. Riley suggests that the only way to stop Sledge from attacking them with bigger firepower is to go where he least expects - to his own ship. The Rangers fight and defeat Wish Star, but realize that Sledge now has the Energem and could build a powerful weapon against them - which he has. He takes it back to Sledge, who throws Heckyl back into the prison, and he swears revenge against Sledge. Fury attacks, wanting to make sure he gets the glory, and Heckyl retreats - though Fury manages to get the Energem. The Rangers realize that all their wishes are coming true with consequences, but before they can tell Kendall, she makes the wish - and immediately after, Heckyl arrives and activates the Energem. Kendall hears about the wishes coming true, and decides to wish for a Purple Ranger. Their wishes go wrong one-by-one - Koda’s burger makes him sick, Chase’s girl breaks his skateboard, Ivan injures his back rescuing a damsel, Shelby’s picnic/date goes horribly, and Tyler’s dad appears and immediately runs away, taking him to an ambush. Koda and Chase wish for a burger and a girl, respectively, while Ivan wishes to save a damsel, Shelby wishes for a picnic with Tyler and Tyler wishes to see his dad again. Wish Star poses as a fortune teller vendor, and the Rangers make wishes. Wish Star refuses, and goes to attack the Rangers against their wishes while Sledge commands one of his worst criminals, the humanoid Heckyl, to pose as a potential Purple Ranger. Meanwhile, Sledge plans to use Wish Star to fight the Rangers by making their wishes come true and go bad, but Fury overhears about the unbonded Energem, and Wish Star is instead commanded to go back to prison. The Rangers repeatedly fake a construction accident to try to find someone heroic enough to activate the Purple Energem and become a new Ranger. Summary: New threats and a mad rush to the finale are a strange, but surprisingly effective mix with the week’s monster gimmick.
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