I have thoughts and none of them are in order.

Heat in the U.K. is too bad to leave my fucking house so this week’s project has been a complete and total overhaul of the new Masters of the Universe film. Went to see it just to get some AC tbh but yeah as bad as expected with the costume department disappointing bad. Made even worse by the fact I see this actor in fine silks on my Pinterest every day because of the amount of historical menswear I draw.

Here’s some redesigns of Teela’s main outfit and Adam’s final outfit of the film. Gave Teela some shoulder armour both to mimic the general shape of the cartoon outfit and to make her silhouette more broad and intimidating because they chose quite a slight actor. Her bun actually looked really good but they only show it for about a minute + then she has her hair down for the rest of the film and the wig just looks limp. Her blue contacts were also very scary just let her have brown eyes man.

On the other end we’ve got Adam, and if the film was trying to comment on masculinity then we should not have Adam finish the film in an outfit that is a noticeably more practical and “tough” looking version of his cartoon outfit. I basically just wanted to put him in something that looked soft. Also COWARDS for making his trousers blue and not purple. The back of the skirt part is split in two so the tunic skirt is in three sections. I just think it’d look cool. I even researched the price of brocades you could use to make this that’s how deep in this hole I am. I also kind of wanted his shoes to look a little bit modern inspired (since he’s from Earth in this film) so I gave them the converse type soles haha.

And I can accept and enter into the fantasy mostly when I’m watching TV or whatever but GOD I am begging writers to use locations other than Camden because like, yes, historically the market was a big scene. But it’s owned by an Israeli billionaire now. And the expectations people who don’t live around have of Camden market because of the preceding reputation are always sort of depressing to have to burst when I take them on a canal walk with me.

Hygrade (the company that owns Ethan) has a parent company with investments in London, and when they realise that they can’t permanently recapture him or get him deported, they threaten the locals instead.