[Kamen Rider Lucha]

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Originally Posted by DreamSword

Yeah I friggen hope not. I don't want a franchise I love to throw away half its identity.

TBH, as much as Sentai is my favorite thing in the world, I always thought there was an tension between what PR wanted to be and what the Toei footage forced it to be. Sometimes, that tension worked to the show's advantage, but most often, it made the show extremely disjointed and unpleasant to watch.

If PR is going to stay relevant, I think it needs to become its own thing, while ideally still preserving the things that made it a success to begin with.

I think it's important to note that Entwistle mentions bringing the show's "spirit of analog into the future." This implies to me that he gets the show's identity and knows what makes it cool -- i.e., the analog/practical effects and man-in-suit fighting. Fingers crossed he's able to preserve the show's full identity and appeal while tailoring it for an older, more modern US audience.

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Originally Posted by DreamSword

That aside, alot of people around the net(atleast from what I've seen) seem to assume that, even if there were a "best case" scenario of even the live-action being all-original, that the writing, stunts, etc would all just magically improve to whatever standard they have, as if the show is tailor-made for them in the first place(not accusing you of this, btw).

It is full-blown insanity to think that stunts and fights would ever be better in a Hasbro-original.

Sentai has some of the best and most consistent fight/stunt choreography in any country, in any medium, flat out.

These imagined improvements are not only unlikely, they're based in a fantasy world where an average weekly Sentai fight isn't already better than literally all Marvel/DC movie fight scenes put together.

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Originally Posted by TokuKnight89

I'm not convinced of that rumor.

I believe that Hasbro wants to experiment with original productions as opposed to a clean break from Toei.

Could be. It's particularly interesting that the press release points out that Entwistle will head the "non-kids" iterations and that there will be kid-focused iterations as well. Maybe "traditional" PR will live on as the kid-focused show and the animated show(s) will be for older audiences?

Or maybe there will be original live action shows and the cartoon will be for kids. Who knows at this point?

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Originally Posted by TokuKnight89

I know I'm spitballing, and I don't want to take away from the fact that Entwistle's connection is still a good thing for the franchise.

It will be refreshing to have someone tied to the franchise that isn't, you know, an objectively terrible writer. It might make me care about Power Rangers as more than just watered-down, off-brand Super Sentai... or, actually, care about Power Rangers at all, which is something I haven't done since about 1998.