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Post by iceranger32 on Dec 19, 2017 8:42:37 GMT -5
Yeah, there is no denying that. JDF actually mentioned that both Disney and Saban were similar in that aspect in that they were just cheap, which is why he didn't reprise his role in any of the SPD/Dino Thunder crossover was because he would have had to pay for his own ticket to fly to New Zealand and back.
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Post by xman on Dec 20, 2017 10:19:27 GMT -5
Justin... Heres why I thought it was a good idea, mainly because every little kid wanted to be a ranger and with PR losing ratings. Why not add a kid. At that time that made perfect sense Yeah, I may have to disagree with you on that one. I didn't think it was a good idea to have a child character become a Power Ranger on TV back in the 1990's. Mainly because back then and this may also occur to the inclusion of the Junior Ghostbusters in the Real Ghostbusters TV series and the character of Zack, the "5th" ninja turtle in the 1987 TMNT animated series...kids at the time did not want to see kids in their favorite TV shows about the adult superheroes. Nor did they wanted to be the kid character that is now in the show taking away the focus from the main adult heroes. They wanted to be the adult heroes, not be saved by them. Hell, that was pretty much the main reason why fans of Sailor Moon didn't like the character of Chibi-Usa ("Rini") in the original anime, because they all thought she was annoying, back then. That is pretty much what everyone else thought about Justin's character back then. But nowadays, it's like you can't the child character seriously if the show keeps pandering to the lowest common denominator by making him feel like the only competent character in the show to follow and all the other older characters are now inept individuals. Now story-wise, it doesn't make any sense to have a child be drafted into becoming a soldier to fight against rubber-suited monsters and pilot giant-monsters, unless it's like some kind of a cursed fate or in the case of Dairanger with what happened to Kou at a younger age. But I ain't gonna dig deep on that story element. However, business decision-wise...yeah, from what I have heard, this was definitely Levi's idea to include a child actor as part of the main Turbo cast because at the time, Bid Bad Beetleborgs was already stealing viewers away from Power Rangers. In which, ironically. The concept of making kids into their favorite superheroes worked better in Beetleborgs than it did in Power Rangers, because unlike Power Rangers Turbo, the kids in the show were not being drafted into fighting some intergalatic war against space aliens or space pirates, etc.They were just three average kids who loved reading comic books and were now suddenly granted a wish into becoming their favorite superheroes from one of the most popular comic book series, by freeing a phantasm from his captivity and just playing around with some monsters in a haunted house. But somehow the villains from that same comic book series got out and now the kids have to use their new super powers to send them back into the comics. So that's about it. I mean, it probably was not the right time to have a child actor included into the main cast of Power Rangers back in the late 1990's. But, I am not sure how child labor laws worked back then. Even if they were trying to compete against another Saban-produced TV show that had the same idea of mixing in stock footage with American footage as Power Rangers did, but with better ideas into making kids becoming their favorite superheroes in live-action. But I digress. I mean, the first half of Turbo was just boring with the old cast still being around. But once they got the replacements in halfway through the season, I actually thought it was okay in the second half. Yet it didn't really felt like a lot has changed once Tommy, Adam, Tanya and Katherine handed in the Turbo powers to TJ, Carlos, Ashley and Cassie and now they had work with Justin still being the Blue Ranger. However, I did kind of noticed the sudden change in the show's tone as soon as Hillary Shepard Turner started to come in and replacing Carol Hoyt as Divatox and when Bulk and Skull reverted back into being humans, but suddenly not being part of the junior police force again. But, hey. At least it's not like in Carranger where literally everybody in that show was an idiot, except for Dappu.
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Post by purplecreator on Dec 20, 2017 10:51:15 GMT -5
I grew up on Real Ghostbusters. And the Junior Ghostbusters played a major role in several cases! Like Egon finally overcoming his fear of the Boogieman, which led to the demonic creature finally being trapped & put in the Containment Unit.
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Post by xman on Dec 20, 2017 11:04:52 GMT -5
Then there was the "Halloween II 1/2" episode in the post-syndicated episodes where they were drawing attention away from the main plot of that episode in which Samhein (not sure if I am spelling his name right) came back for revenge. But yeah, the previous episode where the Junior Ghostbusters helped Egon overcome his fear of the Boogie Man, well. It's not really a good introduction of the Junior Ghostbusters' characters because it felt like we just skipped an episode that actually introduced them as being fleshed-out characters, but it just "meh!" in my opinion.
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Post by purplecreator on Dec 20, 2017 21:11:34 GMT -5
It's Samhain. They also helped Slimer recapture the Sleaze.
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Post by fuferthought on Dec 21, 2017 9:23:52 GMT -5
Power Rangers and Ghost Busters are very different. In 1996 Kids really didnt care about characters. It was about delivery. When you brung up Beetleborgs I cringed. Everything about that show was horrible. It was too kid friendly. Turbo wasnt. I couldnt stand Beetleborgs because it was like Power Rangers... but cheaper!! Same with VR troopers. But I will say VR troopers was better and Mask Rider being the better series of those two. (getting off subject!...lol) Story wise putting him in High School really didnt make sense. But I get it. I dont watch the Sentai Footage so I cant agree or disagree. But I know coming from Power Rangers mouths themselves they said the did it for ratings. Cause Zeo ratings were going down the tube. Zeo was actually suppose to be a movie. That Turbo switch was horrible by the way... lol I couldnt stand Alphas voice Dimitria trying to be Zordon answering everything with a question.. God I hated that. I did like the new characters though. TJ, Cassie and Carlos held it down. I wouldnt have mind Justin leaving that series but since they kinda made the series around him... I understand that angle knowing Saban couldnt call his old rangers back. (Besides Jason)
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Post by redsurge on Dec 21, 2017 15:07:21 GMT -5
I just saw this video and I was a bit stunned that the finale of Dino Super Charge didn't make on this list. I decided to be an adult unlike some other fanbase members and if you think about it, the finale makes sense if the season takes place in it's own alternate continuity. Even with Sledge in Super Ninja Steel, which could be a dimension hopping incident.
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Post by purplecreator on Dec 21, 2017 15:29:23 GMT -5
Ghostbusters aired in the mid 80s to early 90s.
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Post by xman on Dec 21, 2017 21:47:39 GMT -5
I just saw this video and I was a bit stunned that the finale of Dino Super Charge didn't make on this list. I decided to be an adult unlike some other fanbase members and if you think about it, the finale makes sense if the season takes place in it's own alternate continuity. Even with Sledge in Super Ninja Steel, which could be a dimension hopping incident. Oh yeah....parallel dimension rifts. Yeah...oh God, I am having Super Hero Taisen (2012) flashbacks!!!! ONORE SHOJI YOUNEMURA!!!!!But yeah, about why I disappointed that the finale of Dino Super Charge didn't make it on the list. I was hoping that the people of WatchMojo would cover that as a fail because of how many fans assumed that the entire series of Dino Charge/Dino Super Charge was going part of the same universe as all the other past seasons were, except for RPM. And since the finale was about to start up some real controvery about the established continuity of Power Rangers from Mighty Morphin' to today being wiped from existence. But, I guess not. In the end, "End of Extinction" was just a really, really, REALLY stupid-ass finale, and it just made the entire series of Dino Charge/Dino Super Charge feel utterly pointless because of how it just automatically hit the reset button and just made the Dino Charge rangers feel like they just wrote out all of their adventures and character growths for no reason. Now, it's like they just stumbled upon a dinosaur zoo, but with no actual experience working at a zoo. Jesus Christ, was that a really stupid finale, or what?! Even dumber than the series finale of "How I Met Your Mother", Kanen Rider Ryuki's TV finale and the finale of Twilight Breaking Dawn, Part II put together.
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