Now one might say, “Oh, they’re just teenagers. Teenagers act that way!” The problem with the Super Megaforce team is that it isn’t portrayed in a negative light. Gia, Troy, and Jake outright telling Orion to kiss Emma when he’s so clearly uncomfortable with it is shown as nothing more then a joke. We also get Emma abandoning saving the city to help a kid fly a kite. I get it; it’s a super cute moment. But is helping a kid fly a kite going to mean much if the city is blown up? Or Orion taking SUPER MEGA pictures of Emma while they’re trying to stop the monster…where is this team’s priorities? “United as One” also commits one of the greatest sins a Power Rangers episode can do in my mind. Shooting original footage to simply do the plot of a Super Sentai episode. It’s a waste. If you’re going to reshoot so many scenes anyway (as this episode did) why not just do your own plot? Oh right, because that would take effort and it seems that in the past few weeks the Super Megaforce writers gave up and decided to just do wacky plots of the day instead of celebrating the history of Power Rangers or setting up the forthcoming “Legendary Battle.” Again, these are plots that would have worked better in Megaforce to establish the characters. We have less then ten episodes to the end and we’re still fooling around. Get it together Super Megaforce. In that same scene we have Orion damn near wetting himself at the thought of having to kiss Emma. You could read this scene a number of ways but I’ll choose to believe that Orion is gay and I’ll hold on to that until the show outright proves me wrong. We also get another moment of Emma and Gia longingly looking at each other, proving once again they are totally dating. If you’re wondering why I’m reading all these characters as some form of LGBT, it speaks volumes about the lack of representation in the media. So this week’s legendary mode was Dino Thunder and they seemed to get everything right up till Troy yells, “Dino RAMPAGE!!!!” (Archer did it better). Not to be that guy, but it was called Super Dino Mode. How do you get basic attack names right but then mess up one of the mode names? Oh right, they’re lazily translating Sentai scripts. Got it, effort is hard. How about this? Instead of needlessly reshooting fights with the Megaforce suits, you could have reshot this fight and included MMPR Pink. If only.
