More bad TV
Mar. 25th, 2010 06:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amethyst73I gave in to temptation and watched an episode each of He-Man and She-Ra. (It makes a pleasant distraction from looking at websites for retirement homes in the Boston area, 'k?)
He-Man: Seems to exist on a world with a startling number of supers on it. Skeletor has powerful allies, but so does He-Man. In the relatively early episode that I watched, each side had - again - one token powerful female (Teela, the captain of the palace guard who bears such a strong resemblance to She-Ra that I expect the makers simply reused the character template, on the good side and Evil-Lyn on the bad). The dialog seemed somewhat less bad than Voltron, perhaps because it was a native English series, and He-Man gets a lot of mildly amusing lines. He-Man also had the requisite 'lesson' at the end of each show, which I'd totally forgotten about. ("In today's episode, Skeletor was trying to use a shortcut to gain the power and riches he craved. You should never take shortcuts, or listen to the people who offer them." So... if Skeletor had taken a more arduous path in his takeover attempt, that would have been okay?)
She-Ra: Again, chose an early episode, and am glad I did. There's a great deal more back story to She-Ra.. kind of along the lines of Cecil in Final Fantasy 4, starting out by serving the bad guys but then seeing that they're not the right side. And there's the whole brother-sister thing. I suspect the series later devolves into the standard "Rebels attack/are attacked by the Horde, and She-Ra saves them" storyline. Funny... She-Ra had better dialog, better voice acting, and (I think) an entirely different voice actor in her normal personality, Force Captain Adora. From the opening sequence to the show, it looks like there are actually a fair number of female supers as part of the Rebellion, though all the rebel prisoners held by the Horde in the episode were clearly peasant-level guys. Makes sense, as the show was targeted more to girls than guys. (More evidence that the show is girl-targeted: OMG flying unicorns with rainbow wingz!!!)
He-Man: Seems to exist on a world with a startling number of supers on it. Skeletor has powerful allies, but so does He-Man. In the relatively early episode that I watched, each side had - again - one token powerful female (Teela, the captain of the palace guard who bears such a strong resemblance to She-Ra that I expect the makers simply reused the character template, on the good side and Evil-Lyn on the bad). The dialog seemed somewhat less bad than Voltron, perhaps because it was a native English series, and He-Man gets a lot of mildly amusing lines. He-Man also had the requisite 'lesson' at the end of each show, which I'd totally forgotten about. ("In today's episode, Skeletor was trying to use a shortcut to gain the power and riches he craved. You should never take shortcuts, or listen to the people who offer them." So... if Skeletor had taken a more arduous path in his takeover attempt, that would have been okay?)
She-Ra: Again, chose an early episode, and am glad I did. There's a great deal more back story to She-Ra.. kind of along the lines of Cecil in Final Fantasy 4, starting out by serving the bad guys but then seeing that they're not the right side. And there's the whole brother-sister thing. I suspect the series later devolves into the standard "Rebels attack/are attacked by the Horde, and She-Ra saves them" storyline. Funny... She-Ra had better dialog, better voice acting, and (I think) an entirely different voice actor in her normal personality, Force Captain Adora. From the opening sequence to the show, it looks like there are actually a fair number of female supers as part of the Rebellion, though all the rebel prisoners held by the Horde in the episode were clearly peasant-level guys. Makes sense, as the show was targeted more to girls than guys. (More evidence that the show is girl-targeted: OMG flying unicorns with rainbow wingz!!!)
