Werner Vorster

I had built the “new” He-Man hype for such a long time, wanting to share a piece of my childhood with my 3 boys. After binge watching all 5 episodes of season 1, my boys turned to me and asked, Dad, is that it?? It was just such a huge disappointment!! I suppose the best way to describe it would be if you had to go and watch an Iron Man movie and Pepper Potts was the one flying around in the suit and fighting the villains for 95% of the film. Don’t get me wrong, Ms. Potts is a wonderful supporting character, and keeps Tony Stark in check, but she is not Iron Man!!! And there was exactly where the disappointment was….Teela, in her new, empowered role is NOT the main character, she simply is not He-Man!! The emasculated Prince Adam is a joke, and the story line with Adam “killed” off twice is cringe worthy to say the least. If these 5 episodes of the first season was supposed to be the “bait” for the rest of the series, its a massive FAIL! This was such a great opportunity to reboot the majestic He-Man and the Master of the Universe and get a new generation of children on board, but I fear this show will quickly disappear into the Netflix fail bin. What a shame!