I Have the Hours!

So I decided to look at “Master of the Universe: Revelations”

Chad Parenteau
7 min readJul 28, 2021

For the first time in my life, TV seems like too much work. I don’t normally have time to binge-watch, let alone write articles about what I binged. Luckily, I chanced upon some unexpected free time, and the new series “Masters of The Universe: Revelation“ came out on Friday. Plus it was only five episodes if you don’t include the behind-the-scenes special, which I skipped. I leapt into it after witnessing the backlash where a lot of fanboys raged against the show for basically no reason. If you watched the original series that ran from 83–84 and you are able to look past the fan-bile, there’s something worth your time there.

Spoilers Ahead

Director Kevin Smith has decided to take the property back to its most well known roots and create an epic to wrap up the original series. The first episode gives out so many winks to the fans, you’ll think it’s having a stroke. Then comes the dark swerve. He-Man apparently dies stopping Skeletor from stealing control of Castle Greyskull’s magic. Because of this, magic is slowly fading from the planet, causing (among other things) a growing techno dystopia…

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Chad Parenteau

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