I don't really mind in concept the idea of brining back He-Man, or really any IP, and doing something different with the property. So whatever they did with He-Man, making it the Teela show or whatever, fine. I don't really mind that. What's the bothersome about this to me is that trailer looks kinda dope, and seems to paint a totally different picture of what the series is actually about. Like obviously Teela appears to be a big part of this in the trailer, but it also makes it seem like He-Man is a huge part of this too.
I guess the mentality is that they're going to get backlash for taking this direction regardless, so might as well mislead people in hopes more people will give it a chance and they'll get a larger streaming viewership. Which I get, I remember the She-Ra thing getting way too much hate when it was announced because I think her design wasn't sexy enough or something? I don't remember the particulars, just that it was ridiculous, partially because I refuse to believe anyone cared that much about She-Ra in the first place. But maybe they wanted to avoid something like that perhaps.
Lying in a trailer is really stupid way to go about that though, all you're doing is setting people up for disappointing and instilling bad faith for future projects. Even people who might like the show, might come up feeling disappointed. Great anecdotal example, Looper. The movie is good but I left disappointed because the trailers made it seem like it'd be about Joseph Gordon Levitt engaging in a smart cat & mouse game with his future-self, which we all know is Bruce Willis, but there was only like one scene like that in the entire film.
I do think there are rare cases where lying in the promotional material can be a good thing, I think it worked well for Danganronpa V3, and even to an extent, FFVIII Remake. But in those cases, that promotional twist are baked into the actual narratives. With He-Man, it seems like they just wanted to trick people to get viewership numbers up, that's awful.
I guess the mentality is that they're going to get backlash for taking this direction regardless, so might as well mislead people in hopes more people will give it a chance and they'll get a larger streaming viewership. Which I get, I remember the She-Ra thing getting way too much hate when it was announced because I think her design wasn't sexy enough or something? I don't remember the particulars, just that it was ridiculous, partially because I refuse to believe anyone cared that much about She-Ra in the first place. But maybe they wanted to avoid something like that perhaps.
Lying in a trailer is really stupid way to go about that though, all you're doing is setting people up for disappointing and instilling bad faith for future projects. Even people who might like the show, might come up feeling disappointed. Great anecdotal example, Looper. The movie is good but I left disappointed because the trailers made it seem like it'd be about Joseph Gordon Levitt engaging in a smart cat & mouse game with his future-self, which we all know is Bruce Willis, but there was only like one scene like that in the entire film.
I do think there are rare cases where lying in the promotional material can be a good thing, I think it worked well for Danganronpa V3, and even to an extent, FFVIII Remake. But in those cases, that promotional twist are baked into the actual narratives. With He-Man, it seems like they just wanted to trick people to get viewership numbers up, that's awful.
