History and Awaken the Serpent

This is Man -At -Arms and you are listening to

the Masters of Grayskull. 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

121st chapter in our powers of grayskull series

with me for this journey into the Masters of

the universe franchise as always is TFG one Mike

hello. Hello. I wanted to pause just in case

someone thought we had somebody different here

Are you ready to return to it? There's been a

couple of times in this seven eight year journey

that there would have been somebody different

here Yeah, it wasn't me for once Yeah, I know

right those matters man those oh, yeah, are you

ready to return to Eternia sir? Yes, I am. I

hope it's less anticlimactic than what I think

it's going to be All right. Well in this episode

of Masters of Grayskull We will be giving you

our thoughts on the final two episodes of the

series that is episode 38 entitled history and

Episode 39 entitled awaken the serpent. So we

hope you're ready because it's time to go back

one last time as far as the actual episodes to

Eternia. Moonrise draws near. And then we shall

set the snake god circles free. We must tread

carefully, my king. Those masters of the universe

are out in force searching everywhere for us.

Which is why I have dispatched Cobra Khan to

the surface. He will draw their attention and

create a perfect diversion. And should he be

captured, it will serve him right for allowing

me to rot in that Eternian prison. All right,

we're starting today with episode 38 entitled

history it aired January 3rd 2004 is that correct?

It seemed weird because I guess we always look

at the series as like a 2002 series So I guess

those final two episodes were the only ones that

aired in 2000 Or so just it seems like wow 2004.

I didn't think the show went on that long But

it does obviously snaked around to the end here.

So hey writers written by Larry didn't you like

how I got the snake in there? Anyways written

by Larry to tell you familiar face or your writer.

I oh god, I broke down I Because I haven't seen

his name and anything else and I remember when

the news came out when we talked about it way

back Couple years ago, whenever it was he passed.

I just, I, I, I've said this in one of the other

episodes that we've done since we started the

new, the, the, the 2002 series. Uh, I saw Christie

marks cause I'm friends with her on Facebook.

I saw her post about it first. And then I went

back and listened to one of the, one of the interviews

we did with him. And I'm like, I can't let, Oh

God, I can't listen to this. You know that's

a guy that did a lot for us as a writer as a

creator as a whatever and I saw it here and I'm

like oh you. So the plot for this one is basically

the snake men are preparing to awaken. Finally,

Serpos, who they've been gathering things for,

for what seems like forever. Um, Evelyn allies

herself with count Marzo and heads towards the

well of darkness to free Hordak from Despondos.

So hold on. We got snake men. We got Serpos.

We got Evelyn. We got count Marzo. We got Hordak.

What are your thoughts about history? Basically

we have everybody except Skeletor and I'm kind

of pissed. This is a Larry DiTileo episode. I

figured he would have found a way to get him

in there at some point, somehow within the story.

I don't know why it wasn't done. And I'll say

right now ahead of time, I'll go ahead and blow

the wad here. Please don't. Skeletor is not in

either one of these two final episodes. Like

I get it. They're planning for Hordak. They're

like King Hiss and Hordak were mortal enemies.

Skeletor was kind of his... Scheming pupil whatever

but Skeletor wanted to you know not have or whatever

like I think but I think one thing that I would

be critical on the 2002 series for is okay so

basically we have our good characters which are.

Basically just boils down to he man. And the

masters of the universe, like that is our good

faction. You got the palace with the, you know,

the king and the queen. You got Castle Grayskull

with the sorceress, but it is all He -Man and

the masters of the universe. There's no second

faction. There's no third faction. I mean, I

guess you have Zodak who's kind of an outsider,

but really you just got the masters. When it

comes to villains in this series, we have like

three different prongs. You have, you have Skeletor

and... His guys and gals and then you have the

snake men and then you have hordak and i know

there's some connection between hordak and skeletor

etc but my problem with this series if i was

being very nitpicky i guess is that i feel like

there was a way to incorporate the snake men

and snake mountain and then there was a way to

bring in and talk about or have appearances by

hordak with out doing it in a way that completely

diminished Skeletor as a character, as an evil

being, as a powerful evil being. Like, it feels

like this series just kind of shelves him and

makes him a non -issue or a not important part

of this whole thing. Whereas look at what we've

done, guys. I mean, we're on episode 121 and

outside of the She -Ra series, we've been dealing

with He -Man versus Skeletor for hundreds of

episodes and This series just kind of like well,

that's all fine and dandy But we're gonna talk

about Hordak and King Hiss and I don't say I'm

not saying that it's wrong to have the snake

man in here and I'm all about having Hordak appear

I just think there was a way that Skeletor could

have at least kept some credibility As a villain

and I don't think they did that I mean specifically

starting at the end of season 1 going into the

beginning of season 2 you have Skeletor all over

the place and by the end of the The end of the

season two and now you do have here in trivia

later about how the series got cut from twenty

six to thirteen. Here's my thing. Yes, the show

did, because the show started in 2002 and season

two started October 18th of 2003 and it ended

January 10th, 2004. So yes, this was at the,

because if you think about certain cartoon series,

even, I know you're, you're not going to care

about this, but like the power ranger series,

normally they run from like February until whatever,

like two or three months. And then they take

off cartoon series. as long as Cartoon Network

doesn't screw with the air date order or screw

with ordering, you know, screw with airing them

at all, which is sadly in this case, they probably

did. Yeah, I mean, typically it's a three month

window. So you got October, November, December,

and sometimes it carries into like the first

week of January to finish up. But yeah, I guess

like I just think there was opportunities. Like

I think, for example, and I know this is kind

of getting more into like the overall series

talk, but just real quick before we get into

it, I think. There was ways to do it. Like, I

think you had opportunities because Skeletor

does not want Hordak back. Skeletor is not friends

with the snake men and King Hiss. So I know that

it's cliche to always have like the, oh, the

bad guys got a team with the good guys. But I

think there was moments where Skeletor could

have found himself somehow having to almost fight

alongside He -Man and the and the Masters, not

really fighting alongside them, but but helping

them in a way to keep these other two at bay,

like he could have, even if it wasn't like a

full on like, Hey, we're going to have an Alliance

for a little while. It could have been something

as simple as Skeletor is at the right time in

the right moment. And instead of going after

He -Man did something to make sure that Hordak

stayed in Despotos or whatever. Right. Yeah,

there could have been a lot of ways to do, to

do it sadly. Right instead of just happen this

episode doesn't I'll get more into it next episode

cuz in this episode it's kind of an issue cuz

he's just not here next episode I'll have a bigger

problem with it but this one I gonna say I do

like. You know it's a title history so it's got

me right off the bat but I do really like the

fact that we have as much for that as we do I

like that Evelyn continues to play like this

plotting. You know, treacherous member of Skeletor's

crew that will do anything if it, you know, helps

her because that's villainous. I like it. And

then I like that you kind of have a duality in

the fact that He -Man thinks one thing and the

Masters think one thing is happening, but they

don't actually realize what the Snakemen are

up to. You know what I mean? Like they realize

Hordak is trying to be free, but they don't realize

that the Snakemen were actually trying to stop

that as well. Yeah, so you know they basically

stop Hordak etc. But they don't realize that

they've allowed snake men to get what they need

to awaken Serpos. So I kind of like that there's

duality there where the bad guys aren't on the

same squad and the Masters don't realize that.

So I am a fan of it at that point. I kind of

cut you off though. So did you have further thoughts

before we get into the only other thing I want

to say about just generally. is that I was really

surprised, especially for 2004 and even nowadays,

but throughout our entire journey for the last

seven, eight years on this show, watching all

of these cartoons, you go back to Filmation.

Filmation always had the, and the messages are

here too, but Filmation always found a way to

either not do something or to work around something

or to say, hey, even though this happened, In

this episode, don't do this kind of thing. Marzo

straight up smacks Evelyn. I have that written

down. And I'm like, wait a minute. I wrote it

down. Wow, Marzo just bitch slapped Evelyn and

called her weak. Yeah. We pretty much wrote down

the exact same note because what I wrote was,

wow, Marzo smacked Evelyn. Damn. Yeah those two

got into it and he like just literally was like

you're not even on my level like get away from

you weak little sorcerer type character. Without

his amulet he doesn't have shit right. Another

weird thing about this episode that I didn't

like necessarily at first it started to grow

on me a little bit. But and I know they've probably

done it in previous episodes and maybe I just

haven't brought it up. Maybe you have. It's been

a while, but, um, they have like the weird snake

transitions in between like one scene and the

other. Yep. And it really threw me off in this

episode at first. I don't, I don't like the snake

transitions. The transitions that they used to

use in season one and before the whole snake

men thing started up was the power sword or the

havoc staff. And I'm fine with that. Either it

was just the sound effect for the power sword

or it was Skeletor laughing for the havoc staff

because the snake thing was so Like it was so

prominent that it almost took me out of yeah

What was going on and I'm like, okay now I got

to refocus and stuff like that. So yeah I know

Cobra Khan has been around for a while. I know

we've been dealing with him for multiple episodes

in this series, etc I don't know why it struck

me more in this episode than ever before but

like I just kept thinking, am I looking at Cobra

Khan or is that Cobra Commander? I know, right?

Because his voice just keeps getting more and

more like Cobra Commander to me. Yeah. And the

way that he's kind of acting and slithering around

and stuff like that, I just like, man, they might

as well just had a crossover here. This could

have been Cobra. This could have been Cobra and

the Snake Men. Yeah, this is the most badass

Karl Marzo has ever been. Yeah, I love his powers.

I love seeing his powers used here. Like to me,

he comes across just more powerful and more badass

than we've ever seen him before in any other

iteration. So, uh, that was kind of cool. Um,

I liked the fact that we actually get to see

Manny faces, um, different abilities, personalities,

kind of a little bit in this one. Uh, we get

Mossman coming back, um, to see that. And how

about Cringer? Oh, man. Cringer for the first

time ever, right? This is gonna be the first

time ever. I don't even know if it has ever been

where Cringer has done something like this in

any of the episodes we've watched. He's done,

like with Orko's help, he's done a few things,

but back in the Filmation series, he was way

more cowardly because he could talk and he could

emote. But with him just being a plain, I don't

want to say plain old, but I'm just gonna say

plain old cat. And he can still show the cowardice,

he can still do the meows, and he can still do

the this and whatever. But... Damn. First time

we've ever seen him be brave. Yes, and it was

so cool. Good on Cringer there. You've got more

battle cat in you than you think, Cringer. And

then I do kind of, even though it's maybe not

the greatest explanation, I do kind of like the

fact that they kind of use the fact that the

snake men molt and that their skin comes off

to get out of certain situations. Like for example,

when they get burned in this episode and then

it's just like, well, that skin's gone, but I

already have another layer underneath it. So

I think that's a cool way to kind of figure in

their characters traits a little bit. So, um,

I'm a fan of this episode. I enjoy the Ideas

behind Hordak and everything that goes along

with that. Um, so I enjoyed Larry to tell you

those episode here. I don't know about you. You

might be mixed more mixed than I am. A little

bit. Yeah, I enjoyed it, but. Okay, so I think

it was in the last podcast where we had He -Man

trying to stop Skeletor. And then, He -Man realized,

oh, Skeletor wanted to destroy Hordak's place.

Like, he wanted to stop the bad guy from doing

the good thing kind of thing, and he does that

again here, and I really cannot have any... Like,

this is the exact thing I wrote down. Really,

He -Man? You're smarter than that. Or you used

to be. I get it. Stopping King Hiss, but wowsers.

Live and learn, I guess. Wait, no! You get no

live and learn excuse. This is the second time

you have prevented someone from causing evil,

even if that person was a villain themselves.

Bad He -Man, bad. Finger wag at He -Man. Hmm.

Yeah, I guess that's true. He did kind of get

duped over on that as far as not realizing who

was trying to do what in that aspect. I just

like it. I like the fact that we got evil and

kind of meddling in things I like the fact that

we have two different villainous storylines with

the snake men and evil in slash marzo slash hordak

And I like that. We got to see some cool moments

from people like many faces moss man cringer

Etc and a lot more masters got involved in this

Which is nice instead of never seen them or seen

one or two here and there randomly like this

is Masters of the universe I think we could have

focused on the Masters a little bit more than

we did but So overall, I really like it. I thought

it was building to what I was hoping would be

a good like I remember watching this originally

when the first time we watched this the first

time I ever watched this series and the last

like three to five episodes Really in my mind

back then originally watching it i was getting

my emotions for building and it felt like hey

this series is about to really take off for this

is about to go to some cool places that we've

never seen before it had me excited i'm obviously

in the rug gets pulled out from underneath us

but. I think this episode was part of that like

this episode was part of that building emotions

and building like hey i think we're about to.

either have a cool climax or we're about to go

into cool new places. So like, I think this episode

did its job. So this is not the one I have a

problem with today. So I am given a power sword

to Cringer. I can see given a Havoc staff to

maybe He -Man and episode rating wise, I'm actually

at a five on this one. Really? Yeah. See this

hand? Should have been watching the other one.

Call me crazy. I like the build. I like the build

too, but I can't justify He -Man's stupidity.

I give it a three. Battle Cat and Cringer get

a power sword. He -Man gets a big ol' Havoc staff

right up the butt. Up the but he says okay on

that note and no more but talk we're gonna take

it really really quickly. I was trying to see

where so Cobra Khan in this series was voiced

by Scott McNeil. I don't know if Scott every

voice Cobra commander when what series was that.

Now I gotta remember Like a hundred percent sure

that he I'm ninety nine point nine percent sure

that Scott McNeil did Cobra commander at one

point which is why I'm saying that the voices

sound but before he was able to Basically hide

The Cobra voice I feel like And then when this

came out, I just feel like it didn't GI Joe extreme

and GI Joe something else At least GI Joe extreme

and sergeant savage was the other one and the

screaming is screaming Eagles Not great GI Joe

serious, but he did do the Cobra commander voice

in there But I hadn't picked up on it as much

until this one So I don't know if he just slipped

into it more or if it was just my brain finally

turned it on But he was yeah, he does have history

voicing that character. So alright now we're

gonna take a quick break when we come back Hey,

it's the final episode. We have at this point

guys. We'll come back and talk about awake in

the serpent It is time. To the lower level! Alright,

up next, the final aired episode of this series,

episode 39, Awaken the Serpent, it aired January

10th, 2004, Dean Stefan - Right in this one and

using the power of the Medallion of Serpos, King

Hiss transforms Snake Mountain into the mighty

snake god Serpos. Serpos begins to cause great

destruction on Eternia, viciously attacking the

royal palace before heading to Castle Grayskull

and conquering all of Eternia. So this is the

moment that the snake men have been working towards.

This is why they got King Hiss and everybody

involved. This is what his plan has been. This

is why he's had to get all those different MacGuffins

along the way. including the Medallion of Serpos

is to turn Snake Mountain back into the mighty

snake god Serpos that used to exist. We learn

in this episode that Serpos at one point in time

in history did wreak havoc on Eternia and that

the basically the power of the elders, Grayskull,

etc. entrapped him and created Snake Mountain

out of him. And he's been there ever since. So

this is waking him back up, which On the side

always have seen snake mount is like this giant

snakes inside was that how i was carver why is

a giant snake so i can get an explanation for

it. Yeah they gave it an explanation which is

good and it makes sense so this episode is basically

he man. With a little help from zodiac against

serbos so what did you think. I was expecting

more and i feel like i got less. Like, yes, there's

all this stuff here, but sadly, you know, this

is the last episode. This is because supposedly,

and again, I'm not trying to take away your trivia

stuff, but supposedly there was no more interest

in this. And I know you're, I know you're going

to hate that. I'm going to say this, but again,

toy companies, they got to sell toys and how

they do that sadly is through animated series.

This animated series. Was written brilliantly

i love the directions they were trying to go

into i loved everything about season one there

might have been little nitpicks here and there

from episode one to wait to now of the podcast

but. I enjoyed what the series was and where

it was gonna go the story it was going to tell

yes i knew immediately as soon as he man snake

armor showed up and like all there's a new toy

of that that's fine whatever but at least they

gave you an explanation in saying hey. Man in

arms grabbed rat lore or whoever's DNA to make

the armor versus just showing up and saying,

here's the new toy. So it is based kind of on

that, but it's like, I think the main thing that,

that what we see here, and I'm going to go out

on a limb because I haven't done necessarily

all the research to back this up, but what used

to happen in the early days of Cartway commercial

cartoons you know because this is something that

started basically in the eighties. Yeah you can

probably pull a couple examples before that but

eighties is really where it takes off where we

have him at joe transformers etc etc. And the

difference is when cartoons were made back then.

They were almost always outside of once that

we're gonna be airing on saturday mornings if

it was a weekday cartoon it immediately got bought

up for a sixty five episode run. That was a that

was a season so it immediately you had one seasons

worth of episode sixty five episodes before any

decisions were gonna be made yes some didn't

make it to a second season so some you only get

sixty five episodes. What what i mean to bring

that up is is they have sixty five episodes.

Worth of material and time and reruns and things

of that nature to get people interested to sell

toys to build the fandom. All right Which buys

you a good amount of time to get that done? Which

is why you had some that made it to a second

or third season because they had already built

in that time what we see here in the 2000s is

when they do these reboots remakes You know reinventions

of previous properties. We've seen it in this

series. We've seen it in Thundercats. We've seen

it in multiple different other types of properties

The landscape has changed and nowadays You don't

get that sixty five episodes right up front you

know what i mean you might get thirteen you might

get. You know some from during that thirty range

depending on how they break up the seasons so

you have a lot less material to go through you

got a lot less time to build that fandom up again.

And there's so much impatience in the television

world in general and look at how many series

air an episode or two or three before the canceled

like it's not if it's not immediately a hit.

It gets canceled. That's what we found ourselves

in these days. And so because these guys didn't

get 65 episodes right from the get, I don't I

don't feel like. the fandom is able to create

itself. You know what I mean? Like it was back

in the 80s. So what they have to rely on is people

that are already attached to the property because

they saw it beforehand. And that becomes collectors

that might be buying some of the toys or this,

that, and the other, but you're not going to

get that massive audience appeal where you're

having a bunch of kids buy toys, which is really

what's going to drive the toy market. So that's

why, in my opinion, we don't see a lot of these

reboots last a long time. They always seem to

get cut short because they're giving them Too

few of episodes to try it out like you need more

episodes. So I feel like that's part of the problem

I don't like I said, I don't have any scientific

evidence to back that up But it's just a different

landscape nowadays with TV and it has been you

know for the last 20 years The 80s and 90s are

over and you know back then stuff got time to

Build and now it doesn't so if you're not successful

right away The interest doesn't there the toys

aren't selling you're gonna get cut off regardless

of how much quality you have in the writing the

animation, the voice acting, the product, that's

not important to people that pull the strings,

unfortunately. So yeah, this is the final episode

of the series and we'll talk a little bit more

about what goes into that a little bit later.

I was talking about in the last episode that

I didn't mind as much Skeletor not being involved

in that one. This one, I have a problem because

they show Skeletor. The transformation has begun!

Arise, Zerbos! Arise, so that all may cower before

your fierce power! They show Skeletor, they give

Skeletor lines. He has a scene or sequence, whatever

you want to call it, where he literally talks

about the fact that his palace or his home has

been disrupted and that he's going to take it

to King Hiss and show him a piece of his mind

type thing. And then he disappears for the rest

of the episode. Like I get that that might have

been planting a seed for future episodes, but

in the way we get it. It's like Skeletor seemed

awfully pissed off to disappear for the rest

of the time like even this would have been his

moment to This would have been a better way to

end it like you have Skeletor he's mad at King

his he's mad about his home blah blah blah So

now he has a common enemy as human does they

both are not for the snake man and you could

have had them do something to get rid of the

snake man and then kind of like have that ending

moment where it's like hey we finally came together

and did something to help each other out that's

how it's going to end are they going to remain

friends not friends but are they going to remain

you know helpful to each other or is it going

to go right back to you know human versus Skeletor

and just have an end ambiguously like that like

yeah They had an opportunity and then said they

just wrote him off the episode after one line

Yeah, I have a problem with that. So I have a

huge Pro like I understand where the story was

going and where they were hopefully going to

take it But I have a huge problem with this being

the last episode and Skeletor Basically gets

yeah, you're done. Yeah I mean i like the circles

thing i let me let me define that a little bit

i like the idea of circles i like the idea that

he was like mountain becomes alive is gonna be

helping the statement i don't know if i'm one

hundred percent on board on the execution of

it. Because it was hard to interpret what circles

was what could hurt him what couldn't hurt him

size. Abilities and things of that nature seemed

like he was morphing into different things like.

I don't know I like I get the human was trying

stuff without his sword opened up so like he

was not having luck. But then it seemed like

certain times he was but then it didn't affect

suppose cuz like two seconds later he was fine.

Other stuff hurt him and then like I don't know

like it was a little bit weird execution of him.

Yeah, very weird. So like I like the idea and

I like that There's this big huge thing that's

gonna be attacking Castle Grayskull and it's

gonna have more chance than Skeletor has ever

had or you know, etc And that human is gonna

have to summon some type of extra power to like

beat it down I just thought it was weird like

he man flying through the air and then it's like

this little bug That's like hitting him and getting

swatted away and then but sometimes he like hurts

him, but it doesn't really hurt Yeah, and then

I don't know. It was just really confusing. I

do however really enjoy The fact that we got

Zodak and Prince Adam interacting. Zodak basically

tells Adam for all intents and purposes that

he knows he's He -Man. He -Man is needed. He

-Man, you mean you know? Uh, could you at least

turn your back? Fine. By the power of Grayskull!

And like hey we need he -man right now like get

your shit together And Zodak's like I'm Zodak

dude like what do you think? Zodak is a badass

character except for when he flies around in

that stupid -looking chair Because then all of

a sudden he looks like someone I can't say it

because I'm gonna offend somebody but I don't

care say it's an explicit podcast that people

can't get over it. It looks like all sudden he's

a steven hawking handicapped and he's tied to

that chair that there's anything wrong with that

but like he's not. I don't know why can't he

just fly. I just have him fly like Stratos does.

Zodak doesn't have wings. Give him a hoverboard.

No, I'll give him a hover. Bad shark still looks

great. Give him something. He's sitting in a

chair. Okay, so I think in as a born handicapped

person, I'm not lying. You know this, but I,

you know, I can talk about this being born with.

Technically, I was born with brain damage and

I found this out. Last year in 2019, when I had

their brain surgery, I do not have my corpus

column. For those that don't know the corpus

column. Florida, corpus Christi. No, that's Texas.

That's Texas. You leave Selena out of this. It's

called the corpus column. It is what connects

your left and your right brain hemispheres. It's

a little piece. Or it's a piece in your in the

back of your head and your brain that connects

your two hemispheres. I was born without one.

It never formed. I only found this out 40 years

after I was born when I had to have brain surgery

in 2019 to remove the hydrocephalitis that I

had. It's basically excess water on the brain.

Technically I was born brain damage. I have cerebral

palsy. It's a very mild case, but I get things

mixed up and everything else and I used to get

all kinds of headaches and everything else all

this and all that. So as a born disabled person

and someone who has had to use crutches, I've

had to try to use wheelchairs at times. Like

the thing about this is that I like, I don't

find anything you said offensive. You're not

wrong. But the thing of it is, is Zodak has supposed

to be this mystic. He's supposed to be this person

like he's supposed to be like Metatron from DC

kind of thing where it's this mystic chair and

his powers empower the chair and that's how he

flies. Giving him wings like Stratos would just

make him another Avion and it would be cool.

Anything else besides that? Maybe a stand that

he could stand on and fly around. If it wasn't

in a seated position it would have worked better

for me. But I do like that he's in it. I'm a

fan of soda. So that was cool. Like overall,

it's I don't think this is a bad episode I just

think that everything was building and building

and building and then you get this one and I

don't know if it's the fact that you know It's

the last one and that you're not getting anything

more that makes you upset or if it's just that

hey Skeletor wasn't here or if it's just like

I don't know. It's just like This didn't quite

hit the climax. I wanted it to and I would have

rather Hordak been unleashed and deal with him

than have the snake men still being in power

Mm hmm. Yeah. I would have rather actually a

surplus be here. And then then they do bring

Hordak back and he takes out surplus. And that

sets up season three, which will be Hordak and

his people. Like that would have been fine. And

then I would have been fine. We didn't get the

series the next season, but I know where it was

going and I'm cool with it. So, yes. My Serpos

moments, or I should say my snake mountain moments,

basically begin with, okay, where to begin? Can

we go back 10 years and rename it Serpos moments?

No, we screwed up. Yeah, we're to begin here.

There's a point where He -Man tells the Masters

to go back to the palace. Fisto or somebody informs

he man that the lava is going to endanger a village

so. They split up he man goes to save the village

the masters go back to the palace to deal with

serpos right. We never actually and I understand

time frame whatever excuse all that we never

actually see him and save the village the masters

go back to the palace and then he man ends up

out in the distance as if he did save a village

and now he's on his way back to the palace. But

we never actually saw him save the village. And

the whole Serpos thing is just kind of meh for

me. Like, the whole thing about his origin and

how the mountain, whatever, that's great. The

rest of it being a giant snake monster, I could

do without. Yeah. I just could do without. And

for the longest time, I thought they were going

to call him Serpentor. All right, so I have a

power sword for zodiac Me too. That's it. I don't

have anything else and I'm not gonna be as hard

as you're thinking I'm gonna be on this episode

because yes, it was disappointing but I still

think it's a good episode because we still get

what the snake men were finally going for we

still get like this You know ultimate showdown

with Zodac and the Sorceress and Castle Grayskull

at stake etc etc etc. And we get to see a little

bit of the history of Snake Mountain and how

that worked in the Council of Elders and all

that other stuff. So I'm still decent score.

I'm going to give it a four. But Jesus, you're

hard on these last two episodes. It's the final

two episodes. We're never going to see this again.

They didn't do an animated movie. It's never

going to come back. No one's ever going to say,

oh, It's twenty twenty two it's been twenty years

since this show came out let's do a animated

movie that's gonna you know continue that no

one's gonna do that sadly Mattel's not even in

that air I don't even know where Mattel is with

their animation right now because Netflix shitra

is done and Kevin Smith series is up in limbo

and so is that supposed Noah whatever that kid's

name is movie. Supposedly that movie was supposed

to be in coronavirus or not? Supposedly that

movie was supposed to be in theaters and now

it's supposed to be a Netflix original I have

no idea what's going on with Mattel and Masters

of the Universe right now. I have zero idea what

is going on Yeah, but All right, I don't think

it's that bad of an episode But this is the final

episode of the series season 2 is planned to

have a full 26 episodes But got cut down to 13

during production There is a 40th episode in

somewhat form and we'll talk about that a little

bit because it was released as a bonus feature

on the complete series DVD set together with

the previous 39 scripts and a comic book adaptation

of the 40th episode which is entitled captured

and we'll talk more about that later. But that's

it for the aired episodes guys. We came to a

conclusion with episode 39, Awaken the Serpent.

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