With the Zordon Era over, Linkara finds himself in unknown territory as he begins to look at seasons he never saw when they first aired. The first of theses is Power Rangers Lost Galaxy, a season he gave up on the first episodes in when it first aired.
Tropes:
- Alas, Poor Villain: Admits that scene with Trakeena watching Scorpious die manages to be a good
Tear Jerker despite Scorpious mostly being a generic villain.Linkara: "[...] it almost makes you forget that one of them is wearing a bug on her head and the other is a tentacle hentai monster..." - Angst? What Angst?: One issue he takes with Maya's character. She barely reacts to her homeworld being turned to stone from that point on. Not that Linkara thinks there's anything wrong with having an upbeat personality, but it comes off as being in denial of what happened to her planet rather than someone who just managed to move on with a positive outlook following a tragedy.
- Arc Fatigue: Has this feeling about the Lights of Orion arc, feeling that it went on too long and was only saved by the presence of the Magna Defender.
- Bizarre Human Biology: After Karone's tears heal a man she previously turned to stone (and after Andros's tears healed Karone in In Space), Linkara just gives up trying to rationalize it and just assumes all humans from KO-35, in addition to telekinesis, have magic healing tears.
- Cannon Fodder: Dislikes the Stingwingers, not only for their uninteresting design and lack of personality but also because they were completely ineffective. Even the Piranhatrons could be a threat in a large group, whereas Stingwingers always died in droves. The only time the Stingwingers were even kind of effective was when they had bombs strapped to their chests, but even then Linkara points out the Galaxy Rangers tanked a few of their explosions with little damage.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Notes that Zhane is the only Ranger from In Space who’s absent from the team-up episodes, joking that he’s “probably just making out with Karone somewhere.”
- Contrived Coincidence: Shakes his head over the fact the caves for the Lights of Orion happen to have already been on the Lost Galaxy space station since it would require the viewer to not only assume to build the station they took entire chunks of the Earth and put them in a dome, but that one of those chunks just happened to include a fully intact cave that housed a millennia-old artifact inside of it.
- Didn't See That Coming: Kendrix's death. Complete with a brief shot of his reaction.
- Evil Virtues: He notes that the season's theme was virtuous villains, such as the chivalrous Villamax and the undyingly loyal Treacheron.
- He's Back!: As mentioned directly above, Linkara rarely shows entire scenes, but decides to do so due to the sheer epic of the Psycho Rangers' return.
- Hilarious in Hindsight: Karone becoming the Pink Ranger was mirrored with Astronema's statement in the previous season "I wouldn't want to be a Power Ranger anyway!"
- The Mentor: Like In Space, Linkara says there is no mentor to the team. Though in the updated review, Linkara says that Commander Stanton is one to Kai as he teaches the latter not to be too rigid in the rules.
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Missing Episode: In the updated version, Linkara mentions the unused script that would have featured Cassie protecting the Astro Megaship ala Die Hard. However, Linkara does ask why they did not rewrite the script to feature another character. - The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: Praises that even though Captain Mutiny is a Generic Doomsday Villain, he, unlike Divatox, is actually a subversion is the trope and acts like an actual pirate.
- Plot Hole: Linkara does point out the fact that Scorpius and his minions somehow avoided destruction at the hands of Zordon's energy wave with no explanation, but just assumes these particular evil forces were outside of the wave's effects.
- Post-Script Season: While some people consider Lost Galaxy to be a standalone season, Linkara feels that it's an epilogue season to the Zordon Era based on multiple things: characters from previous seasons that make appearances, continuity that appeared with respect, and showing that the legacy of the Power Rangers is still around.
- Pragmatic Adaptation: Riding off the success of In Space, the production crew decided to do another space opera-themed season with the Seiju Sentai Ginagman (which was nature-themed).
- Prop Recycling:
- Linkara notes that the Terra Venture security suits are from Starship Troopers.
- At the beginning of the revised Lightspeed Rescue review, Linkara says that some fans told him that the Magna Defender Morpher was the Aura Changer from Dairanger. He did not feel to mention it in the review because it had no bearing in Power Rangers and it did not affect production at all.
- Real Life Writes the Plot: Notes that this is the reason for Kendrix's Heroic Sacrifice; Valerie Vernon was diagnosed with leukemia and had to leave the show to undergo treatment (she got better, and is currently still alive; she wanted to come back for the 20th anniversary, but couldn't sort out arrangements to look after her children, which is Heartwarming in itself.).
- Rookie Red Ranger: Discusses this in regards with Leo. Linkara notes that some parts of Leo's rash behavior stemmed more from the guilt of Mike's supposed death and when the latter came back, he felt unworthy of staying as the Red Ranger because Mike pulled the Quasar Saber out of the stone instead of himself. However, Leo did grow more as the season continued and proved to be worthy as the Red Ranger when he defeated Trakeena in the end.
- Sixth Ranger: Discussed- Linkara, like some fans, doesn't see the Magna Defender as a full Sixth Ranger.
- Special Effect Failure: Continuously refers to the planet of Miranoi and its people being turned to stone as an "Adobe Photoshop Filter" due to how poor the effect looks.
- Stunned Silence: His response to Kendrix's death.
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: How he feels about the Lost Galaxy arc. It started of strong, but soon petered into filler episodes.
- Training Montage: Trakeena's training sequence, along with "You're the Best" from The Karate Kid (1984) playing, as he said that it was just "begging to be supplied with an 80's song."
- Troubled Production: Makes a note that the series was apparently a nightmare behind the scenes, particularly around the Lights Of Orion Saga. Episodes and scripts were apparently struggling to reach completion in time for the show to go to air on schedule.
- What Could Have Been:
- Notes that it was originally planned to have Cassie taking Kendrix's place, but Patricia Ja Lee walked off when she discovered she was going to be paid significantly less per episode than the rest of the cast. The updated review went into more detail on why that happened. According to some sources Linkara found, Valerie Vernon would still be paid as a full-time cast member despite leaving the show in order to help pay for her chemo treatments. Whether or not Saban did it out of goodwill or out of fear of a lawsuit is unknown to Linkara.
- Also says that many ideas were thrown around at the beginning with the writers about just what would happen; one of the big ideas was that the whole show would take place in the "Lost Galaxy," which would have justified the title of the series better.
- At the beginning of the revised Lightspeed review, Linkara states that the original plan was to have Scorpius as the final boss, but it was scrapped when the puppet proved to be too difficult to move.
