Kevin Smith tells Comic-Con@Home why Teela is the center of Masters Of The Universe: Revelation
In Netflix’s He-Man reboot, the original buff boy shares the screen with Sarah Michelle Gellar’s Teela
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It’s been roughly two decades since He-Man, Orko, and Skeletor graced the small screen. But by the power of Grayskull, today, that changes. The Kevin Smith-created Masters Of The Universe: Revelations launched on Netflix today, so Smith hosted some of the cast for a Comic-Con@Home panel. Joining Smith was Chris Wood (He-Man), Sarah Michelle Gellar (Teela), Tiffany Smith (Andra), and Tony Todd (Scare Glow).
But with all the excitement surrounding Prince Adam and his bulging alter-ego He-Man, Smith emphasized the importance of Teela in his adaptation. Teela is on every episode of the original He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe cartoon, as he’s quick to point out. For the reboot, he said that Teela and her not knowing that Prince Adam is He-Man is the “fulcrum upon which we built this epic.”
“Teela, who was there in every episode, side-by-side with He-Man, and also there to protect [Prince Adam] was the one person left out of the secret,” Smith said during the panel. “Based on that, Teela was basically the center of the story that we were going to tell. It’s a He-Man story, it’s a Masters Of The Universe story, but it’s watching Teela’s journey.”
At her most generous, Sarah Michelle Gellar turns Smith’s praise of her performance to her praise of Chris Wood’s Prince Adam. “I just throught it was so beautiful,” Sarah Michelle Gellar said of the show scripts. “I think I read the first three right away, and I couldn’t wait to see what happened. I was so invested[…]I think Chris before, you’re being modest. I think there’s one thing you forgot about what you gave Adam, which is depth. Adam was a typical cartoon character and you humanized him in a way that then everybody else’s story, specifically Teela.”
Masters Of The Universe: Revelation is getting Smith some of the best reviews of his career. Writing for The A.V. Club, Kevin Johnson, “Smith presents Eternia in smoother, sharper, much more dynamic animation, but also maintains the clunky exposition dumps, stilted dialogue, and even the choppy editing of the original show—at least in episode one. A risky, admirable move at the end of the premiere pushes the characters and overall tone in a much more modern, emotionally honest direction in subsequent episodes.”
You can watch the panel below. In addition, the first five episodes of the 10-part limited series are now streaming on Netflix.
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The AVClub reviewer for this show went *extremely* out of their way to hide this story fact. And yet, the show has barely started streaming and AVClub makes it a headline?
There’s no spoiler here. If you haven’t seen the show, the headline just reads as ‘Teela is at least as prominent as He-Man’
The sub headline does. The main headline doesn’t. Regardless, I personally don’t really care, but the original reviewer completely went out of their way to hide the fact that Teela had much of a role at all.
I just re-read the review. It’s dancing around ANY spoilers, and still dedicates a full paragraph to how teelas journey is a big part of the show.
From what I’ve read, He-Man is only in two of the five episodes, while Adam spends a bunch of his screen time getting reamed out by Teela for making everyone else feel bad by dying.
You should try watching it instead of relying on what you’ve read.
He’s in flashbacks a couple of times at least
And…SPOILERSThey kill him off not once, but twice! Someone really didn’t want He-Man in this show!
Kevin Smith said he’s not dead
I hadn’t heard that, but it’s hopeful news!
You and I clicked it, didn’t we?More and more often I wish this general group of commenters was available without the articles, because lordy mercy.
I will say that avoiding that story fact was due to review embargo reasons. Basically had to write around a lot of spoilers because I was required to!
I watched the first episode, and I wasn’t terribly impressed. But I will watch the rest, just because I’ve got nothing better to do.
It does improve as it goes on.
The quiet moments are the best. When it slows down a bit to explore the space and characters, it works. It’s exactly what you want and then some. When it’s speeding through plot points is when it’s at its least fun. They should’ve released the entire season at once, IMO. Pacing was the first five episodes’ biggest issue. Too much happening at once and not enough exploring the space or what He-Man meant to this world.
I was really surprised how easy it was to get the good half of the sword back. Lol. Forging it was rad tho.
While some are obviously taking this too far, I can see why people would be irritated at there being little He-Man in the He-Man show. Especially since, unlike TMNT or Transformers, there aren’t 50 different versions of the show fans can latch onto instead. This is only the 4th He-Man (not counting She-Ra) show.
I’ve just finished the first five eps. The first episode is a regular He-Man episode right up to the end, which sets the stage for the following four episodes. In a much less annoying version of Arrow’s flashbacks to the island, they show He-Man’s past adventures with Teela and Man-At-Arms fighting Skeletor in every episode to provide context for the present-day storyline. There isn’t a single episode that doesn’t spend at least a third of it’s run time with He-Man.
To be fair only the show was called He Man and… I think this show is bringing back around to the whole MoU ensemble thing.
I mean to be fair if they made a show called The Sailor Scouts I wouldn’t be bummed if we got less of Sailor Moon. Because anyone with a lick of genre savvy knows their fluffing out the world and are totally gonna bring back Sailor Moon at the stories high point. The only people who don’t know that are literally babies or adults with soft spots still on their skull.
True but there are a whole bunch of different continuities in He-Man because of the original mini comics, the DC comic series, the later comics by other companies. The story books. The German audio drama tapes and the whole MOTU classics toy line attempt consolidate it all. As I’ve said before this show is called Masters of the Universe: Revelations and not He-Man and MOTU: Revelations. It seemed pretty clear for a while this was gonna be about other characters more then He-Man
German audio tapes? I’ve always enjoyed your posts and must bow down at what seems to be an incredible deep dive.
Which honestly is contrary to what most viewers would expect.
I watched the five episodes that were up today. I was not impressed. I get where they were going creatively, but a lot of it fell flat. They also did that whole end on a cliffhanger at the point where the real story is ready to begin thing that way too many Netflix shows indulgence in.The entire first five episodes could have been cut down to two and we wouldn’t have missed much. By the end every relationship is about where it was to begin with, sans the dead people. The one character who had the most growth over those five episodes saw that wiped out in the last five minutes (though I’m sure they will do something noble in the back half of the series).The whole is Teela being broody, complaining no one told her the truth, and then the show, despite a time jump, going out of the way to have everyone avoid telling her who her mom is and what her destiny is.
the show, despite a time jump, going out of the way to have everyone avoid telling her who her mom is and what her destiny is.
Coincidentally, every time it’s about to get revealed she also says something along the lines of “I don’t want to hear it” because she thinks they’re about to bring up why they kept the He-Man stuff secret.It’s incredibly frustrating.
I’m enjoying it but it was dumb when Duncan is about to tell her and evil-lyn cuts him off with “we don’t have time for that!”
Thats a pretty standard gag for an 80s show. The ongoing secret that never gets revealed til the very end.
And? This is supposed to be a more serious take with a deeper storyline and character work.
This is another problem that I think happens with these new woke, more “mature” versions of old properties is the defenders of them keep talking about how it is a more mature version of the old property that fixes everything stupid about it and is better suited for grownups, but when people start criticizing it on that more adult level, the defenders turn around and say “what do you want, it’s for kids” or “that’s typical for an 80s show” and use that same childishness they claim the show is great for transcending as a shield to hide behind. So the old show needs to be judged for its 80s stupidity and this show needs to be credited for transcending that, except for the areas when it doesn’t transcend plot holes and childishness, in which case said plot holes and childishness are good things we should all just tolerate and not demand more from?
I enjoyed it overall but I didn’t buy that character’s choice in the last five minute, either. Disappointing. Will they do more with her? Likely, but depends on how. I think it’s good. Not great. I agree. I don’t mind ending on a mid-season cliffhanger but I didn’t feel compelled by the one we got, just kind of… Oh, okay.Good not great, will hinge entirely on how the back half goes.
I’m gonna watch the back half just to see how it goes. Kinda wish I woulda waited and either watched an episode at a time or waited for the back half to drop before starting to watch.
Spoiliers for those who haven’t watched yet.They could have skipped the whole time time jump. Just have Skeletor steal the power instead of breaking the orb and we would more or less be where we were at the end by the end of episode 2. The only real character growth we would lose is Orko (who is probably going to come back and save the day at the end somehow).
Evil-Lyn would betray Skeletor off and on in the original series, so her doing a heel-turn minus the time jump would totally make sense. More so if they took some time to really flesh out her relationship with Skeletor.
Teela feeling betrayed but still having to save the day and work with the people who kept secrets from her while battling Skeletor would have let her character shine while exploring all the things they were trying to explore so far.
Good, not great is how I feel as well. And yes, the holding off of information is so clumsily done… Look, I’m someone who wrote my MA on a daytime soap opera–there is a way to do it that’s not just incredibly frustrating.
Honestly, this whole series just makes me miss 2002!Teela.
My only gripe with Teela’s angst is that the show didn’t hammer home enough that it was borne out of her personal grief until muuuuch too late into the first half of the series. Her anger came out in weird ways, too, and it only felt genuine during the quieter moments. She yelled at two grieving parents and made it about her. Which is a very human response (and a very teenage response), but it’s not one that engenders a lot of sympathy for her later angst, especially when it’s shown the whole world is suffering. Was she mad that he died, that he lied, or that her best friend was made to shoulder this burden alone? All of the above? I hope the next half of the series goes into that. I have faith it will, but y’know, I get why some folks were annoyed with what we got. The show seemed to want us to be on her side.
I’m not sure if the writers want us to think that Teela is justified in acting this way or if they were setting up character growth. It seems like the former, which is weirdly misguided, focusing on Teela’s grievances and not empathizing with anyone else.
It was pretty clearly set out to give her a starting point for her character growth. She was in pain, grieving her best friend, and lashing out then running away from home.
Are you ready for a shock. The forty yearold man babies are review bombing the show. I know. You’re stunned.
I generally don’t look at ratings, but the scores on IMDB and Reel good are ridiculous. Not as bad as Thundercats Roar but still bad.
It was sooo bad. Bad story line, Skeletor was good but it was just Joker with out so much laughing. The rest the lack of any links to the past vocal actors efforts was distracting. The woke social justice nonsense has infected and tainted everything to a pathetic wet blanket non story. Story writers need to stick to making great stories instead of trying to tick woke boxes cause that infection is ruining the entertainment industry.
Does this mean we all have to watch the show lest we get cancelled?
Masters of the Universe was MASSIVE when I was little and a huge part of my childhood, and I still think these dorks are hilarious and pathetic.
How I feel about most transformers fans. 🤣 What i do feel is sadness and frustration and even some empathy for these folks who were not able to, and not supported, to emotionally and mentally grow beyond a certain level of self-centered immaturity. In some ways, it does break my heart. I LOVE nerdy things; I was a snobby and prickish 20 year old. I had a tough go in life. I still was able to grow and reflect. Then I hit up a fandom board and my empathy is replaced by infinite face palming. :/
40 year old man babies need the most attention.
their tears are like sweet nectar
I think a lot of people are overreacting to the changes, but at the same time, it feels like somewhat of a bait-n-switch, specially when the bait-n-switch was leaked and Kevin Smith started to act like an ass about it, claiming it was all al lie.
It’s like being told you won tickets for the Boston Red Sox, but instead you get tickets for the Portland Sea Dogs.
Uninteresting, falsely-advertised show getting poor reviews isn’t “review-bombing”, it’s a bad show getting bad reviews.
They are also flooding the comments here with their briny tears. I saw “She-Man and Masters of the Woke” somewhere in here and BWAHAHAHA they are so mad.
So many tears in the greys ican’t even dismiss cause Go kinja go broke
They are also flooding the comments here with their briny tears. I saw
“She-Man and Masters of the Woke” somewhere in here and BWAHAHAHA they
are so mad.THE ORIGINAL LITERALLY HAD MORAL MESSAGES AT THE END OF EVERY EPISODE TELLING YOU TO LOVE EVERY CREATURE ETC. AND HE-MAN NEVER PUNCHES ANYTHING NOT A ROBOT
My god, these people
Know what… I’m 42, and I loved it. Granted, when Adam first transformed it was a complete geek boy moment, but seeing all of the characters become more than they were in the original series was something special to watch. I can’t wait for the final five episodes.
Maybe just maybe its because it wasnt good
When Av club didn’t like the other Kevin Smith projects were they man babies? Or they weren’t because they aligned with your view? People did not like something, voiced it, should we only have likes like Facebook? Or would you respond by cherrypicking the worst takes as proof of the overall response? Did Adam Sandler’s project get review bombed by critics? Was movie 43 review bombed as well? Or maybe they had some legit reasons to not like it?
Kevin Smith lied.
As an almost forty-year old man-child, I tried to watch some of their videos on youtube. It was a painful experience filled with lots of angry lisping and shedding tears over how Kevin Smith was trying to destroy nerd culture just like all those other wokes who want to give girls big muscles.Anyway, whatever. Here are the things I did not like about He-Man 20X6:*Mark Hamill. I love mark Hamil. He’s a fantastic voice actor. He has an amazing range and in many of his roles he often sounds NOTHING like The Joker. So it was really disappointing that Skelly-Man sounded exactly fucking like The Joker. I suspect this was Kevin Smith’s doing. I mean he DID name his daughter Harley Quinn. I still love you Mark.* The show ended just as it felt like it just started going. Probably my fault, because I consumed it in a single sitting, but a lot of Netflix cartoons feel this way.* That raspy whispery British voice-thing actors are doing in these shows as a stand-in for ‘GOOD ACTING’ or ‘A MOVING MOMENT’ or ‘A CHARACTER EXPERIENCING REGRET’. You know, its how every fucking line of dialogue is delivered in Castlevania. Anyway Evil-Lynn does it a lot. But she was still mostly good and I liked what they did with her and Orko.* Evil-Lynn being incredibly fucking predictable at the last moment. Bleh. She deserved a Harley Quinn emancipation moment. I mean, she practically IS dating the Joker. *Andra. She’s a cool character with a cool design, but I wish she had got some more screen time. * No glove no love. Kevin Smith, if you are reading this, from one man-child to another, its time you fucking grew up. * It ends on a cliff hanger. Booo! It shoulda been self-contained. Especially now that the incels are throwing shit at Kevin Smith they will probably over-compensate and fuck up this story in the second season.And that’s it. It was better than I expected and I enjoyed it. Teela was always a more interesting character than Adam/He-Man and I was happy it focused on her rather than Adam finding excuses to go to another room so he can punch shit as He-Man. Next week I will have forgotten that I ever watched it, because as I brace before I slam into middle age like a brick wall and become a grandpa-child, I have more important things to spend my mental bandwidth on than a fucking toy-commercial from the 80s.
Yeah I’m 42. So what? Shut the hell up. It’s Part 1 of the series. Kevin Smith stated that Mattel didn’t hire him to make Masters of the Universe without He-Man. Oh and y’all’s political correct garbage? Haul that crap elsewhere.
“Waaaaah! Girl not background window dressing! Waaah! Girl have plot relevance! Waaaaaaaaaaaah! Girl have muscles!!!”Pratfall into a toilet bowl, losers.
Not surprising. Yikes. Who’s lifting all these chuds outta the greys on this article?
Dunno. There’s the one guy downthread writing circles about how this is totally an honest response cos just maybe maybe. Whatever. I have some vile and stupid comments in the greys responding to my comments. I can’t even dismiss them because I can’t find them to do so I kinja, they only show up in my notifications. 🤣🤣🤣
Kinja is awful, and it somehow gets only worse with age?
The best parts were the flashbacks in Episodes 2 and 3, where it was like a normal He-Man episode. I also really liked the visuals for the most part, though there were some issues at times. Most of the voice cast was good, but special mention goes to Orko’s VA, who really excellent at showing his weariness, weakness, and caring.
However, when the show actually got to its main plot, it was a bore. Teela’s journey was even more cliche than any episode of the original 80’s show, and her getting pissy at everyone just made me roll my eyes. There were also some animation gaffes, sometimes due to poor compositing, sometimes due to the faux anime style. It was too smooth for anime and too stilted for traditional Western animation. And while I like Mark Hammil in most of his roles, his Skeletor is a bit too Joker-y for my tastes, especially in Episode 5. I much preferred Brian Dobson’s performance.Overall, it was… fine. Honestly, it just made me more nostalgic for the 2002 show.
Orko is voiced by the always great Griffin Newman. Arthur in the latest live actions Tick, intern in Training Days, co-host of the Blank Check podcast. He is on the Podcast: The Ride that came out today taking about the He-Man live action arena show and he goes into much detail about how he really campaigned to play Orko in this and how he wants to voice him everywhere now in any and all adaptions
Downtown Griffy Newms was amazing as Orko. He should be the new go-to for any Orko casting moving forward. Like, he made that character seem like a real person.
You’re right. Surprisingly, orko grew on me, and the actor gave a terrific performance. Also agrees about hamill. A couple of his lines in episode 5 sounded entirely joker!
“It was too smooth for anime and too stilted for traditional Western animation.”
This has been my issue with a lot of “mature” current animation, including Invincible. (And yes, I know that the shows are still often animated by the same people in Asia.) The action scenes are always well done, but the non-action scenes are incredibly stilted.
Imo invincible often felt really poor quality in the animation … And the sound editing. Amazing, amazing cast but the mixing was weird, things didn’t all seem to sit in the same pocket, and I felt like the acting itself felt rushed or sped up.
Honestly I liked the way Teela was written. I liked that she was allowed to be human and imperfect and react badly to a situation that she wasn’t prepared for. It’s still fairly rare for female protagonists to be written as flawed or unlikable in any way and this was a refreshing change. For all the shit I give Kevin Smith, I have to give him credit on doing a much better job overall with this than I would have expected.
I think there could have been a version of Revelation where He-Man was still one of the leads and Teela still received the character growth and journey she deserved. Most fans would have been happy. Sadly, that’s not what happened.
Apparently, the original pitch was that Adam would simply lose the ability to turn into He-Man, and the show would have been about him and Teela going on a journey to get his powers back. No clue why that was rejected.
I think that would have been a very interesting story, seeing Adam have to survive and deal with adversity on his own without recourse to his He-Man powers, making him a stronger individual in the process. If Adam survives into Season 2, maybe we will get to see that storyline play out.
THAT would have been way better, and Adam would have had a nice little arc too. In fact, having the white, male, buff man learn to solve problems without his magic sword would have been a good, time-appropriate message.
Kevin Smith is full of crap and lost all his cred. Going for the now typical subverting expectations with the now infamous Dark Fate style of twists. This isnt metal and isn’t a continuation from the OG story. As Grace Randolph said there are no male leads or strong male characters, in Masters of the Universe as show synonymous with He-Man. It is like this was done in purpose to piss on OG fans, the reaction to this show and typical crap is predictable.
I will tell you why, because of agenda… Thats why. We cant have true male heroes anymore they have to be dumbed down and made to look stupid to fit the narrative and females are now taking over. That’s why they kill he man twice in the same episode. Refuse to watch this BS. RIP entertainment. You were fun while you lasted. Also kevin smith is a liar.
I’m old enough to have watched the original and can tell you without a doubt the ending of episode one would have never happened in the original show. This isn’t a continuation. It’s a deviation. Man had time to monologue and get up off the ground before committing the heinous deed.. with He-Man standing pretty much next to him? Yea. Ok.
Ok, the sub-headline thingy there is misleading in a way I’m tried of. Let me start by saying : I really liked this version of Master’s of the Universe. I wish we had gotten more time with the magic post apocalypse, I wish we got more time with the techno-cult, but overall, I liked it. It had some great action, the old feelings where there, the redesigns were cool redesigns that fit into the show rather than “edgy for edgy’s sake.” It was a cool show, and I’m looking forward to part 2.But I understand why people are upset (spoilers) because Teela doesn’t “share time with He-Man” thus making the girl taking over the show so the man-babies can cry: They kill off He-Man in the first episode, then the kill of Orko, then they bring He-Man back to stab him again. She doesn’t share time: She is the show. Again, that’s not a problem. She-Ra showed us that there would be a huge reception for Teela: Master of the Universe with probably some of the same people complaining, just not as loudly as if they were told “here’s He-Man!” then the trailers only showed the He-Man parts.But he killed He-Man. In the first episode. Then ended with him getting stabbed after coming back to life. Do you not see how that might annoy people who saw they were bringing back a He-Man show, was marketed as a He-Man show, and then boom… wasn’t a He-Man show?And a lot of critics have to blame in this, as a lot of early coverage centered on “why are they catering to evil manbabies who hated on She-Ra” then changed their tune real quick when they saw what Smith was doing.There’s a form of entertainment now that’s literally using nostalgia to piss off long time fans and then use that rage as a marketing tool. Once you “piss off the man babies” it becomes critique proof, because any criticism of the show just goes to “whining man babies who hate it!” and you can dismiss it rather than say, “maybe killing off a beloved main character in episode one might have been controversial, let’s see why.” And there are some criticisms of it. I felt they rushed too much back into “let’s get the gang and the sword of power back together!” rather than exploring this really cool looking new world. It should have been marketed more as “He-Man is missing!” and started in media res, as so many episodes have. Explore what He-Man meant to Eternia. Have the audience wonder why Teela is bitter, why Man at Arms is exiled, why magic is gone, why He-Man is missing. Have his death a mystery that needs to be solved. Explore the world to look at the fallout. And maybe don’t split this one up.But this trend of intentionally baiting people then wondering why they don’t like it has to stop. The trend of provoking the worst people so all criticisms are lumped in with them has to stop. It keeps happening, and it’s a marketing tool. Stop pretending it’s just “we hate that it’s a Teela show!” Start thinking about why someone might hate the bait and switch, and how this was used as a marketing tool that everyone is falling for.
There may be some merit to your argument But that’s a whole lot of gamergate style “go woke go broke” “sjw agenda “she-man and the lesbians of the universe” “pandering” in those negative reviews and comments that don’t fit your thesis like, Jesus, just the greys alone here are what I cribbed those shitty lines from. They’re actually *worse* than that.
The anti-sjw crowd is a even smaller subsection of Twitter and just as annoying as the other idiots. People are willing to give different things a chance, just don’t lie to them and give a sales pitch you were never going to deliver.
just don’t lie to them and give a sales pitch you were never going to deliver.
No one lied to you. Do you not understand how plot twists work? “No. I am your father;” Would have lost all of its impact if George Lucas had put it in the trailers for TESB. Did you come away from that complaining you were lied to because Obi-wan said Luke’s father was dead in ANH?
What about The Sixth Sense? You think M. Night Shyamalan misled you because he didn’t flash big bold words announcing “BRUCE WILLIS IS DEAD THE WHOLE TIME” in the trailer?
I am sorry to butt in but to what post are you replying? Who mentioned Gamergate?
I just can’t imagine anyone being that attached to He-Man as a character. He’s a piece of cardboard.
Right? The could have done almost anything with this IP and it would have been better than the toy commercial from the 80s. Jesus it was terrible. They were all pieces of cardboard.
While I watched all the big ‘80s adventure cartoons, I was more into the toys and creating a story for the characters. I was most intrigued by the packaging art for toylines like Transformers and MOTU, which painted fantastic fantasy worlds and gave you a basic outline for the conflict, but allowed enough room for you to imagine your own adventures.
Then write a Masters of the Universe show that gives him more depth instead of discards him.
Or they could just explore the other characters
I think there’s plenty of room to do both. Sidelining the main character is a pretty bold yet disappointing choice.
Eh, I don’t think it’s a big deal. The main thing is whether the story is interesting.
Agreed. If someone were to suggest that this show seems born our of modern social politics, where Netflix decided there was no way they could feature a white, blonde, burly male lead in today’s market and had to revise the story to star a strong, brooding woman, I couldn’t really argue with that perception. Fans love He-Man (who was always a much more sensitive and positive character than, say, Conan) and the show was marketed as being his return, only to pull the rug out in practice. It does seem a bit misguided and dishonest. Just about every Masters of the Universe fan I know loves Teela and always has, so I don’t think this is about resenting her presence. It’s because it came about at the expense of He-Man being shoved aside. A daring but puzzling and polarizing choice, for sure. There certainly could have been a version of this show show that both starred He-Man and elevated Teela, and in the process felt like a true continuation to Masters of the Universe.
But he killed He-Man. In the first episode. Then ended with him getting stabbed after coming back to life. Do you not see how that might annoy people who saw they were bringing back a He-Man show, was marketed as a He-Man show, and then boom… wasn’t a He-Man show?
Counterpoint: This is a toy-commercial from the 1980s. These people must have amazingly easy lives if they are getting so upset over THIS.
> But he killed He-Man. In the first episode. Then ended with him getting stabbed after coming back to life. Do you not see how that might annoy people who saw they were bringing back a He-Man show, was marketed as a He-Man show, and then boom… wasn’t a He-Man show?
Perhaps you might have missed the second part of the title, which is, “…& The Masters of the Universe.”
I don’t go into every episode of this show expecting the sole focus to be on the titular character, nor am I upset that the world-building that’s occurring in the FIRST FIVE EPISODES doesn’t meet with anybody’s discerning scrutiny. If you don’t like how the show is going, then guess what? You, or anyone that’s not happy with the beginning arc, can jump off right now with very little time invested and move on.Where I suddenly become inflexible is when people have come to this decision solely over the spotlight shining on a supporting cast member that not-too-coincidentally is a woman… and are so upset about it that they decide to bomb review sites with negs, and fuck with the people who made it on social media. If you don’t enjoy something, have the strength of character to simply move on. These people are literally white-knighting HE-MAN. I can’t think of anything sadder.
They announced months ago this would be focused on Teela. The man-babies have been complaining ever since. There was no rug pull. There has only been peeing on said rug out of petulance.
Nobody cares about teela. People want He-Man and Masters of the Universe! NOT “She-Man and Masters of the woke”. I didn’t even grow up with this and I’m 24 but even I understand you don’t screw with something so classic. I don’t get why liberals specifically Millennial’s always feel like they need to take a classic series and turn it to junk. Maybe because they lack creativity.
The show is pushing a woke agenda and everyone knows. Most articles also praise woke shows like the new He man series. They believe in the same ideology to empower women while at the same time denigrating men. I’m so disappointed with this show and it will flop.
Kevin Smith said He-man had the main role, now that the series is out he shows that it isn’t. He is a liar. This reboot is bad.
While the first episode “felt” like a He-Man show the other 4 felt way off point. Of all the emotions that Teela could’ve felt when she found out that He-Man was actually Prince Adam all along … Outrage would be the least likely one. Especially at a time when the King and Queen were mourning the loss of their son. Kevin Smith did Prince Adam dirty in this show. He’s marginally better than Dan and Dave with their Season 8 disaster. The one good thing about the new He-Man is the upgraded animation. It looks better than the original. But I’d take better story writing over better visuals any day. Shame we can’t get both … Guess there wasn’t enough in the budget for a good showrunner.
Meh. Prince Adam is useless without his magic sword and He-Man is boring as fuck. He died and went to he-man heaven where he chose to be Adam instead of He-Man while being surrounded by roided-up Conan The Barbarian knock-offs. It was the most development the character has ever had. Its the most interesting thing to happen to him and his choice in that position says a lot more about who Adam is than any of the original shows ever did.
Should’ve been called Kar-en and the complainers of the universe..Kar-en aka teela was the worst part of the show.So after being made man at arm and having adam,her supposed best friend die,her reaction is who gives a f¤ck about the kingdom its safety or the grieving king,Queen her father and two other friends or especially adams death because one person a cat and orko were ordered by the prince of the realm to keep it a secret,ordered not asked to keep it a secret.are you joking that her cry baby Karen reaction about learning that the world and everyone in it would now die along with the entire universe was to throw a fit,disown her father and kingdom to now go britney Spears on her hair become a violent thief while knowing and seeing all the suffering going on?!?..straight up trash premise along with the god awful writing,it would have been cool if they found another way for karen/teela to go off on her own and not act like the world amd everyone in it owed her something……also her father was going to tell her about her mother and she was like no its fine to keep lying to me about that tho? Ok dumb and just an all around stupid and lazy story,especially that crap with the techno organic church which of course was put in there only for new toy lines….im not a manbaby I just recognize a sh:t premise regardless of what all these virtue signing white knights that of course are the arbitors of whats good and whats not hoping it’ll get them laid thave to say…..the animation was dope tho
Kevin Smith is a liar who attacks his own fans. He sold his soul and is now just a corporate hack. Fuck him. He is Disney’s bitch. Nothing more.
This is just more woke crap on top of all the other woke crap that Hollywood makes the problem that people are having with this ain’t the fact that it’s the Teela show it’s the fact when called out about it Kevin Smith lied but when you have a show coming back like he-man you expect to have the show be about him not she-man we have that already it’s called She Ra I wasn’t a he-man fan back when I was a kid I watched it some but I was into other things more but woke Hollywood ruins everything they remake it’s just a simple fact
The overall consensus seems to be that the show wasn’t all that good. It had good animation and moments but overall the story was weak especially surrounding Teela. I will wait for the reception of part 2 before deciding whether or not the show is worth watching. I don’t have much faith in it at this point. By Smith’s own words it is a Teela journey and if she has been turned into an annoying character then I don’t see part 2 being any better. Luckily I stopped watching Game of Thrones during season 2 and I’m glad I didn’t waste my time any further retrospectively. I’ll do the same in this case and wait for the results. If it turns out to be praised in the end, I’ll watch it then. If it isn’t received well then I’m glad I waited and didn’t waste my time only to be disappointed.
How long is the time skip between episode one & two?
Apparently man-babies are review-bombing this show?Imagine if this were the one running in the 80s, and the reboot today tacked on “always brush your teeth” Very Important Messages at the end of every single episode and refused to actually show He-Man punching anything that might have a drop of blood running through it.
They’re so transparent and fragile.
Exactly. It’s so easy to jump into the “They’re all sexist!” boat without considering the context.
Funny how the trailer played on nostalgia for He-Man, then pulled the rug out and barely featured him in the new show. Now wonder people are disappointed.
“No” wonder
SPOILERS…………I thought it was very brave to kill off both He-Man and Skeletor in the first episode, even though they do come back in the fifth one. My only real complaint is that I didn’t care for many of SMG’s line readings.
I loved it, and the manbaby tears are delicious.