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Originally Posted by Bandaiman

@tailsman so pretty much what you're saying is Power Rangers was going to fail regardless?

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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

Power Rangers wasn't set to fail, it's that Saban's desire to pinch as many pennies as possible led to it's failure.

Pretty much that. From the perspective of an executive, why should we pay more and try harder when we've already been this successful operating on the slimmest budget possible? And the fact that at no point in the 30 years did anyone with the power to make a change see fit to argue otherwise meant that Power Rangers was ultimately living on borrowed time, that it had a built-in expiration date. It managed to cling to life from around Wild Force onward as the kids who grew up with it at its start and height aged out of the franchise, and got a boost with Samurai and Megaforce/Super Megaforce, but after Dino Charge things died down considerably.

Running a piece of media is no different from caring for a plant. You have to actually nurture it, feed it, allow it room to grow, or it will inevitably die, even the ones that are sold as low-maintenance. Nobody who owned Power Rangers was really interested in doing that, and that's why we're here having this discussion.