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This season that followed the ever-so-awesome season of Time Force was bit of a couple levels down of awesomeness, but it still part of my Top 5 and I still do recommend this season. Let get into the Premise.

Over 3000 years ago, these ancient monsters known as "Orgs" have been extinct thanks to these legendary heroes that were known as the "Wild Force Rangers", but in 3000 years later in 2002, they rises again and continues to ruled the world with the help of their returned leader, Master Org. But eventually the Mentor Princess Shayla, who have been resting through-out all the years on the unknown island known as Animarium, contacted five people whose personalities matches that of the Rangers and their animal spirits, Cole, a kind-spirited young man with a passion for animals and was raised in the Amazon who came to the States to find his parents that he never met, Taylor, an strict Air Force pilot who went missing due to a plane about to clash but was saved by the Animarium, Max, an playful and goofy aspiring Bowler, Danny, a Strong but yet kind man with a passion for Flowers, and Alyssa, a caring and kind girl who is attending College. The five were chosen as the Rangers with Cole being the Red Lion Ranger, Taylor the Yellow Eagle Ranger, Max the Blue Shark Ranger, Danny the Black Bison Ranger, and Alyssa the White Tiger Ranger, together as Rangers, they helped take down Master Org and his entire army once and for all, but on their way they met another powerful Org, a wolf-like Duke Org named Zen Aku, who strangely have everything the Rangers have especially Zords, and even have a Heart, which all of our heroes by then knows that Orgs do not have a heart, but eventually they look into his background and learns that he use to be one of the original Wild Force Rangers named Merrick, but is under a curse, which means there supposed to be six Rangers, not five. Eventually our five heroes helps broke the Curse and finally met Merrick and welcomed him as a new member of the team. Merrick, however, tends to refuse but upon receiving his morpher back after all of those years being trapped in the Zen Aku's curse, becoming the "Lunar Wolf Ranger", he comes to help the Rangers at everytime there is a Org in town, and with six Rangers now, they all tries there hardest at stopping Master Org's biggest plan of World Domination.

Wild Force was a fun and interesting Season, interesting with some of the Characters and bunch of the Episodes. I'm going to begin talking about the Characters with Cole, a very interesting character as his arc is fascinating with searching his parents only to eventually find-out they were actually murdered in cold blood by no other than Master Org, who actually had an connection with his parents, a very somewhat disturbing one which I shall not get into due to this being Spoiler-free. Cole had a great personality of caring for others and a kind relationship with Animals as equal to that of Humans, the interesting nature of Cole that he like the Season version of Andros from "In Space" as due to him being someone who grown-up in the Amazon Jungle, knows nothing about what people do in a country like the United States, which makes him and Andros great characters as they're both learning characters which means they try their best to understand what certain things they never grown-up knowing, with Andros knowing nothing what they do on Earth due to him being a Alien, and Cole knowing nothing what they do in a first-world Country. Taylor was fascinating as she seems to be her own leader as after-all she is the first modern Ranger of the team, and had a mixed relationship with Cole with him being actually chosen by Princess Shayla as the Leader and seen certain parts of Leadership different then that of Taylor which leads to her being quite Jealous of him, a-lot like Eric and Wes which I'll get to that actually later-on in the review, but anyways Taylor eventually would accepts Cole as a Leader and renounced her original views on him. Max and Danny were two great characters, I'm putting them together as they are both common characters as they are the comic reliefs of the Season, and it no surprise that they're best friends. Max's comic moments is always him being the Kid of the group due to his playful attitude. Danny's comic moments are when he with Max and Alyssa just comes up quite hilarious. Max and Danny's motto is always the three words "Never Gives Up!" which is the season's theme, it all about Teamwork which is what Cole believes in when it coming to be a leader of a group. Alyssa wasn't much of a interesting character, just a college girl, that all she is to me. Merrick now is a-bit of a less interesting character as well, he just comes up being a watered-down version of Eric from Time Force, as he also an Reluctant team-member, but his evil counterpart, Zen Aku, is something I'll definitely get into. Before I can get to Aku as now I'm talking about the villains of the season, I think it'll makes sense to talk about the main one first, Master Org. He was a pretty creepy character, plus with a dark origin story which summed up more greatness to this guy, but like I said already, I won't get into the character's background, you have to check that out for yourself. After the episode we discovered who Master Org was and got beaten by Cole who destroyed his Org half, a new Master came around named "Mandilok" who is just a god-awful villain who I literally didn't care for and his episodes that just shows how much this character dreads I'll get to when I speak about the episodes, but when Master Orgs returns in 10 Episodes later, was awesome, especially how he went from being what he originally was which is being a Human to an actual Org, which shocks everyone, and eventually destroys the ever-so-worthless Mandilok, just epic. Zen Aku, his story arc is what makes up the best of the season, with the character of Zen Aku just an interesting awesome character, with stealing all of the Rangers' zords and having his own Megazord just like the Rangers just makes him an awesome villain, but yet let makes him and his arc more interesting is that he knows he not a full org as he does feels for others and even he actually destroys an Org which is a broken rule, he knows there something wrong, and him searching for his memories was nice to see, and with the Rangers being a-bit confused of discovering what Zen Aku been doing makes them feel something different about him which led to them to ultimately learns the truth about him. The other good episodes beside the 7-part long Zen Aku arc, are the crossovers in this season which are "Reinforcements from the Future" and "Forever Red". Reinforcements from the Future was the Time Force crossover which I got to say, is one of the best crossovers that this entire show ever presented, only second to "To the Tenth Power" from "Lost Galaxy", the Relationships in this particular crossover with our heroes from Time Force and that from Wild Force are fun to watch, especially that with Taylor and Eric which is something I said I was going to get into and here I am, their relationship was nice as it presented as a "Love-hate" one with Taylor being strict like always with Eric who in the beginning of the episode gives her a Speeding ticket and once him and Wes were fighting as Rangers against the Mut-Orgs who are the main antagonists of the crossover, and once the Wild Force Rangers came along for help and discovered who they are, Taylor recognizes Eric from earlier and hate it as he didn't seems to appreciate their back-up, that what makes these characters worked-out with together with them both despising others because of what they are with Personalities with Eric always being reluctant to fully joined the Time Force Team and Taylor always disliking the others with their beliefs of Friendship, especially Cole. As I promised from my Time Force review, I would continued talking about Ransik's story and now I am with this crossover, how he portray in this was once again done well by Action legend, Vernon Wells, and his story's continuation in this episode was perfect as he decide to fully renounced his evil ways and joined the Rangers' in their mission of stopping the Mut-Orgs, whose Ransik have a connection with about how he got his powers, and how his story ended was just amazing, the best way of ending a Sympathetic who they cleverly made him turned into a good guy. "Forever Red" is no doubt one of the most coolest episode in the entire series, it a shame they didn't bothered making it a Two-parter, but the episode contains all of the Red Rangers shown in the previous seasons along with Cole is just an awesome thing to watch and the episode is a-lot of fun seeing all of these Red Rangers even Cole. Other episodes in this season are good in their own ways, especially the first three which I absoultey loved. However the Episodes I can complain about are the episodes with the little kid Kite, just a terrible character and a stupid development, really, a kid who loves Kites and is named Kite, just dumb, and these were the Episodes that Mandilok was horribly memorable for. This was yet again, another season with a great Finale, "The End of the Power Rangers", just awesome with the most powerful appearance of Master Org or I should say, more badass then ever, and the Rangers' final fight scene which was set in the rain was just amazing, definitely in my top 5 favorite finales, just like this series being in my top 5 favorite seasons.

Over-all this Season was nearly great, it just doesn't have the vibe that Time Force with being a-lot serious, but still I do recommend this season to anyone who haven't see this season of Power Rangers or have but only a few episodes.

This Season, man. Where to start?, this is literally, no lie, my favorite Power Rangers' Season, everything about it, favorite Red Ranger, favorite Female Ranger, favorite Villains, damn good Episodes, and over-all a very great Season. Let get into the Plot shall we.

In the year 3000, the world is filled with a whole different race than Humans known as "Mutants", which are often discriminated by Humans and are themselves Criminals/Terrorists in a single city with a Top crime Organization which is run by the most Strongest and Dangerous of them all, Ransik (Vernon Wells). Ransik attempts to both wiped-out Humanity and take over the World with all other Mutants but continuously failed because of the advanced Police System known as "Time Force", eventually Ransik had an Idea which was to use some Technology that can have him Time Traveled, eventually him, his Daughter Nadira, and a Cyborg named Frax, broke into a Prison filled with ton of other Mutants, in which the first Ranger of Time Force, Alex, arrived to stop them but was only then brutally beaten by Ransik, and then Ransik and his small gang succeed in Time Traveling by going back to the year 2001. Alex's fiancee and fellow Time Force Officer Jen, felt vengeful over Alex's dreadful Defeat which lead to her believing he wouldn't make it through his wounds, she and her fellow comrades, Lucas, Katie, and Trip, decide to followed Ransik and his crew back in time with them. As they all made it, they brought Morphers, including Alex's as they have to someone else that matched Alex's DNA, eventually they would come upon a young man who looks just like Alex and is no surprise he his Ancestor, a well-known Wealthy but kind-hearten individual by the name "Wesley Collins", they asked him to Joined and even told him their story, but he responses to it as Non-nonsensical, but eventually after discovering its true with Ransik and his Army beginning to attack the City, he reconsidered joining them and became the Red Ranger, with Jen being pink, Lucas being Blue, Katie being Yellow, and Trip being Green. As their mission of stopping Ransik and his own gang of Mutants progress, more problems occurred. Wes' former classmate and member of his corrupt businessman of a Father's new project "the Silver Guardians" (which are an advanced Police force to help take down the Mutants), Eric, who always was jealous of Wes being the one who have everything such as Money and Friends and spend less time working, as Eric was the opposite of that, but after finding out Wes' secret as well the same goes with his father, he searches for his own Powers and soon comes upon the Quantum Morpher and became the Quantum Ranger and helps the Guardians takes down Ransik and his gang as their new leader, but at times have a mixed relationship with both Wes and the other Rangers as always preferring solo. Soon all six Rangers sorta got along, and made it their way to stop their Baddies.

This season's first strength of Success is it's Characters, mainly Wes, Jen, and Eric, as well the two Villains Ransik and Frax. Wes was such a great character, as he shows such good relationships with Jen and Eric, as well his father, who originally wanted him to be a successful Businessman, running his main Company, Bio-Labs, but then rejects it and goes what he call his own Destiny, and Destiny is exactly what this particular season centers around. Wes' relationship with his Father progresses great in this season as the reason Wes turned against what was his Father's future, not his, because what Wes learns that all he truly cares about is Money, not others' lives, which is Wes' purpose obviously as a Ranger, which when after his Father learns what he didn't told him before (Being a Ranger), he requests him to be the new Leader of the Guardians as if saving the City is what he truly wants to do, but Wes obviously refuses as the Guardians as he knows are for Profit, unlike the Rangers, and it took for a while for him to Realize that his Destiny as a Ranger is the best thing he could ever do and soon admitted that to Wes. Wes' lecturing of finding his own Destiny is something I found quite impressive about his character, as he told this to Alex, who turned-out wasn't dead after-all and came back as a Leader and told that his supposed Destiny is working at Bio-Labs, which of-course he have the rights for his own Destiny and once coming back for his friends and bagged for his return as a Leader as it turned out Alex is nothing more than a Strict jerk of a Leader, he literally taught him the whole Destiny thing and soon Alex felt like he was wrong the whole time. Jen's character is what I found unique out of them all, as she a female leader, which is quite rare, and she got a quite interesting Relationship with Wes, it began with her being quite Strict to him as well the other Rangers, just like Alex who influenced her, but after Alex's arrival and Wes' lecturing to him, she developed more of a crush on Wes who beforehand, been having a crush on her, and wasn't fully reveal she have feelings for him until the Finale in which she and her friends (Except Wes) travel back to the year 3000, and learns about Wes' solo mission of saving the World from Ransik, and learns he succeeded but have died, this made Jen feel really guilty that she leaves someone she loves dearly and soon rejects Alex's proposal to her so she could motivate him to let them traveled back and prevent Wes' supposed death. Jen was a likable character all the way, and probably one of the most prettiest female Rangers ever, lol. Eric was an excellent interesting character, such a great development, started out as pretty much a Loser compared to Wes who ain't from a wealthy family and have to work so he can earned himself some goods, but still jealous over Wes' being the opposite as he already had all the money and barely have to do anything, but when discovering the Quantum morpher, his world was finally going to turned around by becoming quite an fascinating Ranger and more of a good developing story, as Eric by this time is fueled with Power which is something he always wanted but it didn't took him too long to realize that being a Ranger is not about Power but is saving the world from Evil, plus his relationship was also interesting to watch as Wes despite being from a rich background, does have feelings and wants to befriend Eric, but Eric being from an Unsuccessful background and therefore believes they don't fit, but by the finale in which Wes give Eric his speech that like what he said to Alex previously, changes Eric's views completely and he finally decides to fight along his side entirely. The villains in this season are quite sympathetic, especially Frax whose background and his final appearances were just sad to watch, as he used to be a kind and caring Human scientist who saves Ransik from a disease of that of another Mutant known as "Venomark" but Ransik, who beforehand became quite Selfish, shuns the Scientist's offer of kindness and destroy his entire Lab and leaving him there for dead, but as the Scientist is about to died, he uses his knowledge of Robotic technology to transformed into a Cyborg who was eventually be known as "Frax", and from then on Frax was shown to be a Cold-hearten and Narcissistic monster who felt vengeful over Ransik for destroying his original career, but by the finale in which Frax was captured by Ransik, long after revealing to him who he is, Ransik's changed daughter Nadira who knows about Frax's former self asked him about the rivalry between Humans and Mutants and how to stop it but carelessly reveals it impossible but after Nadira stated his former Identity, Frax then had a change of heart and had his former kind personality back and told Nadira that she actually can stops the Hatred Mutants have on Humans but was then reprogrammed before she can even have a change to learn more, this is what makes Frax's story arc quite depressing to watch as he was going back to his old self but lost it. Ransik on the other hand have a-bit of Sympathetic part of his story, in a story he reveal to Wes about what motivate him to hate on Humanity is that he part of a Chemical Accident just like all the other Mutants and was shunned by everyone around him based on his appearance, but soon became colder and colder with his Heart that he begun his career as a notorious Crimelord from the Future. Through-out the Series, we see Ransik as selfish as always but by the finale in which he finally learns by his now-good Daughter that Humans aren't all bad like he thought they were and soon surrendered, which lead to his story to continued in "Wild Force", which I won't get into until that review, and a interesting note, Ransik was the only Villain to not to be defeated in the history of the entire show, how amazing is that. Vernon Wells, who is an actor I recognizes well from "Mad Max 2" and "Commando", plays the character Ransik perfectly, showing how cruel he can be in episodes-after-episodes until the Finale, and his relationship with Frax was good as started out as a loose alliance to a great rivalry upon Ransik learning about Frax's past. His Loyalty to his daughter Nadira was at times amusing but shows the best amount of development he have in a Relationship beside Frax, and this was important as he hurts his Daughter in the finale, all because of his evil self, and this being a main reason of why he regrets his past actions. A-lot of Episodes from the premiere up to the Finale are just great, with "Force From the Future" being a good way to kicked-off a season and "End of Time" being what I think is second to "Countdown to Destruction" as one of the best Finales that this show delivers.

Over-all, if you never seen this series and even if you are a Power Rangers fan, which by-a-way, Shamed on you, totally check this one out, it just a fun, Interesting, Enjoyable, and Epic season.

"Our Friend, Martian" is a film that is according to my research, is quite shown is a-lot of Elementary Schools, now me, I never seen this when I was in Elementary, but I do still have a nostalgic memory of seeing this film's trailer in one of the previews of Dr. Doodle with Eddie Murphy (On the film's VHS tape), and from the trailer, it looks interesting, but unfortunately I never got around seeing this, until just this pass weekend, it was just so happened to the weekend of MLK's birthday. I got to admit, this movie was not at all a great movie. Now I know I shouldn't done this review on MLK day, but of-course I didn't, but that still would not stop me from reviewing this cheese fest.

Basically the story is that a African-American Middle Schooler named Miles, is failing his History Class, and his teacher, Ms. Clark, wants him to try to keep his grade up or else he will have to repeat a grade because of her class, so to do that, Miles and his classmates, especially his Caucasian friend Randy and a bully named Kyle, and a sassy but yet intelligent Hispanic girl named Maria, went on a trip to the childhood home of Martin Luther King in their city of Atlanta, where Miles, Randy, Kyle, and Maria were allowed inside of King's bedroom by the owner of the Museum (Who is voiced by Whoopi Goldberg) where then they both time-travel through-out King's life to explored it and learned how he became famous for what he done with African-Americans, as-well the struggles he went through which lead to him doing what so. Sounds like a good film, but unfortunately the downfall is how this is all shown.

Firstly I want to talked about the Characters, now Miles kinda comes-up like a idiot in this movie, which is no wonder why he is failing a class, in one notorious part of the movie is when the kids decide to bring young Martin into their present, but when they do so, only Miles is back along with Martin. Randy, Kyle, and Maria are all there too, but completely different, now Randy and Kyle are two typical Racists who don't even know Miles because he's black and Maria is like a typical poor Hispanic Citizen who doesn't know how to speak English or even understand it. This is all because they created a Alternate Timeline in which King's Civil Rights movements never happens, and that there still the racial rules going on in the South such as Whites and Blacks have to go to separate schools that Blacks have to walk, and plus other stuff like the water fountain rule, and etc. now I don't really like this alternate timeline at all, mainly because is that there certain things that have nothing to do with Martin Luther King, like there child labor, what? How in the world Child Labor have anything to do with Martin Luther King, that was something that was taken care of in the 1910s, hey before King was even born or when the racial laws were happening in the south, and back to the whole fact of Maria not able to speak English and is treated poorly because of her Ethnicity all because of Martin Luther King work never happens, when did King ever do something to the Hispanics, yeah it is proven he wants to have everyone of different color joining into one, but that pretty much because how the African-Americans were being treated in the South, not the Hispanics, that more of Cesar Chavez's job, like didn't he even exists in this timeline either, I don't think so, it only Martin that wasn't around, and the same goes with other civil rights' leaders like where Malcolm X, would he or anyone else in general would've done anything about this instead of Martin, it literally makes zero sense, and this is why I considered this film a-bit of an insult towards history because there just screw it all up with having stuff in this alternate timeline that really ain't anything Martin Luther King would do about it, but instead someone else like Cesar Chavez or Malcolm X, but instead they just to forget about them, and want to be more focusing on Martin here which technically they're just insulting History, along with Child Labor. Another thing, Sexism often occurs because of Martin being gone, yes probably other issue to do with Sociology beside Racism is occuring because of Martin's absent, I guess other issues such as Homophobia still occurs, that might mean Harvey Milk is absent for no good reason. Now sorry I was complaining about how just terrible they did with the Alternate reality, I probably want to go back talking about how ignorant Miles is with this, he literally does not know what going on, like he doesn't realizes right away he and his friends along with Martin created an Alternate Timeline, how more stupid you can even get, that just makes this character more unlikable and just forgettable. Randy, seems like a joke as he's like a skateboarder with a southern Accent, which kinda confuses me because he only white character who is from the South that talks like that, not Kyle nor Ms. Clark, now Kyle is another character who is basically just a weak character, especially a bully character, it just seems like he really a innocent kid who is often get disrespect by the others, which doesn't makes him looks more of a bully, and when he's racist in the alternate timeline, he seems kinda less racist to be honest. Now Maria, I literally can't get started with this ungrateful brat. I literally hates this character, how her smartness is portrayed is ruined by she treats Miles, Randy, and especially Kyle. In this film, sorta shows us there's going to be bad happening to her, but unfortunately we didn't got that, if you even count the pointless "Can't speak English" scene.

So over-all this movie is just a big slob of a mess, just offend the knowledges of anyone who knows about History. I still don't get how there Elementary schools that shows this film, which like 50% wrong about History and the Civil Rights movements of the 50s and 60s, and I can only imagined how anyone who sees this movie as a kid in Elementary School, and literally thoughts this is what Martin Luther King, prepared to be wrong later in life. There some positive stuff I can say like the story I kinda like, and the whole feel of the 90s I thought that was good too, and it was a-bit interesting going through King's life, except for the Civil Rights March, where they met a young Ms. Clark, which doesn't makes sense, because that was the 60s and this is mainly set in 1999, so how a woman in her 40s and would've been in her 20s back then, like just Calculate it. So that basically it, if you want to see a Martin Luther King movie, I guess this is it, but if you're a history person, I would say you stay away from this.