She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

[Starbug]

youtu.be/GsGMkAWB6lY

I was somewhat hesitant to start this thread given some of the... heated debate the pre-release artwork stirred up, but I'm actually enjoying it now its out, so what the hell. If Chuck's willing to review My Little Pony, I guess we can discuss a cartoon about a girl with a magical sword that turns her into an 8ft tall blond haired, blue eyes warrior-goddesses without too much trouble.

Oh, and Catradora is my OTP.

[Deledrius]

That looks pretty cool! I'll have to give it a watch when it comes out.

[Starbug]

That looks pretty cool! I'll have to give it a watch when it comes out.

Depending on where you are in the world, it should be out now. I'm on episode 11 of 13.

[Imperator-zor]

It's pretty well done and I'd give it a whole hearted recommendation. Frankly spinning out the initially minor plot point of She-Ra being raised by Hordak into a defining character trait was the best way to go about it.

Zor

[Starbug]

It's pretty well done and I'd give it a whole hearted recommendation. Frankly spinning out the initially minor plot point of She-Ra being raised by Hordak into a defining character trait was the best way to go about it.

Zor

It is interesting to see he learn to look beyond "hit it" to solve every problem that comes up. And thankfully, not every problem they come across can be fixed by punching something.

Also,serious props for making the villains fully fleshed out charecters in their own right. Big improvement over (what I remember of) the original.

[clearspira]

I have never seen this or the original and I don't intend to see it, but as a Star Trek and Star Wars fan who has watched with horror as my favourite franchises have been crippled beyond belief, I can completely understand why the original fans would be raging over turning their adult and seductive heroine into a girl that looks like a boy. At least I ''assume'' that she is a girl judging by the lack of boobs. It might just be the art style which leads me on to my second point about why I completely understand fans to be raging.

I grew up in the golden age of the superhero cartoon: Batman the Animated Series, Justice League Unlimited, the first Teen Titans, X-Men, X-Men Evolution, Static Shock, Spiderman, Batman Beyond etc. and all of them had a realistic art style. Sure, the animation is often choppy by todays standards, but these people universally looked and acted like humans and their plotlines were frequently dark and surprisingly adult. I get none of that from today's cartoons. They are made for children to such a level that as far as I am concerned we have regressed back to the days of the Hair Bear Bunch and Bugs Bunny. You can be any age and enjoy Justice League Unlimited, but I refuse to say the same thing thing about most cartoons today.

Just as I as a fan of the first Teen Titans find it impossible to like the new Teen Titans, I am not surprised in the least that fans of the first series of She-Ra hate this.

[Deledrius]

That looks pretty cool! I'll have to give it a watch when it comes out.

Depending on where you are in the world, it should be out now. I'm on episode 11 of 13.

That was quick. What site are they on? The official channel only seems to have teasers, which is... weird.

[Imperator-zor]

If I had the Money to spare I'd give Chuck this to review.

Zor

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

I have never seen this or the original and I don't intend to see it, but as a Star Trek and Star Wars fan who has watched with horror as my favourite franchises have been crippled beyond belief, I can completely understand why the original fans would be raging over turning their adult and seductive heroine into a girl that looks like a boy. At least I ''assume'' that she is a girl judging by the lack of boobs.

Lets be clear: those fans don't forking exist. Nobody gave a blue-streaked shit about She-Ra until they had a chance to complain about the ess-jay-dubble-yooz ruining their childhood wank nostalgia that existed purely as a one-point-five-season gender distaff counterpart to He-Man. Okay?

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

Sure, the animation is often choppy by todays standards, but these people universally looked and acted like humans and their plotlines were frequently dark and surprisingly adult. I get none of that from today's cartoons. They are made for children to such a level that as far as I am concerned we have regressed back to the days of the Hair Bear Bunch and Bugs Bunny. You can be any age and enjoy Justice League Unlimited, but I refuse to say the same thing thing about most cartoons today.

Dost thou fuck with me, sir?

Have you eaten of the insane root, and/or snorted it off somebody's ass cheek?

We are in a GLORY age of cartoon writing, character development, and nuance.

She-Ra, the original, by contrast, was a hastily-slapped together cash-grab of pussy-puking idiocy with a script written at 3AM by somebody very hung over who was fearing for his life, and it was in GOOD COMPANY. Look at the pilot episode and try not to escape by hitting your own computer with a soup spoon. I monkey-flipping DARE you.

Anyone who says cartoons were great then and suck now has been huffing paint thinner fumes and nostalgia in equal measure.