Power Rangers Jungle Fury Discussion Thread

[Crystal Ranger]

“Pizza Slice of Life”

So far PRJF has merely been decent, except for “Can’t Win Them All”, I didn’t entirely care for it as it sort of ruined Theo’s character who for other than that episode I’ve liked.

As for this episode, it was good, best episode since “Sigh of the Tiger”. It didn’t exactly sell me on Camille, but I’ve grown to like her character more so now than I have thus far.

What I liked:
- The whole pizza sub plot was rather funny, especially with Fran in the pizza suit, but the best scenes of the episode (or at least the funniest) was where the ones where Fran kept spraying or throwing things on Theo.
- Dai Shi actually knows what is going on, both with the traitor and Camille’s feelings towards him. Of course at this point it is obvious he is just using her and her feelings for him to benefit his goals.
- The dialogue fits this time and is rather decent. That has been one of my grips so far with JF, if this episode is ANY indicator it is to get better this series may end up being better than I’m hoping.
-Fran grew a backbone.
- Naja had a point about Dai Shi and the way he handles things and I couldn’t agree more, yet there at the end it almost sounds like Dai Shi does have some sort of plan that he has been keeping to himself.
- The action scenes have been pretty good thus far (one of the reasons I’ve been enjoying the series) but they really stood out in this episode.
- RJ was once again great, even if on scene for a few second at a time.

What I didn’t like:
- Ok, how was she able to contact Casey? I always hate how villains are always able to pull that out of their asses whenever it benefits them, yet they never do it again and will just wait for them to show up if they need to call them out later on.
- Fran loses her backbone.

I give this episode an A-.

[Crystal Ranger]

Just finished playing catch up on jungle Fury from the Spirit Ranger arc to episode 28.

All and all the Spirit Ranger arc was pretty good, not as great or drawn out as I was expecting but good none the less. It was cool seeing RJ fighting along side his father. Although when he thought he destroyed his own father I would have thought it would prove better for it to have been drawn out for more than ten minutes, at the very least have it go on for one or two episodes.

As far as the Spirit Rangers hanging around to help out it only means they’ll be in the finale and thus far that theory is correct. Of course we all already knew that. That fight with them helping the Rangers and that roll call was pretty sweet though.

Plus they did a good job showing that Dai Shi’s hold over Jarred isn’t that strong after all. Yes we’ve gotten little hints of this up till now, of course that was just Master Mao talking to him and seeing Jarred’s past. This however is more solid prove as he actually defended one of the masters from getting destroyed and was actually shocked by his own action.

All in all the Spirit Ranger arc was pretty good given how Jungle Fury which started out good has started to turn to being a decent at best series . I give it an A. Had it been drawn out more or focused a bit more on the Spirit Rangers I would’ve added the +.

Now episode 26, it is sad that they were doing a good job with a good stretch of episodes then they give us this, now clip shows for the most part are never good (there are a few exceptions) BUT WHAT THE HELL WAS THIS!!!?? I don’t even classify this as an actual episode. It is clearly one of the worst episodes there was. I would much rather watch “The Last Ranger” than this cause even IT was a better clip show than this. Shoot even “Insomnia” was a better clip show.

It is not worthy of even getting a grade, not even an F.

Episode 27 was ok, it’s not so much as it was a bad episode but that it revolved around Casey and him teaching students when he is still just a cub himself in my eyes. He has yet to do anything in this series thus far to show me that he has grown since Pai Zhuq. Which is why I still wish they had made Lilly leader like they made GekiYellow leader in GekiRanger or hell have RJ be the leader, or ANYONE other than Casey.

On the plus side the action wasn’t that bad and Whiger’s voice started to grow on me. Of course I did see it kind of odd, if he had no tiger spirit to charge the cannon, or not enough anyways then how did he have enough to use Jungle Mater Mode? Unless they are different on some way in which I’m an idiot for not noticing it.

Either way I give this episode a C+. With the action scenes and any part not involving Casey being the saving graces.

Episode 28 was actually pretty good. The two characters that I’ve always had problems with were Dai Shi and Casey. While I still can’t stand Casey Dai Shi has been growing on me. Plus once again in this episode the action was pretty good, especially the unmorphed fighting and that final fight before the Zord fight was awesome. The Zord fight did seem a bit rushed and rather pointless. It was clearly there to fill time space.

The whole showing kindness to Whiger did seem random and stupid. He is your enemy if you were to save him, then why not try to save all the other monsters you’ve fought rather than blow them up? It makes no sense. Then Whiger’s helping him, that seemed rather random. Don’t get me wrong the fight between the two tigers and Phoenix Camille was great, but Whiger’s act of kindness realizing Dai Shi was his enemy was far to random. Besides that he did say he’d accept ANY punishment, it’s his own fault those words came back to bite him in the ass.

Either way this episode was rather decent so I give it an A-.