Saturday, December 13, 2014

An alternative to Saban Brands Ameritoku scheduling Part 1: a business that doesn't respond to art, critics or money

(Neo) Saban Brands shows... have sucked. Their idea to resign with Nickelodeon was a horrible decision. And there may be a saving grace with Judd Lynn, although the theme song is already screwed up with the lyrics "Rangers Together!" demonstrating an ignorance of what fans actually like or associate with this genre.

However, let's not talk about that. Let's just talk about how they decided to adapt stuff Shinkenger and beyond.
They had an opportunity to have another show, such as Masked Rider Decade after purchasing the Decade-Shinkenger footage. Missed opportunity there.

They then decided to adapt Goseiger and Gokaiger into one season. I liked the Morphin-Zeo idea, albeit, why would you make the most popular season of Super Sentai ever into only one half a series, a twenty episode one at that?
Not only to mention, you technically start the twentieth anniversary season without the actual teamup specials from the Gokaiger series, since you start with Goseiger.
We can go on about the many story flaws in the season, but again, that's not the point here.
Just how you scheduled the adaptation doesn't make sense from a marketing perspective.
Saban said they wanted to appeal to both new and old fans, a demographic crisis and case study we may or may not explore later and the schedule doesn't make sense.

Saban then purposely discontinued a series that I didn't like, but many others did, Tokumei Sentai Go-busters, because they were behind in the schedule and for whatever reason, possibly since Jurassic World was coming out, wanted to adapt Kyoryuger ahead of their terrible Nickelodeon two seasons of twenty episodes. They sell less toys this way, and don't invigorate a product they already have lots of fans hating the original half a season in the first place, following up with an even worse second half a season.

Onto an alternative I have for the season.

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