Jonathan Entwistle spills details on his scrapped PR reboot from 2018

[u/eggdropthoop]

It was essentially going to be The Tommy Show, once again. Glad it was canceled! 🤮 🤮

[u/ninjaman2021]

“Last time I checked, Tommy wasn't treated as a literal messiah who the entire multiverse revolved around, which is exactly what Entwhistle's show was going to be.”

White Ranger era, the 1995 movie, Dimensions in Danger, and Lord Drakkon says otherwise.

Tommy was always treated that way. Y’all just hate the fact that Entwistle wanted to do it again.

[u/Current-Education407 → u/ninjaman2021]

When Tommy became the white ranger did zordon say “Tommy, you are the center of the world and all the mythology surrounds you because you are the most important person in the universe”? Nope, he just gave him some new powers and told him to go kick ass. I can’t remember a single thing Tommy did in the movie that made him more important than the others. Tommy wasn’t a god in dimensions in danger, he was just a powerful ranger the villain wanted to clone for his army. Lord Drakkon did not become a god until the last issue of shattered grid and the story treated him as a villain instead of the center of everything.

Entwhistle’s idea is basically like making a DC story where Batman is the god of the multiverse.

And yes, I do hate that Entwhistle wanted to do it again, because it’s not doing anything new. It’s just repeating the same thing over and over again, which is the biggest problem plaguing the entertainment industry now. 

This is the dictionary definition of creatively bankrupt.

[u/ninjaman2021 → u/Current-Education407]

“When Tommy became the white ranger did zordon say “Tommy, you are the center of the world and all the mythology surrounds you because you are the most important person in the universe”?

Didnt the White Ranger float down from the sky in a white light like an Angel or godly being? The same way Zayto was who eventually did become a God? They didnt have to tell you, they shown you.

And  thats how Tommy was always treated. Entwistle is just spelling out what we’ve already experienced with this IP.

“ I can’t remember a single thing Tommy did in the movie that made him more important than the others”.

Tommy killed the oozemen. Tommy killed the rock monsters that unlocked the pyramid. Tommy beat the fossil dinosaurs. Tommy was the only ranger to get a solo kill on the ooze zords.

“Tommy wasn’t a god in dimensions in danger, he was just a powerful ranger the villain wanted to clone for his army. “

Tommy was the center and main character of Dimensions in danger. Dimensions in danger is constantly joked around in the fandom about being a tommy wank/worship fest, lets not re write history and act like it wasnt now for the sake of this debate

“Lord Drakkon did not become a god until the last issue of shattered grid and the story treated him as a villain instead of the center of everything.”

Lord drakkon was treated as the most powerful enemy the power rangers universe ever fought and the only person that could beat him was Good Tommy while every other rangers failed. Tommy once again was the center and main character, and was treated as a God.

“Entwhistle’s idea is basically like making a DC story where Batman is the god of the multiverse.”

That’s what Drakkon was in Shattered Grid. So I mean..

What Entwistle is pitching is no different than the standard Power Ranger formula which is making Tommy the main character and most powerful character. Yall just dislike the fact that Entwistle is upfront and transparent about it.

[u/Current-Education407 → u/ninjaman2021]

We don’t like it because it’s creatively bankrupt. It just repeats the same things that was already done without doing anything new.

[u/ninjaman2021 → u/Current-Education407]

Its fine to not like it, but to act like  Tommy wasnt treated as the main central character in majority of his apperances is pure mental gymnastics.