Written by TAKE the CHALLENGE!
Some terrific Masters of the Universe 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 one episode per day for 130 days straight.
Be sure to check out the RE-WATCH-A-THON celebratory memento shirts and mugs (long sleeve shirts options are available too).
Today’s Episode is:
Ordeal in the Darklands
| PRODUCTION NUMBER | EPISODE TITLE | DIRECTOR | WRITERS | PREMIERE DATE | RE-WATCH-A-THON DATE |
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| MU26 | “Ordeal in the Darklands” | Gwen Wetzler | Marc Scott Zicree | October 21, 1983 | Dec 22 |
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| Synopsis: Proud of her skills, Teela chooses to test her skills in the Darklands against Man-At-Arms wishes. Evil-Lyn kidnaps Mira, the daughter of the Darkland sorcerer, Kor, and frames He-Man for doing it. | |||||
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OUR THOUGHTS:
While Evil-Lyn doing her best Skeletor impression is fun, watching the easily duped Kor believe He-Man kidnapped his daughter can be a poorly paced chore. Using the same title animation model from "Song of Celice" as his daughter also feels lazy and distracting. (4/10)
Comment, Review and Discuss below:
Tomorrow’s Episode is: “Orko’s Favorite Uncle”
Duncan: Teela! Don’t go to the Darklands!
*Always Sunny jingle* “Teela goes to the Darklands"
Decent episode, nothing to write home about it for me except I’m betting that’s Alan Oppenheimer doing the voice at Zor but I swear at certain points he sounds more like Tim Curry.
This was a mediocre episode and rather annoying they used Celice again. The least they could of done is paint her differently because I didn’t see much reuse here. Story was okay. I would love to know how Kor got a reptile army. Since when did Orko fight as good as Teela? He fought that training robot blindfolded like a Jedi.
I can understand the frustration. One we get to Golden Discs of Knowledge you’ll see Filmation also reused Kor for Zanthor.
I agree that the pacing is a little slow but overall I Iike this episode. The Reptile Men are really neat.
3 stars. Its fun to see an episode light on he-man (takes a whilento enter the episode) and no skeletor but with his henchmen. A few star wars rip offs (training blind, chess set) and triklops shooting lazer from his eyes are a bit odd, but its entertaining enough.