Power Rangers Reflections #24 – Ninja Quest (MMPR Season 3 – Four Parter)

So,, here we are… after what seemed like a long, agonizing wait, it is the return of the Reflections… for a couple months, at least.

In any event, what better way to relaunch this new batch of Reflections than to look at a four-part epic meant to serve as the stand-in for what you just saw in movie theaters. Long story short; MMPR: The Movie was a thing, introduced new Ninja suits and Ninja Zords, but also didn’t fit into the overall style of the TV show… and hence we got Ninja Quest, which featured the same overall premise but moved things forward and used stuff from the Sentai that Saban could rip off… simple enough.

We’ll be blowing through this one fairly quickly since the arc is four episodes long and, really, outside of some introductions and some occasional hazards, a whole lot of nothing happens in these episodes.

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Dailies Start Next Week (And Gripes About The New Blogger)

So I’ll begin by saying that I’ve tried the new Blogger editing bits a couple times and I’ve hated it. Some things work better in the new system, like the search function. A better search function is not a good trade-off for something that is not particularly intuitive and user friendly. Eventually, like Youtube getting an unneeded change every few years, this is going to be the norm whether I like it or not, which makes me wonder if I should’ve jumped elsewhere, after all.

Oh well, I’ll try and make the most of it. A lot of old archived material is slowly making its way over to the blog and I’d imagine that process will be done by the end of the month. Also, next week will be the return of daily posts and a sustained schedule for both written and video bits. More details to come later.

Working on some videos this week and I’m hoping that I’ll be able to bang out five for next week, but fingers crossed because the work ahead is loathsome.

That’s all for now. Enjoy your week.

DTM-Cast – Episode #129

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Pulled from the archives, it’s the audio for the original longform vlog of the Angry Video Game Nerd movie from 2014. The original video never went out due to a variety of technical factors, resulting in a “Lite Edition” VLOG that was posted instead. This is not quite the same thing, as it lacks video (obviously) and any form of context as a result, but for the two people who wanted to know what the original VLOG was like, this is better than nothing, I suppose.

AEW Dynamite (August 27th, 2020): Matt Vs. Sammy In A Commercials Match

So here’s the deal; I’ve been fairly complimentary of AEW in these various write-ups. For the most part, they’ve put out some quality wrestling shows and even when the shows felt underwhelming, it was never to the degree where the shows felt off… until tonight.

So, for the folks who felt that I’ve been overly positive towards AEW as of late, you’ll be happy to know that I’m shifting gears today and will focus on the bad parts of the show, of which I’ll touch on three that really irked me and contributed to an episode of Dynamite that, while still somewhat fun, started to fall off the wagon a bit.

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AEW Dynamite (August 22nd, 2020): No More Papers

So, I’ll keep this short because there’s only a couple pieces of business worth mentioning; this was another fine episode of Dynamite that did a fine job of hyping up the PPV taking place in a couple weeks. And they made the most of the temporary timeslot running opposite whatever Takeover event was taking place by giving us a special show, even if the matches weren’t up there.

– Fuck The Revival is now joined by Tully Blanchard… but what about the ten guy? He beats the “Dead Ass” guys and then a backstage thing takes place where they propose a gauntlet match between the various tag teams to determine who challenges for the tag titles at the PPV.

– So the Jon Moxley/MJF feud continues with another quality Mox promo followed by MJF, his neck brace, and entourage challenging Mox to sign a petition to ban the dangerous and deadly Paradigm Shift (a double-arm DDT) from their All Out match or else he’ll SUE! Yeah, just one problem with that theory. What’s to stop Mox from dishing out a DEATH RIDER, which is also a double-arm DDT? Why not just say DDTs are banned and he can hit you with a piledriver, instead? Which is even worse than the DDT… all snark aside, this is more good quality promo work from both guys and it gives me a World title match to look forward to rather than “meh, cool, derpy funny mask thing.”

– They had the finals of the Women’s Deadly Draw thing take place. I didn’t watch the Youtube show, but if this match was indicative of the rest of the tourney, then I’m glad I didn’t miss much. But hey, Hikaru Shida vs. Thunder Rosa should be a fun match at the PPV, so that’s something.

– The Elite beat the Dark Order and Kenny goes made after a while, but who gives a shit about that? The main event saw The Exalted One Mr. Brodie Lee DESTROY Cody in a total squash to win the TNT Championship. Good job, AEW; you did a short match… after the other short match with Darby, but I digress. Cody is taken out on a stretcher, but the Dark Order geeks beat him up, they drag out Dustin and that other guy who were already beat up, and even Anna Jay gets in on the action by choking out Brandi. If you wanted a better way to put the Dark Order over as a true potential threat, then you’ll have to find it somewhere else because this did the job perfectly. Brodie looked like a monster, the Dark Order didn’t look like total boobs (this will last until the next BTE, I’m sure), and the bit where Brodie is sprinkling the broken pieces of the old TNT belt over Cody’s near-corpse was a nice touch.

So, yes, thoroughly entertained… and yes, regarding the bit where AEW is going to start having actual fans again in limited capacity… setting aside all the safety concerns, I’ll reserve judgment until I’ve seen the show take place. AEW usually does a good job with these limited capacity showings and I think they’ll be fine, but let’s wait and see with this one.