I think Hollywood is adverse to learning lessons. If something makes money, keep doing it. That's about all they know. Look how terrible the Jurassic movies have become. Zero effort is made to improve the next one. Because they just keep making money.
Oh, I think Hollywood is great at learning lessons. Just... the wrong lessons. They're a lot like toy companies. Toy companies are perpetually infantile idiots when it comes to assessing their own successes and mistakes. Which is why they keep failing to reproduce the former, and constantly reproduce the latter.
Hollywood is much the same. If a nostalgia movie like He-Man does really well, then Hollywood is going to go hard on finding any and every nostalgia property they can get hold of, without any shred of idea of WHY this particular one did so well. Conversely, if the He-Man movie bombs, it could potentially tank the opportunity to even get other nostalgia properties off the ground -regardless of the reason for He-Man bombing.- He-Man could just be a legitimately terrible fucking movie that everyone hates, but Hollywood execs will walk away going 'I guess no one wants movies based on '80s properties anymore.'
. I did watch the cartoon and obviously have a lot of fond memories of it, particularly Shipwreck for some reason. But I guess I don't collect with that part of my nostalgia. The comics were massively impactful while th cartoon was a fun, goofy cartoon in a sea of fun goofy cartoons. So I never fault anyone who leads with the cartoon aesthetic etc, I actually kinda envy those of you who prefer the goofy and weird stuff, but the comic is more what I look to emulate.
Same.
It's a lot like the MOTU fandom. It's pretty heavily divided between cartoon purists, mini-comic purists, and toy purists, with some spattering of people that are somewhere in between. But there's clearly camps of people that, for example, liked the cartoon but just don't collect toys or whatever with the cartoon in mind.
I'm like that with both He-Man and Joe. I liked both cartoons a lot. I have very fond memories of watching both. But when it comes to my modern collecting habits - I tend to collect to emulate how I played with the vintage toys, and to some extent how I engaged with the comics, rather than anything that was going on with the cartoons.
And I'm sure that's because the standards at the time meant that the cartoons for both shows were a lot sillier and tamer than the toys would have led you to believe, or that was visible in the comics/file cards/etc.
