Well yeah, that is what I said last week several pages ago.

However, it still seems like they made him a new shield for the command center scenes, which is half line and curve and half all curve.

I assumed early Saban was creative but as it turns out he just had no idea what he was doing and was making it up as he went :lol

Obviously something went terribly right, since Power Rangers made a freaking mint :lol

The internet as we know it didn't exist and the ability to stream of send video was certainly non-existent. They proabably had to have footage subtitles and then shipped over for them so that process likely took a little time and they were doing everything as cheap as possible. I think it would have made the most sense to hire a Japanese person that was fluent in English to give them all the key details they would need before production but clearly they didn't think that was needed.




I thought the story was that they saw the promo footage before MegaRanger ever aired and that was all they had available to them. Since it looked like a space setting they set up the end of Turbo to go into space. They found out before they started shooting In Space what the plot actually was but decided to just go with it as they already had a story going.

By the time In Space (Feb. 6, 1998 - Nov. 21, 1998) hit the airwaves, Megaranger (Feb. 14, 1997 - Feb. 15, 1998) had one episode left. Additionally, Turbo ended on Nov. 24, 1997 (10 months after Megaranger began), and it led directly into In Space.
Assuming that
1) Turbo's finale was filmed a month before airing and
2) They had scripted Chase Into Space to lead into the "Grand Finale" that was In Space 3 months prior,
There really isn't much excuse for being so off when they had 5 months worth of Megaranger footage available.

And before anyone gets on my case, I know the numbers for the months were BS and not accurate. I based the statements on the amount of time it takes to film a 20 minute long show, along with the statement that Lost Galaxy aired episodes mere weeks after they finished filming them, one case (During the Lights of Orion saga) being aired mere days after they finished filming.
The numbers for the months were simple approximations since they didn't need to provide 100% of the filmed footage. In all honesty, I really think the 3 months worth assumption to write and finalize the script for In Space is being very generous.

From Wikipedia, via Sir Stack's posting of the In Space "pre-bible":

The link to Sir Stack's post: http://sirstack.livejournal.com/50847.html

I for one would have loved to see Exhaus as Dark Spectre instead of Goldgoyle.

Ah. Thanks for that ^^

Imagine how different In Space would have been without Andros and Astronema, and with Justin and Divatox!

Very interesting. They definitely took the better route with that. I wonder why they wouldn't screen the footage then if it could have been reasonably made available to them. Still, that does make it seem like they had enough info to know what they were doing.

Honestly? I think that Saban saw that the meka were spaceships, and decided that since this was going to be (ostensibly) the last season, that it made sense to have a big outer space epic to wrap things up.

It worked out for pretty much all parties (except, I guess, Blake Foster), as In Space was a hit in the ratings, and Saban was able to build off of that success to transform the show into the annual adaption format, which allows the show to exist without some of the snarls of the earlier format (namely, if you replace your characters each year, you don't need to keep writing them out of the story when the actor want a raise).

I have noticed this as well; I guess they had some money to improve the "Hero Suit" in the last few appearances of the Green Ranger?