You know, it’s utterly amazing how far Hollywood types will go to ruin any goodwill they pick up, especially with fans of the things they adapt, and that they’re able to do it with just the “right” terminology.
When the latest Masters Of The Universe trailer dropped, it almost seemed like they actually did know what they were doing. Humor has had its place in the franchise even before there was an Orko, but the first trailer focused just on that. The second one added more action to it, letting us know it knew when to be serious…hopefully. It still knew when to have fun with its concept but at least things were looking up in a period where nostalgia was being used by the directors and writers as a way to get their stories past the studio/publisher if not a way to preach for the latest social cause du jour. This might actually work. Then…that term showed up:
Toxic masculinity.
First it was director Travis Knight claiming that Skeletor was the embodiment of toxic masculinity. Now it’s Camila Mendes, who plays the new live-action Teela, making a similar statement when describing the movie. The term just involkes hatred of men, especially masculine ones, because that’s how it’s usually used, the idea that the male power fantasy encourages toxic masculinity. Except for those who use the term ALL masculinity is toxic, except when those traits end up on the girlboss feminist of course. Those same people are also anti-femininity when it comes to women.
So what we have to ask is how the term is used in context. Those who trash He-Man and company do a surface level view of these characters, follow their own warped stereotypes, and decide that way what something is and how “toxic” it clearly must be. The comments come from an on-set interview with Entertainment Weekly as Mendes took a break during filming.
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[VIDEO] What Happened To Extra Credits?
There was a time on this website when I used to go to the YouTube series Extra Credits and its spinoff Extra Sci-Fi for filler content. It was a good show. Daniel Floyd based the show on a format he used for a college video project. It promoted video games as a positive force in the world, and the channel had a lot of fans.
Somewhere, something changed. Dan left the show. So did his wife, the former artist. So did another artist. Then the show’s perspective changed, getting a bit more political, until finally it created a video that chased people off. Eventually it lost me as well and I just stopped watching the channel altogether and haven’t looked back. It was worth promoting in the early years with some great videos for discussion, but lost its way as time went on.
Rhythm Rev on YouTube decided to explore the rise and fall of Extra Credits as the politics and the corporate world both altered the show, mostly the corporate side according to the video. Not mentioned are the treatment of the artists, a few of whom have not had the kindest of words for their time doing the art for the show. It’s kind of neat that Rev uses the show’s art style to help visually with going over the show’s many mistakes. Since I have a buffer to build and this is a rather long video (over an hour and a half), I’m going to get this out of my backlog and let you check it out for yourself. Note for BW regulars, there is some occasional swearing.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on April 14, 2026 in Video Game Spotlight, web series and tagged commentary, Extra Credits, rise and fall.
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