Power Rangers MegaForce 2013 - (Info in the First Post)

[Kivat]

For whatever reason, I can't imagine him playing Gosei Red and Gokai Red. Hopefully he has some solid acting skills.

Whoever they cast will be rangers for the next 4 years....Scary thought.

4? I thought it was 2? I know it's Olympic season and all, but that should NOT be applied to PR.

 

[Mr. Yellow]

4 years? No, Megaforce is two seasons.

 

[Dark Kabuto]

Big news! According to RangerCrew, Andrew Gray here is our Red Ranger:

ModelMayhem

http://www.rangercrew.com/forum/sho...e-Casting-II&p=1003171&viewfull=1#post1003171

IMO, I think he'd make an good alata counter part but I'm not seeing a Marvellous in him.

 

[Stryks]

Wouldnt make much sense to make the megaforce team into the gokaiger team.

From what I've seen goseiblack (since they'll use the footage from the sentai of course) is a tough-like character, gokai green is, well, nothing like that

plus why would they go from an animal theme rangers who are guided by a giant head to pirates of all things?

They'll just pick a new team for the gokaiger adaptation, hell I wouldn't be surprised if they followed the same plot because it works so well

 

[Punk]

4? I thought it was 2? I know it's Olympic season and all, but that should NOT be applied to PR.

Two years for Megaforce, Two years for Gokaiger. Unless, I'm wrong there won't be a new cast for the Gokaiger season either. It will be the same cast.

-Megaforce (Goseiger)

-"Super Megaforce" (Goseiger/Gokaiger)

-Gokaiger

-Super Gokaiger?

The "Super" crap is obviously the placeholder...We hope.

 

[Mr. Yellow]

They're using Gokaiger footage for season two of Megaforce.

 

[Chikara]

IMO, I think he'd make an good alata counter part but I'm not seeing a Marvellous in him.

I've never seen Goseiger, but I do see Marvelous in him. Probably cause of his lips. lol

Many people believe Colorblindness is a nice representation of racial harmony, but that isn't the case.



Having Rangers of color doesn't mean their portrayal won't be problematic, nor they would receive equal focus. It might not be explicit, but one of the coded message would be the white Rangers are more important.



Ah, yeah that's sexism. The fact that it's a boy franchise doesn't change that. If the women characters actually don't matter, why are the white women Rangers given more focus?



No, you are thinking of prejudice. People of color can be prejudiced against white people, but racism are the institutions and structures that facilitate, conscious and unconscious, that the vast majority of media is very pale and very male. I'm a white person, but there are legitimate issues with how the west currently controls the world. Most activists who say this don't have issue with individual white people, just the structures that privilege people like me (I'm disabled and working class, but that's another can of worms).

I'm surprised to learn you're white being this passionate about discussing racial issues. A lot of white people usually go off on a tangent for obvious reasons when the topic comes up. The "Colorblindness" mentality is just as stupid as the one-drop theory. A person is lying through their teeth when they say they don't see color. Any person who says that just wants to avoid talking about the real issue.

Isn't Erika Fong Korean?

Erika Fong is half-Korean and half-Chinese.

 

[The Analyzer]

I'm surprised to learn you're white being this passionate about discussing racial issues. A lot of white people usually go off on a tangent for obvious reasons when the topic comes up. The "Colorblindness" mentality is just as stupid as the one-drop theory. A person is lying through their teeth when they say they don't see color. Any person who says that just wants to avoid talking about the real issue.

I don't know how I got that streak. I just started reading more books and blogs by nondominant groups about checking my privilege. As a white person, I still have some blind spots, though, so call me out if I'm ever talking out of my ass.

So the Red Ranger's white again this year...okay, but I hope Saban cast Leaders of color. I know some casting people say that they just select the ones who could act best, but when that often comes to white people, yeah. Anyway, I hope he can act well and is a descent person.

 

[Kivat]

Erika Fong is half-Korean and half-Chinese.

I knew she had a good amount of Chinese in her...and Korean, the one country I was in denial of her being is what she is. lol Of course.

 

[Burkion]

I don't know how I got that streak. I just started reading more books and blogs by nondominant groups about checking my privilege. As a white person, I still have some blind spots, though, so call me out if I'm ever talking out of my ass.

So the Red Ranger's white again this year...okay, but I hope Saban cast Leaders of color. I know some casting people say that they just select the ones who could act best, but when that often comes to white people, yeah. Anyway, I hope he can act well and is a descent person.

You can come off as highly over bearing at times, honestly.

That and you tend to focus on the black characters a bit too much.


You brought up Scott VS Dillion as an example, but that's a loaded one if there ever was one.

Think of it like this. Flip the situation. Dillion has Scott's actor, Scott has Dillion's.

This would logically switch the races of their families.

That would then make the big badass leader of Corinith a white guy while the only human villainess is........that's right, black. (And, you know, Dillion, black guy, would have been the Black Ranger and...)

UNFORTUNATE IMPLICATIONS HO!

And that's ignoring the original intent behind Dillion as a character, that being the final body for the Big Bad who was to die.


And that's also ignoring the fact that, from top to bottom, it's a weak-ass argument because......!

Nick!

Mystic Force!

The same damn show I keep mentioning.

Nick got more focus, despite being a person of color, than anyone else in the entire show, to the point where several fans know nothing about the other Rangers outside the most stereotypical of things, and know nothing about one in particular.

Hell Scott was a great character, and the only one who returned for the team up with Samurai.

You focus a bit too much on one aspect.

And I've already touched on how it doesn't really matter what race you are in the series, what matters is what color you're playing. ...which sounds terrible but you know what I mean.

You brought up Scott, again, but at least Scott was the leader and had some serious focus episodes and did some amazing things. In the end, he did far more than Dillion.

You bring up how the girls of color don't get as much focus as the white girls, but that's also bullshit.


Ignoring Kimberly, who pretty much had to have focus and development just from being around for as long as she was, we have Jen for getting lots and lots of focus that her counter part didn't get and....

That's about it!

Generally they got equal focus (as in, barely any, but that is a topic of sexism, not racism) or else it was a season like Overdrive or Mystic Force, where the Red Ranger got all the love.


Are things great the way they are now? No.

Are they better than they could be? Yes.

Could they be improved? Oh MY yes.



Though I will point out one thing you got wrong in the above. Specifically...

So the Red Ranger's white again this year...okay, but I hope Saban cast Leaders of color.

I'm fairly certain this guy is Hispanic, actually. What that means to what he considers himself, and what his character is (As noted, Z Delgado was a Hispanic character, but I do not believe her actress was) leaves things up in the air in that regard, similar to how the most likely choice for Pink is half Asian.