Crack in the World, Escape from Galatia, and He-Man Mutant

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in this episode of Masters in Space, we'll be

giving you our thoughts on the next three episodes

in the series. Episode 16, Crack in the World,

Episode 17, Escape from Galatia, or Galasha or

Galoshia, something like that, and Episode 18,

He -Man Mutant. So we hope you're ready. It's

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he man is a mutant? I mean is an aid does not

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up... Is episode 16 crack in the world? Did they

not want to put A in that one either? A crack

in the world? Just crack in the world. Around

October 12, 1990. So it was probably a Monday

episode written by Tony Zalewski. Finally, a

different writer. Different writer, Tony Zalewski.

That means we're also done with the... five or

six episode arc that we had previously so it's

on to a new episode standalone. Skeletor unleashes

an extraordinary power that could destroy the

whole of Primus while the inhabitants of Primus

begin with an evacuation. A large battle between

He -Man and Skeletor begins. Very generic as

far as that description goes but what do you

think about cracking the world on this now that

we're done with that other episode getting into

some random episodes? It was okay. It's still

not good but it's not God -awful as Some of the

other episodes to this point. There is one moment

in this where I'm like, oh hell no, I'm just

done but Other than that the story was fairly

well done Skeletor in his Different roles during

this episode was great as always as he is The

fact that he man's not in this much kind of pisses

me off And the fact that it says that it's a

key episode for He -Man and Ski - No! He -Man

was barely in this in the first like, ten minutes

of it. Yeah. Cause the first ten minutes is all

the scientist bull. Yeah. Yeah. What about you?

Um... Fuck. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. You know how last

week's episodes where I was like, you know, they

don't have any of their own Yeah, they're all

middle ground for you. Yeah The show so far doesn't

have characters that resonate with me or that

I'm interested in doesn't have any wow factor

Doesn't have anything that's like really great

from a voice acting standpoint outside of P man

and Skeletor So it doesn't have a lot of stuff

going for it. Now you take the continuity in

the arc out of that as well What am I left with?

I'm left with annoying scientists that I don't

like to listen to and a plot that's a one -off

so This episode is not gonna do much for me unless

I was phenomenally executed I mean, you know,

why don't we just jump over to the palace because

the Skeletor is the right I knew immediately

it was Campbell Lane doing the robot voice because

I figured Skeletor would be running that robot

I thought that was really cool And I love Skeletar

and Flog's interactions so far in this episode.

I thought that was really cool. Skeletar could

be in Cataclysmic. Yes, he could. At the top.

Yeah, but, you know, Dr. Blight, she's not really

an Evelyn kind of material. Skeletar could be

something like tar and oil and stuff like that.

Yeah. Two weeks of Captain Planet references

from Optima Solo, people. Can you tell what our

next podcast project is gonna be? Planet punks

reborn! It would not be Captain Planet. I did

think that Skeletor versus He -Man was pretty

cool. The interaction fight slash between them

and whatnot if we're getting into the good moments.

That's all I had. But Snake Mountain Woman, He

-Man just is like willingly going to give up.

Yeah, no like Sorceress has to talk him out of

it. Yeah, that's bad. That's weak human Hashtag

not my he man. That's right Yeah Okay, so snake

mountain moments enter gone. Hello Transformers

came up with energon you morons get Look, I get

it. Energon is just a name. I get that the actual

thing did something that Energon doesn't do,

but I assume it's spelled E -N -E -R -G -O -N.

That's fucking Energon. And that's how I spelled

it as well. I put the dash in there, but still,

if you take the dash out and you lowercase the

damn G, it's Energon, god damn it. Megatron,

you oughta sue. It's like when we, hey, we want

something and it's gonna take their energy away.

Let's make it energy gone. Let's make it energy

gone. Oh god. Oh, that sounds like energy. Yup.

And an episode focusing on the damn scientists.

Again, no thank you. Nope. Not even, nuh -uh.

Well, are we jumping right into Havoc Staff and

Power Swords, sir? Yeah, pretty much. I have

two. Okay. I have a Havoc Staff for He -Man for

trying to give up. Okay, and a power sword for

sorceress for apparently if she doesn't exist

human pills Yeah Havoc staff for the scientists

as always Havoc staff for he man Havoc staff

for the writers for not even showing so like

Get it. It's a voice in his head, but sometimes

they've shown in the very beginning the very

first episodes They showed her a few times in

some astral plane thing. They don't even show

her here. They just have her voice So yeah, and

no power swords and not even I mean Skeletor

I guess yeah, I give the standard one, but just

oh no What are you feeling reading wise for this

one point five point five again? Yeah, yeah So

I was at last episode I did three straight three

and a half Yeah, and I said that it was because

of the continuity in the story arc and some little

extra nudge that I gave it Okay, now you've taken

that out. So I'm down to a two And this is only

because this is the first of the one -off episodes

if I were to get How many episodes we have left

like 48 of them or something like that? Yeah,

if I get 48 more one -offs. I'm gonna be in the

point five range like you They're just lucky.

This is the first since the the big five partner

So I had a little bit more leniency for it. So

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17, Escape from Golosia. Where I want to go with

that air date around October 13th 1990 written

by Misty Taggart a name that we have seen before

Plot snaps a skeletor of ducks Kaz and risi and

brings them as bait for he man on the ship galosh

I guess the ship not a planet my bed He man appears

on board and wants to rescue the children, but

he notices that the ship is on collision course

with a meteorite Didn't they call it a comet

Asteroid comment meteor whatever. I'm just saying

I could have sworn they called it a comet because

the first thing that I thought of Cosmic yeah

first thing I freaking thought of was the cosmic

comet, and I'm like Where is that one dude that

controls the damn things? Oh wait? He's you know

in the past on wherever the hell I got It's a

standard ripoff filmation episode. It's almost

worse than cousin Jeremy. What the synopsis does

not talk about these synopsis are horribly written.

Yes, they are. Never allowed to write again,

but what this doesn't say is that the kids are

basically drawn into this by a illusion of their

mom. Oh, that's right. Okay, so basically what

this writer did or what this writer was told

to do was, um, hey, remember that movie in 1987

when Evelyn appeared as Julie's mom to get her

to go - like, nooo, don't do - and that is Skeletor

trying to bring them into a trap and then use

that to get him in etc. So any other thoughts

on the plot besides the rehash of the movie slash

one -off? Nope, and I hope you have notes because

I got nothing either more. I like, no. I do have

a couple notes. Number one... It was an interesting

plot as far as the Skeletor double -crossing

Flog aspect, because at one point he's making

it so that this ship and this meteorite are going

to collide and he's the only one escaping. Like,

he's gonna let this happen, it's gonna destroy

He -Man, et cetera, and it's also gonna destroy

Flog and his minions. So it's gonna leave Skeletor

as the last man standing. So I thought that was

somewhat interesting. If the plot would have

been more centered around that than the whole

kids thing, I might have been more favorable

with this episode. Also at one point Kaz and

Dressi are locked in some type of jail cell.

Apparently she has the ability to talk to animals

and lizards like Beastman or She -Ra. So she

talks to this little lizard and gets the lizard

to open up their cell. I do like the fact that

they did somewhat make it a real animal where...

They just opened all the cells. So it opened

not just hers, but it opened all the bad people's

ones as well So that made it a little bit more

real as realistic because I don't otherwise buy

the lizard being able to open any of them So

especially if they was somehow Gonna be detailed

oriented enough to just open one that would have

been bothersome to me. So That's really all I

have besides the snake mountain of These kids

hasn't Rissy aren't as annoying as like your

guest kid yeah so it's not like it's grading

like a cousin jeremy or edwina or or somebody

like that like at least i can stomach these two

but it is still somewhat a kid -oriented episode

and it is still way too reminiscent of the 1987

movie you can't copy something within your own

franchise that that blatantly Not that early

anyway, but yeah, I like but Kaz and Drissy They

are part of the main core like like you're saying

they're not a cousin Jeremy. They're not a cousin

Ed Weiner They're not they're not the star child.

They're not I guess the difference here is it's

not just that they're not a guest kid Etc but

they're also not a part of the group part of

the main cast Etc are recurring characters that

is annoying to the point of like a T Bob and

yeah Scott yeah, like it could be like that So

I don't even find them that annoying. Mm -hmm.

No, they're just they're just yeah Yeah, they're

just characters that are there that exist to

move the story along. They're decent. I like

these guy like the characters Yes, I had a few

issues in previous episodes of the podcast with

Kaz Drizzy for the most part is all right But

the reason why she's all right to me is because

like they haven't really focused on her They

they've had plots with her that you know, oh

she might be you know, do you know why she works

better for me? or why I'm able to submit her

more is because I like her way better than Mara.

So I'd rather her on my screen than the weird,

generic looking Mara. Mara seems to be Tila -like.

Because she's always, what I've noticed is, where's

Adam? Where'd he go? She's got the kind of Tila

role. personality though. Yeah exactly and and

Drissy is more of almost like a young version

of Adora before she like what if what if we lived

in a world where Hordak never kidnapped Adora

and she actually got to grow up in the palace

with her parents with it like that's the way

I see Drissy is what if you know Adora never

went with Hord never got kidnapped by Hordak

I agree. And even though they're not as annoying

as a lot of kid characters, that does not mean

that they're free of getting a Havoc staff in

this one for me, because it is a terrible idea

for them to follow this voice and to be that

gullible and to take a spaceship and try to helmet

yourself or whatever. Like, that's just a bad

idea. So you get Havoc staffs. They did take

the robot, but it's a robot. But still, yeah.

Go ahead. And I just had one other hardware.

I have a power sword for Skeletor. I want to

join you, because I think it's great that he's

finally going to try to double -cross -flog and

leave him in the dust. Yeah, same here. Power

sword for Skeletor. Havocstaff, I'm going to

give it to the writer for the lame -ass comet

-destroying planet plot. Like, seriously? Really?

Like, we haven't had enough of that throughout

the entirety of the 80s, the beginning of the

90s here. What about a rating for you? Still

at 2. I'm up to a one, so it's better. It's not

better by much, but it's better. The only reason

I got a two for me was because of the Skeletor

double -crossing quad. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.

So we're gonna take a break. When we come back,

time for the last episode of today, He -Man and

this mutant thing. Mm -hmm. What do we have here?

It's Castle Grayskull! And it's mine! That's

so fast! Yes. Was that really the name of a character?

Yes. Okay, after Quake and Butt -Head are captured,

He -Man discovers that the scientists of Primus

have created a machine called the Mutator, which

can change any human into a mutant. He -Man volunteers

to become a mutant so that he can spy on Skeletor.

But when he goes into the machine, he has changed

not just in body, but in mind. Okay, so first

of all, first thing. Yay, a filmation writer!

Francis Moss! Hallelujah! My god, it's about

friggin time and get a good writer on these episodes

Yeah, but head all's warm. I mean really seriously

at this point quake could be Beavis really I

need corn oil, but yep Yeah to become a mutant

mm -hmm and things go wrong imagine that yeah

like that never happens nope I don't trust them

before this episode I'm not gonna surely trust

them after this I don't care how smart they're

supposed to be they're bumbling idiots that fight

with each other so I'm not doing any of their

Why are they? I still don't understand why they're

inventing something that will turn a human into

a mutant. That sounds like something bad scientists

would do. Yep, pretty much. Alright, I'm confused.

Let's try to unpack this a little bit so you

can make some more sense of it for me. Break

down this episode for me. What did you like?

What did you not like? What was the point? I

don't understand. There's nothing here that I

did not like. It's probably my favorite episode

of the series at this point. It's probably going

to end up being my highest rated episode out

of the previous 17 cartoons that we've talked

about. It's definitely the best episode of today

with the other two. I really enjoyed it. I thought

it was fun seeing. Regardless of the other guy's

name seeing quake and butthead or Beavis and

butthead being captured You know all of that

seeing Skeletor do his thing. I liked that What

I liked about the mutation of He -Man here is

that Master Sebrian comes in and says, but wait

He's not like us like specifically pointing out

that the humans of Primus in the future are different

than he man because he is from the pad like they

specifically pointed if they hadn't pointed that

out at all this episode we get a much lower score

and i would be way more negative about it um

i love that we finally get other writers other

than oleska and as i said before hello francis

moss filmation writer worked on tons of he managed

your episodes So this person knows what the hell

they're doing Yeah, overall I really enjoyed

it I thought it was a fun episode and it's not

like you said last week You like that stuff actually

happens to he man when like him getting injured

by a laser blast or whatever Look at what this

does to him. How do you I don't understand why

you don't like this if you don't I'm just saying

this completely This basically turns him into

a brute men from thundercats really I mean really

No, I get all that and I don't mind the stuff

that you're talking about Like those are all

good things about the episode my problem is I

cannot get past the premise of this episode So

it makes no sense that they have this machine.

It makes no sense that they would try to do this

It makes no sense that human would try to yeah.

Yeah be that Execution is fine and some of those

things are good. I just don't I'm not on board

with why anything's happening Yeah, so that's

where my problem is so I mean was there anything

else specific that you liked or disliked about

the episode? No, cuz I have no stank mountain

moments out of this one. Did you have any? Yeah

outside of the promise. Yeah. All right, have

it staffed with power swords. Power swords, Skeletor,

He -Man, and I believe the bird's name was Claw.

I like Claw. I hope Claw makes whatever the bird's

name is. Reappearance. Yeah, I like that. That's

cool. Let's go with yours first, because I want

you to be shocked by mine. So I'm at two and

a half just because like I said that makes no

sense why this story is happening Four hands

down. This is the best one This is the best one

out of the previous 17 or 18 episodes of this

series to this point this might be my favorite

episode of the entire I don't know but to at

least to this point this is my favorite because

we have so much going yeah you're right the plot

doesn't really make sense as to why the scientists

would build that shit but because they did we

actually get amazing storytelling on the part

on the part of he -man and his character and

explaining that he is not from their time and

he is not from their galaxy and like I said at

the beginning of the podcast how his biology

physiology is different than the people of of

primus stop the presses tfg and mike giving the

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Yeah, good. Nobody wants to hear you talk. I'm

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yeah, I mean, this last episode was fun. I'm

still not, I'm still dreading having to watch

this show because I just don't know what to,

like I said in episode 83 as I said earlier last

week in last week's episode I watched maybe five

episodes of this cartoon back in the 90s and

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