Power Rangers Megaforce: S20E06 - Harmony and Dizchord.

I've been fairly lenient with Megaforce so far, mainly because I personally feel you can't really complain if you're having fun. However, as we're now fast approaching the halfway point of the series, I'm going to be a little more harsh if Megaforce doesn't pick up the pace. Enjoy!


Harmony and Dizchord is all about music...for some reason. To be fair to the episode, it does at least attempt to develop the characters. We get hints that Troy may have a thing for Emma (who can blame him?) and that Emma's mother may have died. At least we have reasons to care for them both now, it's just a shame that all of this is constructed and acted so unconvincingly. We also learn that Gia always gets what she wants, this is hilarious and Ciara Hanna seems much more relaxed in her role.

This weeks villain is Dizchord, a heavy metal insect who harms the humans if they don't like rock music? Which is apparently pretty much the whole world? What the fuck? If that is how you feel, Power Rangers, why'd you use so much rock for all your music? I just think it's funny that an insect who plays electric guitar has been the biggest threat to the planet so far.

So far the Goseiger footage has been really well used, presenting some flashy and exciting action scenes while stripping away all notions to angels using magic playing cards (thank God). This week however, the action was largely uninteresting with most of the fighting involving either the Rangers going 'wow this music sucks' or the Loogies dancing in a manner that doesn't match the music. And despite the threat that Dizchord ends up providing, he doesn't actually get to do much directly in the fighting at all really.

It gets even worse when the battle is tipped in the Ranger's favour as Emma appears singing her heavily autotuned, family friendly, I love the environment track and Troy starts blowing leaves everywhere...for some reason. And those racial stereotypes, man, you've got a real tendency to waver near racism don't you, Saban?

What I did enjoy was Vrak who got involved directly, I always love seeing the actual Commanders get involved, especially this early on. And especially one as badass as him. Sadly however it was over as quickly as it started and didn't serve much purpose, it didn't even explain his random appearance in a different form last week.

By far the worst episode so far. It was goofy but it wasn't particularly funny, the action was largely uninteresting and even a cool moment like Vrak getting involved directly didn't really provide many thrills. Without the fun factor Megaforce is really very terrible. Has it been this bad every week for people who haven't enjoyed the action? I feel sorry for you guys, at least now I understand your pain.

Pros;

• At least I finally feel like I'm getting to know the characters.
• Vrak is a total badass. 
• Gia is probably the best Ranger simply because Ciara Hanna is the best actor out of the main cast.

Cons;

• The rest of the acting though is pretty bad, especially when it comes to Andrew Gray and Christina Masterson.
• Dizchord and the entire plot of the episode was just really, really shit to be honest with you. Almost as bad as that time in Wild Force where that camera monster made people invisible.  
• The fighting was really boring. 
• That horrible song. 
• That stereotyping. 
• No matter how badass Vrak is, that fight was a bit (see: a lot) pointless really.

Think About It!

-Locke

What would you rate, 'Harmony and Dizchord'?