Power Rangers RPM

[Fundodo]

Yes, the two Heroes producers were late last year for constantly going over the $4M budget per episode. As it wasn't justified over-spending, they got the boot.

 

[Forever Knight]

Well according to FD:
The original EP was in charge of the amazing dark and complex plot for older audiences.
And This change in EP will make the first and second half dramatically different in regards to the quality of the story.

Well that's retarded. They should have kept him all the way through. Dark, Amazing, Complex plot is something PR needs.

granted, altough you and i must be watching two different shows becuse thats not what i see.

http://henshinjustice.net/forums/showthread.php?t=32002&page=2

No love for Conner?

Bah. The only Disney Reds that I enjoyed a bit were Shane & Casey. Other then that they are nothing compared to Saban's era Red Rangers. :buttrock:

 

[shadowhouou]

It seems like it's going to be like Turbo, in the sense that there was a tone change with the new Rangers.

 

[HenshinRenegade]

Eddie Guzelian is RPM's first EP? I hope to god he's not as bad as Kalish.

 

[Punk]

He's worked on Xiaolin Showdown, American Dragon: Jake Long, Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, Cinderella III: A Twist in Time, Kim Possible and Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot.

 

[Skyknight]

Eddie Guzelian is RPM's first EP? I hope to god he's not as bad as Kalish.

Kalish himself had his moments of good stuff before and during his stint on PR. From various interviews, it gives the impression he was complety ill-equipped for this kind of series so dependent on Sentai (his best episodes had barely any Sentai in it), and it looks like Eddie was to. Kalish became conceited in fandom interviews because PR is so hard to get around....Eddie simply reacted in a different way: He fired people who told him not to be overambitious.

Jackie's been around longer than anyone, she was there when Saban tried using Carranger for a serious PR season, and when Lynn was heartbroken about Timeranger's lack of any consistent real time travel (remember "Zordon's Legacy" was an in-progress script and was even counted on official episode guides at the time?), you can assume she tried telling Eddie "look, this Sentai's a comedy, it'll bite you in the ass eventually", and he took exception to it. By the time she was fired, Jackie was in a strong posistion of power, a co-producer (Bruce probably had a lot to do with that since Jackie was the PR continuity major and saved his ass on the later seasons), so Disney might have been pissed off they lost a reliable source of consistency

Eddie was a major animation writer and producer for some of Disney's best animated series, including Kim Possible and Filmore, losing him is a big deal.

It seems like it's going to be like Turbo, in the sense that there was a tone change with the new Rangers.

With Turbo, Lynn came on board knowing full well he couldnt do jack all with Carranger except to compliment it as much as possible, making Turbo a parody show with "straight men" leads, and the villains as the comedy releif. The new generation of Rangers fit into this perfectly.

 

[Punk]

So your saying Jackie warned Eddie about Go-Onger's kiddie storylines and he took exception to it and fired her?

 

[Skyknight]

Not saying it happened, but when you consider how many times comedy Sentai screws up serious Power Rangers, and how long Jackie's been there, it's possible

Look at the most acclaimed PR seasons. Abaranger is one of the closest instances of Sentai having a great POWER RANGERS series, the right kind of humour and drama in the right places, so it compliments Dinothunder and allowed it to be as as ambitious as it wanted to be without tripping up

Carranger was a parody series, and at the time, Sloan, Levi, and Saban wanted Power Rangers Zeo all over again, militeristic and dramatic. Couldnt work. Lynn took over, said "try and condense it", and Turbo had to shoot it's own footage to even get around making it serious when it had to be, but when the money needed saving? Just go full-swing with Carranger, but they had to keep the lead actors as the unfunny straight men who paniced at every OTT monster and the audience will buy it.

In Space pushed itself because everyone thought it was the final season. Whilst Megaranger complimented it in small parts, In Space is more an example of what PR looks like with a fire lit up it's ass than the source material inspiring it. That same influence propelled LG, the best defiance of Sentai PR ever had, but after that they allowed the Sentai to drive 'em again (Tzachor being budget-savvy, and Lynn being pissed off with him). TimeForce was the last straw for Lynn, he wasnt told Timeranger had no consistent time travel in advance by Toei. They had a movie prepared, but 9/11 slashed the budget...Timeranger actually could have been another Megaranger, with everyone ignoring it and just using the source material rarely (just go into the past but come back to the present for monster fights with the Zords), but Tzhachor was a money-man and Lynn left because of it.

 

[Punk]

The real kicker is that he got replaced by someone who's gonna make it lighthearted which is why Jackie could have left in the first place.

 

[Skyknight]

Considering most of the seasons she's been co-producer of have been light-hearted, I doubt that was the reason. Besides, most of the inside sources have all confirmed Jackie was fired by Eddie, which in turn gradually led to his own firing. He just didnt get along with anyone