Masters Of The Universe: Revelation - Netflix

Need a Username wrote: »

Battle of The Planets was flipping awesome.

Now I need to track that down.

Wasn’t there a live action Japanese movie a few years ago?

Need a Username wrote: »

What is the song?

silverharp wrote: »

is that the one that has space ship that looks like an old sailing ship? if so just answered a "name that show" where I only had the slightest of memories but remember it as a great Sat morning show back in the day

looks like they are going down the drama route

I liked it and will keep watching when it comes back.

I'm not saying it because it's a female led show, but there were times where it felt like the She-Ra Netflix series.

I know Mark Hamill's doing a different voice but I could only really hear Joker in Skeletor's voice

Yeah, I watched the companion show where Kevin Smith interviews the actors and he and Mark talk about how he came up with the voice and I was just thinking "He just did the voice he usually does"

I've only watched the first two and I understand how the reviews are so mixed. On the one hand, from what I'm seeing so far I don't think the story itself is super 'woke.' Yes the main characters are all female and Teela is certainly coded as in a relationship with her companion. But that in and of itself doesn't make it woke. The She-ra series was painfully woke. It was just constantly, constantly making point after point in a way that broke the storytelling. It wasn't a story of mainly women fighting a resistance against an oppressive regime. It was a vehicle for imposing the author's morality. A morality I don't even disagree with but it just felt like being lectured in cartoon form with the story as secondary to that. It was boring, preaching to the converted at the expense of examining the universe of She-Ra and really developing the characters within it. The episodes I've seen of MotU aren't that. It feels like a story first and foremost. If this was an original creation where the characters were mainly women, some of whom were in a relationship with each other. I don't think it would feel woke to most people.

BUT, this isn't an original creation. It's He-Man. I know it's titled Masters of the Universe but we all associate that with He-Man. Most of the audience came for He-Man. To have him so sidelined must feel like a blow to those who were watching this to feel a bit of their childhood thrill. It's not wrong to feel let down to find themselves watching the Teela show. Even if this was an X-Men style 20+ episode series and this was an arc in the middle of that series, it could really work well. Establish the universe with He-Man and Skeletor as it's central characters and then take them away for a portion of that to see how those around them grow or shrink in their absence. But to start the show with the first new episodes in 36 years, the first episodes ever to be truly written with real depth. (No offence to the 80s series but they were mostly formulaic and the characters quite 2 dimensional). And to immediately take away the central two characters for what I suspect will be all the episodes of part 1 at a minimum. Is going to feel like a blow. To then focus almost exclusively on the female characters in what had very much been a male dominated show, it is going to feel like a deliberately woke move. And you can't even say that by focussing on Teela they are redressing a balance, because that balance was redressed in 1985 when Adam was given a twin sister who got her own female dominated show.

Although selfishly, as I truly hated the new She-Ra, I am enjoying finally getting a bit of female dominated storytelling in this universe. As a kid I actually felt extra bad for Teela when She-Ra was out. She had to hang about to either get kidnapped or fight Evil-Lyn in a universe where women were much more purposeful on the neighbouring planet. She-Ra just made Teela feel extra redundant. So I'm liking her getting to be actually useful for a change. But at the same time, I really do sympathise with He-Man fans and don't think Smith should have done this in this way.

Teela is a complete brat.

An arrogant obnoxious moron.

Her reaction at the end of episode one is just baffling.

The score by the brilliant Bear Mc Creary is the best thing about the show