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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! Hello, this is Optimus Solo and welcome

to the 45th chapter Tales of Eternia with me

for this journey into the Masters of the Universe

franchise as always is TFG1 Mike hello hello

in this episode of Tales of Eternia we'll be

giving you our thoughts on the entire Filmation

He -Man series overall so we hope you're ready

because it's time for the final trip back to

Eternia Alright folks, as I said, this is our

final trip back to Eternia. We're wrapping up

He -Man Filmation Series from the 80s. Before

we get into the topics, I'll give you a quick

second to talk, but just to give people a brief

overview of what we're going to be doing today,

we're going to have all kinds of different things

as far as a look back retrospective angle here

at He -Man. We're going to go over our top and

bottom 10 episodes overall from the entire series.

We're gonna break down our ratings that we've

been given every every week. We've been doing

our ratings for each episode So we have all of

the mathematics done and the tabulations to let

you know which How we rated each season how we

rated the series overall who liked it more who

liked at least all that stuff Then we're gonna

take a quick look at the writers Kind of go over

who wrote the most episodes who was the best

writers from the series? Then we will break down

as you guys have heard episode by episode. We'd

like to hand out hardware We'll see just who

got the most havoc staffs and power swords and

all that. And then we're just gonna have some

fun talking about some characters. So we're gonna

go over our favorite masters. We're gonna go

over our least favorite masters, our favorite

evil villains, our least favorite evil villains,

and then a quick look at some of the non -main

characters or some of the side characters to

see who we liked and didn't like. From that,

we'll wrap it up by... Taking a quick look at

the voice actors going over your feedback about

the show and then our overall thoughts and reflections

of this whole journey we've been on before we

get into any of that. Mike, what would you like

to say? Three years is too long. We'll talk about

that later, but we've been doing this podcast

for three years. There was a brief bit of a hiatus

in like, I think it was between episode 14 and.

15 where I think there was a whole year or so

that we didn't but the show has been around for

people to listen to for three years now I I know

folks in the last five episodes of the pod well

40 40 to 44 I Was really really down on this

series because none of my Expectations of some

sort of final battle ever came to light but you

know where we're wrapping this up i'm very proud

of the job that we've done over these you know

these many years bringing you guys a he -man

show um that was kind of the goal uh you know

way back when when you brought this idea to me

and i'm not going down memory lane here we'll

do that later but i'm just saying it was kind

of the goal was everybody knew us As in the geek

cast or you know, we already knew Steve and I

as as the transform all of those transformers

podcasters and blah -di -blah -blah -blah and

everything else and you know when you brought

this idea to me I was like, yeah, we could do

this we could you know, this will be pretty awesome

and the awesomeness is not going to end folks

cuz it's We got three more series to cover on

this podcast. Let's not say that they're all

gonna be awesome. First of all, well I'm saying

that. Maybe it'll surprise me. The awesomeness

of doing the show and the awesomeness of doing

so. Right. I am, I said this to one of our fans

recently and he understands Brad Mull, Brad Oztron

Prime on Twitter. He keeps asking for Transformers

Prime Time and TFG2. And I know I've been promising

people the TFG2 podcast since 2012. I understand

that. But right now I need to do other things.

I am so burnt out on Transformers. You guys,

we're like the DC and the podcast and we like

to plan things out 15 years in advance. And along

the way sometimes things change. Well, yeah,

but at least we're not, you know. Rewriting continuity

and saying oh none of this crap ever happened.

We we might know we take our trip to space But

yeah, I mean, I don't know how many other podcasts

out there have done episode by episode through

the entire human series I don't think there's

very many So, like you said, I am proud of the

fact that we went through the entire series because

that's an option for fans of the series out there

now forever to kind of catch up and listen to

all the episodes iTunes problems notwithstanding.

Well, okay, let me bring that up. Anyone that

goes over to our iTunes page and sees Powers

of Grayskull, because that's where all four of

these podcasts will be found is on that one feed.

Lately, GCRN has been having some bandwidth issues.

So we've had to limit the number of episodes

that show up in iTunes. That's not saying that

they're not still there. That they just don't

show in iTunes. If you go over to our website,

you can find all 45 episodes. plus whatever other

episodes we i don't remember if there were episodes

or whatever you can find everything on geekcasterio

.com you should be able to get most of it once

you subscribe onto itunes But but yeah, I mean,

yeah, I'm not saying that When I say more awesome

is to come I don't mean the shows specifically

I mean the fact that we're covering we're continuing

our journey into this franchise and There's gonna

be a lot of special things coming up as well.

Yeah, we haven't done any of our special episodes

yet, but those are coming Yeah, we've got special

episodes planned for 50 75 75 point five, I think

and 125 Hundred and a hundred and twenty five

no a hundred and a hundred and twenty I think

is what it is Special stuff to cover some other

things involved with the he -man franchise But

there are obviously there's three other series

that we're still gonna cover. I'm interested.

I've never seen one of those series and One of

those series I know I like and then the other

series which we're about to get into I honestly

have avoided like the plague I don't mean that

in a negative connotation. I've avoided it a

hundred percent even though it's been on boomerang

and I have bought the complete DVD series years

ago now. Had to be a year or two ago now. I haven't

even opened it because I've been wanting to save

everything until we watch it for this podcast.

So I've been holding back for all you guys so

you guys can get my genuine reactions as I watch

it because I honestly have not seen an episode

of She -Ra probably since I was like nine or

ten. The only thing I've ever I did earlier last

year when Shira was running on I think retro

TV or some some weird channel I did watch a couple

episodes but I honestly don't like it was like

11 o 'clock in the morning and I was half asleep

or something on a Saturday or something or other

because I've been podcasting all that night before

but yeah the only thing that I know for sure

is Secret of the sword, right? That's the only

thing I know from Shira for sure I know that

movie forwards backwards upside down and inside

out and I also know The differences in which

we'll point out and we'll talk about at the end

of the podcast here to kind of tease that up

but I know the differences between the movie

version and the episodic version of Those five

because they we'll talk about that later. Yeah

Like I said, we'll get into what's coming up

here towards the end of the show so you guys

can be ready for what's next in this whole powers

of grayskull series But as for now, we're gonna

get right into it. So we're gonna start off with

a bang We're gonna go over the ten just in case

anybody decides to stop listening later on in

the podcast You'll get it right away. You'll

get it here. These are the ten best episodes

for all those people that are trying to decide

if the series was good. You haven't seen it since

you were a kid. Does it hold up? Does it not

hold up? We're giving you the episodes that you

should watch. Listen to this next segment. These

are the, I don't know how many we're gonna be,

because there's gonna be some overlap, but somewhere

between 10 and 20 episodes here that are the

best they have to offer. These are the ones you

should watch in order to judge He -Man. So we're

just gonna go back and forth, starting with 10

and going all up until our favorite episode of

the entire series. So. Mike, what is your 10th

overall best episode of the series? It's gonna

surprise a lot of people. Hell, it might even

make you drop your mic and walk away. I hope

not. Number 10 for me is Teela's Quest. Nope,

not gonna drop my mic. Even though I don't like

Teela at all, whatsoever, her origin was awesome.

Yeah, we we needed more of this type of storytelling

in this series Her origin was awesome. It goes

back. It shows us the path that she is going

to take her She is so her her destined path of

becoming the next sorceress after the current

sorceress Absolutely love that episode The voice

acting and it was great. The the characterizations

was great. The writing was great Everything about

it was wonderful Anytime one of these comes up

that I have on my list. I'm just gonna save my

thoughts until I So not as I guess I should be

surprised that you have it on your list But not

surprised that it's on a top 10 list of he man

episode so my number 10 I'm going to season 1

Episode 29 that would be Prince Adam no more

the synopsis for this one was King Randor had

always thought Adam as unreliable So to prove

his worth, Adam tried to change his ways. It

had been a while at this point. In the series,

we hadn't seen a bunch of evil warriors for a

few episodes. So this episode was good because

it gave us a relook at a bunch of the evil warriors.

Skeletor banishing an evil warrior was an interesting

side. And we just had a big internal struggle

with Adam. So that was cool to see and then we

not just got development from Adam's character

We got character development for Beastman character

development for King randor So I really enjoyed

this episode is kind of a look at Adam Adam's

side of the thing Not just he man, but Adam's

perspective. So I have Prince Adam no more at

my number ten What do you have for number nine,

sir? the time corridor I did not have this one

on my list at all, so go for it. Really? The

time corridor is interesting because Skeletor

thinks he's going to win. He's going to trap

He -Man in another time or another dimension

or... I believe this is the one where he wanted

to go back and rebuild Grayskull in his own image.

I could be wrong. I don't have any of the information

in front of me. He's not the right guy, guys.

That's me. that's me yeah well you know if you'd

have filled up the script a little bit better

it would have been easier uh anyway uh but the

time corridor was always interesting to me because

in a series that is basically a mixture of mythology

and technology it's so cool seeing the two come

together and seeing how Skeletor is going to

trap He -Man in time I mean, it kind of has that

Captain America feeling for me. If anyone has

read Mark Wade's Captain America Man Out of Time,

you know, it's kind of like, you know, some things

have changed. You've been asleep for 70 years.

You know, it's kind of that kind of thing. Just

I don't remember specifically but I do remember

Skeletor making a lot of puns in that episode

Skeletor is just hilarious. I can't disagree

with you on that one I did read this one. I did

read this one a four so I wasn't too far off

It wasn't quite high enough to reach my top ten,

but it's still a solid episode overall Absolutely,

you're gonna probably disagree with me a little

bit on my on my next one so I guess we'll just

get it over, because you gave this one a three,

but I had it at a five. Oh no. So I will mention,

from season one, back in episode 18 of the series,

and that is Creatures from the Tar Swamp. Prince

Adam's spoiled cousin Lady Edwina comes for a

visit, and Orko immediately falls for her. to

buy love or co decides to find a gold medallion

that he lost in the Tar swamp, but Skeletor is

beginning to wake the monsters of the swamp I

mean this has some bad characters, obviously

Lady Edwina will come up later in the in the

podcast, but I Just liked the idea of getting

Getting a little bit of Orko and how he got to

Eternia and lost his medallion. We also saw a

young Adam and a young cringer It took a while

in this episode for He -Man to appear which is

something that episode 18 that we hadn't seen

really usually It was like very quick in the

first couple minutes This one took about you

know almost ten a third of the way into the episode

before He -Man appeared So I thought that was

cool Stratos was involved. I obviously always

like Stratos and then we also got the whole Skeletor

and Evil Lin sitting on the thrones, which I

liked Besides that I thought it was a great ending

to the episode I won't say anything about it

just in case anyone's going back to watch it

So I mean, I know you're not as high on this

one, but I thought it was good enough to make

my top ten So that is creatures from the tar

swamp Silence is golden. I mean, you know the

points that you bring up are really good points.

Sadly for me Lady Edwina ruined it enough. Edwina

is so horrible. Yeah, and I did give it a three.

It's not like I gave it a two or a one or anything.

So I mean, it's not you know. Alright, then what's

your number eight, sir? Number eight would be

what you've already listed Prince Adam no more.

It's good when we agree. Yeah. It's better when

I'm right. Yes, it does. I like this episode.

Like you already said, it pretty much explores

the atom angle. And again, I don't think that's

shown enough in this series. I wish that it was

done not better, but... Wish it was done more.

I wish we would see more because when they when

we usually see Adam He's either training with

Tila, you know reluctantly or he's you know,

he's he's out relaxing but by the lake with Cringer,

you know sleeping until something happens and

I mean, I understand that's part of his personality,

but exploring Like his stresses his his issues

with being this super all -powerful man of the

universe You know It's always interesting. No,

um, I'm with you there. Obviously. I had it on

my list as well So not disagreeing. Um, you know,

I didn't realize what I've been doing so far,

but I was just looking numbered my number 10

Prince Adam No more was a Paul Dini episode My

number 9 which was creatures from the tar swamp

is a Richard party and Paul Dini episode And

my number 8 is also a Paldini episode, so I guess

I like him. But I'm going to where you were already,

so we're just kind of flip -flopping here on

number 8. My number 8 is Tila's Quest. Again,

this was a great backstory for Tila overall.

And, you know, it was fairly early in the series,

so it was good to get that kind of backstory.

We also got to see Merman's headquarters. which

I love from our man, so obviously. The Sorcerer's

Tila connection, that was cool. So, like all

the things that you said basically, Tila's Quest

is a good story for some character development,

for some backstory, so that's what my number

eight was. Back all the way in episode six of

the first season, which brings us to your number

seven. What do you got? Wait a minute. Come on

here. Mike's not great at math, so he might have

his numbers next up. Funny. Oh, crap. My number

seven is The Origin of the Sorceress. Again,

it's an origin story. It's something we didn't

get often in this series, but it's always nice

to see where she came from and where, you know,

we all... In the in the past 44 episodes we often

complain about her and her powers But it's kind

of nice seeing that there was a sorceress before

her Yeah, and I believe was this the episode

the first time ever we saw the two power swords.

I think so. Yeah So yeah, I absolutely love this

one. It's it's so great seeing our sorceress's

origin and seeing you know What she would eventually

become? Um, I don't remember what the plot is.

I don't remember the villain plot in that one

though. I mean, I remember - It was Morgoth or

whatever his name was. Oh, that's right. Yeah,

I remember it now. Yeah, he was coming back to

try to get at her. Not in that way. God it was

the flashback to Howard first battle against

Margot and oh, yeah That's why that's why he's

in that episode. All right. Well my number seven.

I'm breaking the Paul Dini streak We're going

to Larry the Tillio this time You did not rank

this one as high as I did but it's season 2 episode

48 and that is happy birthday. Mr. Roboto Adam

and Duncan obviously rescue the robot pilot from

its crashed spaceship and managed to fix it back

up But Magilok breaks into the palace to claim

Roboto's power for himself. We get a lot of continuity

in this one. We get references to Garn from a

previous episode. We get references to the Zaktans

from the previous episodes. You know, we had

the buried hidden ship from, you know, some other

time and place that we have to figure out what's

going on with that. There was a cool voice work

on the robots and the effects of the robot guarding

the lab, which I liked. I also liked the voice

work for Modulok and the evil warrior having

his own lair. I thought that was cool. Obviously

this is somewhat done out of order. for what

we see later with Modulock, but there's also

some very cool shots of He -Man and Man -At -Arms

as far as the artwork goes, and just great artworks

and images throughout this entire episode. It's

a good one to look at and to kind of see from

the animation standpoint and just some nice looking

shots. So I know you didn't quite have this one

as high as I did, but that is my number seven.

I'm trying to see what you exactly rank this

one. You had it a four so you're not too far

off. So yeah, I mean I enjoyed the episode All

right. Well, what's your number six number six

is the mystery of many faces This was episode

31 from season one I just like this episode because

again and that's honestly half of my top 10 is

probably the origin stories because they were

the best written episodes right and I mean, how

do you screw up an origin story? I mean There's

no real way you can unless you're Scott Snyder

and talking about Batman. Oh, I'm sorry. It's

a whole other deal so Mystery of many faces I

I couldn't remember, you know Like you said earlier

when you you're talking about you haven't seen

a lot of Shira at all since you were a kid I

couldn't remember when we first started this

podcast how many faces was going to be introduced

into the show I always thought that he was already

there like he because I don't know my My childhood

memories of this show were like everybody was

already there like right Stratos and Manny faces

and ran man and Fisto and everybody was already

a master Everybody was already, you know on he

man side and everything else and that's not the

case now that I realize but The fact that he

starts off as oh, I'm this monster and nobody

likes me and blah blah blah blah blah And you

know to find out he has become a Shakespearean

actor, you know It really was once again a really

good origin story And I love I wish we had more

of many faces in the series I can agree with

that and I was not far from you on this one I

gave this one a four and a half out of five.

So it was just on the brink of making the possibility

of being selected from my list so a great one

as well for my number six i'm gonna go with another

one that uh my third here on my list that you're

that you're not on the same page with and that

is from season two episode 65 the final episode

of the series the cold zone kobra khan asking

for he -man's help in restoring the eternal flame

of his people the reptons man what did i give

that one you gave it a three and a half okay

so i'm not mad at you for putting it on your

list at all it's your it's one of your favorites

that's fine the only thing That stops me from

praising that that episode more is the fact that

I don't feel it was and I said this last step

last podcast episode I don't feel it was a proper

series finale and we've already argued all that

points and everything else But that's really

the only reason one, you know This is really

the only sticking point for me why I don't really

care for it. Yeah, I mean as for me I'm gonna

love the snake people. I really loved them I

really thought that was a great group of characters

that I would have loved to see explored more

Unfortunately didn't get the chance and we also

got the introduction of attack track and land

shark going at each other. And that was a great

element to it. You know, the only bad thing about

this episode was that there's no Skeletor or

anything like that. But for me, just the Cobra

Khan and the snake people are something I would

have loved, loved, loved to see more of. So that's

why it's not necessarily a series finale, but

I still think it stands alone as a great episode

if you just watch it on its own. So that's why

it's my number six. And that means we're into

our top five. What do you start with? Oh, by

the way, the cold zone J. Michael Straczynski

the Manny faces episode that you just talked

about Paul, you know so What's your number five?

Number five the witch and the warrior the only

time in the entire series we see evil and Antilla

have to work together Yeah, I'm really glad you

brought this up not to interrupt you But I'm

glad you brought this up because this is one

of the ones that I did rank a five But did not

make my top ten. So it was gonna be an honorable

mention. So I'm glad we get a chance to talk

about it Blasphemer no, I have it. I have it.

It's one of my rated a five. I just had more

than ten five. So somebody had to cut out so

But yeah from season one episode 59 go ahead

and talk about the witch and the warrior. Absolutely.

I mean, you know This is what I remember remember

from but you know my childhood was this episode

where Oh my god, these two women absolutely hate

each other because they're on two opposing sides,

one is good, one is evil, and now they're forced

into a, it's that classic thing, two enemies

are forced into a situation where they have to

work together as friends. This is so well executed.

It's easily, the two episodes out of any 80s

television series that I know, that are so well

executed with this type of plot is this episode

here the witch and the warrior and uh... an episode

of gem where gem and the holograms and the misfits

have to actually work together i forget the title

of that episode off the top of my head but uh...

i love the interactions between tila and evelyn

uh... you know tila is is trying to be nice i

mean tila is not you know being spiteful to evelyn

evelyn is being herself and she is Constantly

putting Tila down and all that stuff, but Tila

is really really trying to show her Hey, look,

you know, we're in this situation It would be

best if we work together and you know, they find

out that they each need each other and that's

Again, it was one of the more enjoyable episodes

of the series You know, when I did my ratings,

I never paid attention to who was writing episodes,

and when I was making my top ten list, I had

absolutely no idea who wrote any of these episodes.

I just had the episode title and my rating and

the synopsis, and I went back and looked at my

good moments and my bad moments, and that's kind

of how I went through it, with no thought even

whatsoever of who wrote any of these episodes.

But the witch and the warrior? Paul Dini. So,

yeah, I guess. It doesn't surprise me, honestly.

Right. For my number five, Going back to season

one towards the end of season one, and I'm pretty

sure you're gonna agree with me on this one We're

gonna go to Larry DiTilio and the return of Granamir

Granamir asked for He -Man's help the youngest

dragon Torm is in love with the human girl But

her father wishes for a test which He -Man must

take in Torm's place And then they've got the

evil wizard Zem also desiring the girl's heart

Obviously this involves Granamir So so that's

a plus we also have continuity between the two

meetings With a man at arms recalling things.

There's a great intro into the plot, which I

liked the mythological challenge aspect of it

There's just a lot to to like about this epic

dragon battle involved in this one All the Granamir

episodes are good In my opinion, this is the

one I think I have as the best of the best. So

this is my number five the return of Granomere

What's your number four? This was well return

of Granomere did not make my list. It was the

11th It was the 11th choice, so it kind of got

axed at the 11th hour But yeah, you're right.

Absolutely. Love it number four This is the one

I guarantee you people he's gonna just click

and not come back. Number four for me, the best

circus episode in the entire series of Beastly

Sideshow. Not because of the circus, but because

of what Cringer has to go through. Cringer's

characterization in this episode is by far the

most characterization he has gotten in the entire

series. And it is just so awesome seeing him

do something that we are not know we we normally

do not expect because the whole point of he man

and battle cat and adam and cringer is adam and

cringer are the i don't want to say submissive

but they're the they're the dormant personalities

kind of they're the ones where they have to Really

seriously they're actors. They have to act like

they are stupider. Well, I mean in Cringer's

case. He's not stupid He's just very very fearful

of everything I mean, you know, you know drop

a feather on his head and he'll jump 20 feet

in the air but a beastly sideshow really showed

off his Courage, you know, he had to save he

man. He man couldn't turn him into battle cat

and Cringer is just amazing in a beastly sideshow

I will say that it is the better of the two circus

episodes that we got. Wow, I don't think that

would ever happen, because I think a few episodes

ago you said the opposite. No, no, Beastly Sideshow

I had higher than the greatest show on Eternia.

Oh, okay. But I did only give it a two and a

half, so I slightly disagree with you on that

one, but it is your list, so I'll let you have

it. My number four, I'm going somewhere where

you already went, season two, episode eight,

from J. Michael Strzezinski, The Origin of the

Sorceress. We talked about it already a lot but

origin story for the sorceress. We got a look

at some horde members and It was just I don't

know is cool to see something that I absolutely

forgot from my childhood something I didn't even

know as far as a prior sorceress and that blew

my mind a little bit So that's why it's all the

way up here at number four. I really really really

loved the origin of the sorceress So what's your

number three? Here there's Skeletor's everywhere.

Yeah For one reason only, a mini army of Skeletors.

The Skeletoids. The Skeletoids were so awesome.

This episode absolutely makes no sense as far

as plot, but it's just so funny. It doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter that it doesn't matter that

it doesn't even need a plot. Skeletor just makes

these Skeletoids and oh God. You know Ellen Ellen

Oppenheimer He has his main Skeletor voice and

I don't know if they sped him up or if they did

anything to his Skeletor voice for the for the

Skeletoids but just Hearing a tinier version

of that big booming Skeletor voice is just so

awesome Yeah, and I'm gonna bounce off this one

a little because it's another one about my honorable

mentions I rated this one a five to just didn't

quite make the cut But yeah, Mossman as a spy,

all the different Skeletoids, we got Attack Track

doing some cool stuff. So this is a very fun

episode. If you're just wanting to just sit back

and have fun with an episode and laugh and enjoy

it, then this is definitely a very, very good

episode. And like I said, I rated it a five,

so I can't disagree with you. All right, we are

up to number three for me. I'm going to go to

one of the only episodes we got from Bob Forward,

season two, episode 20, and that would be the

Rainbow Warrior. Skeletor kidnaps King Arandor,

Prince Adam, Tila, Man in Arms, and Orko in order

to have the royal guards become leaderless, but

Queen Marlena may prove to be a more worthy leader

than everyone else believes. Backstory for Queen

Marlena, connections to Earth, the hint that

the Queen is smarter than most and knows He -Man.

Skeletor with some funny moments. I've tried

to capture Castle Grayskull six times already.

First one didn't count There is actual storytelling

in here Colin trap John metal munching moron

or somebody did but the animation on Skeletor

the action involved in this we have jetpacks

involved He man almost mistakenly calling Marlena

mother I mean there was a lot to like in the

Rainbow Warrior for me a lot of fun funny moments

some good action and Great backstory so it had

everything that I like in an episode You know

some of them I'm having on here just because

of the backstory or some I'm having here You

know just because of the humor like you kind

of get with here There are Skeletor's everywhere

or some just from the action, but this has a

little of everything so I really loved Rainbow

Warrior for my number three Alright top two.

What do you got? Rainbow warrior number two not

too far off then no This episode is easily Could

have been a tie for number one honestly, I mean

really you look at all 130 cartoons in this series

this episode stands out Probably 85 % most of

the time because of what you just said it's it's

that episode where we we find out how randor

and marlena fell in love we find out you know

that she is from earth so i mean technically

adam is oh god i don't even know what you're

about oh my god no oh god no My mother was human

so that makes earth my only home. Oh my god he

man is Spock He man is Spock the logic is sound

people But the rainbow warrior absolutely and

I love the mystery around it because it's like

randor is the most underutilized good character

in the entire series because We never, we see

King Randor and Queen Marlena, but we never,

they're not active, because obviously this is

He -Man and the Master of the Universe, but it's

like, what are the King and Queen doing half

the time? That's true. It just, it's one of those

things, and we see the story from Randor's point

of view for like the first 10, 15 minutes of

it, and he's telling a backstory of how, he's

telling the backstory of Marlena, and it's just

absolutely amazing. Yeah. All right, well. For

my number two, I'm going to the other. There's

only two Bob Forward episodes, and I have them

back to back here with Rainbow Warrior and my

number two from season two, episode 45, The Problem

with Power. Skeletor tricks He -Man into believing

he accidentally killed a man, distraught at him,

decides to give up being He -Man, and throws

the power sword into Grayskull's abyss. Goodness.

He -Man confronting Skeletor face to face. Orko

having some great moments here one of the best

plots of the series as far as complexity and

uniqueness We have great graphics art drawing

coloring shading especially when he mans on that

tower the could line left the power return I

Know you're in agreement with this one pot and

the problem with power is absolutely one of the

best episodes of the series Yeah, all right That

means it is time for your number one, which is

The problem with power. I mean, how can you not

make that your number one? I didn't Anyone yeah,

I know that's that's that's what has me scared

because I'm really scared to see what your number

one is But it's one of those things where how

can people not make that's it's why I said a

second ago The problem with power and the rainbow

warrior could easily be tied for number one Because

they are two of the best if not to The two best

episodes of the entire series as far as story

wise goes You know everything you just said,

you know, let the power return Throwing it into

the abyss That whole moonlit scene. It's not

off like we see Castle Grayskull at night But

it's not often we see an up -close Castle Grayskull

with he -man there with the moonlight, you know

showing in the background because usually Castle

Grayskull at night it's it's lightning it's thunder

it's you know it's all this stuff but the problem

with power absolutely number one episode of the

entire series all right that leaves it up to

me to give you my number one episode of the entire

series we've had a whole bunch of paul adini

we've had a little larry datilio we've had two

bob forward episodes we've had a j michael straczynski

in there one guy we haven't heard from yet and

he's the one who wrote my number one episode

of the series, that would be David Wise. Season

one, episode 62, the Golden Disks of Knowledge.

A former traitor Xanthor wishes to make amends

with the sorceress and Zodak by recovering the

Golden Disks of Knowledge from Skeletor. I love

the whole idea of Zodak and the only original

member of the council left is Zodak. The idea

that the story is about, you know, deserving

a second chance. I like the backstory of the

building of Snake Mountain. Some good original

animation in this episode that we don't always

get. Skeletor's face when the snake comes after

him is funny. Xanthor becoming a cosmic enforcer.

I understand why everybody else wouldn't have

this episode maybe as number one, but I just

loved the backstory with Zodak and the whole

backstory of not just Zodak, but of Eternia and

of this universe in general. With the council

and everything I just wish we would have got

more zodiac in this series because he is by far

one of my favorite characters I can't argue with

the rainbow warrior and problem with power obviously

I have those as three and two but something about

golden disk of knowledge is for me personally

I just really enjoyed so that's what makes my

number one When you said days of when you said

David wise his name, I'm like, oh hell no He

better not list day at day of the machines. Hell

no golden disc of knowledge real quick to go

over just my other honorable mentions that we

didn't list obviously Mike had the witch and

the warrior and here there are Skeletor's everywhere

My only other two on the list would have been

battle of the dragons, which was another Granamere

episode back from season two episode 49 we both

gave that one a high score as well and i know

you won't agree with me on this one but the only

other episode that i gave a five the entire series

was mistaken identity where they try to pretend

to be he -man i just loved the idea of that and

i loved modulock trying to join skeletor's gang

so those are my two honorable mentions did you

have any that you didn't quite make the cut Return

of Grand Amir was the last one that did and I

and I didn't write any and any honorable mentions

because I was just picking out my ten favorites

So alright, we're gonna take a quick break then

and we'll be back with the other side of the

coin You should avoid the bottom ten episodes

of the series coming up next For every good thing

there also is a bad thing Every reaction there

is an opposite reaction or whatever they say

no for every action there is an equal and opposite

reaction These are those opposite reactions coming

up now So we have our bottom ten episodes coming

up. I'll start this time so we can flip -flop

the order and I'm pretty sure our number one

is gonna be the same. I'm pretty sure I'm 95

% sure don't think it's going to be I'm 95 %

all right well my number 10 is And it was kind

of toss -up with my last couple ones. They all

kind of were just in the same boat for me. But

my number 10, I'm going to season two, episode

18. And that was written by Robert Lamb, and

the title is Into the Abyss. Tila tries to mix

training with fun in order for Adam to become

more interested in his studies, but one of her

tests goes too far, and she ends up falling into

the abyss around Grayskull. First of all, this

is a Tila -centric episode. Second of all, it

involves no evil anything really no evil warriors

no bad guys per se it's just them in an abyss

stuck trying to get out i mean i don't know if

we could have got more of a boring episode than

into the abyss so that is my number 10 i did

not enjoy that episode at all what do you have

for number 10 uh number 10 would be return of

the grifon Um, this episode, are you friggin'

kidding me? It's the Gryphon's child. It's the

Gryphon's egg. There's the other side of David

Wise right there. And how stu - I know the Atterneans,

some of the villages, you know, believe in old

myths and everything else, and we have a lot

of that stuff here on Earth as well, but it's

like, how stupid are these people? Like, seriously?

You don't like that? Young servant boys Return

of the griffon number ten. It is just one of

the worst episodes of the series It really disagrees

you too much. I mean it it's just it's It's so

bad because it just Makes no sense The griffon

puts her egg there and then I guess somebody

built a village around it I don't know and then

oh this mysterious sphere. Oh my god. We must

worship that Give me a break. I saved my thoughts

on that one for a second My number nine. I'm

going all the way back to the very first episode

of the podcast. Oh No with From who wrote this

J. Brin Stevens We're going to colossal awakes

Skeletor's new weapon turns everyone to stone

and bring statues to life. He seeks to gather

enough energy to awake the giant statue colossal

First of all, we had Stratos and Raymond being

the ambiguously gay duo. Not sure what was going

on that Queens knowledge of earth somehow Helped

her hit a button. I don't know And she knew stuff

that she should know as far as what was gonna

happen Evil in should know that he man's going

for the file at fire jewels the plot is just

so there's so many holes that we have a Vehicle

responding to a whistle The lesson had nothing

to do with the episode This was a bad way to

start the series in the first episode. I hated

one right off the bat and that was class order

wakes What's the order number nine? Return of

Evil. Return of Evil was the 48th overall episode

of the series. An evil electrode called Aramesh

comes to Eternia, targeting Orko and his powers,

while He -Man tries to protect Orko. Skeletor

sets out to make a deal with Aramesh himself.

Teela tells viewers, fear is common and natural.

Return of... Aramesh, where do they get these...?

Where do we get these non evil warrior guys?

It's like they just pull them out of their ass

sometimes It's it's like friggin, you know brute.

It's like friggin Jim Carrey and Bruce Almighty,

you know Oh and monkeys might fly out of my butt.

Be careful what you say and the monkey flew out

of his ass Return of evil is just so horrible.

It really really is. I just I gave this one a

one and a half so I'm not too far Not as far

off as we will be on our next one. I'm putting

Larry to tell you in the bottom as well That's

for episode 40 from season one and you gave this

one a four. I don't understand Orcos missing

magic Oh, Oracle's missing magic was awesome.

After one of Oracle's experiments goes wrong,

his powers are sent to another world where they

fall into the hands of an evil wizard. Longest

intro ever on this episode, and just to prove

that they didn't have enough content to fill

the episode, not only is it the longest intro

ever, but there was also one of the longest outros

ever. They could not fill the 22 minutes of actual

content. So I have a big problem with that. I

don't know... Is Orko's magic worth taking a

chance of getting trapped in another dimension

forever? Sure, why not? And why have we never

seen that gronk animal before? Where is this

taking place? Is it Orko's room? It's different

every time. I don't understand and There was

just a lot of bad stuff for this episode. I did

not enjoy this episode So Orko's missing magic

for me is one of the worst ten episodes of the

series Number eight for me, The Games. Oh my

god, The Games. 128th episode overall of the

series, Fisto is chosen to represent the side

of good in a series of games set by aliens. Spike

R is infused with the villainous energy of all

of Skeletor's minions so that he can be chosen

to represent the side of evil and cheat. Just

mermaid. I give this one a three and a half.

Merman and Beastman appear, but Merman doesn't

do shit. The games, it's just so boring. I didn't

hate it as much as you did, so I don't know about

that, but I'll repeat what you said earlier for

my number seven, and that'll be the return of

the Gryphon. It was just a bad episode. It's

overall the terrible design of the Gryphon and

Thad and his awful voice. He -Man destroying

nature. Since when does He -Man do that? I mean,

I know he's not Captain Planet, but he shouldn't

be destroying nature for no reason. We just have

water coming from nowhere. This was a laughable

episode, so I'm in agreement with you. Return

of the Gryphon's my number seven. What is your

number seven, sir? Into the abyss. We're flapping

our numbers. Tila -centric episodes, other than

Tila's quest and Tila's trial and Witch and Warrior,

Tila -centric episodes are just bad. Just all

around bad. That seems like a good rule to go

by. I'm not gonna disagree. Well, I mean, it's...

My next one, you gave it a 2. I gave it much

I give it a one and that is from season one num

episode 25 that is the quest for the sword he

man loses his sword after an earthquake and it's

found by a rock man first of all the animation

in this episode is absolutely terrible One of

the worst animated episodes of the series the

rock monster looks silly and childish Doesn't

he use the sword as a toothpick there's so many

bad things here So many we have vines that are

changing colors. We have apparently if you have

a sword that makes you a bully We got he man

running into he Ramman I Don't know there's so

many Problems with this episode. You could just

go back and nitpick and find not just animation

errors But plot errors and all kinds of weird

coloring and different things. It's just a bad

episode So quest for the sword no good for me

and that one -time writer that we had for a dish

I'm glad he didn't write anymore. So what's your

number six? The attorney in flower. I will save

my thoughts until later. Oh, no. Oh, come on

now. Don't tell me that's your number one. Not

saying anything. Come on now. Don't tell me that's

your number one, because the other Marzo episode

should be closer, closer. the attorney and flower

or the the attorney a flower as it's actually

called because they can't make any goddamn sense

and call it the attorney and flower heaven forbid

um it just like why would they do something based

on a flower and this is count marzo's episode

like marzo is supposed to be this badass and

he's not no He's just not. It's such a bad episode.

I agree. All right. Yours? I agree. All right.

My number five. Like I said, you might have had

the beastly side show in your best episodes,

but it wasn't the worst circus episode. The worst

circus episode goes to the greatest show on Eternia.

That's my number five. From season two, the circus

comes to Eternia and Skeletor is planning to

ruin it. First of all, it's our second circus

episode. So nothing good about that. And really,

Skeletor wants the circus to perform at Snake

Mountain. What in God's name was going on in

this episode? I'm serious. This is just godawful

nonsense. Robi Gorin wrote this one. I like some

of his other stuff. Not this episode. How did

you give this episode a four? Just like circuses,

apparently. No, I actually don't. I gave it a

four because how ironically idiotic Skeletor

and Comedike is being in this episode. He's like,

he's like a little, he's like a 10 year old.

I want the circus at my house. I want the circus

at my house and I'm going to ruin it if it can't

be at my house. Terrible episode. Yeah. It's

just so funny. Terrible episode. What's your

number five? Top five. What do we got? Number

five worst is... Valley of Power. This episode

makes no goddamn sense. That's a good way to

sum it up. It makes no goddamn sense whatsoever.

This guy wants power. This is the most random

quote unquote villain we've ever had. One of

the only episodes that got a double zero from

us. Thank you Doug Booth. Yeah, Valley of Power

makes no sense whatsoever. It starts off with

this guy wanting to take over Eternia and have

this mythical magical power. And he doesn't even

think to check in with Skeletor. He does. I mean,

this is like a farmer, dude. It's kind of like

folks. It's kind of like what if Polly Shore

went from being, you know, really, really? No,

come on. Now you leave that movie alone. Come

on now. Kelly Kapowski was in that movie. Damn

it. You leave that one alone. It's like instead

of going, you know, in the army now, what if,

you know, he was in the villain phase now or

so? It's just, oh my God, this is a valley of

power. Very bad episode. My number four. Going

to I don't care what Tim says What he says the

from 117th episode overall Don Heckman gave us

this one, and he shouldn't have It's from season

2 Beauty and the Beast Skeletor per Skeletor

kidnaps Tila and orco sends them to an unreachable

castle of the monster of Morgor well He demands

a hefty ransom to rule Eternia First of all,

we had the building material for the new hospital.

I told you how I felt about that one. We have

Tila ignoring her own advice. We have bees that

look retarded. We have the heavy -handed whole

Beauty and the Beast moral over and over and

over again to the point where she kisses him

and he comes back to his normal self, which is

the dumbest thing that was ever invented in any

story ever. Beating the beast is awful. I hated

that episode. It is my fourth worst episode of

the series What's your number four? Number four

the royal cousin That is interesting. I didn't

have that one the royal cousin This is Ed Weiner

writers is Jeremy I thought this was general

royal cousin give me two seconds and I'll find

out for you I could have sworn it was Jeremy

I don't know, folks. The Royal, any time they

try to introduce other attorney or Randorian

family members... Jeremy is in this one. Yeah,

that's... I knew it. Yeah, Jeremy. No. Jeremy,

even though he supposedly gets redeemed at the

end of this episode or he learns his lesson...

Yeah, no. He's still an ass. Mean he just and

in the voice. I'm sorry. I usually praise all

voice actors and actresses But there are just

some voices that you just great on you Yeah,

I gave this one a one and a half. So I'm not

too far off. Yeah Real cousin number four for

me. All right, that takes me to my number three,

which you had rated one point higher than I did

So it's probably not on your list. So I'm glad

I'm getting to mention it here It is from the

first season episode 11 like father like daughter

He man and mad at arms try to figure out what

Skeletor's new plan is Tila secretly follows

them It's a Tila episode even the characters

in this episode didn't know what the plot was

at one point They have a line that says whatever

it is. Like are you seriously? That's what the

writing here is Man -at -arms wanted them split

up, so they walked like 10 feet away. This episode

is awkward. The timing is horrible. The animation

is terrible. The design is terrible. There's

no consequences for Teela whatsoever, so it doesn't

really give a good lesson. Like Father, Like

Daughter is an awful episode. It's my third worst

episode of the series. You already mentioned

it, but Colossus Awakes. Yeah. Why? Just why?

That's a bad way to start the series. Why Skeletor?

Why? I wish that the series, and I know this

series, and I know the style in the 80s was episodic.

It was, you know, many quote unquote many movies

or whatever you want to say in beginning, middle

and end. But I wish they would have written Skeletor

to have more of a competency as the episodes

went along. his competency varies so i mean it

it's like you know it's kind of like that um

when when you overload a boiler or something

or when somebody's trying to you know Launch

a nuke or something or a nuclear reactor and

it's kind of like teetering right there in the

middle and then it automatically goes into the

red it just oh god Skeletor's competency Colossal

awakes a beast is good. He's gonna awake this

stone beast and it's gonna destroy everything

for him, right? So and good No, so I've already

angered Tim by putting Beauty and the Beast on

my list. Let's try. I'm gonna anger him much

more. Let's try to anger one of our only other

fans Count Marzo here with my my number two,

which you already talked about which is the attorney

of flower Okay, so before we anger him, we gotta

at least acknowledge he did reply to us on Twitter

and told us why he likes it. It's because this

was the episode that he and his friends used

to watch on VHS all the time. He taped it off

a TV. We understand that, Marzo Man, but it still

doesn't excuse how horrible the episode it is.

Yeah, count marzo plans to put the youth of returnee

under a spell by introducing them to the addictive

plant the black nightmare His first victim is

boy of the year. John. Oh, I don't care if you

had this episode on laserdisc There's no reason

to like this episode. I don't care. I mean, I

guess Man, I don't want to say anything, but

I guess if you're a huge drug fan, like you can

like this episode because this is a drug episode.

It's super heavy handed. There's no reason why

Jono wants that flower. Why are the recurring

characters in this episode completely of a different

design and color than the first time they appeared?

Why do we have a boy of the year contest? That's

so creepy. I can't even get into it. I went off

on this episode so much that I tried to. tame

myself. The voicing is so inconsistent with Chad,

as are the drawings, as are the visuals. There's

a ship that somehow they didn't see that they

should have seen. Adam is gone where there's

no explanation for why he is. Why was Marzo living

in Terala? Were the boys not living up to his

expectations so he had to go to Terala to try

to feed on them? You're just fueling the fire

for my number one had to wait 30 seconds Just

panning the world because they hadn't timed anything

in this episode whatsoever I hate when a half

hour episode which already has so little time

to do anything Can't fill it and has to waste

time by panning scenery. That's so stupid. So

between the boy of the year Count Mars will be

in a creep and drugs being the central idea of

this episode. I hated everything about the attorney

of flower. Yup. All right. What's your number

two? Beauty and the beast. I agree. Beauty and

the beast. I'll say this again because we've

got this coming up on G sarin. Amy Nicole and

I are launching Showtime Synergy our gem review

podcast in gem. There is a Beauty and the Beast

episode But it has done so much better than this

this episode of Beauty and the Beast I would

rather watch than was it the nut is it 90s the

the early 90s Beauty and the Beast television

series and that's horrible I would rather watch

that can't just take the title off and say that

this is a regular episode. This is the beauty

the the the whole idea of the beast This is an

awful episode. Yes number one, sir. My number

one you've already talked about I will go back

to season one Doug Booth not a big fan my friend

season or episode 28 overall the Valley of Power

A thief named Danavis captures the egg of the

great mother row in the Valley of Power and upsets

her He -Man and Tila must help her get her baby

back. I'm pretty sure if I was to count that

I had more Snake Mountain moments in this episode

than any other episode ever. Adam just had He

-Man strength holding up Cringer by his tail.

How is Adam doing that? Do you not know the difference

between Adam and He -Man, Doug Booth? Why do

the heroes want to gain fake strength that makes

no sense? We have magic that somehow has multiple

effects. We have, um, Battle Cat and Tila speaking

to the mama bird somehow. We have the whole premise

that they're gonna leave Orko as the only one

at the palace. That would never happen. We have

so much animal talking in this episode, it's

ridiculous. We have this trip back and forth

that gets so repetitive, it's stupid. We have

the sorcerers needing potions for some reason.

We have the effects of this thing, well we're

off, then why does the bird need an anecdote?

At one point I literally wrote down, can this

episode please end? And then we have the mask

thing where they throw the anecdote to He -Man.

And then we have, finally, Danivus turning good.

with basically a blink of an eye. This episode

was god -awful. Valley of Power is the worst

episode of the entire series, and that's saying

something when Beauty and the Beast and Eternia

Flower and then Like Father Like Daughter came

right before it, but Valley of Power takes the

cake for me. When did I give Search for a Son?

Search for a Son. Is that your number one? I

don't know. What did I give that episode? Hold

on. You gotta give me a second to find a search

for the sun here. Pull it out of your pocket

already. I don't have everything in my pocket,

sir. You gotta give me a second. I only have

so much things. So many things in my pocket.

And search for a sun you gave a four. What was

I thinking? Okay. This is easily the worst episode

of the series. You gave it a four. I know, but

this is easily one of the worst - You gave it

a three and a half and you gave it a four. I

know. Where did you come up with this? I rewatched

this episode and it is by far easily one of,

if not the worst episode of the series because

they actually show you sexual deviance. Like,

swear to God, Count Marzo, what the hell is your

deal, dude? Like, okay, no, great. It's mechanics

origin. I love that part of the episode take

that out. This is nothing but count Marzo going

after kids again All right, it's just just what

an episode of the podcast that we talked about

episode 122 overall so not very many episodes

ago 43 or 42 something like that go back to those

episodes of the podcast folks listen to our our

break complete break down the is the only time

in so far in tales of a turn or in so far powers

of grace go right to actually put a disclaimer

on the front of the podcast. Is that my fault?

Yeah. My bad. Well, no, it was kind of my fault

because I mentioned like I had written down that,

oh my God, count Marzo is a sexual deviant and

then you took it and ran. Interesting a twist

there with our number one give a four during

the podcast I Have one honorable mention the

only other would zero or one that I didn't get

to get in my top ten And that was things that

go bump in the night. That was about Prince glitch

of Salisha So that was stupid but didn't quite

make my top ten, but god anyways those are our

worst episodes of the series we'll be right back

to go over some ratings and all kinds of other

fun stuff including the writers and power swords

and havoc staff stats so we'll be right back

i said my patience grows thin grows how thin

very thin oh no boss you aren't too thin if anything

You tin -tongued dolt! I'm talking about my patience,

not my body! Yes, Deltor. Gasselgray's skull

is the source of ultimate power. Power which

must be mine! I have tried to conquer it six

times! Seven. Six, you fleabitten fur brain.

The first one didn't count. It was only practice.

I was teasing the poor fool. I guess He -Man

can't take a joke. He -Man? I've been foiled

by that muscle -bound moron one too many times!

I will defeat He -Man! You'd need an army to

defeat He -Man. An army? Yes. I need an army!

But all I have is a robot fleet, machines to

pilot my ships, and a couple of stupid assistants.

I'm talking to you, you dim -witted duo. What

is it that holds your attention more than the

mighty Skeletor? All right, thanks for sticking

with us. You've heard our best episodes of the

series. You've heard our least favorite episodes

of the series. We're going to spend this next

section going over our overall ratings and look

at the writers to go along with that in this

section. As you've heard us throughout the entire

podcast run, we always give a rating from zero

to five orcos or battle cats that we've given

out throughout each episode. We've tallied all

the numbers to see exactly how we feel about

it. I'm going to break it down by half seasons,

first of all. Season one the first half of season

one my average rating was three point three nine

Mike your average rating for the first half of

season one was three point four two Yeah, so

you had a three point four two. I had a three

point three nine So you like that one slightly

better? We both gave it above average rating

then we moved into the second half of season

one I went from three point three nine in the

first half down to three point two one Went from

three point four two down to two point five three

in this half of season one So you see almost

a whole point off there where I only went a tenth

of a point So our season one total for all of

season one. I was at three point two nine You

were at two point nine five So apparently I like

season one a slightly better than you moving

into season two the first half. I gave it a three

point two nine You gave it a two point seven

Then we move into the second half of season two,

which was my favorite half season out of the

whole series I gave it a three point five nine

You gave it a three point one nine, which was

just slightly lower than the first half of season

one Which apparently was your favorite part of

the entire series? So our season two total was

me at three point four four and you at two point

nine four Which means overall for the entire?

Series my total series rating 3 .37 battle cats

3 .37 Mike you're at 2 .95 orcos So you are Slightly

under three. I'm a little bit over three What

are your thoughts on the rankings there? That's

crazy The only half a season you liked better

than me was the first half of season one Otherwise

every single thing outside of that I scored higher

than you know So I apparently like the series

a little bit more than Mike I think it's just

because he's older than me, and he's grumpy.

No, shut up. I'm only a year older than you.

Shut the hell up. No, honestly, this whole journey,

the whole three years that we've been doing this,

it has the episode. Sure, I'm sure you're going

to say how many fives we've each done in whatever

fours, whatever, in a minute, but I can only

think of maybe 10 episodes out of 130 that I've

given, like, really, really liked and enjoyed.

The rest are either middle of the road or just

god -awful horrible. Well, another thing that

you can see that both of us agreed on, we both

thought season one got worse as it went, whereas

we both thought season two got better as it went.

Well, until that last... Well, I'm just saying,

the first half, we both... Yeah. from the first

half to the second half where it was the opposite

in the first season. So I found that somewhat

interesting. I did not tally up the individual

numbers. Oh, you didn't? So no, I don't have

that with me without doing a whole bunch of counting.

But I did want to take another quick look, though,

at how the writers fared into that, because obviously

based on how good or how bad an episode is going

to be mostly centralized on the writer. And we

had quite a few writers that participated in

this series overall One two three four five forty

three writers All right, so forty three writers

first I have the information for who wrote the

most episodes and then we're gonna go into the

average rating I took I took your rating and

my rating for every episode and averaged them

and then every episode that the writer had Took

those numbers and average those so we have the

average rating per writer as well. So first for

who wrote the most do you have a guess? It has

to be Larry to tell you or It has to be Larry.

All right, so person who wrote the most episodes

In either some of these were in conjunction with

another writer So I will say that but as long

as they're listed as one of the writers that

counted 16 episodes for Larry to tell you yeah

Then we had Paul Dini with 11 David Wise with

nine Jay Michael Straczynski with nine Robbie

London with eight Doug Booth with eight J. Brin

Stevens with seven. So those are your seven too

many So those are the most people everybody else

was four or less, right? The fours were Robby

Gorin Anthony is a loose key Richard party Robert

Lamb and then the Ron and Sam Schultz duo So

Detilio, Dini, Wise, Straczynski, Booth, London,

and Stevens were your top whatever seven as far

as how many they wrote. But that doesn't mean

that they were all good. Now if you had to rate

somebody, this is a little bit more difficult

because obviously the average rating for someone

who only wrote one or two episodes is going to

be a little bit skewed. Because if we were going

just based on not putting the limit on it, Bob

Ford only wrote two episodes, they both got an

average rating of five from us. So he had an

average rating of five. So there was also Ken

Cinnamon and Karen Wingard. They only wrote one

episode and we gave that a five. So those don't

really count to me. I'm going to eliminate anybody

that only wrote one or two episodes, which means

that the best writer, according to our ratings,

with an average rating of 4 .04 was Paul Dini.

Of course. So Paul Dini at 4 .04. Next would

be Larry DiTilio with 3 .91 Then J. Michael Straczynski

with 3 .81 Then actually Misty Stewart who only

wrote three episodes, but she comes in at 3 .66

Mark Scott Zickery 3 .33 Robbie London 3 .31

Robert White 3 David Wise 2 .94 Robie Gorin 2

.93 So those are your your highest rated people

if you're going for the most episodes in the

lowest rating doug booth 2 .53 Robert lamb 2

.5 antony zalewski 2 .43 and jaybrin stevens

2 .53 so Don heckman 1 .9 and janice diamond

2. I already said 2 .33. So those are your worst

rated people any surprises there? No Surprised

that Paul Dini and Larry DiTillio and Strazinski

are your top three? No, not at all because they

do the only time that I think I really didn't

like something Strazinski did is when the plot

didn't make sense His comedy was Skeletor and

all that stuff is absolutely amazing Paul Dini

I mean I've been watching Paul Dini's writing

on You know Batman and Superman and Justice League

for four years now and Batman Beyond and all

that stuff So I know Paul Dini is an excellent

excellent writer same thing with Larry DiTillio

I mean Just I just mean I can't also can't stress

enough that we had no idea who was writing these

episodes when we were rating them Right didn't

base this on we didn't we're not fanboys of these

people and we're just rating them I mean you

could see that because David wise only is at

a two point nine four Which is somewhat surprising

because he only wrote what did you say nine episodes?

Yeah, he only wrote nine episodes out of 130,

but he had one and rated point five on average

He had one that we rated four point seven five

and one that we rated five But he also had won

two. So I mean, we were very fair with that.

Yeah. And, you know, David Wise himself has said

this was not his favorite show to work on because

he's not into this kind of a show. He he he has

said in interviews in the past that he is more

he he was more interested at the time in Transformers.

You know, once Transformers started, then he

was writing for once Transformers came along,

he essentially left He -Man. Mean right he I've

heard him say this in interviews, so The biggest

takeaway is Doug Booth stay away from anything

I love I don't know some some things he's done

are You know better than some of the other non

on you don't have no episode rated above three

point seven five Okay, not in this but So that

is the writer breakdown Which I found interesting

especially especially and I didn't even know

when I ranked my top 10 episodes How many of

those people would show up? I had no clue that

we're gonna have so many Paul Dini Episodes with

with a few of these other guys sprinkled in there.

So a good look at the writers wouldn't I don't

know. Hopefully one day we'll get to talk to

a couple of them about the about this series

so Very cool stuff from there any other thoughts

on the writing or the rankings. All right, we're

gonna take one more quick break Then we'll be

back with the power swords and the Havoc Staffs.

The grace of Eternia. What is that? Are you alright?

What happened? Meteor strike. Hit the engines.

Fuel lines blue. Couldn't hold it. Who are you?

And where on Earth am I? I know not of Earth.

I am Randor, King of Eternia. Eternia? You need

rest. Return with me to my palace. You shall

be my guest while you recover. But... I think

you will find it comfortable and pleasant. In

a few days, you will be well and can return to

your Earth. A few days, you said. But I fell

in love with you. And with this planet. and I

just couldn't bring myself to leave. Yet there

are moments when this royal life can seem too

calm, at least compared to my days as a space

pilot. Yes, Skeletor has not been causing much

trouble of late, and I, for one, have been glad

for the chance to relax. Speaking of relaxation,

we'll be going to the beach for a picnic after

the joust. Will you join us, my dear? No, not

now, though I'm sure it will be lovely. I'd just

like to spend a few more moments with the Rainbow

Explorer. Of course, my dear, I quite understand.

I shall see you upon our return. Alright, thanks

for sticking with us, if you have stuck with

us. And it's time for Power Swords and Havoc

Staffs. We've been giving them out for, uh, 45

episodes, 44 episodes, for 130 of the actual

series episodes. We've been giving out hardware.

And now it's time to see who the ultimate winners

are. Whose trophy cases are the biggest. Uh,

do you want to stop? I'm gonna give you the choice

here, sir. Should we talk about Havoc Staffs

first, or should we talk about Power Swords first?

Let's talk about Havoc Staffs first, because

I'm really assuming that the bitch is at the

top of the list on this one. Well, I've broken

it down by person. I awarded 47 Havoc Staffs

along the way. You awarded 71 Havoc Staffs along

the way. And this is what we're gonna do. We're

gonna break it down by Somewhat of groupings

that I have done here. Okay, we'll start with

me. I Gave nine Havoc staffs to Tila. I Gave

eight Havoc staffs to various writers. I Gave

seven Havoc staffs to various kids Okay. All

right. Everybody else only received one Havoc

staff at the most for you Twenty -three Havoc

Staffs to various writers. Yup. Eleven Havoc

Staffs to Tila. What? Ten Havoc Staffs to various

kids. Three Havoc Staffs to the Sorceress. Two

Havoc Staffs a piece for Orko, He -Man, and Evil

Lin. So those are the multiple Havoc Staffs.

Winners, so if you add that up together, that's

31 for the writers 20 for Tila and 17 for the

kids So those are our winners of the Havoc staff

Competition if I'm gonna go through and give

some interesting ones you gave a Havoc staff

to the animation team one time You gave a Havoc

staff to Jay Shimer one time You gave a Havoc

staff to I thought there was one other weird

one that you gave Nope my weird ones. I gave

one to the animation team I gave one to the cosmic

comet I gave one to the drawing crew I gave one

to evil warriors in general And then let's see

I gave one to the power of love concept And I

gave one to you were the weird That one doesn't

count. Those are the weird ones that we that

we handed out Any surprise or any thoughts on

the Havoc staffs? I'm surprised that my writers

are higher than Tila honestly though. So writers

Tila kids Yeah, all right. Let's get into power

swords then like I said I handed 47 Havoc staffs

you handed 71 Havoc staffs I gave a hundred power

swords You gave a hundred and nine Much more

generous with our power swords than our Havoc

staff Break it down a little bit if I can here.

It's a little bit harder since we have a hundred

of them, but I have a Very close battle for the

top of mine actually and I'm somewhat surprised

with who came out in first most power swords

for me ten for he man I did not expect that then

I have a tie nine for Skeletor and nine for Orko

Next up for me would be seven for Cringer Then

I have another tie I have four for writers. I

have four for Ramman. I have four I have four

for Prince Adam since we kind of broke it down

Yeah, I have three for Evil Lynn three for Granamere

Three for Tila actually Two for zodiac two for

stratos two for the sorceress two for merman

two for Queen Marlena two for Manny faces and

That would be it. So so he man's my winner as

far as power swords with with us Skeletor and

oracle right behind it. That's kind of surprising

I am somewhat surprised for interesting ones

that I give out. Let's see if there are any I

gave castle grayskull one Mm -hmm, so a place

so that's kind of interesting I gave the evil

warriors even though I gave him a havoc staff

in one of them I gave him a power sword as well

in a different one I gave her the elephant one

and the Holly wag I gave the mini Skeletor's

one Yep, and I gave the shaping staff one So

let's see what else the sky tree So those are

my interesting ones as for you and your 109 power

swords Any guess as to who you gave the most?

It's gotta be Cringer Orko or Skeletor. All right,

you're number one at 18 18 power swords for Cringer

Yeah, I knew it would be Cringer. Very close

behind that 17 power swords for Orko So 18 and

17 and then you know yourself pretty well 12

for Skeletor Yeah, you kinda figured. Then 12

after that you go down to eight eight power swords

for he man So you're somewhat in an agreement

after you got those other ones out of the way

Then you have four for Ramman Mm -hmm. You got

three for Adam Yeah, three for battle cat Mm

-hmm three for Grand Amir Mm -hmm two for the

writers two for Tila Two for the attack track

and Two for everybody twice you gave everybody

a Power sword so some interesting ones that you

gave out you gave a power sword to Alan Oppenheimer

You gave a power sword to a battle scene from

one of the episodes All right, you gave a You

also gave a power sword to the evil warriors

at one point Let's see here any other interesting

ones you also gave a power sword to the mini

Skeletor's You gave a power sword Didn't I give

all of them a power sword so you have to count

up the mini Skeletor's and then no, yeah You

have to count up the mini Skeletor's how many

were in that scene and then they each get one

So yeah, you also gave a power sword to the Skytree

like me. You gave a power sword to the power

sword itself Wait a minute when the hell did

that happen when it appeared in that one episode

you gave it a power sword I believe or when he

I don't know you you gave a power sword a power

sword so So those are the interesting power swords.

I guess if you add those up then let's see your

17 orcos in my 9 would be 26 for orco We'd be

at 21 for Skeletor we would be at 25 for Cringer

and 18 for He -Man. So those are our top award

winners. Any thoughts on the Power Swords? No,

I mean, you know, I was kind of, you know, assuming

that that cringer would get the most for the

most part. I do remember that, you know, that

happening. So yeah, so so for the losers, it's

it's Tila. It's the writers and it's the kids

for the winners. It's orko cringer he man and

Skeletor All right Take one more break and we're

gonna be back with a whole bunch of look at the

characters our favorite masters of the universe

our favorite Evil warriors our least favorite

of each and then some look at some of the other

characters that were outside of those Those groupings

and who we liked and we didn't like so we'll

be right back with a whole bunch of character

takes Alright, we're back. We're gonna be looking

at some of our favorite and least favorite characters

overall. We're gonna start with our favorite

masters of the universe. Who did you like that

was a master? All right, so favorites for the

Masters We have that number one battle cat and

Cringer because for me they are the same It's

two personalities in one body, right? So I'm

counting them as one character, even though it's

two. It's two. It's basically a coin, right?

I absolutely love every time Cringer tries to

run away from the power sword His character had

a lot more growth and a lot more depth to it

than I thought Originally because like I said,

I don't remember like I honestly did not remember

half of this series Between the time I was a

kid and the time we started the podcast that's

the whole point of us obviously during the podcast

but But battle cat and cringer. I love battle

cats roar I love when he goes into action even

though some of the stuff he tries to do doesn't

really make sense to me because he's a cat I

mean, that's Some of this like I can see him

pushing a rock and stuff But I know there are

certain things that battle cat has done in 130

episodes that just make absolutely zero sense

to me that a cat could do those kind of things

uh... so he is tops on my list also on my list

uh... he man prince adam again two sides of the

same coin uh... and so in love you know that

very first scene with him at grayskull you know

and the job bridge shell all that you know this

the music behind him saying that the whole effect

of castle Castle Grayskull just absolutely awesome.

Other characters that I've written down here,

Ram Man. Good ol' Rammy. I love Ram Man. I love

his sound of his boing sound effect. That's what

I love the most about him is his sound effect

he makes when he goes bouncing around the place.

I like Man at Arms, but after a while Man at

Arms kind of grained on me a bit because He just

wouldn't loosen up around orco. I do like the

character He's a really great father figure to

everybody. He's honestly more of a father to

Adam than than randor is Stratos absolutely love

him mechaneck for the few times he showed up

many faces and attacked attack track and Granamere

kind of get a tie because Granamere was only

in what four episodes five episodes Yeah, something

like that. So But I do absolutely love Grande

Miria and Attack Track. Attack Track is just

amazing. Alright. Good choices. I'll have to

add Attack Track. I like him too. I'll add him

as my fourth. Otherwise, my number three would

be Battlecat and Cringer. Again, liked a lot

of the moments, especially the Cringer moments.

So as we showed with our power swords, we gave

a lot out to Cringer. So great comedic relief

there. I will echo your sentiment with Stratos.

He outside of the main ones. He's probably my

favorite. I Just I'd love the design of him.

I love the look of him. I you know, you can fly

I like the the bird people Yeah, so I love Stratos

and then the one that I know I probably like

more than a lot of people But he's probably one

of my favorite characters of the entire series

overall and that is zodiac I love zodiac He's

got that mystery to him. He's got the Power that

can even surpass the sorceress basically. He's

got a cool look to him. So excuse me So zodak

is probably my favorite of all of the I include

him in in the masters So as far as our least

favorite masters of the universe, I will start

Clearly it's Tila Yeah, so Tila I don't even

I don't even need to go. It's it's Tila. It's

Tila I do have one other one that I don't really

like that much. I don't like buzz off that much.

I Don't know if it was the voice or the look

and sometimes his eyes are always shut, but I

didn't really enjoy but I wasn't shown enough

That's my right. He just I would have put moss

man in there, but I liked his last appearance

I Would have I would have needed to see more

of like Fisto and cyclone To really get a good

look and I probably would put many faces in the

in the best if I would have seen him More so

that some of them I didn't get to see enough

but buzz off honestly I didn't need to see much

more of I just don't care for that character

So buzz off and Tila for me. Is it just Tila

for you? Yeah, she is easily the worst character

in the entire series. All right. Well, let's

get into the evil warriors then Clearly people

should know who a couple of mine are gonna be

Skeletor Obviously, he is hilarious. He's got

some of the best lines in the series. We gave

him a ton of power swords. So Skeletor's on there.

And then obviously one of my personal favorites,

Mike, who is he? Merman, obviously. Yeah, Merman

is probably number two for me. I actually like

Evil Lin a lot. I think Evil Lin is way better

a character than Tila if you're talking about

female characters in the series. Oh, absolutely.

And then maybe my two more under the radar ones

that I'll throw out there. That would be Magilac

and Cobra Khan. I like those two characters.

I like Modulax kind of he's on the outskirts

kind of like tarantulas for me for Beast Wars

Cobra Khan just because he represents all the

snake people for me in a very cool way and he's

very conniving and clever So I like those two

guys as well. What about you? What do you what

are your favorite evil warriors? For me, it's

got to be That's the schedule wrong document,

folks. Skeletor, obviously, you know, anytime

he has comedic moments, or anytime he has, like,

if an evil warrior like a beastman or a trap

-jaw does something stupid, and Alan Oppenheimer

has a line where he is sarcastic, he's not trying

to be funny, he's not trying to be comedic Skeletor,

but when he becomes sarcastic Skeletor, it's

just absolutely amazing. Uh, there was a line

recently, um, in one of the most recent end of

season two episodes that we talked about in a

couple of podcasts ago where Skeletor is like,

Oh, it was about too bad. He says, they say two

heads are better than one. I think they're wrong.

Yeah, Skeletor. Also on my list are Panthor.

Panthor is not seen. No, I did not expect that.

Oh my god, like, come on, it's Panthor. And the

whole point of He -Man versus Skeletor is also

to have Battle Cat versus Panthor. Panthor needed

a voice. Well, I don't necessarily think Panthor

needed a voice. I like his, the standard roar,

growl thing that they use for him. I don't necessarily

think he needed a voice, but I just think that...

He should have been used so much more. Yeah,

Evelyn she I like her This first story wise I

like her better in the 2002 cartoon series because

she had they actually give her a backstory But

here she she is amazing. She has great magic.

She sometimes wants to take over and Never really

gets to but she's always also in support of Skeletor

for the most part Once again, another character

is not used enough in this series, and I just

cannot believe they did not do this enough. Triclops

is so underappreciated. Yeah, I almost put him

on my list too. I like Beastman. He's alright.

He has his moments. I like when he starts talking

to himself, like if Skeletor scolds him and he's

like... You know, one of these days, I'm just

going to take over. I'm just going to throw you

down, you know, down the falls of Snake Mountain

and boom, you know, a beast man will be in charge.

I love Too Bad. Too Bad's just hilarious. I love

that kind of character that has the two heads

and they start arguing with each other. It's

just amazing. We didn't see enough of him, but

Web Store. I really dug Web Store. Those two,

if I would have saw more of them, they probably

could have been on my best list. Again, I just

didn't see enough of them. But that's it for

me all right as far as least favorite evil warriors

And I might give these to a pass because I think

it's just a product of us seeing too much of

them Whereas we didn't see enough of some of

the other characters, so I do have beastman and

trap jar written down Just because like I said

I got too tired of them. I if they would have

been more in moderation I probably would have

liked them a lot more But I really would have

wished some of the episodes they were gone and

we got more of like you said triclops Especially

triclops, but even like a too bad or a web store

or whatever So I put them on my list. Outside

of that, I know he only appeared briefly, but

Jitsu? I thought that was a terrible character.

And then the other two that I really could have

done almost without completely would have been

Clawful and Whiplash. I just didn't really care

for those two characters. They seemed just too

generic, too bland for me. I think the other

people had a lot more interesting parts to them.

So what about you? I'm gonna go 3 -2 -1 order.

Basically, two and one are tied for one, but

one is worse than the other. Number three, least

favorite villain character. The sexual deviant

himself, Count Marzo. I really thought I remembered

him as a kid doing something better, doing something

more devious than what he has done in this series,

and he is just god -awful. But worse than him?

Clawful. Clawful is just stupid. That's the only

reason why it makes him a worst character. He's

just dumb. He's just... And he's not used that

well. And overused. So overused. We could have

used Merman so much more than this character.

Whiplash. Whiplash is just no... Yeah, I agree.

Whiplash and Clawful especially. Whiplash did

not do anything. Worthy of Skeletor. Yeah, I

agree Alright, what about our favorite and least

favorite just overall genuinely good characters

outside of the actual masters So just any good

characters or anybody that's not bad typically

for my Least I only have one Even though I really

like the episode Lady Edwina Did not care for

her and I will put a Collective of all the kids

and in this one for least favorite just general

characters as far as the characters I like the

most That weren't masters. I know you kind of

already list them in the masters group, but I

got Granamere I really enjoyed Granamere and

and one of his episodes was the sky tree, which

I thought was really cool As far as Stratos people

Delora, I thought was cool I'll give one to the

trolling uncle more Montork I liked him Katrina

the cat chick you gave you gave her a power sword.

I really liked her I thought she could have been

seen again. That was really cool I also gave

a power sword to a guy named core I thought he

was was a pretty darn cool character overall

and one that I thought could have been Regular

character as far as the look goes was the bear

man I don't know if you remember him, but the

bear man was he almost looks like he almost looks

like panther from From thundercats, but I thought

he was was a cool a cool -looking character that

I really could have done more Could have seen

him more and I would have been fine with that

So those are some of the characters if I had

to pick like an actual favorite I probably would

go with with Gran Amir as my favorite regular

just General good character. So what about you

good characters that you liked or didn't like?

Most of its I didn't like I have to mention these

two by name and then I'll lump everyone into

Jeremy and Ed Weiner They could get married and

have even worse kids. Um, and then 90 % of the

kids in the series, there was 10, like the star

child after a while, I didn't mind her because

once we saw her again, I liked her more. In the

first episode we saw her in because we didn't

understand what her deal was. I kind of didn't

care for her, but, um, all the kids in this series

are, I, this is going to make you, this is going

to make you, this is going to make Tim, this

is going to make everybody just. jump out of

their chairs. I would prefer Scott and T -Bob

over 90 % of the children in this series. Oh

yeah, so would I. Scott and T -Bob are horrible,

don't get me wrong. Scott and T -Bob from Mask

are horrible characters, but they're not as bad

as 90 % of the children in this series. Anybody

that you liked? Squinch and the rest of the widgets.

I love the widgets, the widgets are awesome.

We haven't talked about the widgets, so good

to get them mentioned. That's what we need. We

need an updated series with the widgets and they

meet the burbils. That would be awesome He -Man

and Thundercats together Yeah Okay other ones

now that I'm thinking of it I do like Driel I

wish there was more of orgo and Driel. Yeah,

I can see that As far as villains go that weren't

evil warriors The ones I like the least, I know

you already mentioned him too when we were talking

about Evil Warriors, but Count Marzo and his

sidekick, the Chimera, or whatever you want to

call him, they're, first of all, creepy. Second

of all, they're, I think, wanted felons. Third,

they changed their look, especially the Chimera,

there's like three different looks, so that's

not cool, but Count Marzo's just a creep, so

I have to put him in one of my least favorite.

He had potential, but he just... Motives are

not good there as far as the ones as far as the

ones I liked Some one -off kind of bad guys dark

dream. I thought he was cool looking I got two

masters the slave master and the game master

I just thought they had cool looks most of this

is gonna be about looking and how they came across

mask M -A -S -Q -U -E he had like a mask with

like horns coming out of it. He looked really

cool And then another character that I think

could have been a regular character and I would

have loved to see him more. And that was Batros.

He had like the horde outfit on and he looked

like he could have been a regular villain of

some sort. So I would have loved to have seen

him more. What about you? Evil people that you

liked or disliked? Um, it's probably just gonna

be dislike on this one. Okay, um cuz I like my

It's the biggest thing if you go back and you

listen to the other 44 or 43 episodes this of

the podcast. I wanted more evil warriors I didn't

want random one -off villains. Um, I didn't like

negator No and Morningstar the the dragon that

had to fight granite. It's just no If I had to

I'm trying to think if there were yeah, no there

I I guess I could put in an honorable mention

for the Thousand year old people that were asleep

that wanted to take over but they learned their

let the the couple with the oh, yeah, you're

talking about Where the the old dude woke up

first and he's old and she doesn't recognize

it Yeah, whoever the hell they are. I'm sorry,

folks. Oh, that's fine. I didn't write their

names down. But yeah, that's it. All right. Take

one last break, then. We'll be back to give you

our thoughts on the voicing of the show, the

voice actors involved, and then just look at

some of the feedback that we've gotten and our

general take on this whole journey. So that's

what's coming up next. Last break. Hi Mike and

Kevin, this is Toon Master Tim and I wanted to

call and leave feedback for the wrap -up of the

Tales of Eternia podcast on the Powers of Grayskull

podcast series. You know, just starting off,

I've really, I was going to say overall, I've

really enjoyed the podcast. You guys have done

a great job. I love the format. I love that we

go to Castle Grayskull for those good moments

in the series and that we have the Snake Mountain

moments where we highlight the not -so -good

moments, and then we actually give out the awards

for the things we like in the episodes. Overall,

the series has been a lot of fun. When I first

got the BCI DVDs, I sat down to try to watch

some of the episodes, and I found that I couldn't

watch more than maybe one or two at a time. It

wasn't really a show that I had grown up on.

So I didn't have the nostalgia factor. I was

just looking at it for what it was. And I liked

the sword and sorcery and adventure genres. So

I really thought I would like it. But I had a

little trouble getting into it. And so I put

it on hold knowing you guys were going to do

the podcast and picked it up when the podcast

series started, watching it with you guys each

week. And I found that I really did enjoy it.

There's a lot to like about He -Man. And I really

had hoped that there would be more characters

show up in the series, knowing how many toys

that were created for the series, how many characters

there were. But overall, we had quite a few characters

show up. Some of my favorites are Merman and

Manny Faces. Mossman, he was one that I really

enjoyed seeing a couple times in season two.

Stratos was another one that I really liked.

And I'm missing some more, but there are some

really great characters, some really fun moments.

I like that they made Skeletor sort of a more

humorous character in season two. And one of

the things that I really like about the He -Man

series is the consistency. Because with a lot

of cartoon series, especially when they have

so many episodes like He -Man, I mean, He -Man

had two 65 episode season. That's a lot of episodes.

And you have a lot of series that over time,

maybe after the first season, or maybe second

season, things start to change. The story direction

changes. Maybe a new story editor comes on board,

a new head writer perhaps, or a new producer.

And the show will take a turn. Sometimes the

voice actors will change. They'll come and go.

We've seen that recently with the Teenage Mutant

Ninja Turtles series on Nickelodeon. And sometimes

there are good reasons for that. But when you

look at He -Man, it was consistent throughout

the entire series. And in season two, I think

that, as you guys have said, it actually got

better. I think that overall the episodes in

season two were... Written a little bit better

in a lot of cases. I know that I've ranked a

lot of them higher than I did some of the ones

in season one. I think that the writers just

had a really good grasp of what they were trying

to do with the series. There was more continuity

with Larry DiTillio and J. Michael Sertzinski

and some of those other writers taking some of

the elements from that first part of the series

in season one and bringing some of those elements

back in season two and have some more continuity.

which I think just makes for an overall more

enjoyable series, especially one like He -Man

that was told in the 80s where it was pretty

much just episodic. So yeah, I just really enjoyed

the consistency of it, knowing that the voices

didn't change, the characters were the same.

You know, we didn't see any... crazy character

changes like, oh, well, this person needs to

have a different hairstyle or change the color

of their clothing or whatever. I mean, even E

-Man with all the different toys they created

with different battle armor and stuff like that,

and same with Skeletor, they stay consistent.

And I know that's probably in large part just

due to the fact that Filmation was trying to

save as much money as possible by reusing animation.

But still, I actually appreciated that. And we

kept the same cast of characters for the voices.

So it was a great series. I really enjoyed it.

I will occasionally go back and revisit it. I

have some of my favorite episodes, as you guys

do as well. I just find it a still entertaining

cartoon. But looking forward to moving on. And

of course, I'm going to be there with you guys

as you continue your journey. So thank you very

much. Not a chance, muscle brain! I don't do

things for humanity, I do them for me! Wait,

I will control Eternia all by myself! Not as

long as my friends and I are here to stop you.

Maybe not this time, but I'll be back! Count

on it! I don't get it! Why doesn't Skeletor use

his powers to do something good? Orko, some people

are just blind. They don't know right from wrong.

When I do something wrong, Man -at -Arms sends

me to my room. Too bad it's not that easy with

Skeletor. You know, that's not a bad idea, Orko.

It's not? Uh -huh. Next time Skeletor does something

wrong, we'll send him to your room. My room?

From what Man -at -Arms tells me, your room is

such a mess that Skeletor would never find his

way out. Alright. Wrapping things up here just

a couple more things to go over first off We

wanted to take a quick look at some of the voice

actors involved Obviously this show only had

so many voice actors I've got some stats for

you because I've added every single character

that appears in the entire series that any Speaking

character has been added to the he -man behind

the voice actors page So we have everybody there

Lou Shimer voiced a hundred and fifty four characters

over the course of the series 154 right now as

far as behind the voice actors that ranks three

as far as the most roles in a single show So

154 for Lou Shimer 77 of the top two Trey Parker

in South Park He has 436 roles so far on this

on there and Seth Green and robot chicken, which

are completely different types of shows up Yeah,

otherwise you have like Jerry Nelson and Sesame

Street has 142 so Lou Shimer with 154 John Irwin

ranks eighth on the on the site right now with

77 Alan Oppenheimer ranks 13th with 73 and Linda

Gary ranked 17th with 59 So a lot obviously between

those individual people Also, if you're interested

the show itself Has as far as speaking characters

go 410 Which is the 12th highest right now on

the site so four hundred and ten that I've added

and that's basically every single person that

has spoken I've captured Basically even guards

that only say like one thing or something like

that. So Outside of those individuals. We obviously

did have Erica Shimer doing a couple things there.

We had Jay Shimer Lou Shimer's wife a couple

times we had George DeCenzo who also voiced a

character so Just going over that. What was your

opinion of the voice work? Obviously, with that

many people doing or with that few people doing

that many voices, you're going to have a lot

of repetition. But there's still some good stuff

in there as well. Yeah, I mean, I love the voice

acting. I love Alan Oppenheimer as Skeletor,

as Man at Arms, as Merman. Um, Cringer. Yeah,

as Cringer slash Battle Cat. I love Lew Scheimer

as Orko. Just a nice play off of Alan Oppenheimer

between Orko and Man in Arms. I can break down,

let me break down some of the main roles real

quick for each person. So Lew Scheimer has Orko,

King Randor, Trapjaw, Stratos, Manny Faces, Mechaneck,

Zodak, Mossman, Triclops, Clawful, Modulock.

Spike or too bad and Cobra Khan. Those are all

Lou Shimer All right. All right. If you break

down John Irwin, obviously human Prince Adam

Ram man beast man Whiplash and the Grand Amir

and count Mars or his main ones. Mm -hmm Alan

Oppenheimer. Like I said battle cat and cringer

man -at -arms Skeletor buzz off merman are the

main ones for that Linda Gary, obviously Tila

sorceress Evelyn and at times the Queen What

do you mean at times the Queen cuz Jay Shimer

did the Queen a couple times too, okay? Yeah,

I love Linda Gary as Queen Marlena as Evelyn

and as the sorceress Outside of that I know we're

trying to I know we're trying to praise them

here folks But outside of that any of the time

that she does a child voice It's just It grades

on me. I see Erica Shimer and Linda Geary are

doing all the children voices, which we didn't

necessarily care for as much. Yeah, I do love

John Irwin as that The the giant in the most

recent episode we did. Oh, yeah, I know where

everyone I love John Irwin's deep voice, right?

It's it's not hit it and his Granamere voice

too. Yeah, and his Granamere voice I tend to

like John as He -Man more than Adam. I mean,

I don't have a problem with Adam's voice. I don't

dislike it, but his He -Man voice is kind of

more my style. And obviously Lou Shimer is not

technically a voice actor so to speak. I mean

he is I want to come that have that come across

wrong. He is because There's a ton of people

in this episode in this series, but I mean obviously

outside of filmation He's and he wasn't like

a voice actor before he got involved in his own

projects. It's like the Vince McMahon of wrestling

getting Involved like that and you know John

Irwin did some voice acting but also mostly for

filmation the most prolific voice actor easily

is Alan Oppenheimer As far as doing stuff before

and after he man Now I want to take this just

take a moment here and and direct people over

to the website geocastradio .com I'll actually

go I'm gonna put a link in in this episode post

and show you guys I did an interview with John

Semper jr He is the guy the main guy that was

in charge of the 1994 spider -man cartoon He

actually worked with Linda Gary. She was the

voice of Aunt May on that series. And they wrote,

this was like right before she passed. And she

was really, really sick. She was really, really

sick at the time. They actually wrote out lines

for her to say, and I believe there's something

in this story. Again, go over to the website,

listen to the interview. He tells a really, really

nice story about Linda Gary. She is someone I

would have loved to have been able to interview

obviously sadly that could not happen But it's

one of those things even though I don't like

the character she voices in Tila because Tila

is just a we've already said I still like her

as a voice actor and a voice actress and she

is She is done some really really awesome. I

think when Maybe in the final episode of the

podcast we need to find somewhere to put in there

like a voice actor spotlight where we kind of

look at the major voice casts From these series

and look at some of the other stuff. They've

done. Yeah, just you know Just you know a brief

like five ten minute kind of thing or something.

I don't know But the voice actor Alan Oppenheimer

honestly takes the cake right he really does

doesn't matter what character he's doing Specifically

for me, it's probably Cringer It just His Cringer

is just so awesome. It really really is. I agree

with that And just getting into some feedback

as far as the series Mike we've we've heard some

of the feedback But what else did you get? Well,

we got You guys heard in that the break. We just

took you heard a voicemail from tune master Tim.

So thank you Tim Tim has been i think i'm gonna

have to go back and look here um probably since

at least episode Maybe 11, I don't know, because

we actually had gone on a hiatus for a while

And I'll give that number out in a moment Yeah,

no, probably since episode one of the podcast

Toon Master Tim has been leaving us comments

on the website every single podcast we've put

out There was a break on Tales of Eternity, even

though I've said we've gone strong for three

years Between June 6th of 2013 to February 2nd

of 2014 of last year, we had to take a break.

But other than that, we do have one. Let's see.

Episode 45. We have one. We've gone international,

folks. We have one from an Andrew Mills. He says,

dear TF2 and Mike in Optimus Solo. I have loved

listening to the Tales of Eternia podcast over

the last few years. Your differences in opinion

have been really funny to listen to. I hope you

will publish a table of the grades you both gave

each episode. Hmm, that's something we'll talk

about off air. I live in London, England. If

Apple would let me leave you an iTunes review,

it would go something like this. Five stars or

whatever the highest rating is. This podcast

is one of the best podcasts in podcast land.

Hearing these two crazy bastards talk about he

-man is the - highlight of my week. Even though

I am not a huge She -Ra fan I will continue to

look forward to listening to the podcast. It

would be a great if in the future you could do

the occasional He -Man related episode as it

would be interesting to hear your thoughts on

the toys and upcoming movie etc. Take care and

guys thanks for the podcasts Andrew Mills. Well

we'll tell you what's coming up folks in this

In the special episodes, like I mentioned before,

we'll tell you all that at the end of this. Thank

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I didn't ask Steve Megatron for the updated one,

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I know our buddy Toon Master Tim has told me

because we're not doing We're gonna be doing

production on the on the myths of the theory

of the Shira podcast But we're not actually gonna

launch it until September and Tim told me nine

months. That's a long time And I said, well,

don't worry, you'll have the gem show to keep

you company in the meantime. Folks, just like

everything, like I said in the beginning of this,

we've been doing this for a long time. And it's

not that I need a break from it, but we need

to, there's plenty of other things at GCRN that

we both want to do. And we need to focus on that

for now. We both got a lot of different things

and products that we're involved with, but also

this should allow for when it does go and start

again that there won't be any breaks midstream.

We should get consistent content every week for

She -Ra. So you don't have to wait. Once we start

that, you should get something every week until

we're done. Absolutely. So thanks for the feedback.

We appreciate it. Then there have been a lot

of other people that have commented on the actual

website throughout different episodes. You know,

we have our fans that have commented there and

that's also a great way to interact. So if you

want to interact with us, definitely go to the

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from a year ago, we will comment on that. We

will reply to that. So even if you're wanting

to, maybe you haven't... been with us and you're

just finding us now you can go back and listen

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along with it and give we give you our thoughts

we'll still interact with you so it's not just

because we're done with the he -man series does

not mean that you can't still listen and interact

with us about those episodes exactly so what's

coming up next sir well coming up next um We're

gonna be doing She -Ra So a little bit of a breakdown

before I read the the outro script how we're

going to do She -Ra Princess of Power is in episode

46 We're gonna do a commentary on secret of the

sword So we're gonna watch the movie and we're

gonna commentary along with it for ourselves

You're gonna have to do something a little special

as I think you have Do you have the do you have

the movie or do you not have the movie? I don't

remember You're gonna have to watch it watch

it with its commentary with Shimer and see what

they say on that if there's any interesting tidbits

on that yeah, but Secret of the sword episode

46 commentary and then episode 47 we're gonna

do a She -Ra introduction and we're going to

give you the differences between the film version

and the five part episodes because what happened

was i do remember i think it's Gwen Wexler i

believe is her name i could be wrong um she was

the director on most of these Into Aetheria,

Beast Island, She -Ra Unchained, Reunions, and

Battle for Brightmoon. Those five episodes were

taken aside and cut into the film version that

is called Secret of the Sword. So we're gonna,

in episode 47, we're gonna point out the differences

between the episodic version and the film version,

because I know, I remember when I watched the

episodes, there are several things that are there

that aren't in the film version like there's

a point where and i'm not giving i'm not trying

to spoil it for you anything else but i do remember

something with hordak in this in the in the episodes

that well i'm like wait a second that's where

did that scene come from it's it's kind of like

you know you you know you had you you film let's

say a hundred scenes and you only use 80 of them

or you only use 30 of them so it's kind of like

cutting room floor kind of stuff and then after

that Episode so basically Shira will take up

myths of aetheria is the title of the new podcast

It'll still be on the same feed from episode

46 all the way to episode Wow from episode 46

to 82 will be our Shira show We will have, I

think, two... No, yeah. Two special episodes.

In episode 50, we're gonna be talking about the

toys. We're gonna be talking about all kinds

of Master's toys, from the old days to... Now

and I just wanted to mention that Originally,

you know last episode that we had said that we

were going to talk about which characters appeared

in toys I didn't appear in the cartoon and whatnot.

We're holding off on that We're gonna hold off

on that to talk about it when we talk about the

actual toys For a number of reasons number one.

It goes well with talking about the toys, obviously

Yeah, and there's two I don't want to ruin anything

because I don't there may be some episode some

characters that I'm remembering that were toys

of the He -Man line that actually appear in She

-Ra So I don't want to spoil it for myself by

looking at that So we will talk about all the

toys and the toys that didn't actually appear

in the cartoon when we get to that special episode

Right and then in episode 75 we're gonna talk

about all of the Masters the universe comics

that have happened over the years from the old

mini comics to the current DC stuff and everything

in between Absolutely absolutely other special

episodes we have coming just kind of give everybody

a preview episode 100 will be our live -action

movie commentary on the 87 film that's gonna

be fun yeah it's gonna be interesting is what

it is so that's what that one's gonna be and

then episode 120 this is dependent on whether

or not the new movie Actually, it's made but

episode 120 of the podcast. We will be doing

a discussion on the new Masters in the universe

film crossing our fingers. Yep. Absolutely. So

folks. Be prepared. We're so excited to get to

She -Ra. We are ready. We are ready to enter

Etheria and it is going to be awesome and amazing.

Absolutely. I can't wait and hopefully we'll

gain more fans along the way and do some more

interaction with people as we... I'm excited

because I absolutely have no recollection of

She -Ra outside of the characters and a few toys

that I bought my sister which we'll get into

when we get there into the introduction part

of it, but definitely interested in... Going

along the journey here and remembering things

and learning things for the first time about

some of these characters seen if there's crossovers

between human characters and she or characters

or The toys or whatever that I had so it should

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optimus solo by the power and for the honor of

greyskull we all have the power doesn't anyone

ever clean up around here what a mess Today I

broke a promise and proved myself unworthy the

great power that was given me And if I am unworthy

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