Woah, woah... Don't get me wrong, I didn't mean "femenine" in a derogatory way. And I didn't intend to refer to his personality; Shun's values and virtues have nothing wrong with them (they are the reason why he's my fave after Hyoga).
How to put it? Shun's my favorite Saint right after Hyoga, with his personality and values being one of the main reasons. I don't think having a big heart and a caring nature are girly or unmanly traits; I mean, even the king of badass in old school anime, Kenshiro, proved that sheding tears isn't wrong, that being compassionate makes you a good person and having a kind heart is a great virtue (From what I get, before Kenshiro came along, all those things were frowned upon in male heroes and Ken showed that, no, nothing wrong with any of that.)
I simply meant his overall design and how the change didn't involve a huge overhaul to it, in contrast to how Milo in Legend of the Sanctuary was a different character altogether. To be honest I would have preferred they stuck to the original party, but I think and hope is that Shun's core values remain there: his compassion, his kind heart, his pacifistic nature and all that. I think changing that would be worse disservice to his character (kinda like, they made new Shun an action oriented, snarky badass who likes to beat evil to the ground? That would be a poor change for the character IMHO). We kinda agree we have to see the new Shun in execution to see how well was this change handled and if the character is good or not, I'm just being cautiously optimistic.
And to be honest, I see your point and why you're mad about it, not saying the change is good or bad per se, simply my personal stance regarding it. And honestly it does bother me as well the crap Shun gets for not being "badass enough", many of my other favorites in other media get that treatment because of it (Cloud from FFVII for not being like Zack Fair, Megaman X for not being as cool as Zero, Luke fon Fabre for not being like Yuri Lowell or Jade Curtiss, among others).
I see your point in how the anime made Shun weaker, movies are especially bad with their formulaic nature in that regard.
Making Saori more active could have worked. Even if she's a goddess they could have gone the way of Legend of the Sanctuary, kinda like: she doesn't understand her powers well so she's limited, or she isn't a trained fighter so while strong she can be bested in combat, Athena's cosmo hasn't awakened fully or something, I dunno.
To be honest, I don't use Twitter so I am not really up to date of the writting decisions or changes nor anything to be honest. I am going, umm "blind" into this series. So I can't really speak for the reasoning behind any of them.
