...Add me to the "I don't see anything wrong with what he's wearing" group.
"I squirm, I struggle, ergo I am. Faced with death, I am finally, truly alive."Aw, you gotta keep Bow as the Gay Best Friend.
I really like the new character designs. They seem to be keeping the same backstory, so it's possible they'll bring in the He-Man characters at some point, but for now it's Adora's story.
That seems low, at least for the original series. Adora is a former Horde Force captain and was implied to have spent at least a year, possibly more at some sort of military academy or similar institute before getting that position. Similarly (remembering that Adam and Adora are twins), Adam and Teela are said to have grown up together (implying them to be close in age) and Teela's a Guard Captain in the original show, again implying late teens to early twenties at least, even allowing for accelerated progress due to nepotism/main cast powers.
Long and short of it, although I would argue this version looks a lot younger than the old one who at least was in her early twenties. Other people are mad about the short shorts under the skirt which raises all sorts of Unfortunate Implications about why they care about that detail.
And then there’s a few people just find the art style wonky. And me who wants Skeletor to show up down the road with the other MOTU characters because dammit, Skeletor.
You can’t reboot anything these days without being part of the culture wars. This side wants to be subversive and is evil, that side is full of troglodyte and is evil, etc.
Edited by Beatman1 on Jul 17th 2018 at 8:24:34 AM
>Skeletor
>Amazing character
He's a cackling skeleton man and the archetypal Saturday morning cartoon. He's not exactly Heathcliff.
GIVE ME YOUR FACE
As opposed to Hordak who is a generic Evil Overlord and was so nondescript the 2002 show radically reimagined him from the ground up.
You can talk up a lot about this reboot, and the majority of the complaints are terribly overblown in this age of outrage culture, but nothing is going to convince me Hordak is better than Skeletor. Even Frank Langella’s hamtacular performance, and that was only two hours, would be enough to push him over the line for me.
I admittedly don't know much about this series but it sounds to me like complaining that Skeletor won't show up is the same as complaining that the Joker won't show up in a Superman show.
This song needs more love.
Hordak isn’t nearly the intellectual counterpoint Lex Luthor is though. Luthor is an iconic villain all his own. Hordak they’ll really need to sell to make people not think about old bonehead.
If the worst thing we’re arguing are the merits of Skeletor vs Hordak we’re doing well.
Edited by Beatman1 on Jul 17th 2018 at 10:58:00 AM
If Hordok isn't as interesting a villain, than the point is to make him more interesting. And as it's been said, Skeletor is too iconic to He-Man; if there's another He-Man reboot, than of course he should be there. But it's clear this show is trying to build its own universe more, and relying on He-Man's arch nemesis would undermine that.
And unlike the cited example of the Catwoman movie, if we want to go into the superficial elements like Batman not being in it, then it's worth pointing out that nothing about Catwoman's mythos is represented in that film. We've already seen this one includes several characters and the actual setting of the original. The only thing missing is He-Man being her brother, and in the grand scheme of things that's really not a big deal for an adaptation trying to stand on its own instead of be a spinoff.
Edited by TheGunheart on Jul 17th 2018 at 4:33:30 AM
...Is there something about this She-Ra character that I'm not aware of?
Edited by dragonfire5000 on Jul 17th 2018 at 11:25:04 AM
"I squirm, I struggle, ergo I am. Faced with death, I am finally, truly alive."My guess would be that at some point He-Man and Skeletor will show up in a Backdoor Pilot for a potential new He-Man series.
Edited by TheMountainKing on Jul 17th 2018 at 2:52:37 PM

Because then it wouldn't be Bow. And what's so stupid about it?