New Conan animated series

https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/tv-shows/conan-the-barbarian-animated-series-genndy-tartakovsky/

Pretty terrible article and a dubious premise to begin with. Robert E. Howard wasn't a novelist, and he's credited with creating sword & sorcery not sword & sandal, which is a completely different genre. And the idea that Conan "found love" with Bêlit sounds pretty silly and out of character to me. I think a lot of low status men are anxious to "promote" her to his equal for the same reason that they love Jirel of Jorey or other girlboss female characters... even though Howard never wrote her as such. I'm more and more irritated by the trend to try and make strong women characters by low status men who get turned on by them. Why can't women just be feminine? And why can't men just be happy with that? I mean, I realize why; it's because too many creatives are low status, but man is it irritating. Howard may have been low status in his way; he seems to have been obsessed with his mother, and never had too serious a relationship with any woman (although he did, maybe, have a girlfriend for a little while) but at least he understand masculinity and femininity. It must be a generational thing.

Not that Conan hasn't already been pretty poorly treated in anything other than the original stories anyway. Starting with the oft-times questionable "revisions" updates and edits of L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter, the vast corpus of novels in the 80s, even the movies... even the popular one with Arnold... other than some of the comics over the years, I haven't been very impressed with Conan pastiche. Luckily, I've had the complete collection in three trade paperbacks by Del Rey for many years. In fact, I've got them "out" of their box and readily available. I might even re-read them again soon.