BY THE POWER OF GRAYSKULL! In 2021, Kevin Smith (Clerks creator, professional geek and newly appointed guardian of the secrets of Castle Grayskull) held aloft his magic sword and introduced the world to a He-Man we’d never seen before.
Masters Of The Universe: Revelation was packed full of heroes and villains who’d populated many a toybox back in the ’80s – most of them still wearing those strange, Conan-esque fluffy pants that were the fashion at the time – but the new Netflix series also tapped into emotional depths previously unseen in Eternia.
While Revelation was a direct follow-up to the events of the popular Filmation cartoon – still arguably the most successful toy commercial of all time – Smith’s paymasters at Netflix and toy manufacturer Mattel briefed their showrunner to treat the ongoing feud between He-Man and Skeletor “like Shakespeare”.
With harder-edged, animeinfluenced visuals and a story that unfolded over a long, complex arc, it was targeted squarely at the now 40- something kids who’d grown up watching the adventures of the most powerful man in the universe on TV. And this time, each episode wasn’t wrapped up with a cheesy moral.
LIGHT AND DARK
It felt like a match made in Preternia (the franchise’s answer to Heaven), but not everybody was happy. Indeed, despite Revelation picking up a 93% fresh rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, winning over the more negative corners of the fanbase turned out to be a stretch, even for the most powerful man in the universe.
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