![]() ![]() It was just selling much better, more readily adaptable merchandise. This isn’t to deny that the original Hasbro show was also selling merchandise. In this misbegotten reboot, Synergy only represents the marketable love child of R2D2 and WALL-E’s Eva. She also represented, to the girls and gay boys who cherished the show, the chimera of interacting with your own hidden identities her function was built right into her nomenclature. In the quintessentially ‘80s Saturday-morning cartoon series, Synergy wasn’t just the Sapphic supercomputer and quick-change artist capable of making over Jerrica Benton into rock star Jem in a flash. It’s because his dead-eyed gaze falls upon some dog-eared, chirping, single serving-sized robot spinning merry donuts on the corner of the stage. Rio (Ryan Guzman) blurts the new band name out when a top Rolling Stone editor asks for the vital stats of his newest and hottest musical act, but his report isn’t the result of a flint of inspiration or thematic summation. ![]() Chu’s live-action update of the Hasbro franchise, happens in the tossed-off improvisation of the moment. The christening of Jem and the Holograms, like almost everything else in director Jon M. ![]()
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