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Adam, Prince of Eternia and defender of the secrets

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in Tales of Eternia. With me for this journey

into the Masters of the Universe franchise is,

guess who, TFG1 Mike. You know, I'm thinking,

and I'm only bringing this up now, I should probably

bring this up with you on Off -air, but I'm thinking

when we get the She -Ra we need to bring in a

female for a third wheel. Nothing good happens

when that happens. We're gonna give you She -Ra

from a guy's perspective. So sir, are you ready

for the powers of the Grace Call, sir? Yes. All

right. Well in this episode of Tales of Eternia,

we will be giving you our thoughts on episode

84, The Littlest Giant, episode 85, Attack from

Below, and episode 86, Into the Abyss. So we

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

to Eternia. Oh god, not more booth. Don't worry,

Kendo. I'll save ya! Just haul me in! We start

today with episode 84 the littlest giant written

by same person who wrote episode 83 from a couple

weeks ago Doug Booth Friday October 5th 1984

this is how he ends up ended our first week of

October back in 1984. Squinch wants to be big

and strong like his hero He -Man, but when he

makes a bargain with Skeletor and Evil -In, it's

up to the Little Widget to save his hero. Bad

guys in this, Beastman, Evil -In, Skeletor, and

are you ready? panther About time masters would

be your normal ones with a appearance from King

randor PSA squinch recalls that he man said it

doesn't matter what you look like But who you

are inside he bets there are a lot of people

who wish they could be just like you or co agrees

with him Orcos fun facts when Prince Adam first

transforms into human in this episode This is

the only time in the entire series that the transformation

sequence does not have any part of the human

theme running through it Squinch appears to have

forgotten about the way in which Evelyn humiliated

him in Evelyn's plot as he actively seeks the

help of the forces of evil ethnic mountain and

The second transformation of this in this episode

is a mixture of two episodes the shot of Cringer

Talking and then Prince Adam revealing the sword

of power behind the bookcases similar to the

mystery of Manny faces and The slow dissolve

to an already dressed Adam is the same as in

the shaping staff Again for the third time in

two podcast episodes, we have had some continuity

with recurring characters. If you recall a couple

of weeks ago, we had Granamir making a reappearance

with the Dark Smoke characters. And then we also

had Kothos making a second appearance. Now we

get an additional appearance of Squinch and the

rest of the Squinch people. The rest of the widgets.

So again, some continuity and some connectivity

to previous episodes. What did you think of the

whole? plot on this one so I gotta say and two

weeks ago you said oh you must be watching She

-Ra I haven't been because obviously we're saving

that for the 30th anniversary but I remember

like I'm a person that once I watch a movie as

many times as I've watched The Secret of the

Sword I remember every single aspect of that

movie I'm gonna say you remember every single

ass in that movie Yeah, Bo was kind of an ass.

Anyway, I am only bringing this up because they

sound similar. The widgets, the name the widgets

kind of reminds me of the Twiggets in She -Ra.

They're both a race of little people within the

He -Man and She -Ra universes. True. And then,

you know, if you want to throw in a Thundercats

crossover, you can have the Burbills. Every time

I hear Squinch's name, I think of Squince, the

little four -eyed guy who had a crush on Wendy

Peffercorn in the Sandlot. I don't know why I

always hear Squince instead of Squinch every

time I hear somebody say his name. The plot was...

You had a crush on Andy Peffercorn? No, Wendy...

Oh, God. You're such an asshole. You know what

I'm talking about. Anyway. the plot was okay

I'm used to it by now because every piece of

media that I've seen since then has done this

you know this type of plot I mean hell I believe

transformers had done this a couple of times

about characters not feeling their their worth

and they want to be bigger than what they actually

are I think at some point I'm going to reference

this episode as being the episode about nothing,

which, I mean, Seinfeld had a whole show about

nothing, so I guess it's good in that aspect.

Yeah, I mean, I don't have a problem any time

we have recurring characters. That's usually

a good thing. The widgets aren't my favorite

subgroup in the world of Eternia, but... I'm

willing to go ahead and go through the whole

episode again and try to ignore the whole I'm

small and I'm not great storyline, like you said,

that we get more than most storylines in these

type of things. It's all about, you know, self

-esteem and people feeling good about themselves

and it's what's on the inside that counts. Anyway,

but I do have some, I do have quite a few good

things to say, so let's make our way to Castle

Graves Call. Okay, you already mentioned it,

but what I did notice about the transformation

scene, even though there wasn't the He -Man theme,

the... background music, the general Atterian

background music we normally would hear before

the He -Man theme is behind all of the sound

effects, but it is so buried. You have to really

be listening for it. I loved Battle Cat when

he inhaled the sleeping powder and his stumbling

around made him look like he was drunk. I thought

that was funny. This time around the Skeletor

actually has a damn good play and I like that

Skeletor is actually thinking for once. What

about you? Um number one, I will say one good

thing about Doug Booth Which I don't usually

do but You know, I understand Larry DiTillio

brought back Granimeir, et cetera, but he had

been the one that had written the previous episodes.

So it's kind of like it was his little storyline

that he kept coming back to, which makes sense.

And I'm not faulting him for that. I will give

credit to Doug Booth for bringing back characters

that weren't in one of his previous episodes,

which means that he, unless somebody directed

him to do that, he was aware that they existed

in another episode and consciously decided to

do an episode with them, even though he had not

written the previous episodes. So I will give

him credit for that. We did have a widget signal

flare a la bat symbol sent up, so that was cool.

I like that there was a small bit of continuity

that I guess Mr. Andy Mengels or whoever the

genius is that puts together all the fun facts,

self -proclaimed human expert and somehow, this

is all jealousy, somehow lucky guy that gets

to do all the bonus materials and all these 80s

cartoons. He missed something. They should have

mentioned something about the continuity in here

with the dungeon door knowledge of Snake Mountain

by Tila. She knew about the secret dungeon door

in Snake Mountain from a previous episode and

they brought that back and made that play a part

in this episode. I didn't think they would do

that. So kudos to them for bringing that aspect

and that piece of knowledge and not ignore that.

It was cool seeing Skeletor on the throne. Yeah,

sitting there chilling out But you know what

was even cooler Here's my note motherfucking

panther With an exclamation point, uh -huh. I

Love also that he appears and he man. I believe

is he man. Why panther how nice to see you. Yes

Just echoing the thoughts of everybody that was

watching that episode like yes, very nice to

see panther He's just awesome. So cool cool that

we finally get to this. I thought he was in the

series more than he was. I didn't realize we'd

only get to see him like one time. I mean when

what what was this the first and only time or

have we seen him before? I remember seeing him

in snake Mountain a couple of times, but I don't

remember when I think we saw him once a mountain

just kind of as a pet off to the side But this

is for all I can remember This is his first time

that we've actually seen him since we started

rewatching this not saying that it won't happen

again Right one of the first times we saw him

in taking a big part of the action I love the

fact they have this line that i'm sure if we

were in the room this is the line they wanted

to say was it's not about how big you are but

somebody in the writing or whatever decided that

that was going to be taken out of context so

they changed the line it says it's not about

how big your body is I don't know. I find that

funny that they didn't leave it in and just say

it's not about how big you are and let people

It's a little mermaid joke ladies and gentlemen

before the little mermaid was ever the little

mermaid So it's not about how big your body is

guys. It doesn't matter how big anything else

is Yeah, some good things in this episode also

some negative things. So Let's get to those as

we travel to snake mountain I was half expecting

battle cat to pounce on I was half expecting

them to fight in this episode. Yeah He has a

lot of courage. Oh, not much since. Even I know

better than to ask Elator for favors. Silence,

you two! Now what is it that you want? Would

you please use your magic and make me beg? And

what's in it for me? For every good thing you

say about Doug Booth... You must also say something

negative I gave him credit for bringing back

the wickets even though he didn't write about

them in the first place He knew they existed.

So he brought them back however, he didn't actually

pay attention to the episodes they appeared in

prior because he ignored that Squinch would have

actually known evil in and the evil warriors

Yeah, and not gone and and sauce, you know, he

would have sought them out for help so Yeah,

you brought him back. You must have seen him

and said hey these guys look cool, and I'll bring

them back But apparently you ignored the fact

that they are have already experienced some things

in this world So yeah bad bad on that Doug Booth

I'm pretty sure that panther could have jumped

out of that thing that you guys trapped him in

Unless he's a non jumping panther He jumped at

he man, so yeah, there's something that was not

very high And that has to be one of the lamest

scenes in the entire series and I'm talking about

the cooking loaf of villain scene Well, first

of all, they're in the palace kitchen, right?

Yeah Why the hell would he man aka Prince Adam?

destroy The roof of his own damn house just to

trap the villains, right? It's just I don't know.

This is weird. Oh, we're gonna put flour in you

and we're gonna Roll you around and we're gonna

create a loaf of bread that has all the villains

inside it What? That was horrible. Did Doug Booth

think that was gonna be funny to kids? I Guess

what do you have? Every cartoon was doing it,

so I guess he, man, had to have a little person

wants to be bigger episode. Squinch is a moron

half the time throughout this entire episode

until he actually learns his lesson. There's

a little animation error. I don't know if you

caught this. There's a point where it's nighttime

in the forest or wherever the hell they are.

And then he man goes and goes back to the palace

and for a half a second it turns day And then

it turns back tonight so Here's the thing this

is what I meant two weeks ago that I was gonna

bring this back up about what does How does Skeletor

actually want to rule the planet does he? Just

want to take king randor queen marlena out of

power and rule the palace or does he want to

have castle greyskull i mean i know the obvious

answer is he wants it all i get that but like

jesus christ he needs to pick whether he wants

to take over greyskull or the palace um and then

even though orko corrects himself after this

i found a huge not really a huge issue but i

found an issue with this orko says and i quote

come on everyone my magic will lead us to the

palace um it wasn't even it was evelyn's door

It was Evelyn that opened the damn portal, not

Orko. So that was a little... But that's all

I got. Alright, well let's see... We had a lot

of good things to say, we had a lot of bad things

to say. Let's see how that equals out into our

ratings and see who gets awards when we get to

that section of the show. It was sort of a mistake.

But as long as you're here, I've got something

for you. What is it? Uh, well, why don't you

open it first? Yes, open it, He -Man! What's

going on? I can't hear a word they're saying!

It's magic. And it's not good magic either. But

Evil Lim told me you'd like the surprise. Evil

Lim gave this to you? That's right, He -Man!

The little fool fell right into my trap! Okay,

it is awards and rankings time. I didn't mention

it and I didn't telegraph it, but I actually

will give a Havoc staff for Evil Lynn in this

episode because I thought she was an epic failure

in this episode. She really didn't do hardly

anything right. She messed stuff up. She could

have been much better than she was in this episode,

and she could have done more in securing what

they needed to secure. She, uh... She was the

last line of defense and she completely effed

up. So, Havoc Staff for you, Olen. What about

you? Yeah, I agree. She... And then she sits

there and whispers some magical plan to Skeletor.

Like, really, seriously, she's going to actually

whisper to him. Like, his bone face has ears,

really. It does. You just don't know it. Yeah,

so Havoc Staff for her. Yeah, that's it. All

right You probably don't know what my rating

is because I said a bunch of good stuff and I

said a bunch of negative stuff I do criticize

it for Doug Booth not paying better attention

to This the widgets first appearance than that

incredibly bad loaf of bread scene But there

was a lot of cool things here. I do like that

the the wickets or widgets or whatever the fuck

they are came back I like the dungeon door aspect

of the continuity there I'd like seen Skeletor

on the throne and this episode has panther in

it so I The good wins out against the bad the

bad keeps it from being a great episode I will

give it a four battle cats out of five I'm gonna

give it three panthers three panthers No orcos

this time. All right. Well, that does it for

episode 84. Let's make our way to episode 85,

Attack From Below, coming up next. I can't wait

to congratulate Agar, the master farmer. Just

look at the field's orco. Sure looks good. It's

the best food crop attorney has produced in years.

I want you to know how grateful Olive Attorney

is for your wonderful crop. Thank you, but it

was the great rains that made the crops, not

I. I think my son has a favor to ask from Orko.

Could you do some magic for me, Orko? I love

magic, please? Well, let's see now. If I can

use some of these luscious berries, I'll show

you my combination juggling and disappearing

trick. Help yourself. Okay. watch closely now

episode 85 we're getting attacked from below

writer michael kurschenbaum air dates that's

how we started our week monday october 8 1984

when a race of subterranean people steal eternia's

crops tila and he man must journey underground

to stop them um Bad guys in this we have cameos

from Beastman, Skeletor, and Trapjaw. We have

our regular masters with Ramman making an appearance.

PSA is Tila and Orko explaining the folly of

misjudging an entire group just because of the

actions of a few of them. Orko's fun facts. There's

a Miss painting in one of the scenes. First shot

of the fishing scene. You can see that man -at

-arms hands have not been painted correctly.

What is interesting to note is that during the

flashback sequence the audience realizes that

it is Skeletor and his evil warriors that subterraneous

is referring to however Tila has no idea of whom

he is speaking This is the first and probably

best appearance of the Dragon Walker all of their

appearances would make the vehicle appear to

be the slowest land vehicle on Eternia What did

you think about this episode as far as the subterraneans

and the crop stealing It would have been better

if it was the goofy gophers Goofy gophers, that's

right Would have been better if it was the goofy

gophers, honestly And again, you know two weeks

in a row I've said this I've seen too many other

things that do the same thing And it's the exact

every single time this guy or whatever the hell

his name is The leader there says, oh, we're

not going to listen to above -world or lies and

whatever. Oh, God. Just, no. Thankfully, this

is the only episode Michael Kirshenbaum wrote.

Not a big fan of this episode? No, not at all.

Alright, I don't have a big problem with the

plot. I actually like the whole idea of the subterranean

group and that they have a history with people

above ground and that that has formed their opinions

on things and we're trying to kind of break through

that stereotype they have, so I don't mind that

part of the plot. I'm not saying it's a great

episode, but I'm probably not gonna hate it as

much as you are, so let's see if you have anything

good to say when we make our way to Castle Grayskull.

I will say the one thing that I do like about

the plot that it does introduce subternia, so

I do like that, but as far as the people living

there, blah. Take this corn to the storage room.

Uh -oh. A stranger. Oh, this is wonderful. I

should do it more often. You should. I do some

of my best thinking here. It's always so... Help!

Help! Something terrible's happened at the cornfields!

What is it, Orko? Teela was dragged underground

and I can't find her! Underground? By what? I

don't know. It happened so fast! Let's go! All

right. I'll go first castle gray skull moments

for attack from below number one. I thought it

was a cool alien race of villains there I like

the subterranean I like that we got down to subternia

And and I thought they had good looks they had

good villain looks here and I like the backstory

and the plot point of them Having exposure before

but that exposure was with Skeletor So basically

their only exposure to the above world people

was dealing with Skeletor and then his villainy

so they have now been you know, kind of Turned

away from all of the above world people. So I

like that aspect of the episode. What about you?

Um, so this is subternia interesting I you know

outside of these characters that I don't really

care for them. I wish they would have done more

with subternia in this series The Dragon Walker.

That's a cool. That's a cool. That's cool. And

that's I think is the first time we've seen this

right? Yeah Yeah And I love it when Remy goes

boing. I just love that sound effect. You like

it when Remy goes boing, huh? Yep. That could

be taken out of context. Shut the hell up. The

sound effect, you idiot. But that's it. That

is it. Not a lot of good things, apparently,

to say about this episode. So let's see how many

negative things we have to say about it. This

he -man is quite a fellow, but we'll stop him.

Why are you doing this? Do you like fighting?

No, I don't like violence, but my people are

hungry. But there's no need to fight us. We'd

be happy to help. I will not listen to above

-grounder lies. All right, we'll find ourselves

at Snake Mountain for the Snake Mountain moments

from episode 85, Attack From Below, a kid not

needed in this episode, completely not needed.

Agreed did not need him this episode is just

overall somewhat boring Yeah, there's not a whole

lot of action not a whole lot of stuff going

on and I thought that they should have they have

this new decent plot of the aliens having previously

met and Interacted with Skeletor yet. They bring

Skeletor into this episode never Yeah, so I thought

that since there was a history with them that

the some clever Ideas or options of bringing

him somehow back into it. You could have had

You know the attorneys trying to mend this and

trying to convince them that they're that they're

you know Not that bad you get ahead the subtern

subternions or however you call them basically

Starting to give the attorneys a chance come

above ground or do something and then you could

have skeletor come in and completely You know

kind of break their their thoughts again You

could have had him somehow trying to intermingle

or create some havoc But instead you don't bring

skeletor in at all except for the idea that they

used to have history with him Which is almost

like skeletor doesn't even know this is going

on So I just feel like there was a missed opportunity

with this one. What about you? Well, you know

going off of that you're right because it wasn't

very much a missed opportunity because Skeletor

had we've her eyes I believe I brought this up

in the past episodes of the podcast Skeletor

has said that he knows and sees all he knows

all that's going on around attorney and when

it comes to evil apparently Not evil like I guess

this evil is the lowest of the low on the totem

pole of evil I don't know You know you pretty

much took the world's words right out of my mouth

as far as it being an overall boring episode

And I said great yet another episode with no

Skeletor actually in dealing with the episode

And these guys these this race. They're basically

a villain of the week turned good guy And as

I said earlier in the plot, this is your standard

people living below having fights with people

above and not wanting to learn. Because Tila

says, hey, look, we'll help you. She offers to

help them. And they still are stubborn as all

hell. So. Anything else? Nope. That's it. All

right. Well, let's see what kind of ratings we

give attack from below. It's a dead end we'll

have to find another way awards and rankings

for episode 85 attack from below I will give

a hammock staff to mr. Michael Christian bomber

Christian bomb Christian bomb Whatever completely

okay from completely missing opportunities with

the storyline I think he had potential here and

he just didn't follow through with any of it.

What about you? Same here and episode rating

I will drop again like last episode that we did

like last podcast the best one seems to be what

we started with and this one will drop um I had

a four on that last one I'm going all the way

down to a two on this one two battle cats what

about you um I have it written down but I just

want to make sure okay the only reason what saves

this from being a zero is seeing the dragon walker

so it gets a one So not a very good episode in

Season 2, Attack From Below. Let's see if we

can get in any better when we go into the Abyss.

I command you! Come back! You miserable traitors.

When I get my hands... Beastman, I'll give you

ten seconds to follow your friends before I send

you there myself. Mark my words, He -Man. Someday

you will wish you never heard the name, Beastman.

I already wish I never heard it. Alright, it

is time for the last episode of today, episode

86, Into the Abyss, written by Robert Lamb, Airdate

Tuesday, October 9th, 1984. Prince Adam and Tila

decide to have fun with Adam's training, but

things take a dark turn when Tila falls into

the bottomless abyss around Castle Grayskull.

Beastman appears in this again. Masters of the

Universe. He -Man and Man -At -Arms and the PSA

explain how Tila learned that it's important

to play as well as work and to make sure she

plays safely by making sure someone knows where

she is. Orko's fun facts, originally during the

scene when Prince Adam chases Tila through the

forest, they are swinging Tarzan like on vines

until Adam crashes into a tree. In the script,

the sorceress leaves Castle Grayskull to attend

the Widget's celebration, explaining where she

was when Tila falls into the abyss. That would

have been cool to add that in there. Originally

act one ended with Tila hanging on to the side

of the chasm a real cliffhanger ha ha ha Yeah,

as Prince Adam man -at -arms Norco stare into

the abyss Zora originally flew back into the

castle only to reappear as a sorceress and question

their sadness What did you think about this whole

abyss the whole fact that we really don't have

any villains whatsoever I mean we get beast man,

but really it's It's just there's not even like

villains of the week. There's there's really

no antagonist almost in this It's just them and

trying to rescue Tila. What do you think? This

might be more boring than the other two boring

episodes we've had in the past two weeks I remember

in episode 28. I said there was an episode that

bored me. I remember one of these episodes today

bored me Besides this one but Yeah, no that this

was a complete Departure from what we've really

seen all together sure beastman was there a little

bit, but Yeah, no no more episodes from you Robert

Lam. You do not deserve to write he -man episodes.

Ouch Interesting that is some some some powerful

words you're saying there I like the idea of

doing an episode with no villains, basically,

where it's just the heroes finding themselves

in a situation where they need help and they

need to do something or someone's in danger and

it doesn't necessarily include villains, so I

like that standpoint. So I don't mind the plot

itself. I think if you do that, you obviously

have to make it interesting and find a good way

to do that, which I'm not sure that they did

here, but the actual plot I don't have a problem

with. Well, we'll see what if I can make you

say anything good about this episode, so let's

get to castle Oh God, I am when we get to Castle

Grayskull. I'm gonna break your brain with the

real weights Castle Grayskull for the last time

today I'm getting a little tired of Adam skipping

my lessons. I've been looking everywhere for

you. You're supposed to be... I know, I know.

I'm supposed to be learning survival skills.

Right. So why didn't you meet me two hours ago?

To tell the truth, Teal. I didn't feel like it.

What? You didn't! Look, I know I have a lot to

learn, but come on, Tila, can't we have some

fun once in a while? Fun? Adam, you can't waste

your life just fooling around. There are too

many important things to do. Well, that's what

I mean. Work, work, work. It's all you ever think

about. Well, I don't feel like it. But, Adam,

I... That will be all, Captain. Alright time

for the highlights of Into the Abyss go ahead

and break my brain So I'm watching this episode

and normally we've seen scenes like this before

but normally it It never goes this far The scene

where Adam actually talks back and tells Tila

no I had to watch that three different times

before we recorded this episode because I had

to make sure I got my facts right here because

oh fuck oh no I can't believe I'm going to say

this I'm Tila and you are Prince Adam I am the

one who always Needs to do everything right now

to get podcasts and everything else done and

go ahead and get the work out of the way where

you're like, oh Sometimes you're like, oh, no,

we can you know, we can wait it It's gonna be

there and I've got other stuff to do in my life

and whatever else. I was like, oh fuck No, I

can't believe I've turned into Tila fuck I like

that and silence like that that you've realized

how much you are. Oh shut the hell up the first

know finally that the source of castle grayskull's

power is at the bottom of the abyss which will

this will actually come back in my state moments

but uh... it's nice to finally know that's where

the source of the power is uh... and uh... and

i'm going to the face of the jungle that was

funny uh... that uh... different introduction

to an episode straight into a battle uh... enjoyed

that I think we've seen that a couple of times.

This isn't the first but yeah, it was different

than the last What's five episodes, right? I

already wished I hadn't ever heard of the name

Beastman Why The I think that's a line from the

from the show. Oh, yeah Cool to see them out.

Just playing games for fun That was different

thing that we don't usually get to see and I

like the whole angle between the sorceress and

Tila so that is somewhat of a good thing in this

episode. So, that's about it for me. I don't

have a lot about Snake Mountain, but I do have

one major thing that we need to get to. I have...

six. Well, let's see what they all are. How long

has she been missing? Oh, almost four hours.

Duncan, I'm worried. You know, it's not like

Teela to go off by herself unprepared. Wait,

Duncan, she was prepared. She gave me this homing

device. It's funny. She thought I was going to

get lost. I have one thing. I know you have six

at Snake Mountain, but I will get the biggest

one out of the way right now. Biggest Snake Mountain

moment of this episode. It's a Teela -centric

episode. Continue. Okay, so I mentioned in my

Castle Grayskull moments that I like that they

finally reveal that the actual source of Castle

Grayskull's power is in the Bottomless Pit And

they actually do say the Bottomless Pit actually

does go to the core of Eternia So that would

mean that the source of grace of the castle's

power is the core of the planet What is bad about

that is every time Skeletor tries to conquer

Castle Grayskull He never thinks to look in the

bottom of the fucking pit. Why doesn't he just

try going down the bottomless pit to try to capture

the power instead of trying to capture the castle

itself? Tila's been lost before, so she lied

right there. Hide and seek, really? Really? Come

on now. How the hell does one little blinking

red button tell her how Adam is doing on tracking

her? The this thing it's a it's a little device

that has a blinking red button. It doesn't have

a Crap it doesn't have a map on it. It doesn't

have a compass like a needle on it doesn't it

just it's a blinking red button That's it. How

the hell does she know how well he's tracking

her And this was the boring episode this is the

one where I should have compared it to Seinfeld

because Nothing really happens here And because

of that, this might be my first ranking of this

in a long time. You're not one to keep your hand

to yourself, sir. Yeah, not a great episode.

Not much happening in it. Not a whole lot to

say about it, one way or the other, except to

hand out some rankings and awards. Shouldn't

know that my tractor threw the forest before.

What are those marks? Hmm, this break is fresh.

That means Tila came this way. It looks like...

Alright, awards and ranking time for the last

time today for Into the Abyss episode 86. Might

seem strange, but I'm going to give both a power

sword and a Havoc staff to the writer on this

one. The reason I'm going to do that is I think

he deserves some credit for trying to do an episode

that doesn't really involve any villains, and

I like the attempt there. but I'm gonna give

him a Havoc Staff for completely not executing

it in a proper way. I mean, he had some potential

there with the Sorceress and the Teetha Angle,

and in kind of really exploring some characters.

And I don't mind getting some more background

and character development for those characters.

I just don't think he did it in a way that would

have captured my attention as a child. I think

this was a pretty boring episode, and I would

have been like, where's the bad guys? Right.

Now, I will say... On on your thoughts here if

they had done what was in the or goes fun facts

It would have been a better episode agree because

that was in the script. He wrote that shit in

there So I don't know why they took it out As

far as me Havoc staff to him and Attila Tila

just All right, what do you write this one? Lowest

episode of the day for me. We went downhill all

the way from the beginning. I gave the first

one a four, second one a two, this one a one,

Battle Cat. Zero. A full out zero. Full out zero.

I agree with you. It's nice not to see villains,

but I don't think it should have been like...

i wish it was like all of the masters like ram

and straddles uh... buzz off even though we're

not caring about him that much recently uh...

mechaneck right of this still mosman man -in

-arms the king in the queen orko battle cat i

wish it was like it every like it like you know

uh... have you have you ever watch justice league

unlimited Alright, well, you won't know this,

but there's an episode of Justice League Unlimited

called Task Force X, and it's basically what

if this task force breaks into the Justice League

Watchtower and it's basically an episode all

about villains and has really nothing to do with

the heroes, but it's a plot for villains. I wish

they would have done that here for the heroes

or scrap this entire episode. and make it all

villain -centric episode with no heroes, that

would have been more interesting and less boring.

Alright, well we will take a quick break and

we'll be back with our overall thoughts in outro.

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Teela learned two extremely important lessons

today. She learned it's just as important to

play as it is to study and work. But it's also

important to take the time to learn the rules

for playing safely. Right, Duncan. Teela wandered

too far away. And when she ran into trouble,

there was no one around to help her or to go

for help. So when you play away from family or

friends, make sure someone knows where you are

at all times. Alright that does it for today

our three episodes being concluded here talked

a little bit about the littlest Giants which

again we saw some recurring characters there

Decent episode overall I give it a four you give

it a three attack from below Which was a two

and a one rating and into the abyss which was

a one and a zero rating so not the greatest after

a Decent okay beginning episode kind of went

downhill from there. What are your thoughts right

now in season two as we're We're at about the

20th episode here of season two. We just got

the 19th, 20th, and 21st episode if we're just

looking at season two. So we're about a third

of the way through season two, and what are you

thinking? He -Man overall is better than Mask.

There's not a lot of cringe -worthy moments in

these three episodes today, but... Just can't

wait till we get to the end or can't wait till

we get to an episode I actually like I don't

even I'm sure you'll tell me here in a moment

But I don't even remember the last time I was

able to give a five to an episode of he man I

don't get fives out very easily. So I mean I

don't either generally but I mean Like I don't

even I don't even remember a time recently. I

would say since Season two started that I was

able to give all grayskull moments and no snake

man moments or more, you know set, you know 70

30 on grayskull side and you know, we've had

a few fours and four and a halfs and Yeah, I

know but like I I haven't I haven't witnessed

an episode yet That will make me do what I did

in season one where I gave out a five to three

or four episodes I probably gave up more than

that. But I'm just saying in general that these

episodes while they're not the most Horrible

thing the 80s ever produced. They're not the

best either We'll have to see in how this second

two -thirds of season two goes We've got we've

got a little of what we wanted in season two

so far. We've gotten some new characters We've

gotten some continuity between other Characters

we saw in season one. We've gotten some some

back stories As far as some character development

amongst a couple of the characters that were

holdovers from season one So let's see where

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