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Originally Posted by Taro3

You're really painting an oversimplified and quite frankly dishonest picture. You make it seem like making the trip would be a certain and instant financial catastrophe equivalent to the actor in question blowing up their small business in a tokusatsu style explosion with their family inside. It's dramatic, misleading, and unnecessary. Nobody's being asked to destroy their lives to participate. All it takes is a little planning and a person can take a trip at their own expense without it meaning financial oblivion. In fact, millions of people do it every day, traveling for recreational purposes, or to attend special events like reunions. It absolutely CAN be financially responsible with a little effort.

If you're a former Power Ranger, there's really no excuse to NOT know about MegaForce. I mean, you really have to be living under a rock or willfully ignoring it to have no concept that the show still exists. And that claim is total bullshit considering that these same people who have moved on are the ones who have taken to social media to complain about the poor pay or the short notice. They can't be that unplugged. I'm sure that since Gokaiger aired in Japan, they've been hearing the chatter about it from fans through social media. So anyone who claims to have been caught totally off guard by this, it's just weak excuse.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not taking Saban's side here. I just want to see MegaForce be as good as it can be. Saban screwed up. We get it. Shame on them. But that's an awfully sour note to simply leave things on. I want as much as anyone to see the actors be paid fairly for their time, and I don't want them to be faced with financial hardship as a result of participating. But the standoff does nobody any good. So rather than simply dwelling on Saban's screw up with the first move, it would be nice to see the actors come back with something constructive and start the conversation that might lead to a better outcome. Instead they're complaining to third parties, and as valid as their grievances may be, it helps nobody. All it does is continue to polarize the debate, and the result is folks like you who simply think Saban = evil and the actors = good and don't really care about anything else.

While you see me as selfish fan #451342, I see 451,342+ fans who want to see MegaForce not suck. So it would be nice to see some of the actors, on behalf of those fans, reach out to Saban and at least try to make it work (even if in the end it doesn't), ideally with some sort of compromise. Increase the budget a little, delay the filming, re-invite some of the uninvited rangers, something to make it better than the shitty situation we have right now. I don't think that's selfish. I think it's a lot more selfish to refuse to even try simply because "I don't want to and you can't make me!" or there's not enough money in it.

That's easier said than done. The initial planning has already been revealed to be sloppy and last minute (see Valerie Vernon), and cleaning all of it up just to please us? If (Super) Samurai has been any indication, Saban doesn't care about the older fans so long as thre is money to be made. This is before you take into account the psychological aspects. David Yost was persecuted for his homosexuality on set, to the point where he left the show. There's an interview that shows what he did afterwards.

I do think that Saban should try to please the fans that they promised to please at conventions, but in the end, Saban follows the money, not the fans.