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A fantastic group of He-Man fans have accepted the challenge to go back and watch all 130 Episodes of the classic 1983 Filmation Cartoon Series “He-Man and the Masters of the Universe“ for 130 days straight, one episode per day. Will you join us?
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Today’s Episode is:
The Gamesman
| PRODUCTION NUMBER | EPISODE TITLE | DIRECTOR | WRITERS | PREMIERE DATE | RE-WATCH-A-THON DATE |
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| MU69 | “The Gamesman” | Steve Clark | Antoni Zalewski | September 13, 1984 | Feb 3 |
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| Synopsis: The charming Lord Todd invites Teela to visit Castle Starg while He-Man is trying to stop a rampaging mole like monster that destroys everything in it’s path | |||||
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OUR REVIEW:
Another story that teaches the viewer not to judge a person by their appearance, this average episode (while mildly entertaining) is quickly forgettable. The villian's goal strikes us as odd and is nothing that a good sculptor couldn't solve. (5/10)
Comment, Review and Discuss below:
Tomorrow’s Episode is: “Fisto’s Forest”
Forgettable is a great description for this episode but as you said, it’s not bad, there’s just not much to it. Orko and Cringer team-ups are always fun so I’m glad they spent some time with that.
I’ll also just say how much I love the animation improvement in Season 2. S1 definitely has a lot of the more memorable and classic episodes, but S2 is really in fun in places where they’ve figured out how to make some of this better. The panning shots of the palace now make it look so much more bigger, detailed, and grand.
@battlecat327 I noticed the bump in quality. The animation feels smoother and maybe it’s just the youtube version but it’s sharper too.
As a dad, I was thinking, “Duncan, don’t let Teela go with that creep! You don’t even know him!" 🙂
Also, I didn’t expect to end up liking Moak as much as did.
Overall, fun episode.
There are a dozen episodes where the Royal Family is so trusting it’s painful.
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I feel like this was the type of episode where you could see the vision but it ultimately wasn’t executed well.
Thinking Moak is really “telepathic" because the animators didn’t feel like animating a mouth.
I like Lord Todd as the villain of the weak, how from the moment you see him, he acts unapologetically unassuming yet devious but the whole reveal that he’s a creature and not a human I felt was pointless and added nothing
3 stars. Nice animation and I like the villan but as stated the episode just doesn’t come together.