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A group of fantastic He-Man fans have taken the challenge to watch all 130 Episodes of the 1983 Filmation Cartoon Series “He-Man and the Masters of the Universe“ for 130 days straight, one episode per day. Join us!
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Today’s Episode is:
Game Plan
| PRODUCTION NUMBER | EPISODE TITLE | DIRECTOR | WRITERS | PREMIERE DATE | RE-WATCH-A-THON DATE |
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| MU54 | “Game Plan” | Lou Kachivas | Coslough Johnson | October 13, 1983 | Jan 19 |
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| Synopsis: Negator, an evil scientist, captures Man-At-Arms and Teela in order to send He-man into his new computer game. | |||||
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OUR REVIEW:
There is plenty of unexplored potential in this uneven episode that takes too long to reach the main event (transporting He-Man inside a video game.) The interesting visuals, the evil Negator and the way the villian is powered up by "Nerbs" pushes this story above your average fare. (6/10)
Comment, Review and Discuss below:
Tomorrow’s Episode is: “Eye of the Beholder”
This is a fun but not spectacular episode. The plot of He-Man in a video game is an entertaining one. Negator is a standard Filmation “non Skeletor” villain. Decent, but nothing really remarkable (or a toy I’d want as a kid). He-Man and Ram-Man in the game is one of my earliest memories of the show (and of my earliest period).
I also really like the Battlecat/Ram-Man pairing in this, they’re fun to play off of each other and I wish we got a little more in the series.
It’s not worth recommending but it’s a fun enough episode. I’m sure Negator is alive but I’d like to know if those blue Shadow Weavers are dead. They look like they died.
@northerner Negator shows up again next season in “Trouble’s Middle Name” – I can’t remember if the shadow things are back, it’s been awhile since I’ve rewatched that one (it’s a pretty terrible episode)
Negator deserved better.
@northerner To me they looked like Jawas from Star Wars.
Average episode. Nothing too special. All I can comment with is another Simpsons reference
The writer’s room in 1983 when pitching this episode:
3 stars. Better episode than I remember it being. Negator is a fine villan but is no skeletor.