I knew I wanted (and probably needed) to do something to tie in to the release of a Masters Of The Universe movie, but what? Episodes are usually too short. Fanfilms could be an option, but if you already went to the movie would you want another one? Plus I only have one in the coffer and I still need to confirm it works for Saturday Night Showcase. So that was out.
I don’t usually do documentaries on Saturday Night Showcase, but tonight it seemed the best option, especially this one. Power Of Grayskull: The Definitive History Of He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe is a 2017 documentary focusing on the 1980s original period of how the toys, cartoon, and first live-action movie came about. There is a sadly too short section on the 1990s “New Adventures” and the 2003 remake (an example of doing a remake right), and I would love to hear more about how those were made. At least they were acknowledged. There’s also not enough discussion on the Horde and Snake Men and the She-Ra section could have been bigger, but there’s only so much time in the show.
Still, what they have and what they do go through, with a decent amount on how the toys and the lore was created, is still worth a watch, and YouTube has it up free with ads, so if it wasn’t that’s the option I have. Luckily it is interesting and features a couple of faces longtime BW readers might know: James Eatock from Cereal:Geek TV and Val Staples, the latter having worked on the 2003 tie-in comics and the newspaper strip collection. Plus I use He-Man.org for most of the Masters Of The Universe minicomics for Free Comic Inside. So it’s a good choice overall. Enjoy.
Now if I can just avoid spoilers until my broke behind gets to watch it on free streaming despite all the new movie discussions I can’t bet into and apparent divisions….Wait, the documentary is age-restricted? Well, I don’t have time to fix it, so follow the link through or you can catch it on numerous other streaming services. Age restricted. Alan Oppenheimer swears once and there’s one test image of blood on He-Man’s sword before the artist was told He-Man doesn’t kill, and somehow the TV-14 show is age restricted. I don’t understand what’s going on at YouTube.
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