In this episode, Nadira comes up with a plan which puts to use all of the remaining available footage from the unadaptable episodes of Timeranger. Well, that's what this episode is! She gets a monster that hops into a mirror world to trap the Rangers and make them fight a variety of monsters they supposedly already defeated, but is really monsters from episodes of Timeranger that were too talky or pointless to be adapted. This thing's, like, eight Timeranger spliced into one.
The head monster, the main focus of the episode, comes from that Timeranger episode where Naoto is reliving the same "OCTOBAR" day over and over, Groundhog Day-style. It's kinda sad that Time Force didn't just adapt that. Eric, after having so much focus in the 20s, has really gone AWOL from this show, it's weird.
It's sad that they try to tie in Lucas' narcissism into this episode -- ha, ha, the dude who's obsessed with mirrors will come to regret it after this mission, eh? No. Ha-ha says the writers who were too lazy to ever come up with something meaningful for Lucas.
I'm not going to mention that I think it's weird that this show, based on a work by Yasuko Kobayashi, featured an original scenario taking place in a "Mirror World" one year before Kobayashi wrote Ryuki.
What a coincidence
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