Sticking it to Incels
November 19th, 2017
As is my wont, for good or ill, I read the interent. In the process of doing so earlier this year, I discovered someone was producing a remake of the 1980s She-Ra cartoon. I had seen a few episodes of it back in the day, but as my interests were shifting from the He-Man sphere of content to things like GI Joe and Transformers, well, it didn't really stick.
One could try and claim that this was because it was primarily aimed at girls, but the truth was that the cartoon stunk on ice, to coin a phrase. Feel free to judge for yourself! YouTube has numerous clips of this show up for your viewing displeasure. Despite this series being the partial brainchild of the mind behind Babylon 5, Sense8, and the Twelve, it was horrible.
Not to bag on Mr. Straczynski, of course, because he only had what he had to work with, and what he had to work with was the insipid horror that was the Filmation animation studio, who was notoriously cheap in every aspect of its products. Again, go watch some She-Ra clips. Or some He-Man clips. Or anything by those hacks, for that matter. That'll set you straight.
So, not having any emotional attachment to this particular series, I wasn't really feeling the need to watch it. However. Further reading within the dumpster fire that is the internet revealed to me that there was some sort of resistance to this new series, from self-described 'fans' of the original one. And not because the show was being rebooted, but because the lead character wasn't 'sexy enough'.
To which I said 'Bwuh?'
So I looked into this further, and I can only come to the conclusion that this nontroversy is a bunch of poutrage from nerds who a) most likely had never watched an episode of the original show, b) are mad that they don't have yet another animated Barbie ™ doll fantasy to masturbate to, and c) have probably never actually touched a woman in their entire life.
Thus, in order to stick it to these incel turds, I've decided that I'm going to watch the whole series, now that it's live on Netflix. After all, that will make its metrics look better to the Netflix folks, and thus far what I've watched has been enjoyable. It's amusing and has a decent story, which, strangely enough, hews pretty close to the basic idea behind the original, crap series from thirty years ago.
Me and Brenda haven't watched the last two episodes yet, but that'll probably happen before too long. But we're defintely happy with it so far, and can't recommend it enough. So heave yourself over to the remote control and fire the new She-Ra up, already. As long as you like humorous action-adventure that borders on the ludicrous. But then, when you mix magic, technology, and goofballs, how couldn't it be?
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