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Post by tatsuranger on May 26, 2022 18:57:02 GMT -5
I found this interesting. Ryota Ozawa (Captain Marvelous, Gokai Red) from Gokaiger was announced as the Second guest of honor for this year's Power Morphicon. The first guest of honor is Gai/Black Condor from Jetman.
Three days later, PMC has announced that Andrew Gray (Troy, Super/Megaforce Red) would be attending. We all know how we feel about how Saban screwed up Gokaiger in America, turns out Ozawa is aware of it too so he went on Facebook to post that Andrew is a wonderful person and he wants all in attendance to have a sense of decency and respect for when Captain Marvelous eventually meets his Power Rangers counterpart
From Twitter user EZ Peterson
What do you think?
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Post by Venusaur on May 26, 2022 20:28:30 GMT -5
Kind of sad Ozawa has to defend Gray just because a neckbeard fandom didn't like his performance.
But this is the fandom where someone asked Tracy Lynn Cruz if she ate the skulls of dead babies so...
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Post by BradyMcKnight on May 26, 2022 20:46:18 GMT -5
Saying he admires Andrew’s work was a very kind lie.
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Post by Venusaur on May 26, 2022 20:50:40 GMT -5
Saying he admires Andrew’s work was a very kind lie. I dom't want to assume the man's sexuality, but maybe he's talking about Grey's other non-acting work |
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Post by crossranger on May 26, 2022 23:17:31 GMT -5
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You're assuming too much, Ven. I don't think being polite has something to do with sexuality. Besides, Andrew Gray seems like a nice person. Shame that script and directing didn't help.
"Saying he admires Andrew’s work was a very kind lie."
It's called Japanese politeness. Sometimes it's better to be, you know, respectful.
Besides, it's not like Ryota did a lot of succesful work in Japan either. From what I know, only Mao, who's a voice actor and Joe Gibken's actor, who's has still a lot or work in doramas, have success. Heck, Ahim's actress was retired until TenGokaiger...
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Post by xman on May 26, 2022 23:30:49 GMT -5
Saying he admires Andrew’s work was a very kind lie. To be fair..... THIS IS NOT THE ACTORS' FAULT THAT THE FANS HATED THEIR CHARACTERS IN THE SHOW!!!! The actors did nothing wrong but their god-damn jobs even if they were being given bad scripts or litte-to-no direction. If you want to blame someone, blame Saban Brands and the production crew and Jonathan Tzachor for taking this one incredibly awesome anniversary series from Japsn and turning it into dog-s***t in adaptation because of some bulls**t priorities coming from whoever else was involved with producing the franchise's 20th anniversary TV series or because of peer pressure from Nickelodeon's executives or because they didn't care about the material and wanted to collect their paychecks, etc. Now, Ozawa-san is just trying to protect Mr. Gray from very toxic people who call themselves actual fans of Tokusatsu when the reality is...they are not real fans. They are all a bunch of frauds. A real fan would just let it go and accept the fact that they just saw a really bad TV show in the past and that the actors were just trying to do their jobs. I mean, put yourself in Andrew Gray's shoes. How would you feel if you were being constantly harrassed by these kind of people for years just because you played a poorly-written, badly-acted character from a movie or a TV show? I, on the other hand, have forgiven these actors and the character of Troy Meadows is just pretend. He's...Not...REEEEEAAAAALLLL!!! But Andrew Gray, the actor. He is real. |
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Post by tatsuranger on May 27, 2022 1:51:02 GMT -5
Yep, it's no secret that most fans, including the Megaforce cast, knows that the actors were given the rawest of deals during Megaforce's filming. They knew what they were working on was a Super Mega Turd and had tried everything they could to add more Oomph into the show only for it to get rejected by Tzachor.
All in all. Its wrong to have their lackluster performances on Megaforce dog their entire career and/or life.
If only the upcoming 30th Anniversary Special would have been used to create a Super Mega Redemption for the cast instead of milking MMPR for the 10th millionth time.
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Post by BradyMcKnight on May 27, 2022 14:45:22 GMT -5
…I really don’t get what y’all are even going on about. Andrew is a bad actor and delivered a terrible performance. Yes, the scripts they had to work with were bad, but people don’t sh*t on Ciara Hannah like this because unlike Andrew she was able to convincingly portray a human being.
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Post by GoseiYellow on May 27, 2022 15:36:39 GMT -5
…I really don’t get what y’all are even going on about. Andrew is a bad actor and delivered a terrible performance. Yes, the scripts they had to work with were bad, but people don’t sh*t on Ciara Hannah like this because unlike Andrew she was able to convincingly portray a human being. This right here. This shows how toxic this fandom can be. Yes, the season Megaforce was utter shit but it's not Andrew's fault. Come on, give the poor guy a break! Also, I hope the panel gets posted on YouTube when it happens. |
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Post by BradyMcKnight on May 27, 2022 16:42:28 GMT -5
Who said the whole season was Andrew’s fault? God, the projection.
His own terrible performance is his own fault however. Like, I don’t get how this is in any way controversial.
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Post by crossranger on May 27, 2022 17:28:15 GMT -5
…I really don’t get what y’all are even going on about. Andrew is a bad actor and delivered a terrible performance. Yes, the scripts they had to work with were bad, but people don’t sh*t on Ciara Hannah like this because unlike Andrew she was able to convincingly portray a human being. It's not like Ciara had a lot to work either. She has to stand and act cool. She had barely episodes centered about her. In comparison, Andrew has the weight of the storyline, and seems, at least James Bates hinted it, she was kind of on the fence of making friends and the responsability of being the leader. I guess it's too complex for a guy like Gray. He's too wooden, granted. But I think half of the fault is the direction. A probably good director can work with a bad actor, and take the best of it. JDF in the first season was barely a character, just a charisma void, and the directors made magic. He improved, mercifully, for us. I'll say, probably Tzachor was "F127 it" with Gray, and never pushed too hard, or trying to make it work on screen. Still, he's the second case. Nahee De-Teige is probably the first in the class of school of wooden performance. And, he's somehow worse. |
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Post by GoseiYellow on May 27, 2022 20:02:20 GMT -5
Also, I'm saying that it's not entirely Andrew's or the other cast members' fault that the season was shit. Like crossranger said, half of the fault was the direction. I mean come on, they're just actors working on the show. I don't mean to sound so petty and all, but I just don't like it when people shit on first-time actors. It's not like they're going to be professionals overnight.
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Post by xman on May 28, 2022 1:37:27 GMT -5
…I really don’t get what y’all are even going on about. Andrew is a bad actor and delivered a terrible performance. Yes, the scripts they had to work with were bad, but people don’t sh*t on Ciara Hannah like this because unlike Andrew she was able to convincingly portray a human being. It's not like Ciara had a lot to work either. She has to stand and act cool. She had barely episodes centered about her. In comparison, Andrew has the weight of the storyline, and seems, at least James Bates hinted it, she was kind of on the fence of making friends and the responsability of being the leader. I guess it's too complex for a guy like Gray. He's too wooden, granted. But I think half of the fault is the direction. A probably good director can work with a bad actor, and take the best of it. JDF in the first season was barely a character, just a charisma void, and the directors made magic. He improved, mercifully, for us. I'll say, probably Tzachor was "F127 it" with Gray, and never pushed too hard, or trying to make it work on screen. Still, he's the second case. Nahee De-Teige is probably the first in the class of school of wooden performance. And, he's somehow worse. And I can see why Najee De-Tiege doesn't want to come back to the franchise. Unless, they decide to give him something better to do for his character returning as a possible mentor-character. But yeah, Ciara Hanna never really had a lot to work with from the beginning when she accepted the role of Gia Hammond. The only time she had anything to work with was in that one Dino MegaCharge short with Brennan Mejia and in that Power Rangers Legacy Wars Showdown short film with Jason David Frank and in Power Rangers Hyperforce. And that was it. |
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Post by Venusaur on May 30, 2022 14:59:15 GMT -5
…I really don’t get what y’all are even going on about. Andrew is a bad actor and delivered a terrible performance. Yes, the scripts they had to work with were bad, but people don’t sh*t on Ciara Hannah like this because unlike Andrew she was able to convincingly portray a human being. QFT You can only blame the direction of the show so much. Ciara Hannah did a solid job despite being given a nothing character. Had they stuck with James Bates original plan, of Troy being an Army Brat who was a loner from moving around a lot and would be discovered to be the Chosen One who was connected to the Morphing Grid, I doubt Gray would have given a better performance. He was hired because he was a pretty boy martial artist who was willing to work for Saban's low wages. |
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Post by Sh Ranger on May 30, 2022 15:21:37 GMT -5
As one of the few people who enjoyed both Mega Force and Super Mega Force, it makes me sad that even today, almost 10 years later, there are people who constantly talk trash about it. While I will admit that Troy's arc could've been handled better in SMF, I genuinely believe he was an intriguing character and I fondly recall his bad*ss fight against Creepox. I praise Ozawa for showing the respect Andrew deserves and encouraging others to do the same. That was a really cool thing to do.
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