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AduroT wrote: I don’t know about Motherboard by name, but at the very end there that symbol is flashed above its head I recognized as Hordak, a big time He-Man/She-Ra villain.
We also saw Skeletor wearing the Horde symbol in Evil Lyn’s flashback.
In the original series, Hordak got retconned in as the big bad who Skeletor used to be a minion for before becoming his own villain. It's a nice bit of character writing that when Skeletor picks Lyn up from nothing his outfit implies that at this point he himself is just a lackey. Pleasant surprise to see them do something more with it at the end.
Finally caught this. Ouch. This managed to be a step down from part 1, and just tossed a lot of the character work down the drain. New POV character was irrelevant and Lynn was frankly a travesty.
I'd love to know what informed Smith and his writers. Real ultimate power got passed around like a bag of popcorn and no one paid any price, shouldered any burden or suffered any consequence. (Of the Power, anyway. Skeletor and the buffoons he considered useless at the end was vaguely ironic). It felt really empty as a result. And made the historic line of champions and Sorceresses a bit of a joke.
I rarely hope for this, but hopefully Netflix will ignore the obvious sequel bait and quietly kill this version.
Voss wrote: Finally caught this. Ouch. This managed to be a step down from part 1, and just tossed a lot of the character work down the drain. New POV character was irrelevant and Lynn was frankly a travesty.
I'd love to know what informed Smith and his writers. Real ultimate power got passed around like a bag of popcorn and no one paid any price, shouldered any burden or suffered any consequence. (Of the Power, anyway. Skeletor and the buffoons he considered useless at the end was vaguely ironic). It felt really empty as a result. And made the historic line of champions and Sorceresses a bit of a joke.
I rarely hope for this, but hopefully Netflix will ignore the obvious sequel bait and quietly kill this version.
Hopefully, given that Cowboy Bebop was cancelled after only 3 weeks of release, they'll get the hint after they failed to try and make up for the first half with whatever an excuse of the rest of the show this is and take it out and put it out of its misery too.
We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't. - Frank Howard Clark
The wise man doubts often, and changes his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubts not; he knows all things but his own ignorance.
The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right to an opinion, but crucially, that opinion can be roundly ignored and even made fun of, particularly if it is demonstrably nonsense!” Professor Brian Cox
Not sure why Revelation got so much hate.
It was certainly better than the original cartoon, which I never liked, even as a kid. It came off as too preachy.
While I wasn’t a huge fan of the forced Teela angle, overall the series in its entirety was above average. It managed to get me to watch the whole thing. Which is an accomplishment in itself, as I wouldn’t have sat through all the episodes if it wasn’t any good.
Looking forward to this new one as it looks even better.
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2023/11/12 22:31:34
Subject: Masters Of The Universe: Revolution. Coming 2024.
The teased Hordak at the end of the previous series, doing the whole tech infection thing. This looks to be a continuation of that, though He Man looked maybe more inflated than I recall from the previous one.
2023/11/13 13:40:20
Subject: Masters Of The Universe: Revolution. Coming 2024.
Ghool wrote: Not sure why Revelation got so much hate. It was certainly better than the original cartoon, which I never liked, even as a kid. It came off as too preachy. While I wasn’t a huge fan of the forced Teela angle, overall the series in its entirety was above average. It managed to get me to watch the whole thing. Which is an accomplishment in itself, as I wouldn’t have sat through all the episodes if it wasn’t any good.
I agree, everything involving Teela in the second half was pretty bad including her phoned in voice acting, but everything else was great. Still think it got a lot of unfounded flak from misogynists just making up excuses to hate it (like "Kevin Smith hates Adam", "Kevin Smith hates Orco", "Kevin Smith hates men" etc when literally every male character in the series was amazing). I love replaying the Savage He-man powerup and powerdown scenes.
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2023/11/13 13:56:24
Subject: Masters Of The Universe: Revolution. Coming 2024.
Ghool wrote: Not sure why Revelation got so much hate.
It was certainly better than the original cartoon, which I never liked, even as a kid. It came off as too preachy.
While I wasn’t a huge fan of the forced Teela angle, overall the series in its entirety was above average. It managed to get me to watch the whole thing. Which is an accomplishment in itself, as I wouldn’t have sat through all the episodes if it wasn’t any good.
Looking forward to this new one as it looks even better.
Honestly, its fine, but not particularly told in an engaging way. I think it would have benefited greatly from being a weekly series instead of the two half season thing we got. It gave people a couple months to stew on the first half and hate on it. Outside of a few great conversations (thanks Smith) a lot of it is trying to hard to establish a world without taking the time to tell stories in it. Then both the first episode and the last episode of the first half end on the same cliffhanger just leaves the whole thing feeling like a waste of time. The second half is the payoff, but there's got to be some of that in the first half to sell the second.
2023/11/13 16:02:51
Subject: Masters Of The Universe: Revolution. Coming 2024.
Ghool wrote: Not sure why Revelation got so much hate.
It was certainly better than the original cartoon, which I never liked, even as a kid. It came off as too preachy.
The 'preachyness' was a product of the kids TV rating rules at the time. In order to get approval for TV, they had to 'balance out' the show's violence with positive messages.
2023/11/14 22:45:27
Subject: Masters Of The Universe: Revolution. Coming 2024.
Ghool wrote: Not sure why Revelation got so much hate.
It was certainly better than the original cartoon, which I never liked, even as a kid. It came off as too preachy.
The 'preachyness' was a product of the kids TV rating rules at the time. In order to get approval for TV, they had to 'balance out' the show's violence with positive messages.
Oh I know all about that.
It’s essentially a 30 minute advert for toys, so they had to add a learning angle.
I was just stating that even as a 10 year old, I found it too preachy.
2023/11/15 13:47:28
Subject: Masters Of The Universe: Revolution. Coming 2024.
LunarSol wrote: trying to hard to establish a world without taking the time to tell stories in it
Very true, and the rate at which named characters are killed off makes me worry how long they can even keep going.
The biggest flaw was when Skeletor announced that He-man had been holding back the whole time, and if He-man had really used the power of Greyskull, he would've been beaten easily.
Its hard to take a show seriously when they establish that the hero held all the cards but just... didn't bother.
Efficiency is the highest virtue.
2023/11/15 18:39:08
Subject: Masters Of The Universe: Revolution. Coming 2024.
What?! The hero didn't just punch the guy's head clean of his shoulders because he could?
It's almost like they used a heroic character voluntarily adhering to a personal code, despite it making their life more difficult, as a source of dramatic tension!
I hope Hollywood doesn't hear about this, otherwise all those 20 minute films where the good guy just shoots the villain dead the first time they meet without exchanging a word will turn into convoluted 2 hour stories. Nobody's got time for that!
Automatically Appended Next Post: EDIT: It's also pretty much the same thing as in the Superior Spiderman arc where Otto discovers that Peter had been holding back the entire time.
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The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right to an opinion, but crucially, that opinion can be roundly ignored and even made fun of, particularly if it is demonstrably nonsense!” Professor Brian Cox
Finally gave this a watch. It's definitely a big improvement over Revelations, though mostly in terms of structure. This is very well suited to the 5 episodes given and largely just a fun, "bash toys together" kind of deal that mostly makes good on the potential of the original. Basically just nostalgia bait, but enjoyable none the less and doesn't overstay its welcome.
2024/02/05 21:25:18
Subject: Masters Of The Universe: Revolution. Coming 2024.
Yeah, they had a lot of fun tying in the nostalgia in this one, and it felt much more like an evolution of the original cartoon than Revelations did. I snorted my drink when the battle armour clicked up.