News He-Man anime series from Kevin Smith coming to Netflix
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I think even Man-at-Arms wore fuzzy underwear over his armor in the original line. TVTropes has Rule of Fun and Rule of Cool to explain why shows sometimes do things and I think old cartoons probably needed a Rule of Toy Production to explain things like that or why Stinkor looked like Mer-Man with a new paint job.
Plus, gotta love the 80's where smoking while eating isn't a problem just shirts.
It almost works with the very first comic presenting him as a crude barbarian guy who has nothing but the aforementioned shaggy trunks. I could almost picture him stumbling onto the village out of the wilderness and they're like "Who that?" "He, Man".
Well, I have to say that the He-Man who was first depicted in the minicomics seemed quite the stereotypical "barbarian".
I admit, this is one reason I'm amused they included Wun-Dar in the new series as an Easter egg. He was seemingly to some extent based on the early concept of a more "barbarian" He-Man, although he also shares these traits with Oo-Lar (who is based directly on the comic above). The "Wonder Bread" toy figure is something of an oddity in the original line, to the extent that even Mattel had some difficulty uncovering aspects of its history.
Always found it funny that so many people feel nostalgic about the Dolph Lundgren movie. Despite having a really good cast, that film is absolutely terrible! Even Frank Langella's kid, who loved He-Man and who was the main reason he took the role of Skeletor, fell asleep watching it.
I suppose one can apply the "so bad it's good" concept there.
Dark Horse's The Art of He-Man has some cool movie concept art (by Ralph McQuarrie) which is much closer to the animated/toy designs than the ones used in the final movie. It would have been interesting if that approach had worked out.
Every time I hear the name He-Man it reminds me of the Little Rascals and their He-Man Woman Haters Club.
Who seem to constitute the vocally loudest of many fandoms right now. Oh, snap! Yeah, I went there.
Sounds very Ferengi.
I guess Universal gets all rights back in '23? Maybe why they're pumping these projects out now.
I was thinking Three Stooges but apparently their Woman Haters Club doesn't have the He-Man prefix.
I watched the five episodes over the past few days and enjoyed them (I was a diehard filmation He-Man fan in my early years, but haven't really watched any other incarnation except for the film) - and yes, we did have lots of the figures but I never paid attention to the mini-comics.
Revelation was enjoyable. My only problem was going in, I didn't remember which characters knew Adam's secret. Can't wait to see how they get out of that cliffhanger. I give them credit for developing a story in the first half giving a heavy focus to characters other than
I laughed when I saw the Justin Long credit for Roboto. I jokingly asked whether he was a Mac or a PC.
Revelation was enjoyable. My only problem was going in, I didn't remember which characters knew Adam's secret. Can't wait to see how they get out of that cliffhanger. I give them credit for developing a story in the first half giving a heavy focus to characters other than
I laughed when I saw the Justin Long credit for Roboto. I jokingly asked whether he was a Mac or a PC.
They covered that in the opening narration of episode 1, although they just showed images of Cringer, the Sorceress, Man-at-Arms, and Orko instead of mentioning them by name as in the original narration.
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The actress who played Teela in the live-action movie married Scott Bakula.
Ah, I was wondering if I missed a novel or background reference in the records seen in "Mirror, Mirror" or something.
I read that in the episode The Rainbow Warrior they implied the queen knew/suspected the truth. The Wiki lists She-ra (well, of course), every character who knows She-Ra's secret identity also know He-Man's (and vice-versa), Zodac and various cosmic entities too.
That must've been why Revelations established that she'd known all along. I wondered if that had precedent.
Remember kids, mothers always know the truth, even if they pretend not to.
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It's legit. Notice the checkmark next to the channel name.
