[MnemonicSyntax]

Jesus. Just because the majority of the adult fans aren't happy doesn't mean the show is going to be cancelled.

Maybe it's just time for those not happy to move on. I'm surprised that people are this upset, based on previous track records in the past. Nothing Saban is doing here is anything new, but as children we didn't care too much. Guess what the children think these days?

The formula works for Saban. It's not going to change when he can continue to make money off it.

[TokuChris]

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Originally Posted by MnemonicSyntax

Jesus. Just because the majority of the adult fans aren't happy doesn't mean the show is going to be cancelled.

Maybe it's just time for those not happy to move on. I'm surprised that people are this upset, based on previous track records in the past. Nothing Saban is doing here is anything new, but as children we didn't care too much. Guess what the children think these days?

The formula works for Saban. It's not going to change when he can continue to make money off it.

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.

[dekablue25]

thing is they arent catering the adult fandom its a childrens show not some 20+ show where we see teenagers with attitude kicking butt for the life of their own.if people arent happy how they are handeling the anniversary just deal with it.bickering and telling "OH SABAN YOUR DEAD TO ME" or any other nonsense just makes us look like greedy and whiny fans like a child who wants a certain item but cant get it.if the actors werent contacted oh wells cant really blame them now can we.do realize transformers is about cars and robots power rangers is a group of colored super heroes with robots.most people go for the cars than the group of colored heroes cause its a more bolder and wider audience while power rangers isnt

if the actors are getting SAG paychecks its personally not even worth it cause that doesnt even help you get a plane ticket to NZ.would you really like to lose a grand or more just to film a 2-10 min cameo and go "ok thats it your done thanks for your time".many of the actors have other things to do and they are going at it from the financial end of the thing.they want to please the fans but losing money just for that is not realy gonna cut it.

[vincheng2k5]

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

[decepticusprime]

the thing thats frustrating is there are so many that just plain wereny invited. i have no issue with ones like steve who cant afford it. but ones like rhett that want to do it an were told no. thats the problem

[MnemonicSyntax]

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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.

[Dr Kain]

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Originally Posted by AlphaGrandCanine

I'm guessing they could just skip it, it depends how they're going to run the toyline.

With RPM set in a parallel universe and SPD set in the future, they would have to jump the shark big time to fit it in.

Can't believe a year out we're in a position where most people are writing it off. Although, since Saban got the franchise back I'm struggling to give a fuck anymore. Samurai ruined Power Rangers for me, and I've watched a fair bit of operation overdrive

Only Samurai? Wow, you must not have watched Ninja Storm, SPD, and Mystic Force. After those three (DT was good, thankfully), I was pretty much done with PR, especially after 2 episodes of OO. I never saw anything afterwards beyond the first episode of JF (which was as bad as OO) until Saban came back, but only watched the third episode of Samurai and then the first two to MegaForce.

[Starscream Gaga]

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

Only Samurai? Wow, you must not have watched Ninja Storm, SPD, and Mystic Force. After those three (DT was good, thankfully), I was pretty much done with PR, especially after 2 episodes of OO. I never saw anything afterwards beyond the first episode of JF (which was as bad as OO) until Saban came back, but only watched the third episode of Samurai and then the first two to MegaForce.

SPD and Mystic Force were two of the best.

[Dr Kain]

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Originally Posted by Starscream Gaga

SPD and Mystic Force were two of the best.

While I do plan to give SPD another try in the future since I kind of wrote it off because I did not care for Deka (well, outside of Disco 70's Sentai Reject Skeletor), MF was down right dreadful. The acting was piss poor. The characters one dimensional and lame. I hate hate HATE Udonna and the blonde dumbass. I hate how they just threw Rita into it as being as the reformed white witch without any explanation or backstory, it just was that was because of the actress (and what was the point of showing that scene anyway?), not to mention they did not even get Goodson to do the voice.

[Starscream Gaga]

I think Rita was kept as a tribute to Machiko Soga, who passed away in between Magiranger airing her footage and Mystic Force getting up to it.