[Detective Stanton]

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Originally Posted by Kickback

Allow me to explain how things work outside of the acting business, sir.

For starters - this is a community website that allows discussion on a large variety of topics except for a minor few - politics, religion, etc. We like to keep things civil around here and promote healthy discussion. In the end, we're all like-minded individuals who have a passion for a hobby/genre of entertainment that brings us together, forges lifetime friendships, and gives us memories that we can hold on to forever.

That's what makes THIS place special.

Regarding the production that you've been involved in. Your director pissed all over this fan community - whether it be drunken postings where he told the very fans you market this to at RangerBoard (the largest Power Rangers community online) that "they don't matter in the end", to causing enough of an issue that discussion is disallowed at every major Power Rangers fan community board except this one.

I even tried to set up an interview with your embattled director. To the point that I would let him choose which questions he wanted to be asked because I wanted to give him a chance to clear the air for the fact that the rest of the Power Rangers community can't stand him. "He's hard at work in production!" I was told. "He'd love to - let's communicate a time that works!" I was told.

Ironically a couple more E-mail attempts would result in nothing - not even from your good buddy who was trying to be the liaison. In fact, he simply disappeared off the face of the Earth here while discussing the film with potential fans.

Your production took $43,000+ from fans with deadlines and promises. Once the money was paid, everything changed - it went from "film" to "web series" to "one episode". You're almost two years past the end of the Kickstarter with two trailers since the Kickstarter ended and nothing else to show for it with an original deadline that is over a year past due.

Perhaps my initial reaction was harsh to the revelation made to me by a good source (who I will not name out of journalistic integrity). But it wasn't posted as a "news story", it wasn't blasted across the Internet on social media. It's a comment on a message forum. You want to wave around the word libel that's fine - I'll wave around the word fraud (you know, the whole "paying for a product that was not delivered on time or as originally advertised" bit).

At the end of the day - this is my website, my forum, made up of individuals who volunteer their time for a hobby that they are passionate about. If you'd like to throw around your critiques on how we should do things here - by all means hit me up, send me a private message, look me up on social media - I'm very easy to find. You and I can scream at each other until we're both blue in the face.

So I appreciate your understanding of why I would be personally pissed off if "I discovered" through a legitimate source that what I thought was an individual here on good will was only here because they were getting compensated and everything discussed was nothing more than lip service.

Wouldn't you?

For what it's worth - I enjoyed your accent in the latest release. Is it genuine?

As I said....I don't speak for production so I'm not going to attest to whether Dom was busy or he wasn't other than to say he was spending most of his time caring for his mother. My issue was the accusations made about Don which were COMPLETELY false. He was not asked by production, bribed, coerced, or anything else. Like myself, he took his own time to come here and try to connect with the fandom. The episode with myself is NOT the episode funded by Kickstarter, and is not the first episode. It is, and always was, advertised as a mini episode, which we filmed in addition to the first episode along with a couple of others, to introduce the world of our fanfilm. NO Kickstarter funds were used in the production of the mini episodes. They were funded out of pocket....which is a big reason why you won't see any morphs or costumes or effects in them.

As to my accent in the short, I do have a natural Brooklyn accent, however, as an acting exercise for myself, and as a wink to the fandom, I greatly exaggerated the accent and my performance, as a little mini tribute to the type of acting on the show over the years. I tried to walk a line between the more reality based world we're trying to create, while not robbing the die hards of the "over the top" acting they've come to know on the show. I'll leave it to you guys whether I was successful or not. I have to get to bed because I have to be on set first thing in the morning. But I will check back, and will answer any questions I can in regards to the project. All I ask, is that the accusations stop. I can assure you, no matter how reliable you think your source is, they're not as reliable as me.