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More Eddie so that we don't end up with a megazord-sized post:

Originally Posted by EddieGuzelian99

Thanks for the warm welcome. I also really wish I could have finished the season, too.

Feel free to ask me anything and I'll do my best to answer.

Originally Posted by EddieGuzelian99

Thank you.

Regardless of whether or not you ultimately like the show, or hate it, or come to believe that I was completely incompetent, I really appreciate you voicing that very basic and human sentiment.

I worked my guts out on the show and put my whole heart into it. Being replaced in mid-season like that was heartbreaking.

Originally Posted by EddieGuzelian99

Hello. Thanks so much for the welcome.

1. No, those reports are not true. I have never met Chip and I have no problem with him. I sincerely wish him the best and hope he can finish up the season on a high note. I think he was put in a very tough situation, one where it was almost impossible for him to not come across as the bad guy. I feel like Disney only made things harder for him by not bothering to get my ideas for the end of the season, ideas I would have been happy to share, even if he ultimately wanted to chuck them and pursue a different direction.

If Disney had been more open and honest with me in the way they handled my termination, I feel I could have even called/emailed the cast and crew and vouched for Chip in the spirit of "passing of the EP torch." The way Disney managed the whole situation was bad for Chip, bad for me, and bad for the show.

The stories that I refused to hire Chip at the beginning of the season are true. But I never accused him of scabbing and have no first-hand knowledge of him writing during the strike. When I was first hired, the show's writing staff came to me and told me that they were upset because Disney was planning to give a freelance script to a writer who had written on the previous season of the show while they were walking the picket lines. I never threw any tantrums or even made any judgements about the whole affair, only told Disney that I was concerned that using him would be disrespectful to the writing staff. I had no idea that this person was Judd Lynn, a name I would have recognized from watching the show. I only heard him called "Chip." And if I had known who it was, I still would have refused to hire him because it was clearly something that the writers on the show felt strongly about and I didn't blame them.

2. I watched the show pretty regularly during the old days, back in the 90s. I just loved the general spirit and fun of the series. I was working in animation and the show just seemed so unlike anything else that was out there. When I was hired onto the show, I went back and watched everything I could. My whole DVR was packed with the recent seasons of the show.

Ultimately, I came to believe that the show was in desperate need of a real change, a shot in the arm. It's not even that I felt the show was bad or anything like that. There were elements in all the seasons, including Jungle Fury, that I really liked. It had more to do with the simple fact that the show was feeling tired after having been on the air for so many seasons. There were times it felt like the characters were just going through the motions, sleep walking, and it felt like somewhere along the way, the audience had fallen asleep along with them.

For better or worse, I decided that I wanted to do something that would literally reach out through the TV screen and slap viewers across the face.

Originally Posted by EddieGuzelian99

Hello--thanks for the kind words.

I'm glad everyone seems so excited about the show and I hope the hardcore fans will keep an open mind since it's definitely something different.

I'm afraid I'm in no position to tell you what it's like to produce a PR season. I can tell you exactly what it's like to produce HALF a season, if that interests you?

The show is completely insane. Even under normal circumstances, it's a ridiculous amount of work for one person to do. In my case, it was even harder because I was sent by Disney with the specific mandate to drastically change the show, an operation that has been chugging along for years and years and is run more like a large government bureaucracy than a television production.

Watching and figuring out how to use the Sentai footage was all new territory for me and I think I was just getting the hang of it at the time of my termination. I would generally watch the footage and look for parts that were clear "character moments" to build a story around. For example, if Green does something special during a fight, I would start to think about an entire episode that could be built that would use that footage as a pivotal moment. If these moments didn't exist in the footage, you would have to look for ways to manipulate the footage and create the moment.

I am a big fan of Asian cinema, so when I was first approached about doing the show, it seemed to make sense to me to do a more straight-forward adaptation of the Sentai material. But when I sat down and watched it, it soon became clear that this would not be possible. The story-telling sensibilities were just way too different. Plus, I quickly realized that the Go-Onger series skewed EXTREMELY young and Disney was pushing me to use that footage in a way that would appeal to a slightly older audience.