
Give it a chance and you'll love it!
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The original series is a well loved, beautifully animated classic, and nothing will change that. Infact, it's probably best to pick up some those episodes on DVD as well. That said there were a lot of things about He-Man, the barbarian qualities of the comics and the rich back-story devised by Mattel, that never made it into that series. Try the moden update and you might learn something. The first few episodes make a rocky start, the characters are a bit off (Orko's too Jar Jar) and there might actually be *too much* action, but the series soon takes off with clever storytelling of it's own. Filmation had to go at great lengths to sanitize the world of He-Man since there was such a huge public bias angainst action cartoons of the time. The villains couldn't be too scary (remember that the Monster's weren't real in Scooby Doo, either) and He-Man's warrior edge was blunted. The writing largely made up for that but fans of only the cartoon never got to know that other side of He-Man. Until now. He-Man is still noble and mighty but his world is now a lot more dangerous and he needs his Heroic Warriors-- the Masters-- now more than ever. By a box set cheap and give it a try. You'll be hooked by the second disk!
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