Masters of the Universe: Revolution (New Netflix Series)

Originally Posted by Voodoo Magic

I am looking forward to it too!

Regarding voice cast, I don't believe an official cast list has been released, but thanks to various hints, social media posts and announcements, it appears William Shatner, Chris Wood, Mark Hamill, Griffin Newman, Tony Todd and Tiffany Smith are confirmed so far.

How had I forgotten William Shatner was involved??? That'll be a treat. As for the others, that's He-Man, Skeletor, Orko, Andra and Scareglow, right? Hopefully Man-at-Arms and Teela are returning too.

Originally Posted by OwenMorton

How had I forgotten William Shatner was involved??? That'll be a treat. As for the others, that's He-Man, Skeletor, Orko, Andra and Scareglow, right? Hopefully Man-at-Arms and Teela are returning too.

Yep, and hopefully! Lena as Lyn too (if she still has a role to play of course, but I'm betting she does.)

Fingers crossed they all return!

Originally Posted by Voodoo Magic

He-Man actor Chris Wood confirmed ”Masters of the Universe: Revolution” will be released in 2023.

Here's a link to my article from yesterday if you want more info. 🙂👍
https://foreternia.com/2023/01/he-ma...leased-in-2023

Ooooooooo!!!! Sweet!

I'm gonna go ahead and guess an October / November '23 release date for Masters of the Universe: Revolution - part 1.

Super excited... now, I ask again: Mattel! Where the hell is our video game adaptation?!?!?

Originally Posted by Ornclown

Ooooooooo!!!! Sweet!

I'm gonna go ahead and guess an October / November '23 release date for Masters of the Universe: Revolution - part 1.

Super excited... now, I ask again: Mattel! Where the hell is our video game adaptation?!?!?

Fall Guys.

Originally Posted by Bear

Fall Guys.

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Originally Posted by OwenMorton

How had I forgotten William Shatner was involved??? That'll be a treat. As for the others, that's He-Man, Skeletor, Orko, Andra and Scareglow, right? Hopefully Man-at-Arms and Teela are returning too.

I wonder if Michelle Gellar would want to come back as Teela now that Teela doesn't seem to be main character anymore. I mean, Michelle Gellar is a big name.

Originally Posted by Konja9

I wonder if Michelle Gellar would want to come back as Teela now that Teela doesn't seem to be main character anymore. I mean, Michelle Gellar is a big name.

Well, her character is the new Sorceress, so she should return. Plus, if her role is reduced, she won't get so much hate. Lol

Yeah... Teela and Evil-Lyn were the focus of the last story arc, so this time, I'm hoping that Randor gets the nod.

I am so hyped and worried we will just get 5 episodes again!

Originally Posted by Catra2017

I am so hyped and worried we will just get 5 episodes again!

Well, technically we got 10 eps split into 2 parts x 5 eps. But this time around, it seems like it's only 5 eps from how things were worded, but I could be wrong, and hopefully I am.

Originally Posted by Ornclown

Yeah... Teela and Evil-Lyn were the focus of the last story arc, so this time, I'm hoping that Randor gets the nod.

Or maybe that other guy...what's his name?? Oh yeah.

He-man. He may not be everyone's favorite but I think some fans would enjoy a story where he's the main character.

Originally Posted by grenadaspice

Well, technically we got 10 eps split into 2 parts x 5 eps. But this time around, it seems like it's only 5 eps from how things were worded, but I could be wrong, and hopefully I am.

When the episode count was revealed originally to Revelation, they said 10 episodes. We knew the total amount all this time, there was no quirky wording. (Sure it was split in two parts by Netflix, but nobody ever said five when they meant ten)

For Revolution, they stated there will be 5 episodes.

If there is an order for more beyond that, all the better. And hope to hear that announcement when the appropriate time comes.

But so far when they have announced the episode count, it's been what we got.

Originally Posted by grenadaspice

Well, technically we got 10 eps split into 2 parts x 5 eps. But this time around, it seems like it's only 5 eps from how things were worded, but I could be wrong, and hopefully I am.

With no evidence to back it up, I have a sneaking suspicion that 10 episodes are actually greenlit, but unlike Revelation where the original plan was to drop all 10 episodes at once (before Netflix made the later decision to split them up), the new plan includes another split, but this time knowing it will happen in advance, they will tell two more 5 episode contained stories rounding out a trilogy... and of course they will hold announcing the third of the trilogy until the second hits.

It's my theory because... you don't bring William Shatner in and Mark Hamill back just to record 5 episodes, and Kevin Smith already knows what the third part will be called.

https://foreternia.com/2022/07/first...l-series-title

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Originally Posted by Catra2017

I am so hyped and worried we will just get 5 episodes again!

Fingers crossed for 10!

Originally Posted by grenadaspice

Well, her character is the new Sorceress, so she should return. Plus, if her role is reduced, she won't get so much hate. Lol

I doubt her character will have a reduced role. She'll be Adam's romantic partner and equal as we move ahead, as the ending of Revelation indicated.

He-Man, unleashed Sorceress and Orko with full control of his powers...Hordak will need some big guns for this.

Originally Posted by Bear

He-Man, unleashed Sorceress and Orko with full control of his powers...Hordak will need some big guns for this.

That's an issue. The staff has said the reason why they "killed" He-Man was because he is too powerful, which prevented them to create stakes.

However, the current situation is worse in this aspect, since there are three characters too powerful.

Originally Posted by Konja9

That's an issue. The staff has said the reason why they "killed" He-Man was because he is too powerful, which prevented them to create stakes.

However, the current situation is worse in this aspect, since there are three characters too powerful.

Easy fix, although I doubt the writers will do it. Stop making the villains into clowns.

Make Hordak extremely powerful.
Make the nanite motherboard virus immune to magic.
Have a hulking powerful Leech and huge deadly Grizzlor.
Make Mantena and especially Modulok into cunning, dangerous creatures.
Tons of Horde Troopers.


But, seeing how ridiculously they treated the Evil Warriors, this is most likely not going to happen. I fully expect Captain Andra to take these guys out by herself after seeing the death of Ram-man, Stratos, and Man-e-Faces.

Originally Posted by Dice

But, seeing how ridiculously they treated the Evil Warriors, this is most likely not going to happen. I fully expect Captain Andra to take these guys out by herself after seeing the death of Ram-man, Stratos, and Man-e-Faces.

Please, no! Andra needs to make like Jar Jar Binks in Attack of the Clones.... barely in the sequel.

Originally Posted by Bear

He-Man, unleashed Sorceress and Orko with full control of his powers...Hordak will need some big guns for this.

It's gonna be exciting!!

Originally Posted by Grayskull Guardsman

Please, no! Andra needs to make like Jar Jar Binks in Attack of the Clones.... barely in the sequel.

Andra is the new Man-At-Arms... if anything, I hope that she is featured even more so that we can get her backstory.

She and Teela should still have a bit of the spotlight so that we can see how their friendship has changed - now that one of them is the Sorceress of Grayskull...

I dunno why people are against Andra so much. Sure, she's essentially a new character, and somewhat underdeveloped, but the best solution for an underbaked character is NOT further reducing their screentime. It's writing 101.

Originally Posted by RiverToad

I dunno why people are against Andra so much. Sure, she's essentially a new character, and somewhat underdeveloped, but the best solution for an underbaked character is NOT further reducing their screentime. It's writing 101.

To be fair, many writers reduce the role of unpopular characters.

I don't think this is a bad thing. If the character doesn't work with the audience, I don't see the issue with reducing its screentime.

I thought Andra was just fine and no more offensive to me than when I saw the likes of Malektha, Queen Elmora, or any number of "created specifically for the cartoon" characters in Filmation that "took the place" of figures in the story. I will say though that the thing that I found Revelation did better than Filmation is, they introduced new characters and elements while still giving plenty of screen time (in such a short span of episodes) to established MOTU characters- whereas Filmation would feature the main gang quite heavily, have a bunch of Filmation-created side characters in the story, and leave no space for ones I was jonesing to finally see in animated form.
I hope she returns and has a decent sized role in the story, since she is supposed to be higher ranked now. I'd love to see her and Duncan work together to come up with something to foil Motherboard.

Originally Posted by zodak74

I thought Andra was just fine and no more offensive to me than when I saw the likes of Malektha, Queen Elmora, or any number of "created specifically for the cartoon" characters in Filmation that "took the place" of figures in the story. I will say though that the thing that I found Revelation did better than Filmation is, they introduced new characters and elements while still giving plenty of screen time (in such a short span of episodes) to established MOTU characters- whereas Filmation would feature the main gang quite heavily, have a bunch of Filmation-created side characters in the story, and leave no space for ones I was jonesing to finally see in animated form.
I hope she returns and has a decent sized role in the story, since she is supposed to be higher ranked now. I'd love to see her and Duncan work together to come up with something to foil Motherboard.

As an audience surrogate, Andra could be utilized to introduce more characters that didn't get screentime in other media, by Andra meeting them for the first time, to do world building by explaining things about the lore to the audience via explaining them to Andra, etc. That looks to me to be the real reason for her character, from a writing perspective. I don't know how to get around the elephant in the room, though. Any character that doesn't stay in the the lines is going to get that label controvery. Then the discussion turns all about skin color and gender, from people who swear it doesn't mean anything to them. Is she a great character? Well, she's meh. But she's outside of those strict guidelines, so thats the big deal. Because the point of we will say, Happy silly sea creatures and complain-y beverage consumer is to send a message. That everybody better get back behind those lines and never cross them again. Because doing so is stealing media that belongs to people that look, act, live, think and feel like they do. And nobody else is welcome. But trying too hard to avoid so called controversy also dates MOTU, as it does any older property, and can hold it back from being relevant. Had Andra's character been the best new character ever, it would not have mattered. Truth is, she wasn't. She's literally a character created as a writing tool, to deliver exposition to the audience without looking too clumsy. Its a totally common writing tool. Some writers are better than others of not making that obvious. But four decades after Melaktha and Netossa, etc, the big issue is still about keeping those lines drawn, not how the storytelling really could use some work. I don't have words for how frustrating that is. I would need a lobotomy to ignore it. Does MOTU as a concept need to be kept "pure" and have no "controversal" characters, or be labeled nonsense just to not literally send the message that this property belongs to one kind of demographic, and anybody else is infringing? Is the best we can do just being not enraged if MOTU media acknowledges other people exist? Or slip in differences and then maybe everyone just pretends they didn't notice the backlash so we can actually talk about the story, the lore, the character development? It takes a year of hostility and then everyone pretending there was no hostility just to do that with one character? I'm not trying to be negative. But I would need to be brain dead to un see what happened with Andra. I just can't go back to talking about this like four decades never happened and it's still early 1980s. I'm sorry, but just can't.

Remember to stay away from politics and woke discussions. That is for the Tar Swamp forum. Thanks.

My whole point IS how do you navigate the story at all, and keep from being labeled in either direction? I don't know what anybody can do with this story without one side or the other getting mad, like kids pulling a toy apart fighting over it. Every single one of these characters can become "divisive" by any changes, or by having no changes at all. Its like theres no way to everybody happy. That's gotta make it pretty impossible to even come up with scenarios that might make an interesting story. What's the answer to that? Seriously, what is it? I don't have a time machine, so I don't expect anyone else to have one, so making the show exactly like it was is impossible. I get why people hate reboots, sequels, etc. And I get why people love them, too. How is it this show gets targeted for doing less than 1% of things that are totally normal in everything else out there? Arcane, Castlevania, Vox Machina don't have all these issues. And all of those are comparable to this, and are really good. Why is everything tar swamp stuff here, but is a non issue with these other properties?