Posted on 11/15/2018 7:14:46 AM PST by Ennis85
The divide between what people actually enjoy and what the Leftist orthodoxy is trying to force people to enjoy has become ever so apparent with the release of She-Ra And The Princesses of Power on Netflix. The cartoon reboot of the popular 1980s spin-off of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, managed to score a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes from critics while barely scoring 40% from normal viewers.
If you visit the Rotten Tomatoes page youll see that the show currently has a 40% rating from users while 100% of the critics have given it a high score.
If you click through to read the critics review, youll see a bunch of familiar outlets; IGN, The Daily Dot, The Mary Sue, Den of Geek, Entertainment Weekly.
Yes, Netflixs reboot got sterling reviews from a bunch of websites that push the SJW agenda. Its almost like state-run media claiming that the state-appointed dictator is a fantastic person.
Vivian Kane from The Mary Sue made it known that the show was designed from the ground up by its lesbian creative director for the tumblr crowd, writing
[ ] if you watched the trailer and were hoping the show would be full of female empowerment, body positivity, racial diversity, and queer rep, youre in luck! This is 100% the She-Ra of your Tumblr dreams, in all the best ways. The show was made for fanfic and cosplay. (Oh, the cosplay is going to rule so hard.)
At least two of the Princesses are presented as being in a romantic relationship, but theres also a ton of inclusive, loving queer coding, especially between Catra and Adora. They revel in the friends-to-enemies-to-lovers trope. I mean, the lovers part may not be explicitly presented in their case, but its not denied either. Theres even an entire episode titled Princess Prom that features a dance sequence and a gorgeous magenta tuxedo, after which I honestly dont understand how anyone could not be on team Catradora.
This show joins the litany of other shows that try to induce parents to allow their kids to see heroes turning away from traditional values in order to succumb to the Liberal agenda, one in which there is no future for your children.
While Entertainment Weeklys Darren Franich tries to convince parents that the show is safe for kids, the propaganda was too much for Franich to ignore gloating about, writing
She-Ras a safe-for-kids show that never even gets around to explicit romance, but Stevenson and her collaborators take the fundamental glitter-camp style as an opportunity to fit some impressively complicated emotions into the undercurrents of the Adora-Catra relationship. Undercurrents, hell. Theres a pivotal moment where Adora dances with Catra, heroine in a magenta-fuschia dress, villainess rocking a sangria-colored tuxedo with an unwrapped bowtie, club lights around them casting a particular Bowie shade of pink, and then Catra dips Adora wow!!
Yes, She-Ra has been touched by a lesbian.
Sites like Collider also joined in on the fray, attempting to convince the normal streamer and television goer that She-Ra was worth watching.
https://twitter.com/Collider/status/1062370831215591430?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1062370831215591430&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.oneangrygamer.net%2F2018%2F11%2Fshe-ra-rotten-tomatoes-score-shows-that-critics-love-a-show-that-viewers-hate%2F72015%2F
The Left-wing media and the NPCs that hang on to their every word regurgitate all the talking points you would expect from Communists, normal people were quick to point out the flaws of Netflixs fatuous reboot.
If you check the user reviews, youll see that most people are calling out the show for being little more than a vehicle in which to push the agenda of the creators.
Heck, even a feminist had to rail on the show for not being very good. Alissa D wrote
So I wanted to give this show its due process and watch it all the way through before I criticized. Just based on the trailer alone, I really wasnt impressed. But I wanted to try anyway, because on the surface, a predominantly-female and diverse cast could never be a bad thing. And this case it isnt either those calling it sjw propaganda are weak and natural selection is coming for you.
THAT SAID this show simply falls flat on its face. Feminists are often accused of having a checklist of things we tick off then call a show good. And, just what Ive gathered online, that seems to be the case with She-ra. And as a queer feminist, to me those things body diversity, racial diversity, female empowerment, casual queerness (Im specifically referencing the princess prom episode) are all well and good, but they should still be executed WELL with a story that grabs you, good animation, great voice acting and direction, and compelling characters.
She-ra, for me, doesnt have that.
Boom.
Even third-wave feminists dont like the show, which is funny because it seems to mirror what anti-SJWs have said about it. As summed up by The Quartering, he didnt mince words by calling it Woke garbage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTw0jUECUxA
However, you would probably never think that the show is bad based on all the adulation heaped upon the Netflix reboot of She-Ra from all the social media users. Any criticisms of the show from promoting lesbianism to kids, to promoting obesity as a good thing, to promoting the emasculation of straight males is immediately dogpiled by Twitter and Tumblr users who are unhappy with their own lives.
https://twitter.com/TechnicianChem/status/1062730788335050753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1062730788335050753&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.oneangrygamer.net%2F2018%2F11%2Fshe-ra-rotten-tomatoes-score-shows-that-critics-love-a-show-that-viewers-hate%2F72015%2F
https://twitter.com/merimutt/status/1062589356681113602?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1062589356681113602&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.oneangrygamer.net%2F2018%2F11%2Fshe-ra-rotten-tomatoes-score-shows-that-critics-love-a-show-that-viewers-hate%2F72015%2F
https://twitter.com/ohsomanyregrets/status/1062127330137595905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1062127330137595905&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.oneangrygamer.net%2F2018%2F11%2Fshe-ra-rotten-tomatoes-score-shows-that-critics-love-a-show-that-viewers-hate%2F72015%2F
As you can imagine, the thread kind of goes on and on and on.
Nevertheless, the majority of normal people have spoken, and they dont like the new She-Ra.. not one bit.
“ST:Discovery”
It’s much easier to just call it by the abbreviation: STD.
There were some groups in the 80s (not sure if it was Tipper Gore’s PTC or something similar) that got regulations passed with the FCC that kids shows had to have some “educational” content in order to get played during certain time slots, like Saturday mornings.
That’s why you saw some moral or lesson get tacked on to every episode of those shows, because otherwise they couldn’t claim they were following the regulations.
Both of those were good cartoons.
Johnny Quest had a respectable body count.
POINT!
Has there ever lived a “critic” with an other-than-liberal mindset?
You are exactly right. A certain % of content had to have some sort of moral message. As terrible as it made those shows (lets all work together for great fun! or whatever) part of it was a reaction to the majority of the new cartoons being simply brain washing vehicles to sell massive toy lines to kids.
Freegards
Yeah, good point, all those old shows were into the destruction and mayehm. The Herculoids were just a sci-fi pioneering family with sci-fi monsters killing each other basically.
Freegards
Planet Of The Apes the cartoon tried to be serious and was watchable.
Never got to watch PotA or the old Star Trek cartoon, which supposedly had an episode based on Larry Niven sci-fi stories! I’ll look ‘em up on line someday, ha.
Freegards
And then there were the CLASSICS from Warner Brothers Looney Tunes etc. Bugs, Daffy, Road Runner and all, capable of entertaining the kids with the action while the dialog kept the interest of the adults. From 1930 to their demise in 1969, we can pull out the DVDs and laugh like kids again.
I'd love to teach a high school physics class using the impossibilities of Wile E Coyote's eternal purchases from Acme (where oh where was Consumers Reports?) Then there was the utterly superlative and sublime Bugs & Elmer Opera Classics; "What's Opera, Doc?" & "The Rabbit of Seville"! Comparison of these to 99.9 ...% of what came after is depressing!
That’s because movie critics are nothing more than political thought police panning any movie that does not parrot the politically correct party line across all liberal issues. A film tha reveals even slightly the airhead nature of leftism in any of its cultural revetments will be rejected by critics conjuring up some lame aesthetic shortcoming or other.
The old ST cartoon was ok for its time.
Wheel of Morality turn, turn, turn; show us the lesson that we must learn!
The old Star Trek cartoons wee pretty neat.
Very complex for their day, and with moral/philosophical lessons.
But I think the Brady Kids cartoons was way neater. They had pandas named Yin and Yang! How rayciss is that?
He sued them, though! Coyote v. Acme
Two words ...... Speed Racer.
Too limited as being only Mr Coyote's complaint. Where is the counter? Where is the discovery? Actually, my personal belief in that Acme is a wholly owned subsidiary of Road Runner, Inc. and the court decision would be that the devices fulfilled their manufacturers ultimate intention of protecting the 'victim'!
Star Blazers for me.
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