Kevin Smith Wants Angry He-Man Nerds to ‘Grow the Fuck Up’

Masters of the Universe: Revelation acquired essential acclaim forward of its launch on Netflix late final week, however the animated continuation of Eternia’s best has been confronted with review-bombing and anger on social media due to a bad-faith interpretation of what the present’s doing that showrunner Kevin Smith has little time for.

Much of the backlash to Revelation has been how Smith and the crew behind the Powerhouse Animation Studios collection purportedly “lied” to He-Man followers by having He-Man and his alter-ego, Prince Adam (each voiced by Chris Wood in Revelation), not play a serious function within the 5 episodes launched by Netflix on July 23. In the primary half of a debut season, the episodes concentrate on Teela (Sarah Michelle Gellar) as she travels Eternia’s equivalents of heaven and hell in an try to revive Adam, after He-Man sacrifices himself to defeat Skeletor on the climax of the premiere. Despite being lifeless, He-Man and Adam seem in some flashbacks within the overwhelming majority of the episodes, and the broader thrust of the collection continues to be about him, regardless of characters like Teela, Evil-Lyn (Lena Headey), and Andra (Tiffany Smith) being on the forefront of the narrative.

“I know there’s some people that are like, ‘Hey, man, this show’s woke,’” Smith mentioned of the backlash in a wide-ranging interview with Variety. “I’m like, ‘All right, great, then so was the original cartoon we’re fucking sequel-izing. Go watch it again. There are girls in every episode. Deal with it.’ It’s been interesting, seeing who truly is a hardcore fan, because anybody that’s like, ‘Oh, man, there’s not enough He-Man’ or something like that, doesn’t understand the show that we based it on. There were episodes where he lost the sword and he never became He-Man. It wasn’t like He-Man always saved the day. His friends helped him. That was the fucking point of the show.”

That was even earlier than the actual backlash started within the wake of the present’s launch. Irate viewers nosedived the general public scores for the collection on Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB, and a complete cottage trade of reactionary YouTubers have declared that Smith has turned He-Man too “Woke,” too “SJW,” too… “She-Man?” But it doesn’t matter what they are saying, Smith has loads of candor for what he thinks of followers who consider he’s ruined He-Man by, largely, nonetheless telling a narrative about He-Man by way of the eyes of Revelation’s wider solid. “I see people online go, ‘Hey man, they’re getting rid of He-Man!’’ Smith continued. “Like, you really fucking think Mattel Television, who hired me and paid me money, wants to do a fucking Masters of the Universe show without He-Man? Grow the fuck up, man. Like, that blew my mind, bunch of people being like, ‘Oh, I smell it. This is a bait and switch.’” That is certainly what some believed—earlier than watching the present, thoughts you—as “Kevin Smith lied” trended on Twitter for a bit.

Revelation’s first batch of episodes ends with a cliffhanger: after Teela and her allies have resurrected Adam, Skeletor is likewise revived however mortally wounds Adam simply as he makes an attempt to remodel into He-Man once more. But Wood himself hopes followers can learn the cliffhanger for what it’s, slightly than decrying that Revelations has ruined the character he voices without end. “Adam’s not dead; he’s very wounded. If you want to light the whole world on fire, in terms of destroying a fandom, you’d take He-Man out and be like, ‘That’s it, he’s gone, bye!’” Wood mentioned of what followers have seen thus far. “Now what they’ve done is they’ve found really interesting ways to turn the dynamics of the show on its head and raise the stakes to a point that the original never saw.”

It would appear that the world obtained lit on hearth anyway. The first 5 episodes of Masters of the Universe: Revelation at the moment are streaming on Netflix.

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