Masters of the Universe: Revelation, courtesy of Kevin Smith and Netflix, is the latest classic franchise to be utterly butchered by today's entertainment hacks.
He-man protected Grayskull Castle for over 200 episodes, and Skelletor never won. Teela protected the castle for 5 episodes, and Skelletor became the Master of the Universe.
My dad watched He-Man daily as a kid, and was passionate about it. I looked at his face while he was watching the Netflix show, and it was blank, no emotion. He wasn't even angry, but devoided of any emotions...
I'm not a He-Man/MOTU fan, but I feel so sorry for all the fans who had to witness and experience this utter disrespect to their favorite childhood hero/franchise.
The show is excellent, good fun. Sad people have serious deficiencies in their lives and they take it out on current creators of their childhood franchises. It's ridiculous and it happens too frequently.
@@agathisrobusta Or maybe, and hear me out here, people have different standards for their entertainment, and them have a variant opinion from your own doesn't make them some kind of cartoonish stereotype. Shocking stuff, that.
She-Ra: the story of a lesbian and her group of racially diverse, gay friends He-Man: the story of a lesbian and her group of racially diverse, gay friends
You know in ignorance central, also known as USA, the word "literally" literally means "not literally". And I'm not punning here, it's just how it is. If you don't believe it, refer to "Maddow vs OAN" court case.
"Never trust a man who constantly wears a backwards baseball cap." - my dad "Never trust a man who constantly wears an oversized purple coat." - Bruce Wayne
Well, I pretty much like and trust the guy in the purple coat... Way more than Bruce Wayne... Way more than any society, way more than any so-called 'aUtHoRiTy'...
Not necessarily... If it's stupid to do so, it's stupid to quote any fictional character... From a movie, from videogame, from TV-Show, from any kind of literature and that's just derogatory, I mean, it implicates that comic book characters or in general fictional characters never have to say something senseful, profound, etc...
Skeletor is the TRUE hero of this anime, he wins ultimate power and defeats Mrs. Lesbian Haircut... honestly, I couldn't have asked for a better ending, now I'm off to watch some "Best of skeletor" videos.
@@NkGaming-1101 i‘ve always rooted for skeletor as a kid back then. Simply because i thought skeletor looked much cooler than he man with his fruity haircut 😂
All we wanted was a big hunk of a man riding a giant green tiger to fight a skeleton wizard. How hard could it be? Apparently it's impossible in the age of victimhood.
I'm 5'7 150 lbs. I have never once bitched about body builders, athletes, or men of chiseled stone being portrayed as a symbol of masculinity. I am however sick and tired of seeing women's femininity destroyed at the cost of making them masculine while systematically destroying Male masculinity. I refuse to raise my daughter on woke bullshit and teach her 2 genders different but equal and that the law of averages always wins out between the two. This shit isn't about Strong women if you have to destroy men for women to be strong.
@@rexlumontad5644 Probably go with the cliche "revive the hero" arc but then Kevin will have Teela do everything regardless. What a farce this show is.
To be fair: Teela's arrogant response to learning who He-Man was could have been the set up for an interesting character arc where she has to learn that the world doesn't revolve around her and places herself in a more humble and supportive role for the good of Eternia. But that would mean that she isn't a perfect YasSlayQueen or whatever you call it, so I guess that couldn't be done.
@@mrbrown6896 No it's worse. She just gets mad the whole movie that no one told her and quits. Then goes on a power trip to show how independent and badass she is, it seems from watching these reviews.
That’s legitimately what I thought they would go for. I couldn’t stomach the show any further after episode 2, but now I know that doesn’t happen and it’s just like… *why?*
There is nothing wrong with having a character that is too powerful. They could be done very well. Conan is too powerful, by all accounts, most accomplished warrior during Hyborian age. But what sets him apart is his unique personality and philosophical view. He has some interesting takes on civilization and human behaviour and that is what makes him interesting. A force of nature with meaning behind it, basically. Today's Mary Sues are devoid of meaning or any philosophical background, created purely to embody a certain political agenda. That is what makes them bad, not being too powerful.
None of these are flaws, the big flaw with Mary sue’s is that they are devoid of personality, and only exist to fill a political agenda. They’re powerful just because they are, there’s no trade off for it, and they are just incredibly bad characters as a result.
More like faux power and faux selflessness. They need men to be weakened hence faux power and they are truly selfish while feigning selflessness hence faux selflessness.
He-man was my number 1 main childhood hero. I watched this dumpster fire of a remake today and my disappointment is truly immeasurable and my day was ruined.
The animation is the one good thing this series has going for it. Compare that to the 3D 'He-Man' series designed by the guy who gave us 'Max Steel,' yet actually Respects its characters.
I guess that's the trade-off Just like how there's a lot of beautiful in the world, their personality proves to be a lot less than appealing. That's not always the case, but it more than common
I will never ever understand the “let’s have women look and act better than men by having them look and act EXACTLY like men.” Or at least what Hollywood this a man is.
And how you know it's really a blatant act of emasculating men and masculinity, is that they already had the female version of He-Man, her name is Shee-ra! Why not just reboot that and do all your LGBT+, feminist, gynocentric stuff with that show??
They hate real women. Real women are not strong warriors leading soldiers in battle. Real women are not even soldiers. They hate that women are not men. They therefore think that's it's righteous to transform women into men and they want to force everyone to watch their understanding of what's good, right and true. They don't get that they are sick and delusional.
I love how He-man sacrifices himself for the good of the entire universe without even a second thought, but when faced with the same choice, Teela is too butt-hurt to do the same thing until her friends talk her inti it. What a hero!
So Teela gets mad at being "lied" too.. shirks all of her responsibility by running away in order to "find herself".. Shaves the side of her head.. Takes a bunch of testosterone.. And becomes a lesbian. Netflix hits another one right out of the park yet again. Looks like my DVDs from the old 2002 show are going to skyrocket in value.
Not only does she run away, but then the show never holds her accountable for it. No one questions why she left, or blames her for the current state affairs. She simply returns to glory, unharassed and undeterred. Interestingly, when Luke Skywalker decides to give up, he tranforms into a stinky, pathetic old hermit who's lost his way. But not Teela. No, a woman just gets stronger when she loses faith in something foundational.
My favorite thing about Teela throwing a hissy fit and rage quitting because she wasn't let in on a secret: Her reaction completely justifies Adam not telling her. All Adam has to say is "I didn't tell you because I knew you'd do this."
@@archstanton9073 If art imitated life, wouldn't we see more fat landwhales screeching like the banshees that they are? This is more of fan fiction... And bad fanfic at that...
This is how these people think a woman should look, less wo more man. They're living in their own world of egotistical women who've rejected their very identity and women who think that looking like a skin head is progressive, when in fact it links them more closely to being N e o - N a z i more than anything else.
This dumpster fire of a show was neither a restart, a revival, nor a reboot...it was a work of "Woke" Fan Fiction (complete with the obviously set-up "rug-pull" for nostalgic fans). In other words, it was a TRAP (in all sense of the word)!
“…And then Skeletor and He-man, (the main focus of the original show, and what made it so great) disappear.” Literally anyone with more than 1 brain cell: “I think I know where this is going.” *Tosses show in the trash.
Isn't this pretty insulting to the character of Teela as well? She is turned into a narcissistic brat without any amount of common sense who is easily one of the most despicable protagonists I ever had the displeasure to see...
@@silverblade357 Exactly. "If I have to be *self-imposed* miserable then EVERYONE has to!" As opposed to, say, breaking out of being miserable by helping and lifting up others. Why raise everyone up in a constructive fashion when it's so much easier to drag every one else down?
Yes! I was so disappointed in how they wrote her. Just another bitter, entitled, narcissistic wahman. Not how the REAL Teela would’ve reacted to the death of her closest friend and banishment of her beloved surrogate father. She would’ve been heartbroken. She wouldn’t have stomped her foot and made it about herself.
@@daysofapril2667 Maybe have her mourn for a bit then come back with a blazing desire for vengeance or to fix the now broken universe. Y'know, like a real person would conceivably react.
"We're empowering women" -Portrays the main female character as physically masculine - the main female character literally couldn't care less that the hero sacrificed his life the universe AND gave up heaven to save everyone because of a minor lie - continuously berates her own father after taking his job while all he does is apologize Uhh, who is this for?
I don't have a problem with women being portrayed as masculine, but rather that the show is poorly written. I don't know if Kevin Smith was trying to say something by having Teela fail at her assigned job within five episodes, but if he was, then He should've written a story centering on the villians instead.
@@dapperultron1784 By masculine, I didn't mean her being muscular; I like that as far as female character designs. I mean the whole square jaw and broad shoulders bit. It's a little more tame in comparison to the downturn comics have taken as of late but it's still a part of the same trend that implies women have to look more like men in order to come off as tough. You're right about the writing being bad, but there's a visual aspect to it too. Normally, depicting characters like this is almost always accompanied by bad writing nowadays.
@@toomanysandwiches8665muscular women look good. What makes her makes her look masculine is the broad shoulders, square jaw and proportionally smaller head.
I especially liked it when Teela went off at everyone in the throne room at the end of the first episode. You know, after Duncan is banished and has his life threatened by the King? Yeah, and then Teela decides to refuse an order, disrespect the Queen , talk down to all of them (you know, to the grieving parents and the rulers of the Land, one of whom just banished Duncan) and then just "walks away". And everyone just stands there. Ummm, just wow... she's so strong and so powerful that not even the Royals can do anything to her. So strong. She's untouchable.
All the king had to do was sigh in misery at his lost son, and quietly, distractedly say was "Guards. Seize her. Off with her head." Would have fixed the whole scene.
or after finding out that the two men she loved most in the world were the same man and now he is dead she breaks emotionally and lashes out like she always has? the king just blaming duncan because he is also lashing out in pain maybe? like humans do? acting how these characters have always acted?
@@VerkrVerkryeah i remember when my mom got euthanasy and i punched the doctor, who then lashed out and blamed me for her death. You know, thats what humans do.... oh wait no thats something that one dimensional characters do in shitty scripts.
I honestly feel bad for the animators. This is quality artwork. Animation is hard, thankless, and hardly ever worth the amount of time, energy, and resources put into it. People don't go into animation to get rich. People do it because they want to create, people who are inspired and have an innate passion for their craft. And they will gravitate towards opportunities to share it. When was the last time anyone who devoted their entire life to animation have their name highlighted in the opening credits of any work in media in which they placed a significant contribution? Their names are usually just shoved into the high-speed end credits after a second round of reminding the audience of the voice talents as if we all lined up for a radio broadcast.
A strong confident masculine man? Sir, you must be talking about Hitler. Or slave owners. It is the current year. Get with the times. And lob off your junk.
In the words of Lion King to Kevin Smith Deception Disgrace Evil as plain as the scar on his face Deception (An outrage!) Disgrace (For shame!) He asked for trouble the moment he came Deception (An outrage!) (He can't change his stripes) Disgrace (For shame!) Born in grief Raised in hate Helpless to defy his fate Let him run Let him live But do not forget what we cannot forgive And he is not one of us He has never been one of us He is not part of us Not our kind Someone once lied to us Now we're not so blind For we knew he would do what he's done And we know that he'll never be one of us He is not one of us Deception Disgrace
Fans: We want a He Man show. Smith: Did you say a show that has He Man in it? Fans: Uh, yeah. Smith: Okay, here is a show with He Man in it. Fans: But it seems to be mostly about Teela. Smith: But He Man is in it. Fans: What we wanted was a He Man show. You know, where the widely beloved icon is the focus. Smith: he does stuff. Fans: As a background character. Smith: Shut up you just hate Teela and women. Fans: We liked Teela before this… Smith: Shut up my narrative is the true narrative. I am not really a He Man fan but I still hate how corporations just love to piss on their audiences then just throw their money around buying other corporations. It be like if they made a Mulan show but killed her off and made Shang a arrogant douche. The irony is that the kind of people who like destroying male heroes would get very mad at that, when they have been doing it themselves for a while.
The original show actually had a childrens' psychiatrist to design the endings and lessons for the needs of the 80's society. That's where I learned a lot of the values, and I only needed to be reminded of "what would He-Man do?" when I was misbehaving. Times were so much better back then.
Exactly, you nailed it. People can call it cheesy all they want, but the people who worked on the show took what was basically a toy commercial and at least tried to do something good with it, something positive for the kids who were watching it.
I don't know what to feel anymore. Every franchise I ever loved has been burned beyond recognition. I grew up with He-man, my Dad showed me a lot of episodes from the first few seasons on an old website and we would watch them together, while he would tell me all of these things about it that I thought were the coolest things as a six year old boy who never really saw old cartoons at the time. To see someone who added to my teenage angst make this just hurts me. Everything hurts now.
@@rexlumontad5644 unfortunately, I'm sure if this abomination doesn't get cancelled, Teela will just bitch slap Skelegod and take the sword without any real difficulty.
@@Wranuckl Let me get this right. Kevin Smith wrote something like no Girlfriend for Teela, no stepping aside from He-Man, it's "LITERALLY all about He-Man" and so on, but that's what happens in the first 5 episodes ? I mean the second part can surely fix this. In the end it was a fucking lie, unless you tell and prove to me that those tweets are fake/fotoshopped or something like that. Until then, even with the best series in the world, it sucks. Not the Show tho, but the whole behaviour behind it. His reactions after lying and talking BS now doesn't make it better.
@@Wranuckl Maybe one day I will. My Problem is that I'm kinda part of those "my childhood is ruined" people, just not so extreme. I heard the Show is good, but I also heard that He-Man is "dead". I didn't care who got the lead at that moment. It could be even Man-At-Arms or Orko, would't change a thing for me. He-Man was the Main Character, so I wanted to see him ( especially with all those tweets before ). I would have other expectations if they were honest about that. Another Problem of mine is that they try to milk every kids show from back then ( and AGAIN, with stupid lies in this special case ) just to get Viewers. I didn't watch the new Digimon either. I read so many similar Comments like "we're no kids anymore, so we need more dark/serious topics in the Show". WHY ? The world is fucked up as it is, especially now. So why taking a kids show who spread joy, continue it decades later just to make it serious now ? If you really want that, have the balls and just make a whole new show and go dark as you want. But like I said, that's MY Problem. You guys may have other thoughts about it, which is also fine.
@@Wranuckl well that is a good way to see it. If you have interest in such stories you should look into the Injustice Comics. Seeing He-man with the Justice League was amazing ^^
Why does Adam look like a woman and Teela like a man?! Why is she more muscular than Skeletor?! WTF?! Why Skeletor suddenly worries about his looks and getting laid?! Show is horrendous!
She clearly had the hots for he-man though, they subverted that stereotype lol. If you can't how they made her look at he-man, then idk what to tell you lmaooo
There is nothing uglier and more repulsive than this half-shaved haircut. Any woman that would burden us with such a spectacle needs to be ostracized from life.
Motu is amazing. Just finished watching with the children. My daughters loved it. So did my sons. They wanted more Teela and, quite honestly, were happy the annoying dumb He-Man was offed in the show. We hope Teela gets married to her love and both women have a happy marriage. I give it a 9.5 out of 10.
Prince Adam got stabbed in the stomach and can recover unless Skeletor with the Sword of Power decides to kill him off or probably left him to slowly die and make him watch destroy everything.
This broke my heart; to see how the creative team buried he-man in the dirt. The animation is incredible and that’s about all the good points i gathered from the show. Everything else is woke agenda, spit on the fan’s face storyline, stunning and brave dialogue, childish self centered mentality, and total disrespect for what made this classic show a great show.
This may have been the worst show I’ve watched in a decade. I’m glad I’m not alone in this view. Kevin completely betrayed my childhood fave show. For shame on Netflix. If you get you needed this kinda show storyline wise make up a new one Q force style. But leave the childhood IP’s as they are. Truly terrible. Could’ve been the next Invincible. Instead straight trash.
Creators Pre-Release: "We don't care if you don't see it. This wasn't made for you, so your opinion doesn't matter." Creators Post-Release: "I can't believe you bigots didn't watch this."
In the words of Lion King to Kevin Smith Deception Disgrace Evil as plain as the scar on his face Deception (An outrage!) Disgrace (For shame!) He asked for trouble the moment he came Deception (An outrage!) (He can't change his stripes) Disgrace (For shame!) Born in grief Raised in hate Helpless to defy his fate Let him run Let him live But do not forget what we cannot forgive And he is not one of us He has never been one of us He is not part of us Not our kind Someone once lied to us Now we're not so blind For we knew he would do what he's done And we know that he'll never be one of us He is not one of us
@@Anthonycheesman33 when did they ever imply that? Just because people have cheated on their partners before, doesn’t make it any more excusable for me to go and do the same thing. Same goes for lying. Kevin smith lied to people’s faces and dragged others through the dirt to do so. Yeah, other people have lied before. What does that change about his responsibility for his own actions?
Its like a re-make of pipi longstockings but after first Episode pipi moves on with her father and the rest of the series is about Tommi who turns out to be gay and his new friend Sam and they are beeing supported by another male Charakter named George and they wander through Scandinavia and have some adventures. And when the people complain the excuse will be: "grow up, Tommi was helping Pipi all the time". You cannot kill the Main character and pretend to be suprised when the Fans get mad
I was born in 1978 so He-Man, Voltron, Transformers, G.I.Joe, Robotech, and Thundercats is my childhood. Girls complained about Barbie’s body type being nigh-unreasonable clearly never watched He-Man; it’s improbable for a man to look like He-Man without a lot of steroids! A show where He-Man was more of a background character actually *could* work; he’s basically the Superman of Eternia and he always, always wins. The Masters of the Universe were never in any real danger when fighting against Zodiak’s Horde and Skeletor’s Masters of Darkness when He-Man could always show up to save them. But this? This is Wokeness x1,000,000. The He-Man live-action movie was significantly better than this crap. The truth is, and I know that there’s a lot of people that refuse to listen to this truth, is that there ARE numerous differences between men and women and no, you cannot do everything that I can do ‘better’ despite the song. The strongest woman in the world has a record bench press of about 400lbs. While that’s impressive and I freely admit that’s more than I can bench at 43 years old (what’s my max bench, you ask? How much does a box of Cheez-Itz weigh? I can bench two of those. Much power.) that’s barely the average bench press of a linebacker in the NFL. The record for a man, with an bench assist shirt, is over 1,000lbs; I forget the record for a man’s raw record bench but it’s over 700lbs. No woman on earth will *ever* be able to come close to that. Why? Because sexism, that’s why. No, it’s because our bodies are created differently. Whether you believe in the Almighty as I do or if you believe in evolution, there’s a lot more differences between men and women than just sexual organs. My point with this rant is that it’s okay to accept our differences and to even take a measure of pride in them. While motherhood seems to be less appreciated than ever before in today’s society a man can never know the joy and yes, the difficulties and trials, in conceiving a child inside of us, nurturing that baby over nine months, and then bringing that life into our world in the unbelievable honor and undeniable beauty (and pain) of childbirth. These things are worth celebrating. We do not need more Wokeness crapping all over our childhood memories, and we don’t need more nonsense trying to homogenize the differences between men and women. It’s okay to be proud to be a man and it’s okay to be proud to be a woman. I rant, I know, and I digress too often, but stop trying to destroy manhood and womanhood for the love of the Lord. This crap has gotten out of hand.
I agree He-Man has the Superman problem, but I'm sure there are better ways of dealing with that than just writing out the main character from the entire "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe" franchise.
They could have easily made us like Teela from changing just one scene. Her quiting her job and yelling at everyone. Instead they could have made her break down and crying filled with guilt from letting her BEST FRIEND die and not being able to stop it. They could have made her quit because she sees herself unworthy of being man at arms after Adam died in front of her and seeing his parents the king and queen constantly reminded her of Adam and his death. She could have been an awesome character trying to get over her guilt by becoming a mercenary and start looking for a way to bring Adam back. Maybe throw in some flashbacks to reanimated scenes from the og he-man before turning dark and nightmarish. But hey who’s gonna listen to some random 18 year old girl who loved the OG show. Also why did they make teela so tan she supposed to be a red head yeah?
It is unbelievable to me that they would do this when there was already a She-ra show on netflix which after about the first season went from "alright, I dig it" to "hold my pen" and just didn't stop.
Not like alas dude, it is, utterly demented and soon to be legislated one would think as the path these power crazed scum are taking leads only to a very bad place.
It's called demoralization, its a marxist tactic. Look at what China is doing, and what USA is doing. If you never watched the defector Yuri Bezmenov, he tells how the USA was infiltrated since years ago, you are just watching the aftermath in real time now.
If Kevin Smith made Rocky, Rocky would have died in the first act "sacrificing" himself by getting run over by the Zamboni driver and Adrian would have fought Creed and beat him in the first round.
Rocky would have given up or disqualified himself due to toxic masculinity and 98 pound Adrianna would have crushed Drago after a 90 second training montage. An ally would not knock out Apollo Creed.
Adrian would have fault Creed to a stand still and both would have given up out of “respect” aka woke culture because it would be racist for the white girl to knock out the black guy and it would be sexist and gender shamming for the black guy to knock out the white girl
MOTU Viewer: Hey, so why would Teela decide to abandon her post, her dream job, her army, her kingdom, two grieving parents, and disown her family just because she didn't know Adam was He-Man? Like, it's not a great place to be, but loads of ppl didn't know he was He-Man. Even his own dad. And the ones who did know, knew because the Sorceress told them back in the day, not Adam, and only so Adam would have guides and support while he bore the burden of being He-Man and keeping the secrets of Grayskull and the sword of power safe. All this seems like a bit of a wild reaction if I'm honest, and completely out of character for Teela, who was hot-headed and could be reckless in the old series, but never at the expense of her kingdom or friends. She was pragmatic, intelligent, and capable of dealing with unexpected revelations. Why is she now such an emotionally resentful and self-centred person? Show: Don't know. But look how strong and female she is. And gay. Viewer: Yeah, about that, how come you imply she's gay now, but do nothing with it in terms of the narrative or in developing her character. This kinda reminds me of Loki's throwaway bi-sexuality. You do less here than shows who first did this sort of thing more than a decade ago, like Korra and Xena. But these days, isn't this just cynical and lazy queerbaiting? Show: Nope. It's (reads from cue card) diverse and inclusive. Viewer: Hey, so this Andra girl is smart (except when she doesn't know anything about a massive war that happened a handful of years ago for some reason), brave, and pretty self-less. She seems to want to be a hero and help Eternia. This motivation would appear to put her wants and needs at complete odds with Teela's, who only cares about money and not being a hero. Why at no point during the series does that ever become a point of conflict as more and more people die and the mission becomes more dangerous? Show: Don't know. Viewer: Hey, so how did Teela manage to summon magical power she had no idea she possessed when fighting not-Skeletor in hell? What did she do to subdue him in his own house, and nab the sword? It seemed to be more than turning his game against him, and something awakened in her akin to the Sorceress' power. How did any of that work? Why did it seem so easy and convenient? Even the Sorceress can't do magic like that quite so easily. What gives? Show: Don't know. But she's his worst nightmare now! Viewer: (sighs...) she certainly is. So, if she's doing magic now, and she hates magic, shouldn't she have less of a gung-ho reaction to it? Shouldn't she be slightly disturbed at what this means? And why doesn't she, you know, just do it again and own not-Skeletor instead of letting Orko fucking die and blaming Evil-Lyn for it? Show: Viewer: Yea, I mean, like Evil-Lyn actually tries to save him but the fact she has no magic power left means she can't and... hold on a fucking minute here. They're in Subternia, where magic is somewhat plentiful, and Orko's even able to do some impressive shit and Teela herself is unlocking arse-pulled magical feats. Why the fuck is Evil-Lyn still so powerless? Shouldn't she be able to do something that doesn't rely solely on the orb of energy the Sorceress gave her? If she wants to save Orko, why couldn't she? Show: But Orko has to die now and if Lyn and Teela can do magic then that can't happen the way we want it to. It's what we like to call "great writing that operates within the rules and internal logic of the fantasy show we've built and presented to you in order to let you suspend disbelief and understand the stakes and threat of any given fantastical situation." Viewer: Show: You're welcome. Viewer: Hey, know how Teela's really fucking pissed at everyone because they never told her about Adam's secret magical power? How come when she unlocks her own secret magical power the first thing she does is not tell anyone and just keeps it completely to herself? Doesn't tell Andra. Doesn't even tell ADAM. Show: Um... well you see... err... Viewer: Hey, so why does Teela seem to mourn Roboto's death more than Adam's? Thinking about it, if he has all of Duncan's memories, wouldn't he also have known Adam was He-Man? Is she not pissed off at him as well? Show: Because she's a complex and emotional creature, misogynist. And as for the Roboto knowing everything Duncan knows... yea, I guess Teela kinda forgot about that. Viewer: Hey, so does Teela really not speak to her dad, Orko, Cringer, or Roboto after leaving the palace until the events of episode 3? She has no idea how sick Orko was or how they were doing? But wouldn't she have wanted answers about Adam and the secret once she calmed down and got herself together? Wouldn't she want to reconsider all her rash decisions before this point and reach out to her father to understand the truth that was hidden from her? Did she really just cut them all out of her life because they told her a lie? Like, completely and forever cut them out? Is Teela a psychopath? Show: No, she's a strong woman now, and to be a strong woman, you simply need to be just like a man, but without the reason or accountability. And you need muscles. Viewer: About the muscles... Show: She's a warrior, you big chauvinist. Girl warriors have muscles. Viewer: Okay... then why does Evil-Lyn have huge muscles? She's not a physical warrior. She's a mage who needs hired guns to do full-on fighting for her. Show: Err... Viewer: While we're at it, if all the magic's gone from Eternia except for wee scraps here and there, how is Evil-Lyn initially doing that disguise spell? And why is she being presented as some sort of spurned yet redeemable anti-hero rather than Skeletor's co-conspirator? Show: Now you listen to us, boy. All women are inherently good. All men are liars, heretics, cheats, bad fathers, skeleton monsters, or DEAD. Keep up. You're just angry because you think we ruined He-Man. Viewer: You didn't ruin him. How could you? He's not in it. You didn't ruin Skeletor either. Because he's also not in it - and it's probably for the best because I don't trust you to write for that supreme, meme machine, sassy bitch. You ruined Teela. You kinda ruined Man At Arms. The only one you didn't ruin was Orko and that's because you fucking killed him instead. Show: I'm so glad we could subvert your expectations.
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If you think of it as an alternate universe where skeletor is the good guy it actually works. He suffers setbacks and comes back to succeed at defeating the bad guy(Teela)
Now imagine She-ra would do the same, with He-man taking the spotlight from her in her own show. You could hear the REEEEEE for miles, that they dared to do them dirty like they do Male Leads in this age time and time again.
So Teela, while informing two parents their only child is dead, throws a temper tantrum and makes it all about her hurt fee-fees. The perfect storyline for the age of woke narcissism we're living in. And BTW, Kevin Smith is a shameless liar.
art imitating life, for sure .... not that this should be considered, in anyway, a form of art. Heck, the guy who paints with elephant poop has more claim on art
There was a She-Ra episode, where Hordak got hit with a spell that would erase him from reality unless at least one soul sheds a tear for him. He ran around in panic, trying to get his minions to feel sad about him, but they were either indifferent or happy about him disappearing forever. In the end, the only person who actually cried for him was She-Ra herself because when she looked at Hordak, she saw a person who made so many bad choices that he pushed away anyone who would genuinely care about him, especially in his most vulnerable state. From her point of view it was a very miserable and lonely life to live, so she felt genuinely sorry for him. She never regretted that her empathy saved the life of her enemy because she was here to protect lives and took no pleasure in taking them away. He-Man spoke a lot about empathy too, saving Skeletor's minions and villains from death because he believed that he is a guardian and protector, even if someone isn't on his side, it doesn't mean they have to die. It was implied that some of the He-Man's kindness left its imprint on Skeletor (that Chirstmas Special episode). So, empathy and support were a huge deal in both He-Man and The Masters of the Universe and She-Ra: The Princess of Power. Now we have Teela who does...this, instead of trying to defuse the situation or support her father after his unfair treatment. And someone calls it a progress in writing strong female characters.
The weird thing is, kevin smith used to be so radically different. I tell some people from back in the day who liked clerks, and basically moved on with there lives and can give a shit less about the internet to check him out and get back to me, theyre literally like holy shit wtf happend to this guy. He used to just like idk, idk maybe it was something to with losing weight idk. I know alot of people who when they lost alot of weight there personality completely changed. I know the dude had a heart attack and i dont know the details idk, maybe that changed his life or how he acted, but man he used to be wayy more just like dark and based. I remember hearing him talking onetime in NYC to a fan, and he was saying so much derogatory messed up things it was rediculous, but this was the late 90s so i mean idk it was just so different. Its crazy to see how much people change. But yeah man anyone who remember how this guy used to be knows what i mean, he just used to say whatever he wanted and didnt seem held back in the slightest, now he seems overly kind and idk just idk maybe he became a christian or someshit who knows.
I thought it was freakin great. The first episode was like a series finale to the old 80's show. Then they dealt with the serious ramifications of an Eternia without He-man, an Eternia without magic and a weakened sorcerous. All the old characters from back in the day were still around and He-man's friends had to overcome some big obstacles without him. In the end Adam had to make yet another big sacrifice, proving himself to be Eternia's greatest champion. I'm kind of surprised everyone hates it so much. I didn't actually expect it to be the show from the 80's, where each episode is some new plan by Skeletor that He-Man easily overcomes. I'm looking forward to part 2, where Skeletor holds the power and Eternia is still without its champion. I think it's safe to assume all of this is leading up to He-Man returning and saving the day in the end.
@@RenlangRen Let's be honest, even the fans rating are pretty useless. I mean Black Widow got higher rating than Avengers (2012) and the first Iron Man (92% vs 91%). Not a huge difference but that movie is clearly inferior to the other two.
"remember that stuff from our childhood? It was so cool! I loved it" Woke bullies: "target acquired. Let's ruin it but never watch it. After all, we have no imagination, creativity, or skillsets, so why not destroy the past to make older people miserable?"
And still there are legions of fanboys who swear that...tHiS tImE tHeY gEt iT rIgHt. Anyone who still pays money for this shit, when there is no need for it, is an idiot.
@@bobbyshaddoe3004 Which he didn't know about at the time, nor did anyone else there apparently. Even if he did, the show clearly stated that if he didn't do it, it'd destroy everything instantly so... Either die heroicly to buy the universe time to fix it, or let the universe just fucking die then and there. Pretty sure Adam would pick the one that gave the universe a chance.
This show pulled a last of us 2, teased that it was going to be about certain characters than killed off the characters that's were teased to be there than replaced with an unlikable character Edit: if you remove all of Teelas feminine features like her hair and her lipstick she looks like a man
What's so weird about this happening to He-Man is Kevin Smith acknowledging what everyone wanted before giving everyone exactly what they did *NOT* want but expected anyway. Is the Hollywood cabal deliberately attempting to lose money, or is there enough money trading hands at the upper level that it doesn't really matter if anyone watches?
@@12ealDealOfficial Hollywood's job is to purvey the messaging that the real overclass wants out there, they can cover the losses. See also the intelligence state's involvement in the modern art movement.
@Dave K I do think parents should be aware of what their child is watching and set reasonable boundaries, but when you say “shouldn’t let their kids watch TV anymore,” do you mean unsupervised/unregulated or just nothing at all? If nothing at all, I would have to disagree. TV is huge form of entertainment, and there are lots of good things for children to watch that haven’t been corrupted by Hollywood. It’s all a matter of simply knowing what your kid is watching, not taking it away completely. Same applies to video-games, books, RU-vid, even the people they hang out with I guess. Make sure what the child is taking in around them is not actively harming them. Sorry for the mini rant.
@@12ealDealOfficial I think I can answer some of that. Hollywood, like other business, have a traditional model of what success is. A big part of getting success in the past has been (1) Good reviews and/or (2) Popularity snowballing by word of mouth (there is buzz, people see it, they like it, more people see it.) The problem is, a large industry generally takes a long time to adjust to changes. They have to wait for "the data" to understand what is happening. With Hollywood, they saw they could only chase good reviews by being woke, because activist reviewers have seized the critic profession specifically to force Hollywood to be woke. They also saw that social media was largely woke. So, naturally, what they assumed is that the public wanted woke stuff. They fell for the vocal minority trap. It takes a long time to make these shows, and over the past few years there has been a clear trend of get woke go broke. Hollywood can now see that their assumptions were incorrect. They can see that what they thought were the audience are not actually the paying audience. The problem Hollywood has now is that the woke still control reviews, but ticket sales are not driven by woke politics (at least, not positively). This is why you have Kevin Smith denying that his show was not about He-Man. This is why the trailer emphasized He-Man. Essentially, they thought they were making a popular show, but about a year ago they started to realize that they hadn't. All they can do right now, with the show made, is try and trick people into watching it. I think the data is in now that woke does not equate to money. What we will see more of going forward are shows that try and walk the tightrope between being woke enough to not anger reviewers but also more in line with what real fans expect. We may also see more shows that just ignore critics and just try to be popular. If you think about it, Hollywood never cared about critics with blockbuster movies/shows in the past. If they know enough people will watch it, they do not care what the reviews are. There is also evidence of general disengagement from politics - people are sick of it - so there should be more shows where they just focus on making a good show.
This is the perfect example of the problem 🤷♀.. Netflix does this crap and nothing happens🤷♀🤷♀.. they get paid at the end of the month anyway.. so they don't care. 🤷♀🤷♀🤷♀...... if 1 guy sees it or 30 million.... it's the same .. 🙄they get paid at the end of the month anyway 🙄🙄.......... the only real way to make them understand... is that Fans take the subscription down for 2 or 3 months... you won't miss a thing 🤨 .. every show will be there when you subscribe again 🤷♀.. but .. hey!!! they are going to lose serious money for 2 or 3 months ... and then they will start paying attention to the shit they are producing...😐
For years Kevin has always stated confidently that he doesn’t care about critics and it only matters what the fans think. Now that the shoe is on the other foot how quickly he has done a 180 degree turn and dismissed all those fans he proclaimed to care about without even blinking. Hypocrite.
Many years ago I read Kevin Smith's diary, 'My Boring Ass Life', which was appropriately titled, and my opinion on the guy completely changed. If he's not working on something, all he did was sleep late, wait for his wife and kid to leave so he could masturbate, go back to sleep, wake up to pick up his kid, eat, sleep, repeat. Every. Single. Day. Now, Kevin Smith wants to preach to others about privilege and thinks everyone else lives in a bubble. All the while, he'll teach you all he knows about diversity and what's best for people. In reality, Kevin Smith is the epitome of 'privilege'. He's the one living in the bubble. "Confession through projection" - Viva Frei
*Netflix executive* - *"How can we desecrate their childhood memories?"* *Kevin Smith* - "Well, I don't know exactly how we're going do it yet.....but I got a few ideas." *Netflix executive* - "Ok great - what did you have in mind, Kevin?" *Kevin Smith* - "Well...you know how in the past the show was centered around He-Man?" *Netflix executive* - "Well yeah. I mean He-Man is obviously gonna be the main character of the show - he always is." *Kevin Smith* - "Nope, not anymore! He-Man is fucking gone! In fact he's barely gonna be in it!" *Netflix executive* - "Wow Kevin.....I mean that is.......just brilliant! The fans are gonna be so fucking pissed! Ha ha ha." *Kevin Smith* - "Yep - they sure are!"
It's called "subverting expectations", didn't you know. It's apparently very, very important to 'subvert expectations' nowadays. Subverting expectations is *tight*. It's also quite convenient for a new author, totally ignorant of the previous stuff.
If you think about it, he's the perfect role model for our modern era. He's intelligent, driven and in great shape. He's the head of his own organisation with clear goals and the will to see it through without any concerns for other peoples' "morality" or "ethics".
Technically a 1 party state is the definition of Fascism so therefore maybe it needed a new perspective politically. Why is skeletor taking a turn in the big seat so bad?
The greatest warrior the planet has ever known falls during the planet's darkest hour. Teela: And you kept his identity a secret from me?! Screw you, guys, I'm going home!
I’m glad they splooged their propaganda in the first episode/season itself, instead of the second season, which is what they (Netflix, Amazon etc) usually do.
Could you imagine if Adora dies in the She-Ra reboot and the series is taken over by leading male characters that were straight? I am sure that would have gone over real well.
Would never happen, because men can coexist with women in a show. "Strong Women"(tm) need to have men stripped out and hobbled, have faults and struggles vanish, and they are still angry with the world because they know they are fake.
*Imagine the writer casting of the present shows:* - why should I hire you? - well, I loved the show so much when young that I was inspired to become an writer, I can sure you I respect with dignity the source material. - you aren't the type of writer I'm looking for. - Why should I hire you - I hated that show, to observe my brothers happies watching that shitty show was the worse. I don't care making a good job, all I want is to fill my anger mistreating that shitty show. I hate the people that like the original and I hate the people who would watch the show, the important is to increase my anger, you know. - you're hired with a salary rise right away