What does it say about your reboot strategy when the best way to preserve fan interest is to deliberately lie about what is in the show? Instead of embracing the woke feminist direction as something he believes is legitimately good and worthwhile and attractive to viewers, Kevin Smith ran from it as decisively as he could. That's a pretty direct acknowledgement that such content is largely unwanted.
So they know this shit isn't popular, and yet they once again chose that direction. Sorta confirms the notion that most of this leftist idiocy in entertainment is ideologically motivated even to the utter detriment of profit.
With that in mind, I'm thinking maybe the lie wasn't just about duping more people into watching the show. Maybe leftist subversives can't get off unless the old school fans are actually ambushed by the destruction of their favorite franchises. I mean what joy is there in tearing down a man's childhood favorites if he's already resigned to your subversion? If he sees you coming from a mile away, you won't be able to extract the same satisfaction from his muted disappointment and frustration.
Sounds almost insane, but would you really put it past these people? One of the more choice critic reviewers even says that she enjoys the show primarily because she knows it pisses off the old school male fans. That's the level of petty spite and envy we are dealing with here.
Incase you want an example of how bad it is.
So men die and women most affected.
Just like Hillary Clinton said: “Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat.”
I love that quote, and hold it close to my chest. As I headed to my first time being able to vote in an election, I saw Bernie as the obvious clear choice of who the Dems should put forward, and quotes like this closed me off to Clinton. The ensuring abuse and later schaudenfraud that 2016 gave me sealed my fate. Thank you, Hillary, for being the single least electable dumpsterfire ever.
Joe Biden was arguably even worse than her.
At the time he had a stellar reputation, the cool political navigator who was the right hand man to the "most successful president" since not Bush, not Clinton, not Bush, not Reagan, not Carter, not Ford, not Nixon, but one of the guys from the 50's and 60's. At least that was the mainstream left narrative I, and many others, were fed. That Biden didn't run in 2016 was "Proof" that Clinton was handed the nomination, an unlikable shrewd bastard who ursuped either cool uncle Joe or grandpa Sanders.
Turns out Bernie is a commie cuck and Biden is a senile nonce and the entire DNC is a corrupt sham of a party that tosses peanuts into the crowd to turn people away from the lions in the stands. And I would have never noticed it if Clinton didn't get upset that she wasn't 50 points ahead. She saved me from slavery to the DNC. GOP is still full of spineless jellyfish who roar into megaphones while taking it up the rear behind the podium, chasing after people who will never vote for them purely because of the letter next to their name, but at least they aren't pure accelarationists with good PR.
"Greater love has no one than this: to let another die so that xi doesn't feel survivor's guilt." - Joan 15:13
Is that ubereem supposed to be a woman?
"Women are the primary victims of war" or something, eh?
I swear, Democrats suck the honor, grandeur, and higher purpose out of everything. I'm surprised they even keep the "Tomb of the Unknown Soldier" up during Democrat presidential terms.
300,000 white men to died defeat slavery, and Democrats flip it, erase them, put zero effort into honoring them, and act like "white man bad."
Men's suffering & sacrifice is nothing to them.
Fat Kevin Smith and emaciated Kevin Smith are two different people...
Actually it seems to be having a daughter is what caused him to snap.
I'd call it a combination of popping out a daughter and not going for more kids, and him having a grabber that could have killed him. When he went full-vegan in 2018 to get his health under control he went full-woke at the same time. Shortly before that (circa 2014) he started pushing more roles out there in his flicks for his daughter - who is also insufferably woke. I have to wonder if the wokeness in the family stemmed from her mom's influence (journalist, actress, vegetarian), or if it was just a product of growing up rich and privileged in the Hollyweird Hills.
There's your problem right there.
No fatty acids == No functional brain.
And a daughter he named after Harley Quinn. So some stuff may have been snapping already
Nothing says sane like naming your child after a psychotic mass murderer. A fictional one at that which women cosplay and roleplay as far too fucking often for it to be healthy.
Fat Kevin Smith at least seemed like a likeable dude.
Emaciated Kevin Smith and his beady chihuahua eyes is the stuff of night terrors.
Especially considering he could have just done a She-Ra movie.
Or had the two of them team up as He-Man and She-Ra. I bet that would have been more popular.
The puns write themselves regarding the woke outrage that would occur.
reeeeeeeeeeeee
"So it's about the Greek goddess?"
No you shitlord it's about a strynk and
buttuglybytyfyl ~~MtF@@ TRU WAMEN bringing equality to all at the tip of a swyrd, sharp end first! reeeeeeeeeeee"Then why did you name it after the Greek goddess?"
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If you thought it wouldn't be a dumpster fire, I have to question what the fuck is wrong with you.
I knew it would be shit. It always is.
I plead: Not giving this shit the time of day to thinking about because I grew up with both the original cartoon and the campy live-action movie so why the fuck would I ever need anything else?
Also because modern Smith is a fucking hack so I ignore every piece of his work these days.
The 2000s reboot was pretty good too. I've got the Filmation stuff and the reboot DVDs on my shelf. I doubt I ever watch any of this craptaster.
I don't know. I still think it's them trying to trick people into it with the idea that this time they got the balance of preaching and entertainment right. They can't accept that any preaching is too much.
That's certainly possible given how disconnected these people are from anything resembling normal human values, but boy is it hard to believe this is the case here. It's not like people only had their pattern recognition on this one; there was a direct accusation made and a direct denial given. The subversives were 100% pegged and forced to lie in order to maintain the charade. That shifty behavior doesn't speak to a belief that the propaganda is finally just right.
While I'm usually a fan of the aphorism "never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by stupidity", the level of stupidity that the wokies tend to exhibit in situations like these seems to point to them trying to pull the wool over the fans' eyes while using the excuse of playing dumb or only telling half-truths. This isn't the first time we've seen them try to pull this shit, and in the grand scheme of things it falls under the category of "once is an accident, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action."
I think they knew well in advance if they let everyone know that it was all about Teela (and Adam was straight-up DEAD), they wouldn't be able to sucker in the existing fandom views. As such, they had to lie about it if they wanted to drag in views, and once the person had viewed the first episode it wouldn't matter because it's all about that count on the premiere episode.
I think you're on to something with them having a visceral reaction to the outrage of fans of existing properties. It's like they're sitting behind their keyboards, furiously jerking off as they read the comments and see the videos of fans decrying their actions. The wokies really don't care about profit if their actions manage to destroy or subvert an existing institution or property, because once they drive the fans away it becomes theirs to grind into the dirt.
Yeah, the Social Justice Racketeers are typically both stupid and highly malicious. They're not normal people, and can't be treated as such.
You're missing the qualifier "all other things being equal" - foreknowledge of the character and motivations of the Left upsets that balance. We know they are malicious, and therefore malice as motivation requires fewer assumptions than it does for a normal person, and is more likely to be correct.
And I remember once that a feminist got furious with me on the game of thrones subreddit when she was whining about how sexist the books are and how these white authors don't write women well. I asked her why don't you stop reading/watching stuff with white people since you are so bothered by it.
But yea, I don't understand this hatred for original shows/source material. Honestly it is just getting more and more ridiculous that these morons can't let true fans be happy with something.
A criminally underrated aspect of the Game of Thrones collapse was the fact that the show character-assassinated (or literally assassinated) almost every male lead in an effort to hastily shift the spotlight to (mostly inferior) female characters. Jon, Tyrion, Varys, Jamie, Littlefinger - these were the most compelling characters on the show, and they were all made stupid, subservient, or impotent so that female characters could take over. The transition was clear as day when you think about it, and yet almost no one seems to have noticed it.
Yeah, they did the same thing in Avengers endgame.
Iron man - dead.
Thor - fat comic relief.
Hulk - no longer a beast, now a laid back stoner who is effectively crippled by the end of the movie.
Captain America - rendered old through time travel/space magic.
Starlord - reduced to a kick in the balls gag.
And then of course there was that cringey girl power team up scene. My wife leaned over to me in the cinema and whispered “guess we can write Marvel off from this point onwards”. Man was she right. Didn’t care for whamenvision, and Loki (or Woki?) was pretty god damn terrible too. Didnt even bother with Black Whaddow. I’m out.
I have an opinion. Fat Thor could have been actually really good, had they gone "he has massive ptsd from everything, and failing to kill the person who did it to stop them".
They'd never go into that level of detail though.
Yea I felt that not letting Jon Snow at least fight the night king was ridiculous
Oh, but the guy who literally had his balls cut off and taught to consider himself a dog was a great hero.
Or anyone with a Valyrian sword fighting any of the other ice sword wielding bad guys since the Hardholme episode specifically highlighted Valyrian steel was the only thing that could not only parry the ice blades but kill the wielders.
Everything after that involving collecting other Valyrian blades was just pointless because it never went anywhere and instead it was just the main case against wave after wave of zombies that should have killed many of them several times over yet somehow always failed to.
Yea. That show just totally ignored so many plot points and storylines. So weird for a show to be considered one of the all time greats only to bomb miserably
Yea I didn’t care for Disney Star Wars so I started buying and reading the Old expanded universe more. So many books and comics to enjoy. Similar concept with modern day Entertainment. I basically only watch or read stuff that’s from 2014 or prior.
Cancel your netflix subscription. Pirate TV Shows. Don't give the commie a penny.
Better yet, I've never signed up for any streaming service.
I got a roku, tones of free channels. 20 bucks at wally world. I'm sure they make money off me somehow but I got 24-hour channels of 90 Japanimation, wipeout, unsolved mysteries, MST3K, and OAN.
On the rare occasion I want to sit in front of a TV I like the Pluto TV app. It's a complete replacement for live TV. The only problem is their commercials are too loud.
I'm amazed he took Teela's side at all, considering he's married to Skeletor
His wife used to be halfway hot. She hit the wall, hard.
I know. It looked like he sucked the weight out of her then had a heart attack.
Didn't Kevin Smith write a comic about Batman pissing himself or something? This is the problem with mild talent fans writing stuff. They can't do the job and rather than admit it, lash out at the audience and act like they did it on purpose. This is true in general of SJW creators in comics and the like. Smith I think just doesn't have the talent to be a good writer, knows people won't like his woke crap, but also wants to try and appeal to people like his daughter (as evidenced in the new J&SB movie). No one can do woke well, and Smith can't even do basic, non-woke stuff well, but keeps getting the opportunities. He wants them, loves the stuff, but should realize he's out of his element and that love doesn't equal talent here. Go make another Mallrats or something. They keep pushing it in general because it's about brainwashing, not profits. They think they can force it and they can't. Very disappointed to see it happen to this franchise too.
Yep. Batman: The Widening Gyre #6, 2009. It was supposed to be a 12-issue series but they only got through six before it got canned. In the issue Batman admits to a new hero, Baphomet, that during his first attempt at using an explosive charge to try and intimidate a batch of criminals, he underestimated the force of the charge and when it went off he had a "bladder spasm".
Needless to say, that was the last issue of the series that got published.
Geez. And see, Batman is a character with a legacy, far richer than He-Man's. People have to be good stewards to these kinds of things and they aren't. Some from malice, some from ignorance, some from both. Nothing wrong with showing even hero's fail and get scared but doing it like that is so classless and out of character. Low sales too eh. I think Smith has failed upwards in many respects. In comics that's not uncommon. I know his low-budget films did well. But being a nerd and indie filmmaker does not qualify one to make take over Batman, or in this case He-man. I don't know how popular he is on twitter, I'd bet he's popular at conventions though and so people keep giving him work thinking it's a good litmus, despite low sales on comics and poor box office on his horror crap and I think the newer J&SB doing so-so as well.
He's been around for an age before he went woke, so his Twitter predates his descent. Dude was well known for not only his indie flicks and general geek fandom, but also his podcasts. "Fat Man on Batman" was probably his best known one, where he and his guests waxed both poetic and nostalgic on Batman fandom. It's safe to say that DC gave him the gig as both a favor and as a stunt-casting thing for the series, to boost sales and interest. The artist on both The Widening Gyre and Batman: Cacophony (an earlier mini-series from 2008) was his buddy Walt Flanagan, so it's pretty obvious that the whole thing was based on someone knowing someone.
I'd liken his rise in geekdom to that of Wil Wheaton. Much like Wil, he ingratiated himself into geek circles and was well-liked, if not beloved, by the geek community before he made his face-heel turn. Now that he's made his inroads, he feels like he is bulletproof (and partially so because he'll be propped up by his SJW buddies in the media) so he can sling whatever BS he wants to the public.
Was Satan unavailable?
They couldn't be more in-your-face about their Satan worship.
With streaming services, these people make money whether we even watch the show or not. That's why they keep pushing their shitty agendas, they don't have to win over fan approval. They'll get royalty checks regardless.
The streaming model has disconnected (and insulated) woke products from the harsh appraisals of the marketplace. Without market forces deciding winners and losers, entertainment is allowed to go full-on propaganda without repercussion from closing wallets.
Oh shit. This is literally corporate communism. Interesting.
I like the term Corporate Marxism.
If you wonder why nearly all big corporations are Woke these days, a common excuse you will hear is that it "makes money" because all the "diversity" & "insert Woke buzzword term here" appeals to a broader market.
The truth is that corporations hired people with college degrees, assuming they were competent, not knowing these people were brainwashed into being crazy stupid Woke zombies. So you have all these Woke people advising the higher-ups who are older than dirt, and assume these Woke people "know what the young folks like".
Collages in western countries are Marxist brainwashing factories. This goes all the way back to the Soviet Union, as they had Communist infiltrating colleges as early as the 1930s. This accelerated with the Frankfurt School that developed the concept of Cultural Marxism. And all these collages get loads of money from the state to brainwash kids with Cultural Marxism, along with outright Marxism.
So Corporate Marxism may not make complete sense on its' face, but it is actually an accurate term to describe what it is happening with these Woke corporations.
Progressive "diverse" students in South Africa looted the "problematic" art collection and books from the University of Cape Town to burn it all.
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/02/18/black-students-burn-paintings-of-whites-in-south-africa-protest/
I can't find the video, but they also tribal-danced around the burning paintings and books of "White devils".
Progressives fucking LOVE setting your stuff on fire and glee at your dispair from watching it burn.
Comming soon to whatever place gets diversified next.
I never understood this mindset that they can't just go find a story they like, they have to ruin something that has been around for decades.
They aren't interested in creating. The market already told them no. So they have to infiltrate and subvert from within, using our beloved stories as Trojan horses to smuggle unpopular ideas into the mainstream.
And they get so offended when you suggest they make their own stuff.
Some leftists friends say white peoplr already did everything and took all the good super heros lol.
So that is their excuse for not trying to create their own. Pathetic
It's about transforming society. Entertainment is for suckers.
"Maybe leftist subversives can't get off unless the old school fans are actually ambushed by the destruction of their favorite franchises".
You're exactly right. It's been like this since Ghostbusters.
He-Man was a Mattel product, but I don't know if the rights have been transferred anywhere since.
He's being blackmailed. I'm telling you, since MeToo, women own everyone in Hollywood and beyond.
Not necessarily blackmailed, used as a pawn. He isn't even a fan of He-man, he said he hated it in like 2013. They just wanted a casual average white dude with no apparent politics to front the show so fans wouldn't get suspicious. Then when the questions started they probably told him what to say, maybe they even lied to him that Season 2 will be all about He Man again.
I used to believe this, but blackmail makes more sense. All these shows fail, so who wants them to exist? Not the shareholders, not the people who are in them.
No, only the Fourth Reich.
Honestly, their output reminds me of anti-semitic Nazi propaganda films more than entertainment.
Kevin Smith has an ultracunt feminist wife and an ultracunt feminist daughter. I don't think he's being blackmailed. I think he has been influenced by them for 20 years and actually thinks this is good now.
Could be pressure from his daughter, happens kind of often. So more like emotional blackmail, like that one author whose daughter went to college then threatened to never speak to him again if he didn't bend the knee.
Linus Torvalds's daughter came back from university calling herself a "militant feminist." Linus left the project for a while, and the then the Code of Conduct came in.
That's the one I'm thinking of, thank you.
His career was started with the help of Weinstein, so perhaps he is dancing to their tune so that fact is forgotten
Some creators have exactly one interesting thing to say, and their value as a creator is pretty much over once they've said that thing.