He Man Reboot Announced

[Jagraveen]

So basically according to spoilers I've read, He-Man dies immediately (and then possibly comes back only to die again) so lesbian Teela can take over, and all the male characters are weak?

Glad to hear I can skip this then.

I knew the Bait 'n' Switch was real. No way these woketards will ever play He-Man straight

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

I knew the Bait 'n' Switch was real. No way these woketards will ever play He-Man straight

Can we have at least one thing made in earnest or respect to there predecessors these days? Is that just to much to ask?

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

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Can we have at least one thing made in earnest or respect to there predecessors these days? Is that just to much to ask?

That reboot of Ducktales was pretty earnest and respected both the original but the entirety of the Disney Afternoon block in total, with call backs, references, and all of them with actual admiration for what came before.

 

[Miang]

Well, to sum up the spoiler review:

Spoiler

The opening episode is a gigantic Royal Rumble of characters duking it out, which ends with Skeletor tricking He-Man into stabbing him in the chest. This somehow lets him get his hands on the Sword of Power and gets control (or starts to get control) over Castle Grayskull. He-Man splits the Sword of Power to stop him, but doing that explodes both him and (apparently) Skeletor. He turns briefly into Adam while doing it and this is how Teela finds out they're the same person.

Time skip and everyone's sad. Teela ragequits because she feels betrayed and also sad over Adam. Sorceress is dying, magic is dying, and Eternia is dying. We find out Eternia is actually the lifeline of the universe. If it goes, so does everything else.

They have to find the two halves of the Sword of Power. This means going to Eternia Hell (Underworld) and Eternia Heaven (Preternia). Man at Arms can reforge the Sword of Power, but he's stuck in Grayskull as the Sorceress' only defense against the fragmented Evil Warriors. So they send Roboto with Teela because Roboto can theoretically do it too. Maybe.

Teela gets her maybe-girlfriend, Orko, Roboto, and Evil-Lyn as her Fellowship of the Ring. They go to the Underworld where Scare-Glow is guarding the evil half of the Sword of Power, and there's also a portal to Preternia. (Huh?)

Big fight happens. Scare-Glow feeds off fear, and Teela's afraid she isn't good enough, so the fight spills over into Preternia.

Orko dies in Episode 4 in a heroic sacrifice against Scare-Glow. Apparently this feels pretty "final" as deaths go. They make a grave for him in Preternia.

They find Adam hanging out in paradise with the rest of his He-Man ancestors and explain what's going on. (Moss Man is also dead and in Heaven. I don't know why.)

There is a portal back to Grayskull from Preternia (there's a portal just about anywhere in this show, apparently), but whoever goes through it can never return (isn't this All Dogs Go to Heaven?). Adam voluntarily gives up any chance to return to Preternia in order to return to Grayskull with his friends.

Roboto reforges the Sword of Power, but dies in the process. I guess this thing is a radioactive hazard or something.

Once they're in Grayskull, there's another big fight between Man at Arms and a few Evil Warriors where he basically solos them. Teela, Adam, and the group get down to the inner depths of Grayskull where Adam raises the Sword of Power to turn into He-Man...

...and Skeletor pops out of Evil-Lyn's staff, where he's actually been hiding the whole time. He stabs Adam right through the chest, possibly killing him (?). He takes the Sword of Power, holds it up, and does the famous chant:

End Part 1 on that cliffhanger. See you in, er, 6 months.

 

[Sex Cannon Lupa]

Is Teela as hot as she was in the movie?

 

[Liquid Marlon]

That reboot of Ducktales was pretty earnest and respected both the original but the entirety of the Disney Afternoon block in total, with call backs, references, and all of them with actual admiration for what came before.

But didn't they make one of the main characters a lesbian that wanted to fuck a villain's shadow? (Or a new "black coded" crow girl or some shit)

That might just be a weird headcanon thing going on in the community but it's so hard to tell nowadays.

 

[RumblyTumbly]

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Can we have at least one thing made in earnest or respect to there predecessors these days? Is that just to much to ask?

Right now we have the new Duck Tales (which ended) and Cobra Kai....that's about it.

But didn't they make one of the main characters a lesbian that wanted to fuck a villain's shadow? (Or a new "black coded" crow girl or some shit)

That might just be a weird headcanon thing going on in the community but it's so hard to tell nowadays.

I'm sure the show has creepy shipper types because all shows do these days, but it never spilled out into the show.

 

[Product Placement]

Wasn't going to watch this anyway, but killing the title character of the show is just beyond idiotic. He-man is the brand and people who will watch this expect He-man not only to be in it but to be the star, if they had to do something out there they could kill Adam and have someone else take over as He-man. Would you do a Batman movie with Batman/Bruce Wayne dies 5 minutes in without someone else taking up the mantle? no, because no matter how good that movie could be, no one wants to see that, they want to see Batman. No one is going to stick around to see He Man return in how many episodes it takes.

I don't even blame the writers or Kevin Smith for this, I blame Netflix, they have no idea what they are doing in terms of making content, it's all just throwing shit at the wall and some of it will stick. It's no shock Netflix is losing subs in American and Canada with services like HBO Max and others offering a much better backlog and their new stuff seems to have some quality over Netflix even if it's just production value.

 

[Maamtis]

I seriously expect it to leak out in the next few years that Netflix has a mandatory LGBT character policy. Even Disenchantment had it but did in a way that felt like they did it just to do it and never speak of it again.

 

[The Doom Slayer]

Jesus Christ. Avoiding this shit like the plague now.

 

[RumblyTumbly]

"Smith has crafted a story that puts the female characters front and center and it empowers these individuals in a way that the original series never did"

That is so insulting to the original, I don't even know where to begin.

First of all, some of the best episodes of the classic series are the ones that focused on the female characters. Teela got some of the very best spotlight episodes (Teela's Quest, Teela's Triumph, and The Witch and The Warrior), The Sorceress was one of the few characters to get an origin story (Origin of the Sorceress), and The Rainbow Warrior elevated Queen Marlena and created one of the most memorable episodes. And then on the villains side, Evil Lyn had several stories where she was the primary focus (Evil Lyn's Plot, The Witch and the Warrior, No Job to Small, The Shaping Staff, Ordeal in the Darklands, Journey to Stone City, The Littlist Giant, Revenge is Never Sweet) and she had several episodes where she acted independently of Skeletor as well (Eternal Darkness and The Defection).

And that is to say nothing for all the different female side characters that were not toy based and proved to be great guest stars in the show. These include Kittrina, Shokoti, Lady Valtira, Celice, Hawk, Una, Queen Elmora, and Major Andrea Steele.

The idea that the old show held its female characters back and that this show is remedying that is assinine. I would argue that the old show made Teela, Evil Lyn, & The Sorceress icons of the franchise, and the show also created a bunch of female characters that became favorites despite not having toys themselves.

Its ridiculous and I hate this pandering nonsense.

 

[Dr. Pasquale]

Bro this is going to be such a shit show

Power level here, but I live in latin america and everyone here got mega hyped because of the first trailer. My niggas will fucking crawl up the wall when they start watching a revival of their favorite childhood cartoon show just for the main character to die in the first episode.

Netflix already has shit reputation around these parts, people are catching on to it's agenda, this show might be the first nail in the coffin

 

[Product Placement]

Jesus Christ. Avoiding this shit like the plague now.

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Have these people ever watched a Mad Max movie outside Fury Road?

 

[Creep3r]

Called it.

It sucks to be right, but yall should know better in [current year], especially when Netflix aaand Kevin Smith are involved. I suggest you all watch the 2002 He-Man instead. It also adds a real good mystery in regards to Teela's father without taking He-Man away from the spotlight, which was sadly never resolved because the show got canned...

But didn't they make one of the main characters a lesbian that wanted to fuck a villain's shadow? (Or a new "black coded" crow girl or some shit)

Spoiler

And this is supposed to be their fat jovial friend from the old show...

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

My niggas will fucking crawl up the wall when they start watching a revival of their favorite childhood cartoon show just for the main character to die in the first episode.

Ugh why? I mean we already know he comes back to life. It's a common trope (but people are still falling for it somehow) but for the first episode it's a bit...dumb.

On the other hand, even if he "died" in a later episode people would still be butthurt so perhaps it should have happened in season two. Season 1 should be He-Man in action doing campy He-Man stuff.

...Also they are going to make He-Man a raging fag aren't they? Because "representation".

 

[RumblyTumbly]

How about He-Man / Adam Loses the Power in Episode 5 as the cliffhanger for Part 2?

That's a nice hook for the rest of the show, is it not?

 

[mindlessobserver]

I knew the Bait 'n' Switch was real. No way these woketards will ever play He-Man straight

Ar this point the only way my expectations can be subverted now is if Hollywood does not shit out some more propaganda for their new Cult.

The writing was on the wall when all the female characters were revealed to be roided out men with muscles on their muscles. Because that is what is progressive now. Write characters who act like men, approach conflict in the story like men, fight like men, talk like men, give them a female voice actress and just enough boob and curve to not be problematic and call it a woman.

Female representation in the current year everyone.

 

[Oats12345]

I think people need to apologize to ClownfishTV. They were right!!!!!!!

 

[The Cunting Death]

Why is masculinity frowned upon now?

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Why is masculinity frowned upon now?

Masculine men can fight back.