The Betrayal of Stratos, The Ice Age Cometh, The Arena

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 27th! Chapter and Tales

of Eternia with me for this journey into the

Masters of the universe franchise is a What do

I want to call you? Just in your physical in

your physical state at the moment a hobbled TFG

one Mike Every time I try to every time I try

to walk the last month and a half. It's like

Luckily you don't have to move too much for this.

So are you ready for the powers of grace call

sir? Yes, but before we get to that we have a

bunch of announcements because um About about

a month ago from the time this episode will air

was San Diego comic -con and there were many

Masters of the universe reveals for comic -con

They are coming out with Masters the universe

minis similar to the robot heroes line that has

word did for transformers It looks like, I don't

know, I haven't gotten down to that part of the

page. It looks like we might be getting a Batros

figure in the classics line. I don't know. Because

it shows him standing on a Castle Grayskull stand.

Let's see what else we got here. The minis look

amazing. They look really awesome. Also this

year they're going to be doing Masters of the

Universe Giants. 12 inch He -Man and a 12 inch

Skeletor, 12 inch Stratos, 12 inch Beastman.

For the rest of the year we're gonna look at,

the one that's really intriguing to me finally

is, it's basically the same Hordak, they've just

repainted him like seven different times, but

we're finally getting Etherea Invasion Hordak,

which is Filmation Color Hordak, which he's blue

on the body. Flutterina, I don't remember her.

She's my camera. Yeah. Yeah. Well, we'll get

to that next year. Um, I am so stoked even though

I probably won't be getting them but I am so

stoked that they are putting out Madame Raz with

broom. They look amazing. Yeah, that looks cool.

Real blast and trapped. Let's see here. Eldor

in him sweet be we're getting her. I don't know

how they can make a figure of Light Hope Light

Hope was just a giant flash of light in the cartoons

I guess maybe he was more in the comics or something

in the old comics or something but this is something

that really excites me though these next two

actually next three we're getting the battle

ram with a filmation style man -at -arms the

battle ram though comes Part of it is a sky sled

So we're finally getting an updated sky sled

toy. That's awesome Tongue lasher. I actually

saw the video that pixel Dan took of this When

he was going over the brand with Scott toy guru

nightly Tongue lasher comes with two heads instead

of them trying to work in a tongue gimmick. He

has one head that has no tongue That's just a

regular facial head and then he has his head

with his tongue sticking out. I think that's

absolutely amazing uh... we're getting arrow

for bo uh... arrow was bo's horse and shira uh...

it's basically the same body as what swiftwin

was last year but it's nice that they're doing

arrow uh... we're getting galactic protector

shiro which i assume that's from new adventures

uh... the last one i'll bring up is the November

2014 holiday item, Gwildor with Cosmic Key prototype.

That's cool. That's cool. I'm really surprised

they're doing this. I did see, again, referencing

that video, Toy Guru said that the Cosmic Key

that comes with Gwildor is going to be more movie

accurate, whereas the Cosmic Key we got with,

I believe it was... pre -turning a he -man or

something like that Actually had a handle with

it. This doesn't so this is gonna be more movie

accurate. It's really nice They're getting to

do that character. I never thought that they

would be able to do that one at all As far as

next year goes we've got The they put on a map

every year with the with the subscription the

map next year is the castle grayscale blueprint

which is a really really cool picture i thought

that was really um really cool and the last one

i'll talk about is um skeletor's hover robots

it's a traveling convention item oh man those

things look so cool Alright, I think that's it.

I think we can actually get back to the 80s now.

Alright, well in this episode of Tales of Eternia,

we'll be giving you our thoughts on episode 78,

The Betrayal of Stratos, episode 79, The Ice

Age Cometh, and episode 80, The Arena. So we

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

to Eternia. Checking on the force field generator.

Something to matter? No. I was just on my way

to do the same thing. Well, I'll leave the maintenance

of our equipment to the professionals, then.

I don't mean to do your job for you. Well, after

all, you are the leader. Everything secure? It's

quiet as can be out there. Alright, starting

off today we have Episode 78, The Betrayal of

Stratos, written by David Wise. Airdate Thursday,

September 27, 1984. During Skeletor's latest

attack on Avion, Stratos discovers that the force

field generator has been sabotaged. Birdwoman

Hawk discovers Stratos trying to repair the generator

and accuses him of sabotage. Hawk accuses Stratos

publicly and he is exiled from Avion, a cruel

fate because Stratos will lose his power of flight.

He -Man and Orko find Stratos in the forest and

agree to help him find the real culprit. Skeletor

succeeds in stealing the Egg of Avion when the

Sorceress tells the heroes that Skeletor has

hidden the Egg in the Demon Zone where Whiplash

lives. He -Man and Stratos go to the Demon Zone

and discover Hawk, who reveals that she sabotaged

Avion's defenses for Skeletor. She leads them

to the Golden Dragon, which protects the Egg

of Avion. He -Man reclaims the Egg and bursts

through the Demon Zone doors. Then he creates

a rockfall that covers the entrance and seals

the Demon Zone again. The Egg of Avion is returned

to its rightful place in Stratos. Status with

the bird people is reinstated the bad guys for

this one. We do have a Skeletor mainly and and

whiplash this the side I use Mentions beast man

trap John tricops. Do you remember seeing them

at all in this episode? They were on the sky

sleds. Oh, that's right They're on the sky sleds,

but they don't really do anything or talk or

anything and then the Masters we have just Adam

and he man or cold sorceress and Stratos and

no Notable here because this will be Stratos'

last speaking role in the series. We will see

him again, but he will not speak again. The PSA

is He -Man and Orko talking about forgiveness

and Orko's fun facts, even though he has already

appeared in a few episodes. This particular episode

treats Whiplash as if this is his debut. Whiplash

suddenly resides in a place called the Demon

Zone where he takes orders from a demon called

Kral, who looks a lot like Daemar from Daemar

the Demon. Thoughts on the plot of this one and

the whole bird man angle? I honestly thought

it was evil in and disguised the entire time.

Probably because her voice was evil in. Pretty

much, yeah. I thought it was evil in the entire

time. The demon head, Kral or whatever his name

is, that design... is actually used in the DC

Motu comic, the crossover DC universe versus

Motu because that is the skull design for Horde

Prime in that universe, so that's pretty nice.

The plot overall, it's okay. Don't want to keep

saying these plots are standard, but they're

really turning that way I mean there's like there's

moments in here that I enjoyed but it's like

Okay, we have to do this plot line that has been

done a million times before or at least I've

seen it since this aired a million times already

about you know someone blaming somebody but it's

really their fault and yada yada yada and Yeah,

I mean there's only so many themes that you can

go with and betrayal is obviously one of them

I do like the idea though that The plot is delving

into one of the subspecies that one of our masters

comes from. So we're getting a better look at

the bird people, what, you know, the egg and

how it's important. And then we see a bunch of

different people and how they interact and stuff

like that. So, I mean, it gives us a better insight

on to Stratos' race or species, whatever you

want to call it. So I like the idea of doing

that. Wrapped up in a betrayal plot. you know

that's fine you know you can only do so many

types of plots there's only you know there's

only three stories in the world and they're all

variations of it so so i don't mind that i'm

kind of sad that this will be the last time strato

speaks because he's one of my favorite characters

but i guess that's going to happen throughout

the rest of the season as we see people for the

last time Yeah, and I guess this would be a good

time to address Royal Sorceress one of our fans

I completely forgot I thought it was this series,

but it's the 2002 cartoon that Stratos and Buzz

off have the battle I just didn't know if they

would also have something like that in this series

see I thought it was here I didn't remember that

it was in 2002 so It's been so long since I did

my watch through of that. Um, this one the plot

overall it's it's decent It's not the story and

the execution are not bad But it just I don't

know. I just feel like I'm on you know Rinse

repeat, you know rinse repeat ten times You're

old Yeah, pretty much. All right. Well, let's

get to cast gray skull so we can get positive

That creature's not evil. I invaded its nest

by accident. Orko, do you know the old saying,

honey works better than vinegar? Yeah, but where's

the honey? Up there. Kratos, how did you get

into this predicament? That predicament is worse

than you know here, man. I have been exiled from

Avion. What's the one on the floor? Today, Skeletor

attacked the city. Our defense shield was sabotaged,

and I was blamed. Do you know what exile means

to a bird person? I will lose the power of flight.

Of course. You'll be outside the range of the

egg of Avion's power. My only hope of saving

my wings is to find the real culprit and restore

my good name. But who would have done such a

terrible thing in the first place? Alright, we

are at Castle Grayskull for episode 78, the first

time today that we are here looking at highlights

of this episode. I'll go first because I only

have a couple that really stood out to me. Like

I said, I like seeing the insights into the bird

people. I like the whole idea that they have

this egg and that they kind of... Not really

idolize a worship, but that gives them their

power of flight So that's very important for

them And then I liked throughout the story when

they go down in the demon zone that for once

somebody doesn't get through and orcos left behind

You know he man and Stratos get through the door

before it closes in or code is not so then he's

kind of left on the other side It kind of adds

a new dynamic to it, which I thought was interesting

What kind of stuff did you like for this episode?

You mention Oracle and all I think of is he got

flattened like a pancake he did their defenses

are broken let the slaughter begin first thing

i thought it was megatron as soon as they said

the defenses were down yeah i do love the flying

animation on the sky sled i think that that has

always been one of my favorite uh animation moments

in this series and we haven't seen the sky sleds

a lot recently i gotta wonder though how can

I saw I think it was in this episode or it might

have been in another one that we're gonna talk

about today I Saw a man in arms on a sky sled.

He never actually sat on the seat. He's like

half standing half crouching His butt is never

actually touching the seat. So I'm like, how

can you fly that thing like that and stay on?

That's just a little too weird. But anyway As

soon as I saw her, I knew something was up, but

I just wrote down something not right about that

bird woman. Plus, as you said, she sounds like

Evil Anne. Every time Skeletor laughs, I love

his laugh. That's true. And Orko's magic actually

worked this time, because he was able to trap

the... Though the the demon sort of in the in

the two ends of the log. It's basically a looney

tunes kind of moment, but I Really did dig that

other than that That's all I got. All right.

Well, then we'll make our way to snake mountain

Alright sir, it's your favorite part of any episode

when we go to Snake Mountain and get negative.

Just kidding. What kind of stuff do you have

for this episode that you did not particularly

care for? Really the episode overall I found

to be middle of the road. I like certain moments

in it I you know I disliked all I really only

disliked one moment in this So it's not gonna

get my worst score, but it's not gonna get my

best score either when we get to that point,

but um They the the demons head actually says

that the door can only be open twice You know

two times every year or every 10 ,000 whatever

the hell it was He -Man opens the door to let

them in. And then Whiplash does the same damn

thing to let the demon thing, to let the demon

thing out to take care of Orko. That's two times,

right? We can all do math here, right? And then

they smash out of it at the, technically, even

though he is the most powerful man in the universe,

He -Man should not have been able to smash out

that door at the end because they said it can

only be opened two times. by by choice but he

forced it open because he's he man all right

still didn't like it that's that's loud yeah

what else what about you no that's it that was

the only thing i i just wow yeah i mean i i watched

this episode i watched it i watched it i watched

it and i'm like okay it's just kind of here you

watched it five times no I did not like Evelyn

voicing Hawk First of all whether it was it was

a little misleading because you think it's Evelyn

But then it's also very obviously she's bad of

some sort or she's at least gonna do something

bad So I mean that's kind of a it would have

been better if they had just a more innocent

voice now You wouldn't have suspected it as much.

Oh, yeah And then I thought there was a couple

too quick resolutions to a couple things first

of all whiplash comes in and he's like I got

a missile that's programmed to hit something

hit the egg or hit the I don't know what it was

programmed to hit something that they were of

importance and so he shoots it and he man just

like catches it and throws it like that it was

set up like to be like bad situation and it's

just like oh no we're done we're moving on and

then also with the door at the end as far as

they break through oh i'll i think i know how

to close this and it just does a rocks pile up

on the door like those those were both very quick

easy like oh we'll just sew up this little situation

with something that really doesn't seem like

it should work um I know they don't have a lot

of time, but it was very rushed on dealing with

two situations that seemed like they were legit

obstacles for the heroes. We got a missile, which

is very rare in this series to have something

like a missile. You know especially it's usually

a ray gun or something likes to that effect so

someone's shooting a missile that's programmed

for something you don't expect to be resolved

real quickly and then this whole they've set

this whole thing up that the demons are gonna

get out of the doors open you smashed it you

didn't just smash it I mean it was completely

smashed there was not like you could even bend

it together or something like it was gone and

See, that's what I thought he was gonna do. Yeah,

and then he just piled some rocks on top of it

like I don't know those were set up to be bigger

obstacles than they ended up being. So that's

my only issues with this episode in particular.

He -Man won the day by a landslide. Oh, the first

bottoming moment of the day for ya. Let's get

to our awards and ranking ceremony and see what

we actually thought about this show. Alright,

for the first time today it is time to hand out

some hardware. What do you have? Any power swords

or havoc staffs to give out for episode 78? Nobody

really peeved me off or nobody really excited

me too much, so... You're alright today. Nobody

peeved you off? Funny. Funny. Well, people do

it all the time, but not in this episode. Oh,

okay. So yeah, no no hardware for me. All right

Well, I got one of each for you then I will hit

Hawk with a Havoc staff because I didn't like

that character I didn't like the voice didn't

like that. She was obviously gonna be bad so

that for that and for his last and final speaking

appearance and for Being able to forgive and

do what he needed to do to get back in I give

a power sword to the one and only Stratos So

that's where I go for that. How about an episode

ranking? Three out of five four goes three out

of five Like I said, it's kind of a middle -of

-the -road kind of thing. I liked it I like seeing

Stratos, but it just got too predictable as soon

as she opened her mouth to accuse him It got

predictable and I knew it was her the entire

time Yeah, I mean that didn't bother me as much.

I mean I knew it was her too But I like seeing

I like seeing the bird people like whiplash being

in there And I like strato, so I like any episode

that focuses on him in general So I gave this

one a four out of five for battle cats a little

high, but I'm gonna stick with it So, alright,

we started off with a 4 and a 3, we'll see where

we go from here with episode 79 next. Philip,

are you listening? What? Oh, sure, sure. All

right, it's time for episode 79, the Ice Age

Cometh, written by Robert White, airdate. This

is how we ended our week, Friday, September 28th,

1984. Philip, a boy in the Royal Guard, is sent

to the Polar Weather Station to learn responsibility,

but his carelessness allows Skeletor's henchman,

Icer. to threaten Eternia with a humongous glacier.

Bad guys, we have Skeletor, Whiplash again, and

Icer in his only filmation appearance, apparently

one of the evil warriors. And then we have our

regular masters with appearances from the Queen

and King, which we don't sometimes get. And the

first, we also had Tila in here as well as Man

in Arms, which we didn't see in the last episode.

P .S .A., Adam and Tila visit Philip at the weather

station and he explains what he's learned about

taking responsibility for getting the job done.

Oracle has fun facts. The Philip in this episode

is no relation to the other Philip. Matt connects

Son, who appears in the episode's search for

a son. The ice raider is specific to this episode

and is described as a wind raider but white and

with skis. Rare occasion is Cringer successfully

flees the transformation and this is the first

and only appearance of Iser who would appear

to be one of Skeletor's regular villains, not

just a villain of the week type deal. So what

did you think about the whole weather thing and

the little boy going up to try to learn responsibility

and he f's up and Iser is taken over? It's like

they took cousin Jeremy, wimped him up and gave

him blonde hair. And a girl's voice. No, it's

the same voice. It's even more girly to me. Yeah,

it is. You're right. But I'm saying, like, this

kid is cousin Jeremy, just the blonde Nazi version

of him. Yeah. I mean, that's all this kid is.

He's arrogant. He's an asshole to everybody.

Won't listen to anybody. You know, it's just

one of those things where I just... I don't think...

Even if, if any of our diehard listeners go back

in the past 20, episode 1 to 26, I don't think

there are any children in the entire series to

this point that I've actually enjoyed seeing

them in the, I would honestly, and I know this

is gonna make you happy, I would have rather

than bring friggin' Copper Kid into this series

than watch half the goddamn children that are

in here. You liked a couple. You liked one or

two along the way that you said. I don't remember.

Yeah, you said you didn't mind them and they

were probably the best kids that we've seen in

the series so far. I don't remember, but still,

okay, two out of out of how many others, you

know, it's like. Right. You know, the plot itself,

you know, it's kind of continuing on the whole

banishment thing, even though they're not banishing

him, they're sending him. they're sending him

there so he can learn and that's all well and

good but it's it's kind of like sending someone

to military school it's like oh my god you're

being so bad we need to teach you this lesson

so you can learn and be fine and that's all well

and good this is a nice lesson but it just i

don't know i guess i've seen way too many of

these kinds of stories to me it just seemed like

it seemed like a pretty uh pretty big station

or responsibility to give just one little kid,

regardless of what you're turning into. And there

were other, there were other guards up there.

They make it sound like he's gonna be the only

one up there. Yeah, that's true. I forgot that

there was other people up there. I mean... How

do you really feel? I wish that they wouldn't,

I wish that they wouldn't use one -off riders.

I guess all these staff riders were very busy

back then. But come on, bring in Alaria de Tillio.

Bring in somebody else to write these damn episodes.

Don't just go to... Don't just wing a script

at some random guy on the street. That's fun.

I guess. Alright. I guess we'll go to Castle

Grayskull then. Yay! Come on, Cringer. We've

got to save Philip. What do you mean, we? I'm

getting out of here! By the power of Grayskull!

Alright, it's time for Castle Grayskull for the

Ice Age Cometh. First of all, I like that Cringer

actually does avoid the transformation. I thought

that was pretty cool. Stop looking at my nose!

I love that Skeletor call. They're always big

on this series of calling each other names and

stuff like that. And I like that Skeletor called

Whiplash and Wimplash. I thought that was a pretty

cool one. I think Icer's design was cool enough.

I thought he looked pretty cool. I don't know

if his voice was as cool, but I guess it was

different than the rest of the people. But I

thought his design looked decent enough. Also

good designs on the trolls. They look like they

belong to this universe. And hey, they had Tila

on ice. Unfortunately, they didn't leave her

there. They're all frozen and they could have

left her behind. What do you have? Well, you

already took my line about Cringer escaping the

transformation for once, the only time he ever

really does. Um, Icer does look great. I love

the idea of an ice villain and I wish he'd become

a character that they would have used more. Sadly,

he doesn't, um, because his ice age goeth. Um,

the Ice Raider, even though it's just a white

wind reader with skis, it is friggin' awesome.

That's a toy that I would love to see done nowadays.

Cringer wearing air muffs, now that I want to

see. Yeah, about the same thing. since I wasn't

sure where to put this because I didn't really

have a negative reaction to it was kind of like

just a chuckle but since when did he man put

a patent on a bank on a bank shot really come

on that's just silly that's just silly and finally

snowball of doom Yeah, I mean there was definitely

some highlights in this episode and some moments

that stood out a little bit more than some of

the episodes that we've seen recently so Got

that going for it, but there's also let's drawbacks.

So let's get to what those are Just give me another

chance to get my claws on that ice raider Quiet

or I'll turn you into a suitcase! I agree with

you, Tela. Philip has to learn to accept responsibility.

I'm going to transfer you, Philip, up to the

top of the world to help guard the weather station.

But that's for losers! I don't want to go! They're

playing right into my hands! He'll have to use

the ice radar! Icer, where are you? All right,

sir, what negative things do you have about the

Ice Man? wasn't sure where this episode was going

in the beginning and as soon as I saw him I wrote

it down because it's two in a row I all caps

enough with whiplash already give me triclapse

give me too bad tongue lash or someone other

than freaking whiplash and thankfully they did

that with with ICER but it's like we just saw

an entire episode with whiplash do we really

need him again Uh, and the only other thing I

wrote down was yet another boring kid episode.

And as I already stated, you know, this kid sounds

like a whinier version of Cousin Jeremy. Yeah,

he was definitely annoying. Um, that's not a

bank shot. Well... He said the patented bank

shot and then he threw a snowball that hit nothing.

Except for his target. It hit the where the where

the trolls were yeah, but it's supposed to bounce

off something else and then hit your target.

Oh, so Hookshot is what he was looking. Yeah

Philip cross that off on the names to use for

your future kid Because that name has been destroyed

by this series I guess my only problem with icer

is he looked cool and everything but is that

really the the only name they could come up with

this guy like I feel like icer was Kind of a

cop -out is coming up for a name like I can't

come up with anything creative for this guy We're

just gonna call him ice er Again, that's why

I say enough with these individual You know freelance

writers writing these damn episodes. Yeah So

yeah, that's just my only minor nitpicks. The

bank shot, the name of Philip and the name of

Aysha, I guess. I have problems with names in

this episode. Let's go to see what kind of stuff.

See if you actually have something to hand out

at this next award ceremony. Oh, you know it.

When I hand out to every child. That is one slip

too many for you. Something wrong at the weather

station. Look at the size of that glacier. It's

getting larger every hour. And coming toward

us. You'll have to fly up there and see what's

wrong, Tila. She can't. Whatever has caused this

weather has filled the atmosphere with negative

ions. There's no communication and nothing can

fly. In that case, I'll go check out the attack

track. You don't have to go with me, Adam. Good.

It's c -c -cold up there. Then you'd better pack

your earmuffs cringer. We're leaving right away

All right before Mike gets himself in trouble

with what he likes to do to kids I will actually

join him in we can both I'm trying to find a

way to say this now that doesn't sound appropriate.

You can't say it now. You can't say it now. We

both have to double -team on Philip. We're both

going to Havocstaff Philip up the you -know -what.

Skeletor needs to take this kid, bend him over

his knee, and smack him 20 times with his Havocstaff.

Yeah, Havocstaff's multiple times for Philip

until he no longer speaks like a girl. And he's

in such a... I'm not going to say that. Anyway,

what kind of episode rating are you giving this

one? One out of five orcos. Wow, down to the

one. Yup. I'm somewhat with you. I'm giving this

one two and a half. Battle Cats. I like ICER.

I like that idea, but other than that, besides

a few funny moments, there really wasn't much

about this episode that was to write home about.

No, so I could do without this one outside of

icer Yeah, all right. Let's see how we end this

episode then as we go to episode 80 you travel

quickly at the speed of light I see Well, perhaps

you could travel a little slower and we'll prepare

for your visit later this evening as you wish

Duncan would you give on the coordinates to the

palace and prepare a landing site for him? Certainly

your majesty. I go to prepare for your visit

my new friend It is time for episode 80. The

Arena. Written by Warren Greenwood. Airdate Monday,

October 1st, 1984. During a terrible war between

good and evil, a powerful alien intervenes and

forces He -Man and Skeletor to fight in place

of their armies. So we have Skeletor on one hand,

and then we have all the masters, including some

cameos from Stratos and Raman, even though they

don't speak. And the PSA is all about men in

arms, explaining the importance of compassion

for others and the uselessness of fighting. Orko's

fun facts. Sadly, this episode of Storyboard

Artist, Warren Greenwood's only script in the

entire series. He was the first storyboard artist

to write a script in the series and was shortly

followed by Robert Lamb and Bob Forward, all

turning in wonderfully memorable scripts, according

to this. Om is voiced by John Irwin, giving the

wise being a very similar voice to that of the

oracle from T -List Quest. And this episode features

the longest fight sequence the series has ever

seen. What did you think about the armies battling

each other, the He -Man and Skeletor battling

each other, this alien presence overlooking things?

What do you think about the plot for the arena?

We actually have... We actually see the attorney

in war. Like, you know... Okay, sure, Transformers

the movie could technically be considered part

of the war between the Autobots and the Decepticons

as one of the bigger battles. But... You always

hear, oh, before the war, oh, after the war,

blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Here, we actually

see the war between Eternia and Snake Mountain,

and that is amazing. I think that's really, really

great. I can't believe, I don't know if it's

the way the story is written, but I cannot believe

that Randor is so open and trusting to this alien

being. That led to some... Little hiccups in

the plot too that I thought Yeah Overall, it

was probably the best episode of what we're talking

about today I did really enjoy it. We finally

really get to see a knockdown dragout battle

of He -Man and Skeletor, even though they really

don't do anything to each other. I mean, Skeletor

is just standing there blasting at him and creating

this giant spider, and He -Man is just fending

off the blast with his sword. I mean, not that

I expect in this series He -Man and Skeletor

to go sword staff fight, but it's like it'd be

nice to see them actually in hand -to -hand combat,

because this was anything but hand -to -hand

combat. Yeah, I enjoy the whole battle thing.

I enjoyed that for the first time in a long time,

kind of get this whole drawn -out battle with

everybody and then with the two people. So that

was kind of a cool premise. You know, I guess

it's cool that we have another alien of some

sort contact, but I don't know. It's always the

ball of light or something like that. Yeah, and

see, that's the other thing that I'm sorry to

cut you off, but that's the other thing that

kind of pisses me off about this episode as I'm

thinking about it. This is the first alien being

that they've seen in 79 other episodes. That's

horse crap because they've been, they've gone

off world. I've seen them go to a different planet

at least one time in the past seven or so. Well,

I think it was more so about the first being

that they come across that they didn't already

know existed, I guess. Because they know trial

exists, and they know a couple of these other

places exist, or that people have been banished

to this place or that place, but they've never

had contact with just a completely foreign entity

that they have no knowledge about, I guess. So

it's the first unknown experience. OK, and I

can get behind that with the exception of the

fact that technically, all these other planets

and dimensions are not of Aeternia, so they are

alien to the Aeternians. Right, alien but known.

Yeah. I guess is the qualification there. I guess.

All right, well let's see what kind of things

that you liked about the arena. This is not good.

I cannot allow this to take place. It is wasteful.

It is wrong. There will be too much needless

suffering. Instead of all this fighting, I will

select one single warrior from each side. The

most powerful and representative warrior. The

winner will decide the conflict. And I will decide

the fate of the losing side. I have spoken. arena.

First of all, things I like. Cool goblin army

force. I thought that was kind of a cool idea

to bring this like actual military, militaristic

type species that has everything kind of set

up. So it's not just the evil warriors acting

like an army, it's an actual army. That was a

cool thing. Like the extended fight scene like

this, like I said, that's cool. I like the idea

of then narrowing it down to human and Skeletor.

And oh, the convenient mind wipe angle. where

we mind wipe everybody so that nobody has any

knowledge of what just happened. But overall,

a lot of cool things happening that we hadn't

gotten in a while for this episode. What about

you? You said mind wipe. All I can think of is,

I have no need for your scientific toys when

I have my extrasensory powers. Mind wipe from

rebirth from transformers Transformers of course

um this episode when they're Bart when Skeletor

and the general are bartering It feels like something

I would read out of the Arthurian legend it feels

like something out of the days of Camelot It's

like you know you do this for me Yeah, and then

I will give you this this and this and it's like

ah the pact is sealed and blah blah blah The

deal is done, so I liked it. I thought it was

interesting This episode is kind of awesome,

but it seems like you know you already mentioned

this that we've seen the solution before You

know the whole you know I mean hell this entire

series the The house of randor is built around

memories being erased which we will get to once

we hit a certain princess You know so it didn't

really surprise me that they did that Um, the

battle between He -Man and Skeletor, even though

they don't really, as I said earlier, they don't

really do like hand to hand, you know, punching

each other or swinging the sword and staff at

each other. I did really like the battle. I thought

that was great. Um, and you, you might have this

as a snake mountain moment, but, and the power

of love saved them all again. Not as bad as when

it was that other time. So I didn't have as big

of a problem with it, but I do have some problems

with some other things, so let's get to what

those are. Tell me about this army of yours.

It is a multi -attack force composed of laser

-armed airships, jet -packed paratroopers, thundelizard

cavalry, robot assault walkers, and 500 goblin

infantry troops. Wonderful! Soon I will imprison

King Randor and his royal family. And the payment?

Each soldier will receive 10 ,000 gold pieces,

half in advance and half on the fall of Eternia.

And you, Tataran, will rule as governor of Eternia

in my name! Alright. Some bad things about the

arena. First of all, speaking to aliens using

microphones. That's how you speak to that alien

entity. Use this microphone and speak into that.

That just seemed weird to me. I don't know why,

but it seemed weird. then not just talking to

the aliens using the microphone, but then we

cut away and we cut back and Randor is actually

telling the alien through the microphone the

secrets of Castle Grayskull Yeah, that was pretty

bad You just met this alien thing and now you're

telling him some of the most important things

about your Culture and your way of life not smart

So Randor, I don't know if you're the king that

I want ruling over my people. And Om and He -Man's

obviously both being voiced by John Irwin, but

they're so similar that the scenes where Om and

He -Man are actually talking to each other are

very weird. There's a few times where it confuses

you if you're not paying real close attention

to what's going on there, because their voices

are basically the same. It's, I don't know if

they should have used those two, given those

two as many scenes where they're just specifically

talking right back and forth to each other. Right,

yeah. How about you? I just kind of sat through

this episode and watched it. I mean, I wrote

down the good moments that I liked, but there

really weren't... Usually when I find bad moments,

it's something to do with you know, some stupid

thing Tila did or some stupid thing Orko did

or some stupid thing He -Man did or Skeletor

did or something like that But I really didn't

find too many in here at all. I honestly don't

have any. Wow this time around. Yeah, I know

right? All right. Well, I guess if that's it,

then we'll see how we actually thought about

this episode and how it ranks against the ones

that we've already talked about today. It's him.

It's Om. He's here. I am Om. I come in peace.

We greet you, great Om. We welcome you to attorney

and we are glad you come in peace. We have much

to learn from each other. I see that one of your

rank is different. Who is the little creature?

Little creature? I happen to be one of the greatest

magicians of the land of Trawah. I see. How fascinating.

Tell me about this Trawah. By the grace of Eternia.

Gogol! Gogan! Where are you? We're under attack!

Free to the palace! Run! Run for safety! Alright

sir, what kind of hardware do you have to give

out for the arena? This might be a first. I'm

going to give a power sword to the entire battle.

The battle scene was just awesome and I will

give one each for He -Man and Skeletor for their

own separate battle. I do have to say before

we go any further really that I did think, and

I should have mentioned this in the plot, as

soon as I saw the title of this episode and what

this episode was going to entail, I thought Ohm

was going to take them. I know you haven't seen

this, but a lot of people have. There was an

episode of Justice League called War World where

this character brought all of these other characters

from around the globe to this one world to do

nothing but fight for their watching pleasure.

And that's really what I thought this was going

to be. I thought Ohm was going to take them to

some battle, you know, some WWE ring like thing

with an audience around them. That's really what

I thought this was going to be. And I was really

surprised that it wasn't. Hmm I can see that

So, what about you for hardware? I didn't really

have anybody that stood out either way for me

on this one I like the battle scene and I like

some of the things in this episode, but I didn't

really have anybody that's like That stood out

big -time. I guess now that I'm thinking about

it. I will give a havoc staff out to King randor

First for trusting this alien thing too much,

and then for giving out information that you

should not be giving out to alien forces. That's

true. So have it stabbed to King Randor. I'll

go with that. Episode reading wise, it was a

decent episode. I actually liked Betrayal of

Stratos a tiny bit more, but I will give this

one a three and a half Battle Cats. What about

you? I'm going to give it a four. I really like

the action in it. I like the battle scene itself.

I like the battle between He -Man and Skeletor.

I'm only really taking one point off for Randor's

stupidity. Yeah, that makes sense. So a three

and a half and a four for this one, making it

one of the better episodes today. Four and three

for Betrayal of Stratos, and obviously we didn't

necessarily like the Ice Age coming with a two

and a half and a one. So that does it for today.

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so that does it for these three episodes. Anything

to say before we close out this show? We need

a Masters in the Universe movie already. We've

had four craptacular Transformers movies, we've

had two Lackluster, well, one Lackluster and

one LKGI Joe movie. We need a Masters movie,

damn it. About to have a Lackluster Teenage Mutant

Ninja Turtles movie. Oh, God. Yeah, we would

have already had that. We had some good ones

though to begin with, so that's alright. Yeah,

that's true. No, you know, I'm really excited.

I'm more excited right now to get to She -Ra

than I am to finish this series out. These episodes,

some are good, some are okay, and the rest so

far are just bad. I don't remember, and you can

probably tell me because you're the one that

does all the math, I don't remember the last

time I rated an episode five. Yeah, I don't think

I've rated any I could be wrong, but I don't

think I've rated any season two episodes a five

and It just that saddens me that this series

While it is good. It does have good moments It

does have funny moments with orco and cringer

and sometimes with orc cringer and Adam It's

not what I remember from my childhood. Maybe

it's because I didn't watch all of these episodes

every single day in my childhood, but the ones

that I do remember, it's like, wow, that really

wasn't what I remember it being. Yeah. We got

some left. I'm holding out hope there's still

some gems in here that we'll still see in this

final 50 episodes or so. and some new characters

that we haven't seen yet. So I still have a little

bit of hope, but I am also looking forward to

this year apart. Yeah. Alright, thank you for

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By the powers of Rayskull, we all have the power.

Just some more than others. I have more power

than you do. Uh -oh. Uh -oh! Where were you when

I... He's never around when I need him! But you

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