Do you change the secret identity of Superman just because you make a new series (Smallville) NO!!!!!
Do you change the secret identity of Batman or Spiderman, again NO!!!
So why did they change the secret identity of "The Lone Ranger"??? His secret identity is not Luke Hartman!!!!!!!!!! It is John Reid!!!!!!!!
You change other things like Tonto Meeting The Lone Ranger because he saved his sister (Totally new character!). But they cannot change his name!!!!!
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You are so right. I forgot about that. The name was really bothering me because I know it was wrong. This is just so wrong. WB butcher of our haros. Look at Smallville, they killed who was who. Look at fact that He could fly as a BABY. WB sucks ASS!!
shareIt also guts one of my favorite inter-hero references and pieces of trivia: Dan Reid, the Lone Ranger, was the great-uncle of Britt Reid, the Green Hornet.
I think they're doing a great job with Smallville, but more and more I think that's despite The WB and not because of it. Charmed, Birds Of Prey, Black Sash...Smallville? Smallville is two or three leagues apart from the dreck that is those shows.
Actually, that's close-- but not accurate. As stated in the original message, "The Lone Ranger's" real name was John Reid. John had a nephew named Dan, who rode with his heroic uncle when Tonto was unavailable or injured.
Years later, Dan Reid remembered the morals and values he learned from his Uncle John, and taught them to his own son, Britt.
Britt grew up with these morals firmly intact and, eventually taking a sidekick of his own (Kato), he became the famous hero of the early 20th century, "The Green Hornet".
Just to clear that up. =] (Thanks, it was fun!)
Sorry to butt in. But Dan Reid was John Reid's (The Lone Ranger's) nephew, and Britt Reid's father. Therefore, the Lone Ranger was Britt (The Green Hornet's) Reid's grand (or great as you put it) uncle.
shareThe way it goes is pretty simply
Dan Reid SR and John Reid (Lone Ranger) are brothers
Dan Reid SR has a son named Dan Reid JR who also NEPHEW to John Reid (aka Lone Ranger)
Now Dan Reid JR SUPPOSEDLY grows up to become the editor for daily sentinal and father's a child named BRITT REID. The only problem with this is....that according to Green Hornet TV show. Britts father's name was JAMES Reid.
It is because the Lone Rangers secret identity is legally bound to Clayton Moore. Only he can use it, like the original costume. Sorry.
shareThough Clayton Moore is THE Lone Ranger to me, he had no legal rights to the character or anything like that. For several years he was even prohibited from wearing the Lone Ranger mask by the people who did own the rights to the character. In the film The Legend of the Lone Ranger, which Moore did not have anything to do with, the character was named John Reid.
shareThank you for that. It is true that Clayton Moore had no legal rights to the Lone Ranger, and he was no the original actor to portray the character. In fact, the rights were owned by the couple that came up the idea, which was originally a radio show.
I don't know what the case was with the television/movie actors and their wearing the costume, but I know that my grandfather (the second man to portray the legendary hero on the radio in the thirties and forties), Brace Beemer, had to wear his mask whenever he was in the public because it was a part of his contract.
~_~_~Two households, both alike in dignity
In fair Verona where we lay our scene.
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Doth with their deaths bury their parents strife.~_~_~
Thats news to me more so as Mr Moore has been dead for some years now.
Yeah, I'm pretty upset about the name change too.
shareI don't mind the name change because it was never a fully faithful adaptation of the Lone Ranger anyway. The pilot movie set up two possible love triangles and I'm certain they would have been the focus of the series rather than the fistfights and moral lessons that defined the Clayton Moore series.
Luke likes Tonto's sister. Tonto's sister likes him too, but still has feelings for the young war chief. Meanwhile, the pilot also establishes that the widow of Luke's brother has a younger friend (sister?) who is about Luke's age. I'm sure that Luke would have dated her at some point to try and make Tonto's sister jealous.
What would that have had to do with the Lone Ranger? Nothing. Updating the Lone Ranger was just an excuse to try and have another series about attractive young people. They cared more about sex appeal and being culturally relevant than they did about having a proper adaptation of the Lone Ranger. For that, I don't mind that the main character was Luke Hartman and not John Reid.