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Last month some terrific Masters of the Universe fans 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.
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Today’s Episode is:
Reign of the Monster
| PRODUCTION NUMBER | EPISODE TITLE | DIRECTOR | WRITERS | PREMIERE DATE | RE-WATCH-A-THON DATE |
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| MU16 | “Reign of the Monster” | Steve Clarke | Marc Scott Zicree | September 16, 1983 | Dec 12 |
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| Synopsis: To release the giant monster, Molkrom, from his crystal prison, Skeletor seeks the Staff of Avion, which resides with Stratos. | |||||
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OUR THOUGHTS:
While those evil Stratos clones are certainly not worth the price of admission and may generate an eye-roll or two, what makes this typical Skeletor-controls-big-monster episode atypical is the lead monster itself. Molkrom is truly a menacing beast, so much so that in the end, He-Man only temporarily defeats him. (7/10)
Comment, Review and Discuss below:
Tomorrow’s Episode is: “Daimar the Demon”
Getting caught up in the Watch-a-thon since the site’s been fixed.
This is a pretty good episode. Some cool world building with the Avions, a lot happen, ugly monster, good episode.
I seem to remember this was a really good episode. Was that the one where we had no Prince Adam at all?
Any episode with Avion is great 😊
You are right. There is no Adam in this episode. It does have the Battle Ram again. Molkrom is great. His roar used to scare the pants off me but in a good way. I don’t know why but I used to think Delora was married to Stratos and the child at the end was their son. Later I learned what’s up but I think my version would have been more interesting. Overall I think this episode is very good. It was fun to go back to it again.
4 stars. Forgot how good a run the first half of season 1 was. Startos got a lot of episodes for such a mediocre character.