the optics might not have been the best but walter and thuy were amazing as power rangers
this post was submitted on 09 Apr 2025
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Should have cast a russian as the red ranger. I mean if you're ALREADY being racist....
You could cast a person with depression as the blue ranger. Oh....I see you have that covered. And a female sex symbol as the pink ranger. Oh, thats covered too.
If you're going to go full racist, red wouldn't be Russian. They'd be native American.
It could be either. I was thinking red scare communists, since the show was just after the fall of the soviet union.
But your way works too.
Hmm...
tldr Saban didnt want unionized actors and went out of their way to cast functionally nobodies for the lowest price. Its why after this dispute, it was much less common for cast members to be retained for the next season. Outside of Jason David Frank and Johnny Yong Bosch, it was much more rare for any ex cast member to return in a series several series later.
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I have a vague memory that the original show from Japan had a man in the yellow costume and when it was adapted for American audiences they wanted yellow to be a woman. This lead to a effectively trans character because of an occasionally noticeable bulge.
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“asshole move made with full awareness” is probably a better term than “mistake”
Related key & peele skit https://youtu.be/mOyE_l80D4Y
Still one of my wifes favorite sketches of theirs.
The pink for girl and blue for boy was there too.
Is red the odd one out?
/s (not sarcasm towards racism, but about the way producers were thinking)