Modes of production

Due to insomnia I’ve been rewatching Filmation’s original 1983 He-Man, a cartoon designed (successfully!) to sell the child version of me toys of body-building blue skeletons and ripped, blonde, quasi-barbarian heroes. In terms of plot, dialogue, character development, and animation, He-Man is largely dogshit, with one exception: Skeletor’s relentless commitment to evil is pleasing and… Read more