Anyone remember Blackstar? It was an animated series by Filmation that featured a human astronaut stranded on an alien world fighting an evil overlord; it preceded the animated He-Man by two years. Visually it resembles He-Man quite a bit (Filmation even re-used some backgrounds from Blackstar in He-man; they also reused some background animation from their earlier Flash Gordon series). Blackstar, like the original iteration of He-Man from the comics included with the action figures, carried half of a magic sword, with his nemesis in possession of the other half.
An interesting bit of trivia is that, in their original pitch, Blackstar was in fact a black man, something nixed by the network at the time (he wouldn't have been the first African-American character to lead a Saturday Morning animated series, but it still would have been pretty progressive at the time). As it was he was still Ambiguously Brown, and many fans have imagined him to be the ancestor of Filmation's later cowboys-in-space Native-American hero Brave Starr.
Edited by Robbery on May 3rd 2022 at 7:41:20 AM
And finally, we have official confirmation that the 'Revelation' team are back with a second instalment
Is it going to be a direct continuation of Revelation, a case of New Season, New Name? Or a different continuity?
I think some fans headcanon Blackstar as Afro-Native American to reconcile the initial concept with the final product. Which is fine by me.
Anyway looking forward to Revolution and especially whatever role Hordak will play after the way Revelation ended.
Speaking of Bravestarr, I really hope that series get's new iteration sometime, with a similar artstyle and tone to Young Justice or MOTU Revelations. The space western aesthetic is always classic, and it'd be a great starring role opportunity for a Native America voice actor.
In fact I found some pretty stellar updates to his and JB's design not too long ago on Artstation.
Bravestarr
JB McBride
Edited by Avenger09 on Jun 9th 2022 at 9:24:26 AM
The route they took with Evil-Lyn still doesn't convince me.
I have nothing against female anti-villains, but in the case it felt like a classic case of Females Are More Innocent.
I would like that in this new season, female antagonists appear who are not anti-villains.
You mean the Revelations version, right? For me, destroying Preternia felt like crossing the Moral Event Horizon, so her redemption afterwards didn't feel right.
With the caveat that she went mad from being overwhelmed by seeing so much of the entire universe. It wasn't that simple as just doing an evil act for the sake of it. She already had redeeming qualities that Skeletor didn't(and he actually kept his sanity, while keeping his obsession with He-Man/Adam).
She absolutely crossed it, but only after starting to go insane. The thing about her redemption is that she actually is realizing what she's doing is just plain wrong and wants to try and become better. They didn't have enough episodes/screentime to fully go into everything, though. It doesn't look like it's a situation that can even be fixed, so being unable to undo something that big is a huge deal. Trying to atone for it is going to take time, something that's easier to do in the next season, after they were able to stop the battle. It's not something she can just suddenly "atone for" in like 5 minutes. It's something she has to live with for the rest of her life. Of course, that doesn't mean they'll go into it in the next season, but there still wasn't time to really do much with the situation either.
Shadow?True, and she wasn't completely forgiven; she went Walking the Earth after the final battle instead of being friends with the heroes.
Eh. I could see how Walking the earth can seem like her getting off easy in this case.
Its not like she committeed a crime against a specific village and was exiled.She blew up heaven.And now gets to walk the earth free as a bird.The only real downsize is the average Joe's reaction to her.Unless that's explored next season.Walking the earth comes across like a slap on the rist to me
It wasn't meant to be a punishment, that's kind of the point. That doesn't really teach a strong lesson on how to atone for one's mistakes(punishment actually doesn't teach a thing. Therapy and talking to someone to help them learn how to be better does. Which is more what the show seems to be going for). Another factor to keep in mind is that she had become friends with the heroes, which gave her some leeway in not being imprisoned. They want to see her become better too. Despite not being forgiven.
Her final actual act was resurrecting Orko for good, which does impact the total relationship of her and the heroes. They can clearly see some good or a possible attempt to atone. That factors into the overall decision.
Skeletor on the other hand? Despite everything, still acts foolish and turns on the heroes despite asking for their help and He-Man was willing to even give him power so he can be helpful. His obsession with He-Man leaves him getting his ass handed to him instead at the end. He didn't learn a thing, whereas Lyn did. That's the core point of the message overall. Teaching is far better than imprisonment and has a positive effect in helping people become better. You aren't going to get that if you view the person poorly(and He-Man even gave a speech to Skeletor, attempting to stop the foolishness without resorting to kicking his ass, a good message overall).
Shadow?Which would have worked better had she remained a minion of skeletor.Not a supervillainess who had committed horrible acts in her own right.
At some point,you can't expect people to satisfied with a talking to.There needs to be appropriate consequences to a persons actions.
Edited by DeanCole on Jul 20th 2022 at 4:03:25 AM
Their reactions reflect their mentality's.
When Skeletor, who lives to ''cause harm'', witnessed the whole of creation he saw it as only another tool to use in his spiteful quest.
Lyn, someone whose suffered harm most of her life, saw its chaotic nature as proof that the universe was pointless and thus all the pain she and everyone else had endured was meaningless as well.
Edited by Avenger09 on Jul 20th 2022 at 12:22:10 PM
It wouldn't have at all. By making her her own person instead of a minion, they let her make her own decisions, including realizing what she did. Right now she's on a journey to look into herself, which actually does matter a lot more than a punishment would. She can't learn things in that case, because the most important part is teaching her.
Which they did talk to her, and which is why it was effective. And no, consequences aren't "needed" to teach a lesson. This isn't something like nature or learning fire is too hot. Those are also consequences, but this is people talking to her. Never mind the thing that happened is she broke from the vastness of information, and actually needed to converse with someone to help her out. Punishment wouldn't fix a damn thing and doesn't actually give her a reason to keep as much alive as possible(and we don't even know if she could've restored Heaven. She's still new to the powers, and destroying is a lot easier than creating, after all). Heaven may be restored later for all we know. She may still get more consequences for her crimes later, after she explores her psyche better.
The big thing was ending the war already and trying to stop the hate. What she did was horrible, yes. But constantly fighting after they saved the world and rescued her from her self-destructive behavior sends a terrible message. People can't get redeemed if you never get the chance, and they clearly are trying to redeem her.
Shadow?

I thought eight.