In the first episode we see Jen, she loses her fiancee minutes after his proposal. Her reaction: take three other Time Force officers and morphers and chase his killer into the past. There, despite being complete fishes out of water and needing help from Wes, her dead fiancee's doppelganger, she thrives. Over the course of the season she faces a lot of emotional obstacles, including facing her traitorous former partner, and she does so wonderfully. Just when she's starting to recover, she gets a surprise: Alex isn't dead, he's in the past, and he's a major jackass. Jen deals with this as well; calling him out on his obvious selfishness and shaming him into going back to the future. She stayed in the past, kicking ass and taking names. In the finale, she even heads back to the past, facing what she believed is certain death, because she couldn't not fight. Her skills are clearly not lost after this; in the Wild Force team up, she saves Wes, Eric, and the Wild Force rangers with her shooting skills, all while dressed in a Lara Croft-esque outfit (How they got that past Disney is one of the worlds greatest enigmas).
Jen stands out to me because she is badass in a way most ranger badasses are not: emotionally. She's intelligent, brave, skilled, and a calm and capable leader, like many others, but how many other rangers went through what she did? Her fiancee died in her arms, she went to the past, started to fall for Alex's ancestor, found out he wasn't dead but was an ass, got left by him, fell in love with Wes only to have to leave for 1000 years in the future seconds after admitting it? (Note: That was the first time 'love' was ever said on PR). None. Despite being a leading candidate for the Mighty Morphin' Therapy Rangers, she faced everything head on, and let nothing slow her down. I raise my glass to you, Jen.
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