Treasures of the First Ones, Glimmer’s Story, and Enemy with My Face

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point. Alright, well in this episode of Mists

of Etheria, we'll be giving you our thoughts

on episode 40, Treasures of the First Ones, episode

41, Glimmer's Story, and episode 42, Enemy with

My Face. So we hope you're ready, because it's

time to go back to Etheria. Time to enter a theory

of blue period. What does that mean? Oh my god.

You are so not an art person, are you? No. Picasso's

blue period? Come on now! No, I hate art. the

sea to protect the treasures. If the treasure's

sunk, how are you gonna get it? The stories say

the isle will rise again for a single day. And

now, thanks to Shadow Weaver, we know when that

day will be. It's about time she did something

right. You gonna pick that island clean, Chief,

huh? Of course. And then we'll use the secrets

of the first ones to rid ourselves of So apparently,

folks, this first episode, Kevin's gonna give

a zero. So what do we have for episode 40? Episode

40, Treasures of the First One. It was an air

date of Thursday, October 31st, 1985, written

by Larry DiTilio. Mystic Isle will rise out of

the sea for just one day, and Hordak plans to

steal the ancient treasure of the First Ones

that was hidden there. Light Hope calls on Shira

for help, and she in turn rounds up Seahawk and

his crew to help her out. So we have... Hordak,

Shadow Weaver, Imp, some Horde troopers, and

Octavia as our Horde members. And for members

of the Rebellion we have She -Ra, and Swiftwind,

and Lighthope, and then of course we have the

recurring characters of Seahawk and Swann. What

did you think about the treasures of the first

ones? Well first of all, this aired on Halloween

in 85? I guess, that's what my sources tell me.

Break! We could have had a better cartoon here

on Halloween. I mean, come on. This is just an

art heist. That's all it is. It's Monuments Men.

Uh -huh. So, yeah, I mean, what did you think,

though, about the idea? It's a Thomas Crown Affair.

What did you think of the idea that we're going

to have, um... Some some ancient treasure of

Etheria and that it's gonna take us to an environment

That's going to give us an option to have the

Seahawk back as well as a new character from

the Horde I Mean, I like seeing Seahawk again.

I like seeing the crew again. I like seeing his

ship and all that I like finally seeing a new

character in Octavia Or another new character

But essentially this is Atlantis. I mean, that's

really what it is. It's Atlantis with treasure.

It's really what the Mystic Isle is. Although

I don't think Atlantis has ever arisen. Unless

you, you know... Not in reality. Yeah, I was

gonna say, well, unless you head on over to Transformers

and talk about that episode, Atlantis Arise.

But yeah, no, I mean, it's essentially... Hordak

is under the assumption that... there is money

and gold and just stuff to make him rich which

it it contradicts his whole thing. Hornak already

owns the damn planet. Like I don't understand

why he would want money and gold and riches.

He's not Miles Mayhem for crap's sake. He's better

than Miles Mayhem. I think it's I think it's

more so it's not necessarily gold and the riches

as much as he thinks there's going to be some

type of something there that can give him power

or something. Yeah. Whether it be magical or

whether it be you know like Artillery or something,

you know, he's expecting something that's gonna

be able to fuel his his Journey to domination

I guess all I can think of and I know this is

really really bad. There was a again a Transformers

episode where Starscream ends up humping a giant

metal bug, and one of my lines when I saw that

was, Michael Bay rapes our childhood, like Starscream

rapes giant metal bugs, and that's all I can

think of when Hordak wants this extra power.

And then he comes to find out that it's just

art and statues and all that stuff, and he's

like, ugh, that's it. Yeah, so that is the the

biggest crux I guess of this episode is the the

real and kind of goes to the PSA a little bit

is you know as far as the treasure and how you

define what's important and what's valuable so

we'll get to the PSA all right well let's take

a quick break then so we can make our way for

the first time today to Whispering Woods and

the Fright Zone to see what we liked and disliked

about the treasure that the first ones left us

We can't just fly right in. Horde's sea bases

all have heavy defenses. No problem. They won't

even see us. Swen, activate the cloud cover.

Aye, aye, Captain. It is stove and strunk, Captain.

She won't start. Well, fix it. Quick! Start?

You follow, machine? Start, I say. Well, dip

me in batter and fry me for a fritter. It worked!

Very neat trick. But how do we see through this

cloud? This aeroscope sticks out through the

cloud. Take a look. There's Octopus Cole. And

there's your Dreadnaught. She's headed out to

sea. Perfect. We can follow it all the way to

Mystic Isle. That we can. Commander Octavia,

something's strange here. Skyscan indicates something

following us, but visual shows only a cloud.

What shall we do? Fire the plasma cannon at that

cloud We'll teach whoever it is the folly of

trying to trick the whore So far so good Alright,

we find ourselves in the Whispering Woods for

the good things about this treasure that they

left us. So, first off, I gotta say that I do

love the Imp -Hordak interactions. Yeah. They

interact very well together. They play off of

each other well. Imp could be, he could come

off as a very annoying, you know, character like

we've seen in so many of these cartoons. But,

yeah. That's Lukey's job. But I actually do like

him, and I think he plays off of Hordak. Fairly

well. I like seeing Seahawk again. Seeing his

return now, I think this is like the third time

we've seen him in an episode, at least. Third

or fourth, yeah. And I do like that interaction.

It does also do a good job of following through

with some character pieces about him. You know,

he instantly is asking where Adora is so they

haven't ignored some of his previous appearances.

So I do like that. Finally get to see a new Horde

member in Octavia. kind of forgot about her so

uh it was interesting seeing her a little bit

weird on the the talking and her speech patterns

with the kind of that sucking sound or whatever

she's making but um but interesting and it makes

sense that this is honestly she should have appeared

previously because remember last week or the

week before when we talked about that episode

that was basically made for merman Mm -hmm. She

could have definitely been in that episode since

she is octopus like and she seems to be in control

of some some sea troops for hordak And it also

gave us a interesting look at some alternate

horde troopers like the the horde troopers that

are piloting the dreadnought and the different

sea vehicles that Octavia is in control of don't

look like the normal horde troopers. So I thought

it was kind of cool to see. It's almost like

Stormtroopers in Star Wars where you get to see

multiple different variations on it. And my last

her best General Grievous impression when she

busts out the four swords, like the four lightsabers,

and goes after She -Ra. Luke Shimer on a suit

George Lucas So before General Grievous we had

Octavia. So that's right saying that what about

you anything you like about this episode? I think

what's really cool is is how Hordak basically

explains the entire plot Yeah, I thought that

was really cool My next note goes to Shira and

Swiftwin. Up, Swiftwin! Away! Who is she? Superman

talking to Krypto? I mean, come on. Good moments.

Good moments. I just found that... No, I know.

I found it funny. I'm like, ooh, an irony kind

of thing. I do like the new character of Octavia,

but you're right. The voice, it's... It's not

terrible, but it's not good. She's basically

a female leech as far as the voice. Oh, yeah,

that's a good call. So there's that A horde device

was stolen about a month ago the rebel well not

necessarily the rebellion but a member of a I

guess you could say Pseudo member of the rebellion

and Seahawk apparently they stole Because until

horde X said that it was stolen it would have

a head of order for simple yes that's it we we

saw it before hordak said that so i'm like way

why is why does seahawk have a hard emblem machine

on the what's going on here in the importance

of all it's just a little bit of a little yeah

she was uh... see how can she was exchanges just

is just hilarious hitting land is worse than

hitting the scene not if i'm there to catch you

catch us? Like he just can't believe that Chiro

would be able to catch the ship. Right. It's

hilarious. But that's all I got. Okay. Well,

let's make our way to Fright Zone then and see

if there's an equal number of things that we

didn't like or if this is a generally positive

episode. First off, I have, again, with the Hordak

heads on all the vehicles. The Hordak head on

the Dreadnought is just silly looking. Oh, I

thought it was cool looking. I thought it was

the best one yet, because most of them you only

see, like if you look at the Destructo tanks

or any of the transports, the ground vehicle

transports, it's only like the upper part of

his jaw up to about... Just under his eyebrows

really so the whole thing on the dreadnought

actually being able to see the whole hordak face

I thought that was cool. It's probably better

than a lot of them But I think I've just been

soured to the point that I see one on every single

thing so it Yeah, it's kind of like that, but

didn't she just get crushed by that ship Yeah,

she's dead Like I don't care how strong you are

she's dead shows over podcast over it She was

starting to catch it, and then it clearly crushes

her Then she's just lifts it up afterwards. That's

like even the strongest man in the world if he's

lifting the whatever 600 pounds on a bench press

or whatever and He lifts part of it, and then

it comes down on top of him. He's not lifting

that again like Come on now maneuver 36 Oh, don't

even get me. Okay, so the maneuver itself was

fine. Basically, SwiftWin flies through the blasts,

which I'm surprised do not hit his wings every

single time. He flies through the blasts and

crashes into the horde troopers. I like the maneuver.

The fact that she has to say maneuver 36 is the

stupidest thing in the entire se - any of - oh

my god. Yeah, I'm not a big fan whenever that

comes out of her mouth. Um, so this whole aisle

is only going to be up for one day, all right?

I don't - they didn't really say, like, w - one

day in whatever a thousand years or they didn't

give like a mention of if it's like a Korean

thing. I could have sworn they did. I could have

sworn they said it comes up every okay I could

be I have to go back I could be wrong but I could

have sworn either Madame Raz or Shadow Weaver

said something about the fact that it only appears

Once every X number of years for one day. My

point is though that if that's gonna happen It's

a legend of the theory. So people know about

it. I mean Apparently only Hordak and Lighthawk

knew about it in this episode, but should be

something that a lot of people know about if

it's this known, you know, legend type thing.

So why is there not more pomp and circumstance

about this happening? Why isn't there attempts?

If it's only going to be up for one day, you'd

think there'd be a lot of people that want to

go see it or want to get the stuff off of there

while they have a chance or do whatever. It seems

like, I don't know, there was no plans for anything

good to be done. It's just reacting to the fact

that Hordak was going to steal stuff. um and

then finally that maneuver at the end the whole

ending bit the the the the mountaintop tidal

wave yes that is at the top of the list probably

the top 10 dumbest physical feats that we've

seen all right so you're basically reading my

mind here well she created a tidal wave with

a mountaintop it's bad But it's not moving water

or moving fire bad. But it was before that, though,

too. We get the... It starts off with them, apparently

Swift Wind going into turbo mode, flying in a

circle around it while she has a sword out to

cut the mountain. And then it's throwing the

mountain, and then it doesn't hit anything. It

hits water, which creates the wave, and then

somehow the ship ends up on top of the mountain

top. It was terrible. Like, who comes up with

this stuff? I don't know. What else do you have?

I actually have to go back to Whispering Woods

for a minute. I think it was this episode. I'll

have to go back and get a screen cap. But wasn't

it this episode she was trying to evade some

of the sky troopers? Yeah, I think so. The planes.

And she went through the side of the mountain?

Yeah. I'm going to have to grab that for the

post because that's the first time I've ever

seen Swift Wind fly sideways. And I thought that

just looked so cool. But no, I mean this this

episode I mean it had some cool moments in it,

but the overall plot I mean like He he wants

this magical pain he assumes it's gonna be some

sort of magical power or secret of life or whatever

the hell and He wants it so he can eventually

destroy Shira for for good and when he gets there

he just sees that it's just you know treasures

of the world that are essentially worth a ton

of money versus actually going to give him any

power and he just doesn't even give a crap the

guy already runs the damn planet like i understand

she was a huge thorn in his side he wants to

get rid of her but like damn this this up like

and this is a larry datilio episode i expect

more from larry datilio Again, it goes back to

my question and I hope any of our listeners can

write in and tell me, any of those die -hard

He -Man fans like Pixel Dan or anybody, you know,

did Lou Schimer just give people scripts or did

he give people story ideas to run with and then

they wrote what they wrote because it's like...

It just doesn't seem like it really fits in with

the rest of the series a lot of the episodes

in the last few weeks or the last few episodes

of the podcast There's like one out of the three

that we do each week that just doesn't seem to

fit the series's feel I Didn't necessarily dislike

the the stuff that's going on here. I mean we'll

get more into it when I do the ranking I think

there's a lot to like there's just a couple things

including that whole maneuver at the end that

are just awful for me It's just a plot. It's

not what actually happened It's just the plot

and that that's really all that I have a real

problem with I mean besides the maneuver at the

end, but I mean it's one of those things where

if You can't write a good plot It doesn't matter

how well the animation or voice acting executes

that story. It's still gonna suck as far as the

story goes. Go ahead. The PSA. Take a trip to

your local art museum. Yeah. The treasures that

art is. At least it fits the episode. True, it

does fit the episode. At least it's not about

putting out a kitchen fire. You have that going

for you too. So yeah, I mean it does fit with

the episode and yeah, art is important, blah

blah blah. We can tell folks, Kevin is not the

biggest art critic at all. I mean, when you can

just take a paintbrush and flop some paint on

something and have someone call it a masterpiece

and give you a million dollars for it. At least

with music, you can hit right notes and wrong

Let's take a quick break and and see where we

come down on this actual episode with the Ford

bats protection swords and crystal castles coming

up Well, let's get to Hordak. Right. Swift Wind!

No! No! This can't be all there is! Sounds like

Hordak's not happy. Let's find out why. Paintings!

Statues! Pots! Useless! Where is the magic? The

weapons? These cannot be the greatest treasures

of the first ones! That's where you're wrong,

Hordak. These things show love, beauty, freedom,

and truth. They're the very spirit of the first

ones. And they have a value. A cheap villain

like you could never understand. You're a sentimental

fool, She -Ra. But I'll still get something out

of this. Watch yourself, She -Ra. Old tin can

there's got some rotten plan. Since you prize

this trash so highly, She -Ra, I give it to you.

Of course, I doubt you'll have much time to enjoy

it. After my plasma cannon destroys this building!

Alright, it's the first chance to hand out some

hardware. I know this is your favorite part of

the episode usually, Mike. So, any horde bats

or protection swords, first off? I'll give a

horde bat to Larry DiTileo. I'm sorry. I'm sorry,

Larry. As much as I love your work, this is not

one of your better episodes. As far as the writing

goes. What about you? I don't have anything as

far as horde bats. I will go ahead and give one

more protection sword to Seahawk. Just because

I like where he's come as a character and how

he's willing and able to help out Shira in the

rebellion and he's kind of on that... tertiary

character that's a rebel supporter that they

can call on when they need and I kind of like

his Han Solo -esque attitude that still follows

through as well so that's all I had for protection

swords or horde bats. I had one for Seok and

one for Swift Wind because some of the moves

that Swift Wind did execute regardless of having

to be told certain things just the like i said

that that that sideways fly through the mountain

thing um and the the like i said not counting

shira's you know command here but you know just

his charge towards the hard trooper so i like

that i thought that was uh that was pretty cool

a swift wind fair enough for radians um actually

I think I might end up a little bit higher than

you on this one because Honestly, if it was not

for that whole last thing with them carving the

mountain up and tidal wave, etc This would have

been one of the highest ones I've rated in a

long time Because of that though, I'm gonna drop

it down to a four I really enjoyed Seahawk. I

really enjoyed Octavia and seeing the alternate

horde troopers and the fights that Octavia I

mean it wasn't just a generic Bad guy. She actually

had some different skills that she was bringing

that we hadn't seen out of anybody else So it

was kind of interesting to see her fight And

then the infant hordak interactions were good.

I'm not huge on the plot like you I you know

this lost city of Atlantis nonsense I mean that

we've seen that before and we've also seen where

it's not treasure, but it's art or where it's

not Treasure, but it's artifacts or or something

like that before so it's the plots like whatever

But there's enough in the actual episode to make

me get all the way up to a four. What about you?

You're not talking to me out of this you can't

The plot just like I enjoyed the actions in the

episode, but the story itself and the overall

plan of Hordak No, two and a half. Well the tires

I thought you were I hadn't to written down for

you So I always try to predict your ratings.

So two and a half not bad I mean it's the middle

of the road and I can see the plot bringing you

down that way like I think just my Enjoyment

of some of the aspects brought it up enough for

me So and like I said, I enjoyed those aspects

too Like you said Hordak and AMP and and all

I did enjoy all that stuff at the same time I'm

sorry if the plot of the episode or the plot

of the story is bad, then it's bad. Yeah, true

that. I mean, and you know this better than anybody,

you can enjoy the entirety of a movie's special

effects without having to really enjoy the plot

of the movie. Right. Yeah, we've done that recently

with a couple different things. All right, we're

going to take a quick break and we'll be back

with the next episode, Episode 41, Glimmer's

Story, coming up. Yeah, you've done that recently

with homely and ugly There that should do it

I'm ready for a test flight Nothing will never

work. We'll see about that here goes You won't

discourage me. I'm going to figure out some way

to fly before Hordak launches another attack.

Keep working, Bo. You'll find a way. I'm sure

of it. Well, I'm afraid I can't wait. I've got

to get ready for tomorrow's party. What party?

For Prince Highcliff from Blue Mountain. He arrives

tomorrow. Oh, and they say he's very handsome.

She used to say I was handsome, but now... But

now, you're just all wet. What is the meaning

of this? I am Prince Highcliff of Blue Mountain.

I know who you are. We've been expecting you.

Why did your troopers stop me? I've committed

no crime. You're on your way to Castle Brightmoon.

Fighting with known rebels is a crime against

the Horde! But now I'm going to send someone

in your place! Imp! You're certain this prince

is unknown in Brightmoon? No doubt about it!

I spent an entire evening disguised as a salt

shaker on the Queen's table to make sure! Alright,

up next today is episode 41, Glimmer Story, Airdate

of Friday, November 1st, 1985, written by Don

Heckman. A handsome prince visits Etheria, but

Hordak employs False Face to intervene. So we

have Hordak, Catra, Imp, and another new Horde

member, False Face, and then we have She -Ra,

Bo, Glimmer, Mademaraz, Queen Angela, Kaol, Swiftwind,

and Prince Highcliff as the... other character

in this one. So what did you think about this

whole thing? We got a royal member going to visit

Castle Brightmoon and we have this character

of False Face intervening and along with him

to try to like find the weaknesses on Brightmoon's

castle. Okay, first of all, why is this story?

Why is this episode called Glimmer's Story? That's

a good question. No, no, okay, so seriously,

why is this called Glimmer's Story? Because when

I first saw this title, Because we've had this

schedule plotted out for years at this point

now for the podcast. I figured it was going to

be some sort of backstory on her, some sort of

misadventure she might have had, some sort of

learning experience. No, this is Glimmer turning

into a fashion diva thinking she needs purple

hair instead of her pink hair because some prince

is coming to town. Like, what? Huh? Yeah, I mean,

I didn't really get how this was. Glimmer story

I was asking myself for the first like 15 to

20 minutes. Like how did they come up with? The

title for this this really had I was thinking

we were gonna get something like, you know glimmers

off on her own in some type of isolated environment

and we're gonna learn something about her character

or past or something, you know, like we had a

lot of those in human we had like Tila's Story

or something like you lose to this quest was

Tila's story. We had a number of those and this

one night I just don't get why it had anything

to do with her outside of being a side character

that had a crush and was trying to impress the

prince. So I'm with you on that one. I don't

really understand the title. And I mean, I get

the plot and what's going on there. I mean, we've

had that happen quite a few times, especially

in the He -Man series, when Evelyn would try

to impersonate somebody, whether it be a villager

or somebody. So I mean, it's not something we

haven't seen before. So no extra points for uniqueness

and no extra points for... having anything to

do with your title. Yeah, no, and I'm automatically,

and I'll explain this as we get through Whispering

Woods and the Fright Zone, automatically this

episode's getting points off because Glimmer

can't, she looks like crap with purple hair.

I'll talk about that later though. Alright, well

let's take a quick break and get to more of that.

Mike's thoughts on Glimmer's purple hair when

we make our way to Whispering Woods and the Fright

Zone. Between this and Showtime Synergy's comic

reviews of the GEM series, I'm always talking

about GEM and other 80s female's hair. It's crazy.

You're welcome in this land, Prince Highcliff.

Your father is one of our oldest friends. My

daughter, Princess Glimmer, will show you our

castle. Hmm. There's something about him that's

not right. The floodgates are controlled from

here. If they're closed when the water level

is high... Like the way it is now? Yes. The entire

castle would be flooded. Hmm. Fascinating. Alright,

we find our way back to Whispering Woods for

the second time today. Mike, what did you like

about Glimmer's story or lack thereof? Purple

hair? By tomorrow? No. Too soon? By the time

this episode comes out, that news will be so

old. So no, just don't even. Okay, so here's

the thing, all right? I know two female DJs,

one up in Boston at WAAF, Boston's rock station,

Mistress Carrie, and I know one here in Louisville

from 1077 the Eagle, Louisville's classic hits,

Regular Laura. They both are purple -haired DJs,

and they pull it off just fine and dandy. If

you look at Glimmer, and these pictures will

be in the post, because I've already screen -capped

them. You look at Glimmer, how she normally looks.

She has pink hair with the purple band and the

purple bodice and suit and all that other stuff,

and it looks fine. She adds this really, really

dark purple. She dyes her hair dark, dark purple,

and it just looks weird. I know we're in Whispering

Woods here, but I'm sorry. It just looks so wrong.

Did you say the word bodice? Yes, bodice. You

know more about women's fashion apparently than

I do. Yeah, apparently. I do like the appearance

of False Face, but he reminds me of... He reminds

me too much of 90s X -Men, the character Morph

in the 92 X -Men series in the very beginning

of the series. I like seeing him, though. It's

interesting seeing him. That's pretty much it.

I mean, this episode just... It's just a let

down because it's again I'm one of those people

and I don't know if you were one of these one

of those people as well But I'm one of those

people if I see a title if the title can get

me excited for what might happen in the story

I'm all for it if I see the title and then watch

or listen or whatever to the whatever media it

is and and realize that the story that the story

of The thing has nothing to do with the actual

I get really really disappointed in this episode

is just so damn disappointing Yeah, I can get

that. My Whispering Woods moments will be quick.

I just have false face, you know, cool scene

of another character. I don't like him as much

as I like, like, Voltak and Octavia. He seems

kind of not legit to me in some way, shape, or

form. Doesn't quite look the same. It doesn't

have that like actual it's more like a gun for

hire than like an actual horde member to me and

I do like that. This episode is non -stop Thanks

to imp and all his hijinks like they're constantly

Shira is constantly trying to you know Fix this

fix that go over here run over there do that

so I mean it is a very fast -paced episode I'll

give it that so yeah, that's what I liked about

it as far as bright zone First of all did False

face drug glimmer did he use some chloroform

or something like that because she put absolutely

no resistance up No, he just grabbed her and

grabbed her and put a Blank or a robe or whatever

around her and then she just went along for the

ride. Yeah, purple hair is awful Yeah, collide

on her. Yeah gliders are are gliders. They Have

a glider for bow the hang glider I don't know

if anybody knows about hang gliders, I guess,

but apparently not the writers here because a

hang glider can go for a while and it can go

from one height to another height, you know,

kind of gradually going down. You can't necessarily

turn around and go back up this other direction

and fly around like it's like you got some type

of jet pack on, though. So that's weird. And

here's an idea for the castle and for Queen Angela.

How about since the moonstone just teleports

up to where it needs to be with the power of

your bond because you're related, then maybe

we should eliminate the stairs that go up there

so that nobody can go steal it. Because you clearly

didn't need the stairs to go put it back. So

let's eliminate the stairs so nobody can steal

it again. Huh? Just a thought. What about you?

What are we doing? Friendzone now? Yes, that's

where we're at. Thanks for keeping up with us.

I don't know. This episode just... yeah glimmer

looks like crap with purple hair like her pink

hair is fine I have no problem with that but

just it's it's the color contrast if it was a

lighter part like the same color purple as her

headband or her clothing it would be fine but

that darker purple hair just no and Shira why

instead of going out and around and doing all

this shit to stop the water, instead of digging

this damn trench, getting the little kid stuck

in the trench from digging it out, why not just

go in and flip the switch that Imp flipped? Like,

seriously? That would make the episode too short.

If she just went in and flipped the switch that

he originally flipped to turn the floodgates

on. It wasn't happening fast enough. I know,

but it just... Oh god. What else did you know

about this episode anything? This is just so

misleading as far as the title to the what actually

friggin happens because like I said I was really

hoping for like a glimmer backstory or something

like some sort of learning experience for a glimmer

other than You know beauty is on the inside versus

on what what's on the outside because this is

essentially what the what the PSA what's important

is on the inside. Looks aren't everything. How

many times have we heard that already in the

past 30 something years now quite a few times

quite a few times They're hitting on a couple

golden rules today So alright, so that's the

whispering woods and the fright zone moments

for glimmer story Let's see what kind of awards

it garners though as we come up with our crystal

castle readings and our other awards after the

break Some strange evil energy is nearby Queen

Angela The Moonstone's been stolen and Glimmer's

missing. Prince Highcliff? He must be one of

Hordak's men. Come on, Bo. We've got work to

do. Master Hordak. False face calling. I have

Queen Angela's Moonstone. Brightmoon's defenses

are down. Excellent! My robot army will attack

immediately. We have no defenses. Hordak hasn't

wasted any time, but we're not helpless yet.

I'll handle the defenses and you try to find

Glimmer. Well, Princess Glimmer, meet the real

Prince Highcliff. By the time you get to know

each other, Brightmoon will be in our control.

Alright, it's time to hand out some more hardware

Mike. What do you have for horde bats? Glimmer

the writer of the episode Lou Shimer for even

allowing this to happen that hasn't as makes

no nonsensical sense whatsoever compared to the

title Protection swords nobody okay. I have two

horde bats to give out I'm giving them to glimmer

and false face and They get horde bats number

one because glimmer put up no fight to even resist

False Face in any way, shape, or form, and then

False Face is equally as inept because all she

has to do is do the same thing to him, push him

into a jail cell, and lock him away. So, they

both are terrible at defending themselves against

anything. I would not want them on my side in

any type of battle or situation. So, Hordebats

for False Face and for Glimmer. As far as episode

rating, Crystal Castle is for me and this is

going to be basically just because of the action

and the non -stop pace that we had in the episode

which kept it from being boring because if this

episode had been slow and boring on top of everything

else it would have been terrible. So I will give

it a two and a half just for the action. Straight

zero. Zero! Straight zero. Zero! As much as the

action was cool and everything else, it still

did not save what a shitty story this is. zero

I can sort of see but I'm not quite sure it's

that bad I don't know about zero territory so

this is another what was the other episode I

gave zero to recently in recent episodes I don't

have that right off the top my okay so there

was another episode recently where I gave another

zero to and I believe I said in that episode

of the podcast that I will If I ever go back

and re -watch She -Ra at all, it's one of those

episodes I will never, ever watch again. This

is an episode again. I will never, ever watch

this episode of this show ever again. Well, I

don't think I would either, so... Alright, so

not good scores for Glimmer's story. We're not

big fans of that one. Let's go to a different

episode and see if we have a different take here.

Coming up next, episode 42, Enemy with My Face.

Or maybe that was supposed to be the title of

this episode, I'm not really sure. instead of

port cook computer you have analyzed the information

on the one called she ra then kindly answer me

this one simple No one is as strong as She -Ra!

Oh, yes, of course. That's it. There's no one

as strong as She -Ra now. But there will be soon.

Come along, Medtina. We must hurry. Bone of bog

and skin of swamp. Where creepers in the slime

do romp. Last up today is episode 42, Enemy with

My Face. Airdate of Monday, November 4th, 1985,

written by J. Michael Straczynski, Shadow Weaver

creates a Maylog from a swamp and has it fight

She -Ra, causing it to take on the powers and

appearance of the Princess of Power. We have

Hordak, Catra, Shadow Weaver, Scorpion, Mantena,

Majolok, and some Horde Troopers. We have She

-Ra, Bo, Madame Raz, Kaol, Swiftwind, Broom,

and Light Hope. And then of course we have the

Maylog. So... What do you think about this creation

from Shadow Weaver that can basically take on

whatever it touches? So we have She -Ra going

against an equal counterpart that can basically

match her blow for blow in Enemy with My Face.

They are... when did this air? November 4th,

1985. 21 years too early for a Johnny, not Johnny,

for a John Travolta, Nicolas Cage face -off.

Yes, reference courtesy of TS4 Mike. That's what

I thought, that this was gonna happen. I thought,

like, enemy with my face. I thought they were

gonna do a whole switcheroo kind of thing. The

episode was alright. It was interesting. I liked

that they quote -unquote create a character out

of mud. Quite literally. Uh, it's an interesting

way to get a new character into the series, but

I don't think this new character is really, cause

she even says at the end that she's going to

go out into the world and learn. And, you know,

she's essentially a mud version of Johnny five.

Um, I mean, for me, I, I like the idea that we're

going to create a counterpart this year that,

that she's not just going to be able to overpower.

So I mean, I guess that's cool. Not that that's

completely unique or whatever, but I do appreciate

that part of it. I was confused though, because

after watching these episodes, it's more like

Enemy With My Face should have been the false

face episode before, instead of Glimmer's story.

Like, they should have called that one Enemy

With My Face. Or something to do with faces and

then this one could have been something completely

different But I mean man, we got to see a whole

slew of people in here. So I mean it's it does

seem like a legit like Presence for the horde

as well as the rebellion and then we have this

may log creature, which whatever I'm not a huge

fan whenever they create something out of the

earth or the mud or the rocks or the trees or

whatever So it's not something that's gonna get

me excited. But again comes down to execution.

The plot doesn't piss me off and it doesn't excite

me. Yeah, heaven forbid anybody, you know, take

a rib out of somebody to make their counterpart.

I'm talking about, like, in cartoons when they're

just like, oh, let me make some magic come out

of this mud. You ass. All right, let's take a

quick break before we make our last venture into

the Whispering Woods. After all, she did bite

the apple. See, couldn't figure out what she

would have for me. See, so then she pulled the

apple off, knowing that she was out of line.

Bit it. Crunch. Shadow Weaver, what's she doing

here? Quickly now. Madam, you and Vroom get the

supplies back to Whispering Woods. Cowl, you

come with me. to start calling names it's getting

so I can't go anywhere without being recognized

now let's see what's inside this tin can why

it's hollow no wonder it didn't fire but why

send an empty Alright, last time today we found

ourselves in Whispering Woods. Sir, what did

you like about the enemy with my false face?

Modulok is still the horde cook, and if he succeeds

this time, he'll become the horde head scientist

again. Yeah? But he's still the cook at this

point. Yeah, there was some good continuity.

I like that they have that on my list as well.

I like that they referenced that, that they talked

about it, and I didn't like that he just had

another appearance as well. I like the vocal

back and forth between Shadow Weaver and She

-Ra as far as getting the Me -Log or May -Log

or whatever it's called to actually do what they

want. I like that She -Ra's trying to build her

up and all that and whatever else. And then the

best part of the episode was Swiftwind at the

end. I thought that was hilarious. Yeah, he doesn't

usually get a joke, so. No. Not usually he's

not that's what kind of separates him from battle

cat is battle cat has a lot more comedic moments

than Swift wind ever does Modulock returns word

scientists instead of word cook nice continuity

there She ra I lost for the first time I thought

that the tug -of -war was a good way for them

to kind of illustrate that they're on equal playing

ground Equal strength levels etc. So I thought

that was wise And I have SwiftWind's joke at

the end as well, so you basically read off my

list. So let's make our way over to Fright Zone,

and what do you have for there? Hello? It just...

I don't know. It's just one of those things where,

once again... You've mentioned this before, but

it happens twice in this episode. The little

girl that hides in the urn... And the actual

female character that comes to life from She

-Ra at the end, they both have the Erika Shimer,

Linda Gary boy voice type thing for girls. Don't

get me wrong, but it just sounds weird. Yeah.

And when the little girl, who is separate from

the Mee -Log character, the little girl hides

in the... pot i thought it was a vase or a potted

plant but shira says that she has to stop that

urn that's kind of friggin morbid shira yeah

i was like oh god the girl's not an urn what's

going on here it's it's just wrong yeah well

um a couple things again i like the fact that

she's coming against someone that can match her

for strength and all that other stuff but Lost

for the first time turns into all sudden she

was lost all her confidence and is doubting her

abilities to save the world Etc. Etc. Like you

got to be a little bit stronger than that. It's

more like oh, I can't just use my same old tricks

I got to think about this one How am I gonna

combat this not just I got to run to light hope

and cry because somebody bested me in strength

Even though it was really just a tie So I didn't

like that about Shira and the kitchen sink joke

That was awful. That was awful. Through everything

except for the kitchen sink, and on comes the

kitchen sink. Okay, so we got this situation

where Shadow Weaver is trying to get She -Ra

into this little, like, device force field. Contraption

and may log is supposed to help out with that

But it ends up where shadow weaver literally

just uses her own Magic for wind and whatever

to blow she right into that. So why did we need

may log in the first place? You just got her

there with your own spell and I'm still confused

about that device that you created because it's

supposed to be this force field that traps Shira

But the sword can go through it Yeah multiple

times So, that was a problem. You know, when

we first see it being there, the device itself,

when it first appears, I thought, ooh, slime

pit! That would have been cool! That would have

been a really good, you know, tie -in! And then

it's, no, it's just a force field. I'm like,

seriously? Snore. Yeah, and then it's a force

field that doesn't keep anything out or in except

for She -Ra herself, I guess. Yeah, I had a problem

with that. Go ahead. I was going to say, I don't

even know what the PNC is. It was the golden

rule, treat people the way you want to be treated.

So beauty on the inside was before, now we get

treat people the way you want to be treated.

And we've had that golden rule at Lukey thing

at least four times so far in this first, I've

heard it at least one or two other times. Right.

All right. Well, let's take one more break Come

back and see if there's any last awards that

we want to hand out before we close this episode

And I should have a stockpile at this point for

me bullshit. Yeah I hope you're going to stay

and clean up this mess, Shadow Weaver. Thank

you for helping me. Isn't there anything I can

do for you? If only you could talk. Wait! That's

it. You're so much like me, it might work. Here.

I want to, but I can't. Not yet. Before I can

decide what to do with my life, I must first

learn what it is to be alive. I must go out into

the world, see people, learn things, discover

the meaning of these strange feelings. There

is so much to learn. And I wish you luck. You

have much to see and feel. But when you are ready,

come back and you will find a home with us. Thank

you, She -Ra, for everything. Last chance, Mike.

Horde bats for anybody. I'll give one to Shadow

Weaver. Why Shadow Weaver? She just... Like you

said, she created the thing for no reason because

she ended up putting She -Ra in the damn thing

by her own damn self, so yeah. I got one as well,

and mine is going to go to She -Ra herself. for

losing all confidence just because someone tested

her strength and she wasn't able to overpower.

You've got to be a stronger hero than that. Sheer

gets one from me. Any swords that you want to

give out? No. I do not have any swords either.

So that leaves just the Crystal Castle rating

for today. Where are you going to end today with?

Two. Two? Yeah, I liked the like I said the whole

modulock horde cook thing and then Swift wins

joke at the end So that's two points for two

moments. I like I like the premise of having

her go against somebody that can match her strength

I didn't like her creation or the look of her

or the fact that they actually turned her into

an actual person at the end But some of that

was good enough, I guess for me to not totally

trash this episode So I'll be right in line with

you and I'll give this one a two crystal castles

as well. I like the effect When she does the

honor of like I like the effect of the girl of

the mud chick changing into her like the whole

Visual effect of it. Yeah, I like that. But yeah,

you're right the whole thing of halo. Oh God

she raised your pet. Oh Yeah, pretty much But

yeah, no two out of five. Okay, so we're both

in line with that So one more break and we'll

come back with our thoughts as the series Gets

a little bit more further along. Like you said,

we're we're almost halfway through the entire

podcast run So give you our thoughts so far and

what's coming up next week? Let's see if you're

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folks, we are back and... We have reached the

60th episode of the podcast we have reached up

to the 42nd episode out of 93 for She -Ra Princess

of Power and Boy was I let down Let me preface

that a little bit though, but I got One of the

things we were asking for was to see some more

characters, and we did get Octavia and False

Face. So when we got a little bit of that, I

think the execution could have been a little

bit better. We did get some continuity with Seahawk

and with Modulock, et cetera. So I mean, there

was some good moments. I think it just comes

down to more of this. set of episodes with the

actual stories and the execution. It was like

they had pieces there that were gonna be good,

and they had characters there that we wanted

to see, but execution not always great. I mean,

I did like the Seahawk episode quite a bit. I

gave that one a four, but outside of that, there

was some disappointing story and disappointing

execution. Yeah, like well one of the things

was outside of us asking for the other characters

that we know like Frosta and Flutterina and all

that stuff, you know or you know people on the

horde side that we know like yeah, we got that

but we also asked for I Remember you mentioned

this why is Queen Angella even there? Why is

glimmer even there? When do we ever even get

to see them? Well, we got to see them both this

this episode of the podcast but Nothing really

developed other than they have a strong mother

-daughter bond to put the put the the jewel But

I mean it just that's why I said I was let down

because like I was really expecting glimmers

story to be some big epic backstory thing for

glimmer or some origin of her family or just

Something other than what we got and what we

got was just such a letdown for me Yeah. But

like I said, we've seen some more characters,

so we're starting to see a little bit of what

I was asking for, so I'm not going to be too

hard on it. Just a couple bum episodes, basically,

but some stuff I'm looking forward to next week.

Probably more anticipation for next week's episode

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