Amit Bhaumik - Forever Red: Ten Years Later

[Fury Diamond]

Amit Bhaumik writes an EPIC blog post about Forever Red. This is a MUST read.

http://amitbhaumik.tumblr.com/post/23720894324/forever-red-ten-years-later

[Andros]

Very interesting! Thanks for the link Fury!

[TheSilentWatcher]

Oh wow, so Dark Spector was considered. That would have been pretty damn interesting.

Great read, glad Amit did this.

Also, love this last line:
"As we approach season 20 of this phenomenon, here’s hoping we see more excellent moments to remember."

[AFPR-DragonRanger]

They sure liked the idea of Max volunteering to join in. Seems to be in every version but the final product.

I'm glad Dark Specter wasn't brought back. I liked the way he went out, and the volcano scenes feel like too much of a direct retread of the Turbo movie.

[alpona]

this is very nice .

[Digifiend]

TJ was meant to have not heard of Lightspeed Rescue? How is that possible, their identities were public knowledge, so he should not only have heard of them, he should already have known Carter was a ranger. I'm glad they changed that.

[Cameron Samurai]

The Kony reference cracked me up

[Mr. CD]

TJ was meant to have not heard of Lightspeed Rescue? How is that possible, their identities were public knowledge, so he should not only have heard of them, he should already have known Carter was a ranger. I'm glad they changed that.

Their identities may have been known, but it wasn't like the Lightspeed Rangers were celebraties.

[Fury Diamond]

If you have any questions about the article, don't forget to hit up Amit from his page.

[mmpr grove]

I didn't bother to read it. I can't make out a whole single line of his chicken scratch!

[Zeo Ranger IX]

I like the swipes he takes at "unreliable sources" within the PR community.

[TheDarkKnight]

TJ was meant to have not heard of Lightspeed Rescue? How is that possible, their identities were public knowledge, so he should not only have heard of them, he should already have known Carter was a ranger. I'm glad they changed that.

First draft....

[Digifiend]

^It was the second draft actually. They must've noticed the continuity issue, so when they rewrote it, they fixed it, implying that Carter and TJ had heard of each other before. Carter was the one who introduced TJ and revealed his previously unheard first and middle names. In fact, the final version seems to acknowledge that the Lightspeed Rangers are publicly known (Carter also recruits Cole, who was a rare person with a good excuse for not knowing about Lightspeed), but forgets that the events of Countdown to Destruction mean that TJ's identity is public knowledge too, so his introduction shouldn't have been necessary in universe.

[Mr. CD]

Carter was introducing TJ to Cole (and the audience), who probably wouldn't have even known about C2D.

[TheDarkKnight]

^It was the second draft actually. They must've noticed the continuity issue, so when they rewrote it, they fixed it, implying that Carter and TJ had heard of each other before. Carter was the one who introduced TJ and revealed his previously unheard first and middle names. In fact, the final version seems to acknowledge that the Lightspeed Rangers are publicly known (Carter also recruits Cole, who was a rare person with a good excuse for not knowing about Lightspeed), but forgets that the events of Countdown to Destruction mean that TJ's identity is public knowledge too, so his introduction shouldn't have been necessary in universe.

First, second, whatever. My point was it's pretty lame to bash an early draft "mistake" when it was obviously "corrected" by the time the story was fleshed out.

[Lonewolf92]

^It was the second draft actually. They must've noticed the continuity issue, so when they rewrote it, they fixed it, implying that Carter and TJ had heard of each other before. Carter was the one who introduced TJ and revealed his previously unheard first and middle names. In fact, the final version seems to acknowledge that the Lightspeed Rangers are publicly known (Carter also recruits Cole, who was a rare person with a good excuse for not knowing about Lightspeed), but forgets that the events of Countdown to Destruction mean that TJ's identity is public knowledge too, so his introduction shouldn't have been necessary in universe.

His identity as Blue Space Ranger is public knowledge, not Red Turbo.

[mmpr grove]

I like the swipes he takes at "unreliable sources" within the PR community.


This pretty much confirms the rumor of "Admit and Trazor going out of their way to deconstruct theories and things said by popular/known fandom members, so they can recon things heavily by megaforce's premiere date"

[Quark]

...Megaforce is going to incorporate past continuity?

[mmpr grove]

it should at least drop hints if the season really is the pirate adaption...

[Digifiend]

His identity as Blue Space Ranger is public knowledge, not Red Turbo.His designation isn't important. TJ is world famous as a Power Ranger, therefore, all the other rangers (except Cole) should know who he is. That was my point.

[Hears All]

Good read, thanks for posting. Although I would have liked to hear his reasons why Cole destroyed Serpentera with a bike. Yes, I know the bike was given to him by a God or something like that...but it was anti-climactic and stupid as hell to watch

[Digifiend]

We already know the reason - Bandai mandate.

[Hears All]

^

Would have still like to heard what he thought, I imagine he wasn't happy with it

[Captain Platypus]

It got his episode made. I imagine he put on the colored lipstick and felated whoever the heck he had to in order to ensure FR happened

[mnikolic]

Unfortunatelly, that is true. Which is sad. True, bad sad. Very sad.

[Captain Platypus]

Why is it sad? That's how these sorts of things work. No one is going to back a movie based on artistic integrity. You have to promise something in return for a pet project, whether product placement or placing someone's idiot nephew in the cast

[Quark]

Spy Kids...

[Captain Platypus]

Spy kids WAS the pet project. I'll let you ruminate on that

[TheDarkKnight]

His designation isn't important. TJ is world famous as a Power Ranger, therefore, all the other rangers (except Cole) should know who he is. That was my point.

Except there is no point because T.J. was being introduced to Cole, which as you yourself point out, has a good excuse for not knowing who he is.

[Citrus]

Threads like this are why I love RangerCrew.


Spy kids WAS the pet project. I'll let you ruminate on that

Wait, what? I did some digging but to no avail. Care to explain?