I'll give you a personal account of why I and many would enjoy working at Saban.
I could discuss the value of paid television and how it should be valued by your children, (except for shows like iCarly and Victorious. Grr!) How my educational development did not develop much from my 90s television watching the Wayans brothers' terrible sex jokes on WB.
Cough cough but anyway.
Saban in general does not pay a lot. Ask Walter Emmanuel Jones and Austin St. John.
They pay for marketing. Being an iconic character, like Indiana Jones, Optimus Prime or the Red Ranger can definitely make you up there in the eyes of ones fans as seen in conventions such as Power Morphicon and using social media devices such as Facebook. If you can make it indie, you can make it big with your fans, if you can motivate.
However, that's the problem.
Saban does not provide for long term, high quality product and labor. There is a reason why you do not see Michael Fassbender and Jennifer Lawrence in long term Saban projects. (I do not know why I chose the brotherhood from X-Men: First Class as an example. It just happened that way!)
There's a reason there is few Travis Bickle's and Tiffany Maxwell's in Power Rangers. Power Rangers promotes a cheap product from the product purchased in Japan to the low budget "adapted scripts" of Power Rangers Samurai
And there's a good reason for that.
Saban would rather choose a pool that is heavy in supply and low in demand rather than a product that is high in demand and low in supply.
I'll give you a personal experience of mine. I used to work at Walt Disney World. TWICE.
There's people who love working there who would never leave.
There's also people who left.
They found better pay somewhere else that despite not being as fun (yet tolerable) they moved on to different places.
Don't take my word for it. Ask Eka Darville and Walter Emmanuel Jones. WEJ refuses to go back to Power Rangers unless Power Rangers goes Screen Actors Guild.
Maybe because of low aspirations or whatever, some agents and actors fall into the trap of thinking of small ponds, like Saban instead of big ponds like blockbusters or the Academy Awards to hope to make it big, like I did in Disney to attempt to make it big in a corporate structure.
We live in a world of salaries, not loyalty. Of salary auctions an marketing or selling yourself, as wage slaves and power slaves. Maybe they do live life better than we do, despite all the bad fame and criticism the role obtains, at least they get child fans (some gravely sick) that they can make happy. Despite all our criticisms, maybe there is something great in all the madness that is Hollywood anyway?
I hope to do better than the Wayans brothers at least..
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