Sean Fennessey

It's kind of incoherent in terms of storytelling.

It's remedial.

It is obviously born very specifically out of a Reagan era kind of machismo, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, I want to pump you up moment in the culture.

Yeah, so...

In addition to this long road to adapting it into a movie and the way in which they adapted it into a movie, I think, speaks to some of the anxieties that it has gone through in the development process.

It's also been rebooted as an animated series twice.

And there have been multiple... Three times.

Three times.

Arguably four times.

Four times.

Okay, I don't know.

I definitely don't know about the fourth time.

Yeah.

And each time...

It's had varying levels of success but never replicated that experience in the 1980s.

And I think there are a lot of reasons for that but primarily because it is inescapable from its roots.

Like the actual – the time in which it was made does not port over neatly the way that something like Spider-Man does.

Where Spider-Man has a kind of eternal quality, there is something very locked into that 80s mentality.

And also some of the –

the kind of raggedy quality of its development, you know, that the characters don't all make sense together tonally, that the technologies don't all fit together.