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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. Join us!
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Today’s Episode is:
The Games
| PRODUCTION NUMBER | EPISODE TITLE | DIRECTOR | WRITERS | PREMIERE DATE | RE-WATCH-A-THON DATE |
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| MU128 | “The Games” | Richard Trueblood | J. Michael Stracynski | December 5 1984 | Apr 3 |
| Synopsis: Fisto is chosen to represent the side of good in a series of games set by aliens. Spikor is infused with the villainous energy of all of Skeletor’s minions so that he can be chosen to represent the side of evil and cheat. | |||||
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OUR REVIEW:
This new take on the Star Trek clone episode "The Arena" has a little welcomed originality added to it. Now there is a clever spin where Prince Adam can't transform into He-Man in time to be selected as the representative of good versus evil (and Skeletor decides he can do more evil scheming behind the scenes instead of competing.) A fun sport throughout. (8/10)
Comment, Review and Discuss below:
Tomorrow’s Episode is: “To Save the Creatures”
I love Spikor in this. His weird voice and how like Clawful, in certain moments he’s more well animated than this show usually allows, i mean the way his face stretches when we first see him in the episode is funny.
This is a great episode for so many reasons – J Michael does a great job of both bringing out personality in the characters but also subverting expectations- after the first three minutes everyone just assumes it’s He-Man vs Skeletor, not Fisto vs Spikor.
I love seeing Mer-Man again after awhile but I’m sad this is his final Filmation appearance- I think he would have made a great “guest-star” She-Ra villain, either with Skeletor or without.
This episode has also been fun for me because when my son was first watching he’d always want to watch this one for two reasons: 1. It has Spikor in it 2. He-Man mocking Spikor with “sPiKoR tAlKs ToO mUcH!”