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A fantastic group of 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.
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Today’s Episode is:
Capture the Comet Keeper
| PRODUCTION NUMBER | EPISODE TITLE | DIRECTOR | WRITERS | PREMIERE DATE | RE-WATCH-A-THON DATE |
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| MU126 | “Capture the Comet Keeper” | Lou Kachivas | Robert Lamb | December 3 1984 | Apr 1 |
| Synopsis: Skeletor orders Two Bad to capture Zagraz the comet keeper so he can force him to direct his comets to destroy Castle Grayskull. Soon the comets are causing trouble all over Eternia without Zagraz’ direction. | |||||
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OUR REVIEW:
This somewhat retread of a tale brings back Zagraz the Comet Keeper and Skeletor's desire to control the destructive power of the comets. While sequels can be fun and relying on Skeletor's comedic side for entertainment value has worked before to carry the load of an episode, much of this script's humor falls flat, ultimately taking the episode down with it. (4/10)
Comment, Review and Discuss below:
Tomorrow’s Episode is: “The Ancient Mirror of Avathar”
I’ve always liked this episode. It’s interesting that Zagraz nearly bookends the series with Episode 1 and now Episode 126. For the most part I am glad that Filmation didn’t generally take notes from Mattel to “use this character or that" but in this episode I’m really glad they swapped in Two-Bad from Beastman and Trap-Jaw. Two-Bad works really well in this episode, and it would have been a real shame if we didn’t get this one as this was his biggest appearance of the series.
I also enjoy as we near the end the philosophical discussions we get in this one, particularly from Skeletor who’s on fire with his humor in this one (and his logic – one of your comets is going to hit Grayskull sooner or later, why not help me now and save lives?)
As another side note ever since I showed this episode to my son a few years ago we always crack up when Skeletor throws the mud in Two-Bad’s face at the end.
Average epis- OH MY GOD FINALLY THE OTHER HALF!
Also is this the only time in the show Skeletor briefly breaks the fourth wall? he looks at the camera talking to the viewer when snarking about two heads better than one being wrong.
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4 stars. I forgot two-bad gets a full episode so that was a surprise – does this mean he got more airtime than spikor?
The action scenes in this one were really well done, some of the best.
Ending gets a bit silly but it’s so well done it’s hard to not be charmed by it.