A bit late to this thread, but you aren't missing anything. Stuff like this is tokenism to placate a certain crowd.
There also seems to be a certain segment in the entertainment industry that is based more on getting revenge for perceived injustices by taking older franchises and changing them to the ways they wanted them to be. The recent Masters of the Universe Revelation* seems to be in that group. , and then go on to mock the older show for having "unrealistic body types" while having their new designs look like they took all of the steroids(including the female characters).
That last part is especially dumb since the original He-Man used rotoscoping, an animation technique that involved drawing over real people. Due to this the old show had characters who looked exactly like 2D representations of athletes and bodybuilders of the time(before the more recent trend of bodybuilders trying to add as much muscle mass as possible regardless of how it made them look or how it might damage their bodies). This means the new show is much more dangerous than the old show ever was in terms of body image.
*The director of the new miniseries is on record saying he hated He-Man and only ever hate watched it. Now he's trying to say that anyone who doesn't like his show was never a fan of the series at all.
There also seems to be a certain segment in the entertainment industry that is based more on getting revenge for perceived injustices by taking older franchises and changing them to the ways they wanted them to be. The recent Masters of the Universe Revelation* seems to be in that group. , and then go on to mock the older show for having "unrealistic body types" while having their new designs look like they took all of the steroids(including the female characters).
That last part is especially dumb since the original He-Man used rotoscoping, an animation technique that involved drawing over real people. Due to this the old show had characters who looked exactly like 2D representations of athletes and bodybuilders of the time(before the more recent trend of bodybuilders trying to add as much muscle mass as possible regardless of how it made them look or how it might damage their bodies). This means the new show is much more dangerous than the old show ever was in terms of body image.
*The director of the new miniseries is on record saying he hated He-Man and only ever hate watched it. Now he's trying to say that anyone who doesn't like his show was never a fan of the series at all.
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