This was my formative mythology as well, and I was feeling skeptical about the movie, but considering giving it a chance, until a spoiler was dropped on me just before release that torpedoed my interest.
He-Man accidentally causes the death of King Randor? And, as people who've seen the movie have confirmed, that's just a 'mark it off the plot checkpoint list and move on' point, probably left over from an earlier script draft?
When two of the defining features of Filmation He-Man are his respect for all life--to the point that he renounced the Power of Grayskull when tricked into believing that he'd caused the accidental death of an innocent bystander--and his desire for his father's approval, you can't claim to be a lighthearted romp doing homage to the 80s cartoon and then drop something like that without paying any attention to it.
People have theorized that it's a remnant of an earlier version. Is there an anti-paternal subtext in the film? What I've heard about Duncan's characterization and relationship with Teela certainly seems to suggest as much.
""Adora, who becomes She-Ra, is in many ways the equal of He-Man and in some ways an improvement upon some aspects of He-Man," Knight says."
With that attitude, and the DreamWorks series possibly having poisoned She-Ra irreparably, I fear that the future of the franchise could be She-Ra's boot stepping on He-Man's face ... forever.
This was my formative mythology as well, and I was feeling skeptical about the movie, but considering giving it a chance, until a spoiler was dropped on me just before release that torpedoed my interest.
He-Man accidentally causes the death of King Randor? And, as people who've seen the movie have confirmed, that's just a 'mark it off the plot checkpoint list and move on' point, probably left over from an earlier script draft?
When two of the defining features of Filmation He-Man are his respect for all life--to the point that he renounced the Power of Grayskull when tricked into believing that he'd caused the accidental death of an innocent bystander--and his desire for his father's approval, you can't claim to be a lighthearted romp doing homage to the 80s cartoon and then drop something like that without paying any attention to it.
Yes, I still didn't know quite what to make of that moment. They actually kind of go out of their way to make that happen.
People have theorized that it's a remnant of an earlier version. Is there an anti-paternal subtext in the film? What I've heard about Duncan's characterization and relationship with Teela certainly seems to suggest as much.
Another reason I'm going to avoid this movie is that I don't want to encourage a sequel after the latest comments from the director, as reported at https://ew.com/masters-of-the-universe-end-credits-scenes-break-down-travis-knight-nicholas-galitzine-11992299:
""Adora, who becomes She-Ra, is in many ways the equal of He-Man and in some ways an improvement upon some aspects of He-Man," Knight says."
With that attitude, and the DreamWorks series possibly having poisoned She-Ra irreparably, I fear that the future of the franchise could be She-Ra's boot stepping on He-Man's face ... forever.