126.5 – Review of the Masters Of The Universe Revelation Score!!

Hi, this is Larry Dottilio, writer for He -Man

and Beast Wars, and you are listening to the

Geekcast Radio Network. In the center of the

universe, on the planet Eternia... Looms Castle

Grayskull. Ancient fortress of mystery. Its power

sought by the dark forces of Snake Mountain.

Sanctuary of sin and sorrow, ruled by the demon

Skeletor and his evil acolytes. And the only

thing that stands in their way is Prince Adam,

who defends the secrets of Castle Greyskull as

He -Man, the most powerful man in the universe.

Only four others share this secret, guardians

of Greyskull all, amidst an army of the honorable.

Committed to guarding Castle Greyskull from the

havoc of destruction. For those who control Greyskull

control the power. The power to be Masters of

the Universe! Hello, this is TFG1 Mike and welcome

to the 126 .5 chapter in our Powers of Greyskull

series. With me for this journey into the Masters

of the Universe is not Optimus Solo. I don't

know why he's not here. I have no idea. This

is only the second time in a decade that he has

not been on one of these episodes. The other

one was when Adas Baron and I talked about the

comics back in Episode 75. Joining me is longtime

fan, longtime friend, Mr. Tim Silvers, as we

are here to talk about the Bear McCreary score.

Two Masters of the Universe Revelation Kevin

Smith series on Netflix. Hello, sir. How are

you? Hey, Mike. I am doing well. Tim Silvers

or Toon Master Tim. You can find me online by

that handle. But yeah, thanks for having me back.

I'm very happy to be here. I'm sure everybody's

going to miss Optimus Solo, but I miss him too.

I enjoy listening to you guys banter back and

forth and discuss. He'll be back next time. It's

not like I banished him yet. Because the next

two episodes after this, folks, are the Revelation

comics. So those will be coming soon. But yes,

Tim is here. We are going to get his thoughts

on the Netflix series. But the main topic here

is the score by Bear McCreary. What did you think

of... Okay, so we had She -Ra that was on Netflix

from DreamWorks. I wasn't, and this isn't even

to get into a discussion about that, but I just,

I didn't, it wasn't my cup of tea. So we'll cover

that eventually here in Powers of Greyskull series,

folks. I don't know when, but at some point.

What did you think when they first announced

Kevin Smith, of all people, was going to do a

Masters cartoon? I was fully on board from that

announcement. I know Kevin Smith has done, you

know, a lot of movies. He's also written comics.

He's just kind of a big kid like us. So I knew

he was very familiar with the geek culture. And,

you know, especially being familiar with his

comic book writing, I felt like he would embrace

the old and kind of modernize it and make it

something that the old fans would enjoy, but

also bring in some new fans. And I have to say,

I really don't. feel let down and there you go

have you paid and not that we're gonna just because

i have to bring this up just to clear the air

have you paid any attention to all of the press

whether it be good bad or otherwise about this

series and about him himself and all of that

yeah some of it just a little bit i don't really

go looking for the negativity but i did come

across an article um you know that was out on

social media that's saying that the fans uh had

written a lot of negative reviews against the

series but the critics were praising it so it

had a very high rating with critics uh and fans

i guess some of the fans that didn't like it

really kind of i don't know if they um were pushing

other fans to write a bunch of negative reviews

is what it sounded like to bring the score down,

which is just terrible. It's just an awful thing

that that was the reaction that some people had

to it. I really enjoyed the show. I think they

put a lot of love and effort into it. Obviously,

the production values are very high. The animation

looks great. I'm sure we could talk about more

of that stuff, just like you guys covered on

the other episodes covering the series. Yeah.

How familiar with Bear McCreary as a composer

are you? You know, it's interesting. I recognize

his name from The Walking Dead because I've watched

that series. But I didn't realize how extensive

his catalog is until I looked him up. He has

done so much work and it's very good. I mean,

he's really good at what he does. Yeah, he is.

Like you, I'd heard his name. I'd heard his name

in various things from video game stuff to TV

stuff to film stuff, but I wasn't really... There

was never a moment that I was like, oh, Bear

McCreary is doing this until now with this specific

score. But for those that may not know, He did

the music on the TV show Battlestar Galactica

from 2004 to 2009, Eureka, the Terminator TV

series, the Sarah Connor Chronicles. He did the

music of Agents of S .H .I .E .L .D., which I

still need to go back and watch at some point.

He's done the music for everything. Currently,

he's in the middle of doing the Snowpiercer music.

I forget where Snowpiercer is. Oh, it's on TNT.

Of course it's on TNT. Not that there's anything

wrong with that, but still. But he's just done

a lot of stuff. I actually want to check out

this one thing that's listed here. Knights of

Badastum. I kind of want to check that out just

from the title of it. So Bear has done the score

to Masters of the Universe Revelation. This is

13 tracks. I forget how many tracks it is. But

basically, it's the score. It is 16 songs, released

July 23rd, the day that part one of Masters of

the Universe Revelation came out. And, man, listening

to this, like, I've... I know you have listened

to plenty of the stuff that I've done over the

years, but if anyone listens to the La La Land

Lounge stuff I did for La La Land Records and

we were just talking about scores, I always have

to, if I hear the music in something, I need

to then search out the music by itself and listen

to it by itself. And this was no exception. And

damn, this score is awesome. Yeah. And I know

you're a big fan of the soundtracks and you've

reviewed a lot of the La La Land records, different

soundtracks from 80s cartoons and films and things.

And then, you know, I saw that this was going

to be released online and various streaming platforms

for people to enjoy, which is great because.

The music in the show is really good. I think

it fits the show very well. It's very dramatic

music. It's different than the old 80s series.

And it's a good thing. I love the music of the

80s cartoons. They're great. They're recognizable

themes. And I think that's one of the things

with this. It hasn't quite... landed with that

recognizable theme although i love the the opening

theme uh for the show um but it doesn't have

that classic that you just hung at least i haven't

gotten to that point yet it may take me a few

more episodes or seasons to get to that point

but um it it it has that you know the drama elements

in it and uh it's it's really interesting to

listen to i know that you We'll sit down and

listen to the soundtracks. I don't often do that.

I used to do that. I would buy a soundtrack and

sit down and just listen to it and play it through,

and this was something I more or less had on

while I was doing some other things on my computer,

but I found it enjoyable to listen to, even without

the visuals. Yeah, because for me, I... I've

already watched the series like three times at

this point just to make sure I got everything.

And that's the funny thing, folks. When we did

our non -spoiler and spoiler -filled episodes,

I went back to see where some of the scenes were

for the music, and everybody, at least from the

2002 cartoon, everybody thought that they did

a great job with Stancor slash Oedipus back in

the 2002 series. And they tried to meld that

here. But honestly, I don't even think it's just

because of Jason Mewes being the voice. I think

it's because Stinkor is only in it for like less

than a minute and a half that I completely forgot

Jason Mewes was the voice of Stinkor until I

actually heard him. I was like, holy crap, that's

right. He was Stinkor. Wow. Yeah. But yeah, the

music for me, I you're right. It doesn't. And

I know Optimus Solo will agree with this because

he was like, where's my intro theme? Where's

this? The difference between some shows that

are made now versus shows made almost 40 years

ago now. 40 years ago, we didn't have Netflix.

We didn't have Hulu. We didn't have insert streaming

service that you enjoy here because heaven forbid

anybody. Send us death threats over liking one

streaming service over. Anyway, it's a long story,

the history of the GCR. But Netflix and Hulu

and all these things, most of them have a skip

intro button. And I think that even though the

main intro from the first episode where you have

Man -at -Arms doing the voiceover and everything

you guys just heard at the beginning of this

podcast, the main theme from bear is under that

voiceover. It's just not as pronounced. I think

because they were trying to, they, by they, I

mean the animators and the producers and those

people, they were trying to make sure that the

music and the voiceover fit in with all of the

visuals we got from the toy packaging. to the

old paintings, to all of that. So it doesn't

have your filmation sound and then, you know,

Adam or He -Man or whomever coming in and doing

the whole voiceover thing. And I tried to point

this out to Kevin, and I'm like, there is an

opening theme song. There is a theme song to

this show. You just can't hear it because...

of everything else that's assaulting your senses

with the visuals and the voiceover. And I say

that, and I don't mean that it's, you know, assaulting

and assault is a bad term, but it just, hey,

man, people are all about sensory overload these

days, and I am too. Certain things just, I hate

this term, but... certain things just trigger

me and i just focus on one part of it kind of

thing and i know that kevin loves theme songs

and wishes that there was a he says that there

isn't a theme song here there is it's just that

it's buried amongst this whole generation of

oh let's skip the intro kind of thing right this

is very fitting for the style of this series

it's it's um I mean, this music is something

that could fit into, you know, a drama TV series

or something. I mean, it doesn't necessarily

have to fit animation. And the Shucky Levy and

Haim Saban that did so many of the 80s music

themes for the cartoons are amazing. And you

can recognize them and pick up on them in just

a few notes usually. This is going for something

different. It's really going for that more, I

hate to say more mature because I don't feel

like the 80s cartoons or even 90s cartoons and

other cartoon eras, even looking at the 2002

He -Man series. Great music there too, but it

was different than what came before it. And I

think this is showing that progression that the

music has grown up with the show. a little darker

theme we're going to take some of those characters

that you're familiar with and we're going to

elevate it up just a little bit higher because

we know that the audience has grown over time

and we don't want the same just do the same thing

we did before let's do something a little different

with it and i think that shows in the theme music

yeah and you know the other thing that i didn't

get a chance to point out in the other episodes

we recorded because i hadn't seen this video

at the time but On July 21st, Mr. Smith put out

a Q &A about this series and whatever else. And

in that video, I'll have that in the show notes,

he goes on to explain that the He -Man rights

are all up in the Masters of the Universe rights

are just like this. Just like how the Batman

66 rights used to be. It was all up in the air.

One company owns this part. One company owns

that part. So this is a Mattel television production.

This is not Universal coming in here. Universal

has the Filmation rights. And I just... It feels

like a sequel series, only in the sense for me

that it was... It picked up elements and tried

to make story points out of them. But he specifically

says in this video, it's Mattel television, it's

Mattel toys. These designs are based on the actual

action figures that Mattel owns. So everybody

decrying the whole, oh my god, it's not a sequel,

it's not the... Look, you try to reboot with

She -Ra, and everybody was mad at that. You do

this, and then all of a sudden, because of Kevin

Smith, the hype man that he is, I don't know,

I just, I enjoyed it. I really enjoy this music.

I was surprised, because normally if I'm listening

to a score, I don't normally look at the track

listing beforehand unless I'm shown it. Track

six, The Power of Grayskull. I'm used to music

cues being anywhere from one to maybe seven or

eight minutes, depending on it. But the Power

of Grayskull track is 13 minutes and 19 seconds

long. And I'm like, wait, is this the same track?

What's going on? I'm not complaining about it.

I'm just stating a fact that it is the longest

track on the entire thing. And I'm like... Holy

crap, and what Bear pulls into that track for

that entire scene is just amazing. And the biggest

thing for me with this, besides that, and obviously

the overall themes for He -Man and Adam and whatever,

is the... I'm trying to think which track is

that. It's... Lament for a Friend featuring Ray

Yarborough. So Lament for a Friend is obviously

spoilers, folks. There are deaths in this series.

And Orko dies and other people die and whatever.

So Lament for a Friend, I was like, oh, very

cool. And then I hear her voice. Now, you may

not be familiar with her and that's that's fine.

The other place I had heard her was on Kyle Higgins'

Cowl score. So Kyle Higgins, comic book writer

Kyle Higgins, had done a – which is funny because

he actually wrote a couple of master stories

a number of years ago now. But anyway, he had

a creator -owned series that he did that he did

a soundtrack for with his buddy Joe Clark. And

it's this, you know, 1920s jazz kind of score.

It's, you know, the old gangsters. It's superhero

labor union, the 1920s of Chicago kind of thing.

And that was the first time I had heard her on

what I believe is the track Chicago. Could be

wrong. And I liked her voice. So I was surprised

on Lament for a Friend. I was like, wait a minute.

I know that voice. I look down at them like,

hey, that's an awesome surprise. I was not expecting

that. Yeah, that's a good one. And going back

to the power of race goal, that theme is long.

But as you said, it goes through this journey.

There's so many themes in that, you know, it's

it's up and then it goes it goes down. It slows

down and the pace picks up. It's. It's long for

a reason. It's playing out through all those

scenes, all those highs and lows. Yeah, absolutely.

Yeah. And it is so interesting to see how the

highs and lows happen. And like I said, I'm such

a visual person that as I'm listening to this,

I can see the scenes, you know, as it goes through,

I can see them in my head. And, you know, Eternia's

destruction and the desolation with Asgoe's Eternia,

finding Duncan. What did you think of the Subternia,

Preternia theme? So we have Scarecrow slash Lord

of Subternia and into Preternia. So we basically

have heaven and hell. And I thought that was

an interesting thing. using the music the way

they did to symbolize both places. Ooh. Technical

difficulties. Let's move on, shall we? Yeah,

this music is so good. Yeah, it is. I'm just

shocked that they got him to do the music. I'm

not. It's Mattel. It's not. It's Mattel and it's

Kevin Smith and his hours of persuasion. Yep.

That pedigree, yeah. Okay, sorry about that.

No, no, that's fine. So there are two tracks.

It's Scare Glow, Lord of Subternia, and Into

Preternia, where they basically do themes for

heaven and hell, because that's how, in the show,

they use... subternia as hell and preternia they

use the past as as heaven i know a lot of people

were up in arms about the oh my god preternia

was a thousand years ago it's not supposed to

be oh my anyway these people anyway but the score

here i thought wow that's one way to describe

those two places and boy are those themes very

different from each other Oh, yeah. The scareglow

theme. I mean, it's just ominous. You know, it

fits the environment so well. And then into Paternia,

I just love that. It's kind of reminiscent of

the opening theme in the beginning. But then

it transitions and kind of lightens up more.

But yeah, those scenes and that part of the series.

Yeah, it went to places that I don't think some

people expected. There'd be so many character

deaths, and they'd actually go to essentially

Eternia's heaven and hell. Yeah, I found it to

be fascinating. I found the music to be fascinating.

We always have this... standardized thought of

what heavenly music should be, and I was surprised

with what Baird did with Into Preternia, and

that's a track that really puts you at peace.

I don't want to sit here and say this, but I'm

going to anyway. It's like, hey, anybody have

certain songs on their funeral list? Here you

go. kind of thing, because, wow. And then, you

know, with the Scarecrow subterranean theme,

it's like, oh, wow. You're in for it now, buddy,

because you think you've been to hell? You ain't

been to hell. I just, I find this stuff very,

very interesting and awesome, and I do love this

music. Yeah, it fits the scenes so well. And

like you said, when you're listening to the soundtrack,

you recall those scenes. I mean, I do that with

movies, too. It's even sometimes just a song

that is a well -known pop song or rock song that's

in a film. And whenever you hear it, because

you've seen it in that film, even though you've

heard it so many times before that movie, before

you saw it in that scene, your mind immediately

goes there. This obviously is original music

for the series, but it fits it so well. And then

when you hear these themes, you're going right

back to those scenes in the show. And again,

it's a mature theme. It really fits the series

so well. And you just kind of take that emotional

ride as you're listening to. uh, the music and

going right back to those, those moments in the

series that, uh, were, were shocking and revealing.

Yup. Like when Roboto reforges the sword of power.

Oh man. That track. Wow. That scene. Holy crap.

I loved Roboto in the series. I, I always liked

him. Uh, It just, it was just growing up. I just

thought he was a really cool toy. And so I was

really happy to see him get his moment in this

series. Cause he seems like the kind of character

that you would probably just, oh yeah, he's just,

he's just a robot. Just kind of thrown to the

side, but he actually got a fair bit of a screen

time in the series. A fair bit of screen time

and a much better. Yeah. And a much more developed

role, because while he did have a very developed

role in 2002, he didn't have much in the old

days. Ever since 2002, I'm like, well, that's

essentially either Duncan's, like they say in

the show, it's Duncan's intuitions, it's Duncan's

mind, it's his thoughts, it's this, that, and

the other thing. He's basically his son, just

like Tila's his adopted daughter. That last track,

From Man to a God, oh man, like, I wish we got

all ten episodes, but I understand why they split

it up the way they split it up. But hearing those

last few seconds, because when you watch that

final episode, that fifth episode, and you see

the end, it's like, that music is just so damn

good, where it's like, holy crap. And then you

hear it outside of it, and it's like, whew, chills.

Yeah, I mean, it brings the emotions to it. Yeah,

it does. For sure. And there's more depth to

this than in some other recent cartoons. Although

there have been some good ones. You mentioned

She -Ra and the Princess's Power, the newer series

on Netflix. That one got into some deep themes,

and there were some really great moments in that

and a lot of emotion, too. This is just different.

And I think the music here fits the series really

well. And there's just so many emotions playing

out in this. And Bear McCreary's music, you know,

I mean, just going back to The Walking Dead,

like I said, I've watched that show. And over

the course of several seasons, I haven't seen

the one from last year. So probably, what, eight?

seasons or so i've listened to his his themes

in that show which you know that's that can be

very intense at times very you know sad emotional

times so it runs the gamut and again he brings

that here and it's totally different style of

music but still you know you you conjure up those

feelings with with what's going on on screen

and uh and it sticks with you and it's just enjoyable

to listen to as well just you put it on in the

background and um listen to the the instrumentals

it's great stuff yeah and i knew just by watching

the show i knew two scenes were going to have

not that the score isn't already amazing but

the the music behind the scenes when i saw and

heard the music within the scenes, I knew two

scenes that those tracks were going to be just

as awesome with just listening to the score,

and that is Skeletor, Lord of Destruction, when

he shows up. I'll throw the clip in here somewhere.

Behold, the Lord of Destruction, Skeletor! And

then... music where Orko puts Cringer in a bubble

and you have Supergirl's boyfriend I'm sorry

He -Man I can't get over that that Mon -El from

Supergirl Chris Wood is the voice of He -Man

I don't dislike it but I was just like when they

kept saying oh it's Chris Wood I'm like who the

fuck fuck is Chris? I looked him up and I'm like,

oh, right, Mon -El from, okay, I gotcha. So anyway,

when he comes up as Prince Adam, he gets a little

poker or whatever he's got, a little, whatever

it is, and he pokes the bubble and he's like,

I have the power. I'm like, oh, you can hear

that whole thing in the orco with the bubble

track and I thought that was fun and I wish,

I'm not going to sit here and tell people what

to like and not to like because I hate it when

people say, oh, you're a Nickelback fan. Well,

they suck and you suck for liking them or whatever.

I'm not going to sit here and do that to people.

I'm just going to say that I hope that our episodes

so far for Revelation get people interested enough

to at least try to check it out. And people have

told me this for years. Oh, give it. two or three

episodes, give it this, give it that. Sometimes

I can, sometimes I can't. I gave Agents of S

.H .I .E .L .D. like five episodes from season

one, and I just never looked back. Because back

then, when Agents of S .H .I .E .L .D. first

started, I was like, but you're ruining the fact

that Coulson died in Avengers to save the...

Anyway, whatever. But it's like, you know...

I want to be able to recommend this to people.

I want to be able to tell people that it is enjoyable.

It is not Filmation. It is not 2002. It has elements

of those. And it has plot threads, but it's also

trying to tell its own story. Again, as I said

earlier, I do wish we had all ten episodes for

this first season. I love how everyone on the

internet is now, oh my god, season one is only

for, no? No, that's not what anyone anywhere

said. Yes, Netflix is listing it as Masters of

the Universe Revelation Part 1, and Part 2 will

be coming whenever. I've seen various dates,

I've heard various things from Smith himself

where he's even said he doesn't know. The only

thing I know for sure that he has said that is

probably accurate is that Netflix wants to have

a Season 2 by 2022. No, season two by 2023 is

what he said. And yeah, this is part one of a

first season. So everyone complaining about,

oh, my God, five episodes is not a season. Yeah.

Have you have you not been in the digital streaming

landscape over the last decade? OK, yeah. If

we're going to speculate about it, I'm kind of

reminded about. Voltron Legendary Defender, that

series, because season one came out, and I think

it might have been eight or ten episodes. So

I was really surprised that this was only five

episodes, because even other series from Netflix,

they're usually a little bit longer. I figure

it's going to be probably eight or ten. There

have been a few series where there were maybe

three or four episodes, like Castlevania, I think,

was only three or four for its first season,

and then there was this big gap in between it

and the second. But with Ultron Legendary Defender,

they had that first season. I was thinking, wow,

you know, there's so much lead time up to getting

a series, an animation produced, you know, writing

it, getting animation done, doing the voice work,

any kind of fixes. And there's so much time put

into a series that. It was pretty clear they

already had a lot of episodes done, right? Yeah.

So they were sitting on them. So I imagine they're

probably doing the same with this series. They're

probably sitting on those episodes and they might

release them. I mean, I'm just guessing because

we don't really know. But, I mean, I would say,

okay, it's, you know, summer and we're getting

into the fall, winter. So I'd say maybe by late

fall, early winter, they'll have something out.

Yeah, people have said, and even Smith has said,

it could be this year, it could be next year.

And if it's next year in the spring, fine. If

it's this year in the fall, fine. I've seen a

completely unconfirmed date of October 28th,

but I've only seen it on one website. I've not

heard of it on anywhere else. Yeah, as far as

Voltron goes, Voltron's first season was 11 episodes,

and then every other season after that was either

13. or it was split up between 7 and 6. So, I

mean, that's what Netflix does. That's what they're

going to do. That, like, to me, that's not...

It's not god -awful. It's not, you know... Yeah,

I just assume that since they made the first

part so short, just the five episodes, that they

probably had, like... you know, a 10 episode

season for season one. It's like, okay, well,

let's just put this out there and then we'll

quickly give them part two, you know, just in

just a few months. Yeah. I mean, with this five

episodes and where they left things, nobody wants

to wait six months to a year for part two to

come out. Let's hope not. I mean, I'm willing

to wait as much as, you know, as long as I have

to kind of thing. I'm not, you know, For me,

and again, I think this ties into, and I know

we're supposed to be talking about the music,

but it's the show. It ties into the whole fact

that watching cartoons now is not like it was

40 years ago. Like I said earlier in this episode,

we have streaming services now. We have online

things. We don't just have... Oh, my God, unless

you set your Betamax player or VCR to record

the show at this time, you're never going to

see that episode. You can go back and watch anything

you want on any of these services at any time

that you want as long as you have a subscription

to these services. And, you know, it is what

it is. Getting back into the music of Bear McCreary,

after listening to this score, first of all,

I can't wait to hear what happens with the score

in part two of this first season. They literally

left us, you know, hooks in our mouths on a cliff

because I don't know why, but it's just one of

those things where that final scene, that final

little two, three seconds of music when Skeletor

finally... If you want to say this is a spiritual

successor to Filmation or to the toys or to the

history of the characters, Skeletor never won.

Skeletor may have gotten away with a few things

in Filmation. He may have won for maybe five

minutes of an episode, but he never... actually

ever took over. Look at these five episodes.

Look at the end of that. First of all, they kill

He -Man twice. Nobody does that. Nobody does.

No, you don't. But it works because you get this

whole story of without killing He -Man when they

did, you wouldn't have the whole journey into

Subternia. You wouldn't have... you know ascending

to preternia you wouldn't have any of that stuff

you wouldn't have any of this awesome music from

bear mccreary and yeah i am loving like i cannot

wait to just once i don't have 19 podcasts to

edit uh i cannot wait to just turn my speakers

on and just crank this up if you guys like great

great music whether it's he -man or not This

is something you should check out, especially

if you are any type of... I don't care. I don't

even care if you like the new adventures. And

I hate the new adventures. But it's just one

of those things where, as you've said, this music

is awesome in and out of the show. And it just

works. And it's so good. Yeah, and listen to

the first track, the Masters of the Universe

Revelation extended version, because that's what

you hear the few seconds of at the beginning

of each episode. And it's also in episode one,

but as you were saying, Mike, you've got the

voiceover on top of it. And it's just under two

minutes, but it's epic. I mean, it's reminiscent

of so many of those. epic sword and sandal sword

and sorcery adventures kind of reminds me of

the Conan, the barbarian, uh, themes is those

big, you know, big movie scores, um, that, uh,

that, you know, you had in those, in those films

from the eighties and, and other, other areas,

this big, big, uh, themes. And that's what this

reminds me of. And it fits the show so well.

Um, and what, I was surprised by, too, is that

there actually is a Mighty Motherboard theme

in here. Because that was something that was

discussed on other podcasts. You guys were talking

about that. And I think Optima Solo said how

creepy that was. And it was. And I was surprised

at how much that played out. part one of the

series. That it wasn't just, oh, this is just

something Triclops is doing and we'll put this

in here and then it goes away. They kept that

in and then, you know, here is the theme. Yeah,

and that theme is so creepy. So creepy. But again,

it is so, so good. It's so interesting. The tones

of each of these themes. I'm not the, okay, so

I love the instrumental parts. I'm not necessarily

big on the whole vocal, outside of Rhea Yarborough,

because that's awesome. But like the male vocalization,

like the wah, wah, wah, wah, whatever it is.

Like, I've never been a fan of the choir. Okay,

kind of the... Kind of, yeah, the chanting kind

of stuff. Yeah. But for this, it works. Is it

my favorite thing? No. But for this, it works,

and it's fine. But, yeah, I mean, give it a try,

folks. You don't have to be a longtime fan like

us. You don't have to be diehard. You don't have

to... You don't have to be anything. Just give

it a try and see if it'll be your He -Man. That's

the whole point with every iteration that they've

ever done. As I said back in episode 83 of this

podcast, I think, yeah, that's when we started

New Adventures. I was 10 years old when New Adventures

came out. I was like, ooh, He -Man's back because,

hello, it hadn't been on air since 85. And then

I saw what it was, and my 10 -year -old self

was like, yeah, I'd rather watch Bart Simpson

get in trouble. Because it wasn't for it wasn't

for me. And it still isn't. Besides the quality

of how I feel about the quality of that show,

as far as the stories go, it still just isn't

my He -Man. And that's OK. This whole thing of

unless you like it, we can't be friends. If you

don't dislike it, we just enjoy it, people. This

is coming from me, who I don't like change at

all. I don't like new things at all. I like things

that are familiar. And this, to me, did both.

Maybe not necessarily with the music, however,

with the show and what it's doing and what it

did. And now that I can hear the music outside

of the show, it just makes me fall in love with

it even more because it's just one of those things

where, It works and it works well. Right. It

works for this series. It doesn't work for the

ADC man. No, it really doesn't. It doesn't fit

the style of that series. Um, but here I kind

of look at just going back to the, the theme

of the show and the chanting and how epic that

is. And it actually, during the opening of the,

of the show there, showing stills of painted

art that's reminiscent of the toy box art from

the 80s. And when you see that art, I mean, this

gives you this feel, oh, man, it's these big

muscle -bound characters. Some can fly. Some

are half beast, half man. Some are sword and

sorcery and all this stuff. There's all these

epic battles that took place. And when you see

that art, you put yourself in that like you're

visualizing what what was taking place in that

scene and i think that the music actually that

bear put together here is bringing that into

the into the series yeah absolutely absolutely

it is and it's one of those things where because

it is an epic series i mean the epic ending that

you talked about with yeah The ending, Skeletor.

And I hadn't looked at how many episodes there

were in part one. So I was like, that's it. That's

the ending. That's all we're going to get right

now. Yeah, that's all we're going to get right

now. But, you know, it is what it is. And that's

and that works. And it's just one of those things

where you just don't know. You just don't know.

And honestly, now that I've heard, even though

this has nothing to do with whatever, but now

that I've heard Bear's music in this specifically,

because like I said, I wasn't... It's not that

I'm not a fan of him. The music that he's done

for various things, the things themselves, like

Marvel's Agents of S .H .I .E .L .D., never really

hit me that much. Never really paid it. Didn't

even know until about five minutes before we

hit record today that he was the composer on

Agents of S .H .I .E .L .D. And now, you know,

I just added it to my Netflix queue. So I guess

I'm going to be watching Agents of S .H .I .E

.L .D. finally and whatever, at least some of

it. I don't know how much I'll get through, but

it's just one of those things where if I find

something I enjoy from a person that is giving

me this content, especially scores. You look

at another great composer, Brian Tyler. I love

his Transformers Prime stuff. I love Iron Man

3 and everything. Say what you will about those

Turtles movies. That music in those movies from

Brian Tyler was great. All his stuff with the

Fast franchise. So that's the thing here. Same

with Bear McCreary. It's like, oh, I really enjoyed

this score from Masters of the Universe Revelation.

Let me see what other things he's done to see

if it's something that I want to check out. And

like I said before, how can you not want to check

out the title that just, you know, Knights of

Badass -a -dom. Yeah, I've never heard of that.

I guess that's a film. Yeah, it's a 2013 comedy

horror film directed by Joe Lynch. So, but yeah,

anyway. Uh, any other final thoughts, sir, for

the score to masters of the universe revelation?

Um, just, uh, kind of what I've said already.

And as you said, I mean, I encourage people to

check it out. It's on several streaming platforms.

Um, so whatever your streaming platform of choices

for music is probably there, uh, for free. So,

um, You know, check it out and see if there are

tracks that you like. Obviously, if you've seen

the show, you're going to be familiar with the

music. Right. But yeah, he's done a good job.

He's done a real nice job. And as you said, I'm

excited to see what the music will be like for

part two. Yeah, I'm extremely excited to see

what happens with part two, especially with where

they left. Part one off, and it's just one of

those things where, give it to me now, but I

can still wait. The good thing is, if anybody

is curious and you're not digitally inclined,

I will also include the Amazon, and this has

nothing to do with, oh, send us, go to our link,

and it helps us out. That has nothing to do with

this. They did release a CD, because I wasn't

sure if they were going to actually release this

physically, because it just released digitally.

I mean, I know most actual rock bands, rap groups,

other artists will also still release physical

stuff, but I just assumed this was going to be

released digitally. And I saw that Bear had tweeted

out that the physical copy is available if people

would like the physical copy. Right now it's

on Amazon for 1972 for the audio CD. So I will

include that in the show notes. You got anything

else you want to say, sir, before I run through

the outro? Just thanks again for having me. Absolutely.

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