• thermal_shock@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        And the blue one was gay, got a lot of hate from the other actors. Yellow one was Asian. 90s was weird man.

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          The official story that the Red Ranger being a Native American, the Yellow Ranger being Asian, etc… being an accident is plausible enough. Sure. Maybe someone who was involved with casting thought it would be funny and didn’t tell anyone?

          Harassing the gay actor out of the production should be the thing more people talk about.

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        Black ranger was part of the OG rangers. White ranger was a Johnny come lately hanger on. I thought this as a 13 year old kid when that season came out.

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          Are you?

          None of those character designs had any racist imagery, to suggest that it’s something to do with “white power” is seriously reaching because you want to be offended by something.

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        The footage of them in full face obscuring costumes, along with the mecha, is mostly straight from various Japanese shows, overdubbed into English. The US production company got Japan to shoot a little bit of extra content when Mighty Morphin Power Rangers became a smash hit, before they started rotating to other Japanese series to take footage from. You can make more money off of the toys, anyway, if you have new action figures and mechs every year.