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News A Second He-Man Series is Coming to Netflix

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Netflix has announced that they are making a second, CGI animated, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe series, along with the previously announced 2D series from Kevin Smith, and the upcoming live action movie.
IGN's article features a logline for the series, "On the planet of Eternia, a young lost prince discovers the powers of Grayskull and transforms into He-Man, Master of the Universe! The classic battle between He-Man and evil Skeletor rages to new heights as both hero and villain forge new and mighty teams. A new generation of heroes fighting for the fate of us all. In the end, who will become Master of the Universe".
It is being produced by Mattel Television, Adam Bonnett (Descendants), Christopher Keenan (Justice League, Batman), and Rob David (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles).
I'm a little surprised to see a third He-Man production at Netflix that seems to have no connection to the She-Ra series.
 
I wonder if this is "along with" the Kevin Smith project or a replacement for it. Even though I was a member of He-Man's original '80s audience (though toward the upper end of the target demographic), Smith's proposal never made much sense to me -- a direct sequel to the original series wouldn't be that accessible to kids, but doing it in an anime style or whatever seems to lose a lot of the nostalgia appeal. So it feels like something Smith is doing merely to indulge his own appetites, rather than something that has a good chance of appealing to a wide audience. I've always kind of half-expected it to fall through.
 
The IGN article says this show will be a "brand partner" to the Kevin Smith series and the movie, so it sounds like the Smith series is still happening.
 
Revelations has been in the animation stage of production for a while now, they're not gonna told production now.

I'm up for more He-Man, and the people involved have good credentials, so this has no downside.
 
Kai "the spy" (Holiday Special) said:
Revelations has been in the animation stage of production for a while now, they're not gonna told production now.
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Oh. Well, just as well it's a limited thing. It still sounds like a bad idea to me, trying to turn it into something it wasn't. It was a thoroughly episodic, rather superficial show with a largely unchanging status quo, not the kind of thing that lends it to a "tie off unresolved arc threads" sequel. If you want to do it in a more modern style of writing, then starting from scratch with a reboot seems more appropriate.
 
Prince Adam was wearing too much pink to have been straight in the 80s.

Pink and purple.

The secret identity change, seems like a metaphor for being forced in a closet.

He can't be his real authentic self, Adam. Instead to impress his daddy, Adam has to be some sort of He-Man.

Maybe they could play with that in the new series?
 
Christopher said:
I wonder if this is "along with" the Kevin Smith project or a replacement for it. Even though I was a member of He-Man's original '80s audience (though toward the upper end of the target demographic), Smith's proposal never made much sense to me -- a direct sequel to the original series wouldn't be that accessible to kids, but doing it in an anime style or whatever seems to lose a lot of the nostalgia appeal. So it feels like something Smith is doing merely to indulge his own appetites, rather than something that has a good chance of appealing to a wide audience. I've always kind of half-expected it to fall through.
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That's actually a simple solution if Netflix has the rights to the original series. Kids can watch that series along with the new one. Also, for what it's worth, Fuller House was made without Netflix having Full House on its channel, and it was a big hit.

I loved the 2002 version of the series. I thought it captured what made the first series so popular, while doing more modern episodes that delved into the mythology and gave answers to various questions, including a strong origin for He-Man and Skeletor.

It would be fun to see something similar done in the 80s universe. It would be nice to see some back story of the characters. I'm looking forward to it.
 
JD said:
We've got our first looks at both He-Man and Battle Cat in the show, and the new action figures.
I actually kind of like the designs for the show, but I am surprised the figures look more like they did in the original show.
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The second picture isn't for the new show, but actually for the original one (or they might end up being for Revelations). The He-Man and Battle Cat from the first picture are what the new show looks like. And it's certainly ... different. Not for me, but then, I'm not the target audience, anyway.
 
Guy Gardener said:
He-Man is off-theme for a woke show like She-Ra.

Infinite male energy.
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I'd say that makes it ripe for bringing into the She-Ra-verse, tackling gender identities, concepts of what makes a man, toxic masculinity and furthering same sex relationships as part of what is normal.
 
Filmation heroes' masculinity was never toxic. They tended to be compassionate, nurturing sorts who abhorred violence. Well, aside from Thirty-Thirty in BraveStarr, but he was a cyborg horse.
 
Christopher said:
Filmation heroes' masculinity was never toxic. They tended to be compassionate, nurturing sorts who abhorred violence. Well, aside from Thirty-Thirty in BraveStarr, but he was a cyborg horse.
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At the very least it depicted male characters all as big, bulky muscle men, and He-Man solved problems by punching thing a anyway.
Well Orco wasn’t, but not sure Orco is actually male.
 
Timelord Victorious said:
At the very least it depicted male characters all as big, bulky muscle men
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Not all. Certainly in He-Man, since that was based on the Mattel toy designs, and toy lines tend to use standardized body plans for ease of molding. But Filmation had plenty of other heroes based on more naturalistic body plans. Filmation's Tarzan, for instance, had a lighter build resembling movie Tarzans such as Johnny Weissmuller, and their Flash Gordon was based pretty directly on Alex Raymond's design for the character. Marshal BraveStarr, a few years after He-Man, had a fairly normal build that was actually modeled on Filmation writer Bob Forward. The animated Star Trek characters, of course, were modeled on the original actors and had their builds.

And arguably one of Filmation's most enduring male role models was Fat Albert.


, and He-Man solved problems by punching thing a anyway.
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Not really, both because censorship at the time didn't allow showing people punching each other (they only punched inanimate objects) and because Filmation was always dedicated to wholesome, positive values and moral lessons.
 
Orko is Bat-Mite from Filmation's The New Adventures of Batman. They're exactly the same character -- a floating, diminutive magic-user from another dimension who wants to be helpful to the hero but keeps bungling up and making things worse, and who has a crush on the redheaded female lead -- and they're both played by Lou Scheimer with exactly the same character voice.
 
Turns out they've got full episodes of the original series on the official He-Man Youtube channel, I might have to check it out, I've never actually seen it before.
 
All we've seen for this new series so far is toys.

We don't really know what the CGI is actually going to look like.
 
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