He Man Reboot Announced

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I decided to rewatch the 80s live-action Masters of the Universe film, but skipping all the parts with Courtney Cox and her boyfriend. Granted, that's 2/3 of the film, but its really not missing anything, and leads to a pretty good 30 minute 80s scifi fantasy action movie. Meg Foster was great in it.
 
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Grand Wizard Wakka said:
I decided to rewatch the 80s live-action Masters of the Universe film, but skipping all the parts with Courtney Cox and her boyfriend. Granted, that's 2/3 of the film, but its really not missing anything, and leads to a pretty good 30 minute 80s scifi fantasy action movie. Meg Ryan was great in it.
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Langella is the star of the show, but Meg Foster is low key just as great and deserves a lot of credit.
 
You know, a show where Teela has to step up after He Man is gone is not a entirely bad concept and it would have been interesting seeing her struggle to fulfill her duty.

But instead we got a aggressively unlikable, poorly written, and awkward series with several Brokeback Mountain moments. And for some reason, Kevin had to rip off Last Jedi of all things.
 
lol they're gonna force you to like the Last Jedi. What ballers. I say "you" because I'm outside the target audience. Hopefully you all find your refuge eventually. As long as you don't bring their watchful eye with you.
 
Grand Wizard Wakka said:
I decided to rewatch the 80s live-action Masters of the Universe film, but skipping all the parts with Courtney Cox and her boyfriend. Granted, that's 2/3 of the film, but its really not missing anything, and leads to a pretty good 30 minute 80s scifi fantasy action movie. Meg Foster was great in it.
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The best thing about watching that was realizing during Skeletor's apotheosis that Frank Langella was playing beat for beat the his same character during ending of The Ninth Gate. (Good film, consider watching it rather than spoiling the ending for yourself). Boris Balkan is Skeletor blew my mind when I watched the scene again.

Also, has anyone commented on the fact that He-Man kills during this show? He never used to kill. Children's cartoons don't usually have the hero kill people.
 
Overly Serious said:
Also, has anyone commented on the fact that He-Man kills during this show? He never used to kill. Children's cartoons don't usually have the hero kill people.
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Blame modern Hollyweird nihilism. The idea that “extrajudicial murder is wrong” is an alien concept to these people. It’s like they don’t see that supervillains and mooks are people too.
 
FreedomMussel said:
Blame modern Hollyweird nihilism. The idea that “extrajudicial murder is wrong” is an alien concept to these people. It’s like they don’t see that supervillains and mooks are people too.
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I'm honestly starting to believe they can't see it's wrong. That they see the world genuinely just as a tribal thing and any moral discussion just another battleground to prove that they are right and others wrong, rather than something that actually matters in itself.
 
Also, He-Man losing himself and killing Skeletor over Moss Man of all people (to say nothing for MM now inexplicably living in Grayskull's forest basement and getting killed in 10 seconds).

He-Man would never kill Skeletor, but even if he did, I doubt Moss Man would be the straw that broke the camel's back. Man-At-Arms, Orko, Battle Cat, Teela, The Sorceress, or one of his parents? I might buy it. But Moss Man? Really?
 
Overly Serious said:
I'm honestly starting to believe they can't see it's wrong. That they see the world genuinely just as a tribal thing and any moral discussion just another battleground to prove that they are right and others wrong, rather than something that actually matters in itself.
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This is terrifying, but this sort of self-destructive tribalism is a pretty common sentiment regardless of your political affiliation. It takes a lot of maturity and self-awareness to be able to rationally audit your beliefs and change your mind in response to new compelling data.

RumblyTumbly said:
Also, He-Man losing himself and killing Skeletor over Moss Man of all people (to say nothing for MM now inexplicably living in Grayskull's forest basement and getting killed in 10 seconds).

He-Man would never kill Skeletor, but even if he did, I doubt Moss Man would be the straw that broke the camel's back. Man-At-Arms, Orko, Battle Cat, Teela, The Sorceress, or one of his parents? I might buy it. But Moss Man? Really?
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It's weird that he casually slaughters mooks but holds back when fighting Skeletor until seeing his friend get killed. Does Eternia have some warped moral code where mooks are considered disposable?
 
How did Skeletor finally find out Castle Grayskull's big secret, anyway? It's weird they never talk about that during the first five episodes, considering it's, er...kind of the reason the entire plot happens. He just suddenly shows up, knows how to get there, knows what the MacGuffin is, knows where the MacGuffin is, and knows how it works well enough that he allows himself to get shish-kabobed by He-Man (tee hee) just to make the Power Sword break it.

That's a lot of shit Skeletor had to learn from somewhere. It sure would be nice to know a little about how the main villain of the story hatched his ultimate master plan, but maybe that's like the "Who actually was Snoke?" of this show.

I dunno, I read there's a tie-in comic also written by Kevin Smith (oof) that's supposed to explain what happens before the series, but there's only one issue out and the first part of the show has already aired. Maybe it'll go into how Skeletor finally found out ...but I feel a better writer would have found a way to put that, y'know, in the show.
 
asparaghost said:
Im traumatized, fuck you Kevin. Is the 2002 series any good compared to the original?.
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Yes. The 2002 series is a well animated and action packed reboot that features many of the characters and also has the fun/adventure aspect that the original show captured back in the day. It also has less of the corn and sweetness of the original which would probably work better for modern audiences.
 
The 2002 He-Man was supposed to fully introduce The Horde in Season 3, which probably meant that She-Ra was going to pop up too. That alone makes me sad that we didn't get it.

As for Thundercats 2011, the art director Dan Norton did a podcast a few years back where he talked about the direction of the series for Season 2 and most of it sounded really good too (other things I was not too hot on, but overall, it sounded like a great direction). The fact that it didn't happen was kind of sad.

Here's the full podcast for anyone interested.
 
RumblyTumbly said:
The 2002 He-Man was supposed to fully introduce The Horde in Season 3, which probably meant that She-Ra was going to pop up too. That alone makes me sad that we didn't get it.

As for Thundercats 2011, the art director Dan Norton did a podcast a few years back where he talked about the direction of the series for Season 2 and most of it sounded really good too (other things I was not too hot on, but overall, it sounded like a great direction). The fact that it didn't happen was kind of sad.

Here's the full podcast for anyone interested.
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Gonna be real, I feel people are putting on rose tinted glasses for 2011 Thundercats. The first half was legitimately great, but good lord was the second half a clusterfuck of poor writing and even worse pacing.

Its still leagues better even at its worse than most cartoons we get today, but just because your comparing a smelly turd to a calcified one doesn't not make them both shit.
 
The soyalorian said:
I'm sorry but whenever I hear this joke I always think of this clip.

Even if it's retarded and inaccurate.
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SorrowTV is a Gianni Matragrano case where he can read some funny stuff but every now and then he reads some retarded gay shit, it should be expected because his primary content is Reddit stuff but still.

Anyways while I'm here I feel like I should bring up how Jim Starlin will almost certainly love this show and will probably use some of the scenes from it in his videos after it comes out.

I kinda hope he ends up making a video about it, I want to hear what his crazy takes on it would be. It wouldn't be off brand because he barely covers video games now.
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Man what ever happened to sorrowtv? I know his twitter is active but, i don't see him do anything anymore
 
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