\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOkay, I don\u2019t really have a dog in this race, but watching how a certain species of fanboy has reacted to the Kevin Smith He-Man sequel pulling a bait and switch, plastering Prince Adam all over the promotional media, then blowing him up in the first episode and making Teela and Evil-Lyn the co-protagonists of the front half of season one has honestly been funny as hell.
Like, my bro, my dude, I understand the feeling of not getting what you paid for, but the part where the fact that the substitute lead is a girl bothers you more than the fact that you got baited in the first place? You\u2019re not supposed to say that part out loud.
I mean, you\u2019ve gotta know you\u2019re ruining it for everybody else, right? That every valid criticism of the show \u2013 of which there are doubtless many \u2013 is going to get completely drowned out by a handful of greasy weirdos screaming at the top of their lungs about a feminist conspiracy to emasculate our beloved media icons, and that\u2019s all everybody outside the fandom is going to hear about it, right?
(And frankly, the idea that Kevin Smith is part of this putative conspiracy is probably the funniest part. Like, have you seen the guy\u2019s body of work?)
At the point you\u2019re doing a female-led reboot of a show called He-Man, you either have to have something interesting to say about the whole female-led reboot phenomenon or else you\u2019re it jumping the shark.
Also like \u201c\ufffc\ufffcoh, it\u2019s got Kevin Smith\u201d like have you witnessed any of Kevin Smith\u2019s creative decisions in the literally last quarter of a century?
I read the Clerks comics once, incl. the holiday special where he sneaks into a mental ward and tries to wake his ex up from her coma by banging her with a candy cane
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