Creatures from the Tar Swamp, Song of Solis, She-Demon of Phantos Review

and the Masters of the Universe! I am Adam, Prince

of Eternia and defender of the secrets of Castle

Grayskull. This is Cringer, my fearless friend.

Fabulous secret powers were revealed to me the

day I held aloft my magic sword and said, By

the power of Grayskull! Hello, this is Optimus

Solo and welcome... to the third chapter in Tales

of Eternia. With me for this journey into the

Masters of the Universe franchise, again, as

he will be for the entire journey, is TFGO and

Mike himself? Yes, that's right. Are you ready

to continue with the powers of Grayskull, sir?

Yes, I'm having tons of fun doing this series

because it's so much better than the other podcast

we started. I think it was the best thing we

could have ever done to do Mascara before this

because it makes this series so much more fun

to watch. Sorry, mask fans. In this episode of

Tales of Eternia, we'll be giving you our thoughts

on episode seven, Creatures from the Tar Swamp,

episode eight, Song of Solis, and episode nine,

She -Demon of Phantos. So we hope you're ready,

because it's time to go back to Eternia. What's

that? have need of your special talents! You

have the primeval potion right here! With this

magic brew, I can bring back any of the prehistoric

monsters that perished in this swamp, and I'll

use those monsters in my conquest of Palisthenia!

They're Paris! Oh no! I gotta warn them! Alright,

so for Episode 7, Creatures from the Tar Swamp...

First of all it aired in September 13th 1983

and it was co -written by two different people

one Richard Pardee and The other a familiar face

again Paul Dini who usually writes good stuff

As far as the plot for creatures from the tar

swamp The beautiful yet extremely snobby Lady

Edwina arrives in the Royal Palace. Her arrival

prompts Orko to seek out his magic medallion

in order to impress her and shower her with gifts.

Orko discovers the evil warrior's latest scheme,

resurrecting the prehistoric creature from the

Tar Swamp in a plan to attack the Royal Palace.

The monster diverts He -Man and his friends as

Skeletor and Evil Lin take their places upon

the Thrones of Eternia. And we're left to figure

out how... He -Man and the Masters of the Universe

will combat Skeletor, Evil Lin, and their new

creature from the Tar Swamp. As far as bad guys,

you get Beast Man, Skeletor, and Evil Lin. And

the good characters you see, obviously, Adam,

He -Man, Cringer, Battle Cat, the King, the Queen,

Orko, Tila, Man -at -Arms, and Stratos. This

is for Count Marzo. I hate this fucking episode.

Really? Hate it. I absolutely hate it. The only

part about this is I like the bits with Orko

that we kind of get a little bit of his backstory.

But this episode overall sucks for one simple

reason. Lady Edwiner. That bitch whines so much

it's not even funny. Now, I can understand not

liking her. I can understand not being a fan

of her character. I mean, obviously she's written

to be detestable. But I thought the plot and

everything goes really well together into this

episode. You start with a little bit of getting

some backstory on Orko, how he came to Eternia,

how Adam and Cringer meet him, why his magic

went from working to being kind of a bumbling

idiot at times and with his magic not working.

You have the arrival of this character. Oracle

likes her, gets the idea of trying to regain

his power, his magical power, goes to that which

smoothly transitions into what Skeletor is doing

because he's also doing something with the Tar

Swamp. The warrior or the creature is resurrected,

has the medallion stuck to him, and it's Oracle's

discovery of you can't just be enamored with

some girl because you think she's gorgeous, whatever

you got to be able to see past the outer image

and see the real person. You know, so throughout

the whole episode, he's growing as a character.

We finally figure out that everybody figures

out that Lady Edwina is Edwina. Edwina is a snob.

You know, she gets reprimanded by the King and

Queen. Oracle makes her the butt of a joke. So

I thought it was all wrapped up really nicely.

We got some cool scenes in between there. I thought

the plot went really well together. can understand

not liking her but now that you're talking about

it I can kind of come around to it but I'm of

the mind if one thing ruins an episode for me

I don't like the episode and sadly with this

she's it she's not even attractive no she's not

as most females in a lot of cartoons were not

even though they were meant to be I mean, you

know, Teal is attractive. Sorceress, for her

age, she's attractive. Hell, even Queen Marlene

is attractive. This bitch, she look like a three

-dollar hoe from Stark Street. She is ugly and

she is annoying. I'll give you that 100%. And

then, of course, we got our lesson at the end,

which was given to us by He -Man, and the lesson

is, don't buy friends. Don't try to buy your

friends or win them over by gifts. They should

be your friends because they want to be your

friends Okay, this is probably this might be

and I'm not I'm not I'm not I'm not looking ahead

in the script here But this might be the only

lesson in this episode of tales of Eternia that

actually has something to do with the actual

episode that it's in I also very much appreciate

this lesson Yeah, number one how well it ties

into the episode and number two This is a lesson

that every kid has to learn Yeah, it's not about

being popular. It's not about winning over a

popularity contest by you know Always doing something

or bending over backwards for friends at school

or people who you think you want to be friends

You know, it's really try to judge people for

who they are and see past the fakeness right

exactly the other reason why I kind of hated

this episode was because of the fact that She

essentially tries to peer pressure Orko into

not saving his true friends. Yeah. And that really

pissed me off. I can see why. Yeah. Alright,

that's... So, any other thoughts on the plot

of Tar Swamp? No. Alright, well, let's make our

way to Grayskull, then. So I have a feeling that

we're going to find that I found much more roaming

the halls of Grayskull than you did for this

episode. So let you go first here. What were

your Castle Grayskull moments? Oh, baby Cringer.

Even though he's not really like a tiny kitten,

but he's still smaller than his adult self. That's

true. I love how Orko wants to fight Skeletor.

He even puts his dukes up just like another cartoon

character. Puppy power! No comment. Stratos to

the rescue! Oh, that was when Tila and Man in

Arms were falling out of the sky, I think. Yeah.

Just as you said last week, I too am praising

the music in this series. The backgrounds are

absolutely amazing with the little, just the

littlest of notes in the music. It's very, very

cool. Agreed. I love seeing Skeletor and Evil

in on the Eternian throne. That was probably

one of the best moments of the episode. Yeah.

My actual note here is Skeletor and Evelyn on

the throne. No, not that throne. But yeah, it

was kind of cool seeing them on the royal throne.

Stratos 2, Evelyn 0. That's true too. My final

another 1 -up on her. But that's pretty much

all I had for this. Alright, well I got a lot

more now. Okay, I will echo your sentiments on

Skeletor and Evil Incident on the Throne. I think

so far that's been one of the best scenes of

the entire series. I agree that seeing not only

a young cringer, but a young Adam was very cool.

Even though Adam still looks like a little girl.

Yeah, but just seeing them in their younger self

was the whole thought of the explanation of how

Orko got to Eternia. Yeah, I do like that. And

how he lost some of his magical abilities. was

very cool. So I thought it was a very cool episode

to see the way Oracle got there. That's the first

time we've, besides the Queen, that's the first

other character that we've seen as far as how

their backstory is. Well, besides Sorceress and

Tila. Well, I mean, I mean how they actually

got to Eternia. I mean, I guess we kind of see

how Tila gets to Eternia since she's born there.

But as far as someone that wasn't there to begin

with. Right. Right. Yeah. I also thought it was

cool to see Orko's room. He had a cool room.

Any kid would like that room? Yeah. I thought

there was a clever piece of dialogue and writing

in early on in the episode where Lady Edwina

is being introduced to the group, including the

king and queen Tila. Man -at -arms and of course

Adam. I don't remember which one of them is doing

the introducing but when they get to man -at

-arms They introduce him by saying, you know,

here's a king. Here's a queen. Here is our man

-at -arms Duncan Yeah, and How his name man -at

-arms fits into he that's what his duty was he

was the man -at -arms and the way they said that,

our man in arms, Duncan, was cool. I'm not sure

if that's one of the first times we go, I actually

heard him called Duncan in the series or not.

It may have been the first time they used that

name, I'm not sure, but I just thought it was

a clever way that they threw that in there. Yeah.

I know they use it more as we go on in different

scenes, and it's mainly only used between him

and the King. Yeah. Between Duncan and the King

is really where it's used. Yeah, I think I remember

that being the case too. We finally get an episode

where it took more than 10 minutes for him in

to appear There you go. So I liked that it wasn't

just instant human within the first, you know

five minutes of the show. That was cool Um, I

love how Skeletor is holding orco when they're

marching toward the palace Skeletor and Evelyn

and the and the creature that they've gotten

they're marching toward the palace and he's just

like holding orco so nonchalantly That I thought

it was really funny You'll have you know, if

anyone doesn't know what I'm talking about go

back and watch the episode There was another

cliffhanger as far as going into the commercial

break, which was fine. I like that Because as

a kid, I always remember seeing those and being

like oh commercial I gotta can't wait till it

comes back Even though you knew whoever was in

trouble was not gonna be in trouble anymore Right.

Yeah, I do like the fact that they expect At

least it was attempted for Stratos to explain

why he was there Yeah, he didn't just randomly

ambiguously show up. He kind of tries to explain

why he was there. I also thought it was cool

that he went to help He -Man and to see one of

the Masters having to help He -Man, because up

to this point in the series we haven't seen a

lot of times where He -Man was in trouble and

one of the Masters had to help him. So I thought

it was cool also seeing them kind of helping

each other, you know, side by side working together.

There's a funny look on the monsters, the creature

from the Tar Swamp's face when He -Man grabs

him. It's kind of like a cartoony shot, but I

kind of enjoyed that. And my two biggest things

come at the end. You know, I could see some people

not liking the way this episode ends, but I thought

it was genius. Oracle gets his medallion back,

and the medallion basically gives him anything

he wants, anything he wishes, and he kind of

forgets that he has it, so to speak, and he says

something about, I wish this would have never

happened, and boom, the whole episode gets erased.

I'm like, that's genius. This episode never even

took place, basically. He wished the whole thing

away. It goes right back to the beginning. And

I thought that was clever as hell as a way to

end an episode. You don't see that very often.

And to top that off, Orko's joke at the end on

Lady Edwina was fantastic, and she got her just

desserts. Yep. I don't think this is a good point.

This might be a bad point, but I forgot to bring

it up in the blot. If we weren't cousins, I cringed

at that line. I think I found that in Snake Mountain

somewhere. Okay. Let's make our journey there.

You remember Adam, of course. Can this really

be little Adam? Just look at the way you grow.

I swear, if we weren't cousins. So, even though...

I found a lot of moments in the castle. I'm sure

that you have more moments in Snake Mountain.

So I will go, let me start with the thing you

just mentioned. Yeah. Which is one of the worst

lines so far of the entire series. Yes. Which

is Lady Edwina and He -Man talking, in which

case she says, I swear if we weren't cousins.

Well, no, hold on. It was Adam. Oh, Adam says

that. It wasn't he, man. It was Adam. Yeah. Oh,

I'm sorry. Yeah, she was talking to Adam, and

that's what she says, right? She says, yeah.

I'm sorry. What? Yeah. What did they just put

in a kid's cartoon? They have family members

lusting after each other and saying, man, if

we weren't family, we'd get it on right now.

Oh, my God. That's terrible. That was a terrible

time. Yeah, that's so bad. Just so horrible.

We might have to make everybody listen to that

one. I only had three other ones, so I'll just

get them out of the way real quick. Go ahead.

First of all, Orko, at one point, they were doing

like a flashback or something or showing how

he was a hero. Right. And he is basically wearing

a... They give a shot of him wearing a hero trophy.

Like a medal around his neck. And the animation

on that's terrible. Not the animation, but the

design on that's terrible. The design on it is

bad. It's literally a trophy that says hero across

it. It's horrible. Um, so that was... Let's go

to the local trophy store! It was worse than

anything you'd find there, actually. Even though

I liked that Stratos explained why he was there,

it was a terrible explanation. It was a terrible

explanation for him to be... I don't even remember

what he... What did he say? Oh, I'll have to

go back and get the exact quote, but it's just

something that's so, like... I came over to borrow

a cup of sugar. No, I mean it was just like oh

just passing through type thing I mean it was

it was a bad explanation of why he was there

so All -in -one that scene was both good and

bad when he explains why he is in the area Right,

and I don't quite understand How that one monster

get trapped in the tree? He's flying Stratos

flies through this tree or whatever the monster

flies and runs into the tree I get that the monster

ran into the tree and that might have hurt. No,

it was Stratos. He flew. It was a tree with branches

that crisscrossed, I think. Okay, so Stratos

was obviously small enough as far as compared

to the size of the bird. He was small enough

to fly through it. The bird's neck was small

and thin, but his body was big. So I get that

he flew through and it didn't work and it hurt

and he ran into it. Okay, put it in reverse and

get back out. They played it off like he was

trapped in the tree. Well, but that was the point.

They had to find a way to get rid of the birds.

I know, but to me he wasn't trapped in the tree.

All you had to do was back yourself out. Well,

maybe maybe he had a dinosaur brain and he didn't

think of that it was bad I could have understood

I understood what they were going for and I'm

like, okay I'll buy that if the tree is actually

trapping him, but the tree is not trapping him

He just ran into the tree So those are my only

low parts of this episode. All right So you remember

caddyshack 2 right? I know of his existence but

you You are such a horrible 80s person. Oh my

god. How can you not how can you not know Kenny?

I I know caddyshack to like the back of my hand.

Well, you know, and There's a line in there about

one of the girls that is very superficial and

The line essentially is oh shut up Mary Frances

you superficial snotty little bitch and my note

here my first note here was oh boy just what

an episode needs a superficial snotty little

bitch porco really ed whiner is getting on my

damn last nerves so you liked her as a character

no not at all uh okay now this is something that

i have a prob normally i don't have a problem

with man in arms i like man in arms as a character

but just this line just really got to me quote

Well, if he can contact He -Man for us, he'll

be doing his fair share. Man in Arms says this,

and it feels to me like he's nearly spilling

the beans on the secret to Tila. Because Tila

in the episode says, why can't Adam stay and

fight, or why can't Adam defend the palace, blah,

blah, blah. And Man in Arms essentially nearly

gives the secret away to Tila. Why she can't

be told, I don't know, in the first place, because

I mean, it's not like she's gonna go blab it

to everybody. But it's one of those things where

just the way he says it it just makes me think

that See, I thought they say I thought they did

that on intentionally because they were passing

over Prince Adam And it was his way of trying

to be like hey Prince Adam. We kind of need he

man right now Type thing and I didn't really

see it as her as a giving away anything as more

So he was just trying to signal to Adam that

help was needed The first cliffhanger man if

I was a kid Watching this at the moment of the

first cliffhanger in the episode. I have hated

to wait through the commercials back then I mean,

I know I know today in the you know age of digital

and DVR and fast -forward TV and Everything else

would be fine. But back then oh my god. Yeah,

there was no fast -forwarding through that commercial

break, you know And the final negative I have

had this whiny bitch. Okay, I am not Well, no,

no, no, hold on. I am not a violent person, but

we're going to get to that. God, this whiny bitch.

Quote, I don't care. I want out. I want to slap

this bitch. She can't even get Orko's name right.

You know, when you said you were going to drop

a lot of cusses in this episode, I didn't realize

bitch was going to be the biggest one. So for

everybody listening, you know that we are an

explicit podcast. We are an explicit podcast.

It is tag red. Mike has no filter. You know.

All right. So the final one, and it's more of

a nitpick and maybe you can explain it away.

I don't know. It doesn't irk me. It was just

kind of like that makes no damn sense. How is

Stratos flying while holding Tila in man in arms

hands? Kind of weird. It's kind of a weird gravity

thing there. Stratos has no limits. He is an

all -star Don't try to question his abilities

Apparently not and the final one because I didn't

hit the return key between the two notes Give

me a gun. I want to shoot Edwina or whatever

the fuck her name is She tries bribing or going

to not saving his friends. So apparently Edwina

for you lives in Snake Mountain Pretty much.

Okay Well, just like Orko got his hero award,

we should give out some awards of our own. We'd

better find him before he gets there. All right,

it's awards and rankings time, and let's start.

First of all, everybody knows, and we've already

said this before, that Mike and I do not discuss

our awards beforehand. We never know what each

other's are going to do. We don't know if we're

giving out any. I don't know if he's giving out

Havok staff's power swords or nothing. I don't

know what his ratings are going to be or whatever.

But I think it is fitting for in this episode

to start off with the most predictable award.

ceremony that we will probably ever have. Mike,

how about your Havoc staff? You already knew.

Beats Edwiner over the head with a Havoc staff.

And even though I disagree with you overall on

the episode, I will second that and give a second

Havoc staff to Edwina. Okay, I don't - And I'm

saying Edwina on purpose, guys. Yeah. Ed Weiner

is what it is. Or Ed Weiner. Ed is a Weiner bitch.

As far as my ranking overall, I think you're

going to be fairly surprised because of you pointing

out all the continuity bits. And I saw this going

in. It was just... That hatred for that character

just took me over in the moment of watching that

episode. Now that we've talked it out, I can

give this one a three out of five orcos. Simply

because of the story for orco, I take two points

off for that whiny bitch. I actually had a second

award that I'm going to throw out before I give

you my opinions. Sorry. No, that's okay. You're

allowed to do that. And my other one, I am going

to give a power sword out in this episode as

well. So even though Edwina was... a terrible,

awful, not likeable character. I love everything

that Orko does in this episode. Yeah. I love

that we see how he gets to Eternia. I love we

get to see the medallion aspect. I love how he

wishes the whole episode away, plays the joke

on Edwina at the end. He stands out in this episode

for me, so I will give him a power sword. And

then I will give my rating for the episode and

on a scale from zero to five, Battle Cats. This

one gets all five. I agree. You can't even take

a point off for that whiny bitch. I hate her.

Seriously. I hate her, but one character for

me doesn't ruin the episode. And it actually

adds to the reason why I like the episode so

much, because Oracle plays the joke on her, because

she is, you know... Lambasted by the king and

queen as being despicable, you know in her actions

the ending really does it though for me This

is one of the most creative endings. I've seen

in a long time watching rewatching 80s cartoon

episodes So yeah, I think it's my first five.

I got a giveaway All right. So let's head on

to our next episode song of sleaze You will sing

for me now, and your song will hypnotize the

sorceress and open Castle Grayskull. Never. I

think you can be persuaded. Evelyn! Persuade

her! With pleasure, Skeletor. That brings us

to episode 8 and for those of you that have been

commenting on the website which everybody should

do if there was ever a tale of eternity episode

that emphasized or Exaggerated the frustration

with people that are watching this on their DVD

collections. It was probably this one because

these three episodes are none of them are on

the same disc As far as the original DVD collection

that I have Not the brand new Right, right. It's

the original BC ID and the BC high ones and these

are all and it took me like four discs Because

I wasn't going on Off of like a table of contents.

I just like through the first disc in and I'm

like, okay None of the episodes are here that

I want and then I had like it took me like four

different discs before I found the first episode

And then I had to go back and use like a different

disc for each episode. So we get the frustration

We're going through it as well and I would just

watch it off in Netflix because it's easier But

I like to see the little fun facts and different

things that you can get by watching them on the

DVD release as well. So we feel your pain, but

we're doing this for a reason. And Song of Solis

came as far as aerodate the day after Creatures

from the Tar Swamps. So that was September 14th,

1983. and the writer on this one. Again, we have

two people getting credit for it on screen, which

was Jay Brin Stevens and Michael Reeves again.

So Song of Solis while visiting, visiting, I

forget how to say this one, Tehran. It's Taran.

Taran, that's right. Visiting Taran on diplomatic

business, the heroes are startled when an earthquake

begins to shake the city apart. At that moment

they meet Selyse, a beautiful woman with a voice

that can lull the monster Yogg, who resides under

the city to sleep. And as long as she can do

that, the city remains safe. When Skeletor discovers

that Selyse can manipulate stone with her voice,

he captures her and plans to use her power to

conquer Castle Grayskull. While Skeletor's plan

unfolds and the Sorceress is lulled to sleep,

He -Man chases Yogg through the caverns under

Eternia, while Tila attempts to rescue Man -At

-Arms, who is in trouble. So, in this one, for

the heroes, we see all of our basic ones, Adam,

Orko, Tila, Man -At -Arms, and then we also see

the Sorceress, who we did not see in the last

episode. Bad guys, we see Skeletor and Evelyn

and Beastman again, but this time we also get

Trapjaw. So, what are your thoughts on the plot

for Song of Solis? Skeleton's plot is for a hypnotized

singer to have the sorceress open grayskull.

See, this is my problem. Go ahead. Is that, okay,

fine, you're visiting this place for diplomatic

reason. That's a common excuse to visit places.

Sure, I'll buy that. I'll go with you on that

one. Okay, this particular environment has a

threat that they deal with the tradition, you

know They have this monster thing and they you

know It's almost like back in the day when you

had like a volcano and you had to sacrifice to

it or something like that I mean or something

weird like that like you have some threat that

you have to sacrifice to it was like that episode

of thundercats where They go to the what was

it the road? The bit the rover burbles or whatever

and they had been sacrificing to the people Everyone

food or whatever. I mean I get that that's used

a lot And she is we see Solis as an individual

who can calm this monster with her voice Then

I'm with you so far I'm with the plot then we're

asked to make the leap just because We throw

this one line in where she it says She not only

can manipulate the monster. She can manipulate

stone, too What? Now we had to make this big

jump that She doesn't just lull this monster

yogs, but she can manipulate rock or stone with

her voice And that's what the whole rest of the

plot is gonna revolve around Right exactly, so

that's just a weird leap for any for even a kid

to be like what yeah, yeah my other plot note

And I guess it could have been something you'd

find in Snake Mountain, but it's not really a

negative, it's more of a question. Who the hell

is Lizard Man? Oh, yeah. No, I don't dislike

the character. I think he's cool. It's just like

I don't remember him from the toy line as a kid

I don't remember him from seeing episodes as

a kid and that's one of the things at least for

me I don't know for you as well But as we go

along and we find out all these other characters

some of them We're not gonna remember him or

and we're gonna have these questions who the

hell is this or who the hell is that? It's interesting

that you bring that up And this is kind of one

of the reasons why I want to view this as we

would have viewed it um In airdate order as a

kid. Yeah now the dvd in the special facts about

this episode Says that this is the second and

last appearance of lizard man But in airdate

order this would have been the first time Yeah,

you saw lizard man and it makes sense for it

to be the first time Because they're visiting

this place where he resides Right. So it makes

more sense in this situation to view them in

airdate order because it explains where we meet

him and then he comes into play in another episode

which in this case is a Kind of interesting that

it comes the very next episode if you do it airdate

order Right. So I think that's kind of an interesting

thing and kind of why we're doing it this way

But yeah lizard man comes out of nowhere and

I definitely did not remember him From my childhood

that well, I don't yeah, I don't remember. No,

I I don't dislike him. I think he's very cool

I thought I was it was very interesting. Yeah

See, but it was just like one of those moments

like To me this episode would have been fine

Like you have this threat you have yog. It's

a legit threat He's a big old monster. Awesome

havoc. We got the girl who can stop it. So Skeletor

could kidnap her because then Yogg will go crazy.

He -Man will be busy dealing with Yogg and Skeletor

can do something on his own. It's the way that

they had to use Selyse to manipulate the stone

and have her play a part in Castle Grayskull

that I just don't buy and I can't get on board

with. Like I think there was a potential with

this plot. Yeah, her to manipulate stone with

her voice is stupid That's my feelings on the

plot The other fun facts here It's the only time

we see the planes of perpetua, which is a some

scenery we see the lake of fire Which man -at

-arms is dealing with is based on the underground

lake in the movie the motion picture dragon slayer

for those familiar with that And the lesson this

time was given to us by Tila. And it was, whenever

you feel down or blue, sing yourself a tune or

listen to some music and it will brighten your

day. Now, hold on before you start mocking it.

It fits with the episode since Song of Silly,

she is a singer, so it fits with the episode.

But the other thing is, and I'm noticing this

now as an adult, quote unquote adult. I don't

ever want to grow up anyway thanks Jeffrey stupid

giraffe anyway um a lot of this you know the

this message is actually a lot of what i'm hearing

um in the voice season three some of the some

of the contestants on no i'm serious some of

the contestants on the current season of the

voice on NBC Uh, some of their stories are, you

know, I went through this music was the only

thing that could get me through it. Oh yeah.

I have no doubt about music being a calling or

healing, cleansing, you know, uplifting experience.

It just came across weird to see it in this form

of like a PSA. Yeah. It's just like, I guess

it's good direction. You know, kids, when you're

feeling down or whatever, listen to some music.

It's just, it's like, I don't know what I would

have thought of that as a kid. I don't either

I would have been like Tila you're weird Yeah,

so I have some major problems with this plot

Like I said I had potential but I don't know

Let's see if I can find anything positive to

say in Castle Grayskull. The old squeeze play,

eh? So I'm searching Castle Grayskull for something

positive to say about this episode. Alright,

before you do that, let me go ahead and get mine

out of the way, since you're still looking through

the halls of Grayskull. By the power of song!

What the... I love that double take when Adam

goes to become E -Man and then all of a sudden

he stops because he hears someone singing. Yeah.

I thought that was pretty cool. Skeletor likes

building models, huh? Hmm. Toy collector in the

making. Yes. Oh no you don't, Rugface. E -Man,

insulting beast man, is just awesome. um He man's

laugh it was I don't know what it was after but

just the way he laughs some of the laughter in

this is It's not bad. I don't I wouldn't find

this in snake Mountain that now if this was another

80 show that we're doing a Supposedly be doing

a podcast on I would find this downright annoying

as hell but just his laughter is just too damn

funny to me because just the way that he puts

his hands on his hips like this and Teases yeah

back like this and ha ha ha ha ha yeah, it's

funny. It's just really funny The old squeeze

play a a key man is Canadian no That's all I

got did you find anything um I mean I thought

it was interesting to see Tila's another side

of Tila with her jealousy Early on in the episode

as far as You know being jealous of what's going

on there? I thought that was I mean, I don't

like her jealousy as a character But I thought

it was interesting to see that side of it Skeletor's

throne we haven't brought this up before But

the dude has a badass throne He does like I love

his little area in snake mountain where he sits

and reigns on high um it's just epic looking

the way it's designed the way it's animated colored

everything and especially when he sits on it

it's just cool um and he's also quite the opportunist

in this episode yes he is so i thought that was

cool to see from him um yeah castle gray skull

is kind of empty and void maybe snake mountain

has more company in it Always said you're a lightweight

Skeletor All right, snake mountain not gonna

take me quite as long Or hardest search to find

things here now a couple of them are more nitpicks

for me a couple of them are just More in the

animation coloring or design of this episode

Mm -hmm. One of them is When trap -jaw shoots

he at he man, you know he man smiles and it looks

very strange. It's very creepy. We might have

to grab that because it's just a creepy looking

smile. And then the same thing with He -Man again,

when he's holding one of the rocks above his

head, it looks like one of his, I think it's

his right arm and left torso or body part. And

then his left arm and his right stomach slash

chest are different colors. Don't know if he

goes tanning, but it's just a weird Just miss

coloring that you can see in that one. So just

like a little nitpick there as far as the actual

episode Zero G bubble. Yeah, that was Where'd

that come from? That was a little strange zero

gravity bubble. All right, I like the effect

of Yeah, I mean, it's kind of funny just when

they shut it off and like, I'll trap him in a

zero G bubble. What? And the writers just must

have been in a hurry because Skeletor gives Beastman

the most vague orders ever. It's like, Beastman,

use your animal manipulating power to solve this

problem. Like what? He just turns to Beastman

and is like, hey, it's an animal, Beastman, do

your thing. No specific order, no like, hey,

stop that animal from doing this, or use this

animal to do this. It's like Beastman, animal,

do you, go. Like what? I need a little more specificity

in my orders from my villains. So I don't know,

those were the parts kind of, besides the whole

music moving stone and rock. which i think is

obvious so i didn't list it here yeah yeah i

have one big long complaint and it's more of

a discussion point for us rather than me just

saying oh f this or f that or bitch this or bitch

that um that's you're just upping the bitch count

we all love the adam to he -man transformation

scene but i have to call it into question the

second time adam attempts to transform He and

Cringer are just outside the room where Evelyn

and Trapja are trying to kidnap the singer. They

essentially run around the corner. And he draws

the sword, etc, etc, etc. Are you telling me

no one in the next room would hear them? I mean,

seriously, is the transformation scene supposed

to be just for us, the audience? Or is it supposed

to be in -universe that people might hear this

thing and might actually look around a fucking

corner to see what's going on? He whispered it.

He did not whisper it. That was in his head that

he was saying that. He didn't actually say it.

Right. But seriously though, I mean, do you think

that that's not... Kind of messed up that he

just goes around the corner and no one notices

Well, it can't be happening exactly like we see

it because the way we see it like lightning and

all kinds of craziness happens that can't be

happening every time he does that so I guess

How much of that? Transformation sequence is

actually happening and how much is I guess just

for us or just to show us that something is changing

Is a good question Yeah, and I'm hoping someone

like Count Marzo or Pixel Dan or, you know, even

Mike Lacey or someone that - I gotta say that

most of it's just for us. Probably is, but there's

just some times, and this was one of those times

where it's like - Well, otherwise Skeletor could

easily figure out who He -Man is, just like,

look for the lightning in the sky that happens

every once in a while, and where it's going down,

and you will find that there's a connection.

Exactly. So that's all you have bad to say about

this episode. Pretty much, yeah. You're kind

beyond your years. Well, you know, that other

show that will be out in a couple of weeks, because

this will be out as soon as we're done recording

it, but that other show, I wasn't too kind, so

I figured out what the hell. But no, I didn't

really, like, I sat here and I watched this episode,

and I liked it. I mean, there are nitpicks I

could have written down, you know, but. Overall,

I really enjoyed this one. Alright, well let's

see if there's any similarities in our award

presentations. Alright, Song of Solis viewers

and listeners. How about you? Let's start with

you. Do you have a power sword or havoc staff?

I predicted your one for your last episode. I

cannot predict this one No, I don't actually

Not for this one There were no moments in this

where any character or any part of the story

stood out to me at all You know, I went in I

closed last segment out by saying let's see if

there's any similarities in our award presentations

So maybe for the first time or I don't know if

we've done this before where neither of us have

a thing No, this is the first yeah, there was

nobody that stood out in a good or bad way for

this episode to me It was just kind of blah You

know, and it's a nitpick on our part if we gave

a Havoc staff to Skeletor for his lame brain

plot of, you know, controlling her to get control

of the Sorceress. If it was true that the song

controls stone, then I can't blame Skeletor for

it. No, I know, but his main plot was he wanted

Solis to sing to allow the Sorceress to open

Grayskull. Right. he wanted this he wants least

to control the sorceress essentially and that

to me is more so a nitpick yeah that's you know

that's that's not worthy of a havoc staff I mean

it's not that bad of a moment it's not a gas

a bad part of the plot but it's not like you

know well if we weren't cut you know if we weren't

cousins I want to beat that bitch over the head

with a habit reappearance never happened Thank

you, Orko. As for ratings, I'm going to be not

as nice as you. This is very lucky to get the

rating that it is for me. I will squeak it out

with three Battle Cats. I'm going to do the same.

Even though I enjoyed it, it's still, there are

certain things that just don't make it a good

episode. So it also gets three Orkos for me because

it just wasn't. as we just said there are no

outstanding moments there are no like okay the

very first episode of the series you know I had

all that emotional connection of remembering

you know what the you know I command the job

bridge open and then you know all this not there

was nothing here good or bad to warrant anything

higher than a three this wasn't an awful awful

episode I'll give you that much it just wasn't

a good episode for me and Like I said, it's lucky

to get a three from me. We are in complete agreement

in our complete segment here, and I am scared.

We need to change topics, and the best way to

do that is to change to a new episode. Come out

now? Queen Elmora, you've outdone yourself. The

strength of the shields and weapons made from

your Fultanium are without equal. Fortunately

for me. Well, it's always a pleasure to make

this trip here to the moon of Phantos and visit

your highness. You may take your shipment of

Fultanium man -at -arms as we have agreed. Now

leave me. Queen Elmora, forgive me, but, well,

you seem different. Is something wrong? Everything

is fine. We shall go home now. King Randor appreciates

your kindness in giving us this fine metal. With

it, I'll be able to fashion it into the strongest

defence for Eternia. Yes, you have outdone yourself,

Elmora. But little do they know they're shipments

of Fultanium. will now be coming to me. What

they are taking with them is worthless metal

ore. You've had your way, Skeletor. Now release

my men and leave Vontos. I don't think you understand,

El Mora. I'm in control here. Take them to the

dungeons and see they are made uncomfortable.

How dare you! To do better than that, El Mora!

The people of Phantos will not bow to your evil

skeletal! So that means it's time for episode

9 in air date order, which would have been an

air date of September 15th, 1983. The episode

title is She -Demon of Phantos, and it is written

by the family duo, I assume, whether it be brothers

or father and son or uncle and whoever, grandpa,

Ron and Sam Schultz. I'm just guessing here.

Um, and the plot of She -Demon of Phantos goes

something like this. Thanks to the kindness of

Queen Elmora, Prince Adam and Man -At -Arms take

photanium, the strongest substance on the planet

Phantos, back to Eternia. Everyone is confused

when it turns out that the photanium is fake

and the heroes immediately journey to Castle

Grayskull for some answers and a refund. The

sorceress tells them that Queen Elmora is now

working alongside Skeletor, much to their horror.

What the heroes do not yet realize is that Elmora

has been transformed by Skeletor into the evil

she -demon of Phantos, and they must figure out

how to break the spell. So the bad guys in this

interesting collection here, we have Skeletor,

a mute merman, and Strongarm. Masters we have

Man at Arms, Adam, Warco, Teela, Cringer, Sorceress,

Stratos, and the second appearance, even though

they're claiming it's the first, of Lizardman.

So we met Lizardman last episode, and now he

is with the Masters, which I know we're not talking

about it yet. This very much reminds me of how

the trend was in the 2002 or 2003. 2002 2002

series where they would come across people in

their journeys and then the people would join

the group or Occasionally show up and have that

connection It's like they they went to the place

in the last episode They met lizard man and now

he is kind of part of the group even though we'll

never see him again As a kid you're like, okay,

I get that they met him last time now. He's helping

him out and then of course an interesting appearance

for the only appearance of Strongarm. Yeah. That's

one of the fun facts on the DVD, that this is

the only appearance of Strongarm as one of the

evil warriors. And I don't know if I remember

him or not. I remember someone like him, but

I'm not 100 % that I was remembering this person

correctly or not, but he was an interesting character.

I remember the toy of him, I believe. I believe

there was a... I don't believe I remember a toy

with like the big metal arm or something like

that. Maybe I'm misremembering that, but someone

will fill me in, I'm sure. Between, just before

I talk about the actual plot here, I'm going

through and looking up these two writers and

I can't find any information on either one of

them as far as whether they're brothers, whether

they're husband and wife. I would like to think

in my own little realm that they are. Brother.

They are grandpa and grandson. But I kind of

dug the plot a little bit No, I love the plot.

I think it's great. I think it's it's you know,

it's uh, you know, it's a I want to get geek

cred for this because why my connection As soon

as I see El Mora Being turned into the she demon

a phantos by Skeletor which in essence was just

him super aging her Yeah, I could not help but

remember the episode in Star Trek the next generation

where Dr. Pulaski is in some type of laboratory

with some type of Test going on on plants or

something where she begins to turn old. Right.

It's really creepy the way they do it and I kept

remembering that and I thought it was cool the

effects and the design that they used as she

went from Queen Elmora to the She -Demon. Yeah.

But I don't have too much of a problem with this

plot. It's standard that we're starting off visiting

some strange remote area or planet or whatever.

They don't really talk too much about how they

get there Or how they get back no not really

but but you would think if if Marlena had a ship

yeah and That crash landed on Eternia that somehow

man -at -arms took the technology from that and

built them their own ships You would think first

instance where we've seen another planet And

on Eternia hasn't it I mean, we've maybe... Yeah,

I think this is the first instance of a different

planet. Yeah, and that they have the ability

to journey to another planet outside of Eternia.

That's interesting, you know, having Photanium

or Krypton or some strange substance is not foreign

to us. That's interesting. Photanium is a cool

name, I guess, for it. So I have no problem with

the main premise of this plot and that Skeletor

wants to take control of this planet that...

Produces the strong substance that makes sense

to me. It makes more sense song changing stone

Yeah, exactly. I you know, the episode starts

off great. You don't know what the heck is going

on cuz it is again this series Unless it's specifically

stated this series is not like mask where it's

automatically assumed that oh, it's The main

villain, you know, you never know what's gonna

happen in this series and it starts off really

great with Queen Elmore kind of acting strange.

He man, or not he man, Adam and man in arms kind

of think something's up, et cetera, et cetera,

et cetera. They leave and lo and behold Skeletor

is behind the curtain. I put it in the plot notes

because I thought that was kind of silly that.

What are you doing in my throne room, you know

the Skeletor is the Wizard of Eternia I think

that's a great connection and I did kind of like

seeing Skeletor as kind of like the behind -the

-scenes type person for a second That was cool.

Yeah, the other it's not so a plot thing It's

more of an overall series thing and I guess I

could have saved this to the end But it I wrote

it down here I get that he meant incorporate

sword and sorcery and we've seen them travel

to different planets and through time because

I think I don't know, whatever. But what is the

actual classification for this series genre?

I mean, outside of boys action cartoon, it seems

as if it takes a whole bunch of genres and melds

them together. It's a hero fantasy type deal.

I mean, more fantasy than sci -fi, but with touches

of it, I guess. Fantasy is allowed to do that.

Yeah. Well, no. I mean, I'm not saying it's a

bad thing. I was just kind of curious, because

it's like... In what nine episodes we've had

so many different things and so many different.

I mean the main genre is sword and sorcery and

and and and kind of science fiction kind of thing

with man -in -arms and his inventions and stuff,

but I Know it just kind of It's kind of weird

for me, but overall no, I love the plot. I think

it's great I can buy there's nothing that stands

out like why did they do this or why are they

doing this at all fits together? The only thing

I would nitpick is not necessarily a plot thing

but it kind of fits with the plot of as They

age her up. She essentially turns into evil in

Because it's the evil in voice when she gets

older Yeah, and the lesson that we got was from

he man was kind of a weird one on this one think

safety all the time This made no sense whatsoever

to this episode. It's kind of weird Didn't really

buy this as a cool PSA Didn't have anything with

the episode. It was very vague. It's just like

that's almost like a paranoia one Yeah, really

you better be safe at all times. You never know

when something's gonna happen. Ah, no, I don't

like it No, I don't like it at all either that's

let's not think too safely as we go off on our

journey to Castle Grayskull Has cast a spell

over her and now controls her and her planet

Phantos. We've got to help her. By the power

of Grayskull! Things I found while rummaging

around Castle Grey Skull for the She -Demon of

Phantos are as follows. First of all, I thought

the episode had a decent ending. Not as epic

of an ending as we saw in the first episode of

this week's Tales with the creature from the

Tar Swamp, but... a decent ending nonetheless.

I also thought it was cool that the plot had

Skeletor taking control of the Queen in kind

of that first time where we've seen Skeletor

act as puppet master. I thought that was interesting.

I like He -Man, even though it was temporary,

being captured in the photanium sarcophagus or

whatever you want to call it. Like I thought

it was cool that he was in there he couldn't

get out and it obviously eventually he does break

out but for a temporary time he was trapped.

Right. But my highlight of all highlights for

this episode Queen Elmora who has magic powers

like a lot of people that we come across in Eternia

and the planets surrounding it uses her all -powerful

magic to defend her territory and her throne

and her castle against Skeletor and she shoots

her mighty magic at Skeletor and Skeletor's defense

of the Queen's magic was hilarious. He just basically

sticks his hand out like, what are you doing?

Like, your puny magic is not a threat to me.

I thought it was hilarious sequence when she's

like, I'll shoot you and he's just like, what?

Is like get your little piddly magic away from

me. So those were like my favorite parts of this

episode Yeah, uh, I like seeing adam fight and

test out the new metal even though obviously

the metal is fake But I open with a cool fight

right from the beginning. Yeah, what the heck

is going on here? Yep And when you see the uh,

the when they're fighting later and the things

are just breaking apart Yeah Fine LOL moment

when orco actually wants to go clean up his room

Whoa two episodes in a row with lizard man cool.

Yeah, don't get used to it. You'll never see

him again never see him again exactly And I thought

that was devilishly clever Skeletor making her

think he man is skillet making her think he man

is himself a skeleton I do it Should I do what

we haven't done all episode and make a Transformers

reference? Sure. Almost like that episode when

there was two Optimus Primes. Which one is the

real one? No, it wa - Yeah, I - Okay, I can kind

of see it. That's the real Skeletor. No, he's

the real Skeletor! Yeah, I can kind of see the

- I do like that they did the - they did it so

they don't - I like the effects that they made

it so that we could tell it was only her seeing

it. Right that's that's that's the difference

between This and they weren't both solid skillet

or they both didn't look like Skeletor One just

had like a fight because everyone else is like,

what are you talking about? That's he man Yeah,

and I just thought that was funny and that and

I like the way that they used their history to

remember and then she trapped them both Which

was an easy tell of which one could get out of

the chains exactly yeah I really like that but

that's um that's pretty much all I had I mean

I overall I just really enjoyed this episode

again a lot of some of these episodes when when

I watch them if I just enjoy them for enjoying

them I'm probably not gonna write anything down

because I have nothing to nitpick or nothing

to like overtly praise so I just enjoy it to

enjoy it nothing wrong with that let's see what

we enjoy in stigma I think I'll go clean up my

room. Wait a minute, I'll help you. Alright,

in Snake Mountain, I only have a couple things

to point out. First of all, I find it funny that

I didn't even realize I wrote this word in my

But I commented on you using the word bitch so

often earlier on in the episode, and I have the

word bitch written down here in my Snake Mountain

moments. Concerning Tila. Not only did she whine

like a bitch That she wasn't involved and that

she had to stay in charge of the guard But then

she doesn't follow orders and actually stay in

and watch the castle Yeah, or the palace and

she leaves which technically could have left

the pastel completely unguarded and whatnot and

it's just like a very Untila like thing to do

because usually she's the one going by the books

and she's the reliable obedient, you know Following

the rules and guidelines and whatnot and she

just freaking whined because she didn't get to

go and then she went anyways You know, I'm glad

that they yelled at her at the end of the episode.

She was acting like a bitch Another thing that

was out of character for this episode early on

when they were searching or they were going toward

I think they were journeying to Find Queen Elmore

or whatever And something was threatening them

and or whatever was happening battle cat jumps

and tries to attack this vision or whatever yeah

he would have known that's not battle cat to

do that like it was out of nowhere and it was

like a moment where battle cat got angry and

couldn't control himself and jumped head -on

into something that they couldn't explain and

like disappeared for it basically I believe if

I'm remembering right and it just seemed out

of character for battle cat to act that way Was

he was this in the scene when he was when Elmora

was the she demon? Yeah, and he like tries to

attack. Oh Because she had captured he man. It

was just a weird Yeah, it was just weird there

The whole group is there and like battle cat

jumped out of nowhere to attack this thing and

it was it just seemed odd to me And my other

one's just a personal nitpick, but why is merman

mute in this episode? Yeah, it's merman and strong

-arm basically and they're running the show but

merman never speaks a single word in this episode

and It has a cool voice and I wanted to hear

it and I hadn't seen merman in a while I was

like, oh merman you're in this episode and then

you never spoke and I got sad So that's my other

snake mocking moments merman. Let let merman

speak What about you? Strong arm, really? That's

the guy's name? Kind of generic, ain't it? And

again, another character that, do we ever see

this guy again? Yeah. My other one. So putting

a control spell on Elmore makes her grow old

and sound like Evelyn, huh? I mean, I know the

voice acting, you know, as much as I praise the

voice acting, but I know voice acting back then

was like, you know, three, you know, three voices

per session, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

But it just seems, it just seems weird that her

as, as a young woman would have almost a Tila

or a sorceress like voice. Cause I know it's,

I know it's Linda Gary doing it. And then as

she gets older she turns into evil and I just

found that a little annoying But overall like

I said, I really enjoyed this one. I thought

it was I thought it was great overall So I really

don't have too many other things for st. Mountain

Fine, then let's see you unlike last episode

if we can actually hand out any hardware Unlike

last episode I have some hardware to give out

and I'm assuming you do as well. Um, yeah, I

actually do I think Okay, this might be ironic

I Got to give a power sword to Adam for actually

fighting as himself Even though even though it

was only a test in a practice How often are we

gonna see Prince Adam? We'll fight a weapon of

some sort Yeah, I mean honestly how often that's

as close as you ever see Prince Adam being towards

you, man Yeah, yeah, what about you for a war?

I got a couple Okay, I gotta give a Havoc staff

out to Tila Beat the bitch over there didn't

follow orders you left the palace unguarded you

deserve to be chastised with a Havoc staff And

in the words of the first episode that we talked

about, even if Man -At -Arms was doing it, it's

alright that you're related, he can still beat

you. I will give out a power sword as well, even

though you didn't like him. Thought strong arm

was cool in this episode. No, okay. It's not

that I didn't like him So I just thought that

he would have had a cool The reason I like him

is for a couple of reasons in this episode. He

shows up. First of all, he looks cool Even though

his coloring is a little bit weird, but he looks

like a badass like a Darth Maul with spikes coming

out of him with us really strong arm so I like

the look of him and He is the first person We

have seen not some random monster that's being

created. That's a Sky as tall as a skyscraper

or as big as a mountain. This is the first evil

warrior who has Come close. I know he means the

strongest person in the world can't ever be beaten

This is the first evil warrior that has come

close to matching his might He just takes his

arm slams the ground and just stops everything,

pushes He -Man into the photanium chamber basically,

and shuts him and locks him up for a good portion

of the episode. Well, a couple minutes of the

episode at least. And I thought that was cool.

Like, this was someone that wasn't afraid of

He -Man. He's like, I'll take you on. He tried

his best, succeeded up to a point. The only failure

was following through once they had him trapped.

you know Skeletor or Strongarm or somebody should

have done something with that instead of just

going back and being like well he's taken care

of we'll leave them to their own devices well

he's probably gonna get out so that was stupid

but overall I thought it was a if you only got

one appearance it was a strong pun intended appearance

so power sword to the Strongarm and I wish I

would have seen you again at some point in the

future but we know we won't episode ratings My

favorite episode of the day I got to give it

a four to five there are a couple nitpicks You

know But but overall really really really enjoyed

it The only reason why it doesn't get a five

is because there's no It's not like time corridor

or Tila's quest where They were just amazing

episodes and we didn't get to really see inside

anybody's past or inside anybody's real, right?

There's no real character development in this

episode but overall as a singular story, you

know beginning middle end I Really enjoyed it.

I thought it was great. So four or five orcos

for me. I really enjoyed it as well I'm not going

to say I enjoyed it quite as much as I enjoyed

the creatures from the Tar Swamp because something

about the way that episode ended just for me

was magical and Orca was awesome. I do like the

whole Skeletor Puppet Master, Queen Elmora turning

old, Strongarm having his appearance, seeing

Lizard Man a second time. So there's a lot of

good parts about it. I'm not going to quite rate

it at the top of the scale though. I'm going

to agree with you and give it 4. out of five

battle cats. So we both gave the last one three,

we both will give this one a four. So with that,

we will take a break. You will hear some of the

stuff that we have mentioned throughout the episodes

and some other stuff probably thrown in there,

and we will be back to give our thoughts on the

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send you my vehicles to extract your spark and

destroy you I'd like to talk to you for just

a moment about safety when we go to the beach

there are lifeguards there to watch out for our

safety Crossing guards are in the street for

the same reason, to help protect us. Now things

like that are fine, but we can't count on someone

always being around to protect us. We should

practice thinking of safety all the time. So

don't take a chance. And that's true whether

you're crossing a street or driving a car. Think

safety. Alright, so we have gone three episodes

of Tales into our journey. We are nine episodes

completed of the series so far so we are definitely

past the honeymoon phase we are into the series

now and it's a good time to look back and think

about where we're at so far what I like about

where we have come so far in our journey I have

a good idea and feeling for what so far is the

main characters for the most part we've seen

a little bit of background now of Queen Marlena

we've seen background of Tila Kind of a tiny

bit in connection with that of the sorceress

and man -at -arms. We've seen how Orko got to

Eternia. Really the only major part that's missing,

I mean we kind of know that Prince Adam is going

to be, I mean since we know how the Queen got

there, she eventually hooks up with the King,

they have Adam, I get that. It still would be

nice to see a little bit more background into

He -Man slash Prince Adam's character, but we've

seen the majority of the other good characters.

Right with the exception of we don't know how

they met like Stratos like yeah Stratos and Ram

and all that From an evil standpoint besides

Skeletor summoning all these people we haven't

got a lot yet on the evil side of things and

We're constantly getting throwaway characters.

Well, I wouldn't say it's constantly getting

throwaway characters In nine episodes, we've

had Jitsu, we've had Strong Arms... And Lizard

Man. I mean, it's just three. See, for me, what

I was saying is I like the fact, I guess Jitsu

was before, but I like that finally once we've,

we had, with Jitsu, if you take him out of the

equation, we basically had six episodes of the

main characters over and over again. And it wasn't

until this episode of tales where now we're starting

to expand and see a lizard man or see a Strong

yeah, you know, we're starting to see that there

are other characters My only thing up to this

series at this point even when they do it even

with lizard man. We see how he comes into play

It's a consistent theme so far that all the good

characters are being explained. We're seeing

where they came from We're seeing their history.

We're seeing why they're part of the story outside

of Stratos and Rayman Right problem so far not

a big problem, but we're not getting that at

all with the evil warriors No, they're just showing

up showing up Jitsu outside of you know outside

of like Beastman and evil and all the ones they

originally introduced Any new evil warrior just

shows up for an episode and then hey see you

later Well, and yeah, and even though we got

a tiny bit with the first episode where Skeletor

summoned them all Yeah, but is he it'd be cool

if they showed even at the beginning of some

of these episodes where he gets Jitsu or where

he gets strong arm Or if I have to just think

that he can just summon random people from all

parts of the universe whenever he needs to So

that's the only part I'm waiting on to see if

that is a trend that continues or not and nobody

needs to spoil that for me I'm just that's something

I'm curious if we're gonna get Consistently see

this also if we are going to get some more mainstay

characters that stick around for more than just

an episode Again, I know all these people that

are listening probably already know the answers

to these questions But it's something I'm interested

in as we go forward. How about you? So far it's

progressing nicely You know so far my biggest

gripe is you know that wench of a cousin the

sad thing is that I think she comes back because

when I was You know you were saying you were

looking for the episode on your disks It took

me a while to find it's more so sheet even but

it took me a while to find each of the three

listed in Netflix And as I was going through

the season one listings and Netflix I saw a different

episode saying that Ed Weiner comes back and

Something I didn't I didn't read I was like,

oh crap bitch is back. Jesus Christ That's something

to look forward to but yeah, you know, that's

really my only gripe so far, you know, the stories

are Pretty solid. I wish you know we would have

some evil warriors actually come and stay like

you know I can't wait until we get around to

you know like web store and Cobra Khan and You

know all these people that eventually become

part of Skeletor's quote -unquote horde As you

know you know as he has all the other ones What

what the hell's triclops been doing? these episodes

yeah Triclops has been you know Merman showed

up finally in one episode doesn't speak at all

does speak Raman's been gone for a little while

and it's i'm also interested to see some of the

more of the the the mainstay characters how they

come in are they just randomly introduced do

they show how they meet them i'm very interested

to see since it's been so long since i've seen

this series how they go about bringing in or

introducing all these characters so yeah exactly

so that would be fun to see um so any other overall

thoughts on the series up to this point or Overall,

I I honestly want to see like okay I know in

the future and this isn't because you you already

know this you know I know in the future we get

the story of of Adam and Adora and how they're

you know Brother and sister and all that right

But it's one of those things where I want to

see how Adam Got the power. That's true. That's

what I want to see I want to see something to

where about the sword, okay About something about

the origination of the sword or how he gets the

yeah something like that You know, where does

this magical man come about and that's why I'm

kind of saying even though we know Where Prince

Adam comes from literally we don't know where

he man comes from Yeah is is the main thing that

I was saying about as far as not seeing him and

you know We've seen a lot of the supporting cast

so it's just an issue of where did that come

about more any? Backstory that has anything to

do with him and or The sorceress usually lends

little tidbits to that so I don't need to see

it all and No, I know but I mean just just like

one even one flashback episode on how Adam was

chosen to be the protector of gray skull. As

far as He -Man's background, I mentioned this,

I think it was either episode two or episode

one, I forget. The way I see Cringer in Battle

Cat is the same way I see Adam in He -Man. Adam

is the more lazy, weaker part of the personality

and He -Man is Adam wanting to be strong. and

save that you know so it's essentially the same

person even though they're they're technically

two different you know you see what i'm saying

so you know i i kind of see that but you know

just one little flashback is all i'm asking for

and i don't know if we get that like i said i

know there's an episode later down the line because

i it was one of the episodes that i remember

that i know that adam throws the you know throws

the sword into the into the abyss and and essentially

gives the power back but we never To this point,

we haven't seen any and I don't know because

I haven't watched anything past this yet. And

again, not to beat a dead horse, but we know

a lot of you listening are huge fans and have

the answers. Don't give them to us. Yes. We're

just basically talking rhetorically. Yeah. I

mean, it's one of those things where even if

it was something as small and as simple as bringing

out the memory projector again. No, seriously.

you know something as small as simple as that

where it like in Tila's quest where Marlena using

the memory projector brought back her memories

and then it led into another story of it you

know what I mean so it's just like even if it

was a one -off thing where we would see something

but yeah we're greedy for stuff like that Alright,

so thank you for listening to Tales of Eternia.

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in iTunes and we have gotten, we have received

our first iTunes review. So yes, that's right

only two episodes in and we have an iTunes review

and that is awesome And as always we read these

so this is the first one for the series and it's

by Tim Costell left November 2nd 2012 And it

is entitled excellent podcast on Masters of the

universe exclamation point five stars So this

is already looking good and Tim says in the typical

style of review shows from GCRN comes the latest

Tales of Eternia show, and it is great. I look

forward to each episode every week to hear what

TFG1 Mike and Optimus still have to say each

week regarding the world of Eternia and the characters

there. It's truly an enjoyable ride, and I can't

wait to hear more. Well, you don't have to wait

very much longer because here is our next episode.

Ha ha! Um, so as Mr. Tim did, you should also

leave us iTunes feedback because we love that

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We hope you enjoyed the tales today and don't

forget to join us on our next adventure when

we will be discussing episodes 10, 11, and 12.

And those episodes would be Reign of the Monster,

Like Father, Like Daughter, that sounds like

it could have some backstory to it, and The Disappearing

Act. Sounds like Orko's involved there. I could

be completely wrong with all these guesses, but

I feel like I should make predictions now every

time I read an episode title. Well, father and

daughter, it's gonna be man in arms and Tilo.

I know, but I feel like we can get something

there. We can get some, some type of background

there. For now, I am Optimus Solo with... DFU

and Mike. And by the powers of Grayskull, we

leave you all with the power.