Well, how is He Man even related to him? Originally, King Grayskull looked like He Man because he was He Man's ancestor.
This is 100 percent correct. Even Uber woke Grace Randolph sees that there is gay baiting characters in this and according to accepted He-Man lore, King Grayskull is an ancestor of He-Man who is white. They are even always represented to look like each other. Should have just gone all in and made the characters in question gay, and He-Man black. Pretty much the entire series thus far centers on its female characters. This series is also dripping with misandry with Teela and Evil-Lyn. This will be one of those series that will be very polarizing. People will either love it hate it. Even if you buy into all the wokeness of it, I don’t get how you get around Tesla’s reaction to finding out He-Man’s secret. She acts like a total selfish brat. Even when faced with queen Marlena and Randor, she acts like her hurt feelings are more important than a parent losing their only child. Like WTF in a series that has a lot of those moments
It's their reasoning for doing it that bothers me. Had they done that from the beginning when they introduced King Grayskull 20 years ago, then it wouldn't be a problem. It's the constant woke pandering and identity politics in today's media that bothers me. There's no reason or logic behind it, just doing it because these are the times we're living in, so the hell with logic, lore, or any real creative reason for a change. Nope, let's race swap characters, gender bend them, make side characters main characters because of their gender. Let's take a show called He MAN that was made specifically for boys and remove most of the men and and make it a female centric story. That's sounds familiar...oh, SW did that when Kennedy made the "Force is female" for a new generation of "fans."
That's not the point, Khev!! Goshh! Go back to sailing!
I'm actually out of town as we speak and had to watch this dumb show on my phone.It's not the point, Khev!! Goshh! Go back to sailing!
It’s more a spiritual sequel to the entire lore not just the filmation series. Technically, this is kinda of a amalgamation of all of he man. Originally, I think you were correct.
They made King Grayskull black.
Its unfortunate that you have to actually explain this. As prevalent and annoying as agenda driven pandering has become, the superficial benign change of a character that's only had a single appearance from another canon of MOTU isn't something to be that critical of.
If that was the only thing then there would be no issue. It’s the culmination of a lot of things pandering to various agendas. They changed it for a reason though. What would that reason be? To have more representation of course. The entire Teela story line is a bit too #Metoo. The focus of the story on her and her gross over reaction to adam keeping his secret from her. It was way over the top and made her seem so selfish and uncaring. The interactions between her and evil lyn were misandry. You know the men in their lives keeping them down. And I didn’t care for the Grayskull being an illusion either. The most iconic building in Masters of the Universe is fake. Too many attempts to subvert your expectations in this short first part of the series. Too many game of thrones moments with killing off characters. Not to mention he man barely being in this thing. And his sacrifice barely gets noticed here, because of Teela can’t get over Adam keeping his secret from her.Wasn't that within the 200X canon? Was familial relation even hinted or implied within the Revelation canon?
Add to the fact that King Grayskull being black wouldn't intrinsically nullify any potential for the two to be related
if Grayskull is several generations removed from Adam.
Ah, so that's the problem you have, by making Grayskull black that intrinsically implies some type BLM agenda
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I highly doubt it wouldn't be a source of contention for some however it was the one initially singled out of all the problematic issues the series had. Granted I'm sure that representation did factor in but it was superfluous to say the least especially when they had an appearance by Clamp Champ for the very first time in animation and could have actually utilized him.
So if you care about how classic characters are represented then you are a racist. So tired of people painting others as a racist bigot because they care about the aesthetics of an established character. Say Superman for instance, Micheal B Jordan is pitching a Superman show for HBO Max staring himself as Superman. If you aren’t on board for that, you are a racist. That’s a ridiculous statement. Personally, I didn’t care for King Grayskull being black but it wasn’t a deal breaker though. Did it actually serve the story making him black? Was the best actor chosen for the role to get the best performance out of him? Of course not, it’s just pandering to a certain audience. My main issues are story related anyway. Everyone here wants to hitch their wagon to this issue that people have with it because they can just easily paint that individual as a racist. Typical ad hominem tactic.
I wouldn't be so quick to call those that feel or express a reasonable distaste for racial changes of characters with long established iconography as intrinsic bigots. even if some legitimate ones actually do slither into the discussions from time to time. To be fair many fans of color are vocally critical of these changes because of the true intentions behind them.
He's just....wright, for the role.
Meh...
Awful choice.
