The Test of Time, Four Ways to Sundown, and The Sheriff of Gorn City

This won't even be worth watching Hello, this

is optimus solo and welcome to the 95th chapter

in our powers of grayskull series With me begrudgingly

into this masters of the universe franchise once

again is TFG on Mike. Holy fuck What are we gotten

ourselves into? Apparently Mike is ready for

another trip to space. No, I'm really not You're

you're buckled in you're where we've we've kidnapped

you you're held hostage You're coming no matter

what so stowaway into the end of the trip to

space That's what you are in this episode of

masters in space We'll give you you be giving

you our thoughts on the next three episodes of

the series Which would be episode 37 the test

of time episode 38 four ways to sundown and hey

We're almost episode 40 episode 39 the sheriff

of gore in the city So whether you're ready or

not, it's time to go back to space Hell no We

won't go that's right All right, first up today

is episode 37 the test of time written by Rick

Merwin air date of September 24th 1990 Skeletor

kidnaps the spaceship of I mean, old people can

do stuff too, but I mean, Trayless doesn't look

like he's ready for adventuring. No, he does

not. They don't look the same age. They're supposed

to be the same age. They don't look the same

age. No, I Will say that for sure. Mm -hmm. Absolutely,

but I'm all down for seeing somebody from somebody's

past like that's that's An episode that could

be some backstory could be some character development

for Sevrian could be you know Learning some more

about his past so on the surface. I'm down with

the plot. So We'll have to take a break and see

if the plot was executed good, bad, or ugly.

We ended on a bad note last episode. Let's see

what we start with today. only on GeekCast Radio

Network. You can find me on the night in iTunes

and on www .geekcastradio .com. Good. Yes, Michael.

Just keep driving. All right. Good and bad moments

for the first episode, episode 37 day. What did

you like about Sebring and Trailus? I mentioned

it last week and we talked about it last week

about the potential change in production or whatever.

That was a long transformation sequence Very

I put it in my Palace of Eternals moments because

I don't necessarily dislike it again It's more

of a change of what we were already seeing and

I'm like, oh, that's that's kind of long now.

Okay, then also Trayless reminds me of groom

the destroyer from thundercats. I can see that

and he is also the voice actor voice uh... the

king of video land in captain of the game master

he was one of his father that was stuck in the

mirror world i recognize that voice immediately

when i heard trillis' voice interesting interesting

yep uh... I like the idea that we have someone

from Sebring's past, like I mentioned before.

Skeletor also had a funny line, I might lie,

but my bones never do. So I like that line, but

other than that, really nothing too much stood

out on this episode. So, Power Swords are having

staff for you? I will say that making a quick

stop at Snake Mountain, this episode was great.

Until the scientists showed up after the action

scene, that was just no... I'll give a power

sword to Trayless. I liked him as a character.

He wasn't... Originally, I thought he was gonna

be that pirate character kind of thing that shows

up and double -crosses everybody, and like I

said, he was more of like a groom -the -destroyer

light, because he still did the right thing.

He didn't do the wrong thing, so I'll give one

to him, and Skeletor always gets one anyway.

Just because. I agree with the trailer's part.

I liked him as a character. I also give one to

Sebrian for, I guess, trying to be more active

and trying to do something besides just sit at

home, but yeah, he should just sit at home. But

I like the two interactions between the guys,

so I'll give one to each of them for episode

rating. Where you at? Three and a half. Wow,

you're positive on this one. For some reason,

I was a little bored by this episode. I liked

some of the setup, but I don't know. Maybe I

was just spoiled by some good episodes the last

couple of podcasts, but I'm at a two and a half

on this one, right in the middle, not good, not

bad. So a two and a half and a three and a half

to start. See which way it goes from here as

we start making our way towards the sundown of

this entire series, hopefully, episode 38 coming

up next. Please, no sundown jokes. Please, no.

Like, if you're gonna do that joke, I'm gonna

insert Gordon Lightfoot right here. Next up today

is episode 38 four ways to sundown September

25th 1990 written by Jack Olesker The Galactic

guards and the mutants remember at the same time

the battle of the quagmi swamp their views of

the battle are very different and The tale told

is very different from what actually occurred

four ways to sundown four different takes on

what happened at the quagmi swamp We have flog

we have slush head we have flip shot and we have

hydra and all telling very different Versions

of this historic battle. What do you think? The

only good thing about this episode not that it

ended but what happened at the end I Wonder if

he ever has to go through like that was the best

thing of this episode is the tool of the he -man

and Skeletor Side -by -side. I wonder if he has

to go through this like The rest of it, lamest

episode ever. Jack Olesker, oh my god, I thought

he was bad before. This is the worst. I feel

like this could be done in a way that would be

good. You could give us this and get a lot of

character development and we could learn more

about the personalities of a couple people based

on their version of the story. Or if it was more

of a mystery as far as trying to figure out...

Something about it and we're getting like different

views. I don't know if anybody's seen the movie

vantage point But you know where there's an event

that happens and it's we get to see it from different

angles But we're not quite sure what the truth

is. Yeah, but there's never any mystery. There's

never any intrigue. There's never any Really

interest in what actually happened or not because

it's not that important of battle It doesn't

seem like there's no stakes involved and instead

we just get Four different tellings of the exact

same story just each one of them is arrogant

and egotistical and wants to put him as the hero

Yeah, exactly. Okay, so you mentioned the vanishing

point. I will mention something that happened

When did this erudite happen? 90 90 so two years

two or three years later in Batman the animated

series They had an episode called POV and it

was basically this same thing except it was Detective

Harvey Bullock and two other officers, all three

people had basically this same premise. You know,

each of them had their own viewpoint of what

happened in the episode and how they perceived

Batman to be, and that was better executed than

this. Of course, it's Batman the Animated Series

comparing that to this crappy show, there's no

comparison whatsoever, but it's one of those

things where... this was done horribly like this

as you just said it was just to make out whoever

was telling the story to be the hero and everyone

else be the one making he may look like the wind

in any light come on give me a break this is

a show but he may not about other people of the

jarring partly out i would have gotten if he

made this slip Flipshot. Flipshot made himself

out to be the hero and Hydren out to be the coward.

And then if Hydren did the reverse, but to also

make Hime and the coward seemed weird. And I'm

just getting right into the moments here, but

it just comes across when you do it this way

and you don't have any of the intrigue or any

of the stakes, it just comes across as like a

filler episode. It's like when you have a live

action TV series or... Even a cartoon, I guess,

that has that episode that's just a recap of

other episodes. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like

that shows up like the voice does it all the

time. I know that's reality TV, but where they're

like, oh, here's all the highlights of the battle

rounds. Like, OK, this is just an episode that

I don't need to watch. Like, yeah, that's what

this comes across as. It's too much time killer,

too much filler. And they don't do it in an interesting

way because they don't even do it into a point

where there's going to be character development

because they just make everybody an egotistical,

arrogant prick. Yep. It's not like oh slip shot.

I'm gonna keep saying that flip shot. It's not

like flip shot is arrogant and hydrogen has some

other Personality trait that they're gonna highlight

and slush head has something else that they're

gonna highlight It's no they're all just we're

the hero and everybody else is a coward so that's

just poorly executed and I mean this could be

done in an interesting way, but It's not yeah,

like I like the idea that everybody sees something

different and they're gonna have a different

take or a different witness You know take, you

know, if it's at a crime, you know, you interview

a bunch of different witnesses, they're all going

to see something a little bit different. Like,

that's cool if that was actually part of this,

but that's not. It's literally the same thing

four times with different characters doing the

things. So this is a boring episode. was a failed

attempt at a bunch of stuff that did have potential.

I don't know, do you feel anything different?

No, this had no potential whatsoever. Like, the

way this was written, the way it was executed,

as I already said for Snake Mountain moments,

lamest episode ever. Like, it's bad, but it's

not the worst episode, but it's close. It's not

good. No, not good at all. The only reason...

That I gave it the rating I'll give it that we'll

talk about in a minute is because of the one

moment I already mentioned. But yeah, Power Swords

Havoc Staffs, what do you got? I gotta have it

staffed to flip shot and hydran because i'm just

starting to be annoyed by them give me the tuskador

give me uh sagittar give me some of these other

characters because i really don't like flip shot

and hydran anymore um especially on this episode

they both come across as whiny little brats that

um are like i said egotistical arrogant whatever

it might be and whether that's true for the whole

series or just in this episode this episode makes

me not like them You don't know. I have Havoc

staffs for everyone besides He -Man and Skeletor,

and I have power swords for He -Man and Skeletor

because of the ending of the episode. Yeah. You

know, like I said, I like the idea that they're

going to get different takes on a story. I like

the idea that it could be a situation. Yeah,

it was just the execution that sucked. Yeah,

character development could have been here. A

lot of different things that failed. So I give

this one a one and a half. What do you give it?

One. Alright, so not a good episode here So we've

had one kind of middle of the road one bad Let's

see what we go to next episode 39 our thoughts

coming up after the break Alright, last episode

of today, episode 39, The Sheriff of Goran City,

September 26, 1990. Once again, written by Jack

Olesker, Skeletor appoints Flip Shot, the sheriff

of Goran City. He wants to support He -Man's

friend in his office until he has his confidence,

then spring a deadly trap that He -Man's gonna

have to come save Flip Shot from. So we're in

Goran City, Flip Shot's gonna be the new sheriff,

and it's all a trap. What do you think? Um...

It's horrible. It's worse than the last episode.

I disagree. No, this is worse than the last episode.

Making Flip Shot the main character and making

him look like the good guy. The difference is

we only get one telling of the story and last

episode we got four tellings of the story. Each

one is worse than the last. So that's why I don't

feel like this one's as bad. I do think it's

a stupid plot. It's a stupid premise as far as

being in Corn City and having flip shot the sheriff.

And I don't know what kind of plan this is from

Skeletor. This seems weird to me, but it's a

dumb plot. That's just like an ability for Jack

Lesker to once again create a new environment

or go back to another environment off world where

he has something about West like Westerns that

he likes and something about Star Wars that he

likes because he tries to do one or the other

or both in every episode. So it's a dumb premise,

I'll give you that. But I don't think it's as

bad as seeing ten minutes worth of an episode

repeated four times like we got in last week's

episode. But we'll see. There could be some specifics

that kind of stand out in this episode. So what

did you like or dislike here? I assume you didn't

like very much. Yeah, no. As I said, this episode

was even worse than the last one because they

tried to make FlipShot be the uh... the cocky

they basically try to huckleberry hound and huckleberry

hound is a much better character than flip shot

i mean this is like the they try to make in the

steely blue -eyed stranger type and it's like

no don't do that and so it's just was like oh

well this all revolves around flip shot being

the here of my no just to get this is all just

to get the man into a trap really seriously come

on You people are better than this. I thought

you were made of sterner stuff. No, not no, no.

Fuck you, no. It's not even worth that. No, no,

no. I do like Meliak coming. back we got a recurring

character here that we've seen before so that

was kind of cool and it kind of tied into a friend

that He -Man was able to make back in the day

that started out to be possibly an enemy so I

did like him coming back and I do like Flog and

Skeletor laughing with each other like they were

laughing and making the other person laugh Like

that was kind of interesting to see between those

two characters as they were kind of Fogg was

basically acting and and giving a line of BS

to flip shot and he man, etc Yeah, and and he

was trying not to crack up and Skeletor's cracking

up in the background And then when it's all done,

they're like going this little That was good,

but now this episode once again And I like spin

wet better than flip shot and hydrant a little

tiny bit but again He there add him to the mix

of add him to the mix of people that are coming

off as arrogant Because when he comes into town

and going city he is acting like he is you know

hot shit as well Just like flip shot, so I don't

like that. They're making all these collective

guardians come off as arrogant pricks Yeah, so

I so for that reason I'm gonna add I already

had given a havoc staff last episode to flip

shot and hydrant So now I'm gonna give one a

spin wet because don't do that. You're better

than that You're supposed to be the galactic

guardians. You're supposed to be more morally

and ethically upstanding And you're not so any

rewards or awards for you uh... have a staffs

everyone except flogging skeletor power swords

flogging skeletor because even because even he

man was badness no don't do that i don't and

i know i weren't city by the way you know Gorn

City can go away. Yeah, Gorn City can just go

the hell away. And I know I can't do this, but

I wrote this down anyway. If I could give this,

I would give it ten zeros, because oh my god,

this episode was so bad. At least, at least the

last episode had that one line with the two of

them at the end that made it deserve a one. This

does not deserve any fucking thing whatsoever

to me. See, I don't feel the same way. I thought

the last episode was way worse like the last

episode was complete garbage Like I said, we

got to see seven minutes repeated four times

and this episode at least Meliak was cool and

Skeletor and flog were entertaining. I just don't

understand the episode. So that's kind of why

I'm not as high on it But as I could be but I'm

gonna give it a two. I don't think it's a zero

I think it's below average, but it's not as garbage

as the last episode was for me So alright, that's

it for today. Not super positive like we have

been seeing lately So let's see if we're giving

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Masters in Space. It can't get any worse than

this, right? Yeah It can always get worse Sure

as hell sure as hell ain't getting any better

Well, maybe this was just a blip on the radar.

Maybe maybe we had a bunch of good episodes Now

this is Jack Alessio got a couple episodes in

now. We can go back to having good episodes after

this Let's hope cuz holy crap It's my hope. I

gotta hold out hope because we have like 25 episodes

left of this Or something 35 episodes. I don't

know. There's a lot of episodes. What are we

on 30? We're almost at 40 So we got about 25

episodes left to cover And I don't want it to

be all like this one Give me more Tuscador Yeah,

give me more villains good lord well we haven't

seen shit from quake and and Other people nothing

Nope, it's all been Skeletor and Flog and...

Slush Head, that's it. Oh, God, Slush Head. Like,

why does anybody like that guy? It's like, it's

weird too, because Merman was one of my favorite

characters in the filmation series as far as

the villains, and I guess this is their version

of Merman, and I don't like him at all. It's

horrible. Like, no... Not good. Not good at all.

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