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ParanoidObsessive posted...

The original cartoon was "HE-MAN and the MASTERS of the universe", the theme song is just some dude singing "HE-MAN" over and over again, and literally everyone called it "He-Man". So it's kind of an understandable assumption. Especially since the later cartoons also all included "He-Man" in the title - and one of them didn't use "Masters of the Universe" at all ("The New Adventures of He-Man").

Granted, the movie was just called "Masters of the Universe", but the movie was also terrible and was more of a stealth adaptation of Kirby's Fourth World than anything actually related to MOTU, so it barely counts for anything.

It's also worth noting that while the toyline (and franchise overall) was generally known as Masters of the Universe, they also never really used that tag for anything She-ra related, so MOTU was very much reserved for the He-Man side of the line.

So let's be honest, while you could technically argue that the Masters of the Universe franchise doesn't revolve around He-Man, it totally does. And if you tune in to a MOTU show expecting He-Man but it turns out it's mostly about Man-at-Arms or Orko, you're probably going to be annoyed. So there are implications there.

Did I *really* need to specify "franchise" rather than "series"? Because I thought it was clear what I meant from context.

Lokarin posted...

Doesn't episode 1 of every show suck?

No. In fact, in some cases (albeit rarely) every episode after 1 sucks.

JixHedgehog posted...

Bummer, it sounded good from what I was reading a few days ago

Mark Hamill and 2 GoT actors providing voices too

94% from 35 critic ratings
Vs
25% from 1047 user ratings

tbh, I had some pretty serious reservations from the get-go, and something about the trailers looked off.

Kevin Smith is shit, and he's basically just done done garbage for decades.

MrMelodramatic posted...

I knew it was going to be shit after it was announced it would be unrelated to She-Ra.

pleasantly amused I was right

jfc, if it was related to the new She-Ra it'd be the shits. The first season of She-Ra was aggressively mediocre and I had cooled so much by the end I didn't watch the remaining parts.

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This, people are upset their half hour toy commercial doesn't have enough buff semi naked man beating on buff skeleton man.

...if they were half-hour toy commercials, at least it'd be within the spirit of the show.

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