The Island, The Sweet Smell of Victory, and Separation

This is Man at Arms and you are listening to

the Masters of Grayskull. Thank you Mr. Gary

Chalk as Man at Arms from the 2002 He -Man and

the Masters of the Universe cartoon series for

giving us that promo. I'm of course TFG and Mike

joining me is Optimus Solo. Hello sir. Hello.

We just want to put this at the beginning of

every episode for... Masters of Grayskull we

dedicate every single episode of this to the

memory of Dean Stefan Dean who is the writer

storyboard art and not storyboard story editor

all that kind of stuff on the 2002 He -Man series

passed away May 15th of 2018 and Not only are

we doing this because we're finishing our powers

of Grayskull series podcast We're also I feel

at this point doing this in the memory of him

because the stories that he helped Create and

build for this series It revitalized the motu

franchise in my personal opinion Yeah, absolutely

and it's unfortunate that we didn't have a chance

to ever talk to him before the show But we can

at least remember him as we move forward Absolutely,

and now on with the show. I am Adam Prince of

Eternia Defender of the secrets of Castle Grayskull.

This is Cringer my fearless friend fabulous Hello,

this is optimus solo and welcome to the 115th

chapter in our powers of grayskull series with

me for this journey into the masters of the universe

French As is tfg1 Mike. Hello, sir. Hello Are

you ready for your another return trip to Eternia?

Of course always At least in this series excellent

Yeah, that's good in this episode of masters

of grayskull will be giving you our thoughts

on the next three episodes Those of the series

episode 22 which has entitled the island episode

23 the sweet smell of victory no pun intended

and episode 24 separation so we Hope you're ready

because it's time to go back to Eternia. Oh,

there's a pun intended there his sunshine's quite

a change from the old days. Used to be a day

worker, down in the Spalian mines. How about

you? Teacher at Arms. Attorney in Kingdom. No

kidding? You ever meet King Randor? Used to call

him Randy, back when he was a cadet. He and Duncan

were my favorites. This kid Duncan, he ever amount

to much? You might say that. He heads up the

Masters of the Universe. You don't mean... the

Man at Arms? Mm -hmm. Gotta get ready and fry

a few of these up. He's coming for a visit. Man

at Arms coming here? My cousin Clawful's boss

would be mighty interested in that information.

So, why don't you give him a call? First up today

is episode 22 entitled the island airdate April

5th 2003 written by Dean Stefan and on Orcas

Island Decker the former teacher to man -at -arms

is looking forward to a visit from his former

pupil news of the meeting does not go unheard

however and Decker is captured by the member

of Clawful species so we have a little backstory

episode here with the teacher of man -at -arms.

What do you think of this one? I like this one.

I thought it was interesting I know I've heard

Decker's voice before, not necessarily that I

can remember where from, but it's a voice that

I think I know. I think it's interesting that

again, you're using the mythos, you're using

the characters the way they should be used, and

the fact that you don't have to rely on Skeletor

doing every little damn thing. I mean, technically...

I guess in the background Skeletor was supposed

to be in this episode because Clawful's cousin

or brother or whatever the hell whatever the

hell uh you know I was like oh my blah blah blah

works for this guy and you know right you know

so I guess technically Skeletor is at not necessarily

the heart of this but He's on the ass end of

it anyway, but for the majority of the episode.

It's the crabs versus the Masters Hmm. Yeah,

that is true Just so you're aware decker is voiced

by blue man, kuma. Ah, who did the voice of?

And beast wars I knew I recognized I gotta love

blue So that's where you recognize that voice

from yeah, they said it's the masters against

the claw people the crabs I guess but I Like

Decker so Decker is a cool character. I think

he has a good look for sure. I like the eye patch

I like the long white hair It looks cool. It's

kind of in comparison to the african -american

Skin tones and everything so I think it's a cool

look for a character, and I think it's decent

character development for man Arms or Duncan

kind of showing in some of his backstory. So

I like that part That's that's the part of the

episode that I like is the interaction between

the two of them and Decker's appearance Just

in general and hey Skeletor Skeletor's in the

series again barely the cameo at the end That's

about it though. I Got to come down a little

bit negative on this episode because I feel like

this episode is out of place I feel like this

episode belongs in like the first handful of

episodes of the series Like it doesn't connect

to any of the stuff that we've been in the scene

lately It doesn't really have any of the other

master So to speak it's got you know, just one

of the original villains And it doesn't connect

to what we saw with the snake pit or any of that

mythologies So I feel like this backstory in

a man -at -arms should have come much earlier

in the series like maybe in the first five six

seven episodes something like that that they

In that monster that they summoned the crab summoned

the jellyfish essentially jellyfish I think that

thing looks stupid as hell It has no form I get

it as a jellyfish, but it's just like I don't

know how it's walking is it hovering is it shooting

like these a thousand million quills or dart

at them I I didn't dig that and I think my main

problem was so Basically man -at -arms, spoiler

alert here, man -at -arms gets shot with some

of these darts, poison darts, quills, whatever

you want to call them. And at first he's like,

you know, I'm fine, no big deal, I got armor

on. But then it's proven to be that he actually

did get hit with at least one of them, pierced

his skin, and now he's dying because the stuff's

super toxic, etc. And we need an antidote. And

I think that's where the episode really lost

it for me, because that was way too easy of a

resolution. Like they're like, oh the antidote

is in these pods that are like a bunch of miles

away Like way far away in the southern hemisphere

or something like that They say but they float

through but they float so we'll just go out in

the water and we'll find one floating by and

we'll grab it and Then we'll save him like that

didn't work for me at all Okay, there's I don't

know about you there are two things in the episodes

that we're talking about today That I kind of

really dig Because I dig more than these two

things but specific to what you're talking about

Because they don't just you know have he man

Dig a you know cut around a mountain filled with

water and throw it at something Okay, so what

you're talking about with him swimming out and

whatever I thought it was a little X of not Expositioning

kind of thing because hello. You have to fill

the time for the episode But it also brings back

to like, you know Duncan's like dying and he's

like, oh the lessons the lessons the poison and

Decker's like I don't know what he's talking

about Teal is like, oh, I know what he's talking

about cuz I finally listened to my frigging father

and You know, and obviously he man knows even

though technically he man shouldn't know he should

but he shouldn't let tea anyway Right. Yada,

yada, yada. I like that he actually went out.

He couldn't just reach across the bar and grab

this thing. He couldn't just go five miles down

the road. He had to go other places. And then

later, I don't think it's this episode. I think

it's either the next one or the last one. He

ends up cutting off part of the mountain with

his sword or part of whatever and throwing it

at one of the villains. Like that he actually

cut it and didn't just like try to rip it Yeah,

I think my problem with this one is and they

do make it seem like it's a little bit harder

than It's not super easy because they do kind

of put them out in the middle of no Yeah, Ernie

swimming forever and they just fill up a bunch

of time with that but so I mean they made it

seem not super simple but my problem is at the

point where They're discovering that there's

these Pods or these there's antidote and we're

gonna have human save it. We know there's only

like five minutes left in the episode And it's

just wrapped up way too quickly and neatly for

me So I ended up not liking this episode as much

as I thought I might I don't know I just think

Decker deserved a better episode. I think they

could have done something different with him

um Instead of having man -at -arms, you know

incapacitated for a good portion of the episode

that could have had something where the two of

them were doing something together I don't know

like Maybe I just don't like the the crabs as

the villain. Yeah Episode just didn't something

about it. Just didn't work for me Yeah, I've

never even when I watch this, you know when we

did this when we did our original watch through

ten years ago or whatever It was or however long

it's been and even before that when I watched

it on TV back when it was airing I have never

liked Clawful, and I have never liked his people.

What's his name, Whiplash and the Spelians? They're

cool. I mean, Whiplash himself and whatever,

but the Spelian species, they're fine. They're

cool. But the crab people, I'm like, okay, where

in the hell is Mr. Crabs and some Krabby Patties?

Because I'd rather deal with that than deal with

these crab people. and also takes away from the

fact that uh... we already have merman and he's

supposed to be and the king of the waters and

then things of that nature so all these episodes

that are involving claw full in his species could

have been merman episodes and i think i would

enjoy that better well yeah true trivialized

decker was released as an action figure by mattel

as part of their november two thousand twelve

Club Eternia subscription at the Manticollector

website. So that is out there and obtainable

if you want a figure of Decker Don't know how

much that costs these days, but it's out there

Any Havoc staffs or power source for you or any

other final thoughts on the episode? Final thoughts.

Did you notice the little bit of continuity we

did get for man -at -arms Tila and the Sorceress?

Yeah When he's on his deathbed, she has so much

to be prepared for. She has so much to do in

the feud. I thought that was kind of cool. The

one thing I really did dig about this episode

is the fact that they made Adam work for the

transformation. He runs off into the cave. He's

being chased by several of these crab people.

He goes to... pull the sword and then through

the water or through some reflection or what

I believe it's a I believe it's a small small

puddle or whatever he sees the reflection of

of the crab person and he stops he doesn't just

pull his sword and change he you know runs away

and then you know finally gets a little privacy

I love the fact that that Adam is the one that

says teenagers I thought that was hilarious.

On a whole, though, this episode, while I do

absolutely love it, while I do love Decker, Blue

Man Kuma is an amazing voice actor. They're all

amazing voice actors in this series, except sadly

for Orko. Sorry, Gabe. But it's one of those

things where this is very much, as you said earlier,

it... Kind of feels out of place, especially

after the last episode or the last couple with

all the continuity Havoc staffs power swords

I'll give a power sword to Adam and he man because

Adam slash he man because like what I just said

I'll give a power sword to Decker because I think

he's really cool Yeah, I want to see them in

like him and men and arms and like a Indiana

Jones and you know, dr Jones kind of, you know,

tie -up kind of thing from last crusade or something

Yeah, which they kind of were here cuz they're

like, oh remember this and they start fighting

T -List like the hell's wrong with you guys and

she doesn't get it but yeah, I just thought it

would have been cool if they would have used

it in some way to like Have Decker reveal something

about man -at -arms or teach him something about

his past or like bring in something to like I

don't know a little bit more than they did Yeah,

so I still give a power so that's the Decker

though. Yeah, very cool. I think he's a cool

character. Yep rating for me Know I'm gonna have

to choose but I'm bordering on a two and a half

or a three and I'm just gonna say a three It's

a little ground at best. It's not as bad as like

a two and a half or below But it's not you know

Yeah, that's kind of I was your borderline between

two and a half and three on borderline between

two and two and a half Like I said, it just didn't

work for me. So I'm gonna land on it I put down

two so I'll stick with that with what's on the

paper here. I could see it Being a little tiny

bit better by some people but something about

it. Just I don't think I would if I was like,

okay We're rewatching this for the second time

now in our lives all the way through it least

So I probably won't watch it all the way straight

through again But if I was to like pick it up

and want to watch an episode, I don't think this

would be the one that I would throw in Yeah That's

it for this episode. We're gonna take a break

and come back with episode 23 Time, Oedipus.

Lotions, potions. Lots of good stuff. Easy to

carry, easy to sell. The evil warriors of Skeletor!

These guys are like legends! Oh, Oedipus, what

you wouldn't give to be one of them? Next up

today's episode 23 the sweet smell of victory

or the sweet stink of victory air date April

12 2003 written by Kevin Campbell Oedipus a petty

attorney and criminal witnesses the evil warriors

victorious over the masters of the universe.

That's a terrible synopsis basically Oedipus

Is a petty criminal and he observes a battle

between the evil warriors and the masters of

the universe and decides that he wants to become

part of the evil warriors and he goes to Tried

to basically audition or see what that's all

about and then some crazy hijinks ensue and he's

turned into a new character What did you think

of this origin story for stink or? Finally I

know I know you have this in the trivia, but

finally The toy I had as a as a kid is actually

in a cartoon series Yeah, voice by Brian Drummond

here, but just to get to that trivia here this

episode marks the first ever animated appearance

It's of the character stink or who was first

introduced in the original Masters of the universe

toy line in a 1985 so a toy since 1985 not animated

until this 2002 series Also He was originally

meant to be a part of She -Ra princess of power

in 1985 the TV series as a member of the evil

horde But he was considered to be too silly of

a character So considering the fact was basically

a humanoid skunk character whose only power was

that of releasing a horrible stench from his

body so here Was never used in the sphere series

obviously he man had already concluded its run

at that point so Yeah, so this is where we get

him that he's introduced in this series and was

good But a backstory to why he retains his terrible

smell so Your your toy was finally animated.

What did you think of his backstory in this episode?

I thought it was great Yeah, finally we do we

get you know I understand back then way back

when you know they weren't you know they didn't

really want to do that but I mean Ho's nose got

an appearance in She -Ra like like um attorney

and fireman um you know or a theory a theory

and fireman I should say or whatever um but like

they didn't just throw the character there to

have to say hey You know, here's stink or because

stink or was a toy. They actually They I don't

want to say they Magical girl transformed him,

but they kind of put a thing together where like

you said, it's a full -on character development

thing like he starts off as this one basically,

Lukey like character and or honestly, he reminded

me of a cross, even though it's not really a

cross, between Luki and Imp from She -Ra. More

Impish than Luki, but yeah, and then turning

him into Stinkor, that's like... He just wants

to be... That he eventually has in the final

reveal as the evil warrior stink or So once he

gets his whole gear so that he can withstand

his own smell and whatnot at the end final scene

of this or whatever So kind of like three stages

of his transformation, which I think is very

cool. Yeah, and I like when they do that with

characters where they have a Different look or

a different appearance than what we're used to

and then they kind of show how they get to where

They are the person we know I think that's kind

of fun. I mean you're gonna have sometimes where

You're introducing a character and they immediately

look exactly like we're supposed to see them,

you know Like the toy looked or like we envisioned

in our head But I kind of like occasionally thrown

in that curve ball where it's like, oh, this

isn't this person and We learned how they become

that person or how they get to that final look.

So I think that's cool I like the voice work

for Otafus by Brian Drummond. I think that's

pretty good Do you know what? Reminded me of

Otafus to me was like the golem of He -Man. Oh

or the Smeagol because he does have that like

diminutive of size and he kind of he refers to

himself in the first person so he says his own

name a bunch and he's like oh I don't know if

this wants to do this or whatever you know and

it's almost like Precious with Gollum or something

like that so that's who he reminded me of way

before well when did Lord of Rings come out it

probably was coming out around the same time

so he might have been an influence of how he

decided to do the voice for this yeah I don't

know 2000s. I mean, that's when Lord of the Rings

was being released, so I don't... Oh, I would

have to look at the exact dates to see if he

could have possibly had that as an influence,

but I like the character of Oedipus. Did you

notice Roboto doing the moonwalking? Yes, I did.

I was actually going to mention that, and I'm

like, hey, Roboto's doing an 80s move. That's

kind of cool. They went out of the way to showcase

his moonwalk backwards. They went out of the

way to have the camera down there. Right. A couple

other things I liked in the episode, Dutch. Iclops

took a major hit to his forehead where he has

his power source or whatever you want to call

it. So that was kind of interesting because it

almost like damaged him pretty majorly for a

second there. And when it was damaged just like

Mechaneck, when Mechaneck's neck was damaged,

when it was damaged he realized, oh shit I better

not do this because if I do I could hurt myself.

Right, right. There's some hilarious quotes in

this episode. I don't know if you noticed any

of them or not, but There's one from Otifus where

he says I am Otifus and I have the power of stink

Skeletor the first time and I'm like that It's

kind of funny And then there's another line where

Stratos says he says the word something stinky

About the 14 -minute marker. So that was Kind

of funny the way he did that Feel like the pacing

was really good in this episode. There was very

little moments of lulz dead space Or filler like

they packed a lot into this episode They have

the whole otifis thing going on or he's observing

all that type of stuff. Then they have a side

story going on with Roboto where he's kind of

trying to deal with his different logic robotic

parts, and if he's Go anytime. He doesn't achieve

success or doesn't do something right it kind

of it weighs more on him than others I guess

because he's trying to figure out how his programming

could allow him to fail or Something of that

nature so they have a kind of a side story of

that going on So I thought that was interesting

and I thought it was a good choice to do that

obviously with the Roboto since he is gonna be

the one Character on the masters that's not gonna

be prone to the smells So it makes sense that

he's gonna be the the master that we kind of

focus on and it was kind of cool seeing him be

Get kind of an episode where he's gonna get some

character development as well. What other things

did you like? Just everything about it. It was

one of these It was a good comical episode without

being too Corny or anything like that. There

are like you said a couple of funny lines, but

Just again Going for the character development

versus just hey, here's otifus who turns into

stinkhorn He's the villain of the week kind of

like when they were doing this show They were

not thinking in terms of what 80s and 90s cartoon

villain of the week stuff like they weren't thinking

of what Stupid plan can miles mayhem come up

with this week? You know, that kind of thing.

As far as Lord of the Rings and its original

three films, 2001, 2002, and 2003 were Fellowship.

Yeah, so this was in the height of that. Yeah,

Fellowship, Two Towers, and Return of the King.

So who knows, maybe you're right, maybe that

did influence Drummond if he saw those films.

I just got a lot of that out of the voice experience.

Yeah. Not once he becomes Sting, or just an Oedipus

character. No, it's just, yeah, it's just Oedipus.

Other good things, because I have a couple of

nitpicks. Okay. I like that even though Roboto

has his issues and he has his hangups on failing...

I like that they highlight that and make him

learn from that. He has to go back to what Man

in Arms said, you don't dwell on your failures.

If I dwelled on the fact that - I do like that

it shows his ability to replay things. Exactly,

that and learn things. He's not just a robot

to be a robot. He's not just an optimist prime

or a sound wave or whatever. He's there to learn

and adapt. What the hell was I going to say?

So I like that. I don't know, what nitpicks do

you have? I'm gonna go all Man of Steel on you

here. Oh no. For a second or other complaints

of like Marvel or stuff at times. Is it just

me or why do the masters and... This episode

have no concern over what they destroy or what

they demolish Whether it comes to buildings or

doors or different things. So first we have in

the opening sequence You know, the evil warriors

are fighting the masters and Oedipus is watching

and whatnot and they're all doing their different

things Well Roboto does the moon walk and then

he like unleashes like six different guns and

just Completely destroys this entire building

causing it to collapse and almost kill everyone

Me like and and the problem I have with it is

that yes, they show that he's upset But he's

not upset because he overreacted and went crazy

in it And ruined this whole building and almost

hurt everybody He's upset that he failed as far

as not as far as the evil warriors getting away.

Yeah, like Specifically says I let them get away

like there should have been something about I

overdid it or You know, I didn't realize the

bigger picture Or something or I'm sorry put

everybody in harm's way or something like that

like He went crazy in that episode in that sequence

and then later on we have Ram and trying to come

in and Warn Adam about something. I think is

this character. He's warning and he just breaks

down his door Yeah, like he doesn't open it.

He doesn't do anything. He just breaks down Which

I get he's Ram and that's his character, but

it wasn't like it was a saving somebody from

a burning building or something like that like

there was He couldn't I don't know Like all sorry

about the door. So apparently the masters don't

give a shit about houses or construction or architecture

So I had a minor problem with that my bigger

problem well, and why I'm gonna knock this episode

down just a touch is so eventually they come

up with this plan and stink or is going to go

towards the palace and he's gonna be causing

a Diversion because everyone's gonna have to

be trying to run from him, etc And while they're

concentrated on stink or skeletor and the other

evil warriors are flying in and they're gonna

take over Palace. All right. Well, we've already

seen stink or at snake mountain with his smell

and Immediately, he had a mass that he put on

it was the same mass that Triclops was using

when he was doing his, you know experiments and

building his inventions and stuff like that so

or so stink or puts that mask on so he can't

smell and then When he's in the main part of

the snake mountain you see Skeletor and all of

the other evil warriors also have similar mass

that they put on so they can talk to stink or

so we've Already established that he stinks we

already established that the evil warriors know

about him And we've already established that

both stink or and the evil warriors are wearing

masks to make sure that they're immune to the

effects Okay fast forward stink or is using his

smell to affect all of you know The Royal Palace

all the guards all the masters etc. So we know

that that's the plan Stink up the place. Why

are Skeletor and the evil warriors flying in

without their masks on? Because they fly in on

these animals Yeah, and they don't have their

mask on so then the smell starts to get to them

and they have to immediately retreat Like you

already know he stinks you already know you have

masks I don't Understand so I had a major problem

with that and then There was a flatulent sound

at the end of the episode that was not originally

planned according to the trivia. It was the last

minute joke Added by one of the editors and the

filmmakers thought it was so hilarious and it

remained in the episode That was a bad decision.

That was stupid They didn't need to stink or

to fart at the end of the episode So that was

where it got a little bit cheesy and a little

bit childish where I could understand like that

part Would they how they wouldn't want that?

In the original she wrote or human series? But

this episode did a good job of not making the

character cheesy or whatnot and then they had

to add that at the end which I think destroyed

all their not destroyed all their work, but it's

like Really you're doing a good pretty good job

of not making him comical and then you make him

fart at the end And it's the problem with that

is also it's after he's revealed in Kind of this

badass gear in this badass outfit So it's like

oh now stink or has finally armored up and here's

his like we're gonna show a shot of him in all

his glory and then there I Have him fart. Yeah,

they should have him fart way earlier So yeah,

it should have been like immediately at the beginning

or something. I don't know like so those are

my problems any nitpick It's for you or anything

I don't know. I mean, I felt that the episode

was... It's still a good episode. It's still

a good episode. You know, I actually... You gotta

love technology, folks. Normally I watch these

the night before we record or something, depending

on how many episodes we have to record kind of

thing. I was dog -ass tired last night. I woke

up at... I don't know, five, six a .m. this morning,

just rolled over, pulled my phone out and went

to YouTube on my phone and just watched all three

of them on my phone without having to get up.

Of course, you know, I still have to get the

audio for the podcast, so I've watched these

episodes two times within seven hours. And both

times I watched this episode. I still didn't

feel like, I actually laughed at the fart at

the end. Yes, I see where you're coming from,

where it shouldn't have been there, because he

is now supposedly supposed to be a more serious

character. But again, it's a character that evolved

from a previously established character within

the same episode. Take Adam and He -Man, for

example. Two sides of the same character. or

take Batman and Bruce Wayne, you know, whatever,

Superman, Clark Kent, whatever it is, you're

still gonna have glimpses of which, like, if

Superman's got his cape on and he's not being

Clark Kent, there's still gonna be a time when

no one's really looking that he's gonna have

some sort of Clark Kent tendency because he thinks

he can get away with it. And I think that's,

even though they say it was just a joke at the

end, i think that's kind of like the orifice

coming out because even though he doesn't a stupid

silly character he was kind of like this this

character that wanted to be super evil he still

had a funny moments in the episode uh... and

he had access to our source or any other notes

in this episode uh... no not really uh... i mean

i'll give a power sword to the writers in the

in the in the staff because i felt that they

did this Hell of a lot more justice than it like

Kevin Campbell and whoever else worked on it

mm -hmm taking the toy and Crafting a whole store

it like that's some good shit right there, so

I'll give the writing yeah, I agree a power sword

on that I have a minor Havoc staff just to give

the Roboto Not being conscious of what he's destroying

yeah, you're a good guy. You're not supposed

to just be wonton shooting everybody and Everything

so that was my only award to give out. What about

a rating for you? Three and a half I gave it

a three and a half to I Think it's a great origin

episode for stink or I think they do a pretty

good job with it. There's some minor beefs I

don't like the fact that skeleton is minions

don't have their masks on at the end and that

just causes the resolution to be very quick and

unsatisfying So that's what kind of caused me

from not being up in that four four and a half

range So three and a half for me as well We're

gonna take a break and we're gonna see if we

are united or separated when we come back with

episode 24. Not my fault we share stomach No

look at me stinker wonders why you're always

fighting Aren't you happy to be an evil warrior?

You've been inhaling too many of your own fumes,

Stinkface. Being attached to this oversized wart

is ruining my life. In that case, you should

go see Stinkor's old pal Vormus, biggest dealer

of spells and potions in the Dark Hemisphere.

It was magic that fused us together. stands to

reason that... Where we find this Vormus? Stinkor

will take you there. That's okay. We'll find

him ourselves. It looks bad, Your Majesty. Courage,

Duncan. We've never lost a battle to this enemy

before. Well, there's a first time for everything.

Our move, Adam. It seems our children have finally

surpassed us. Oh, I could have gone either way

lucky Yes Last of today's episode 24 separation

written April 19th 2003. I think we know the

writer his name is Larry decilio in an effort

to separate themselves Tuvar and Badra still

trapped in the single form of too bad seek out

the three pieces of the triad of decidium to

try to separate so this whole Episode is about

too bad trying to separate back into their separate

forms and the Triad of Decidium, which is going

to allow them to do that. What did you think

about this plot in this episode? Wow. Again,

another episode with virtually no Skeletor. Right.

You start out at Snake Mountain with them eating,

arguing, whatever. You end with them eating,

arguing, whatever, in the middle. You have the

entire Palace of Eternos, or the Eternia Palace,

whatever you want to call it, getting ready for

the end of the world. And nobody in Snake Mountain

notices this? Like, seriously? No one notices

this at all? Um, I love the obvious history,

the obviously backstory for revealing why there

is a light and a dark hemisphere. I think that

is super cool. troubled you? Seeing Prince Adam

and Tila with their parents has brought back

memories of my own family, now long gone. My

data tracks indicate this unit you call family

constantly creates new members. Logically, some

of your family should still exist. You're right.

I must seek out these new generations. Looking,

Sonny? We require... Spell of separation! So

you do. Just let me check the archives. Regeneration?

Ah, here we are. Separation. The great spell

of separation. Sounds like it'll do the trick.

Requires three artifacts to be joined together

at the Well of Darkness, and then... Oh. Oh my,

oh my. No, no, no, no, no. I cannot sell this

at any price. You got that right Says here the

first artifact can be found on the ocean floor

Prince Adam, he -man is needed in Castle Grayskull

at once. Something big is up, Grinch. Upon the

Triad of Desidium, he met. Its tale has not been

told for many years. Long ago, the Triad was

created by evil sorcerers at the command of the

Dark Warlord, Hordak. He joined the pieces of

the Triad together, and the terrible spell of

separation was cast. In a matter of minutes,

Darkness covered half the planet. The creation

of the light and dark hemispheres. Yes. Hordak

assumed his evil legions would thrive on the

dark half and one day conquer the realm of light.

But the energies he released proved too powerful.

Realizing that even his own evil existence was

in peril, Hordak commanded his minions to stop

the spell. Though the Triad was indestructible,

they were able to separate the pieces, scattering

them to the farthest corners of Eternia. Thus,

the planet was saved from total devastation.

The artifacts remained hidden and were eventually

forgotten. But now someone has found the first

piece and, I fear, seeks the other two. But why?

Even Skeletor isn't mad enough to destroy the

whole planet. The thief may not realize the true

nature of the spell, but if he succeeds in reassembling

the Triad, our world is doomed. Then succeed,

he won't. It's in the trivia, but, you know,

I can't help but mention, Hawking Hordak, come

- Damn it. Whoever was whoever this has nothing

to do with Mike Young Productions or Dean Stefan

or anybody that was working on the show. Whoever

the hell is at Cartoon Network and canceled this

thing before they got to implement whatever the

hell was going to happen in season three. Fuck

those guys because this should have this show

should have continued on. Damn it. I see Hordak,

well obviously much later, but it's one of those

things where I see Hordak now and I'm like, oh

damn it, so much lost potential. But this episode

was super cool. Yeah, absolutely. The Triad of

Decidium, trivia -wise, that's Latin for division

or separation. And yeah, first appearance of

Hordak in the new series and the first time the

origins of the Dark Hemisphere is revealed in

the entire franchise. very interesting there.

I think this is good for a couple different reasons.

Number one, it's always good after a character

makes their debut in a main episode like we got

with Stinkor in the last episode, to then the

following episode have them appear in like a

small part of a cameo. I think that's always

good for continuity. So you get Stinkor here

who is basically telling too bad about somebody

that knows a spell or knows kind of a typical

Them off on how they might be able to separate

so I thought that was a good use of stink or

and adds continuity there I have just Hordak

and all capital letters with four exclamation

points Because that was cool, you don't really

get to see him do much he has a laugh and you

get to see him is basically creating the dark

hemisphere, but that's about it, but it does

kind of It's an interesting point and I can just

imagine if you were watching this series and

back in 2002 What it would have been like, you

know, put yourself I guess this was April 2000

2003, but put yourself back into 2003 if you're

a he -man fan and you've grown up on the filmation

series Maybe you watch She -Ra. Maybe you didn't

you know regardless of if you watch New Adventures

who knows but this series comes along and you're

like, oh an updated he -man I feel like at this

is the moment in the series, you know right here

in episode 24 Where your mind is gonna be blown

because now it's a direct Correlation with Hordak

which is a she -ra character in the he -man show

and I'm not And that there wasn't intermingling

in filmation in the She -Ra series like you got

some little bits and pieces where Eternians were

present or you had some connection there, but

not in a He -Man show and the idea that Hordak

is this all -powerful being Or possibly more

powerful than Skeletor. I mean this moment just

has to have your head spinning when you're watching

this in 2003 Like what's going on? Yeah, like

ooh Hordak yay, this means the the whole mythos

is going to you know Expand and right so we because

you you know, and I I don't know but I'm just

gonna say you as in quotation marks You know

that if they were able to continue They would

have brought in a theory if they would have brought

in the rebellion the horde We might have actually

in a good version of bow Cuz I'm sorry the current

I can't I can't Netflix. I just don't feel man.

Oh It's so horrible. It's not but I also like

that. It's kind of wrapped up in This other plot

which is too bad trying to separate like that's

that makes sense for them to have that desire

They want to get away from each other. They used

to be separate characters. Now they're conjoined.

They don't want to be so Think that's a completely

logical plot to have so it makes sense. It's

not just a villain of the week It's something

that ties into the character. I like that. I

like the funny fighting In fighting between them

especially when they're actually punching each

other and stuff like that's kind of hilarious

Or when one's eating something and the other

one has to burp because of it So I like all that

and I really didn't have any negatives I Don't

think it's the best episode in the series or

anything like that. I you know I don't think

there's enough to like put the It's over something

like we saw last podcast with like snake pit

or something like that I don't think it's on

that level, but there's nothing bad about the

episode. Yeah, it's it's getting there It's getting

to the point where we not necessarily saying

that we're like you you most definitely won't

but I might It's not getting to the point where

we would give out consistent fives But right

it's almost there like, you know snake pit for

me easily was a five last week. Right. This is

more in the lines of I'd say a three and a half,

maybe four, I'll go three and a half just to

be on the safe side. But it's one of those things

where we're starting to see the seeds of the

future. Right. I'm locked up with you again.

I'm three and a half. That's what I had written.

down for the hordak appearance and for a decently

plotted episode that kind of You know, they didn't

need some extra monster or some extra whatever

They're explaining the dark hemisphere and how

that works. They're trying to save the world

so to speak So, I don't know. I thought there

was enough in this where three and a half is

where I landed not quite good To be in that four

range, but just on the precipice Yep. All right.

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That was the stinky TFGOMite. You do realize

I'm the one that edits this shit, right? I can

just edit that out. Nah. You know I will. I just

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Whatcha doing, He -Man? Why? You're He -Man!

You're the best! And practice helps me stay that

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Gotta go! Where to? Gotta practice my magic!