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While I don't think I'd ever seen any snippets, let alone full episodes of "Power Rangers DinoThunder" as a kid, I did own the toys: the four rangers (with weapons) and the Pterozord (having no context for it, its lower part being kind of helmet-and-or-face-like was always very weird). (I also owned a dinosaur thing that was Spider-man branded, but could've been related to this series as well.) All and all, enough reasons to add some "Power Rangers" to the project of catching up on one's childhood stuff, especially given how this particular series is rated as one of the best ones...

"PRDT" is a series about some dinosaur-themed superheroes fighting some barely-if-at-all dinosaur-themed and absolutely pathetic villains. The series barely has any redeeming qualities whatsoever. I guess it has some moments of fun dialogue: the rangers and, especially, Elsa/the headmistress can be very fun. Some of the fight scenes are pretty good, I guess. Some of the acting is OK too, especially by Mercer. Now, onto the minuses:

The intro is the cringiest by far in the franchise, and also is incredibly deceptive - while the lyrics say: "Power Rangers score", none of the Power Rangers actually score in the series (unless they do in the endings of the 32/38 episodes I dropped before the endcredits). I guess Conner scores in football sometimes; the black guy scores in video games; and Kira scores some of the scenes, but I'll still count the promise of them scoring unfulfilled. While I praised the rangers and their banter, these are inferior to "Power Rangers Ninja storm", and even to "Power Rangers Beast morphers"; and while Elsa/the headmistress is a fun henchwoman, she's nowhere near Scrozzle from "PRBM" - particularly because she and the other villains of this series are pathetic, incompetent jokes, a fate only "PRBM"'s villains have avoided so far in my watching experience (and even then, less so by Season 2). Mercer is an interesting character but he and his son feel pretty superfluous before we learn the former's secret (it being the most obvious, lamest possibility you can imagine). The costumes are worse than in "PRNS". The special effects are awful (watch the weapons and zords wobble every time with the slightest motion) - worse than in "PRBM" for sure, though of course it's not a fair comparison, what's with the development of CGI. The music gets old really fast, given how it plays on repeat in every scene "of a type" and there are only a few seconds of it. The costumes are as bad as "Power Rangers in Space"'s ones are. The worldbuilding, writing and continuity are some of the worst.

Unless you have massive nostalgia, it's just not very watchable, not on its own merit.

Is this the worst episode of the series? When you've rated 32/38 episodes 1/10, quitting them before their endcredits, it's difficult to figure out which one is the ultimate stinker. I suppose it might as well be this one, though. It showed me so many stupid, incoherent things and plotholes within but a few minutes I'd be unlikely to remember a worse episode even if my memory wasn't actively writing them out as a self-defence mechanism. Unbridled stupidity; bottom-tier production values.

Anyway, isn't it completely stupid how there's a minimum word count yet they've removed the possibility to expand the review-writing field?..