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An amazing collection of He-Man fans have accepted the challenge to watch all 130 Episodes of the 1983 Filmation Cartoon Series “He-Man and the Masters of the Universe“ one episode per day, for 130 days straight. They are the RE-WATCH-A-THON-ERS!
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Today’s Episode is:
Keeper of the Ancient Ruins
| PRODUCTION NUMBER | EPISODE TITLE | DIRECTOR | WRITERS | PREMIERE DATE | RE-WATCH-A-THON DATE |
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| MU47 | “Keeper of the Ancient Ruins” | Bill Reed | Lee Robert | October 18, 1983 | Jan 12 |
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| Synopsis: Man-At-Arms and Professor Smallen get captured by ancient robots in the middle of desert ruins. Teela and He-Man must help them. | |||||
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OUR REVIEW:
While the premise is solid, this episode's cohesiveness, pacing and creative choices suffer greatly at times. The giant rooster dispatched by the Sorceress for emergency medical services is certainly... interesting. (4/10)
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Tomorrow’s Episode is: “Return of Evil”
This episode is meh but that part when He-Man and Trap Jaw fight clashing sword against gun make me wonder how more sword fights they could have included if this show was made a few years later.
I don’t think it would be much different. Lou Scheimer was strongly against violence in kids shows.
This episode is entertaining – definitely one I have memories of as a kid, but there’s nothing overly special about it. I like that they use Trap-Jaw here, but he doesn’t feel like he can carry an episode the way Mer-Man, Evil-Lyn, or Whiplash can in a solo outing. You’re also right about the bird, that part is just weird.
That shot of He-Man vs Trap-Jaw is one of my favorite stills of the whole series – that’s how we played with our toys, and that’s what we always wanted to see on the show is action like that. They give us a few breadcrumbs but they really kept it limited I’m in sure in large part of the censors. But anytime I look at this shot I can’t help but to smile – I know they used this as the cover art to the Season 1 Part 2 DVD release.
Good episode, not much to say. Like it when one of the main evil warriors has an episode away from Skeletor or any other of their main co-workers for them to have some spotlight. Did Tri-Klops ever have his own main antagonist episode? Because I know he appear the least out of the main six I mean nine episodes? Really?
The scientist guy is yet another one of the many characters that don’t look like they belong in this show. He looks specifically like he’s from a movie of Disney’s 70s-80s dark age
Also I know the robots are saying goodbye at the end but one of them sheds a tear. Yeah I guess it could be emotion, but it just looks weird. *Insert topical snarky comment about AI here*
Also it with his moments here, it gives me even more thought to my “Cringer and Battle Cat aren’t mentally the same" fan theory from yesterday’s episode.
I mean REALLY when Adam transforms into He-Man here, notice it for once doesn’t show his usual trademark iconic transformation animation on screen and just lingers on a shot of Cringer. I feel like that has to be some evidence with the way it’s framed.
NGL I think it’s gonna be hard for me to get through the rest of the Watch-A-Thon without this fan theory mindset. Nothing definitely proves it, but at the same time, from what I’ve seen (or have at least paid attention to and remember) I don’t think there’s anything definitely disproving it either.
I always liked this episode. The pacing is a little slow but I like the idea of ancient technology being robots. Robots in ancient history sounds so strange to us but it’s not strange to Eternia. I like seeing Trap Jaw as the main bad guy and I’m actually okay with the giant rooster bird considering the power of the Sorceress is bird related too. 7/10
5 out of 10. Average.
3 stars. Average episode. Storm was rediculous but the ancient robots were a nice idea that harkens to the original great wars concept. Trapjaw for such a fan favourite didnt seem to get any killer episodes…