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Originally Posted by Kickback

I don't think anyone is seriously thinking the show will end up cancelled. I do think Jonathan Tzachor is the WRONG choice for Executive Producer, only because Power Rangers has so much more room to grow, both in terms of overall quality (let's face it - it really does talk down to its audience, both kids AND adults) and overall direction.

The formula may now be "Copy/paste Sentai and translate", grab actors to run around and shout morphing calls before using source footage, and staying within or under budget, and that will work for the time being. But even Disney saw Power Rangers was becoming stale and wanted to get out of it. I mean, this is the same company that wanted to increase viewership to the "Boys 6-11" category, so it sold off Power Rangers back to Saban and went out and BOUGHT MARVEL COMICS AND STAR WARS.

Sometimes a shot of fresh air can revitalize a franchise. Look at Transformers back in the late 90's early 2000's - they went from "re-releasing" all their 80's stuff with no success, to going buckwild and doing "realistic beast Transformers" with Beast Wars and it took off. They tried to take it further with "Beast Machines" and it fell apart - so they went drastic again and imported "Car Robots", which was realistic vehicles (first time since early 90s) and the property exploded, enough that they were able to shop a movie and now it's one of the largest franchises in the world.

If a cartoon about cars and planes that turn in to robots can have a BILLION dollar worldwide movie, I don't see any reason why a a live-action show about teenagers who can transform in to super heroes piloting giant transforming robots can't have something better than an appeal to 5 year olds, and not shooting any higher than the 5 year old demographic.

KB, I agree with everything you say here. However, my wording was incorrect in that I wasn't saying that people are saying the show will be cancelled but that their suggestion for it to be cancelled because they think it's the best course of action since the very minority's wants aren't met is a ridiculous notion.

Also, I'm not justifying anything for anyone. Maybe after all these years, I'm just tired of our fandom as a whole. Not just the whiners and complainers, or the people who think the best course of action is something better suited for the fanfiction section of a seedy internet forum, but primarily, the fact that we keep telling Saban what we want, stuff we all agree on... and it's getting shot down, left and right.

The thing that frustrates me the most, is that we have all these people hopeful on something that, quite frankly were hopeful based on a completely different show and was counting on Gokaiger's "awesomeness" to make Super Megaforce incredible, and the second issue is that we put a lot of stock and faith in something we haven't seen yet and most "won't watch now" because of hearsay. People in the fandom have called me a pessimist before, and I'm really not. I'm more of a "wait and see" guy, and while not exactly optimistic, I consider myself to be more of a realist, based on Saban's track record.

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Originally Posted by vincheng2k5

There is a very big difference between saying the show WILL be cancelled and saying the show is BETTER OFF cancelled.

But why? Because you say so? Because you're not happy? That's highly illogical. When the show stops making money, that's when it's time to pull the plug.