Monster on the Mountain, The Magic Falls, Search for a Son

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Grayskull. I am Adam, Prince of Eternia and defender

of the secrets of Castle Grayskull. This is Cringer,

my fearless friend. Fabulous secret powers were

revealed to me the day I held aloft my magic

sword and said, By the power of Grayskull! became

the mighty Battle Cat, and I became He -Man,

the most powerful man in the universe. Only three

others share this secret. Our friends, the Sorceress,

Planet Arms, and Orko. Together we defend Castle

Grayskull from the evil forces of Skeletor. Hello,

this is optimus solo and welcome to the 41st

chapter in tales of Eternia with me for this

journey into the masters of the universe franchise

as Always still going strong still surviving

his TFG one Mike. Hello Thought he was surviving

but apparently We're in tears getting to him

Stop being a negative Nancy. I am stay positive

shut up Am so sick and tired of him and at this

point I am NOT I I'm still not tired of it. Like

I don't I'm not worn down. I'm not burned out

I mean, yeah, it'll be nice to change over to

she ra and this that and the other but I'm not

necessarily burned out of these I mean if they

were to do the same thing over and over and over

again for 20 more episodes, I'd be burned out

but I'm not feeling the same reaction to you

as we are 41 episodes into this podcast and we're

you know we're forty one episodes in out of a

hundred and twenty five and you had mentioned

last week about how last week would be the only

time we reached the fortieth episode well yeah

that's true but as the redesign of the podcast

has gone on and we're just gonna make it a straight

you know zero to one twenty five instead of i

understand is that you know yeah it you know

it's like okay well you know episode 50 is gonna

be the only time we talk about this this and

this or episode 75 and episode 45 -5 and whatever

else and it's it's gonna be interesting and I

just I don't mean to be negative about this I

mean I do love this series in general but it's

just not The problem is this series was not made

for the television and cartoon writing that I'm

used to nowadays. It was made as a, hey, this

is an adventure of the week. Beginning, middle,

and end. And that's all well and good. It was

an amazing format for the time, but it's like,

give me more. I want more, and I know I'm not

going to get it. So this is the first of the

final five episodes dealing with the 1980s He

-Man cartoon. So we're in our final five episodes.

So are you ready for the powers of Grayskull,

sir? I suppose so. All right. Well, in this episode

of Tales of Eternia, we will be giving you our

thoughts on episode 120, Monster on the Mountain,

episode 121, The Magic Falls, and episode 122,

Search for a Sun. So we hope you're ready because

it's time to go back to Eternia. I need this

water in the forest. Ow! Oh, it's... it's not...

Alright first up today is episode 120 monster

on the mountain I find it funny that if you go

back to episode 40 of the podcast and at the

end of that episode we talked about what we were

looking forward to or what we needed to happen

here in these final five podcast episodes and

you had mentioned that you wanted to see more

of the standard writers you wanted to see more

of the names that we know well we'll start off

giving You what you wanted so episode 120 monster

on the mountain is written by Robie Gorin who

obviously is a series regular The air date is

Monday, November 26 1984. It's how we started

our week back there in 1984 and the plot goes

something like this the villagers of Ruckstown

claim to be living in fear of the so -called

Tingler a fear mountain so Adam Tila orco and

Cringer take a wind Raider I'm oh Was that the

one I'm trying to think of this is the episode

where they took something that looked exactly

like One of the Star Wars land speeders. Yes,

that's what it was So they take it out to investigate

the fear of the tingler and we'll talk about

that name here in a little bit as well The masters

involved here are your regulars including an

appearance from King Randoor we have no evil

warriors today for this episode and The PSA is

all about not believing in things you hear and

rumors and hearsay and this that and the other

the whole book is Should not be judged by its

cover type of deal here What did you think about

this idea that we have? This village apparently

that we've never seen before But regardless we

have this village off in some part of Eternia

And they have some type of fear of something

that's going on near them whether it be you know

this is the good old like Yeti slash Bigfoot

slash You know whatever you want to call it almost

similar to tie into the beauty and the beast

You know it's like that beast character where

we have somebody that everyone's afraid of everyone

thinks is evil And obviously it's a message towards

the kids about the fact that this guy is not

evil, not fearful of anything. He's the nicest

creature that you're going to come by. So, you

know, I don't know if we've seen this exact plot

too many times, but what did you think of it?

We have. No, we have. Not a ton. No, no, no.

This exact same plot was one episode before this.

The exact same plot about fearing a giant. I

forget what episode. It was something about a

giant. I remember. This is... You're too old

to remember things first. No, no, no, I'm not.

Yeah, I usually am. But in this case, no, no,

no, no, no. This pissed me off, because I'm glad

that Robi Gorn is here. But Jesus Christ, it's

the same damn script almost. Okay, maybe the

villagers weren't in the other episode, but it's

the same general idea of, oh my God, we fear

a giant. Oh my God, the giant is going to kill

us. Oh my God, where's Jack when you really need

him? Then I thought to myself as you're reading

this description here. I'm thinking Holy shit

if the tingler was an animal this would be the

fucking jungle book I don't know if I got that

vibe from it. I got a lot more connections to

the Beauty and the Beast episode We just did

you know previously I find a lot more connections

to that whole Beauty and the Beast motif, and

I'm gonna disagree with to master Tim We'll talk

about that about that episode but So from a plot

standpoint, it is something that like I said,

we haven't seen it like ad nauseam We haven't

seen like 12 episodes like this, but we've seen

a couple so to me for something like a plot like

this I'm not gonna like I'm not gonna score it

based on the plot When I get an episode like

this that is not necessarily the most unique

thing in the world I almost directly go to scoring

it based on execution. So I'm not gonna fault

it for the plot. I'm not gonna fault it for the

angle that they took on it because they did try

to Tilt it as much as they could to this whole

rumor thing And it's probably the episode that

has more of a focus than any of the other 120

episodes We've watched so far towards the actual

villagers and and the rumor part We've had only

one other time where it was even close and that

was when it was a bunch of kids that were doing

it But this time it's a bunch of adults and you

know, they're feeding that rumor mill So I kind

of appreciate the fact that they're dealing with

that because that is a major issue for all kids

growing up is Learning how to cope and deal with

rumors and gossip and that type of thing So I'm

not gonna fault it for the moral and I'm not

gonna fault it on the plot But it's an episode

that you have to have good execution in order

to be a good episode when you do this Because

you don't have anything, you know, creatively

unique or special it's going for you. So you

have to execute right so Plot -wise I'm not gonna

score it on the plot. I Will and and people we've

been doing this for 40 episodes and obviously

41 now, but Everyone knows I am crazy when I

do my point scale this this episode. I'm crazy

Shut up this I know you are what am I? Here's

the thing folks I will immediately take off any

amount of points, whether it's one star, two

stars, whatever, for something that is so stupid

and ridiculous. You know, we talked about this

last week in Beauty and the Beast. And I forget

who said, if a tea man that says it, or if it's

Adam or whomever, someone says, and I quote,

and I specifically wanted to bring this up in

the plot, because this is the stupidest thing

I've ever heard. Mount Fear is the most dangerous

mountain on Eternia. Wait, what? Hello! It was

Adam. What about Snake Mountain? Hello? I mean,

come on. Okay, yeah, I know, as He -Man, he just

walks into Snake Mountain and, you know, he can

pretty much kick their asses, but for everybody

else in Eternia, Snake Mountain would have to

be the most dangerous mountain on the friggin'

planet. Not Mount Fear. I mean, Mount Fear sounds

like a place where the Batman villain Scarecrow

should live, for crap's sake. Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

What was the PSA again? Not just about the rumors,

basically. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that is a good

moral and is a good lesson. You know, you should

never believe everything you hear, believe everything

you read and all this and all that. You know,

so I did like that. And I think you're right.

The execution is kind of sucky here. I'm not

saying I'm not saying whether the execution is

good or bad. I'm saying with an episode like

this that... It's somewhat something that we've

somewhat seen before and it's not like a super

creative concept as far as a plot goes that's

when I Judge purely based on execution and you'll

have to wait to see if I think that's a good

execution or bad episode execution on this episode

But I'm not gonna fault it for its plot It's

not a great plot. I'm not gonna fault it for

it. I Kind of am because it like I said there

was another episode we talked about and I think

it was even in season 2 where people or someone

is scared of a giant and Alright super fan tune

master Tim go back and find me which episode

that was because I know I've seen this before

recently or it might have been It's called Beauty

and the Beast No, it was not called Beauty and

the Beast. Thank you very much. We'll figure

it out. What it yeah Yeah, anyway, so let's get

to castle grayskull and I will tell you why I

think this execution was either good or bad Wait,

we're not supposed to have bad stuff in castle

grayskull. I know if I don't say anything, you'll

know it's bad I received an urgent request from

Squire Wilkins of Rockstown Rockstown. Isn't

that one of our colonies in the north country?

Yes, Tila A small colony with no close neighbors.

The people of Rockstown are good, hard -working

people, but they're a little naive. They believe

in superstitions and such. But I'm afraid one

of their superstitions may be very real indeed.

Have you ever heard of the Tingler? The Tingler?

Yes, I have. Let's see. He's rumored to live

on Mount Fear, but it's just a rumor. There's

never been any real proof. There must have been

some reports of him. I want you to leave immediately

to investigate. We'll leave right away father

Well there it is Mount fear the most dangerous

mountain in all of Eternia I can't imagine how

anything could survive there. Look at that snow

According to the stories the timber lives in

one of those caves ha ha season one heart of

a giant I knew there was another one Alright,

we find ourselves at Castle Grayskull for the

first time today here episode 120 monster of

the mountain highlights I will start here because

I have a feeling I might have more to say than

you First first I love the rumor themed idea

for an episode alright I know the plot wise as

far as like you know this outcast type thing

is not necessarily the most unique and new thing

But I do like the idea of something based around

rumors and gossip, so I like that There's some

of the best Overhead shots out of 120 episodes

we see in this episode First off right at the

beginning. There's a great overhead shot of the

palace it's I'll say it. It's amazing Alright,

so if you look and watch the first five minutes

of this episode You will see some of the best

overhead shots and best artwork that you see

the entire series I mean, it's just great it

pans over and a whole big portion of the palace.

It looks amazing It looks like something that

was not done in the 80s and then they do more

cool overhead shots when they're flying to Mount

fear So they they do they spent some money on

the animation on this one And gave us some real

quality shots from a visual standpoint. So I

like that We're introduced to the idea that apparently

the royal family and whatever you that consists

of has colonies Now this is different than having

hospitals or Whatever else we talked about Because

this is believable it's believable that someone

in this kind of type of civilization would have

colonies I'm not sure why we didn't take 120

episodes for us to be introduced to the idea

that they might have outlying colonies or outposts

or different things like that. They don't just

call it a village. They don't just call it a

town. It's not just some town A, town B, town

C that we're just going to randomly throw in

here because we need a group of people. They

actually call it a colony of the palace, basically.

I actually appreciate that. I wish they would

have done more with those types of ideas, actually.

Was being pretty darn clever in this episode

if even if he was being deceitful and somewhat

lying That's it's some of the more clever moments.

We've seen from orco So I like that and cringer

also showing that he's not totally dumb We're

not talking about battle cat. We're talking about

cringer, and he's showing that he's got some

smarts, too and Brace yourself folks. I'm gonna

say this about a guest character, but that was

actually a good voice for the tingler Yeah, it

was a good voice. It wasn't something that's

been used over and over and over again. It fit

the character It didn't sound stupid. It didn't

sound like just one of those other cast members

trying to do the 1000 different voice they've

done in this show Well, it was but but I'm saying

it didn't sound like that It almost sounded like

they could have brought someone new to do the

voice of the tingler. So I like that They didn't

I know I know it's I know it's always the same

people I'm not saying they brought someone else

new not an idiot. I know well, that's Up to debate.

The biggest thing there is that this is the Beauty

and the Beast episode to Master Tim done right.

This is that episode done in a way that doesn't

piss me off. And also a very cool thing, and

I don't know if I've ever seen it before in this

series, maybe someone can correct me, but they

actually, for the PSA, it is usually new footage.

The PSA is new footage. They have two of the

characters or three of the characters one of

the characters from the show in some type of

setting Talking to us about a PSA This PSA actually

gave us new footage that we didn't see of the

episode So it actually went back and showed more

of the episode that we didn't Originally see

and I don't know if I've seen that in any of

the PSA's for He -Man It's usually a palace background

or a forest background It's usually a standard

background, but they actually go back and show

us in episode footage From like almost like what

would have kept going on in certain certain situations

that we didn't see prior to that so Very much

like that sir. What do you have? What can you

say good about monster on the mountain? so first

of all It is John Irwin as the giant right, but

it is they Don't want to say they dr. Clawed

him, but they put some sort of vocal effect on

His you can clearly tell it's John Irwin's voice.

It's a slow It's his slow voice, but there is

some vocal effect behind him To make him sound

completely different than what he would normally

sound like sound like and it's not his Adam voice

It's not his he -man voice, but you can still

clearly tell from obviously listening to it's

just not to use like multiple multiple multiple

times So right you have certain people, you know,

erwin abenheimer shymer They do have like three

or four voices that they've used for multiple

characters And this was at least unique. So I

appreciated that you got to have some other good

things to say about monster on them out Come

on Granger gets a cold. That was hilarious Alright,

what else you got? You gotta love that snow animation.

It looks very awesome when when when orko gets

covered in the snow and it's just his eyes I

thought that was great. Yeah, there's a lot of

good things about this episode All right, we're

gonna agree to disagree on this one I guarantee

it by the time this is done I'm not gonna have

much to say at snake mountain, but I do have

a few things. So let's make our way there And

so will Ruckstown. Orko? You better warn Tila.

This is a job for He -Man and Battle Cat. B -B

-B -Battle Cat? Just saying the name makes me

nervous. By the power of Red Star. Alright, we

find ourselves at snake mountain for monster

on the mountain monster on the mountain snake

mountain anyways Sir, what do you have that you

hated so much about this episode? We've talked

about this before The science of he man is completely

screwed up right it really really is now I know

because I've seen them on on tv and live action

and everything else and i've seen it on news

footage that avalanches can create a lot a lot

of snow but the fact that they make mention that

it's 20 000 tons of snow that's science just

It just doesn't even seem possible to me So what

I would like is anyone listening to this podcast

go over the website when we release this Comment

on this episode and let us know if the avalanche

scene in this episode of the cartoon series if

20 ,000 tons of snow is Possible for like I know

in general avalanches. It's a obviously. It's

a very very dangerous thing, but it just Why

20 ,000 tons? Why did they say that like what?

Just maybe to give a hint to the magnitude of

how much snow we're talking about. Mm -hmm. Maybe

Tila Get over yourself she says what a guy about

he man when he goes to leave to change back to

Adam and it's like Okay, he's gonna be around

and Like you don't already know this you've known

this for a hundred and nineteen episode or whatever

Whatever the hell The tingler isn't even that

ugly he's just a giant just like the other episode

we had a giant in which was feared like I mean

the giant Tingler isn't like It was like a medusa

thing where it was a female giant with giant

snakes or you know turns people to stone kind

of thing I could see that but the dude isn't

even that ugly. Yeah Reminded me of you a little

bit We need to shut the hell up right now Adam

Levine You would not be Blake Shelton, so let's

get that out Yeah, whatever. You're the one that

superimposed the image Yeah, no, no Yeah, you're

you're Adam Levine ask is for anyway I don't

know about that took him a while like anyway

And really honestly outside of the whole rumor

angle which like you i i did find it interesting

that they exported outside of that because i

don't know this episode for me just turned boring

after a while once we were all well these people

now have to learn and they still don't learn

after he made an adam and tila and everybody

telling them hey look why don't we find this

out oh hey let's let's go into the windmill because

the giants in the windmill and it turned out

to be some other guy trying to get the window

Didn't really have that much that I didn't like

about this a couple things that you kind of mentioned

though I literally have my second note here quotations.

What a guy Since when Tila have feelings for

he man because that's what I got out of that

like she was all enamored with he man and oh

What a what a dreamy guy type thing well? What

the heck is that coming into the series for we

haven't we've had 119 episodes She hasn't done

anything like that, so I that was just was weird

to me and then the tingler Seriously, that's

the name they went with I'm not trying to get

dirty here, but Why would we call a monster in

a human cartoon the tinkler? It had nothing to

do with him. There wasn't like he Did anything

remotely similar to that name or any like it's

just a weird name. It threw me off. That's weird

And then a little nitpick here. So Tila just

walks off allowing Adam to transform Like that

was the least amount of effort I've ever seen

in the series as far as he man or Adam turning

into he man and getting to his new situation

like usually he has to cause a distraction or

he has to give a reason for going here there

and the other that time they didn't do anything

they just Literally had Tila just for no reason

walk off in the distance, and then he was able

to change into he man Like there was no effort

there. They're like we need him to be he man

everybody else walk off stage We're ten episodes

away from the finale of the series At this point

and I I really don't want to be negative But

I know I'm gonna be negative when I say this

at this point I know they're not going to try

because they're too focused on whatever other

behind -the -scenes stuff They're doing whether

they're getting she were ready or whatever It

just I was just as weird that they just was like,

um, it was it was even silence I'm like and I

was as I'm watching I'm like, it's Tila literally

just gonna walk away so he has an opportunity

to turn into he -man for no reason whatsoever

but uh overall you know i didn't i didn't hate

the episode so we'll have to see exactly where

we come down on this one as we make our way to

awards and rankings for the first time today

i think there's going to be a wide gap there

between his footprint where that's no footprint

it's a dried mud pond well it looked like a footprint

What are all you people doing in the forest we're

after the tingler and this time we'll catch him

Adam and I better do something about this and

fast Well, you see I'm a hermit yes, I live by

myself People have always made fun of me because

I'm so big they call me names But here I am at

peace because the birdies and the trees, they're

my friends. They don't call me names. They don't

care if someone is big or if someone is small.

I can't help it if those silly villagers call

me the tingler. Well, that's the way it should

be. But if you're not a monster, how come you

go around staring at everybody? I don't try to

scare anyone, no. I usually live high in the

mountains, but with all the snow lately, I've

had to come down to the lowlands for food and

water. Oh, that's why you were at the water well.

And when I saw you and your friends, I was trying

to warn you about the big avalanche. Well, I'm

gonna go back to Adam and Teala and tell them

what happened. All right, it's time to see what

the gap is between Mike and I on this episode

I'll start here with the hardware and I'm actually

going to give a power sword to Robie Gorin I

know you're gonna think that's ridiculous, but

I like the idea of the rumors and the way that

they executed this one I thought you know the

plot wasn't that great standalone And there was

a lot of ways for this plot to be a bad episode

But I thought he executed it in a way that made

me entertained And still got the message home

and I like that it was the adults that were the

ones that were kind of creating the rumors And

kind of fueling that and I thought the entertainment

value was that was there I didn't get bored with

this episode that you did it wasn't fantastic

I mean, it doesn't have evil warriors. It doesn't

have a ton of action, but it was pretty quick

paced There's some humor involved and there's

some great visual things to look at so overall.

I thought he executed it pretty well So I gave

a power sword to the writer. What about you?

I I'm gonna give two power swords. I'm gonna

give one to Cringer and one to Orko because they're

just awesome. I'm gonna give a Havoc staff to

Tila because she just needs to go away at this

point. I gotta give a Havoc staff to Robi because

this it just reminded me way the rumors thing

like I already said the rumors think that was

great if they had done some something else other

than another giant if they had done a troll or

if they had done anything other than a giant

it would have been much better for me all right

fair enough you know there's not like a ton to

write home about about this episode it's not

like there's all kinds of great things that I

wrote down But I just for some reason found it

entertaining and I'm not going to go back on

it. When I watched this episode and I decided

what my rating was, I wrote down four. So I'm

going to stick with that. Four battle cats out

of five. It might be the weakest four out of

all the fours I've given out, but it's still

a four. OK, before I give my rating, I just I.

I'm on IMDb right now and I have their little

mini blurb of the of the season one final episode

the heart of a giant it says he men and friends

help a giant hermit from the clutches from the

clutches of an evil circus master okay so that

episode you had a giant you know being controlled

by an evil evil circus master this episode you

have rumors and a giant being feared from the

people so It is a little different but the fact

that it's anyway two out of five orcos All right,

at least you didn't give it a one or zero. So,

you know, yeah This is not as bad as as beauty

in the bank you all right move on a positive

121 the magic falls out of his way to help his

people. None. And it does open some very interesting

possibilities. Skeletor, where are you? I have

news. I was feeding my pets, Evelyn. Is it better

be important? My pets don't like their feeding

time interfered with. Do you know what today

is? On Eternia Day, People in need of help are

brought into the Royal Palace. Once there, they

can ask the King for whatever help they need.

And during the ceremony, the King holds the Scepter

of Power, the symbol of authority over all Eternia,

centuries old. That's it! We'll steal the Scepter

of Power! But how? I have a plan. I can cast

a spell to make one of them look like a snake.

citizen of eternals once inside the palace he

is to steal the scepter of power yes yes it's

risky we'll need someone expendable someone we

can do without in case he's captured not me not

me I'm not feeling very well today me too cowards

I'll do it Skeletor It'll be a pleasure. There's

just one danger, Skeletor. Orko! As a magician,

he might see through a spell of disguise. Ah,

I can take care of Orko! Then the scepter will

be mine! Alright, up next guys, like I said,

is episode 121, The Magic Falls. And once again,

Mike asked for some stable writers. We're getting

another one. J. Michael Straczynski. the writer

for the Magic Falls. So you got Robi Gorn, you

got J. Michael Trzezinski, apparently they were

listening to us and they have delivered. The

air date, Tuesday, November 27th, 1984. Evil

-In plans to magically disguise Cobra Khan so

he can infiltrate Eternos on Eternia Day. And

Skeletor makes sure Orko won't hinder them by

getting rid of his magic powers. He, Man, and

Orko travel to the Magic Falls to try to get

Orko's magic back. Bad guys, we got Beastman,

Evil -In, Cobra Khan, Skeletor, and Trapjaw.

And the masters, we got the regs with the Queen

and the King. And the PSA is all coming to us

from Orko and Man -at -Arms. It's about teamwork

and cooperation. What do you think about the

whole Eternia Day setting and the Skeletor's

idea to infiltrate it using Cobra Khan and the

whole Orko side story about he could be the one

that could see it so we got to get rid of his

magic? What do you think? Once again... when

they actually have Skeletor and the Evil Warriors

in an episode. Skeletor is being smart about

his plans. He's planning ahead. He's, you know...

He's not just rushing in blindly trying to take

over with Shadow Beasts or whatever. I did really

enjoy this one. I thought there were a lot of

comedic moments in it. At the same time... There's

a lot of execution problems in this You see what

those are I'm saying like Obviously, I'm not

even way here, but It I have so many I have a

little few nitpicks And it's more so about the

characters and how they do their actions like

when Evelyn does her magic or when He -Man performs

a task. It's little things. It has nothing to

do with the writing or the overall execution

of the episode. It's more so the little things

that I noticed that are like, wait, what the

is going on here? They should know better by

now. This is the 121st episode. But overall,

the plot is great. I absolutely love the plot.

I love the fact that this is an orco -centric

journey. So yeah, I really, really enjoyed the

plot here. Yeah, I mean, I might have some issues

with the setting that we'll get into, but I like

the whole idea that there's some type of thing

going on, whether it be a festival or some type

of public event going on where Skeletor thinks

he's going to... infiltrated to do something

i like that set up uh... and i like the idea

that they're using these different characters

etc i do have a couple issues with the actual

setting that they went with but that's not too

too hard to get over but uh... yeah i'm down

for the plot like i said it's not a make -or

-break plot for me so it again is going to come

down to the execution and i guess we'll have

to see how they did it to see exactly how much

we have to talk about when we make our way to

castle graceville Alright up next for the Magic

Falls is our castle grayskull moment sir. What

did you like or appreciate out of this episode?

Skeletor took all the credits Skeletor is hilarious

in this episode Skeletor took all the credit

Evelyn comes up with this great. See that's the

coolest thing about this is it's not even Yeah,

sure I said that Skeletor is being really smart

here, but it isn't even Skeletor's plan originally.

It's Evelyn's plan and So hilarious Skeletor

took all the credit Track. We need more episodes

with Attack Track. I think we all need to jump

into a DeLorean, travel back to 1983 when this

show was first in production, and go back and

add Attack Track into every single episode somehow,

because damn, that dude's funny. Man, Orko should

be supercharged all the time. This way his magic

works. Right? Like I said Skeletor is hilarious

I he you know they're giving him that message,

and he's like that's it and then immediately

He's like how do we do it? And then he comes

up with the line. We need someone expendable

like I just love how he has no loyalty to his

warriors And he's just like which one of these

idiots can I get rid of? If only wish if only

whiplash was in this episode because he would

be the most expendable He's like we need someone

expendable. I'm like no not Cobra Khan. We haven't

seen him enough I like that he man's force kept

him out as he's traveling with oracle and trying

to get into the you know the gatekeepers area

like his force kept him out and he had to actually

change to Adam and You know to be allowed in

there. I thought that was a cool idea Like you

said a track attack track at its best Every time

you say that something goes wrong when he's I

Did think there was some cool effects as they

as they travel across the dimensions But I am

glad that orcos magic just brought them back

without having to travel back across the dimensions

Well, yeah, cuz that would have taken a lot of

time and been tedious and not as enjoyable I

was glad they only had to go through that journey

once Overall, this is a great episode for humor

Attack track to Skeletor even the gatekeeper

is somewhat funny I do have one issue with him

But but you know between him attack track Skeletor

and even orca like there's enough funny moments

in here That it's probably one of the best episodes

of the series as far as humor goes It would definitely

be probably in like a top 10 if we were to do

the funniest episodes of he -man Yeah, that's

one of the things that j. Michael straczynski

does with this series almost every episode. We

find out that he writes is Hilarious. Yeah, it

just is um Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, so a lot of

good things about this episode I do have one

or two minor nitpicks, but we'll see if Mike

has anything as we get to snake mountain Alright,

once again we're back at Snake Mountain. TFG1Mike,

what did you not like about the Magic Falls?

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Adam was still

at the palace calling Orko. His voice carried

that far? Because it shows that Orko is out beyond

the palace walls. He's not just down at the palace

garden or anything. He's out in the woods. You're

telling me that Adam's voice carried that far?

I could see if He -Man's voice did or if Adam

had a megaphone, but there's no way in hell Adam's

voice carried that damn far. I must've missed

that. I didn't catch that going through there.

The magic word better not be please. Yup, it

was please. Now, how did I know that was going

to happen? How does the door not know he turned

back into He -Man? This is after, okay, like

you said - Two different identities. Understand

that but It's like Galvatron and Megatron No,

they're the same don't even go there shut the

hell up Screw you don't even know they're the

same guy right a dissertation on why no you're

not no you're not anyway So Yes, I understand

there are two different identities, but the door,

and I like this, like you said, the door says,

because you tried to force your way in here,

you are not allowed in. So he man immediately

goes around a rock, transforms back into Adam.

That's the other thing I don't like about that.

I wanted to see the transformation back. I wanted

to see the reverse transformation, and we didn't

get to see it. Shut up. This is a great message

though, and I'm glad they threw that in there,

that the solution to the problem is not always

just busting your way in. Well, yeah, that is

a good message. I still don't know how the door

didn't know that he had turned back into He -Man.

Because I assume that the door is an overall

essence of the entire place. Kind of like the

Spirit of Grayskull, so that's where I was kind

of going with that. Let's see... Oh Evil in she

can only change the way he looks really it's

evil in she's a powerful sorceress Why couldn't

she change everything? I'm pretty sure she's

done that before where she's changed the voice

Uh -huh. So yeah minor nitpick there if you're

being consistent throughout the series that usually

that's not an issue for her I got one more, and

that's it, and you can go. I know He -Man can

run fast, but he ain't Superman or the Flash.

There's no way he should have been able to outrun

the bridge collapsing. I will take He -Man over

Superman every single day of the week. Okay,

what didn't you like about this? Get that lame

-ass Superman out of this conversation. I always

have a problem with this every time a series

does it. I understand that they needed a public

event or a festival or you know Avenue for doing

what they were gonna do and I have no problem

with that I can't stand it when they come up

with stuff like Eternia day or when they try

to make a holiday That would be like another

world's version of an earth holiday Eternia day

is just lame to me and I need some some edumacation

on this because I understand that it's Eternia

and that the people from Eternia are Eternians.

Where did the whole phrase Eternos come from?

Because at one point they're like, citizen of

Eternos. Eternos, as far as I know without looking

anything up, is the city where the palace is.

So the world is Eternia and the city is Eternos?

Yes. That's just weird. That's as far as I know

without looking anything up. Okay Well someone

educate me that on that because that just seems

weird I didn't know that they were so closely

to be named the same thing There is some slow

parts of this episode if there wasn't an actual

Gripe about the episode overall it would probably

be about some of the pacing as they're traveling

through the dimensions. It gets a little slow

I didn't have a huge problem with it, but it

still was was evident I could see someone having

that complaint, and I think it was somewhat lame.

I think the gatekeeper is an excellent character

But I think it's somewhat lame that that's an

exact replica of a previous character. Yeah,

it's not just the same. The Comet Keeper. What's

that? The Comet Keeper, yeah. It's not just the

same look. It's the same voice. It's an actual

clone of that character. So I wish they could

have done something tiny. I think this character

probably fit this need better. I actually think

the Comet Keeper should have been a little different.

Think he should have been a little different

look a little different voice where this fit

this person almost perfectly So I just don't

like it when we see someone that identical, but

technically it's two different characters Because

then when someone's on behind the voice actors

comm looking at pictures they're gonna be like

that's the same person no two different characters

All right, so hopefully we're not as far off

as we were with last episode. Let's see what

we well before we get there Yeah, before we get

to awards and rankings. I did go to the he man

wiki a comm Eternos is the capital city of the

planet Eternia and the location of the royal

palace seat of the planetary government led by

King Randor. Eternus during the Great Wars was

occupied by King Hiss and his snake men and for

a while Castle Grayskull served as the seat of

Eternia's traditional regime after the reign

of King Grayskull, Eternus was restored as the

planetary capital. So you could be both a citizen

of Eternus and at the same time a citizen of

Eternia. Okay, that's just weird. But I understand

now, so let's get our awards and rankings. Underway

so we can see if we're lining up better on this

episode. I mean, what would they call them? Eternosians?

That would be cool sounding. Eternesians. Therefore,

you may not come in. Uh oh. He -Man, now what'll

we do? Hmm, maybe He -Man isn't allowed inside,

but he didn't say anything about Adam. Boy, I

was quick thinking! Turning back into Adam! Alright,

you were handing all kinds of awards out last

episode. Two Havoc Staffs, two Power Swords,

I don't know if you have anything left to give

out, but if so, are you handing anything out

for the Magic Falls? Before I do let me ask and

I should have asked this earlier in the plot.

Is this the only time we see that scepter? Which

power the scepter of power that King randor has

it's the only time I've seen attention drawn

to it Okay, if it has existed before it's been

a background thing that I didn't acknowledge

Power Swords and Havoc Staffs. Let's see. I know

your closet is running out of those as we wind

down the last five episodes. We only have so

many to give out, but is there anything? I'll

give a Power Sword to Skeletor for his comedy,

and I'll give one to Trak for his comedy as well.

I wish there was more comedic moments with He

-Man and Orko this time around. I know there

wasn't enough room to it, but... What about you?

I'm gonna give a power sword out as well, but

mine's going to orco I thought he was good in

this episode. He got powered up his power was

working He was the one that was able to get through

whereas he meant at first was not And I said,

I just thought he maneuvered things well and

and you know, he was the key to this He was the

one that was gonna see the chink in the armor

so to speak and he was the one that was gonna

foil Skeletor's plot So he was a pivotal player

in this episode So all about orco this one As

far as an episode rating, I'll go first. I extremely

enjoyed this episode. Like I said, it had that

minor slow moment which made me dock it just

a tiny bit as we're going through the dimensions,

but between Skeletor being funny, between Attack

Track being funny, between being able to see

a character we don't see a lot with Cobra Khan,

the whole idea of the power scepter, Oracle being

kind of the main character, He -Man not being

able to just bust through things. There was a

lot to like about this episode. I think it's

one of the funniest episodes of the series overall

Four and a half out of five. I'm docking a half

a point for some slowness almost a perfect episode

four and a half battle cats out of five There

are Too many series standard things that should

not have happened in here for me it's not as

bad as the previous episode and it's a Gym compared

to Beauty and the Beast But I have to give it

three and a half orcos out of five. I just...

Some of these, like... He -Man's running. Uh,

the whole... The whole magic word thing was...

The fact that it was... Don't get me wrong, I

understand they're trying to teach kids a lesson.

I get that. Say please and thank you and... You

know, this, that, and the other thing, but...

Just the fact that I knew it was going the magic

word was going to be pleased before it was even

said it was like So three and a half four goes

out of five could have been worse. I'm not totally

upset. I think you're wrong. I think you're wrong,

but I Could be much more angry with you and I'm

not so last episode coming up episode 122 we're

searching for a son Looks like you're having

fun, Derek. Yeah, man at arms. It's fun to play

with Mechaneck. But sometimes he doesn't seem

very happy. He isn't. And playing games with

you reminds him of his son. He has a son? Well,

where is he? I've never met him. He lost his

son a while back. A boy about your age. He really

misses him. Really? How did it happen? Mechaneck

was visiting Dragon Mountain with his son, Philip.

For playing the flute is a blessing, son. Learn

to use it well. Maybe someday I'll be able to

play for the pleasure of the King and Queen,

Father. That's a noble wish, son. Perhaps it

may come true someday. I've never seen the wind

blow up so fast. Desperately searched for the

boy it was difficult for him because he had severely

hurt his neck in the storm And he was in great

pain But he couldn't find him My son my son Finally

the pain was too much. He fainted and that was

when I found him All right last up for today

is episode 122 search for a son Written by Drew

Lawrence, whoever that is, airdate Wednesday,

November 28th, 1984, Count Marzo has found Mechenech's

lost son, Philip, and offers to exchange him

in return for the king and queen of Eternia,

i .e. the crown, so that Count Marzo can rule

Eternia. No evil warriors, although I guess Count

Marzo is almost one. And for the masters, we

get the regulars, plus the king and the queen,

plus Mechenech, plus Buzzoff, and the PSA. Tila

talking about safety first over speed don't really

have Much clue what that had to do with the episode

although a couple people ran and tripped over

things So I guess that's how they're tying this

loose PSA in so an F on the PSA But what did

you think about the whole idea of a return for

count Marzo a son for one of our? Masters of

the universe and the whole idea of this ransom

Kidnapping type thing where we're gonna exchange

a kid for the rule of Eternia Count Marzo needs

to get better ideas Count Marzo needs to you

know, it would have been better in this series

if at least this because I is this his final

appearance I believe so. Yes He should have teamed

up with Skeletor or something. I mean, I know

Skeletor does this whole ransom thing for you

know, Eternia before and everything else, but

like God this character is just I can't wait

until we get to the 2002 series because I know

he's so much better in that. What I do like about

the plot is the whole, we get the backstory for

Mechaneck in a weird convoluted kind of way.

Not really convoluted, but Man in Arms essentially

tells Adam the origin for Mechaneck and I do

like that. You know, we're getting an origin

for him. We're not just saying, oh, hey, here's

Mackinac and there you go. We, you know, find

out that, you know, he wasn't always, he didn't

always have a neck that could reach halfway into

the sky. You know, but I really do like that

aspect of it. You know I haven't we have seen

Skeletor do some types of like ransom type things

But I don't think we've seen it quite like this

where someone literally kidnaps a kid of some

of one of the main characters Mainly because

number one there is no kids of any of the main

characters that we've been introduced so far

So if any childlike thing was supposed to be

kidnapped it would have been some just like random

one -off character Which I'm not saying which

I'm not saying Philip is not a random one -off

character But it's the only time where we've

had like literally somebody's direct family connection

to one of the main characters So in that respect

and the respect that it was not just the kidnapping

of a kid But but wanting to be an exchange for

the King Queen gives it a little bit of a unique

twist on the ransom plot So it's it's somewhat

unique for the series to have this type of plot

where you know This guy is kidnapping the kid

and wants to exchange him for the crown so to

speak so I don't blame him for that And there's

some good things within the episode but from

a plot standpoint. I actually like the plot in

this one I can get behind this one. So execution

not as big of a deal. It still needs to be executed

to make it a great episode. But from just a plot

standpoint, I'm on board. So outside of the PSA.

Yep. So all right. Last time today, let's get

our way to Castle Grayskull. Trade your jewels

for gold. That jewelers gold should rightly belong

to a nobleman. And who's the most noble man I

know? Why me, of course. All right, boy. Now's

your chance to repay me for saving your life.

Play, boy. Play the magic tune the way I showed

you. Make the jeweler forget all about his gold.

Beautiful. The boy plays like an angel. No! I

won't do it. I won't use... I flew to help you

steal. What do you think you're doing? You fool.

You foolish boy. I had my hands on the gold and

you stopped playing. You taught me the beautiful

melodies to help you cheat people. Well, that's

wrong. You ungrateful wretch. When I found you,

you were wandering, lost. I saved you, and this

is the thanks I get. I want to be with my father,

not you! Very well, scoundrel. Perhaps you're

right. Why am I wasting my time with a bag of

gold when I deserve the throne? And you'll be

my bait to trap the king and queen. Alright,

highlights one more time as we make our last

trip to Castle Grayskull for episode 41. Mike,

what did you like about Search for a Son? So

as I already mentioned we get the origin and

for Mechaneck I Wish we had more of this in general

for both sides the villains and and the and the

heroes Because it is such a good thing and they

should have like I'm not asking for every single

Every single hero right? You know or every single

villain, but like it would have been nice to

find out if beastman was already red and stupid

or you know evil and where where does she come

from which i know we'll get to once we see the

two thousand two series also but i really love

the fact that we so far out of the masters outside

of obviously human and adam cuz we kind of know

but will get a little bit more that obviously

in the giant film later uh... but uh... you know

uh... so we get Mechaneck we got Moth was it

not moss man crap Who the hell was the Many many

faces You know so we got him we you know Duncan's

or you know the man -at -arms origin ties into

he man's and all that stuff so I just I really

love the fact that they're showing us when they

show new masters and I mean Stratos's origin

is essentially he's the king of Avion. I mean

that is really and he's always been you know

part of the guard. The vehicle the King Queen

Prince and Granger are in. They stole Skywalker's

speeder from episode 4 ladies and gentlemen.

Thoughts? I mean, yeah, I mean, I agree with

the origin, not just of Mech -Neck, but more

of the origin of his actual power type thing,

I guess you want to call it, the bionic neck.

I think, too, it would be cool to see more of

the origins of some of the specifics about each

character, not just them in general, which was

very cool. I thought it was a cool sound when

the Chimera teleported. And we do have the Chimera

going back to his original look. Believe that's

the one that's changed to look three times now

throughout the series I Like continuity with

count Mars out coming back. That's cool funny,

but awkward scene with orco. We better find them.

Where do we start? That was kind of interesting

Obviously cool to get Mechaneck and buzz off

according to the notes here. This is the last

time we see those guys Again, that's going off

of a different order than we watch the episode

So there's a possibility that I'm wrong with

that But according to the one order this would

have been the last time we see both Mechaneck

and buzz off Saved by the neck. I thought that

was kind of funny And definitely a creepy and

interesting speech by marzo at the end Definitely

set it up for potential to really get some more

about that mythos of that character But he talks

about how you know, he can't be killed. He's

almost immortal. He will be ruling the attorney

One day, you know, there's nothing you can do

about it because he'll outlive everybody That

was an interesting written and an awesome speech

by marzo at the end So definitely a cool way

to go out for him if that I believe is his last

mention, which is too bad because they set it

up and that could have been a cool story spun

off from that. So definitely some cool things

about this episode, like the different characters

that we get involved, but that's not to say it's

a perfect episode. So let's make our way to Snake

Mountain and see exactly what might be wrong

with Search for a Son. What in Eternia's name

is that? Father! Father, wherever you are! Help!

I'm beginning to imagine things. I assure you,

Mechaneck, you are not seeing things. It is indeed

your son. Who are you? My name is Marzo. Count

Marzo. Although I don't expect to stay a count

long. Feast your eyes on your flash -and -blurred

mechanic. Where is he? Where is my son, Marzo?

I should think you'd be more grateful. Since

I saved his life on Dragon Mountain, I promise

you he is safe and well and very anxious to see

his father. Take me to him, Count Marzo, please.

Nothing would give me greater pleasure. However,

I must first ask a favor of you Good just deliver

the king and queen to me and then I will deliver

your son to you Because then the throne will

be mine I like the sound of that. All right last

time today. We're at snake Mountain for what's

wrong with search for a son Mike. What's wrong

with it? Count Marzo trying to control yet another

child. I think in a past life Marzo was a sexual

deviant. I can't believe I wrote that. My first

This is this is I'm not trying to throw our friend

who takes this name under the bus. Good old Justin.

I understand, Justin, that this character has

got a cool look. He appears multiple times. He

goes out with this awesome speech about being

immortal and outliving everybody and he will

rule one day, etc. But you also picked probably

the most pedophilic, I know that's not a word,

character in the whole series to put your screen

name after. I don't know if I would do that because

this guy is a creep that preys on kids. Yeah,

yeah, I wonder if he's on the the the attorney

of sex if I just registered hide your son Drives

a van and offers free candy to kids and so Guess

if you want to name yourself after him go more

power to Forever so he's gonna outlive any prison

sentence on eternal so So wait does this mean

he is the mum rah of the Masters of the universe?

Yeah, but mum rah doesn't prey on kids like count

marzo does sure so yeah I agree with you same

same issue about him going for a kid again And

there was also another weird kid moment not to

interject too much, but I think Philip was portrayed

as a little too old to be in mechanics arms at

the end and and say the line and i quote it feels

good to be in your arms that was weird to me

yeah well the whole thing is weird with philip

because my other note and this is really the

only note because let's face it folks this is

probably at least for me the best episode of

the day outside of count marzo's weird creepiness

um If the origin of Mechaneck happened a long

time ago like they say it happened, then how

is his son the same age and looks the same in

both the flashback and the present day? Like,

I get it, the short answer is, oh, stock animation.

But, like, they could have created a animation

model for Philip that showed him being younger

when, like, what would you say his age is in

the present day? Maybe... Somewhere between 12

and 14. He looked like between 12 and 15 or something

Okay, so if in the past he was let's say seven

or eight or so Because they make it sound like

this happened years and years ago because let's

face it This didn't just happen three months

ago mech and I just didn't get his powers just

now, right? So yeah And also why are there pterodactyls

on Eternia? They literally even call them pterodactyls.

They don't come up with a cool name. They don't

say pterodactonians or Eter -dactyls or something.

I don't know what they would have called it.

Eternos. Eter -dactyls. That's awesome. Aerodactyls

or something. They literally call them pterodactyls

and that's just weird. Like, stop it. Pterodactyls

wouldn't be on Eternia. They were on Earth. Unless

that's where the dinosaurs went. I don't know.

Not too much Snake Mountain Worms except for

the overall creepy tone to this entire episode.

It's not just creepy because count marzo is after

the kids it's creepy because philip has this

weird connection with his mech neck Which is

not the father -son relationship that most 14

and year olds have with their dad. I don't know

There's some weird things about this episode,

but I guess it could be fun for a lot of people

It is one of count marzo's best episode, but

I think we're gonna differ slightly on this one,

too So let's get our weight for the last time

today. See what kind of awards and rankings we

have for this one Wait on the next cavern. Let's

go. We have no time to waste. Here comes old

Stone Face. You're good at jumping out of the

way, Blinky, but let's see if you can take me

on. Let's go while he's busy cleaning up his

act. The boy is in the pit! Philip! Father! My

boy. Perhaps we can use that web. Just one chance.

Get ready, son. Put your arm around my neck and

hold on. Looks like we missed all the... Alright,

it's awards and rankings time for episode 122

search for a son. I just have one award to give

out That's a power sword to Mechaneck. I like

seeing the background by him I like seeing him

act be both before and after you know he had

the neck powers and Everything he did for his

and how he handled the whole kidnapping thing.

I think his son's kind of a queer, but Outside

of that Like he acts queer didn't mean like queer

like gay. I just meant like he's queer like weird

He's kind of a... I don't know. I'm not gonna

try to piss anybody else off on this episode,

so who do you have for power swords or heavy

staff? Would you be proud if that was your son?

I'd be trying to hide him in, like, a basement

or something. Like, maybe that's not the first

time an older guy's coming after him. I don't

know. Wow. I just... Hardware? Uh, I can't. I

just can't, because it's gonna turn way too weird.

Well, we're gonna give out. Come on, say what's

on the paper. I was gonna give a Havoc staff

to Count Marzo, but he might enjoy it. Alright,

Havoc staffers are going down in the notes for

Mr. Count Marzo. No, he won't enjoy it unless

it's being handled by Philip. Oh, wow. I don't

even know if we can publish this podcast now,

ladies and gentlemen. Holy shit. Yes, we can.

Okay. Wait, wait, wait. I will also give a hammock

staff to the writer because outside of the origin

for Mekanek himself, this episode was just way

too goddamn creepy. Thank you. Alright, so if

this is Count Marshal's best episode, I'm sorry,

but he's not a great character. He is no Granamir.

You should have named yourself Granamir, Mr.

Justin. That would have been a better screen

name. Ratings for this episode. You were at a

2 for Monster on the Mountain. You were at a

3 .5 for the Magic Falls. What are you for Search

for a Sun? I wanted to give this one high marks,

but now that we have explored it... I don't know

if I can. I'm not trashing it. I still gave it

a fairly decent rating. I gotta give it like...

I'll give it four out of five. That's what I

had written down for you anyways. I'm not quite

as pleased with you as that. I'm gonna drop it

down to a three and a half. I think it's slightly

better than average episode, but it's just too

creepy for me. I would like to mention that,

you know, last episode you said you want the

standard writers, this, that, and the other.

We get two episodes by Robie Gorin and J. Michael

Sierzynski, then we get this one from a one -off

writer, and you've ranked this one higher than

both of the other two. I know. So don't ever

ask for anything again. I think this is the I

actually think this is the worst episode of the

three I don't think this can even compare to

the Magic Falls the humor in the Magic Falls

Is with the attack track and Skeletor just puts

us on a different on that one on a different

level search for a son To me is the is the least?

Great episode I get it you get count Marzo and

you get Mechaneck and you get buzz off So all

that's cool, but I still stay with a three and

a half out of five where I gave the other ones

four and four and a half so Alright, so we're

gonna take a quick break and we'll be back with

some more Final Thoughts as we wind our way down.

We only have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 episodes

left. I guess as long as there are people, some

of them will exaggerate and others will believe

them and spread rumors. It makes it hard to tell

what is true and what is false. The important

thing is to use our common sense and not to believe

everything we hear. That's right. So, until next

time. Bye! On their way to the Magic Falls, Adam

and Orko discovered not only the secret of the

Gatekeeper, but an important lesson as well.

In the Gatekeeper's Cavern, Adam was too far

away to grab his sword, and Orko, without his

magic, wasn't strong enough to pry it loose.

But when they worked together, they combined

their strengths and got the job done. You don't

have to be the biggest or the strongest when

you help one another. Cooperation. It's almost

as good as magic. Oops. Sometimes better. You

may remember from our story how my foot slipped

while I was climbing up the steep rocks. And

when Philip looked over his shoulder while running

from the jaw -leg, he fell into a pit of lumas.

So when you're climbing, walking, or running,

you should always be extra careful. Look where

you're going so you don't slip and hurt yourself.

Remember. It's not how fast you get there, it's

getting there safely that counts. See you next

time! Alright, well I've made an executive decision.

Usually this is the point where we talk about

our overall thoughts on the series so far. There's

only eight episodes, actual series episodes left.

Three episodes of the podcast minus the overall

episode but in lieu of giving our overall thoughts

because I'm banning that from this episode because

Mike gave his thoughts last episode the series

gave him what he wanted and then Well, I mean

you said give me the standard writers and they

did and you pooped on both episodes Thank you.

No, wait a second. Wait a second here. Wait a

second here since when is uh, you know What would

I give magic fall three and a half? No, it shouldn't

have been a four and a half there was the best

episode rating was for the one -off writer That's

why I'm not allowing you to ask for anything

else Although I should because at least they

gave it to you So give us more characters give

us some more, you know backstory do whatever

you can in these final eight episodes to end

on a good note, please and at least Don't end

on on on crappiness because we've I've been on

a roll here. I outside of Beauty and the Beast

and Ernie a flower I've given three and a half

or higher just about to every episode in the

last ten or fifteen So I like where we're going.

Let's end on a good note But in lieu of that

in lieu of letting Mike talk about stuff that

he's not gonna actually like I believe we have

some feedback Yes, we do actually What is that

feedback? You Mike being ready to tell ya shut

up uh... that feedback uh... from last episode

of the casserole com or superfantim solvers has

uh... chimed in on episode forty of powers of

grace go tells material he says okay i'm going

to disagree with you both on beauty and the beast

this is a good episode as i was watching it i

actually pause for a moment thinking to myself

that the title didn't have a whole lot to do

with the episode actually. Sure you have a storyteller

in the beginning sharing the story and then you

have Tila kissing the monster near the end, but

really take away those things and change the

title and I think you get a solid episode that

could easily just have been about accepting yourself

and not judging based on appearances alone. Which

is the Beauty and the Beast moral. Mm -hmm. There

is a lot of action in this episode, and I found

it very enjoyable. I'm giving this one 4 .5 orcos.

Yes, that's right. I'll comment on the other

episodes later. I've already replied. Would you

like to read that? Yeah. Kevin replied on the

website to this post. He says, for once you have

shown you have fits of insanity from time to

time. Yes, because he just explained the entire

thing and said you would have an episode if you

took that other stuff away that would still be

a Beauty and the Beast episode. You can't get

away from the moral. That is the Beauty and the

Beast story, that somebody is hideous or awful

-looking or scary and people don't accept it

and you have to not judge a book by its cover.

It's a tale as old as time. Ba dum bum, make

the same pun you did. But you can't take those

things away and all of a sudden get away from

the fact that it's still telling the same story.

It's still telling a Beauty and the Beast story.

You can like it or dislike it. You can like the

execution or dislike the execution But let's

not pretend that you just change the title and

it's all of a sudden not a Beauty and the Beast

episode That is the Beauty and the Beast story

And they just threw in her kissing it to add

the romantic side of the story. That doesn't

that's not important whether that's there or

not Yeah, in which there was no romance at all.

I mean you can call it It's the Beast story of

the Beauty and the Beast. You don't have to have

the beauty part You don't have to have the romantic

part, but it is the Beast story, right? Exactly.

We do appreciate his feedback as always and you

guys should all chime in and also go to the website

and start commenting It's not too late to start

and get in the game and get on the conversations

Even though there's only a few episodes left

of the original He -Man series. We got She -Ra

coming up We got a lot of other stuff so you

can jump in You know at point and start commenting

on all the episodes for the rest of the hundred

and twenty Whatever episodes we'll do of this

podcast. So it's not too late to join in on the

conversations And I think At some point maybe

on the back end of schedules can mix up. I think

we're gonna have to have Tim on episode 45 with

us. We'll see. Not if he keeps talking nonsense

like he did on that post. We also, on Twitter

we are, I created a while ago the Twitter handle

at pow of greyskull because it wouldn't let me

do powers for some stupid reason and we had gone

back and forth back and forth on that and I had

just, as we were recording this episode, I said,

in episode 41, Adoptima Solo finds a monster

on the mountain, then the magic falls, and finally

we're on a search for a son. And our buddy Count

Marzo... Says search for a son is count Marzo's

best performance No, it's not dude. We've already

talked about it in this episode. Well, it might

be his best performance It's just still not something

I would brag about but that's another way If

you guys want to get involved, I mean it won't

be obviously we air these Different times when

we record them because there's editing and this

that the other but if you start following our

different Twitter names as we have for this series

like power of grace call You can interact with

us as we record because Mike does a pretty good

job of live tweeting while we record Every once

while you can hear him probably typing in the

distance. That's what he's doing. He's alive

tweeting to you. So Because when I tweeted that

out I did that in between one of our episodes.

No, but I'm just saying, if you hear anything,

that's why, so that's not a big deal. So he's

interacting with you and you can get involved

with the record and then we'll talk about it

probably as we're recording and it'll make instant

feedback. So you can follow us on the website

or with Twitter and get involved both ways. It's

probably the two easiest ways to interact with

the show, but how else can people interact? All

right. Thank you for listening to Tales of Eternia.

You'd like to get in contact with us to leave

feedback for the show. There are some ways to

do this. Obviously, as Kevin just said, the website,

send email to feedback at geekcastradio .com

in the subject line, put Pugs, episode 41, or

whatever the episode number is. Leave the show's

feedback in iTunes. Please do this. I know there

are a lot of silent listeners out there. I'm

pretty sure there are. We have, wait, before

you get to that, I don't mean to interrupt you,

but. We do have some silent listeners out there,

and I want to thank those listeners. Recently,

the GeekCast Radio Network did their second annual

award show. Oh, yeah, that's right. We didn't

even bring that up. We should have led with that.

And on that award show, one of the there was

Your your common stuff like best TV shows of

the year best movies of the year comic books

video games, etc We introduced some new types

of topics this new categories this year's for

example. We did like the best YouTube series

Best podcast outside of the geek cast radio network.

We did the best main Core podcast from the cast

radio and one of the categories was best review

podcast, which we were nominated for and Mike

We won and we won so we beat everything else.

We beat pixels we beat What, Legends of the Dark

Knight? Legends of the Dark Knight, um... Mass

Mayhem, I think, maybe, too? We beat all the

other ones, so apparently there are some people

out there voting for us and listening, so we

thank you for that support. Now, just give us

a name to tie to that listenership or to those

votes, and give us feedback on iTunes so we can

give you some actual credit. But thanks for those

who voted for us. Yes, thank you very much. It

is the only review show I was involved with,

so... Well... Just kidding. Come on now. How

do people follow you on Twitter? Let's see, wait

a second. Also, I want to say about the awards.

When we have the third annual GCRUN Awards next

year, it's going to be a battle between us and

Showtime Synergy, I guarantee you. I ain't afraid.

I'm bringing it. I'm bringing it. It's going

to be Jim and He -Man versus each other. No,

it'll be She -Ra versus Jim. Oh, no. Yeah. Yeah,

She -Ra versus Jim. We're going to have an all

-out female duel. We can do women better. Dude,

that sounds so... Just trying to keep the theme

of the episode going. How can people follow us

on Twitter, man? Besides Pao Grayskull, I'm at

Optimus Solo. Yeah, you're at Optimus Solo. I'm

at TF2 and Mike. You can also follow at GeekCastRadio.

Become a fan on Facebook. Go to Facebook .com

slash GeekCastRadio network. Call the waste metal

line and tell us the story. Leaving the message

for, end your name, 502 -526 -5821. We hope you...

Enjoyed the tales today and don't forget to join

us on our next adventure, but we will be Continuing

season 2 discussing episodes 123 124 and 125

Mistaken identity the toy maker and bargain with

evil For now. I am TF2 and Mike with the one

and only optimus solo By the power and for the

honor of greyskull. We all have the power