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.
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