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Today’s Episode is:
The Search
| PRODUCTION NUMBER | EPISODE TITLE | DIRECTOR | WRITERS | PREMIERE DATE | RE-WATCH-A-THON DATE |
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| MU37 | “It’s Not My Fault” | Ed Friedman | Ron & Sam Schultz | November 7, 1983 | Jan 2 |
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| Synopsis: Podi and Orko accidentally break one of Man-At-Arms inventions and Podi doesn’t want to take the blame. She runs away, only to be captured by Rago, who plans to use her to overthrow her father. | |||||
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OUR REVIEW:
With repetitive rhino war machine animation that is even excessive for Filmation standards, this episode features perhaps the worst villian dialogue and vocal performance to date. Crying laughing or just crying will depend on your approach. (2/10)
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Tomorrow’s Episode is: “Valley of Power”
I’ve always found this episode to be fine. I don’t really hate it, but there’s not much that’s memorable about it outside of Rago, and that’s not a good thing. I would pit him up against any other character across the 130 episodes for “most aggravating voice." I also find the walking through the jungle scenes and chasing the bad guys drawn out.
It may be a little too much on the nose, but I do like when they incorporate the moral into the story through a natural way, and this episode does that.
I also had forgotten until the rewatch, but adult me had to laugh out loud when Rago’s motivation for all of this is because he was given a job that “should be done by a girl."
“The fire stones" switches to a whisper “are just inside" Ragu would be perfect in an Austin Powers movie.
That was the moment I realized John Erwin was high recording this episode. 🤣
I find every episode is a good episode and this is no exception however I do understand the complaints with Rago. He often sounds more childlike than Podi. Podi comes across as an authentic adolescent and Rago sometimes can come across like a toddler. I think this must have been by design and is the reason why John’s acting was so zany. I like it.
This is one of those episodes has to be an example of He-Man at his campiest and I like it for that.
The animation in this one is at times awkward like a shot of Teela cutting vines…..with a staff and a side shot of He-Man running near the end.
The plot of a grand adventure involving conflict starting and escalating just because two kids (or at least child-minded?) were playing sports and broke something.
When Adam turns into He-Man, the music erroneously starts a bit too early so the timing of the chorus chant “HE-MAN" feels a bit out of sync.
And the voice acting for the one off characters is just funny. I’m betting most of the time for these one-off characters, the VAs were just directed a good amount of the time to sound devilish if they’re given a baddie but not too much like Skeletor or for a good guy to just do an accent.
Podi’s delivery of “I won’t do it!" just cracks me up a bit for some reason.
2 stars. Snoozer episode. Even my daughter realised the rhino animation was being repeated again and again (fist time she has said anything.) Very forgetable.