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makyougenkai10 · 3 years ago

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STOP CALLLING EVERY 80′S SHOW SEXIST BECAUSE YOU DON’T LIKE THEM!

I was a little girl back in the 80's, when She-Ra and Jem were in their first run. Shows like these were incredibly empowering. We really didn't see competent women. We usually saw damsels in distress (think Daphne though she was slowly growing out that) or nerds (think Velma or Penny though they were more competent than their bumbling male counterparts). But here we got a woman warrior as competent as any of the men. In Jem, we got a woman CEO. These things were HUGE. People today trying to claim that shows like these are sexist are fucking idiots who should try talking to those of us who were the actual target audience of shows like this, and ask us what we think. Yeah, She-Ra had her crystal castle (I remember getting that castle, and it made my life up until that point), but she was also knock the bad guys in their place. She could have girly aspects while still kicking asses and not taking names. In this show, as well as He-Man, the people with the most power tended to be women. Yes, even in He-Man. By the way, in He-Man, the woman who often assists him (he kinda needs her held despite being frickin' He-Man), Teela, is the daughter is the sorceress of Castle Grayskull, and the sorceress is the one with the most power. That kind of show didn't treat kids like we were stupid and shallow. Neither did She-Ra. Those shows treated us like we were competent, which was amazing. This not-a-reboot is an insult to what She-Ra and He-Man really are all about. Even my 9-year--old thinks this new show is stupid, an likes the old one. (And no, it's not because that's my view--she's more likely to like something I don't just to spite me.)

She-Ra was never meant to be a “girly girl” show. Like He-Man, she was strong and powerful. This Reboot is a fraud. A poser. Wanting to be She-Ra without knowledge about She-Ra. It represents the type of women that made it. Selfish, insecure women.

“She Ra was meant to be an elaborate Ad for kids , so that Mattel could sells Girls She Ra dolls and toys... People should stop deluding themselves, the show was garbage at the time, there's no way, that anyone in today's age is gonna make something good out of it... Nostalgia give everything a nice Look, but it is dreadful to watch.”

it’s people like this who ruin things for everyone because they never experienced true happiness, because they’re over analyzing everything. Let people be happy and stop being a wet blanket.

I'm sorry, but am I missing something here? I thought “She-ra and the princesses of power” was meant to target "progressive feminists”. The very same people who attack Barbie for being too pretty, and seem to hate anything and everything that represents being feminine or girly, ya know, like wearing dresses, ball gowns in particular, and dances, because “that's not progressive”! Because being all glam up and pretty to go to a dance is somehow the most disempowering thing a girl can do these days, just ask Cinderella and Barbie. Yet prom is the episode people praise and is the one to get plot moving? Again, did I miss something? These characters look plain...I watched She-Ra back in the 80s and the story development was so much better. Once again this is an attempt to make characters, especially female characters, powerful when it is not necessary because if the creators had done their research they could have made something great for everyone to share and appreciate, but unfortunately it is all about the $$$$$.

At this point, I'm Convinced that These Rebooted iconic Cartoons are Intentionally Made to Piss off People who Grew up on the Originals. Just like the So called Jem Reboot did. I'm sooooooo, Glad Jem Bombed at the Box office.

And In the end, Nu!Ra is just another shitty tween girl show that we saw a-plenty back in the early 2000s. What Noelle is presenting to us isn't groundbreaking in the least and let me tell you from my own experience having seen those same shitty cartoons back then. Noelle is no better than the 'toxic males' she and others often site as being out of touch with female viewers because she's pulling the same stops but just adding a lot of unneeded sexual drama to a bunch of pre-teen characters. What Nu!Ra reminds me of is an even less comprehensible and more overly dramatic Trollz, the TROLLS reboot that was so bad that the Damm family (the family of the man who created the dolls) SUED DiC entertainment and later sold the rights of Trolls to, guess who, DREAMWORKS which is why Trolls made their semi-kinda-almost faithful rebound a while back. But if you remember TROLLZ it has the same elements to Nu!Ra right down to how the rights were just thrown around and even the whole magical girl elements and trying to make the series for girls despite both, Trolls and the MotU series, being an overall series that could be picked up by anyone, regardless of their gender. As a result, both failed because they were being handled by people who didn't understand the universal appeal to the series and tried too hard to look like they were doing something. With Trollz, the promise of girl-power sort of series was bogged down by the fact that our main heroines were all stereotype girl characters anyway even with their massives responsibilities. One of the biggest parts of the series was that only female trolls could use magic at all after a power split between the trolls and ogres, with the trolls defeating the ogres but then coming up with this confusing reason why only females could use magic. And even then, they couldn't balance how magic and technology existed because Trollz took place in what was supposed to be modern day 2000s but we're made to believe that magic exists yet it does so along the same modern conveniences that people had but somehow those things were POWERED by magic yet even male trolls could use some of them which sort of negates the reason to even use magic at all given the main five were the only ones who seemed to even use it outside of pulling pranks and using it for makeup. The show was that shitty and it was written by a bunch of out of touch guys who just assumed this was the only thing that girls would like rather than just making something, I don't know, enjoyable? Nu!Ra is suffering from the same problem but in this case, the show isn't being lead by some out of touch old guys but an out of touch old woman (I know age is a stretch with Noelle but it's the same sentiment) but rather going in with the misguided intentions the Trollz guys had, Noelle and her crew have loudly made it clear that this is what they want and that people have to accept it for how it is and accept them as well by obligation. The way Trollz was handled can come off as DiC and Hasbro being massively clueless and trying too hard to mix tech with Harry Potter but Noelle is just spiteful. She is using a show she had no hand in and never liked to begin with to flag around her inner unclaimed fantasies of her past, giving off a somewhat creepy look into a stunted, bitter person who wants to take everything she can from other people and wave it around gleefully when they can't reclaim it. Noelle already has success with Lumberjanes but it's one of those things where it's 50/50 in people sort of know it but then there are people who are like 'Wut?' about it. It's a niche comic that satisfies a certain demographic and when I did use to watch her when I began using Twitter, she was nice enough but the more and more she complained about OTHER people not giving her what she wanted, the more uncomfortable I got until I just unfollowed her. And as I watch Nu!Ra, those feelings of hers are just leaking out of my computer and onto the floor in a big, sticky, nasty mess. What we have been watching isn't She-Ra but rather an idea that Noelle and her friends shared among themselves and with the way it is going on, we can see for ourselves that it was a very weak premises that would have gotten no one but the small Tumblr crowd everyone jokes about. The problem with the OG She-Ra vs Noelle's version is just this; filmation made a series that anyone could fall into and I know it might sound weird but this is what I mean. With the OG She-Ra, the way it was written, designed, and overall played out was simple enough for anyone of any demo to get around. It didn't matter that She-Ra was an adult, White, and fit but what could get girls and boys into her were her ACTIONS and HEROISM. The outer image of She-Ra that we see is but a part of her and even if you see her looks as goofy for their time, kids loved her for being powerful and that goes ditto for her teammates and He-Man as well. Yes, their looks were good but it was like an added bonus. There was a full package given to you and if you didn't like one thing, there was at least something else you could find and adore. With Nu!Ra, all of that has been stripped away and replaced for the excuses of 'safe'. Let's ignore that She-Ra herself is a kid. If she had been given a somewhat similar ATTITUDE to Adora from the OG show, I would have been fine because she still would have been a HERO. She still would have held onto that heroic sense that makes her worth looking up to in the world her story belongs to but we don't get that. Adora isn't even a coming-of-age type of person as she is always clumsy, always antsy, always unsure and she never learns. She never grows as a character and that's the problem with EVERYONE. Everyone in this series is a broken, horrible person but unlike a GOOD series they don't have character growth where they are shown to develop from these kinks of theirs to become the heroes they are meant to be. Instead, all the aspects that would make them terrible people to be around are meant to be seen as their POSITIVE traits. We're supposed to love Glimmer because she is argumentative and dismissive, we're supposed to love Bow because he is useless and only comes in handy when the time calls for it. We're supposed to love all these horrible characters for their 'quirks' and why? Because these characters ARE Noelle and her friends. It's why they act so pained and hurt when you call out these characters because they ARE these characters and takes these comments as personal attacks on them. And the reason they don't grow is because they believe themselves to be fine just the way they are and it's everyone else who is at fault. This is the type of people they are and these are the types of stories they write. Nu!Ra is yet another example of why you shouldn't hand series off to armchair activist who have no idea how animation works or basic storytelling at that. The reason reboots and movies that have been done in this fashion don't work is because these people are not telling stories, they are making the audience listen about how they wish their lives could be. It's bragging and no one likes a braggart.

The reboot is a joke and an insult to the original She-Ra, its voice actors, and its creators. It could have been good, but Noelle and her friends/team ruined it. This series couldn’t have come to an end fast enough.

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