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Interview with David Yost
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Totally agreed.
Keith Justice
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MattComix
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There's a degree with which I understand that and there's something to be said for growing up with the characters or in Billy's case see him go from the "nerdy one" to someone more sure of himself and all that.
But 45-50 episodes is more than enough time to build attachments to characters and ending it avoids stuff like having to sell going from a mastadon to a frog as an upgrade. Without Sentai PR does not exist and Sentai shows have endings rather than stretching out and diluting the original concept until it becomes a big convoluted mess where guys with dinosaur based powers are eventually powered by cars and the producers are left trying to make footage of a comedy show work with the tone and world they've already established.
Sticking with the same cast was idiocy from day one and frankly there are a lot of american shows that could have benefited from shorter episode counts. For example 10 years Smallville is absolutely absurd and is entirely dependent on keeping the main character stuck in neutral long passed the point where it makes any sense to and putting everyone else through utter nonsense, bringing characters in to the legend too early just to keep it going.
Sometimes when you keep going with something then it no longer makes any sense as a story or a life. Plus in terms of the characters I enjoy the idea that there comes a day when their fight is over and they can move on having been made better and stronger for what they went through. You could have done that kind of evolution for a character like Billy in the standard episode count of Sentai series just fine you just wouldn't of had time to milk it and pile-on multiple unrelated sets of powers.
Keith Justice
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DAVID YOST!!!! :bawling:
Keith Justice
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Ugh... I can't believe they'd do that to him, but................. I hugely regret to say in the early 90's I still didn't know any fucking better either.
Ugh... yeah........ I grew up Catholic so gay was not okay until a certain Star Trek: The Next Generation episode set me straight on the matter(true story).
Hearing his plight has me ashamed I was ever that way.
Ugh... yeah........ I grew up Catholic so gay was not okay until a certain Star Trek: The Next Generation episode set me straight on the matter(true story).
Hearing his plight has me ashamed I was ever that way.
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Skyknight
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Thanks for proving you know **** all about Smallville...IT WAS NEVER INTENDED TO BE AN OUT-AND-OUT PREQUEL SERIES, stop trying to pin "Oh this is too early and that is too early" when it's writers decided a while ago to make it an A-1 Superman series that leads to the building of a legend as the culmination of the journey, it's a different interpretation and to denounce it's evolution just because it doesnt fit a genre stigma is idiotic on your part.
What you think is "absurd", many others find new and expansive...but hey, your avatar alone shows how stubborn and conservative you are to new ideas, so it's not like your opinion matters.
That is complete horseshit and you know it.
In some ways, maintaining the same characters going through stages of their life in the drama reflects "life" in a more fantastical manner and builds up long term fan devotion and investment. To hell with what's good for "story", ALL long-running series eventually have to depend on character over situation. Even series with short episode count runs rely on this practise.
If you're not watching for character, why the **** are you even watching at all? Stories can be told with anyone, characters are a different bag as they inject fresh perspective into a story told a billion times.
Frankly, if the choice is between "ongoing and character developed" to "grimdark bloodthirsty plots that ramble on for 50 episodes", I pick the former.
Sticking with the same cast MADE MMPR. And you can lie to yourself in the mirror, but you know it's true.
Inui Takumi
The Ends JustiΦ's the Means
Man, I had to watch the interview twice cuz it was so good. David Yost definitely is one of the more respectable cast members of PR. To have to put up with that for so many years, and from the creators, producers, directors, and writers? damn. I'm glad he left when he did. It would have been terrible if it went the way he thought it would go. I'm glad he found peace and is able to move on. He got a lot of respect from me, and on the flipside, some of the crew lost a lot from me. That's just so messed up. Now it makes sense why it took him a while to talk about his PR years.
But, it does pose a small question. I remember at the first PMC, Austin St. John talkin about doin a prank on him where they held him down while he was asleep and wrote things on his face with a sharpie. He never said what he wrote, but it makes me think if it was something that may have contributed to this somehow. I'd like to think it didnt, but its one of those things that we will never know. And again, he never said that any of the cast said anything offensive to him, so that's sort of a good sign.
But, it does pose a small question. I remember at the first PMC, Austin St. John talkin about doin a prank on him where they held him down while he was asleep and wrote things on his face with a sharpie. He never said what he wrote, but it makes me think if it was something that may have contributed to this somehow. I'd like to think it didnt, but its one of those things that we will never know. And again, he never said that any of the cast said anything offensive to him, so that's sort of a good sign.
Keith Justice
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Dude, your tone here is so out of line that my jaw is on the floor. What is the point of even posting this when it makes people not want to talk to you?
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