Of course, they are unsuccessful in getting the candle, but the day is saved when Tommy gives his power coin to Jason. Now it's a race to the finish, as they have to dispatch the monster in time to go back and get the candle. But when the Cyclops comes back, Tommy can't hold him off on his own, so the Rangers are called in to help. Part 1 ends with the stakes the highest they've ever been on the show: if the Rangers are unsuccessful, Tommy will no longer be a Power Ranger.Įpisode 35- The Green Candle Part 2: Thanks to Billy's invention, Jason goes into Rita's Dark Dimension to battle Goldar and retrieve the Green Candle. She also sends a cyclops monster that can mimic the megazords. It'd be easy to not even address a continuity issue like that and get away with it on children's programming, but they treated their viewers like they weren't stupid with a moment like this. They address in the show that he must have touched the candle when he was under her spell during the Green With Evil saga, and that she's been holding it as a trump card for such an occasion. When the candle burns out, Tommy's powers are gone. The premise is simple: Rita unveils a candle made of green wax that is connected to Tommy's powers. Instead, we get the great storyline of The Green Candle. But because this was a show for kids, they couldn't kill him off like in the Sentai. The pressure is on, so let's see how the show handled its purposed final 10 episodes.Įpisode 34- The Green Candle Part 1: How do you solve the dilemma of Green Ranger Sentai footage? Simple, you write him off. On top of that, the season was arriving at the end of the original 40 episode contract that they were signed up for, so within episodes 31 to 40, they had to find a way to give the Green Ranger a proper sendoff, but also deliver on the planned season finale. That was the formula that was occurring most of the time, but they had to do the inevitable: they had to bring the Green Ranger to an end. Morph, show up, summon Dragon Zord, and they win. He'd later show up towards the end of the battles and be a clean-up player for the team. If you made your way through the episodes following Green with Evil, Tommy would get separated from the rest of the team, either being knocked out by the Putties, attacked by the monster of the day, or being somewhere where he was separated from his communicator.
You can imagine the amount of panic that would be circulating around the creative team. And yet, Tommy is the most popular character at this point and the key reason for Power Rangers staying on the air. In the Sentai, the Green Ranger doesn't last as long as we'd think he would. During the production of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, there was a HUGE elephant in the room that was plaguing the upcoming episodes.
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