Welcome to Ranger Reviews, a webseries where
we look at episodes of the tv show, Power
Rangers and then discuss them!
Today, we’re exploring the forty-first episode
of the show Power Rangers in Space as well
as the two hundred and ninety-first episode
overall, titled “A Land in the Sand”.
We begin this episode at night, where Ashley
and Andros are leaving a restaurant, I think,
on a date.
Oh, that’s cute.
Only took 41 episodes for them to actually
do something semi-couple-like.
Andros says she looks great, saying she looks
like Stella Quazzanella, apparently a big,
intergalactic movie star.
Maybe she works with Carolyn Pickets.
Ashley has no idea who Stella is, and Andros
says she’s in all the big holographic films.
What if this bitch is a porn actress?
Also, a car with red lights are watching them.
Somehow.
Also, some kids are playing hopscotch at like
10pm at night, and Ashley shows Andros how
to play it.
These kids should be in bed.
They say they’re going to go get something
to eat, so I have no idea where they’re
coming from.
Ashley thinks she heard something, and Andros
tells her to come on, but then an engine roars,
and they almost get run over by a Hummer.
Seriously.
It disappears around a corner, and they go
look for it because they kids have never heard
of a driveby shooting.
They’re stalking down the alleyway, and
Ashley finds a tiny fire.
Then, this car starts chasing them, and they’re
running away in sped up footage for some weird
reason.
They then run off to the side real fast, and
the car keeps going.
They’re okay, but they’re freaked out.
The car has left fire trails behind, which
they look at.
This feels like a bad episode of Buffy.
On the MegaShip, everyone is in the lounge,
listening to Ashley and Andros explain about
the vehicle.
Oh, and Carlos isn’t here for some reason.
They’re going to warn Carlos about it, even
though it seems like Cassie and TJ aren’t
that alarmed.
Carlos is on Earth, playing soccer!
Legit forgot that was his hobby.
Someone kicks the ball far away, and he runs
after it, and we’re seeing stuff from the
bushes.
He gets the ball, walking back toward the
field when an engine revs again, and the car
comes out of nowhere, lasering Carlos away
in its red headlights.
Carlos lands in the middle of nowhere.
The exact spot where Lightning Cruiser and
Mountain Blaster were.
He tries to contact Alpha and the others,
but nothing is working.
He looks around.
At the soccer field, Csasie and TJ show up,
asking if they’ve seen Carlos.
Some guy says that he went after a lost ball
and never came back.
No one seems to think that’s weird except
Cassie and TJ.
They go check it out, and they find the soccer
ball Carlos went to go get.
Apparently it was Carlos’s championship
ball?
Feel like it could’ve just been a ball.
Then, the car is there again, and it tries
to go after TJ and Cassie, who hit the deck.
They then morph, and Cassie gets hit down
kind of by the car.
TJ then uses his Astro Blaster on it, but
the car is going in reverse, coming back for
them.
TJ is running away the best he can, firing
back at it with his Astro Blaster.
Cassie then comes in on her Galaxy Glider,
grabbing TJ.
Her glider then won’t lift off for some
reason, and they jump off, and this car totally
freaking destroys her glider, driving over
it.
It then comes back at them, sending them to
the same place Carlos is in, now unmorphed.
The three meet up, and they have no idea where
they are.
Also, Carlos explains that a tank was after
him.
Dude, that was Hummer.
At best.
On the Megaship, Alpha lets Andros and Ashley
know that he lost the signals from TJ and
Cassie now too, so Andros and Ashley head
out.
Somewhere, the car has arrived to meet Astronema,
Ecliptor, and Quantrons, who tell him to go
get the other Rangers.
She refers to this car as Tankenstein.
Has anyone ever seen a tank?
Andros and Ashley are driving around looking
for the others, and Ashley is actually driving
her same car from Turbo!
Wow, that’s nice.
Then, Tankenstein shows up behind them, ramming
into them.
They try to drive away, but they get shot
down.
They then jump out of the car for absolutely
no reason, and Andros rolls out of the way.
Let’s rocket!
Yellow and Red decide they’re going to fight
this car, apparently, and as it comes toward
them, they jump up, landing in the bed of
the car.
They’re trying to get to the front of the
vehicle.
I guess to hit the brakes?
The car then tosses Ashley off the car, which
is kind of funny.
Andros then gets on the hood, and he fires
at the car, stopping it, and doing way too
many flips off of it.
He then turns into the Red Battelized Ranger
against a fucking car, and he flies up into
the air, using his missiles on the thing,
causing explosions around it.
He then powers down because I guess that was
enough toys for today.
Ashley and Andros regroup, and Tankenstein
is not knocked out at all.
Then, they appear unmorphed by the others
in the middle of nowhere.
They all regroup, and everyone is dying of
heat and thirst, it seems.
Carlos then sees something in the distance,
and it’s freaking Tankenstein, coming toward
them out in the middle of nowhere.
Then they just morph.
You guys couldn’t do that before?!
They fire at Tankenstein with their Astro
Blasters, but nope.
It then fires back, hitting them down onto
the ground.
I’m not going to lie, guys, this episode
is super boring.
Tankenstein is coming back, and TJ and Carlos
now open in the bed of the car, but they get
hit out.
It then targets Cassie, who uses her Satellite
Stunner on it, only to get hit down again.
Andros then asks who it is and what does he
want, and honestly, that’s what I want to
know.
Then, here comes Zhane… in his Galactic
Rover bullshit again.
Zhane says he’ll handle this because we
only got a few more moments to try to sell
this repainted Hot Wheels car, and he uses
his Super Silverizer against Tankenstein,
apparently, and then he locks on target, chasing
it around the desert again.
He fires some lasers at the thing, and then
he tries to cut it off.
What if it just drove over him?
Doesn’t matter because he does some attack,
blowing it the hell up, turning it into pieces.
The others celebrate, running over.
Astronema then says no, firing the Satellasers,
and… oh, we get a real monster now.
Feel like we could’ve had this monster the
whole time, but okay.
They call out the Mega Voyager, and now it’s
normal daylight again.
They try to fight Tankenstein, but wow, this
isn’t going so well.
He tosses them real hard, and Andros calls
out V3 Missile Mode, firing at him, hitting
his arm off, which he easily regrows.
Well, that was gross.
He hits them down again, and they’re trying
to figure out a weak point for this thing.
Tankenstein materializes a sword, slashing
them down.
Carlos then gets mad for no reason, but seriously,
they’re now fighting right behind the MegaRanger’s
high school!
Watch out, everyone!
They have to do something fast, and everything
sucks, basically.
No defense shields, nothing.
Then, they’re getting tossed around from
Tankenstein’s tentacles, or whatever, and
Carlos has emergency power back online.
They get the sword out of his hand, stabbing
him.
Oh, I just noticed that they’re missing
an arm, too.
They then somehow fly up toward the sky, and
Tankenstein’s circuits malfunction, and….
Explosion.
Next scene, everyone is unmorphed, beat up,
and surrounded by the remnants of the Mega
Voyager.
Uh, well.
Zhane drives up, taking off his helmet.
He makes sure they’re okay, and Ashley says
all they have left is the Astro Megazord.
Uh, what happened to the Mega Winger?
Was that destroyed last episode, and no one
cared?
On the Dark Fortress, Astronema is happy to
know how powerless the Rangers are, and Elgar
says Dark Specter will be happy to hear about
this, and Astronema threatens him to keep
his mouth shut about it.
She also says it’s almost time for the final
confrontation.
Also like, next episode.
The end.
This episode is straight up bad.
I feel like they definitely should’ve just
cut this episode altogether because it did
nothing except destroy the Mega Voyager in
the lamest way possible.
I mean, come on.
The Mega Voyager was this crown jewel of a
Megazord, and it gets killed by freaking TANKENSTEIN?
Of all monsters?!
Other than that, seriously, what happened
to the Mega Winger.
I didn’t see it get destroyed last episode,
so I’m confused there.
Also, yes, the final confrontation is upcoming,
and actually, we begin what is usually regarded
as one of the best finales in all of Power
Rangers history next episode.
Oh, how far we’ve come from the days of
Oyster Stew, Blue Ranger Gone Bad, and even
Rangers in Reverse.
Until then, may the power protect you!
