Buttery

Today on Power Rangers SPD: (Yeah, I'm sure you're fascinated.) Continuity! There'd been this joke, early in the season, about how the Green Ranger likes buttery toast (a love I share) that earned a snort from me because the actor did this funny hand gesture to illustrate "buttery." Obviously, I wasn't the only person to think it was amusing (see icon) because that same joke came up again this morning, with the other Rangers ragging on Green for not being able to say "buttery" without wiggling his fingers. I found this horribly amusing. I am so eight years old.

There was also a new flying 'zord. Sweet.

Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go, on the other hand, which I'd been enjoying since Halloween's big Skeleton King marathon, kind of blew it for me by asserting that the kid who (in the opening credits, even) was originally said to have just "found" his super robot, is actually "destined" and "the Chosen One." Gah! Why has this become such a pop-cultural thing lately? I keep seeing it everywhere - the endlessly replaying Star Wars DVD ad just for starters - and does no one but me have a problem with this? Why is it suddenly so important in stories that the protagonist be "destined" - chosen by some higher power - and not self-made? What's up with that?

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