Written by TAKE the CHALLENGE!
There are a some Masters of the Universe fans that have 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.
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:
The Defection
| PRODUCTION NUMBER | EPISODE TITLE | DIRECTOR | WRITERS | PREMIERE DATE | RE-WATCH-A-THON DATE |
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| MU28 | “The Defection” | Marsh Lamore | Ron & Sam Schultz | October 25, 1983 | Dec 24 |
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| Synopsis: The sorceress, Sibyline, betrays her former master, the evil Gorgon, and joins King Randor in order to correct what her evil deeds have done. The only one who doesn’t trust her is Orko. | |||||
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OUR REVIEW:
This middling episode focuses so much on hammering home a moral to its audience, it loses sight of simply telling an entertaining story. Some of the voice performances and visuals are not the greatest. Average episode at best. (5/10)
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Tomorrow’s Episode is: “Prince Adam No More”
Merry Christmas Eve y’all. That being said this episode is alright.
I actually did watch this episode prior to the watch-a-thon not knowing the production order and assumed Sibyline was in a previous episode because it’s one of those instances where they introduce a new character as if the characters already know them personally. I swear this show has done this more than three times at this point.
Gorgon sounds like Gollum very very high on bath salts.
I think it’s an episode like this where you can really feel how much of a burden it is for this show, at least for now, only having one main voice actress. The late Linda Gary is usually great as all of the usual female characters, Teela, Evil-Lyn, Sorceresss, Marlena, all sound distinct, but Sibyline just has her doing a generic sweet woman voice we’ve heard many other times as other one-off characters.
Not her fault, but they really should’ve hired at least one other main voice actress in the first place. I know Erika Scheimer came in later in the show’s run before She-Ra started on the air, but we’re not there yet.
For no reason at all I like pointing out whenever for a moment is this show is more well animated than usual. In this case when He-Man busts a door down and cheekily smiles saying “Ladies first."
Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!
Bleh episode. What’s with the staff with a blue hand attached to the end of it?
3 stars. Ok episode, would have worked better if Sybiline actually looked and sounded evil. Great animation in parts.