Wasting time with the meteor and everything to do with the grid was a mistake. That’s all fan wank nonsense that makes for a nice Wikipedia entry but not a good story. The characters needed to be the focus here and they weren’t, which is a shame because it’s great to see everyone come back. I loved seeing Jason again and we got yet another of his classic line deliveries with, “man I thought Serpentera was bad but that Zord has six heads!!!!” I’ll be quoting that for years, mostly because the Zord actually has seven heads.
Seeing him and the Dino Charge cast side by side is nice and for many that’ll be enough. I just wish we’d gotten something deeper. There was a way to do this; ‘Forever Red’ proved it’s possible. Instead the people behind this gave into the spectacle of it all and leaned too hard on macguffins and action set pieces.
‘Grid Connection’ isn’t bad but in the end it’s pretty lifeless. There are a few good moments like Jason’s small speech at the end or Devon seemingly waiting for Evox to leave so he could specifically shoot Blaze. There’s some fun to be had but it’s on the lower end of Power Rangers team-ups. Hot take, ‘Clash of the Red Rangers’ was more enjoyable. It devoted a good chunk of time to Scott, even stuck in his suit, so he could form a relationship with the Samurai Rangers.
I could talk more about how this fits into continuity, how certain Rangers got their powers back, Conner’s not great voice over, what the morphin’ grid has morphed (heh) into, etc. At the end of the day though those are just small issues that, if the story were engaging, wouldn’t have been that big an issue. I’m willing to accept a lot of hand waving in Power Rangers (especially when it comes to continuity) as long as its fun and I’m invested in the characters. This episode had the fun but lacked character, which is easily the more important of the two and without it the fun just… isn’t as fun as it could be.
