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 Turnip Jedi wrote:

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Holy crap that cast.

Conroy and Hamill over-ride all the 'Kevins Usual suspects' concerns and no Depp woot woot

Do they, though? Because reading that list, the 'voice talent' starts AND stops with those two. His stoner buddy and his daughter certainly aren't adding a lot to the list.
Some of the others are decent live actors (or muscians... Henry Rollins, really?), but as voice talent... underwhelmed.

I mean, seriously, waiting around for the main villain's exposition or freaking... Mer-Man to have screen time doesn't exactly seem exciting.

 Azreal13 wrote:


·Chris Wood (Supergirl, The Vampire Diaries) as Prince Adam / He-Man

That's me about to win *all* the playground-cred

(I'm not *that* Chris Wood, but I am *a* Chris Wood...)

 warhead01 wrote:


I kinda think He-Man was kinda progressive for it's time, sorta. I saw a clip last year about astronauts from earth, also turns out He-Man's mother was from earth.

My own problem with "woke' is my dislike of change for the sake of change.
But then I also dislike lazy writing including the phrase "you got this" Which is super lame.

Having recently rewatched a lot of the Original He-Man, the moral of the day tended towards 'don't be mean to people because they are girls/ different' or 'Be Honest, Always try your best', 'Girls can also do things'. The 'don't resort to violence' was also prevalent- as despite being a buff guy with a sword, He-Man was peaceful by default and tried to talk out problems and differences whenever possible.

These are simplistic things that you tell kids to try encourage peaceful co-operation, (and satisfy mom so she will buy her kids toy barbarians and skeletons) they were never intended as a philosophy for life in an unfair world. But it was still studded with gems of idealistic wisdom and good practice, portraying Adam's Earth mother as a competent pilot and wise counsel.

Teela was a fun character who was in effect a 'career woman assigned to be Bruce Wayne's bodyguard'. She was always portrayed as good at her job which she took seriously, but occasionally as a scold and impediment to He_Mannery. Subplots of Lois Lane/Superman/Clark love triangle and her super secret parentage never really got the focus or arc they deserved in the episodic villain of the week format.

Often stories recognised that, like Superman, there was very little that He-Man could not do physically. The best challenges were then something that He-Man couldn't just grapple his way out of, and the laziest were the dual identity or separation from the sword of power.

That's more or less how I remember it. I never watched every episode and never saw any of the modern He-Man stuff.
I hope the stories let all the characters get involved and have their own time to shine and stories that show character growth.

The morals were simplistic but it's a small reinforcement of the golden rule and the like with out coming on too strong.

Could be that the writers weren't sure how to approach dual identities or the loss of the sword of power. Both could be very good stories if written well. Forcing characters out of their elements and making them work for a solution with only those around them to help them along the way. Possibly some one didn't like it because it's the He-Man show not the Prince Adam show, or something like that.

In the episode I linked I really enjoyed the lines " My Mom tough me Judo and my dad tough me to cook."

https://ew.com/tv/masters-of-the-universe-revelation-photos-premiere-kevin-smith/

Still images of the show in display today, have to say it looks pretty good!

More in the article link, shared a couple but they're big and clumsy to share so click through and check out the rest.

Art style is very much in the style of the 200X series.

Particularly apparent in the toy range.

I don’t remember Skeletor having that kind of bestial feet, not that I paid much attention to them before.

It's probs not gonna be at all revolve or be anywhere close to the She-Ra cartoon that exists considering the creators views on He-Man, that and the owners of the property having not given out anything from He-Man for them to work on at all with.

 AduroT wrote:
I don’t remember Skeletor having that kind of bestial feet, not that I paid much attention to them before.

The original squishy head toy back in the day had the "foot with claws" leg mould, as opposed to the one with boots. It was a light blue plastic with the whole boot area, including the toes being painted a darker blue/purple.

My memory might be a bit hazy, we're talking about a toy from 35 years ago that wasn't from my primary toy franchise of interest.

Yep. Cast in light blue plastic, painted purple boots - though some variants only had the front part painted purple.

I think he just had regular boots in the tv show though.

Um...is it just me, or did he-man's nipples decided to migrate to armpits almost?

I always hoped to see a remake of "Masters of the Universe" in which:
1) Teela actually is the daughter of Sorceres and Man-at-arms: this would create a strongest bond among the three character;
2) Teela doesn't became the new Grayskull keeper: she and Sorceress have two totally different roles in the story and both of them are equally useful;
3) She-ra lives in the same planet of He-man: this would allow some interesting crossover among the two series;
4) She-ra isn't the He-man's sisters, but his cousin: I always found out the story they are siblings a little be forced.
The fourth point isn't really important, but do you think my first three desires will be grant?

I always love that song, it makes whatever it’s accompanying just more epic by default. Skeletons laugh bothered me a bit though, it was too Joker I think.

That looks epic. Suitably over the top.

I don't think it will be tied into the current She Ra cartoon, if anything it would be goes with the OG more so in look.

It's explicitly taken up the thread from the end of the 80s cartoon. Therefore nothing that has happened since the 80s cartoon will be relevant.

Actually tempting me back to Netflix.

At least tempting enough to create a new Hotmail addy and bag some freebies.

Looks pleasantly decent, more serious than the literal anything goes original but not Gritty n Dark.

The_Grim_Angel wrote:
I always hoped to see a remake of "Masters of the Universe" in which:
1) Teela actually is the daughter of Sorceres and Man-at-arms: this would create a strongest bond among the three character;
2) Teela doesn't became the new Grayskull keeper: she and Sorceress have two totally different roles in the story and both of them are equally useful;
3) She-ra lives in the same planet of He-man: this would allow some interesting crossover among the two series;
4) She-ra isn't the He-man's sisters, but his cousin: I always found out the story they are siblings a little be forced.
The fourth point isn't really important, but do you think my first three desires will be grant?

Well, I can only address #3 and 4 (and mostly in terms of the She-ra reboot)
#3 explicitly can't happen. That they're in another dimension is actually a big deal for the entire narrative that doesn't get resolved until the end of season 4. And season 5 is a pretty wild ride until the end- no one has time for Eternia until their plot arc is over.

#4 doesn't actually matter in terms of new She-ra. Its partly because of licensing issues, but also because the showrunners wanted her to have agency of her own this time (seriously, the original pilot/movie was awful for Adora as a character, she only makes moral decisions because He-man shows up and tells her to). But the fact that she's from somewhere else and maybe has family is a ship that sailed. It comes up once during the show, but beyond a brief identity crisis, it doesn't matter. Her 'found family' and childhood relationships are paramount, and while dealing with the family she was stolen from as a baby might be interesting, it'd be kinda fanfiction-y. And have to happen post show, at which point she and her friends are just a giant weight on the good side of the scales, which would undermine the He-man story significantly.

Just watching it again, I realised that I completely missed Orko on the first watch. He looks quite sinister there. If they manage to make Orko something other than 'would be comic relief except that he's not actually funny', that would be nice... He was the one part of the original cartoon that I hated, as a kid.

 AduroT wrote:
I always love that song, it makes whatever it’s accompanying just more epic by default. Skeletons laugh bothered me a bit though, it was too Joker I think.

yea, i got some joker vibes from it as well for a moment or two there

 insaniak wrote:
Just watching it again, I realised that I completely missed Orko on the first watch. He looks quite sinister there. If they manage to make Orko something other than 'would be comic relief except that he's not actually funny', that would be nice... He was the one part of the original cartoon that I hated, as a kid.

But who else is going to learn the True Meaning of Christmas?
Those heartwarming plane crash orphans won't share the story of Jesus with a demonic looking Orko!

Ok that looks really cool.

And that's Mark Hamill doing the voice of Skeletor!

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Ok that looks really cool.

And that's Mark Hamill doing the voice of Skeletor!

When I heard that Mark Hamill was in this, I was thinking "Please be Skeletor, please be Skeletor!"

This looks better than the other He Man show that is happening and Kevin Smith's discussions about what they're trying to do sound promising.

I don’t think there’s Any way this will have any sort of crossover or connection with the recent She Ra series. They are just way too different in style and approach.

 AduroT wrote:
I don’t think there’s Any way this will have any sort of crossover or connection with the recent She Ra series. They are just way too different in style and approach.

from the interview/discussions i've seen, there isn't, smith answers that pretty directly

 AduroT wrote:
I don’t think there’s Any way this will have any sort of crossover or connection with the recent She Ra series. They are just way too different in style and approach.

He said, like it were a bad thing.

It's a fantastic thing they are not connected ;D

Also, probs one of the better uses for Looking out for a Hero.

Not what I expected from the trailer at all, honestly.

I thought it would be more like this:

 warboss wrote:
According to slides of the presentation from Powercon that are now floating around the interwebs and youtube, the missing "He Man" from the poster title isn't an accident. Apparently it'll instead focus on Teela and He Man will barely feature in it. Apply salt as needed to taste.

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 AduroT wrote:
Skeletons laugh bothered me a bit though, it was too Joker I think.

A minor complaint and hardly a dealbreaker but... I totally agree.