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I think this show hates Orko and Cringer.

posted 3 years ago by bond998 (1213)
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If we really want to talk about SIDELINGING Characters lets talk about Orko and Cringer in this. Cringer was actually a character in the 1983 cartoon and most of the other version. Hes just a plot device in this show. Hes no more a character than the Batmobile is. Mainly because he can fucking talk no fucking reason. Orko is bearly in this show. He shows up for maybe 3 minutes in most of the episode and say some lame joke and than disappears. Hes only in 31 of the 39 episodes. Beastman is in all 38 of them. In the original Orko was in all 130 episodes. Talking about fucking Sidelining. People can bitch about the new Show. But at least Orko and Cringer aren't some throw away characters like he is in the 2002 show. Orko is given some actual Character Development. Frankly this show is overrated. The characters are as complex and interesting as Cardboard. The original is at least fun to watch. If i want to watch a cartoon with intresting and complex characters ill watch Batman the Animated Series. Where every villian and hero has a complex motivation. This show didn't even try to do that.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

While I agree there isn't much Orko or Cringer in this version there isn't really a lot of cringer in the new one either and they kill Orko so you're comparison makes 0 sense. At least this one respects the source material unlike the new garbage

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

First off, why copy Jacksman344's now-deleted post? How suspicious...

Hes only in 31 of the 39 episodes.

That's still a lot of screen time.

People can bitch about the new Show. But at least Orko and Cringer aren't some throw away characters like he is in the 2002 show.

People don't watch "He-Man" for Orko and Cringer, they watch it for He-Man. It's one thing to point out if certain secondary characters from the 80's cartoon had reduced roles in the 2002 series, but that's not even remotely close to He-Man being sidelined in his own show, especially when Kevin Smith swore up-and-down that that wasn't the case and that He-Man was the star of "Masters of the Universe".