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         Mesagog Warns Elsa that Zeltrax must            Zeltrax beats the evil White Ranger                               \    be captures                           in battle.

   Oliver tells the class about their next                         Oliver tells the gang that he is taking the
                           subsitute teacher.                                                      next day of to search for Zeltrax.

                        Devin tells Cassidy that he can't help her           Ethan is confident he will win his
      for a day.                                                                 upcoming Video Contest.

Cassidy is late for the new subsitute Elsa learns a dorment Volcano lies in
teacher (a volcano expert). Reefside.

Elsa Kidnaps the volcano expert. The Rangers are troubled over Ethan's
over confidence.

Elsa turns the subsittute teacher into a Conner and Elsa morph to battle evil
monster. white ranger

Zeltrax shows up to get into the game. Zeltrax has to leave the battle due to
lack of energy.

Oliver tells the Rangers Zeltrax needs The Rangers battle the latest Monster.
Mesagog to survive.

The Monster Makes the Volcano come Dr. Oliver gets involved and weakens
alive. the monster.

                         Conner uses his megabattle to destory                      Oliver uses his brachio staff to cool
                   the Monster but Elsa makes him grow.                    off the volcano

The Rangers use the Megazord and the The substitte teacher is returned to
Stagozord to destory the monster. normal .

                       Devin faces off with Ethan in the video                        Cassidy is angry Devin ruined her life
                       game finals. Devin wins, much to                                over a video game.
   Ethan's shock.

Comments

Well from what I heard before I screened the episode, I would have thought it was going to be a fluff piece. I was happily surprised to see that it was much more than that. It did a good job of continuing story archs to the piont that not too much happened but enough happened. This kept things interesting with the filler plot , the video game contest. I have to say this was one of episodes of DinoThunder has done a good job in terms of messing all the different subplots together. The Ethan plot was funny and taught a good lesson to the kids. I also thought the Cassidy being a mess without Devin plot was funny. I must say having Zeltrax as a free agent really shames me for thinking they underused the character before. One thing that bugs me is that every time Mesagog and company use a human for DNA they always choose someone goofy or off the wall. But it is a kids show so I am sure they put that part in to make the kids laugh. Nice to see Bruce Kalish got an episode to write before his tenure as Executive Producer on SPD. I think people made too big a deal about the Stegazord thing. So what if the White Ranger is supposed to have control of the zord and the others used it instead. Its not like stuff like this hasn't happened in Power Rangers. Anyone who blames Kalish for this doesn't know anything about television writing or how these episodes our made. It involves more than one person. DinoThunder seems like it will finish strong.