The importance of Orko.

 Yes, I heard the rumors. No, not going to watch the video where Kevin Smith accidentally drops a Revelation... where Orko well... you can guess what happens. 

Many people see Orko as the annoying childish character like Crappy Doo or Snarf! (The last one is ironic, since Snarf is the grumpy adult, while LION-O is literally the annoying childish character) more often than not these "fans" want to get rid of Orko by any means necessary. Yes his conception wants to be a character kids could identify with and act as a bridge between the show and the audience. At the same time he has a very tragic backstory. Lost In a Strange New World, where he cannot properly function. To put things in perspective. Imagine being a professional basketball player back home and in this new world you can't even dribble a ball without hitting someone in the audience. That's Orko. In Trolla he was a pampered Wunderkind that had an enormous magical potential. Now he's a barely functional mage that can only function as a very bad jester.  

A mature take on Orko is to use his backstory and have him cope with being "the only one of his kind" trapped in an alien world. Going from highly skilled to a bad joke, because the laws of physics behave differently in this dimension than they do in Trolla. Part of Orko's child-like nature is because Eternian experiences are brand new to him.

But the issue MANY HAVE (even myself) is that we can all confuse Maturity with edginess at times. For some reason I'm sensing that Kevin Smith might have fallen into this trap... if the rumors are true. We have seen what going edgy for the sake of edginess can do to a franchise. I'm talking about Snyder's bastardization of the DCEU. Where Superman was barely Superman and he gets immediately killed in the sequel. 

That is a Shock Value action. Like when DC made Orko Evil... wait, didn't I make one of these before?

Oh yes, I did! I mentioned having Orko cope with his inability to even do the simplest of spells and maybe having him relearn "how to walk" would be a nice way to have Orko grow as a character. My fear is that Orko is used to make an example of "How mature we are" by metaphorically killing the character by making him act completely out of character, like being the Ultimate Evil... or bybactually Killing Orko just to showcase the "High stakes"... or to make him a "Dobby". 

This is my third red flag... NOW I'M REALLY starting to worry. I'll get back to you after the first episode...