Masters of the universe evil lyn series#
That's why, smartly, the trigger that changes the direction of the series from episode two on is one character realizing that, back on the O.G. Smith and his writers know that no amount of gravid blather about cosmic balance and the loss of magic and the end of the universe can make us invest in the series without some emotional underpinning.
The show's new status quo soon reveals itself to be at best a kind of distinction without a meaningful change from what it was before. The reason for this doesn't have all that much to do with what Smith and his writers have done to the show's mythology, which, at the end of the day, isn't as big a deal as it seems at first. The episodes that follow center themselves on a character who existed as an afterthought in the original series. Put it this way: Eternia gets a sudden I-Have-The-Power vacuum. This thing sports a tremendous voice cast.īy that first episode's end, however, the eternal stalemate that marked the original series has been shattered, the original cast thinned out considerably, and the mythology on which the series was built has been upended (read: Everything You Thought You Knew Was Wrong!). Nothing on Eternia has changed much, since the '80s series.Ģ. Meanwhile, the dastardly Skeletor (voiced by Mark Hamill) and Evil-Lyn (voiced by Lena Headey) are up to their usual skullduggery.įrom that description, two things should be immediately apparent:ġ. We open on a ceremony granting Teela (voiced by Sarah Michelle Gellar) the title of Man-at-Arms, while Prince Adam (voiced by Chris Wood), his pet tiger Cringer (voiced by Stephen Root) and the wizard Orko (voiced by Griffin Newman) look on. The pilot, written by Smith, proves a kind of narrative bait-and-switch. (Netflix is splitting this first season of the series in half the first five episodes dropped on Friday, July 23rd the back five will drop at a later date.)
It's a tried-and-true reboot tactic for a reason: It allows contemporary storytellers to return to characters they loved as children and sand off the edges that render them dated, sexist, or racist - or merely insufficiently complex and compelling - to modern audiences. The new series, developed by nerd-nabob Kevin Smith, goes the familiar route, when it comes to rebooting a property like this one: Everything You Thought You Knew Was Wrong! How about the rest of us, though? That's harder to figure. What are they to make of Netflix's Masters of the Universe: Revelation, which does not content itself to simply reboot the '80s series, but goes further, completely revamping and - most controversially - retconning it as well? Whoever they are, these MotU ride-or-die-ers, they're out there in droves, and they continue to regard the series as a sacred text - a cosmic, cheesy, and kiiiiinda gay sci-fi/fantasy text that is best remembered as it was, preserved in space-amber. (Eternia evidently has only Gold's Gyms, no CrossFits.) Maybe they're toy collectors, ecstatically giving themselves over to the siren song of nostalgia as they scour the internet for that final, elusive Scare Glow that would complete their collection of colorful characters all sporting the exact same hyper-muscular anatomy. Maybe instead they were jaded adolescents when it aired, and gathered with friends every afternoon after school intending to snicker at its minimal-effort animation (characters cycled through only a handful of motions as they walked against scrolling backgrounds that repeated themselves every few seconds), its homoerotic imagery (He-Man and Skeletor's personal style confirms that Eternia is home to a thriving leather community), and its cast of punningly named characters (Fisto! Stinkor! Mekaneck! Sssqueeeze!), only to find themselves caught up in the series' mythology. Maybe they were young enough, when the series aired, to recognize the series for what it was - an extended commercial for an ever-expanding Mattel line of steroidal action figures, choking-hazard accessories and extruded-plastic playsets - and respond to it on that simple level. These are individuals who love the Filmation animated series He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, which ran in syndication in the 1980s, with a fierce ardor unsullied by irony, or cynicism, or, you know, taste.
An I-Have-The-Power vacuum pits Teela (Sarah Michelle Gellar) against Evil-Lyn (Lena Headey) in Netflix's Masters of the Universe: Revelation.īecause the world is vast, and the internet is deep, we can take certain things for granted, among them: There exist, in surprising numbers, Masters of the Universe purists.
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