>>9916621getting rid of the time travel stuff is certainly a good start. your point about the good guys is also pretty spot on. taking MOTU to space and flooding the good guy ranks with mostly gi joe knock offs in dinky armor was a total waste. Obviously there were some more outlandish heroic aliens (namely sagitar, tuskador kinda, and artilla) introduced later on, but by then the line already had a foot in the grave. Given the names the majority of the good guys had anyways, they should have been more reminiscent of mel birnkrant's outerspace men. It goes without saying that more kids would have responded better to a medley of colorful alien warriors than the motley crew of lanard space force canon fodder that saw release.
That aside I think Heman needed a more drastic redesign too. I understand what they were going for with the Flash Gordon look they went with, but the 90's demanded something more outlandish. I've thought about this often and if it were upto me NA Heman would have looked like a cross between the silver surfer and electric superman. I'd also eliminate the prince adam aspect entirely by then, leaving just the spirit of greyskull incarnate. Skeletor however is almost perfect. Pushing him into Vader territory was genius, but the cartoon's depiction of that concept (or lack there of) pissed away any weight or edge that take could have carried. Make cyber-demon skeletor actually threatening, and the entire angle with the mutants would have worked seamlessly. Skeletor is nothing but charisma when boiled down to his core.
>>9916593Aside from all I mentioned, I'd simplify the set up a bit more. All it ever needed to be was he-man's planet hulk. So just teleport Skeletor and Heman offworld and let everything else play out.
