Sean Fennessey

So it does that smorgasbord quality that you're describing.

It just, it makes it feel like, um,

It never should have happened in the first place.

Right.

I can map it so perfect because I'm born in 82.

So I can map it perfectly onto my shifting interest specifically into Marvel and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

And those being the two pathways of fandom that I, in addition to like baseball, that I was kind of pouring myself into when I was six, seven, eight, nine years old and away from He-Man.

He-Man, it having this kind of primal quality.

When you're four and you see He-Man and you see Skeletor and you see Evelyn and you see Sorceress and you see Cringer.

You know this because you've been kind enough to gift my daughter some toys from this universe.

Yeah.

So she just pulled a Shira disc off of a video store shelf when she was like four years old.

And then about a year ago, we went to go see a bunch of He-Man episodes strung together at the Egyptian one morning.

Yeah.

And, you know, she was pretty young.

She was like three and a half, four years old when she was getting into it.

And I think it is specifically what you're describing, that there is this essential, heroic, oversimplified quality to both of those characters.

She was a little bit more complex, but not really.

And so it makes sense that it was clicking for people at that time.

Now, I'm a bit older than you.