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Shirohae
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WTH! BECKY G?! That Rapper/singer little girl?! omg lol
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Lili-Hime
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Little is right she's 4'11! Still it's awesome to see Latin people getting some casting!
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AnthonyC8
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Becky G?! Ahahahahahahahahaha
Yup, this movie is doomed! JK In all seriousness, I do like her but not as a power ranger. |
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Emerje
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Called it. I said after the last announcement that they'd go with a Latin American character to hit all of the regions of the world and there she is. Not really crazy about the forced diversity here, even the original Power Rangers didn't try being this PC in the 90s. They're trying way too hard, I don't have a good feeling about the direction they're going in.
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kachimanS
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we are now doomed
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Sume Gai
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Are you kidding me? Ignoring their casting flub in the first season Power Rangers has always had a diverse cast (ethnically) and loved to parrot the stock answers to social problems. Outside of the violence it was about as PC as you could be. |
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Kai99
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Yep, it never fails. 
Someone has to bring the "force diversity" line in. Personally, this Power Rangers reflect me and many other people's reality. I have asian, white, latino, and black friends and acquaintances. Wait until the movie comes out and criticize it on its story and how they handle characterizations, not how the film is trying to be diverse, which isn't surprising for Power Rangers. |
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TrustTheFungus
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Now there's only one question remaining...
Who's playing Bulk and Skull? |
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BadNewsBlues
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Johah Hill and Jay Baruchel 
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Lili-Hime
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First star wars now this; when will Hollywood stop their attack on white people???? |
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Wandering Samurai
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As a white person I really have to say certain people in certain fandoms blow things way out of the water. And I really hate when certain politics are brought into the arena. I personally do not care about the Star Wars casting, some people can't enjoy it for what it is. If it is good and entertaining, then I don't care about that. Can I just enjoy my Star Wars without the PC crowd and the anti-PC crowd ruining it for me? No wonder the country is as divided as it is. Now to what I was going to comment about in this article, I am amused how ANN has repeated the same line about Jason David Frank and his intention to cameo in the movie. This exact same line has been repeated in the last six or seven articles I have read about the movie. We get it, he's going to be in the movie some way or another. |
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MagusGuardian
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welp never heard of this girl, don't really care to be honest, and frankly after reading the new character bios they're all one big nasty mess away from being a pile of PTSD victims
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Lili-Hime
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@ Wandering Samurai
I fully agree it just bugs me when people see diverse casting and immediately assume it's the PC police shoving something down their throats. Let's face it; the power rangers came from the Captain Planet era of kid's tv and was intentionally diverse. This literally is following 100% in that tradition with a few changes (adding a latin character). Secondly the original show took place in SoCal (specifically in Anaheim area), where I'm from... and living there it is a very, very diverse area where you'll see people of every ethnicity on a daily basis. I literally used to eat at a Vietnamese restaurant that was sandwhiched between a Russian deli and an Argentinian restaurant, and down the street from a Japanese supermarket. |
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Emerje
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Yeah, see, it's the rest of you that seem to think Power Rangers was all about diversity from the start when it wasn't. The first several incarnations were always dominated by white characters and then two other ethnicities. They went with that formula for years. The amount of diversity you people are pretending existed didn't come about until years later.
But my complaint isn't that there aren't enough white people or Caucasian Americans in the cast. I've said it before, I'm not being racist or prejudice here. Two African Americans on the team or three Asians that's not the point. What I LOATHE is the cookie cutter diversity of each character being of a different ethnic background. It's an annoying idea. Unlike Captain Planet in which that kind of thing works being, you know, a planet wide team. But for Power Rangers, based in America, it seems unlikely that the five best Power Ranger candidates would be this diverse. Yes, I know I'm over thinking it, but I really hate it when they force stuff like this. Maybe if they had also changed the character names, but the damage is already done. Oh well, I wasn't expecting it to be any good in the first place. Emerje |
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enurtsol
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Let them just white-wash it and have a token black, then we can all make fun of it
While they're at it, make them all guys, instead of a token girl or two. Y'know they only have girls there to be PC and hook the guys and make girl viewers feel good, when we all know the best warriors are guys pound-for-pound; the probability is quite low that there'd be girls in a real 5-team special ops </g> |
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